Charlie had been leading her on for weeks. She told her that she only saw Joey as a friend, nothing more. Charlie had frustrated her, flirting with her and kissing her but claiming it all to be false signals.

Joey had given up on Charlie and was moving on from her. She was though, still living at Leah's which had made doing this hard but she was moving on, when she looked at Charlie she didn't feel what she use to. Charlie didn't have the same effect on her anymore. Charlie wanted to be friends and at the moment Joey didn't think that, that would be a good idea and so they had just been living civilly. Only talking and interacting when they had too. At first it had been hard but not anymore, things had gotten easier with time, not harder like she first thought. Joey was however very happy to know that Charlie wasn't seeing anyone.

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Charlie would never admit it, and especially not to Joey but she was having a hard time getting over Joey, it was true, she was in love with her. Charlie had been asked out by a couple of guys but she had always turned them down. Really she didn't want to date anyone but Joey but she had a reputation to uphold, Ruby's feelings and the reaction of the whole town to consider. She knew that Joey was trying to move on and it appeared to Charlie that maybe she had.

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Joey was working on the trawler, when she was told that another girl had been employed to work with her. She loved the idea of this, she loved the guys but she felt more comfortable with a female especially after what Robbo had done but at least she'd had Aden there supporting her and then Charlie, but she just couldn't handle being in the same space as Robbo, it made her want to be sick. The new girl Tracey was nice and they became friends instantly, sharing stories of their life as they worked on the boat. Joey and Tracey decided to take their lunch break and Tracey had asked to have lunch with her. "yeah sure, why not?" Walking in to the diner, laughing with her new friend she ran into Charlie.

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Charlie was shocked to run into Joey laughing with some girl. Charlie's first feeling was jealousy, how could she have moved on so fast? Ok, well it wasn't exactly fast; she'd been trying to move on for weeks now. She quickly wiped her jealous expression of her face and replaced it with one of her heartwarming smiles. "uhh hi," Joey replied with a simple "hey" before introducing her friend, Tracey. Joey looked around nervously; maybe she wasn't over Charlie as much as she thought she was. "Well, we are going to go have lunch. Bye Charlie." She walked to the table with Tracey in tow before Charlie had the chance to say anything else.

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"Was that your ex?" Tracey asked inquisitively. Joey was stunned by how upfront she was. "umm… arghh…. No." How did you know that I was…" Tracey cut her off. "I don't know, just how awkward you too were, it just looked like it. I'm sorry if I read too much into it." Joey looked at her apologetically. "Oh no, you were close though, we live together. I like her I do but she didn't want too so…" Joey trailed off she was rambling. "You deserve someone better than her, trust me, I think you're great." Tracey leaned in and gave her a light kiss on the lips. Joey pulled away. "I'm sorry," stuttered Tracey. "Don't be, I didn't say I didn't like it." She looked Tracey in the eyes and it didn't feel the same as when Charlie had kissed her but Tracey was nice and they'd only just met. "Anyway, I've got to go." She got up and gave her a flirty wave as she left.

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Charlie didn't know what she was feeling. Was she really jealous of this girl? Joey had never mentioned this girl to her before. If she was dating someone, she would have told her, wouldn't have she?

Hours later Charlie went down to the beach to clear her head.

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Tracey had since rang her and asked her to meet her at the beach. As they walked along the beach Tracey started, "I'm really sorry if I cam on too strong before. I didn't know how you felt…you know…. That maybe, because you'd been so nice to me… that maybe you liked me." Joey looked at Tracey, she looked so nervous. What was she to say? She knew that she still liked Charlie a lot but she was trying to move on, she had to move on! "I'm not going to lie to you. You caught me off guard, I like you, I do, as a friend and I don't know if that will ever change into something more, but if you want, we could see where it is headed." They smiled at one another. As they continued to make their way up the beach, Tracey leaned in and kissed her, Joey kissed her back, her hands in her hair, she hated to say it but it wasn't as good as when she was with Charlie.

If only she could see the eyes that were staring at them. As she collapsed into tears, realizing how much Joey meant to her.