Note: I don't own any of the characters apart from Charlotte. BBC do.
A quick review on Charlotte : Charley is a strong willed young girl. She's Lee's twin which means she's 24. Her father (Mick) always jokes about how she's the better looking of the pair. Lee and Charlotte are really close, like two peas in a pod. Lee would sacrifice himself for Charley, and she would do the same! Charlotte is very protective of her younger brother Johnny, but not half as protective as their mum, Linda... She thinks that the way Linda babies Johnny is over the top at he is nineteen (nearly twenty). As she is Lee's twin, she is against the idea of her brother being in the army. She loves speaking to and about him, but when his job is mentioned she normally goes quiet!
Charlotte has long brown hair unlike her sister Nancy, and looks nothing like her twin. She is tall and thin, often her parents say that she should be a model (as do other people). She is very cheeky, but gets away with the things she says as people are often so distracted by her beauty.
I should have mentioned that she is 23 at the start of the book and celebrates her birthday earlier on!
O/C's: Charlotte 'Charley' Carter (Main role) Adam Hartley (future) Thalia Richard (future) Frankie Hartley (future) and more to be added.
The Range Rover pulled up on the cobbled square. The heat from the engine that had been blasting out of the exhaust pipe came to a sudden holt. The door swung open, four paws hit the floor.
"This is it! The start of a new life!" Mick Carter stated proudly as he jumped out of the car with his faithful bulldog Lady Di... The rest of his family stared at him as they too got out of the Rover.
"Are you sure? I mean, doesn't it look a little bit..." His youngest son Johnny stopped trying to find the right words to fit the square.
"Shitty!" Charlotte (his eldest daughter finished her brothers sentence). At this remark, Mick's wife and the two children's mum looked disgusted.
"Language! You may be 23, but around us..." Linda pointed at her daughter's mouth "Shut!"
They all stared down the cobbled street. Albert Square... They had finally arrived. The shouting they heard was coming from the Queen Victoria Public House... Little did the people inside it know, the Carter's were the new landlords.
Mick lead his family into the rowdy pub, but was greeted by an angry looking Phil Mitchell throwing Billy out...
"Call yourself a Mitchell?" Phil spat at Billy as he pushed him out the double doors.
"Hey! Calm it down." Mick yelled at the grumpy looking man. From behind him, Shirley Carter walked up behind Mick with a large smile on her face.
"Phil. Meet my brother Mick... The new landlord!" she said smugly
Three loud knocks woke Linda up the next morning!
Bang bang bang.
The second round was layer on the front door.
"Oi! Let us in..." came a voice from outside.
Bang bang bang
Linda dragged herself out of bed and walked over to the window. She wasn't shocked to see who had woke her up. Tina and Shirley were stood at the front doors of the Vic.
"Mick!" Linda yelled, waking her husband up "They're not staying with us are they? I can't stick that Shirley!"
"Linda. They're my sisters! I can't exactly leave them out there!" Mick pleaded with his wife
"Sometimes I hate you Mick Carter!" she joked as she jumped on top of her husband before lying back down on the bed "Johnny! Get the door. It's your Aunties. "
Johnny trudged out of his room. He rubbed his eyes, as he too had been woken up. Charlotte followed him out!
"Has mum lost her legs?" she joked
"I don't get why she didn't ask you. You've been up for ages!" he moaned
"Because she doesn't trust me to do anything! "
"Not even open a door?"
Charlotte shook her head. Her and Johnny walked down the stairs. Johnny dragged his feet along the floor towards the door as Charlotte grabbed a packet of nuts off the bar.
Johnny leant down to pick up the mail.
Bang bang bang
The door rattled. Johnny jumped back in supposed. Charlotte laughed as she opened the packet of nuts.
Johnny took the door of the hatch. Tina ran straight through and planted a kiss on Johnny's cheek. Before running over to Charlotte and doing the same. Mick and Linda ran down the stairs to greet Shirley and Tina.
Charlotte was sat in the very corner of the pub.
"Jon..." she called her brother over to her. Johnny became concerned when he saw the worried look that covered her face
As he walked over, Charlotte handed him a silver envelope. On the front it read 'The Carter's'
"Is it...?" he asked quietly
Charlotte nodded. Just at that point, Mick startled them by walking up beside Johnny
"What's that?" He asked sternly. He grabbed the envelope from Charlotte hand...
"Nancy!" he said quietly "Please don't tell your mum!"
"Dad! We are going aren't we?" Charlotte questioned "Dad?"
"I don't know! I'll think about it!"
"Charley? We've got to go." Johnny said, turning to his sister "Please!"
"Dad! Johnny's right. She'd want us to go... So at least let us go!"
"Alright! Just don't tell your mum... I'll try and talk her round." Johnny and Charlotte smiled at each other.