I would like to thank everyone who has added this to their favourites, subscribed and reviewed this story. I appreciate it so much. Please let me know whether you want me to jump straight to the day they go to NZ for the next chapter or not. The more suggestions I get, the better. Oh, and just in case you don't know, Miles hasn't left the bay, and Leah and Elijah are back together again. Miles is still good friends with them. This chapter won't have much about Brax and Charlie; it will mainly be about people's perspective of them receiving their invitation to the wedding. Hope you like this chapter (: xxxx

Chapter 12 – Invitations

Two days later, Charlie and Brax had finalised all their wedding plans. While Brax went into the restaurant, Charlie posted all the invitations, hoping they would get a response in the next day or two to finish booking everything.

As Alf came back from the diner, he went to the letterbox. Unlike most days where all he got were bills and queries about the Summer Bay Caravan Park, he found small white envelopes with Roo, Marilyn, Miles and his name handwritten beautifully on each of them. It wasn't everyday where he saw envelopes like those so he picked them all up and examined them carefully before walking back into the house.
"Mr Stewart! What are those you're looking at so closely?" asked Marilyn.
"I have no idea, hence why I am looking at them closely," replied Alf.
"Oh! These! They're wedding invitations silly! I've seen heaps and heaps of them after being a hairdresser for all these years!"
"Wedding invitations? Who's getting married!"
"Charlie! Haven't you heard?"
"No, well not that I can remember."
"Weren't you at the diner when they told everyone?"
"Maybe I was, maybe I wasn't... Oh, I can't remember!"
"Oh... Well they have been walking around town a lot lately and Charlie is wearing an engagement-"
Marilyn was interrupted by Roo who had just walked into the house after finishing her shift at the diner.
"Why do I hear you two talking about an engagement?" wondered Roo.
"So I'm not the only one who didn't know!" shouted Alf.
"Roo, you were at the diner! You should know!" exclaimed Marilyn.
"Oh! You mean Charlie and Brax? Yes, of course! What about them? Did dad not know about them?"
"No. Obviously I was the only one who didn't," answered Alf.
"Well you do now! That's all that matters!" said Marilyn who was trying to make him feel better.
"Yeah, now... When we got these..."
"We got what?" asked Roo.
Alf handed her the invitation.
She opened the envelope and slowly pulled the invitation card out. "Aww! These are beautiful!"
"When is it?" Marilyn questioned.
"Next month... Hey, look! It's in New Zealand!" Roo said excitedly.
"Wow! It must be costing them a lot!" said Marilyn.
"They've probably got it sorted out. Of course we'll go. Surely Miles will want to too," added Alf.
Just as Miles walked into the house, he heard his name. "I will want to what?"
"Go to Charlie and Brax's wedding," replied Roo.
"Yeah, no doubt! Charlie and I are good mates!"
"I'll call Charlie and now her we're all coming then!" said Marilyn. She was so excited!

Colleen wouldn't stop talking as soon as she got to work the next day.
"Did you get one?" she kept asking everyone that over and over again. It was as if she felt like she was the only one who received an invitation.
Irene had only reached the diner five minutes ago, and already had enough.
"Got what Colleen?" asked Irene firmly.
"The wedding invitation!"
"Yes, I think everyone in the bay has gotten one. I think you should count yourself lucky after everything you've said to them."
Colleen bit her lip. She didn't know what to say, although she could see where Irene was coming from.
"I'm not too sure if I even want to go to the wedding now..." she said.
"Oh don't be silly darl! Look, I'm sorry about what I said."
"There's no need to be. It is quite true. I guess I should go..."

Casey and Ruby saw Charlie sitting on the beach, watching Brax surf.
"Charlie!" yelled Ruby.
"Hey Ruby! Hey Casey!" she replied.
"Where are our invitations?" they asked in unison.
"Do you not want us to be there?" added Ruby and laughed.
"Haha what? Of course we want you both there! We just figured that seeing as you two live with us, what's the point of mailing you invitations?"
"That's kind of true... Anyways, we're so happy you two have finalised everything!" said Ruby.
"Awh, so are we!"
"Well we'll leave you to it. Case and I have got to meet Dex and Xavier at the diner. See ya!"

Next chapter:
So as I said at the beginning, I can't decide if I should jump a month ahead and write about when they're in NZ or if I should drop a bombshell. Well it's not really a bombshell, but it'll come as a shock as I haven't dropped any hints about it yet. Please let me know what you want to happen next :-) xx