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Chapter Eleven :

Joey woke feeling happy, yesterday her cold started to leave and today it had officially packed its bags and left her body. Jumping out of bed, she ran to wake Aden.

"Guess who's coming to school today?" Joey grinned as she jumped up and down on Aden's bed.

"Really?" Aden asked as he opened one eye, he watched as Joey nodded as she jumped. "That's great! I've missed you at school yesterday!" Aden pulled Joey's legs from under her.

"ARGH" Joey screamed as she fell on to her bottom. "That was mean!"

"I am mean" Aden grinned as he jumped out of bed. "C'mon, I've missed out before school runs" Aden picked Joey up in his arms and carried her to her bedroom, throwing her down on the bed. "Get your runners on and let's go!"

"Yeah alright, hold your horses!"

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Charlie sat at the kitchen table eating her breakfast whilst reading the morning paper; her father was going to be busy for the rest of the week as apparently there were several drug rings going on in Summer Bay at the moment. The moment Ross had told Charlie about the drug rings she instantly thought of what Belle had told her about Jason Gannon being back in town, although Jason was only a user, his older brother Michael was a known dealer. Charlie told her father what she knew about the youngest Gannon brother being in town and the possibility that Michael could be too and hoped it helped him with his case; Ross had thanked his little girl and commented on how she will make the best detective one day.

Charlie's phone vibrating in front of her on the table interrupted her morning read. She picked up the phone and grinned.

'No more sickness! I shall be at school today. Can't wait to see you. x'

Charlie continued to grin as she replied to her girlfriend.

'Thats so good 2 hear Jo! Lookin 4wrd 2 seein' ur gorgeous face. xxx"

Standing up and placing her dishes in the sink, she grabbed her bag and headed to school. Hoping that just like yesterday, both Hayley and Belle wouldn't be at school.

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"Hey mate" Noah said greeting Aden and Joey as they entered the school. "Nice to see you feeling better Joey"

"Thanks Noah" Joey smiled

"How's Hayley?" Aden asked as he walked up to his locker.

"Home, sick. Her brother and his girlfriend are visiting at the moment, so they're taking care of her"

"Is Will still with Gypsy?" Joey asked.

"Yeah, they've two kids now, Lily and Adam"

"I used to have a massive crush on Gypsy when I was in year seven. I swore she was the hottest senior around."

"Now who do you thinks' the hottest senior?"

Joey turned around to see her girlfriend standing behind her. A smile grew largely on both of their faces.

"Definitely Belle Taylor" Joey joked and leaned forward to kiss Charlie.

"Wow, fancy that! She thinks the same about you. I tell you what, if that's not a match made in heaven then I don't know what is!" Charlie laughed and kissed her girlfriend for the 2nd time. She was glad she had told Joey that she had decided to be strong and no longer hang out with Belle and Hayley.

"Definitely a match made in heaven." Noah laughed, although he missed his girlfriend and hated her being sick, he was glad she wasn't at school, he had an opportunity to make new friends.

Leah and Rachel walked over to the group of four and said their hellos.

"Aww...you two are the cutest couple in history" Leah grinned as Charlie stood behind Joey with her arms around her waist.

"I'm so glad you two are together, it's really nice to see" Rachel smiled. She was really enjoying making new friends.

"Yeah good on ya's for taking a stand" Noah joined in.

Aden stood looking at his watch, waiting for the bell to go. There was no way he was going to join in with his mates, not until his gut feeling that Charlie was going to hurt Joey left.

The bell rang and everyone walked to class. They entered the history room, saying hello to Sally as they took their seats.

"Uhm wow" Sally said as she turned around to see Rachel, Leah, Charlie, Joey, Aden and Noah all sitting together. "Now that's what I call a massive improvement" Sally smiled.

"It's time for new changes" Charlie announced.

"New changes are good" Sally smiled and looked at the door as Kane walked in.

"Sorry I'm late miss. Ollie kept us up all night" Kane said before he took to his usual seat.

"That's fine Kane" Sally shuffled with some papers on her desk before she started with today's lesson.

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The new and improved gang walked sat together in Ailsa's drinking either their milkshakes or their juices.

