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"Can someone get the door?" Garry called, about three weeks after the kids had sent the email. They had gotten no reply, and figured it had been a complete waste of time.

Usually when there was a knock at the door, they went running towards it like they were going to win a million dollars if they got there first. But that particular day, no one moved.

"I can't!" Bec shrieked. "I'm shifting the filing cabinet because I keep tripping over it!"

"How can you trip over a FILING CABINET?" Garry asked in disbelief.

"I'm accident prone! Figure it out!"

"Loren!" Garry hollered. "Get the door!"

"She's at the gym!" Cassie called.

"BRIDGET!" Bec called. "Could you please answer the door?"

"I'm getting it!" Bridget called, heading towards the front door. "Is Angus meant to be coming?"

"No idea!" Garry called. "Go on, or they'll be scared off!"

There was a crack and then a holler.

"Ow!" Bec screeched. "I think I just broke my foot!"

"Are you okay?"

Garry jogged into the office to investigate the filing cabinet and Bec's foot.

"Garry, I'm pretty sure they're already scared". Giggling, Bridget opened the front door. "Hello?"

"Hi, I'm Edge", a familiar looking person said. "Um, is Bec around?" he brushed his shaggy, sun streaked blonde hair out of his eyes.

"Oh my God", Bridget said softly. "Dean Edgely".

"Hi". Edge smiled, his whole face lighting up.

"I'm Bridget", she said, keeping her voice low. "Um, I don't want to be rude, but did you get our email or are you just appearing at our front door for no apparent reason?"

"The first one".

"Eee!"

"Is Bec around?" he repeated.

"I'll get her". Bridget turned around and raised her voice. "BEC! SOMEONE'S AT THE DOOR FOR YOU!"

Shouting from the doorway was a habit they had picked up from Garry.

"I'm coming! Who is it, Bridget?"

"Come and find out for yourself!" Bridget was grinning like the Cheshire cat.

"You aren't helping the situation, missy!"

Bec, having dropped a filing cabinet on her foot just moments earlier, limped towards the front door. The second she laid her eyes on him, her heart literally stopped.

"Hi Bec". Edge's smile was even wider when he saw Bec.

Bec's eyes grew so wide Bridget thought they would roll out of her head. "Bec? Are you okay?" she asked worriedly.

A million thoughts were running through Bec's mind.

Oh my GOD! He's even hotter than I remember! He's tanned and blonde and gorgeous! Stop it Bec, he broke your heart! I don't care, he's soooooo cute! Why did I ever let him get away? I knew I should have followed him when he went on tour! Why did I let him go? Bec, stop it! He hurt you and he's gonna have to grovel. There's no way you're going to let him get away that easily. I don't care what your heart says! There was no contact for four years! That's almost half a decade! Was he always this muscly? Or this tall? Stop it Bec, you DON'T like him! Who am I kidding? He's a hottie!

"Bridget", she choked out finally. "Um, could you give me a minute?"

"Sure".

With that, Bridget disappeared in the direction of the back door.

"How are you?" Edge asked genuinely.

Bec almost had an aneurism. "How are you?" she exploded. "How ARE you? That's all you've got to say?"

"I should start with hello, then?" he joked.

It took all her willpower not to slap him then and there.

"Four years", she whispered darkly. "It's been four years since we last spoke. I tried to keep in touch with you; I thought you were coming back to Sydney. I sent you text messages, emails, left messages on your voicemail... I did every freaking thing to try and keep in contact with you". She heard her voice getting higher pitched and her felt her face getting redder. "I keep in contact with all the others! At the beginning of the year, Fly came to visit to meet the kids. I regularly call Perri, and her songs are at the top of the playlist on my iPod! I have all Matt's books, and I have original Heath Carroll photographs framed around the house. And Anna is almost my sister in law- Joe went to Germany with her! They came back to Australia together! THEY'RE FREAKING ENGAGED!"

"Bec", Edge tried. But Bec wasn't letting him get a word in.

"No, I'm sick of it! I shut myself out to the world in my bedroom and cried for three months when I didn't win- no, not because I didn't win. Because YOU won and I didn't. We should have won together, gone on the circuit together, you know, kept in FREAKING contact!" she was completely hysterical. "You promised to come back to Sydney, Edge, you PROMISED! Sydney's going to be my home base, you said. I'll always come back to visit you, Bec, you said. I got my hopes up for nothing, didn't I? I was just a sixteen year old suck who fell for it and had her heart broken! Four years!"

"Bec-"

"No! There's nothing you can say that will make it better! Nothing!"

"But Bec!"

Edge sounded desperate.

"What?" she asked scathingly.

"I tried to keep in contact".

"That's bull!"

"The circuit is a busy place, Bec, ask Garry. He should know, Fly and I were on tour with him for six months. I knew you were made head of Solar Blue, Fly told me. I wanted to come back to Sydney, I did! But I really haven't had the time. Sydney's mainly the place for stop offs, I'm here for one night, maximum".

"And in the one night you couldn't have set aside five minutes to visit?"

"Bec-"

"Save it!"

She slammed the door and stalked up the stairs. Bridget, Cassie and Loren were standing at the top of them, wide eyed.

"What was that?" Cassie breathed.

"Leave it, Cass", Bec said shortly.

She felt tears welling up in her eyes and the last thing she wanted to do was break down in front of the kids. Or Garry, for that matter. She had held it in for four years, she could hold it in another four seconds.

Bec headed into her bedroom, slammed the door, and collapsed onto the bed. She reached into the bottom drawer of her bedside table, and pulled out the scrapbook she had cried over two weeks earlier.

She turned to the pink page with purple love hearts decorating it, seeing the photos of the couples in their element.

She cried.

She cried harder than she ever had before.

She put her head under the pillow and absolutely sobbed.