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CHARLIE'S P.O.V
It had been a week now, since Brax and I went over to Cheryl's house for the afternoon BBQ. Brax had apparently spoken to his mum several times. My day couldn't get any worse, when I realised that the person I was pulling over for speeding, was in fact her.
"Ms Braxton, how are you today?"
"Well I was fine until you; miss piggy came into my face. What have I supposedly done wrong this time anyway?"
"Ms Braxton, I've just clocked you driving your car at 98 kilometres per hour. Are you aware this is a 70 zone?"
"Well as far as I'm concerned, I haven't killed anyone, so why do you care?"
"It's my job to stop that kind of event from occurring where possible. Could you please hand me your licence?"
"Why? You're not going to fine me are ya?"
"Cheryl, just because I am dating your son, certainly, does not mean that I'm going to let you get away with it. The sooner you learn and figure that out, the better it will be for everyone."
"You are nothing but a mole. Daryl's too good for you, one day he is going to wake up and see that you are nothing but a lying slut."
"Excuse me Cheryl; do you want to say that again?" I asked, getting fired up and defensive now.
"You heard me piggy. After this, I am going to and see my son and tell him the skank that you are."
"Cheryl, you don't know a thing about me. I certainly don't appreciate being told how to do my job, by someone who I've heard is no model mother. What gives you the right to judge me, when you spent most nights with men and at the pokies, instead of looking after you kids?"
Next thing I knew, Cheryl's face lit up with anger. I felt her arm reach out and slap me across my face. I clenched my cheek that was probably roar read, tightly, before looking at Cheryl and automatically reacting. "Cheryl Braxton, you're under arrest for assaulting a police officer. You have the right to remain silent, but anything that you say or do, will be recorded and may be used as evidence in the court of law. Do you understand? I said quickly, pulling out my hand cuffs and attaching them to her wrists.
"I didn't mean to slap ya and lash out."
"Yeah well Cheryl, I didn't want it to come to this. You're the one that did it though, now move."
"You really are a piece of work, you know that?" I heard her say, as I pulled her body and put her into the back of the police car.
"Cheryl, I love Brax why can't you see that? He is amazing and so caring and supportive. Why can't you see that we are happy and want to keep it that way?"
"Because, I think that my son could do a hell of a lot better than having some pig copper breathing down his neck all the time. He deserves happiness."
"And you don't think he and I are happy?" I asked staring at her weakly, still holding my face tightly. "Nup" she replied looking out the window and avoiding eye contact with me. I turned on the car and started heading to the station.
I decided on the way there, I wasn't going to charge Cheryl with assaulting me. One day she could turn out to be my mother in law, and that would be way too messy. She was the type of person that would always hold it against me. I told Cheryl I wouldn't charge her, but I would give her a ticket for speeding. I was still bad news in her eyes, though.
We arrived at the station. I explained the case to Watson, who took over, fined her and arranged for her to be driven home. I didn't have the patience to deal with Cheryl any longer. Things would just keep going round and round in circles and my day would be wasted in a screaming match.
I hadn't told Brax yet, what had happened. If Cheryl kept to her word, then she would be off the Angelo's to tell him her version of events, no doubt. It didn't take long either, when I got a call, while I was at my desk filling out paper work, from Brax. I sighed as I answered it.
"Hey Brax" I spoke reluctantly.
"Charlie, I've just had Mum in my ear. She been going to for the last half hour, about how quote "my pig girlfriend" fined her, insulted her then slapped her. What the hell were you thinking?" And there it was. I knew this was going to happen, she'd twist the story around and make me look like the bad guy, just to suit her and keep Brax away from me. He wasn't happy either, pretty much yelling down the phone line at me.
"Brax that is NOT what happened." I told him quickly when I managed to get a word in. I made sure to emphasise the not. He didn't seem to believe me, as I heard he scoff.
"Yeah, whatever Charlie. You know what, I don't have time for this, I've got a business to run." He said, probably rolling his eyes at me as he hung up.
