The Summer Bay Massacre

[Perry]

CHAPTER 10:

Kim and Rachel were walking along the beach hand in hand although Rachel’s other hand was still holding onto the plate and she wasn’t letting go of it.

“I can’t believe you stole a plate from the diner,” Kim laughed.

“I can’t believe I did either” Rachel exclaimed “How embarrassing, I won’t be able to show my face in there again”.

“Well not with me you won’t” Kim joked.

“I’ll have to go back and apologise and give Irene money to replace it”.

Kim looked at her.

“Well I’m not giving it back now”.

“You may have to… they probably called the police, we can never have Jack over for dinner again” Kim kept joking.

“Oh no… we’ll have to hide it and keep it safe… they can never take it away from me” Rachel joked or did she?

“I’m still hungry Rach, what are we going to do for lunch now?”

“Let’s go to the Surf Club”

“Well we’re going to have to… there’s nowhere else we can go”.

The two walked up from the beach and walked towards the Surf Club.

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At Noah’s Martha was at the bar, serving a few customers. Beth came in to start her shift; she placed her handbag underneath the register.

“Sorry I’m late Martha, we haven’t been too busy have we?” she apologised.

“There you go that’s seven dollars forty five change have a good day”, she told a customer before turning to Beth. “No it’s been pretty quiet”. Martha replied.

Kim and Rachel walked in and stood at the bar.

“What are you doing here, it’s your day off?” Martha asked Kim.

“Well we had a little incident at the diner and we can’t eat there so we chose this lovely venue instead” Kim replied.

“Oh sorry guys, if you’re looking for a meal I can’t help you, it’s too early and we don’t have any of the stock in yet”. Beth apologised to them.

“Not even if I brought my own plate” Rachel joked holding the plate from the diner.

“Ok now I’m curious, what happened at the diner?” Beth asked.

“Logan Shepherd” Rachel replied.

“Logan Shepherd?” Martha asked.

“Yup, he was at the diner signing plates”

“Oh really? I love him” she looked at Beth “Can I go for an early lunch?”

Beth nodded.

“I recommend you bring your own plate though”, Kim suggested. “Irene didn’t look to happy when Rachel ran off with this one”.

They laughed.

“Oh, Kim there’s something you should know”, Martha turned serious.

“What’s up?” Kim asked before someone tapped him on the shoulder.

Kim turned around, the smile on his face quickly disappeared.

“Charlie?”

Rachel looked serious all of a sudden too, she only hoped there was no trouble.

“Kim, I wanted to talk to you”, Charlie quietly spoke to him.

“Charlie, that’s not a good idea mate”. Kim politely told him.

“I know, I just wanted to say sorry about how I acted last year, I wanted to apologise to Rachel too”.

“Charlie, that’s nice but you have to stay away from us”, Kim warned.

“I will. I just wanted you to know that I won’t cause any trouble”.

“All right Charlie, thankyou”. Rachel told him.

Charlie walked out of Noah’s.

“Well you handled that well” Martha told them.

“He needed help, Martha, and he’s spent the last twelve months getting it” Rachel told her. “I just feel sorry for him… He doesn’t have anyone anymore, he must be lonely”.

“Rachel, don’t be like that. You’ve got a good heart and I love you for it but what Charlie did was unacceptable, the best thing to do is to stay right away from him” Kim told his wife.

“Yeah, but he only did those things cause he cared about you, if I thought anyone was coming between us there is no telling what I’d do”.

“You wouldn’t do what Charlie did”

“Not now but… If I was brought up the way Charlie was, with no friends, a prisoner in my own home, I wouldn’t be like I am now”.

“That’s my girl, always the counsellor at heart”. Kim pecked her on the forehead.

[Perry]

CHAPTER 11:

Outside the diner, Roo was talking on his mobile phone.

“Ok thanks for letting me know Tabby, I hope he feels better”, Roo hung up.

He started to walk back inside when he is tapped on the shoulder.

“Hi my name is Martha and I’m a huge fan of Seabury Beach and would I be able to get your autograph?” Martha asked hopeful.

“Hey Martha, I’m Logan’s brother Roo, Logan is inside though”.

“Oh sorry, I thought you were him”.

“It’s ok it happens all the time”.

“I bet it does”

She stared at him.

“It’s uncanny”, she told him.

“Did you want to meet Logan?” he asked

“Yeah, if it’s not too much trouble” she replied.

“It’s fine he loves meeting fans, especially hot ones”

Martha blushed.

They walked into the diner together, Roo sat down at the table with Logan and Candy. Logan was busy signing autographs for fans.

“Logan this is Martha”, Roo told his brother.

He stopped signing autographs for a second to look up at Martha and boy was he glad he did.

“Hi Martha” Logan said.

“This is my sister Candy” Roo told Martha.

“Hi, nice to meet you,” Martha said to her before shaking her hand.

“You can sit down with us, if you want to”. Roo suggests.

“It’s all right I have to get back to work in a sec, I just heard Logan was here and I wanted to see for myself”.

“Well it’s true” Logan told her signing the last autograph.

“Where do you work?” Roo asked,

“Just at the Surf Club, it’s not far, I work in the pub”.

“There’s a pub in your Surf Club, that’s awesome”, said Logan.

“How far away is it?” Candy asked.

“It’s just down the beach”

Logan stood up.

“Well lets go,” he suggested

The others got up too and went to walk out. Irene gave glared at Martha.

“Martha, they’re my celebrity customers get your own!” she yelled to her.

Martha turned to Irene and shrugged before walking out with the Shepherd’s.

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Martha walked back into Noah’s with the Shepherd’s, of course the Stares that were given to them in diner were given here as well.

“So this is where you work..? Very nice” Logan told her.

They sat at the bar close to where Kim and Rachel were sitting.

“Logan, there’s someone I want you to meet”, Martha pointed out Rachel. “This is Rachel, she’s a huge fan”.

Logan shook Rachel’s hand.

“Yeah and she’s got the plate from the diner to prove it” Logan joked.

Rachel hits herself in the head with embarrassment she was hoping he wouldn’t remember… or recognise her.

“I’m sorry about that” Rachel apologised.

“Don’t lose sleep over it, it’s fine”. Logan explained. “I’ve had fans steal worst things”.

