Charlie's POV:

I woke up the following morning in Brax's arms, one hand loosely resting on my waist, I crept out of the bed, pulled on my dressing gown and slipped into the kitchen to be greeted by Ruby,

"Hi." She said in a less-than-impressed attitude.

"Morning Rubes." She simply grunted and was about to leave for school, "Ruby wait!" I called after her,

"What?" She spun around pretty angrily,

"Why are you angry with me?"

"For upsetting Brax like that, Charlie! I thought you and Matt were over!"

"Honey we are, come back into the kitchen and I'll explain?"

She nodded slightly.

Brax's POV:

I rolled out of the bed after finding no Charlie beside me, I slipped on my shorts and shirt and went out into the living room, I could hear Ruby and Charlie talking and decided to hang around in the living room till they were done,

"Ruby, I need you to know I'd never do anything to hurt Brax, or you for that matter." Charlie said. Ruby nodded slowly, "Matt and I were just have coffee, we'd still like to be friends, as it didn't work out as more than that, but honey, I love Brax, and I'm with him."

"Charlie, he said you looked so cosy though."

"I know b-" She interrupted Charlie.

"You haven't known each other for very long, I mean, so you can't say you just have that friendly relationship!"

"But we do Rubes, I know we haven't known each other for long, but there is a friendly spark, and that's all it is."

She looked down, "Are you alright?"

"Yeah, I'm sorry for being all bitchy."

"It's fine, come here." I watched as Charlie pulled Ruby into a hug, I smiled, thinking back to last night, Charlie said she was 'my girl' and I loved her.

"I better get off to school, bye Charlie." Ruby said

"Bye sweetie."

As soon as I heard Ruby leave, I waited a minute before walking into the kitchen, Charlie had turned away from the door and was fidgeting around at the kettle, I walked up behind her, wrapped my arms around her waist and kissed her neck,

"Morning sleepy-head." She muttered, she turned around to face me.

"Morning." I replied, before kissing her lightly.

She wrapped her arms around my waist and rested her head against my chest, "I have to get to work."

"Don't go yet." I tightened my arms around her.

"This is where my demonstration of strength can come in."

"Oh really?"

"Yes really, I am a police sergeant, remember."

"Oh, how could I forget?" I smirked and she hit my arm playfully.

I looked down at her, our faces only a few inches apart, she reached up and kissed me passionately, her tongue exploring every inch of my mouth, I moved my hands up to her face and through her hair, she immediately pushed me back and spun me around, holding my hands tightly, she created a good bit of distance between us,

"I told you I could escape." She winked at me slyly before walking off to get ready for work.

Charlie's POV:

After heading to work, Watson informed me that we had a lead on the robbery case and we were to go straight to the suspect's house, I had no idea where we were going until we arrived there, the Braxton household.

"Heath?" I asked, hoping Brax wasn't the suspect,

"No, Darryl Braxton. I'm sorry, Charlie, but you two aren't together anymore so I suppose it's not that bad."

I was about to tell her that we were back together but thought it best if I left it out for now.

Watson knocked on the door, I stood beside her, with two male police officers behind us, Brax swung open the door, he was wearing a green chequered hooded shirt, which he looked so very attractive in, he looked less than impressed to see four police officers in front of him,

"Officers, what can I do for you?"

"Constable, you check his bedroom, officers you check the kitchen, garden and other bedrooms." I ordered, they all walked off into the several bedrooms.

"Baby, what's going on?" Brax asked once they had left the room.

"Do you know anything about this armed robbery?"

"I already told you, no I don't."

"Brax, the person who committed the robbery has a tattoo on his lower back."

"Oh, someone with a tattoo, cause I'm the only guy with a tat, Charlie!"

"I know for a fact you have a tattoo on your lower back."

"I know you do." He said seductively, whilst winking at me.

"And so does half the town, have your forgotten how you lot walk around topless most of the time!"

"Only when I'm surfing!"

"Well now, yes!"

"Charlie, Benji's got a tattoo on his lower back, I saw him today."

"The river boy just out of prison?"

"Yep."

"Well he's not gonna want to go back in a hurry is he?"

"He might do, whatever floats his boat." Brax smirked.

I was starting to get angry with Brax, his cocky attitude was doing my head in, thank goodness we were interrupted by Watson.

"Just got a call Charlie, more urgent business, we'll have to continue this search another time."

I nodded before turning around and motioning towards the door, following closely behind Watson and the other two officers. I got to the doorway when I felt Brax's hand grab mine, I shook loose and walked out of the door.

Brax's POV:

I was a tad frustrated by the visit from the coppers and decided to head off to Angelo's to get a strong drink. I walked in the doors to see Heath sitting at the bar, I walked to the bar, took out a whiskey glass, poured the drink and knocked it back in one.

"Rough day?"

"Barely even started." Heath looked at me questioningly, "Coppers paid a visit, they want to know if I was responsible for the robbery."

"There's a robbery at a service station and they come straight to you?"

"Charlie said the guy had a tattoo on his lower back, I have a tattoo on my lower back..."

"Oh, how come you know so much about this investigation?"

"Cause we're back together."

"Right."

"Although I'm not sure after today if that's the case, she's mad at me, I'm mad at her, she doesn't trust me."

"It's hard for her to trust you though mate, she is a cop, and she's just looking at the evidence." I nodded slightly,

"Anyway, I'm goin' for a surf, you coming or what?" Heath nodded before following me back out of the restaurant.

Charlie's POV:

It was approaching about 5pm and it was already starting to get dark, I decided to go for a jog along the beach to clear my head, I was jogging for about five minutes when my phone rang, I checked the caller ID Georgina Watson I answered it,

"Hey Georgina."

"Charlie, hi."

"What's up?"

"I just wanted to tell you that the DNA results for the apple came back."

"Great, and?"

"I'm sorry Charlie, they belong to Brax."

My heart sank, "Alright, thanks." I hung up quickly, I could feel tears escaping down my cheeks, I slowly began to walk along the beach, heartbroken,

"Charlieeeee!" I slowly turned around to see Brax and Heath running towards me, surfboards in tow, Brax must've see the tears on my face cause he dug his board into the sand and moved closer to me, he raised his hand to my face and wiped away the tears before I stepped back,

"Charlie, what's wrong?" He asked softly,

"YOU! EVERYTHING!"

"What?" He continued to speak in a soothing, calm tone.

"DNA results Brax, according to DNA results you had something to do with that armed robbery!"

He moved closer to me, the water from his hair dripping onto my body, we were that close,

"Charlie, I had nothing to do with it!"

"HOW ELSE WOULD YOUR DNA GET THERE?" I shouted at him, the tears fell faster before I began to slap my hands against his chest, he grabbed my hands tightly and stopped me, before pulling me into a hug, he kissed my forehead softly,

"Shh, calm down."

"I'm sorry, I need some space." I pulled away from him and continued to walk along the beach, alone.