CHAPTER FOUR

All Sasha could think about was how to tell Casey she got accepted. She didn't think she would've. Sasha had figured that she would just go to Yabbie Creek University where Indi and Dex both went. She was beyond happy and all she wanted was for Casey to be beyond happy for her. After what he told her in his car she was beginning to doubt it, even though she told him she would always love him, how were they supposed to work with Sasha all the way in Melbourne?
Thoughts of telling Casey consumed Sasha's mind as she ate tea and watched TV with her dad. When Sid got a call from Indi asking her to pick her up from the gym, Sasha offered to tag along, hoping to bump into Casey to tell him her news and see his reaction, she wasn't sure if he would be there seeing as the gym closed nearly two hours earlier but it was worth a shot. When her dad pulled up outside the surf club he was about to text Indi to come out.
"Don't worry Dad, I'll go in and get her." Sid knew his daughter well enough that she was going in for Casey.
"Okay, don't be too long." Sasha nodded and walked through the night air into the surf club about to turn left into the gym when she heard talking.
Sasha walked in and saw Casey with bloodshot eyes and Indi sitting on the counter looking not too great either.
"Hey…Case, what's happened? You look terrible."
Casey stumbled towards her and shrugged.
"Don't worry Sash; we just had a bit much to drink." Indi laughed and walked outside to the car. "Don't be too long lovebirds!" She giggled and walked out of the gym.
"I love you Sasha, do you love me?"
"Casey why would you ask that?"
"Are you breaking up with me Sasha?" Casey asked looking angry. Sasha could tell he was losing his temper, the way he squinted his eyes and clenched and unclenched his fists.
"I'm not breaking up with you at all Casey. What's happened?" Sasha asked trying to get Casey to look at her putting his face in her hands turning him to face her.
"Why don't we drop you home and talk about this in the morning, I'll call you first thing?"
Casey grabbed her hands from his face and put them down by his side, he followed her outside to the car park.
"I think I'm going to walk home, I feel sick." Casey said and stumbled toward the beach.
"Casey! Where are you going? Come back, we will drive you home." Sasha was squinting in the dark trying to see his figure but he was gone. Sasha walked back to the car and sat in the back seat, listening to a drunken Indi giggle all the way home while thinking about what the hell was wrong with Casey.

The next morning Sasha awoke and called Casey receiving no reply. She went to school, hung out with Rosie, Maddie and Spence and afterschool tried calling Casey again, for the second time he wouldn't answer. Maddie and Spence invited her and Rosie around for dinner so Sasha accepted her mind still not off her boyfriend. The talk was mostly of the graduation dinner for the year twelves' the next night, Roo and Harvey were buzzing about it, continuously gushing about how proud she was of all of them, while Rosie went on about the fact that she wasn't sure how to get through her last year of Summer bay High without her best friends. Sasha had to reassure her they would all always be there for her because she was the baby of the group, at this comment Sasha got punched hard in the arm by Rosie before everyone burst out laughing. When Roo dropped her off that night Sasha heard talking in the living room and stood next to the front door that was slightly open, making hearing the conversation easier.
"Relax, she'll never know" She heard Indi say confidently.
"So you're telling me you don't feel bad. It's your sister!"
"It's your girlfriend, remember? The one who's leaving you for Melbourne, the one who has a future."
"This is your fault." Casey said bitterly.
"Well actually Casey, I didn't make Sasha apply without telling you. I didn't get you drunk; you got yourself drunk. I didn't make you take anything; you made that choice. I didn't make you have sex with me; you didn't even think of Sasha when you were doing me."
"What did you give me Indi." Casey shouted angrily.
"It's not really important now is it; you cheated on my little sister, get over it like I have. We both know it meant nothing so…"
Sasha had heard enough, she opened the front door and stormed into the living room. She wouldn't cry though, she never cried in front of people if she could help it.
"Tell me it's not true Casey!"
Casey looked at her with wide eyes coming closer to her. "Sash, it didn't- it wasn't-"
Sasha pushed his chest hard then pushed it again and again, punching her fists into his chest even though it probably didn't hurt him one bit.
"You make me sick" She spat "Both of you make me sick."
"Get out of my house!" Sasha began shoving Casey onto the front porch. "You cheating piece of shit! With my own sister! Why? What did I do so wrong that made you do that?"
"She told me you were leaving! That you had made up your mind. She gave me something that didn't go well with the alcohol; I barely even remember anything that happened last night! Please Sasha" He began to go up to her as traitor tear slid down her cheeks.
"Sash- I love you, remember yesterday how happy we were. That was less than twenty four hours ago, nothing has changed!" Casey whispered in her ear, she wanted to just give in, god did she want to.
"What I remember happening yesterday is me telling you that I would be yours for as long as you want me. So you believe my messed up sister who just lost her husband over your girlfriend?"
"Sasha I love you so much, it was a mistake. The biggest mistake of my life. I can't lose this, I can't lose you."
"I want you to leave Casey, we're over. Don't talk to me ever again."
"We worked through all the Tamara stuff we can work through this. Please, Sasha"
"Ha! So you bring up the time where you cheated on me before to help your argument. This is so much worse! Do you know how much I was hurt when I caught you kissing Tamara? I always, always forgive you for every piece of shit thing you do to me but not this time. You had dirty sex with my freaking sister!" Sasha slapped Casey and moved towards the door. Casey looked at her with wet, pleading eyes.
"I love you Sasha."
Sasha looked him in the eyes with disgust; she couldn't bear the thought of him together like that with her sister. She couldn't believe the person she loved more than anything could continuously hurt her.
"I don't want to speak to you ever again, I hate you".
That was the last time she ever saw Casey, she closed the front door and walked back into the lounge seeing Indi sitting on the couch listening to the whole conversation her and Casey just had.
"I'm sorry Sasha, I'm so-"
"Cut the crap Indi. You're not sorry; I don't think you can feel anything right now. I'm not angry at you, I'm angry at Casey. But I do pity you. Since Romeo left you've been nothing but a shell of the person you used to be, and I get it must be hard but I'm your sister, you're meant to love me. You've hurt me more than I ever thought possible."
"I do love you Sasha."
"I love you too; I always will you're my big sister but I can't live under the same roof as you. You disgust me. You can explain to Dad and Dex why I've left I'm packing now and leaving, tell them I love them."
Sasha walked to her room and packed her stuff up methodically. She grabbed her credit card that she got for her eighteenth birthday and called for a taxi to pick her up then booked a flight on her phone. After packing her suitcase, duffel bag and backpack, she took one last look at her room and left. Indi tried to talk her out of it as Sasha was standing on the porch waiting for her taxi saying she had her graduation dinner and her friends to think of. When it arrived Sasha put her bags in the boot and turned to look at Indi.
"One day, when you lose the grey cloud over your head and you think of what you did to me last night. I hope you can look yourself in the mirror." With that Sasha sat in the taxi and she simply said "to the airport". The taxi went the way of the beach on the way to the airport. Sasha's last view of Sumer Bay. She finally let herself cry and cry all the way to Melbourne.