“Such as…?” Martha asked.

“I’ll leave that for a later discussion”. Logan looked around. “So this is the Surf Club?” He asked.

“It’s also a Gym and a Pub and we also hold functions here”. Martha explained.

“Cool, so Cooper, will be having the Competition Presentation here I guess” Logan thought out loud.

“Yeah, that’s on Friday night”.

Logan kept looking around at the signs, one got his attention.

“Karaoke tonight? Roo would be up for that won’t you mate?”

Roo shakes his head.

“Ah… no”. Roo nervously answered.

“Do you sing?” Kim asked. “Nobody that goes to Karaoke can sing”.

“Madge Wilkins doesn’t do a bad job” Rachel joked.

“Nah but seriously mate, if you’re good you should give it a go”. Kim told the nervous quad.

“Karaoke’s more dad’s thing, the songs I sing you won’t find on a karaoke screen”. Roo told him.

“Rock or Rap?” Kim asked.

“Rock, is there any other kind of music?” Roo answered.

“Not any worth listening too”, Kim laughed.

Roo looked at Kim and smiled, they both has a lot in common.

Roo’s mobile phone started ringing, he reached into his pocket and answered.

“Hello… No worries dad, we’ll be there soon”. He put the phone back into his pocket.

“Dad’s about five minutes away from the hotel”. Roo explained to his siblings.

“Oh so are you going?” Rachel asked disappointed.

“Don’t worry we’ll be back” Roo said heading towards the door.

He looked at Kim and smiled.

“Nice to meet you mate”, he shook his hand.

He also shook Rachel’s. Candy waved to them.

Logan looked at Martha and smiled.

“See you soon”. He told her before they walked out together.

Rachel stood up.

“We better be heading off too, I think we’ll go back to the diner apologise to Irene and get some food into us”

“That sounds like a good idea”, Kim said before standing up.

They started to walk off. Martha noticed something.

“Hey Rachel, are you forgetting something?” She pointed to the plate.

Rachel shook her head before picking it up. Her and Kim started walking out when Rachel bumped into someone and dropped the plate shattering it into pieces.

“I’m sorry Rachel,” The guy told her before bending down and helped her to pick up the pieces.

“It’s ok Colby, it’s not your fault… It’s ‘The God’s’ getting their revenge”.

“Sorry?” Colby asked

Colby Wilkins-Dean is a sexy local surfer; he’s the grandson of the infamous Madge Wilkins. He’s sexy, cool and not to mention sweet as pie.

“Is this a plate from the diner?” he asked

“Don’t ask” Rachel warned.

Martha walked over with a dustpan and broom.

“I’ll clean it up don’t worry” Martha told her friend.

She swept the pieces into the dustpan.

“Please be gentle with him”. Rachel told Martha.

“It’s ok Rachel, it was his time” Kim pats her on the shoulder.

“I just didn’t get to say goodbye” Rachel wipes her tears away.

“It’s just a plate” Colby explained confused as to why she was so upset.

“Goodbye” Rachel waved as Martha threw the pieces into the bin.

[Perry]

May contain a spoiler for Non Australian viewers

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CHAPTER 12:

“What do you mean there’s no reservation? I made it myself.” Andrew yelled Irate.

Waiting at the hotel reception, the Quads were getting a little restless.

“Do you have a manager? Or a supervisor? Or someone who isn’t fifteen years old, I can talk to about this?”

Simone Harris, the pretty redhead receptionist wasn’t too impressed with that statement.

“Sir, I understand your frustration, but I personally didn’t take the call”. Simone kept her cool.

“No it must have been one of the other fifteen year old receptionists… where’s the supervisor?” If Andrew wasn’t seeing red before he was now.

“I am the Supervisor at the moment, sir”.

“You? But you’re only fifteen”

“I’m actually nineteen Sir and I’ve been working here for 3 years”

“I don’t care… You’ve gotten me mad…” He took a deep breath “Are there any other Hotel’s in the area?”

“There are a few Motel’s off the Main Road, but they’re a bit of a distance from the beach… If you’re here for the Surfing Comp...”

She brushed her Curly Red hair behind her ears, trying to think.

“…There’s always the Caravan Park, that’s right on the beach”. She smiled.

“Dad, I’m not staying in a caravan,” Logan protested.

“And it’s right on the beach?” Andrew asked Simone and smiled.

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Andrew, Logan and Candy approached the back door of The Summer Bay House.

“Dad, I don’t want to stay in a caravan”, Logan protested again.

“Come on it’s right on the beach and look at this place it’s practically empty and isolated, we’ll probably had more fans hanging around the hotel”.

He knocked on the back door.

“Dad, this is the back door. Shouldn’t we knock at the front door?” Candy asked.

The screen door opened, Sally Fletcher, stood inside with a smile on her face.

“Hi I’m…” Andrew began

“Andrew Shepherd… I’m a huge fan” Sally finished his sentence.

“Yes, this is my son…”

“Logan Shepherd from Seabury Beach,” she finished his sentence again.

“Good guess” Logan said.

“And this is Candy” Andrew points out his daughter.

“Nice to meet you” Sally shook their hands.

“We’ll wondering if you had a few caravans free? Three would be good but if not two would do, we had some problems at The Sands Resort and we couldn’t stay there”.

“Sure, come in”.

Sally invites them into the house.

“I’m sorry it’s a mess, I’ve been chasing my daughter around, she’s been mucking up all day… Terrible Two’s”.

Andrew looked around the place and thought to himself how spotless it was.

“It’s fine really, at least you only have one child in their terrible two’s I had four at the same time”.

“Oh no, I could imagine”

Sally walked to the registry.

“I’ve got 5 vacant Vans available”

“Okay, give us three of the biggest” Logan smiled.

“They have to be close together,” Andrew reminded them.

“No they don’t” Protested Candy “And why only 3 there’s 6 of us…? Can’t we have 5…? One each and Cooper and Lily can share”.

“Are you going to pay for it?” Andrew asked.

Candy shook her head.

“That’s what I thought”, he looked at Sally “Just 3 Vans, close to each other if you can”. He then looked at Candy. “Cooper and I would be sharing one, you and Lily share and Logan and Roo can share the other one”.