"How good is that, long weekend coming up!" Aden cheered. In their final class of the day, they got a visit from Mr Bartlett letting them know that there was no school tomorrow.

"Best news I've heard all day" Leah grinned. "So what are we going to do now?"

"Well Noah and I already decided that we are going to finish our assignment then have a boys night"

"Well that's settled then isn't it" Rachel said and received confused looks from the other 3 females sat at the table. "We're having a girl's night!"

"That sounds great!" Charlie beamed as she held her girlfriends hand under the table; most of her Friday nights was spent with Belle and Hayley getting drunk and going to some party where Belle would leave with some strange guy, Hayley would depart without letting anyone know which left Charlie to walk home drunk and alone.

They finished their drinks and continued on with their conversation.

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Charlie and Joey held each others hand and walked along the beach. Rachel had to go home to look after her younger brother and sister and Leah had offered to go back with her so they could finish their assignment. Noah had gone home to see to his girlfriend and Aden was walking ahead of the girls, listening to his walkman.

"Do you have to go?" Charlie pouted and pulled Joey in closer to her.

"Yes boo, a promise is a promise" Joey said as she leaned forward and rubbed her nose against Charlie's.

"He'll get over it though" Charlie said quickly kissing Joey on the lips.

"You don't know what Ade is like with his computer games. I promised him a game after school, I can't go back on the promise" Joey leaned forward and stole another quick kiss from Charlie.

"How geeky" Charlie pouted yet again.

"Hey! I like games too. Does that make me geeky?"

"Yes it does" Charlie leaned closer to Joey. "But you're a hot geek" She said before kissing Joey one more time.

"That's okay then" Joey laughed. "I promise to text you later okay?"

"Alright, sounds good" Charlie smiled and the two of them shared a kiss. Charlie sat down on the sand and watched as Joey raced up to Aden and flung herself onto his back, she laughed as they chased one another off of the beach.

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Hayley walked down stairs and into the lounge room, stopping to look at herself in the mirror on the way.

"What do you think about green eyes?" Hayley asked in a croaky voice.

Noah looked up from the magazine he was reading to his girlfriend standing in front of the mirror. "I don't really know"

"I think I would look better with green eyes"

"Okay then" Noah shook his head and continued to read his magazine.

"That's it?" Hayley looked in the mirror at her boyfriend. "All you have to say is "Okay Then"?"

"Well what do you want me to say Haylz?"

"I don't know Noah! I just want more than an "Okay then"" Hayley said as she pulled a tissue out of her pocket and blew her nose.

"Alright. I like your eyes the way they are"

"Hmm" Hayley took one last look in the mirror before turning around. "I think I'm going to get green contact lenses. Belle said they'd look tops"

"That'd be right" Noah mumbled and once again continued on reading his magazine.

"What would be right?" Hayley asked, placing her hand on her hip.

"I don't even know why you bother to ask my opinion" Noah stood up and went to walk away.

"I bother to ask your opinion Noah because you're my boyfriend and I care about your opinion" Hayley stood up and walked after him.

"It's a waste of time though Hayley" Noah turned around as her reached the bottom of the stairs. "Whatever I say you never agree on, oh wait, sorry, you may agree on that but Belle doesn't"

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"Every single decision in your life is made by Belle!" Noah raised his voice a little. "You like the red dress but Belle likes the blue dress, so you go buy the blue dress. You feel like wearing your hair up but Belle says that today, it would look better down. So what do you do? You pull your hair out and you wear it down, just like Belle says. You change your perfume to suit her, you don't watch a damn TV show because Belle wouldn't approve! You don't wear the colour green because the colour makes Belle feel sick and you stopped eating your favourite food because Belle doesn't approve of anybody eating chicken!"

"It is not like that Noah!" Hayley croaked.

"It so is Hayley! Belle says jump and you say how high! She runs rings around you" Noah paused. "She's a horrible person Haylz and ever since you started hanging out with her, you've become one too" Noah said before he turned around and walked up stairs, reaching his room he slammed the door.

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Charlie stood at the front door looking around in her school bag for the house keys, hearing the jingle of keys, she pulled them out and realised they were for the back door, placing the few items she took out back in the bag, she walked around to the back of the house, stopping when she saw someone sitting on the back steps.

"Hello Charlie"