Chapter 8:
Meanwhile, the boys were having the time of their lives. Johnny, Liam, Frank and even Gus were skating, laughing, and falling over every now and then. Tyler joined Elektra, and they skated round planning all sorts of tricks they could play on the others when they returned to Elmtree House. All of a sudden, Johnny confused everybody by saying something that no one ever expected anyone to say.
'I hope Elaine will get to be mine and Tee's social worker.' Everybody just looked at him like he was mad, and Gus pulled his note book out of his pocket and proceeded to tell Johnny his list of bad things about Elaine, gathered from, mainly Tracy, but from the others as well, as most of them had found things that they did not like about her as soon as they laid eyes on her. It was about 15 minutes before Gus was finally finished, and everyone else had tuned out on bad thing number 3.
'ANYWAY, as I was saying, me and Tee have had no look whatsoever with our current social worker, maybe Elaine could prove to be our fairy godmother?'
Liam and Frank could not help but burst out with a short laugh, which sounded more like they were saying 'Pffft' than anything else, because they just could not understand where Johnny was coming from.
'Her? Fat chance!' Liam was quick to assume, but Johnny set his heart on proving Liam, Frank and Gus wrong.
Back in the toilets, Carmen was busy explaining to Tracy, Lily and Tee how that boy was her Mum's boyfriend's Son, who always used to tease and bully her when him and his Dad were living with her and her Mum.
'But it can't be.' Tracy insisted, 'Your Mum moved to Spain to live with her boyfriend.
'And this must mean they're back, they've come to get me!' Carmen was beginning to get very stressed and panicked.
'But why would they do that?' Lily asked; 'She already made it pretty clear that she wanted her boyfriend over you.'
'My Mum likes fancy things, as does her boyfriend. They get me, they get my child benefit allowance, meaning they can buy more things.' Carmen explained.
'That's horrible!' Exclaimed Tee, which was quickly followed by a short reply of
'That's life.' From Lily. Carmen expressed her worry that she thought her Mum was going to try to kidnap her, because when she tried to get Carmen by following the proper procedures she failed.
'But that's hardly going to help her get child benefit money!' Tracy almost shouted, but realised that she was in a public place, so she better not.
'My Mum isn't exactly smart enough to think that far ahead, once there's an idea in her mind, there's no stopping her.
'So a bit like Tracy then?' Lily asked, in an attempt to lighten the mood. Surprisingly, her attempt worked.
'Come on; let's go back on the ice.' Tracy said; 'I'll skate with you, and we won't let anyone take you, I promise.' Lily, Carmen and Tee headed back onto the ice for the last half an hour of skating.