“Dad do I have to share with Roo?” Logan asked.

“Dad I don’t even like Lily, I’ll share with Roo” Candy suggested.

“Does that mean I have to share with Lily?” Logan smiled to himself.

“No” Andrew exclaimed.

“Why don’t you want Cooper and Lily sharing a caravan? I thought they were adults now?” Logan asked.

“How about we just get the keys and we’ll sort it all out later?”

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Cooper and Roo were leaning against the Kombi.

“So where’d you go while you waited for us?” Cooper asked his brother.

“We went to a Diner for lunch and then we went to the Surf Club slash Bar, which was pretty cool we met some local’s, one was a total hottie”. Roo answered.

“Really? What was she like?”

“Oh um, you know, hot”

“Cool, so what was her name?”

“Oh um… Martha”

“Cool” Cooper stood up straight. “I’m going to check on Lily she’s been in the bathroom a while”

He walked off, Candy walked over waving the keys.

“Guess what?” She asked.

“What?”

“You and I are sharing a caravan”.

“Cool… Why us two?” Roo asked.

“Cos, I knew you wouldn’t want to share with Logan and I particularly didn’t want to share with Lily”.

“Ok cool”. He looked around. “Where’s Dad and Logan?”

“Inside, chatting up the woman that owns the place”

“Oh” He looked around. “I told Cooper I met a hot local, and he asked me what she was like… I told him about Martha… I didn’t want him to know it was that Kim guy I was talking about”

“Oh I know but he was hot…” Candy smiled. “And Married”.

“Married??? What? How do you know?” Roo asked.

“I saw his ring finger… Being a single female it’s the first thing I look at”

“Oh damn… and I thought I had a chance”.

“Your Gaydar needs fixing.” Candy laughed.

“Hey, I’m new to all of this… It’s not like I can go out to like Gay bars and stuff”

“Yeah but don’t worry you’ll find the right guy for you, the right not straight guy and hopefully I will find the right guy for me”.

[Perry]

WARNING! Slight Sexual content a swear.

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CHAPTER 13:

At a Party in someone’s backyard Lily downed a few shots of whatever alcohol she was drinking… She didn’t know what was in it and neither did anyone else.

“Don’t you think you’ve had enough” Lily turned to notice her boyfriend’s brother or at least one of them. “Where’s Cooper?”

Lily shrugged, “I don’t know and I don’t care!”

“Did you have another fight?” he asked.

“What do you think?”

“I’m on my way home, I can drop you off home on the way”.

He grabbed her by the arm and tried to pull her away.

“Let go of me!” Lily pushed his arm away. “I’m only trying to have some fun!”

“Yeah, well you won’t tomorrow”.

“I don’t care about tomorrow” She put her arms around him. “I care about now”.

“I’m not him… Lily” Cooper’s brother reminded her.

“I know” she put her lips to his but he pulled back.

He pushed her away a little too hard she fell to the ground… Everyone at the party could see.

Logan, who had been watching, ran up to his brother and shoved him.

“Roo, what the f*ck are you doing mate?” he bent down and helped Lily up.

“She’s drunk… She’s had a fight with Cooper” Roo told him. “I’m going home, can you take care of her please?” he stormed off annoyed at Lily.

Lily put her arm around Logan… “Your brother’s mean” She cried.

Logan put his arm around her… “Yes, but don’t worry you’ve got me protecting you”.

Lily smiled before giving him a sloppy peck on the cheek.

Lily washed her face in the Caravan Park amenities sink. She had to get that night out of her brain… Or what she can remember of it. She knew in her mind it was her own fault but she also hated Logan for not stopping her.

Logan was necking with her in a bedroom.

“Are you sure you want to go through with this?” Logan asked her…

But Lily was already unzipping his jeans and pulling them off his legs. Logan put his hand up her top and started rubbing her breast.

Lily raced to the toilet and was sick again… Remembering that night made her sick, she was drunk but she still remembered what happened… That made her feel even sicker.

She flushed the toilet and walked back to the sink, she washed her face again, if only she could wash away the filth she did two weeks ago.

“Keep scrubbing you’re still ugly” a familiar voice came from behind.

Lily turned and smiled “Belle…” she gave her a hug. “I’m so glad you’re here”.

“I can say the same”.

The two former Bestie’s let go of each other.

“How did you know I was here?” Lily asked.

“You’re boyfriend’s waiting outside… at least I think it’s your boyfriend”. Belle explained.

“Thank God you’re here” Lily hugged her again. “I need a friend real bad at the moment”. She started crying.

Belle pat her on the back, “Lily Pad, you can tell me anything, I’m always here for you”.

“I know door bell”. Lily replied with a smile.

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Roo walked towards the Summer Bay house an old lady called out too him.

“Yoo Hoo, excuse me?” she ran after him.

Roo turned to see the short crazy lady dressed in floral.

“Hello?” Roo asked a little worried.

“I was wondering if you could help me, the antenna on my Mobile Home is playing up and I was wondering if you had a spare few minutes and look at it for me?” her ugly smile glaring at Roo.

“Um, Sure…” Roo said with a little bit of hesitation.

“Thank you young man… It’s like my mother use to say… You can always depend on the kindness of strangers”.

“I’ll just see if I can find a ladder around”. Roo walked off, he could only hope there were no ladders.

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“…I know its horrible, but please don’t hate me” Lily pleaded with Belle.

“Of course I won’t hate you… I can go with you to the doctors if you want to make sure… They’re not always accurate”.

“No I did it twice already, I’m sure it’s negative. Plus Cooper and I always use protection and that night with Logan was a one off and I’m on the pill... It’s virtually impossible for me to be pregnant”.

“But you have been vomiting?” Belle asked… “Maybe you caught something?”

“What like an STD?” Lily panicked.

“No, I’m sorry… I didn’t mean that I mean like a Stomach virus or something”

“A stomach virus?” Lily took a deep breath.

“Not a serious one.” Belle hoped to not worry her.

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Cooper walked up towards the Summer Bay house when that same old lady chased after him.

“Yoo Hoo, excuse me?” she called out to him.

After realising she was calling out to him, Cooper stopped. “Yeah?”

“Did you find a ladder?”

“A ladder?”

“To help me fix the antenna?” She asked.

