Sue came around an hour later oblivious to how she ended up on the chair in her living room. She managed to untie herself and then went to check on Ava.
Meanwhile...
Cupcakes, Ziggy and Lottie were on their way to Waterloo Road to get 'revenge' on Simon. They had managed to get some photographic evidence and video footage of Sue strapped up to the chair as they wanted to out Simon as 'The worst husband in the world' to teach him a lesson and punish him for going against family wishes aka the crazy lifestyle.
They walked in through an open door near the sports hall. They were very careful not to be spotted by any teachers or pupils. The plan was to put up the 50 posters they had printed all over the school. They had already put a link to the video on the schools website.
"Where should we put the posters, mother?" Lottie asked.
"Anywhere and everywhere, we need every student, teacher even cleaner to know how disgraceful Mr Lowsley is" Cupcakes said.
"Maybe we should split up Lovelies, as we can get the job done much faster and if we have any encounters with anybody it will be easier for us to go unnoticed" Ziggy said.
They all split up and took a handful of posters each. Lottie had a near miss when she was nearly spotted by Vix but she managed to go unnoticed by hiding in the store cupboard.
An hour later and all the posters were up and Cupcakes, Ziggy and Lottie were on their way back into town for some lunch. They released that Sue wouldn't want to make them anything to eat as, by now, she would probably have woken up and pieced the whole event together and released they were the ones that had tied her to the chair. Instead they would hang out in town, out of the way, for the time being until the coast was clear then make their way back to the house, break in and get their belongings then leg it back home.
Across town...
Sue was on her way to the school. She had had enough of Simon's family and them tying her to the chair was the final straw. Sue was unaware that they had been at the school hours earlier, humiliating her and damaging her husband's reputation.
Vix was sitting in the staffroom on her laptop with Nikki helping upload some photos of the Resilience program to the school website. She was uploading the last of the photos when she noticed that a new video had been posted only a few hours ago. As only teachers where allowed to post stuff on the website, Vix was curious at what the video was about. It said under the video it had been uploaded by Simon.
"What has Mr Lowsley, put online I wonder" Vix said.
"Click on it to find out" Nikki responded.
Vix clicked on the link and the caption read 'A night at the Lowsley's'. The video showed Sue strapped to the chair and unable to move. Vix paused it after about 10 seconds.
"I've seen enough, where's my Brother-in-Law?" Vix said walking out the staffroom angrily.
Simon was walking through the corridor when Vix bumped into him. She grabbed a hold of his arm and dragged him back to the staffroom. Simon sat down on a chair.
"Right, you have some explaining to do" Vix said showing Simon the clip.
"What on earth, this had nothing to do with me I swear" Simon said sounding shocked.
"Well who tied your wife, are you saying your 1 month old Daughter did it, coz I doubt that" Vix said.
"No of course not" Simon said.
"Well who then?" Vix asked.
"Right, now I'm gonna say something that I will probably regret later, and there is a large possibility that you will not believe me" Simon said.
Just then Sue walked in.
"Sue, Sue are you ok?" Simon and Vix said giving her a hug in turn.
"Yeah, a bit shaken up, how did you find out?" Sue asked.
"It's was put on the website" Simon said.
"Do Vix and Nikki know about you know what" Sue questioned.
"No, but I think it is probably a good idea if they knew though" Simon said.
"Knew what, what's going on Si?" Nikki asked puzzled.
"How about we go back to our house and I'll explain, it's our lunch hour anyway and we won't be missed that much" Simon said.
Simon drove them all back to the house and they went and sat in the living room. Sue took Ava upstairs for a nap then joined the group.
"Right, you have some explaining to do" Vix said.
Simon explained everything; about how his parents and sister showed up out of the blue, how they were utterly crazy and everything in between.
"Well that still doesn't explain how my sister ended up being tied to a chair" Vix said.
"I don't have a clue why they did that to Sue" Simon said.
Meanwhile (Minutes away)...
Cupcakes was planning the next attack.
"Lottie you have to go into the house, explain to Shaggy that you have come to collect the cases and tell him your sorry for all the trouble you've caused, basically do whatever you need to do to make it look like you are truly sorry" She said.
"Right got it" Lottie said walking towards the Lowsley's house.
"And us Ziggy while Lottie is distracting them we will attack" Cupcakes said.
"Ok" Ziggy said.
"Remember a quick exit is key" Cupcakes said.
"Got it, let's go" Ziggy said acknowledging what had to be done.
Lottie rang the doorbell.
"I'll go and get it" Simon said walking out the room and opening the door.
"What do you want?" Simon said angrily.
"I've come to collect the cases, we're going" Lottie said.
"Good but first you can come and apologise to my wife for what you did to her" Simon said inviting her in.
"This is my sister Becky" Simon said to Nikki and Vix.
"We'll I'm Vix and this is Nikki" Vix said.
"Why you back here, haven't you done enough" Sue said angrily.
"I came to collect our bags and apologise to you for what we did" Lottie said.
"Why did you do it?" Sue asked.
"Mother and Father have always had a grudge against Simon they wanted to get revenge by hurting the one person he loves the most" Lottie said.
"What is this grudge about?" Sue questioned.
"Simon was 3 when I was born, Mother and Father spent all their time with me and kind of neglected Simon, they grew further and further apart until I got so bad that Simon left home" Lottie said.
"Ohh" Sue said.
"It's true" said Simon
"Why did you never say anything?" Vix asked.
"I was embarrassed, I believed that I was such a bad child and that I didn't deserve to be loved, My parents blamed me for lots of things" Simon said.
Lottie sensed it was a good time to leave.
"Thanks for letting us stay and sorry about Mum and Dad" Lottie said.
"Bye, then" Simon said as Lottie went to collect the cases.
Simon went back into the living room and sat next to Sue. Sue just hugged Simon as tight as she could.
"I love you, you know" Sue said.
"I know that now, at the time I just thought that that no-one ever would. I was a 3 year old growing up, I didn't understand what love was, probably explains why I'm so bad at it" Simon said.
"You're not, I love you more than anything else in the world and so does Ava" Sue said.
"I love you too Si" Vix said not wanting to be left out.
"Anyway speaking of Ava, I better go and check on her" Sue said getting up and walking upstairs.
Suddenly there was a scream as Sue came running down the stairs.
"What's wrong?" Simon said trying to calm Sue down.
"It's...Erhh...Ava she's ...gone" Sue said hysterically.
"What do you mean?" Simon said.
"I went upstairs and she wasn't there, her crib is empty" Sue said in tears.
"Oh no" Simon said.
"What?" Everyone said.
"They've taken her, this is not going to end well" Simon said.
"What do you mean, what's going to happen to our daughter?" Sue said sobbing ...