AUTHOR'S NOTE:

Thanks for all the great reviews everyone. It was mentioned that ROSS'S P.O.V was a bit confusing. Every time I said he it meant Brax.

BIANCA'S P.O.V

I started to wonder what was taking Charlie for so long. I head up towards the toilets; all I can see is some of the river boys fighting someone. Honestly it was probably some of the river boys fighting one of the footy kids, at that right moment I didn't think too much of it. I was about to head back to her house thinking that she might have gone home. Just when I'm about to walk away I hear Brax talking to Mr Braxton. I turn around to see Brax holding Charlie. I run up to she about to pull her into a hug and she jumped further into Brax's grip.

BRAX'S P.O.V

"Mr Braxton, do you need to take Charlie home for you?" I ask, knowing that she wouldn't budge anytime soon. "No, Constable here will get all of your statements and I'll take Charlie home" She flinches at her own fathers touch. "Charlie, come on!" He says this time more sternly, yet she won't budge. "To all your respect sir, I do believe that Charlie isn't going to go anywhere anytime soon. I'll make sure that she gets home safely" I tried to convince Mr Braxton. "Not a chance, however Bianca will you take her home please?"

Again Charlie moved behind me again. "Fine, take her home, of she isn't going to let anyone else home then you can" He said with no enthusiasm at all.

I had just got Charlie home, she still had said nothing, and she still hasn't said anything to anyone. Charlie's mother got a call from Detective Buckton saying that he wanted me to stay so he could get my statement, when he walked into the door I had just finished explaining everything to her mother. Straight after I gave him my statement he offered to drive me home and said thanks for tonight but not before I took in how 'awesome' Charlie's home.

ROSS'S P.O.V

I said thanks to the Braxton kid for looking after Charlie for me, even though he had less then every reason to. He tried to get me to go half way there; I believe it was because he was embarrassed about the house he lives in. It was an old, small, two bedroom house and compared to the house we lived in it was nothing. I got the impression that he's the person of the house. If there is a problem they would go to him, his mother isn't reliable, and they don't 'have' a father so he gets all the income, pays rent, for food and education.

Once I got home I started to realise that I hadn't realised how bad they actually had it. I was talking to Elise about all of this. I felt bad about the fact that I treated them because I made my impression on what I was told. We agreed that we would somehow help them.

The next morning

I asked Charlie to get the Braxton's to come for dinner tonight. I all three of them, their mother would most likely be in lock up tonight.

CHARLIE'S P.O.V

Dad dropped me off today, I had two things to-do.

Say thanks to Brax

Ask them if they wanted to come for dinner.

I had spent the first part of the morning with Bianca, she had tried to make a big fuss over what went on, but after a while I had got her to stop.

We walked over to the area where the river boys usually hang, every time we use to go there they would whistle and allsorts, but today, nothing, they all knew what went down last night.

"Boys, I would like to say thank you for everything last night," All the boys stood there speechless. Brax walked over to where we all were, "Hey Charlie, How are you today?" He asked, sounding generally concerned. "Good, actually, can we talk?" he nodded slowly, who looked over to the boys and shrugged. "You to Heath"

After talking to the boys about coming over for dinner, all of them, at first they were reluctant but finally they agreed. Dad did say that Bianca could come but she believed that it should have only been then Braxton's for that night.

Later that night

BRAX'S P.O.V

I got the boys dressed-up in their nicest clothes, even though they weren't that nice. I knew that their house was WOW and ours compared to theirs, let's just say it's not very nice at all.

Once the boys finished getting ready we walked over there, I didn't have the money to finish paying for my licence. I was hoping that one day soon I would. We walked up to the door of the house, Heath's eyes lit up when he saw it, the door was slightly open and Casey reached for the doorbell from my arms like he always did.

DING, DONG

"Mamma, I go door" A little girl screamed; I assumed it was Ruby, she was in bed last time I came over. She plodded over, you here the plitter, platter of her feet against the floor boards. She reached up and starred straight at us. "Mamma, some scary guys are at the door." She blabbered, by now Charlie and her mother was at the door, there was a look of envy in Charlie's eyes as Ruby ran to her mother. I just pushed it to the back of my mind. "Ahh boys, sorry about Ruby, come in." She said.

"Don't be, I've been called worse. This is Heath and Casey, my younger brothers." I said pointing from one to another. Heath looked in awe around the house as we moved to the kitchen.

"I'm Elise and my husband, Ross will probably be a little late today he's had to go sort some stuff out. And Charlie, take Ruby and Casey to Rubes room and you and the boys play PlayStation or something please"

I followed Charlie to Ruby's room where I left Casey to play with Ruby; they were about the same age. Charlie took us up stairs and into this huge room which was dressed as a cinema like area; Charlie walked over to a cupboard and unlocked it.

"Pick a movie boys!" She exclaimed, I just stood there, anything would be good. I only let the boys watch TV, once a week and that's for the footy game.

CHARLIE'S P.O.V

"Pick a movie boys!' I exclaimed as I walked over to one of the couches. I knew they didn't get to watch much by the way Heath acted. He pulled out two movies, FAST AND FURIOUS 5 and RAMBO. FF5 was my movie and the other one was dads, I hated Rambo but if that was what the boys wanted to watch then I would. I could hear mum talking to someone outside, dad must be home. The next second the door swang open with dad walking into the room. "Boys, good to see you. Heath and Brax, I never got to properly say thank-you for the other night." He thanked as he shook both of the Boys hands. He and the boys continued talking for a minute before he walked out the door but not before turning around and saying. "Fast 5, Charlie hates Rambo" Heath turns around and looks at me gobsmacked.

About one hour in mum calls us for dinner. Tonight we were having a lamb roast for dinner and a chocolate thing for dinner. (A rich chocolate and cream moose dessert) By the looks on the boy's face they didn't get the best meals.

BRAX'S P.O.V

I hadn't had a decent meal in weeks, I always told the boys that I was not hungry and all but truth been told, I was ALWAYS starving. I had talked to the boys about eating nicely and table manners before we got here. Just as everyone had finished eating Ross got up to take all the plates to the dishwasher, I got up to help, it was an automatic reaction, "No, you sit down and don't worry about doing dishes I'll do them." He said as he walked into the kitchen with a bunch of plates. A few minutes later he walks back out with an envelope in his hand and puts it in front of me.

"What's this?" I ask.

"It's for you to finish getting your licence." He said almost emotionally.

"It's what! Sorry but I can't I've done nothing to deserve it"

"See that's where you're wrong, you stopped Charlie from getting rapped." He said bluntly

"Now see, that's where your wrong, no matter which of my found her they all would have done the same thing, I had told them continuously that I won't accept it"

"I'm not taking it back and it's for you, also it's getting late, so finish your movie and Elise and I will get the spare rooms ready."

I went to argue but there was no point he had made up his mind, so we did as we were told.

AUTHOR'S NOTE:

I'm happy with this chapter: P

NEXT TIME:

Charlie and Brax have to do an assignment together

And they start to get close.