Chapter 9:
When everybody was back at the house, Tracy went to discuss Carmen's encounter with Mike, while Gina took Lily home, Jack came to pick Liam up, and the others went back to doing their own thing. Elaine just sat in the kitchen and waited until Mike and Tracy had finished talking about what was best for Carmen.
'Would you like me to make you some tea?' Johnny startled Elaine, as she was busy reading her magazine and did not see Johnny enter the room.
'You shouldn't sneak up on people like that!' She exclaimed angrily, but forgave him pretty quickly and accepted his offer of tea.
'What a lovely boy,' She thought to herself 'I wonder why nobody has fostered him yet?'
About half an hour later, Gina was back and Mike and Tracy had finished in the office, so Mike called Johnny, Tee, Gus and Elektra down from upstairs. They did not know it yet, but for various different reasons Mike and Gina had decided that it would be best if they were given a different social worker to the ones they had already, and that new social worker, was Elaine.
'Ok you four,' Elaine began, 'I am going to be your new social worker from now on.' Johnny couldn't help but utter 'YESSS!' under his breath; the other three and Tracy all looked at him like he was going mad. Elaine paused for a brief second, and then continued.
'I am going to try my very best to get each one of you fostered, IF, that's what you want.' Gus was busy getting each and every word of this down in his notebook, Johnny was beaming like the sun, Tee looked rather uncomfortable, and Elektra was sitting there picking at her nails like she really couldn't care less, although deep down, she did care and wanted to get fostered, fostered by people who really cared about her and didn't want to change her.
'It's getting late, so Elaine is going to go now, let me know when you've decided want you want to do.' Mike told them.
'And you can always talk to me if you're not sure what you want to do.' Tracy said this with mainly Tee in mind, but she had a feeling that Elektra might just come to her for help as well…
Johnny knew what he wanted. He wanted to be fostered. Gus knew what he wanted. He wanted to stay at Elmtree house, where he was happy and knew everyone. Elektra knew what she wanted. She wanted to be fostered, but had spent so long acting like she didn't care, and was not sure she was ready to reveal her real self just yet. Tee hadn't got a clue what she wanted. She wanted to make Johnny happy, but didn't want leave her friends at The Dumping Ground behind.
But Tracy knew, that everything would work out perfectly for each of them, because there's someone out there for everybody.