This is my first ever go at writing a fanfiction and I wanted to write a charlie and Joey story based on what I would have liked to seen hapen when and if Joey returned to the bay, this story is loosely based on the up todate home and away however charlie isnt ruby's mother they are still sisters as I thought it would be far too complicated to put across in the story, so please rate and review and if I get some good comments I will add more chapetrs, also this is set 12 months after Joey left summer bay
Joey gazed out to sea as she contemplated what It would mean for her being back in the bay, she had thought about it long and hard ever since she had found out off her skipper that they would be returning to summer bay after a long time out at sea. As much as she was looking forward to seeing some of the old familiar faces aden,ruby and Leah, there where others she wasn't quite as eager to see, charlie was one of them.
'at least I'm over her now' joey thought to herself. So if.........when I bump into her its going to be a lot easier, times a great healer
Although Joey had completley fallen head over heels in love with charlie during there time together, time at sea had given her broken heart a chance to heal a chance to get over the pain of breaking up with charlie and also she had met some special people on her stops along the way.
Ali was in particular special person she had met, she had met Ali on one of her very first stops, she was kind,caring and very beautiful , she had joined the crew after a chat with Joey where Joey had mentioned they could do with another pair of hands on deck and always keen to learn, Ali thought she would give it a shot and ended up being a dab hand, she and Joey had hit it off straight away, after a few weeks they had grown closer and eventually this turned into a relationship.
Joey had told Ali all about Charlie, she felt comfortable enough to talk about everything that had happened as she was over charlie now and this was a new chapter in her life. Joey couldn't say she was madly in love with Ali but she did care for her deeply and loved spending any spare time with her.
Meanwhile back in the bay................................
"Rubes" charlie called out "If you don't hurry up your going to be late for school"
"Charlz there's no school today, I thought I already told you that, where having a day off to study"
Charlie instantly remembered what Ruby had said the night before "Ye well jut make sure you do study or youll have your big sister to deal with"
At that instance Charlie felt a pair of hands grab her firmly round the waist "morning beautiful" came a voice, charlie smiled it was Angelo who had dropped by to suprise her. "I wish you wouldn't sneak up on me like that,you could have given me a heart attack" charlie joked.
"I thought we could grab some breakfast at the diner" said angelo sweetly
"nice for some, but aren't you forgetting some of us have to work" Charlie said sarcastically
"Well in that case let me take you out to dinner tonight and I'm not taking no for an answer" angelo said firmly but nicely.
"OK you win, I'm all yours" said Charlie.
A lot had happened over the last few months and Angelo had helped take Charlies mind off a few things, the main thing being Joey, Charlie had deeply regretted hurting Joey and herself as badly as she did, she had spent weeks wishing she had tried harder to get Joey to stay in the bay and going overand over in her head all the what ifs,
what if she never cheated?
what if she had of been more open and honest?
what if she had fought more for Joey when she decided to leave the bay?
there was loads of what ifs and Charlie had tortured herself everyday with them but then she had met Angelo and somehow had ended up in a relationship with him and whilst he would never be Joey and could never ever replace her ,he did help to take her minf off things and she din't want to be on her own so she settled for second best she had also resigned herself to the fact that Joey was never ever coming back, Brett had informed her of this at the hospital after he had ran her down and in the back of her mind she knew that if Joey did ever return it was highly unlikely she would want anything to do with her and she couldn't blame joey, if she were in Joey's shoes she would stay well clear of her aswell.