Eleven

When Alana woke up the next morning the first thing she saw was Tee, Cassie, Jody and Carmen all standing over her bed. "morning," she smiled, hoping they would have forgotten.

"So?" Cassie asked. Alana shrugged.

"Jamie was running away so me, Rick and Oscar went after him. We got accused of theft and got taken down the police station," Alana explained quickly as she got dressed and tied her hair up in two bunches. She followed them downstairs for breakfast. She sat down in between Cassie and Tee as Elektra walked in, pink hair extensions in. She hadn't realised and didn't understand why everyone was giggling when she walked in. Cassie mouthed at Alana, 'Good one!'

"oh great. I thought you'd got arrested and sent to prison. Then at least I wouldn't have had to put up with you," Elektra grumbled. Alana stood up and grabbed the apple juice before throwing it over the older girl.

"shut up Elektra. You don't know what happened," Alana shouted at her. Mike ran in.

"What is going on in here?" he exclaimed.

"Alana threw apple juice over me!" Elektra shouted back.

"She provoked me," Alana complained.

"I don't care what happened. You can clear up the mess and both of you are on washing up duty. You can learn to cooperate together," Mike told them. Both girls muttered something about it being unfair and sat down. Gus came in.

"I want to know what happened last night. Jamie, Oscar and Rick won't tell me so you have to," Gus informed Alana.

"I'm not telling Gus. It's private. Jamie is the only one that can tell you. It's his private life so just leave me alone Gus," Alana told him.

"but I need to write it down in my notebook," Gus said getting worked up. Alana felt guilty at that. She'd messed up his routine last time and now here she was doing it again.

"I can't. I promised the boys I wouldn't tell anyone the full story," Alana told him quietly.

"She got arrested," Elektra interjected. Gus started writing it down. "For theft!" Everyone at the table who hadn't know that before was now looking at Alana shocked. Alana looked at Frank, Johnny, Harry and Tyler. They all looked disappointed in her.

"that's enough Elektra," Mike told her. Elektra smiled at him sweetly. Alana stood up, took one look at everyone's reaction before running upstairs to her brothers room. She burst through the door. Oscar looked up and had a look at his sister.

"What happened?" he asked.

"Gus was asking and I refused to tell like I said I would. But Elektra knows I've got arrested for thieving and she told them. She told them all," Alana said. She sat on the floor next to Jamie and Rick, opposite her brother. There was a knock on the door. Tyler and Tee both stuck their heads round the door before entering and sitting on the floor in the circle with the others.

"What happened? And the truth please." Tee asked. Jamie shook his head. Tyler put his arm round him.

"We are all your mates here. We're not going to think any differently of you," Tyler told him. Jamie thought about it for a minute.

"Where's your brother Tee? If I am going to tell my friends he needs to be here as he's one of them. The only one that shouldn't be here is Harry. He's too young," Jamie explained as Tee got up to get her brother. She came back a minute later, Johnny in tow. "Ok. I was trying to see my sister so I was running away to Glasgow. I needed money so I stole some from a house. These three saw me leave and followed me. The police had been called and they caught up with us and we all got arrested. They weren't doing anything wrong. They were trying to protect me." Tee smiled at her new friends.

"that was good of you Alana. You are a nice girl," Tee said smiling at her. Alana smiled back. She was feeling good about herself after helping Jamie out. Maybe Elm tree was going to change her for the better, Although...

There was a sudden scream from the bathroom. "I think she's found them," Alana laughed as Elektra burst in holding the pink hair extensions.

"Where are mine?" she demanded. Alana shrugged.

"No idea," she giggled. Elektra stormed out. "Ah well. I'll return them later." Everyone burst out laughing.