Chapter 3:

Angelo woke with a very sore back

'Gez where do I fall asleep' Angelo mumbled under his breath.

'Daddy, daddy' Tom said running to Angelo

'Yes mate'

'Can you make me some breakfast please?' Tom pleaded.

'Yeah mate' Angelo began to rise up from the floor and make his way down stairs behind Tom.

'Hey mum can Xavier come over tonight' Ruby asked as Charlie ate her toast.

'Yeah sure, I wont be home but Leah will'

'Ok, Thanks mum' Ruby said kissing Charlie's head.

'Bye have fun at school' Charlie said as the doorbell started ringing severely.

'I'll get that' Ruby smiled. 'Hey Xavier' Ruby smiled.

'Hey I was wondering if you wanted to get a juice before school?' Xavier asked.

'Yeah I'll have to get some money off Charlie, but it should be fine' Ruby laughed.

'Charlie Charlie' Ruby called out.

'Yes Ruby?' Charlie questioned.

'Can I have some money please?' Ruby pleaded.

'Why?' Charlie asked with concern.

'Because Xav wants to get a drink before school'

'But shouldn't the guy buy the drink?' Charlie laughed.

'Yeah, but..'

'No Buts' Charlie cut in.

'It's my turn to buy the drinks' Ruby said bowing her head.

'OK' Charlie said rummaging through her wallet.

'Here' Charlie said placing $10 in Ruby's hand'

'Thank you' Ruby mouthed.

Charlie smiled to herself

'Morning' Nick smiled.

'Morning' Charlie kissed Nick

'I got to go to work, but see you this arvo'

'Bye Nick'.

'So you wanna go to that new juice bar?' Xavier asked squeezing Ruby's hand.

'Yeah and its called Brax's Juices Xav' Ruby laughed giving him a small kiss on the hand.

'How about we wag school today' Xavier asked.

'NO, do you know how much trouble you'll get into if we do that' Ruby bellowed.

'Ok I was only asking' Xavier moaned.

'It's ok, we'll get our drinks and go to school'.

Angelo was heavily working on some paperwork to even notice Charlie had come into work and started to help him with the paperwork.

'Morning' Charlie smiled.

'Morning' Angelo said slightly excited Charlie was talking to him.

'So I was wondering do you want to come and help me on a case?' Charlie asked.

'Yes, I mean yeah sure. It should be fun' Angelo laughed.

'Well I am leaving now, so you coming?' Charlie asked.

Angelo dropped his pen, grabbed his phone and wallet and left the station with Charlie. The whole car ride was quite with neither person making a sound.

'Charlie where we going?' Angelo asked.

'You'll see' Charlie smiled.

Charlie pulled up behind a bush 'We're going to watch this Brax guy, something is not right about him' Charlie said with concern in her voice.

'OK' Angelo said quietly, slightly sliding himself down the seat.

Charlie watched Brax so carefully watching his every movement as he handed drinks to everyone that stopped by his store.

'Angelo, Angelo' Charlie said waking him up every so slightly.

'What?' he asked sitting back up.

'Can you buy a juice please?' Charlie asked

'Yeah but why?' he asked tentatively

'Because I want to see what he does to the juices' Charlie smiled.

'OK, do you want one too?' Angelo asked fumbling with his wallet.

'Yes thank you, that'll be great'

Angelo made his way over to the little corner shop, Charlie watched him as he walked into the store. His wallet was sitting next to her, she was curious and opened it. A photo fell out as she opened his wallet; it was a photo of a little boy and Angelo.

'Brothers' Charlie whispered.

Another two photos fell out, Charlie picked them up one was of her and Angelo on their first date seven years ago and the other was of her, Ruby and Angelo just after they moved in together, a lone tear fell down her face.

'Two OJs please' Angelo smiled handing Brax $10.

'That's $6 thank you' Brax cheekily grinned.

'Business booming?' Angelo asked

'Yeah it's going great' Brax laughed handing Angelo his change.

'Well see ya later mate' Angelo said 'Keep the change'

'You too mate' Brax said as he gave a small wave to Angelo.

Angelo walked out of the store and headed back to the car, Charlie raised her head as soon as she saw Angelo coming back.

'Hey one orange juice' Angelo smiled

'Thanks' Charlie said hiding her tears.

'Hey, what's wrong?' Angelo said patting Charlie on the back as he watched a tear splash off the top of the juice lid.