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"What is it?" Ruby blurted unable to contain herself anymore.

Joey sat looking into the box. She was speechless. It was almost as beautiful as Charlie was but she could never put Charlie's beauty into words and this was no different. She looked again into the box and then to Charlie. 'Wow, but… wow… how did she?… wow' even Joey's thought's struggled to make sense.

"Well?" Ruby spoke again, fighting the urge to go and look in the box herself.

"Yeah come on Jo don't keep us in suspense." Aden could tell by looking at his friend's face that it must be something special. His mind was doing overtime thinking on the possibilities on what lay within the box.

Charlie sat quietly trying to read Joey's expressions. She was glad Joey had raised the bed for her, as she wouldn't have been able to see Joey otherwise. 'Oh god she hates it' Charlie's mind began to race. 'I'm so stupid, why did I think this would be a good idea? Why hasn't she said anything? Why hasn't she removed it out of the box? She hates it… why do I have to ruin everything?' not only was Charlie's mind racing but her heart started to beat faster.

Leah had been sitting quietly watching her friend's faces and body language. As much as she had given out to Ruby about trying to open it before Charlie had arrived, she couldn't help but have a sneak peek at the two boxes that she kept in her bag. Truth be told she had several sneak peeks. The first being just after Charlie had dropped them off at the Diner before the meal. She had nearly been caught by Charlie who had returned with the flowers from her car. Leah had just closed the box and turned to put them away when she heard Charlie behind her. She was seriously hoping that Charlie couldn't tell by the look on her face. She struggled to contain the smile on her face. She had told herself that every sneak peek after that was to make sure they were still in the box. But really she had loved both Ruby's and Joey's presents so much she just wanted to look at them again. She thought Ruby's was understatingly beautiful. She knew Ruby would instantly love it. She also knew Charlie knew that and had been the reason she had purchased it for her sister. Leah always admired the connection between the sister, they had their ups and downs but they were always there for each other. Nothing would ever break their love. 'Mm probably why Charlie bought Rubes the Chain' Leah thought to herself. Charlie had spoke to her several times about not wanting Ruby to feel pushed out or unloved or forgotten.

Joey's present though had intrigued her and she had played out Joey's reaction in her head on more than one occasion as she had done with Ruby's reaction. She had got Ruby's reaction completely correct. In fact it was so accurate it had kinda freaked her out. She smiled to herself thinking on Ruby's reaction again. She looked at Ruby again who was now going red, as she still had no idea what was in Joey's box. Leah giggled thinking on Ruby actually exploding while desperately wanting to know what Joey had received.

She looked at Joey again, still no reaction. This was definitely not what she had imagined. She looked at Joey's face; she could only see part of it as Joey had her head down staring into the box. There was no visible facial expression on her face. Leah glanced at Charlie who was staring at Joey with panic in her eyes. With every second that passed the panic was shinning through more and more. She even had a tight grip on her sheet that was wrapped around her. Leah's heart was feeling for her.

"Charlie" Rachel's worried voice broke through the door as she did. "Charlie, are you ok?" Rachel looked at Charlie and then to her heart monitor.

"Yeah" Charlie let out a little mumble, looking at Rachel she felt woozy.

"Right everyone out" Rachel ordered as she saw Charlie's reaction.

"Wait what… why?" Joey jumped to her feet. Moving for the first time in what seemed forever.

Julie walked in to assist Rachel; she had heard Joey's questions. "We need to stabilise her." she moved to usher them out.

"But… but she was fine a second ago." Ruby muttered her words.

"Her BP is rising and after an operation especially the one she has just gone under can be a serious problem. We need to calm her down and then hopefully you can come back in."

"But her machine's didn't beep." Aden spoke holding Ruby while walking her out of the room.

"We had them on silent so you could talk, the machine's at our station alerted us." Julie spoke as she closed the door shutting them out.

Outside Aden put his arm around Ruby, "it's ok, she's okay, they just need her to relax."

"Then why can't we stay in to help her, surely she would be able to do that with us there." Ruby responded to Aden's comment knowing he was right but it didn't help that she couldn't be with her sister.

"God, this is my fault, she probably thought… oh god" Ruby and Aden turned to see a teary Joey.

"It's nobody's fault" Leah was sure of that.

"No it is, I just sat looking into the box… oh god…" Joey cried harder this time.

Ruby removed herself from Aden's embrace and walked over to Joey. "Seriously, what the hell is in that box?"

Joey looked up at Ruby who was now standing in front of her. Ruby continued "Like I mean seriously, Jo I've never seen you so quiet in my life. Charlie's BP has gone through the roof and you seem to think it's because of you and the box…. It's the last time I'm going to say this before I snatch it off you… what is in the box?"

Joey handed the still opened box to Ruby who now had Aden standing by her shoulder so close they were almost touching.

"Oh"