Chapter 28
Out from the shadows stepped Gemma who looked very lost "Oh thank god it's you lot, I thought you had been abducted" Gemma starts as she throws her arms around Colette's neck, "Who would abduct us Gemma? come on we are in the middle of nowhere" Mary-Claire speaks as she starts to yawn.
Once they start to walk back to their tent, Mary-Claire's torch cuts out leaving them in the dark "oh great that is all I need" Mary-Claire says as she feels someone hold her hand "Colette I hope that is you holding my hand" Mary-Claire says as she starts to panic, "Nope that isn't me look I am holding Gemma's hand" Colette speaks as she tries to figure out where Mary-Claire is standing "ugh" Colette moans as she walks into a tree "Nope that isn't Mary-Claire" Colette adds as she feels her way away from the tree.
"Is this a good time to confess to something" Mary-Claire says as she starts to weep as she wonders who is holding her hand "No it isn't" Gemma says as she speaks up "Gemma? are you holding my hand?" Mary-Claire says as Colette finally finds her and turns the torch on.
Finally Colette, Mary-Claire and Gemma got back to their tent with a few hours left to sleep until Michael and Connie were to wake them up. "I'm going to bed before I put your head though that wall over there" Colette said to Mary-Claire as she climbed back into bed, indicating to Mary-Claire and Gemma that she wasn't going to get up for anything that Gemma or Mary-Claire wanted or needed to do.
In the morning Colette woke up to the sound of Michael singing and Connie grumbling to herself, "Good Morning!" Mary-Claire said in a cheerful tone, Colette turns to face Mary-Claire who is already dressed and ready to go "Is it a good morning? after last night's commotion?" Colette says as she rubs the sleep out her eyes, Mary-Claire nods and smiles before unzipping the tent door and leaving.
Colette begins to get herself dressed when she hears Michael say everyone we are doing raft building today so can everyone get there swimming stuff together, with that Colette moans and goes though her suitcase looking for her swimming suit.
Later on everyone was down by the lake read to go and were waiting for Michael to tell people what teams they were in, "Okay so in team one is Connie, Mary-Claire and Gemma, Team two Colette, Dom and Serena, team three is Me, Jonny and Jac. Let's all have some fun then" Michael finishes and everyone gets down to making rafts.
Once everyone had finished making the rafts everyone helped each other place the rafts on the water, first up was Michael's team they made it down to the opening of the lake when the raft fell to pieces and Jac, Jonny and Michael dived into the water out the way of the raft tipping over. Then it was Connie's team who only got as far as the second marker when the raft capsized Gemma managed to dive onto the bank but was covering in mud, Connie grabbed Mary-Claire's hand and pulled her into the water, but didn't realise that her foot was still in the strap to keep her on the raft, Colette started to worry as Connie and Mary-Claire hadn't came up from under the water, Then Michael stripped his top off and so did Colette luckily she had her bikini top on underneath.
They both dived in Michael was the first to pop up with Connie slung over his shoulder, but Colette had managed to find Mary-Claire who was thrashing about trying to free her leg, Colette managed to pull her leg free as they both ascended to the water surface again, Everyone on the bank gave a sigh of relief as Colette and Mary-Claire swam to the bank where Jonny and Michael pulled them out of the water. "You saved me" Mary-Claire coughed as she fell to the floor on the bank side as she realised she couldn't walk on her left leg.
"I think someone needs a trip to the ED" Michael said as he checked Mary-Claire's ankle over "Well... It was saving you or trying to find someone to fill your space on AAU, and breaking the news to Harry that you had drowned"
After an eventful week Colette and the rest of the group were going home, they had decided to come home early because Connie's tent broke that she was sharing with Serena and Jac, Jonny had managed to fall out a tree and had a stiff back, Gemma had court a cold and was desperate to go home, Colette was extremely tired and slept the whole way back to Holby and Mary-Claire had her ankle strapped up and an ice pack attached to it after her Gemma and Connie fell off the raft during raft racing and finally Connie who had no dry clothes left and ended up using Serena's clothes which hung off her after Colette and Jac got their own back on her when she pushed them into the lake, they waited for her to come out her tent and when she did Colette chucked a bucket of water at her and so did Jac who made sure the water was ice cold.
Meanwhile back at Colette's house Fletch had got the text that they were coming back early and decided he would take Colette for a meal and then propose to Colette, and hopefully Colette would say yes.
It was around 7am and Fletch had been woken up by Bruno the cat, it was like Bruno was giving Fletch a taste of what it would be like with a new born around even though he had 4 children from a previous relationship with Natalie.
Fletch came down the stairs and picked up the post as Bruno brushed himself up against Fletch beginning to be fed, He decided to read though the post for a change and came across something for Colette which said "Private and confidential, If not delivered please return back to Holby City crown court, Mrs Colette Louise Williams, 22 Falls Road, Holby City, HO2 9XS".
Fletch started to worry about Colette and why her surname was Williams, was Colette keeping another secret from people, But Fletch was bound to find out because he was due to pick up Colette in under and hour.
