That conversation with Mike changed everything. For the past year, if you had asked Jody about life after care, she would have said she was going to live with Tyler but now that option had been taken away from her. Even though she knew it wasn't Mike's fault, she couldn't help but feel angry that he was doing nothing about it. With Carmen and Tee he had done everything he could to help sort out shared accommodation for them: he had even written a letter of recommendation and had countless meetings with their social workers. Yet she wasn't allowed to live with Tyler and all Mike would say was that it was out of his hands.
Tyler didn't seem to care either as far she could tell. He didn't want to talk about life after care, kept saying it was ages away and always changed the subject if Jody mentioned it. So Jody reluctantly agreed to some weekend visits to her mums. She was nervous at first but actually she had a good time with her mum. They chatted, watched movies, ate popcorn. Jody was actually having fun and for the first the time in ages she began to feel that perhaps she had a future with her mum.
One time Jody turned up to find her mum had bought baking supplies and they had a laugh trying to follow some old recipe book to make some cupcakes. They got flour everywhere and some egg shell in the cake mix. Jody ended up in fits of giggles when she accidently put the electric whisk on the wrong setting and sprayed herself and her mum in cake mix. She even took some back to the dumping ground.
You've actually baked these yourself? Asked Tyler incredulously as he examined one of the cupcakes
Yeah with mum. Try one.
Mmmm, they're really good!
Oooh can I have one asked Floss eagerly, pushing past Tyler to grab a cupcake
Careful, you never know she might have poisoned them laughed Sasha
Jody laughed and gazed at Tyler cramming a second cupcake in his mouth. For the first time since the meeting with Mike, she was laughing and joking with Tyler rather than trying to force back a lump in her throat every time she saw him. Maybe everything would work out ok after all.
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Jody in Neverland
FanfictionWhen Jody moves back in with her mum she's convinced everything is going to work out. But Kingsley reappears and Jody's new life starts to unravel. Jody escapes to neverland rather than face her fears... will she ever return home and face Kingsley?