I didn't really expect anything less. Brax wasn't there today, he didn't hear things been said. His mother was to selfish to tell him what happened, and I wasn't going to waste my time, justifying myself to him either.
BRAX'S P.O.V
I was angry at Charlie, for what happened between her and mum today. I get that mum's no angel, but she didn't need to slap her and insult her. She crossed the line, and I wasn't going to be the one to make the first move and speak to her. Right now, I had nothing to say to her and was happy to ignore her.
Angelo's has been busy, right from the minute we opened for lunch. I manned the bar, pretty much the whole time. There was this one woman that seemed to be cracking onto me. Her name was Jemma. She was pretty attractive; she had blonde hair, just past her shoulders and a beautifully toned body, like Charlie I guess. She sat at one of the stools for at the least the last hour, complementing me on pretty much everything I did. I could tell she was interested in me. I kept trying to brush her off, she didn't quite seem to get the message though.
5 hours later:
There was a party on the beach tonight. Heath was the one that organised it. It wasn't anything to big, just all the river boys and some of our friends. I had invited Charlie the other day, I doubt she would come, given the recent events of today. I sat on the sand, near the grassed area, drinking my beer. To be honest, I wasn't really in the mood for this. I looked over my shoulder and noticed Jemma, the girl that was Angelo's earlier today standing there looking at me.
"I didn't expect to see you here, fancy running into each other twice in one day, although I'm glad we did." She said smiling as she sat down next to me.
I smiled politely at her. "See that guy there, the one that just took his singlet off and through it into the fire then sprayed beer at that guy next to him?" I told her pointing to Heath, who was about 20 metres away from us. She looked around, catching who I was talking about and nodded.
"Yep well, I'm lucky enough to be his brother. He's the one that organised this crap tonight. I'm here just to make sure it doesn't get out of hand I guess... I certainly don't want to be here."
"You're really sweet, looking out for your brother like that. I don't think mine would do that for me, he's too busy off exploring the world."
"Thanks" was all I said. We sat there talking for another 20 minutes. She was still trying to chat me up. I had, had enough of her blabber, and got up to leave.
"Wait, where are you going?" Jemma asked me. I turned around to face her. She looked quite up set. "I'm really tired. My idiot brother can control and look after his own stupid party. I'm not his mother." I told her. Out of know where, she leant into me and kissed me. I responded for maybe 2 seconds, but then realised it was wrong and pulled away.
I turned and started walking up the beach. I saw Charlie staring at me. "Shit" I yelled, as I called out her name. She turned and started running from me. I chased her, running up the beach entrance. I continued to call her name as I ran. Charlie had to stop and take her shoes off, to run faster I guess, away from me. I managed to catch her and grab her arm.
"GET OFF ME" She screamed at me pulling my hand away and wiping the tears from her face. She turned and kept going.
"Charlie wait, let me explain. It's not what it looked like"
"So what does it look like huh? I saw you two together kissing. Don't treat me like an idiot"
"She came onto me alright. What were you doing, spying on me."
"No Brax, you see, after what happened today, I wanted to sort things out. You invited me to this remember? Just go back there and continue hooking up with that silly blonde."
"Charlie, wait."
"No leave me alone. I don't want to be anywhere near you. Do not follow me Brax, I mean it, were over" I stood still, and watched as Charlie, walked away crying her eyes out, because of me.
CHARLIE'S P.O.V
I can't believe what I just saw. I thought he was different from his brothers and the other river boys. It turns out he is exactly the same. Sure, I could of handled things differently today, with how I dealt with the Cheryl case. I could have rung him and told him was happened before taking her to the station. I loved him and wanted to sort and work everything out. After seeing him with the slutty blonde on the beach, I wanted him out of my life, and nothing more to do with him. I figured his mum would be happy to know we were no longer together.
I arrived home, after walking and crying my eyes out the whole way. I had mascara and eye liner running down my face. Ruby saw me and pulled me into a hug. I told her what happened and continued to cry on her shoulder, as she led me over to the couch to sit on.
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