Unable to sleep; early the next morning Charlie went down to Peter's office and phoned her birth mother.

"Hello?" Hannah said after picking up the phone sounding tired.

"Hey... mom" Charlie said feeling slightly awkward not sure whether it was the right thing to do.

"Charlie? Are you ok?" Hannah asked missing her daughter.

"Yes... I'm fine mom... you?" Charlie asked quietly.

"Um... well... I'm Pregnant." Hannah said a little worried of how Charlie would take the news.

"That's great Mom..." Charlie said sighing. "Anyway gotta go now... talk soon."

"Ok then bye Charl." Hannah replied.

Charlie sighed and after putting the phone down, returned to the staff bedroom and tried to get some sleep before having to be up for school later in the morning.

"Charl are you decant." Sophie asked knocking on the door at 9am in the morning.

Charlie groaned still really tired and not wanting to get up. "ugh yeah..." She replied and looked at the time shocked that it was already 9am.

Sophie walked in shutting the door behind her and sighed. "Still in bed... come on... get down to class." Sophie said and sat on the bed looking at Charlie.

"Soph... please just today can I stay in bed for a little longer?" Charlie asked really not wanting to get up.

"No can do I'm afraid. Your father wants you in class." Sophie said softly.

"Ugh but Soph..." Charlie groaned again.

"Look come on I bought you up a croissant." Sophie said and passed it to her. "Now eat up then get down to class."

"Thanks... and I will... how are you this morning?" Charlie asked, gingerly taking small bits of her croissant and eating it slowly.

"Still in pain... but better..." Sophie said and smiled. "Are you ok?" She asked Charlie as it was unusual for her to be up late.

"Yeah... I guess... I just couldn't sleep last night." Charlie replied and finished her Croissant.

"Oh well... get an early night tonight yeah... if you want to talk we can... I'll get cover for the class." Sophie said offering to help Charlie.

"Could you please...?" Charlie asked needing to talk through things with someone.

"Charlie! Sophie...?" Peter said in a raised voice from outside to try and get their attention.

"What is it mountain man?" Sophie asked and opened the door for him.

"Soph you need to teach and Charl you need to be taught" Peter said and sat on the bed joining them.

"Well I was wondering if you could cover for me… so I can talk to Charlie for a bit?" Sophie said asking Peter if it would be ok.

"Ok that will be fine." Peter said and looked at Charlie concerned. "You are ok aren't you Charl?" Peter asked.

"I guess... I just want to talk to Sophie about it... woman to woman talk..." Charlie Replied and hugged Peter.

"That's ok Charl. I understand." Peter replied while hugging her back. "Anyway I better be going now. I'll see my two favourite girls later." Peter said smiling and left the staff bedroom.

"Soph… I phoned mom last night…" Charlie said.

"Wow… um well done… so what's the problem?" Sophie asked pleased she'd managed to speak to her mom again.

"Well… she's pregnant…" Charlie said bluntly.

"Oh um… congratulations to her then… there's nothing wrong with her being pregnant is there?" Sophie said a little upset she couldn't get pregnant herself but pleased for Charlie's mom, Hannah.

"Well there kinda is… she let Kate die Soph… and she never really acted like she cared about me… I just worry about the new baby… she probably won't treat it right." Charlie explained not fully forgiving her mother after all these years.

"Look Charl… I know your father will have said this but you have to forgive her…but from what I've heard Hannah's a good woman… I know she has made mistakes… but hopefully she will have learnt from them." Sophie said and hugged Charlie.

"I know… I know Soph…" Charlie said and hugged her back holding back tears. "I guess I was a bad daughter." She sighed as she said it.

"No don't say that Charl. You're a wonderful daughter…" Soph said and hugged her tight.

Down in class Peter was handing out the maths tests which Sophie had marked over the holidays. "Well done all of you… you did well. Matthew. Seeing as you don't have one can you take Charlie's up to the staff bedroom for her?" Peter congratulated the kids and asked Matthew to give Charlie her test paper.

"Sure… is she ok?" Matthew asked and took the paper looking at it. "Woah she did good!" Matthew exclaimed.

"I'm not sure and what grade did she get?" Peter asked amazed by how well Matthew was doing.

"A*…" Matthew said and went to the staff bedroom to give her the paper. "Charlie your maths paper." Matthew said as he walked in and placed it on the bed next to her.

"Oh thanks Matty. Charlie smirked and sat up picking up the paper "WOAH I got an A* SERIOUS!" Charlie had a minor spazz attack out of shock.

"I wish I was that good at math." Matthew said and hugged Charlie to congratulate her.

"I'll help you… if you help me with climbing." Charlie said making a trade-off.

"Sure!" Matthew said smirking and went back to class.

Charlie smiled to herself pleased with the score she received. "Well done Charl." Sophie congratulated her and smiled.

"Can you help me with the questions I got wrong?" Charlie asked Soph, wanting to improve her work, despite getting the top grade.

"Sure I can…" Sophie smiled pleased that she was asking for help.