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Hope this isn't too boring for you all! Please let me know if your enjoying it. This chapter is short, and sums up Olivia's feelings.

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Olivia's POV

I'd just watched Danny and Alice leave with Alice's daughter Charlotte. I was angry, mad, upset and hurt. Why were they leaving? What about us, and this place? Oh sorry, I forgot, its Danny and Alice against the world. No room for us lot.

Everyone was moping around. There was no life, and as the replacement vet arrived, he must have wondered what on earth he was getting himself into. No-one treat him with any respect... and what's more he was a geek. If they had to leave, could they not even bring some eye candy in to the place?

Dupe was in an irritable mood, Caroline was uninterested in anything, Nomsa kept herself busy, it was all so drag. Why were they so bothered?

I plonked myself down on the grass, Alice's giraffe came wandering over to me, he stretched is neck down towards me.

"Go away you stupid beast. I'm not Alice, and I'm not going to stand here giving you kisses." I growled. But the giraffe stood tall, beside me, he grazed, like he was protecting me.

I looked at his one black foot. I remembered the story Danny had told me. How Alice had been stubborn, and made him buy it, and how in return that giraffe had saved his life. I sighed. Maybe I'd been too harsh on Alice. She didn't mean any harm.

That's when it hit me. Was I the reason for their short break up? Had my constant comments and attitude pushed Alice and Danny too far? Had I dug my own hole?

My thoughts were interrupted by the giraffe, suddenly he moved away. I stared at him. Was he here to make me realise my faults? This giraffe was beyond belief... and so were my theories. I think I'm spending far too much time out here with Danny and Alice...

No I wasn't. Because they weren't here. I felt awful, on Danny, on Alice and on the family. I needed to apologize... it wasn't right what I had said.

Okay, so Alice was stubborn, feisty, slightly annoying, but she loved Danny, and thought the world of him. She never gave up on him, and was always very accepting of me, she never once treat me the way I treated her. When she did something, and I threw it back in her face, she didn't get mad, she just carried on. She'd... she'd understood, she didn't say yes to Danny, for me.

Danny, yes, he was grumpy, pig headed, and frustrating, but he too had dropped everything for me, he had given me a home... and with Alice, tried to make my life easier. I hoped one day they would be back, and that day was soon. I had to apologize.

I stood up slowly and strode towards the house... I was going to ring them and say...

My thoughts were broken up by the arrival of Rowan and Vanessa, looking for Danny and Alice.