“Oh, no but I’ll keep looking”. Cooper said hoping to escape.

“There may be one at the toilet block,” She told him.

“Ok, I will go look”. Cooper told her, pleased he can get away.

He walked towards the toilet block.

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“…So are you going to introduce me to this sexy boyfriend of yours?” Lily asked Belle.

Feeling better and grateful she had been there for her.

“All in good time…” Belle smirked.

The two walked out of the toilet blocks, and Lily looked relieved Cooper wasn’t still waiting outside. If she had to explain why she was in there for so long she had nothing…

“Oh finally” a voice said coming from behind.

Lily turned to see Cooper, who was walking from behind the toilet block.

“What are you doing back there?” Lily asked him.

“Hiding from an old lady” Cooper replied with a slight laugh.

“Have you met Belle?”

“Yeah we’ve met before” Cooper reminded his girlfriend. “Hello again” he smiled at Belle.

Cooper wrapped his arm around his girlfriend and they headed towards the caravans.

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Logan was walking from the Summer Bay House when the same old lady stopped him.

“Didn’t you find one?” she asked.

“One what?” Logan replied a little confused but mostly annoyed.

“The Ladder… You were going to help me with my antenna?” That horrible smile glared at Logan.

“Fix your own damn antenna” Logan snapped before walking off.

Colleen Smart’s smile turned to a frown.

“Well I’ve never…” She said to herself before being tapped from behind.

“Well it took a while but I finally found a ladder, some guy named Ric helped me find one”

He placed the huge ladder down and looked at Colleen who looked a little speechless.

“So where abouts is the antenna?” Roo asked a confused Colleen.

[Perry]

CHAPTER 14

A nervous Rachel walked into the Diner, she knew she had to face Irene sooner or later and she chose sooner rather then later. She noticed someone seated at the table where the Shepherd’s were earlier, thank God his back was turned Rachel thought to herself, not wanting to face Charlie. She lined up behind the register where Leah had just finished giving a customer their change.

“Have a nice Day”, she told them with a smile.

“Hi Leah”, Rachel said a little nervous about her best friend’s reaction.

“Hey Rach, what can I get for you?” Leah smiled.

“I just wanted to pay for the plate I stole earlier… Is Irene around?”

“In here Rachel” Irene called from the storeroom.

Rachel walked to Irene who was bent over cleaning behind the shelves.

“I’m going to kill that blasted woman when I get my hands on her”. Irene yelled.

Rachel swallowed air, was Irene that angry with her for taking the plate?

“Colleen’s running a little late”, Leah clarified.

“A little? She was suppose to be here a bloody hour ago”.

“Maybe, I should come back later” Rachel began to walk away.

“Not so fast Missy” Irene said standing up and pointing at her.

“I’m sorry about the plate, Irene, how much do I owe you?”

“Oh gawd don’t be silly love, keep the damn plate”.

“I can’t anymore”.

“Well you can’t give it back, we’ve got another one signed”.

“No it broke”.

“Oh love”, Irene gave her a hug. “I know how you feel, I had a crush on Jimmy Barnes”.

Leah laughed.

“I didn’t have a crush on Logan, I’m just a fan… It’s Seabury Beach… It’s my favourite show” Rachel laughed and shook her head. “I’m sorry I took it”.

“Oh don’t apologise love,” Irene laughed.

“Celebrity crushes, we’ve all been there”. Leah reminded her.

“It’s not a celebrity crush, he’s too young for that”

“Well he’s what, 2 years younger then your husband?” Leah joked.

Rachel shook her head speechless.

Leah noticed Charlie waiting at the register and walked over to him, Rachel followed.

“Hi Rachel”, Charlie said with a nervous smile he then looked at Leah. “How much do I owe you?”

Leah pushed a few buttons on the cash register. “Six-fifty” she told him.

Charlie’s hand shook as he pulled a ten-dollar note out of his wallet. Rachel noticed him shaking it wasn’t just his hand. Charlie handed Leah the note. Leah gave him the change with a smile. Charlie dropped the coins. Rachel kneeled down and helped him to pick them up.

“Thanks”, Charlie said as Rachel handed the coins to him.

Rachel looked down at Charlie’s arm, which had a few bruises on it. When Charlie noticed Rachel looking at his arm he quickly tried to hide it. He stood up and started walking out.

“Charlie, wait up!” Rachel chased after him.

Outside the diner Charlie kept walking. Rachel sprinted to catch up to him.

“Charlie, you don’t have to run away from me”.

Charlie stopped and turned to her.

“Why would you want to talk to me after what I did?”

“Cause I know you didn’t mean it”.

Charlie looked up to her and smiled only slightly.

“Do you want to go for a walk?” Rachel asked him.

Charlie nodded and the two walked towards the beach.

[Perry]

CHAPTER 15:

Lucas was running through the caravan park in one hand he had a small water gun and in the other a football. He came to a halt when he saw Belle and Lily walking towards the road into town.

“What are you doing?” He asked.

“Going to the bus stop” Belle replied.

“I thought we were going out today?” Lucas asked.

“We will later” Belle smiled “I promise” she blew him a kiss.

“I’ll hold you to that” Lucas smiled and continued running through the caravan Park.

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A shirtless Ric was walking with Matilda hand in hand through the caravan park. Ric’s other hand was holding onto a small water pistol. Lucas came running from behind, shooting them playfully with his water gun before racing off. Ric and Mattie were soaked. Ric let go of Mattie’s hand and chased after him.

“You are so dead Holden” Ric yelled.

“Guys grow up” Mattie shook her head.

Lucas ran towards a caravan, Ric followed closely, Lucas was cornered.

“That’s it Holden, you’re going down” Ric laughed Menacingly as he pulled the trigger on his pistol.

Candy opened the caravan door and walked into the firing line of Ric’s pistol, she screamed in horror.

“Oh sorry” Ric apologized with a slight chuckle.

Matilda caught up to the guys and noticed what had happened.

“See what happens when you’s act like d*cks?” Mattie lectured she then turned to Candy. “You have my permission to hit my boyfriend if you want”.

“Maybe later” Candy laughed.

“I’m Matilda” Matilda put her hand out for Candy to shake.

She was then thankful when she did.

“I’m Candy”.