"So what on earth possessed you and your brother to plan Dex's buck's night two days before the wedding?" Kelsey asks Casey as he was getting his toga on reminiscent of a certain toga party Dex and Sasha held in their teenage years. Kelsey's shoulder length blonde hair swished as she walked from the kitchen to the bedroom off the side to where Casey was getting changed.
"Did you even hear me Casey? " Casey looked at his girlfriend and smiled.
"Sorry what was that babe?"
"What's going on with you? Ever since yesterday you've been acting weird." Casey looked and Kelsey and thought how she doesn't smile, smell, laugh or even fight like Sasha. Sure Kelsey was beautiful but she was plain, Sasha had the beauty and attitude- she knew how to keep someone on their toes… Casey stopped himself from thinking that, Sasha made it perfectly clear where they stood on the beach and Casey should've done the same. Just, seeing her back here in front of him was unnerving.
"It's nothing babe, just excited for tonight." He bent over and pecked her lips while she just sighed.
"Does it have anything to do with Indi's sister being back?"
Casey looked at her shocked and did a double take "Where did you hear about that from?"
"I was in the diner today and Leah and Roo were talking about her sister being back "she looked at Casey pointedly then paused "and then they were talking about if you had seen her or not until I came in."
Casey sighed "Look babe that was all high school stuff" lie.
"It's completely in the past" lie.
"I've basically forgotten about it" big lie.
"You always shut off when I ask you about your past, you have all these parts in your life that you won't let me in on. Like why are you and Indi so frosty for two people who have a kid?"
Casey ignored her by kissing her again and walked out of their flat and basically ran towards Kyle's idling car with Dex sitting in the front for dear life. Ever since Casey had seen Sasha on the beach she was all he could think about. Before she came back he usually reserved a time to allow himself to think about her. When he would put Freya to bed on the weekends he would lie next to his daughter and think about Sasha, it was the only time he felt like it was safe to do so, and he could only do it for a little while. Casey may have regretted how he treated Sasha and how he let her go, but he would never, ever regret loving his daughter. She had brown hair like Casey's with the attitude to match, and the "Braxton nose" as Brax would like to say. Freya unmistakably had her mother's big blue eyes but the thing that always got Casey was her smile, it reminded him of Sasha.
"You ready for this?" Kyle asked Dex, both boys wrapped in their togas similar to Casey's.
"Me ready for something two Braxton's have planned? I highly doubt it."

