Charlie's P.O.V

When i woke up Brax was gone so I figured he had gone to work already. I thought for a moment before texting Roman.

Hey, are you free today?

Meet me at the diner in 20.

I smiled to myself before jumping up to get ready. I put a loose flowing white dress on that completely covered my bump before heading off. When I reached the diner I looked around and spotted Roman straight away. He smiled and stood up. I walked over to him and he looked me up and down, while I pretended not to notice. Wow, he breathed.

"Sit down." He smiled and pulled the chair out for me.

"So, have you managed to get settled in?" I smiled. He coughed.

"Yeah, well nothing's really changed." We both laughed. "I'm staying at a motel for the moment since I haven't looked for any houses yet."

"You could stay with us!" I exclaimed and he looked at me uncomfortably for a second before replying.

"Are you sure that would be okay with Brax?"

"Of course." I smiled.

"You know with everything that happened-" I cut him off quickly.

"We don't need to worry about that, okay?" I said quietly while looking down. I felt his hand settle on top off mine and I looked at it and then at him. We sat like that before I came to my senses and took my hand away, but not before Brax angrily walked over to us. I instantly stood up knowing this wouldn't go down well.

"Brax I-" He cut me off and pointed at Roman.

"What was that?" He asked angrily. Roman stood up apologetically.

"Mate I-" He cut him off too.

"I'm not your mate." ANd he punched him, right in the jaw. I was sure I heard a crack somewhere.

"Brax!" I screamed but he just walked off, almost looking smug. I looked at Roman with tears in my eyes but he only laughed.

"I guess I won't be staying with you after all." I put my hand on my stomach straight away and he noticed. He looked at me weirdly for a bit before continuing.

"You're pregnant?" He stuttered and then I could really feel the tears now. I grabbed my stuff and ran past everyone who was staring at us, and straight to the beach where I ran into Bianca and Heath. I fell straight into Bianca's arms while murmuring everything that had happened to her. Before I knew it, Heath had gone and I was pretty sure Bianca had given him some signal behind my back to make himself scarce. Bianca pulled me forward and shook me a little.

"Charlie! Stop crying and tell me what's wrong!"

Brax's P.O.V

I finished sculling my third vodka after my encounter with Charlie and Roman, when Heath walked through the door looking distraught. I chose to ignore him until he came and sat next to me, pouring himself his own glass.

"I've never seen anyone look so," He paused for a minute, thinking, "sad." He continued. We both skulled our drinks at the same time.

"Why was Bianca sad?" I asked, continuing the conversation.

"Not Bianca, bro. Your girl." I looked at him funny and thought that the one hit couldn't have made her that upset.

"Yeah, we ran into her on the beach and she just started murmuring things about babies to Bianca." I stared at my empty glass and thought for a moment before grabbing my car keys and driving to the motel where I presumed Roman would be staying. Once I found out which room was his, I knocked on the door eagerly. As he opened it, he flinched and went to close it again, but I stopped him.

"Wait!" I said. "I just want to talk." He looked at me and slowly opened the door a little more.

"What do you want to talk about?"

"Why is Charlie crying?" He immediately put his hand down in shame.

"You should really ask her-"

"No, I'm asking you." I said sternly. He nodded his head and opened the door fully to let me in. I stood just on the inside of the door and stared at him.

"I assume you know she was pregnant, a while ago?" I nodded.

"One night, she was out with a friend, blonde, both of them completely out of it. So I offered to take her home. I know Charlie from a while back so she knew she could trust me. I got her into my apartment in the city when she started coming on to me. We were both drunk and well-"

"I get it." I said, not wanting the details of their sex story.

"Well, that's when she got pregnant and that's why she left Summer Bay. It wasn't because of you and all those girls. It was because of her. She was so ashamed of what she had done to you." He ended the last past quietly, expecting me to take it all in and hit him again, which was exactly what happened. This time I punched him in the cheek bone and walked out.

Charlie'd P.O.V

"So that's why you left? Because you were ashamed that you cheated on Brax?" Bianca said, nodding her head, as if everything finally made sense. I nodded with her.

"Also, with everything that was going on, it all became to hard and I guess I thought leaving, was the best solution."

"You guessed wrong." We both turned around and saw Brax. Bianca was quick to excuse herself. He watched her walk away before coming and sitting next to me.

"How much of that did you hear?"

"Enough." He said simply, which made me silently cry, but he noticed. He always did.

"Hey, hey, hey." He said in a soothing voice, taking my face in his hands and wiping away the tears. I looked down, which he never liked.

"Charlie, look at me." He said and lifted my chin up. "It's okay, you're okay," he paused and looked at me, "And we are okay." He laughed which made me smile for maybe a second.

"Brax, who are we kidding? It's always going to be like this. The games, the lies, the cheating-" I was going to continue my list but he cut me off.

"No." He said. "You are not about to do this, you hear me?" I looked up at him and smiled, he smiled back. "We're going to have this baby and we will not lie anymore, okay?" I looked up at him.

"No more lies?" I asked and he shook his head with a smirk.