“Hey Candy… these bozos are Ric and Lucas”

“Hi” a guilty Ric and Lucas smiled.

“What’s happening out there Candy?” Roo asked poking his head out of the caravan door.

“Hey Ladder Boy” Ric laughed recognising Roo. “How did the Antenna fixing go?”

“Don’t ask. Oh and thanks for not helping by the way” Roo joked as he walked out of the caravan to meet everyone else.

“Sorry mate, but when I found out it was for Colleen I remembered I had something better to do”. Ric pointed to Mattie, “This is my girlfriend Mattie, Mattie this is Roo”

Roo smiled at Matilda who smiled back at him he then looked over at Lucas and his smile grew.

“Hey mate,” he said as he shook the Sexy blond boy’s hand.

“I’m Lucas” Lucas smiled back.

“Oi, we’re heading off to the beach to play some beach footy, do you guys want to come?” Ric politely asked.

“The whole footy thing really isn’t my deal so I’ll pass but Roo would go won’t you Roo?” Candy elbowed her brother.

“Yeah sure… League?”

“Is there any other kind of footy?” Ric joked.

“I’m in” Roo told the boys.

Ric grabbed Matilda by the hand.

“Let’s go then…” Ric pulled his girlfriend’s arm.

Matilda let go of Ric’s hand.

“I might give it a miss” Matilda told him.

“But the teams will be uneven” Ric told her.

“Not my problem” Matilda laughed.

“My brother Cooper would play, I can get him if you want?” Roo suggested.

“Sure, go get him Ladder Boy” Ric laughed.

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Cooper was pulling a suitcase from the back of a Kombi when Roo came running over.

“What you doing?” Roo asked.

“Unpacking… What does it look like?” Cooper replied.

“Where’s Lily?” Roo gave him a hand by grabbing another suitcase and taking it outside the caravan.

“Thanks” Cooper brought the suitcase inside and Roo followed him in.

“Lily went with Belle to Yabby Creek Shopping Centre”. Cooper answered Roo’s question.

“How come you didn’t go with them?”

“They said it was a girls only thing so the boyfriends got left out”

“Oh that sucks, anyway a couple of the guys are playing footy and the teams are uneven so are you going to come?” Roo asked.

“Nah, get Logan”

“Come on Coop, you know that is not an option”

“What guys?”

“Ric who lives here and some other guy” Roo knew the other guy’s name but thought better not to say it.

“They better not be assholes”

“Nah, they’re pretty cool, they soaked Lily with a water pistol”

“Count me in then” Cooper smiled.

[Perry]

CHAPTER 16:

“…It was difficult at first but the bottom line was they were giving me the help I knew I needed”. Charlie confessed to Rachel.

Charlie stopped walking for a second his eyes stopped focusing on Rachel, instead he decided to look at the sand. He didn’t want to talk about it any further and Rachel could see this.

“So have you met any girls?” Rachel asked him changing the subject but also wanting to satisfy her own curiosity.

Charlie laughed. “Girls?” he shook his head.

“What about a boy?” Rachel just couldn’t help herself.

Charlie shook his head. “There’s just Greg”. Charlie confessed kicking his foot into the sand.

“Greg?”

“He’s my counsellor at Reefton Lakes” Charlie slumped down into the sand and leaned his face against his knees. Holding back tears. Rachel kneeled down next to him and rubbed him gently on the back.

“You can tell me Charlie”

“Greg wouldn’t want me to”.

“Why not?” Rachel tapped him on the shoulder hoping Charlie would lift his head up, she was confused as to why he got all upset all of a sudden.

“He and I…”

Charlie stopped but Rachel knew what he was going to say.

“Are you and Greg seeing each other?”

Charlie nodded and burst into tears, Rachel wrapped her arms around him. Charlie cried into her shoulder. Rachel was a little uncomfortable but she wanted to support Charlie even after what he did, Rachel was just that nice.

A football landed onto the sand next to where they were sitting. Charlie let Rachel go of him before drying his tears. Rachel was kind of glad Charlie did this but was still deeply concerned. Charlie picked up the football and kicked it Ric caught it from a long distance. Ric was with Lucas, Roo and Cooper.

“Thanks” Ric called out to him.

“Good Kick” Rachel told Charlie.

“I had a footy growing up and I learnt how to kick it pretty far…” Charlie told her. “There was nobody close to kick it too”.

Charlie smiled at Rachel.

“That’s going to change now that I’ve got Greg”.

Rachel gave Charlie a stern look.

“This Greg is your counsellor?” Rachel wanted to confirm.

“Yeah” Charlie told her. “But don’t tell anyone about us Greg wouldn’t like that”

“Charlie, are you sure you and Greg…? Are you sure you are in a relationship?” Charlie looked confused so Rachel clarified. “With Kim you thought it was recuperated, but it wasn’t”

“I’m not making it up” Charlie wasn’t happy with her. “But I shouldn’t expect you to believe someone actually cares about me”. He stormed off. Rachel chased after him.

“Charlie I didn’t mean it like that, its just hospitals have rules about relationships between Doctors and Patients. Greg can get in a lot of trouble for this.”

Charlie stooped he looked at Rachel.

“I know…” Charlie nodded. “That’s why you can’t tell anyone”.

“I won’t Charlie, I just hope he isn’t using you”.

“He’s not, he loves me” Charlie told her with a smile.

[Perry]

CHAPTER 17:

Logan slumped down on a deck chair outside his caravan, he rubbed tanning lotion over his shirtless body he then lay down putting the MP3 speakers into his ears and listened to his favourite soft rock band. Candy pulled the legs from underneath the chair and it collapsed below him. Candy laughed out loud but Logan was less then impressed.

“What was that for?” Logan stood up and rubbed the dirt off of himself.

“I’m bored,” She said with a grin.

“Where’s Roo?” He asked.

“Playing footy with Cooper” she answered.

“Why wasn’t I invited?” Logan scoffed.

“Cause they don’t like you:” she pushed him.

“At least I wasn’t adopted” Logan joked.

“At least I wasn’t split in three” Candy cleverly replied.

“What?” Logan looked confused.

“Do you even know how multiple births even happen?”

Logan shook his head.