April was walking around the Farm House flustered, as per usual. She had on her hen's night dress and she had asked Sasha to curl her hair but still April felt like she was forgetting something.
"April, you're going to be missing your own party at this rate." Sid said sitting across the table from Sasha, both had paused from their game of Scrabble to watch April amused.
"Okay, okay, right I better get going. Sasha, are you sure you don't want to come? Bianca wouldn't mind putting out more food and it'll be great to have a catch up? Maddie said she can't wait to see you again."
Sasha took a sip from her coffee then look at April with a halfhearted smile. "Hate to break it to you April but she is probably the only one."
"I'm sure that's not true! And if you're worried about Indi being there she's looking after Freya." April said with her hands on her hips and keys dangling out of her hand.
"That means that Casey's girlfriend will be there, along with Rosie." Sasha played with a piece of scrabble until Doctor Walker spoke up.
"Sash, it'll be easier to see them all on Saturday if you start with a few reunions now and Aprils not even friends with Kelsey." Sasha thought about this, and she supposed that she had already seen one of the hardest ones so this should be easier especially without Casey's girlfriend there.
"But I'm not dressed up or anything?"
"Your hairs fine as usual, quickly chuck on one of your designer dresses missy and we'll be off. The party doesn't literally start until I walk in." Sasha smiled and shook her head while she ran to her room.

When the two parked in front of the large two story house Sasha couldn't help but say "Bianca and Heath did good."
As the two waited by the door after April had knocked on the door, Sasha felt like she could literally throw up in one of the rose bushes nearby. April nudged her with her hip "Don't worry I'll stay by you." Sasha nodded and let out her breath that she didn't know she had been holding.
Bianca opened the door with gusto and squealed while she hugged her little sister, Sasha heard the other girls squealing as well. Once Bianca had released her death grip on her sister she looked at Sasha and her mouth dropped. "Well aren't you just such a lady now, look at you! You're hair so long and god it's been too long Sash!" Sasha didn't fail to notice the noise in the living room went down considerably at that. Sasha smiled and thanked Bianca and accepted her hugged.
As Bianca led the two to the living room Sasha was again wondering why on earth she was here. It wasn't until she saw Maddie rush up to her and give her a hug similar to Bianca's death grip that her nerves settle a bit. Leah and Irene followed suit all of them commenting on how sophisticated and grown up she looked. There were a few people she didn't recognized but she got introduced to and exchanged pleasantries, there was obviously Bianca, a sixteen year old Darcy, of whom she couldn't believe how much she looked like a teenager and embarrassed her by giving her a walloping hug. Obviously Maddie, Leah and Irene were there, as well as Roo who kissed her cheek then there was of course Rosie, the only person who hadn't gotten off her seat to greet her and Sasha knew she deserved that. She smiled at her meekly and received a nod of the head in return. Before things turned awkward Bianca decided to start the first game of the night being 'Pass the Parcel', only instead of presents there was dares such as give the person to your left a lap dance. Half way through the game everyone decided that they were no way near drunk enough so that was when Bianca bought out the professional cocktail maker who was, surprise surprise, half naked. After all the girls drank their drinks while Darcy sat there with her cell phone embarrassed of her step mother, Maddie came over to Sasha and smiled "Hey there stranger, why don't you come join the party?"
"I'm not that great at partying anymore" Sasha replied sheepishly.
"Sasha Bezmel? Not that great at partying? I would've never thought I would hear those words from your lips." Maddie joked and Sasha couldn't help but laugh as both their gazes went over to the rest of the woman attempting to play 'Blind Bartender', Rosie and Leah were off dancing to the side attempting to do the robot and again Sasha laughed, but more of a sad chuckle.
"She's not angry or mad you know." Maddie looked at Rosie then back to Sasha. "Don't get me wrong she was, you know how close you two were and then you just upped and left everyone. She probably took it harder than Casey, I mean everyone was cut but she thought it was something she did. Spence and I would try and make her see that it wasn't her fault but Casey's. It was funny, she never believed us, but then Kyle pulled The Braxton Charm which I know you're familiar with and Rosie was happy again. Kyle made her not be so angry at the world and at you; I think all she feels towards you now is sadness. She still misses her best friend." Sasha tried to absorb all that Maddie had just told her. Her eyes hot and prickling on the verge of tears, but again Sasha didn't cry anymore. She took a few deep breaths and let the information sink in. Sasha felt as though she was the worst best friend in the world. Not only that the worst daughter in the world. She knew she should've kept contact with Rosie but what if she did, she would've found out that Indi was pregnant to Casey, and back then, that news would've shattered her world. Rosie deserved a better best friend and she got that in the end. Kyle and Maddie and Spencer. Sasha was about to say she was ready to go when suddenly an alarm went off and all the girls looked around quizzically. It wasn't five fire fighters (read: male strippers) walked in and the all the girls screamed with excitement, Sasha didn't think she was getting out of this one.

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Hahaha good ol' Hens nights )
Now quite a few things have been cleared up in regards to why Sasha left ( :O ) and the brief introduction of Kelsey, as well as where Rosie and Sasha stand in their friendship.
Next Chapter is the bucks night! As well as how Kyle and Rosie got together :D

Kaia.