Kaia Stokes - Home and Away Characters

Kaia Stokes (1999)
Blazey Best
Episodes: 2546–2552

When Joey returned to town after disappearing at the start of 1999, he brought with him Kaia, a girl he had met at a soup van, who seemed to have a vaguely hippy style. Although Irene wasn’t entirely comfortable about this new friend of his, she accepted her for Joey’s sake. Kaia did seem to be a positive influence on Joey as he struggled with the symptoms of undiagnosed schizophrenia, though initially disagreed with Irene that Joey was sick, believing that he was simply creative and a free thinker. As Joey’s paranoia increased, Kaia reluctantly realised that Irene was right. She convinced him to stop seeing Irene as the enemy and calmed him as he felt people were watching him. When Joey took refuge behind a barricade in the Diner, Kaia talked him down.

When Joey started seeing hallucinations of his late father, Saul, Joey told Kaia he wanted to go and join him, asking her to go with him. Kaia readily agreed and shared the information with Tom. When it got back to Irene, she told Kaia that Saul was dead, showing her a newspaper article as proof. Kaia told Joey she couldn’t stay with him and advised him to get help, but Joey was just left thinking that Irene had turned her against him.