“Well in our case there was two different eggs, one was me the other was you, Roo and Cooper. Well the egg that was you, Roo and Cooper split 3 ways causing identical multiples but because I was a separate egg I turned out different”.

“Oh” Logan pretended he knew what she meant.

“Do you want to do something before Dad returns to force us to go fishing with him?” Candy asked.

Logan nodded.

“Come on, you can go shopping with me” Candy smirked.

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Roo ran with the football heading towards the try line in the sand the boys put in with the heels of their feet. Roo was about to dive when he was tackled from behind by a shirtless Lucas who stopped him from scoring but landed on top of him to do so.

“Hey, I thought this was touch”. Roo complained disappointed he didn’t score.

“Sorry I had to dive to stop you” Lucas apologised before getting off him.

Roo started to wish he didn’t complain but smiled when Lucas reached out to help him up. Thinking fast Roo grabbed him by the hand and pulled him back down on top of him.

“Sorry mate” Roo faked an apology.

Lucas laughed he looked him in the eyes when he did this Roo smiled.

“Are we going to play footy? Or are we just going to hug each other all day?” Ric joked.

The boys got up quickly and brushed the sand off themselves. They continued playing footy.

Roo tapped the ball and passed it to his brother who ran towards Ric before passing back to Roo. Roo was heading towards the try line again the only thing that stopped him was Lucas. Roo thought to himself, if he had to score a try it means he misses getting touched by Lucas. He decided to run towards Lucas but was disappointed when Lucas missed him. Roo had no choice but to score for his team. But that wasn’t the kind of score he wanted.

“How’d you miss him?” Ric questioned his teammate.

Lucas shrugged; he then looked at Roo who looked puzzled. There was no way he would have got passed Lucas, Roo thought to himself. He ran straight for him. Unless Lucas let him score.

“Great try mate” Lucas congratulated Roo with a handshake.

Roo smiled at least he got to touch him again. Maybe that was what Lucas’ plan was, he thought. ‘Was Lucas into me?’

Suddenly a ring tone was heard. Ric pulled his mobile phone from his pocket.

“Hello?” he answered.

Roo thought that this might be the perfect time to ask Lucas about the try. He walked over to him.

“Did you let me score?” he asked him.

“Uh… No I thought you were going to go around me, that’s why I missed you” Lucas defended his actions.

Roo looked disappointed, it was logical for him to think he was going to go around him instead of straight for him ‘I mean who goes straight to someone in touch football anyway?’

“You did well Roo” Cooper patted his brother on his back. He then looked to Lucas. “What do you think the girls are shopping for?” Roo asked him.

Lucas shrugged. “With Belle who knows?” Lucas responded.

“What’s this?” asked a curious Roo

“Belle and Lily are shopping in Yabbie Creek, I told you earlier”. Cooper told him.

“Why would Lucas care what your girlfriend is shopping for?” Roo questioned.

“Oh you didn’t know, Belle is Lucas’ girlfriend” Cooper told a disappointed Roo.

“Oh no I didn’t, that’s cool” Roo told them even though inside he was shattered.

Ric came over putting his mobile phone in his pocket.

“Sorry guys that was Sally, she’s got to go to Yabbie Creek and needs me to baby sit” Ric told them, “you’re going to have to play without me”.

He walked off.

“Great, now the teams are uneven” Lucas sighed.

Roo looked around and noticed the gorgeous blond boy talking to Rachel.

“I can ask that guy to play?” Roo pointed him out to the other two boys.

“Yeah” Cooper agreed. “He can kick well, maybe he can play good too, if so he’s on my team”.

“I don’t know” Lucas disagreed. “That guy is strange and he was obsessed with Kim last year and I heard he kidnapped Rachel”

Roo looked over at Charlie and Rachel who were laughing and joking.

“She looks like she’s forgiven him,” he pointed out. “I’m going to ask him anyway”.

Roo ran over to Rachel and Charlie.

“Hey Rachel, is that right?” Roo smiled.

“Yeah, that’s right” Rachel smiled back. “Which one are you?” she asked the quad.

“Roo.” He told her, “How’s the plate?”

“It broke” Rachel told him.

“Aw, but what if I can tell you I can organise a huge signed picture of my brother, framed with a Certificate of Authenticity in case you want to sell it on EBay?”

“What’s the catch?” Rachel smirked.

“We’re down a player for footy”.

“Sorry can’t help you I’m no good” she laughed.

“It’s actually your buddy here I was going to ask” Roo explained.

“Me?” Charlie smiled.

“Yeah you, do you want to play?”

“I don’t know” Charlie hesitated, but was flattered he was asked.

“Come on Charlie”. Rachel encouraged him.

“Ok” Charlie agreed. “But I’m not that good” He stood up to go down with him.

“That’s ok I’m brilliant” Roo told him. “You can be on my team”.

They laughed. They started running down.

“Oh Roo can I ask you something?” Rachel called Roo back.

“Go on” Roo told Charlie. “I’ll be down in a sec”.

He ran back over to Rachel.

“Would it be too much trouble if I ask you to watch him?” Rachel asked.

“Not at all” Roo replied. “What’s up?”

“There’s something he’s not telling me, I think he is being abused by someone”

“Are you sure?”

“I think so… Would you be able to just look after him? Be his friend and if there’s anything… would you be able to tell me?”

“Yeah, no worries… I just hope you’re wrong”.

[Perry]

WARNING! Some swearing.

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CHAPTER 18

“18… 19… 20… Ok ready or not… Here I come,” Yelled an excited Ric as he searched the lounge-room for his two and a half year old sister.

Little Pippa who was hiding under the Dining Table covered her giggle with her palm as her older Brother walked past her; of course he knew where she was, he just wanted to keep the excitement going for her.

“Are you behind the lounge?” Ric poked his head over but the little girl wasn’t there.

This caused her to giggle a little too loud. Ric smiled.

“I know where you are” he walked over to the table. “You’re under the table!”

He pulled the little girl out from below the table and playfully spun her around. She squealed and giggled in excitement. Ric carried her to the toy box and sat her down next to it. He pulled out some building blocks and sat down next to her.

“Do you want to help me build a house?” he asked her.

“No” Little Pippa cheekily shook her head.

She pulled out Barbie and Ken Dolls from the toy box and handed Ric the Barbie Doll.

