Joey stepped off the trawler and surveyed all tat stood before her,whilst it was nice to be home it also brought a lot of bad memories flooding back for her,
Brett and the way he had treated her,
Robbo and everything she had suffered at his hands,
charlie and her infideity, especially charlie and her infidelity
Joey cursed herself because everytime she thought of Charlie she couldn't stop herself from thinking about the good times they had shared and how at one point Joey would have done anything for charlie, a little smile crept up on her face as she thought about Charlie and how beautiful she was.
"So this is it, your home Joey" Ali said interupting joey's thoughts, Joey welcomed the interuption
Joey had completely forgotten about Ali and had been lost in the moment with the thoughts of Charlie that had filled her head, she shrugged them off and replaced them with warm thoughts of Ali and how she cdnt wait to show her the beautiful sights of summer bay especially the beach.
"Yep this is it, what do you think?" said Joey with enthiusiasim
"urm I think youve been telling a few prorky's, where's the lovely water and golden sands youve been banging on about for the last few months" joked Ali
"All I can see is, a few old houses and a broken down truck" Ali laughed again
"ha ha " Joey replied "well I didn't say I lived on the beach did I?" "but the beach is close by and the water is lovely and the sands are golden,ill take you and show you them........just as soon as Ive finished carrying all your bags to the house" Joey joked sarcastically
"A girls got to have her clothes, would you prefer me to wear rags Miss Collins" replied Ali
"Id prefer you to wear nothing at all" Joey said cheekily with a little glint in her eye
Ali walked up to Joey with a huge smile on her face, "I'm sure that could be arranged" ali said immidietely kissing Joey softly on the lips.
Joey grabbed Ali tightly on the waist "well what are we waiting for" Joey said sweetly she tugged on ali's jumper as if beckoning her and ran off in the direction of her and Bretts old house, the house was empty as Brett had taken a long haul job on a trawler, Joey was glad she wdnt have to face her brother, even though they had sort of made up over the phone whilst Joey was gone, she could never totally forgive Brett for what He had done to Charlie, but for now she and Ali had the house to hersel and she was finally glad to be home
Later that day, Joey told Ali she would go to the diner and grab them both some take out, as they had really worked up an appetite in bed earlier. Ali said she would stay behind and try to clean the house as Brett had left it looking like a garbage dump, Joey headed off for the diner
After a short while Joey found herself ouside the diner feeling a little bit anxious, she knew this was a small town and that she was bound to bump into a few familiar faces and how she would have so many questions to answer like why she had not kept in touch with any of her friends, she regretted that she had not so much as text Leah,ruby or aden afterall they had all been so good to her and helped her through the bad times, but in order for her to get over Charlie she needed to seperate herself from all things summer bay even if this meant her not keeping contact with the friends that had acted like a family towards her.
"two ticks, ill be with you now" shouted a familiar voice form the kitchen of the diner it was Leah who hadnt yet realised it was Joey but who had seen a figure standing at the counter waiting to be served.
"no problem" quipped Joey "Ive only been waiting 12 months for one of your delicious burgers and strawberry milkshakes" she laughed
"Joey " screamed Leah on recognising that the voice belonged to Joey,Leah instantly turned and ran over to hug her friend.
"Where have you been? And more importantly why havn't you been in contact" said Leah pretending to be angry
"urm I guess Ive just been working too hard and uh well you know"
Leah instantly knew that Joey probably hadn't contacted them because she needed to try and get over charlie, Leah sympathised with her.
"well your here now, thats all that matters, what would you like to eat? The ususal greasy burger and strawberry milkshake" Leah laughed
"you know me too well"Joey replied
"I should do, you always order the same" Leah laughed "take a seat and ill bring them over and thses are on me"
"oh Leah you don't have to do that, id rather pay for them" replied Joey
"nonsense I won't hear of it now sit down and you can tell me all about your time away" said Leah
"thanks Leah" it was nice to see Leah she had always been so friendly and understanding especially of the time she overheard Joey say to her brother Brett thaqt night he came banging on the door that Charlie was her girlfriend
