Chapter Two: The Surprise

The fete continued until dark, there were people enjoying the band playing.

Samuel entered the school playground knowing Martin shouldn't notice him.

"Sam!" Anna shouted and ran over to him

"Hey! You OK?" he asked, his Cornish accent had gone slightly

"You sound like a Londoner!" Anna noticed

"Oh sorry! Don't tell anybody else I'm here," he clearly told his sister

"How are you going to show up in front of Dad?" Anna asked

"Well, I haven't figure that out yet" he said thinking, "Maybe I should tap him on the shoulder or something"

"No that's boring" Anna said, "I know, I'll pretend that there's someone waiting at the surgery who needs to see him straight away and you could be sitting in the consulting room waiting"

"Good idea!" he said

"I'll get the key off Pauline" Anna said

They sorted it all out and Anna and Pauline ran over to Martin.

"Dad!" Anna called

"Doc, there's someone who wants to see you urgently at the surgery!" Pauline said

"Well have you told them I'm not working now and to go to the hospital!" Martin moaned

"Its an emergency!" Anna said

"What type of emergency, its not another paper cut is it?"

"Stomach pains, I don't know Doc, the man was crawling around on the floor so I let him in." Pauline made up

"Emily's looking after him," Anna said, "Quickly, he might be being sick everywhere, you know what Emily's like with that!"

Martin's face dropped and thought about his daughter trying to look after an ill man. He did have to go and treat the patient, as it was his duty to.

"Mum, you should come as well, we might need you!" Anna stated

"I should stay here I organised this" Louisa said not catching on that it was all made up

"So… we need you come on!" Anna grabbed Louisa's arm and pulled it.

They all went rushing up to the surgery. Trying to catch their breath they entered the surgery. Emily was in the waiting room.

"Oh thank God you're here!" Emily sighed

"Where is the patient?" Martin asked looking around, "This isn't joke is it?"

"No he's through there!" Emily pointed to the consulting room and they all followed Martin.

Emily, Anna and Pauline were excited that their plan had worked and wanted to see Martin's reaction to Samuel being there.

As Martin walked in he saw his son that he thought highly of sitting on one of the chairs. Samuel stood up and was nearly taller than his father.

"Sam?" Martin said worried that he wasn't well.

"Hi Dad! Surprise!" He said smiling

"What an Earth?" Martin was confused, "Are you OK?"

"Fine thank you. We made up a story so it would be a surprise that I'm here"

Louisa was tempted to run over and hug him, but resisted it knowing this was all for Martin.

"Oh thank God, so who is behind all of this" he said turning around and saw his daughters and Pauline smirking, "You three, well I'm going to give you a piece of my mind"

"Surprise?" Anna said

Martin turned back round and went to hug his son. He was so happy that he was here. Martin did actually miss him quite a bit now stuck in a house with only girls.

"Welcome home son!" Martin said

"Thanks Dad!" Samuel said now shaking hands, "Hi Mum"

Louisa ran over and gave Samuel the biggest hug he had ever received.

"Oh I missed you so much!" Louisa said almost crying

"Missed you too!"

"So shall we all go back to the fete, it looks like it will continue till the early hours of the morning." Louisa suggested

They all agreed and asked Samuel questions about university and London.

"You know I moved there for a while when I was expecting you" Louisa said to Samuel

"Really? Oh was that to get away from Dad?" Samuel smiled

"Well I didn't know I was going to have you and moved away from Portwenn out of humiliation of not getting married to your father" Louisa said

"Oh is it this true love story again?" Anna asked

"What would you call it?" Louisa asked

"I don't know the story about Mum and Dad getting back together after having a baby, getting married, settling down, being the top on the list for gossip then having another two children…" Anna was saying

The others were laughing at her

"That's a long title," Emily said

"It's the summary of the story though!" Anna said

"Well if it annoys you, then why do you ask Mum to tell it to you for your night time story?" Samuel teased

Anna stuck her tongue out and walked faster to walk with Martin who was slightly ahead.

"She is so annoying!" Emily whined

"Its funny, I must say I've missed being able to wind her up!" Samuel said

"Well I certainly don't miss telling you off for teasing her!" Louisa said as they reached the fete again.

There was a toast to Samuel's arrival from Bert on the microphone where the band was playing.

Everybody cheered and raised their glasses towards him

It was nice to have the family all back together again and to spend the night altogether in the night sky celebrating.