“Can’t we play blocks?” Ric hoped.

Pippa shook her head, Ric handed her the Barbie and tried to take Ken.

“Well can I at least be Ken?” Ric pleaded.

Pippa shook her head and gave him back the Barbie. Ric grabbed the doll and started manipulating her.

“Hello Ken… Let’s go to the beach,” he said using his best girl voice.

Pippa waved Ken around and hit Barbie with him.

“Ouch Ken, that’s not nice, I want a divorce and I want half your belongings” Ric said with his girl voice.

“Nice game for a Two year old”. Matilda laughed standing at the doorway.

Ric quickly dropped the Barbie and picked up the blocks.

“And that is the best way to build a house Pippa” Ric tried his best.

He stood up and kissed his girlfriend.

“Um, how long were you there?” Ric asked.

“Long enough” laughed Matilda.

“Do I lose macho points?” Ric asked.

“No, just your sanity” Matilda quipped.

“Speaking of that guess who was at the beach?” Ric asked, changing the subject meant she can forget about him playing Barbies.

Matilda shrugged.

“Creepy Charlie” Ric told her.

“Creepy Charlie?” Matilda asked.

“Yeah the one that was obsessed with Kim and Rachel”

“What was he doing at the beach? I thought he would be locked up?” Matilda wondered.

Ric shrugged.

“But he was talking to Rachel”.

“That’s strange”. Thought Matilda.

Suddenly a loud crash is heard, Ric looked down at Pippa, she had pushed the toy box over and the toys were everywhere.

“You’ve been naughty today Miss Terrible Two… No wonder Sally left you at home to go shopping”.

Pippa laughed as Ric picked up the toys.

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Sally walked through the shopping centre pushing a trolley full of groceries, Belle and Lily walked past.

“Hi Sally” Belle waved.

“Hi girls” Sally politely waved back and kept going.

“So it’s confirmed you aren’t pregnant.” Belle told Candy when Sally was a fair distance away.

“Shoosh” Lily looked and made sure nobody was looking.

“You relieved?” Belle asked.

“Do you have to ask?” Lily responded.

They walked into a Surf-Wear shop.

“Come on, we need to get you out of those horrible City clothes” Belle joked.

“City clothes?” Lily looked down at her sky blue Quicksilver tee and her white billabong shorts.

Belle dragged her to the 10-dollar rack where she saw a salmon pink SMP tee.

“Have a look at this” Belle pulled off the shirt and showed her.

“Wow” Lily didn’t like it.

“This is going to look so hot on you”, she kept looking through the rack.

Belle pulled out a pair of denim ¾ jeans and showed Lily.

“Oh you got to try this on”.

She threw the pants at her and dragged her to the change rooms where a whole crowd was waiting. Belle looked but there was still an empty stall available.

She dragged her towards it.

“Come on I want to see what it looks like”.

“I know what you’re trying to do, it’s not going to work” Lily told Belle. “No matter how much you cheer me up I won’t forget about it. I’m still going to see him tonight and tomorrow night and the night after that and the whole time I’m going to feel a million times sickness and when I look at his face all I’m going to see is Logan’s and I’m going to have flashes of that night I slept with him and no amount of Salmon shirts will get my mind off it”.

“You slept with Logan?” Candy was somewhere amongst the crowd. “You fcuking slut”

Candy pushed Lily who fell backwards but Belle caught her.

“I’m sorry Candy” Lily apologised holding back tears.

“Don’t apologise to me” Candy went at her but Belle stopped her.

Candy pushed Belle out of the way.

“Get lost midget” she grabbed Lily by her light blue shirt.

“I’m going to tell him,” Lily cried.

“You better before I do”.

Logan walked out of the change-room, bad timing. Of course the crowd that was waiting around the change-room was waiting for Logan. And now they all got to see this. It was like a scene written from the badly written soap Logan starred in.

“What’s going on?” He asked.

Candy turned her attention on her brother, hitting him with both hands. “How could you?”

“I’m sorry… I was drunk, she took advantage of me”, Logan pleaded.

“You pig” Lily told him not impressed with his lie.

“Shut up bitch,” Logan told her.

“Don’t call her that you jerk” Belle defended her bestie.

“Shut up Midget” Logan insulted the short teenager.

Candy looked her brother in the eye. “How could you do this to Cooper?” she cried.

Logan hugged his sister. “I’m sorry” he continued to apologise. “I don’t have any excuse, except I was drunk and miserable… I just got fired from the show and Lily cheered me up and we were both drinking and one thing led to another and…”

Candy slapped him.

“You can’t act, you can’t lie, not to me,” she told him before hitting him again.

This time however she was pulled away from him by Colby Wilkins-Dean and Sally.

“I think you three should go home,” Sally suggested.

Colby walked with Candy out of the store and they walked through the centre.

“Don’t worry about guys like Logan, TV- Stars. They sleep with anyone, you deserve better”. Colby told her.

Candy laughed. “Logan’s my brother”. She shook her head.

“Oh, well… Well who am I to judge? It’s illegal and wrong but…”

“Oh no… Yuck, he slept with my brother’s girlfriend”.

“Oh”. Colby looked embarrassed.

“Thanks for stopping me from killing my brother anyway”.

She went to walk away from him but Colby wouldn’t let her.

“Hey, I’m not letting you go that easy… I think you may need a drink”

“Huh, I’m not that easy buddy… the slut in Surf-wear that cheated on my brother with my brother may be able to help you out though”. She walked off.

Colby hit himself in the head. “Stupid”.

He walked the other direction but turned back to see her again but saw Logan with Candy.

“I’m sorry Candy, I can’t say it anymore but I am” Logan kept apologising.

“I’m sure you are Logan, in your own little mind… But I don’t want to hear it” she walked away.

“How am I going to get home?”

“Walk” Candy told him before she continued to walk out.

Colby laughed when he saw this.

[Perry]

CHAPTER 19:

Rachel pulled up at the Reefton Lakes hospital car park, outside the Psychiatric wing. She hopped out of the car and walked up to the building.

Walking down the long dark dull hallway Rachel couldn’t help but feel a little frightened. The place was so creepy and Charlie spent almost a year there, Rachel sent him there. To cheer herself up she sang the theme song to her favourite television show.

“You know we belong together, we’re always there for one another”

She looked up and saw a sign for the “Wessington Ward”. She remembered that that was the section Charlie was in. She walked up that darker, scarier corridor. To keep her mind off it she continued to sing the rest of the theme song.

“We’ll always be together, at Seabury Beach you’ll find a home”

Rachel walked up to the desk where an older lady sat smoking a cigarette; well at least she was until she saw Rachel. She quickly put it out and looked at Rachel.

“Can I help you?” the horrible lady asked.

“Hi I’m Dr. Armstrong from NDH, I was wondering about a former patient Charlie McKinnon, I spoke to his Doctor the other day on the phone a Dr. Landers or Lands or something like that.

“Dr. Landers isn’t in today” the horrible lady smiled with rotting teeth.

“Yeah, it wasn’t him I wanted to see it was a Greg I don’t know if he’s a Doctor but he’s Charlie’s counsellor and I just wanted to speak to him”.

“May I ask what about?”

“No you may not, it’s about a patient” Rachel shook her head in disgust.

The ugly lady scoffed and then picked up the phone. “Greg, there’s a lady here…” she looked up at Rachel.

“Dr. Armstrong” Rachel looked down on the woman.

“…A Dr. Armstrong she wanted to talk about Charlie” she hung up the phone. “He’ll only be a minute”.

Rachel waited away from the Snotty old receptionist, she gave her the creeps more then the hospital did. Rachel jumped in fright when she heard the screams of a patient in a room. She sat down on a seat and waited. She thought about Seabury beach again… Was Brady and Kelli’s relationship going to be exposed? Was Fred going to discover that he really wasn’t the father of Heather’s baby? Was Tom going to make it through the operating table? But more importantly who was the Seabury Beach Serial Killer? She had to ask Roo if he knew next time she saw him.

Rachel heard the Buzz coming from the door next to the desk. Greg walked through; Rachel was shocked to discover how young and handsome he looked and how much he resembled her husband.

“Dr. Armstrong?”

Rachel stood up and shook his hand.

“Hi, uh sorry for seeing you I know you must be busy”.

“Oh not at all”, he politely told her. “Do you want to come through to my office?” he asked her.

Rachel nodded and the young man led her through the door.

He took her for a short walk down a corridor and turned into the first door on the left. The door had ‘GREG SWALES’ on it. He led her inside and shut the door after he followed her in.

Rachel looked around the small office and was quite impressed with how neat it was, she was also relieved to see light from the barred window came through and the place wasn’t as drab as it was at the reception area.

“Please take a seat” He smiled as he sat at his desk.

“Thankyou” Rachel smiled back as she sat down on the red comfy seat.

“I hope Doris wasn’t rude, we’ve had a few complaints recently”

“No not really”, Rachel shook her head.

“So is Charlie your patient?” Rachel asked. “He spoke highly of you today, I was just a little unsure of your relationship.”

Greg coughed.

“Well I’m his counsellor… I’m not a doctor or a psychiatrist, I’m just a youth worker”

“I don’t think you can call it just a Youth worker” Rachel corrected him.

“No of course not, I just wanted you to understand there were no titles after my name”.

He looked at Rachel and saw she was testing him.

“So you talked to Charlie today?” he asked.

“Yes…” Rachel nodded. “I was a little concerned, he apologised for what he did… You know the story between us I trust?”

Greg nodded.

“He concerned me… He was unusually nervous and…”

“Well that’s understandable” Greg interrupted.

“He had bruises, did you know about them?”

Greg shook his head; he became a little irritated and stood up.

“Dr. Armstrong, Charlie’s a patient and being a Doctor you know the rules so if you don’t mind…”

He pointed her to the door. Rachel stood up and began to walk out but decided what the hell.

“Charlie told me about your relationship”.

Greg coughed again.

“Our what?”

“Yes he told me you two were seeing each-other”.

“He’s lying, you know what he’s like…?”

“I know he’s not lying about this, I know he’s telling the truth and I think what you are doing is not only against every rule, it’s also immoral, you are taking advantage of him, he thinks you love him”

Greg got into Rachel’s face.

“Well maybe I do love him and if I’m not mistaken you were guilty of the same thing a year ago… Yes I do know about you Dr. Rachel Armstrong, so I’d keep my mouth shut if I were you”

“That’s different?”

“Is it?”

“Look, Greg stay away from Charlie and if I find out that Charlie is being harmed by you in more ways than one, not only will I complain to the board, but I’ll make sure you get locked up in a place much worst then this. Seeing you know so much about me I’m sure you know who my father is, so you should know I’m more than capable of it”.

Rachel stormed out of his office slamming the door behind her. Greg grabbed a penholder that was on his desk and smashed it against the wall.

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Rachel was at Noah’s bar her head buried in her arms.

“He was so GRRR and what he’s doing is so RAAA… Can I have the same again Alf?”

Alf took the empty scotch glass from the irate Doctor and refilled it.

“What did that Flaming rotten no good husband do this time?” Alf asked before giving her the glass of scotch and cola.

“It’s not him Alf, it’s this counsellor from Reefton lakes, he’s seeing a former patient and how can I tell on him without sounding like a hypocrite?”

Rachel downed the glass.

“Sorry love, I don’t know but if he’s seeing the patient there must be something you can do”.

“There’s lots of things I can do but I was seeing Kim last year when he was my patient, it won’t look good if I dobbed to the Hospital administrative board… I just wish I could put that stupid ‘Greg Swales’ in his place”.

“Greg Swales?”

Rachel nodded.

“Nah, it can’t be”

“Why Alf? What’s up?”

“Well he worked as a counsellor at the old Drop-In Centre back in 2002 until a 15 year-old boy made a complaint”.

“What kind of complaint?”

“Well the boy said that Greg was inappropriate with him if you know what I mean”

“Well what happened?” Rachel grew curious.

“Well the boy was always making up stories so without any proof the police dismissed it but he did leave the Drop-In Centre after that, Flynn was a counsellor there at that time back in his wilder long hair days, maybe Sally knows a thing or two about it”

“Thanks Alf”. Rachel stood up but then sat back down.

“What’s up?” Alf asked.

“The scotch just went to my head”.