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Chapter 38- If he can't handle you at your worst, he sure as hell doesn't deserve you at your best.
BRAX POV…...
I smiled as I walked into the kitchen to find Charlie looking wistfully out of the window, chuckling quietly at mum and Bianca having their 'friendly chat'. I walked up to her and softly pressed myself against her, wrapping my arms around her waist and kissing the back of her head tenderly, taking in her beautiful smell
"Hey baby, what are you doing hiding in here?" I asked, pulling her to me, she smiled gently as my lips pressed gently against her forehead.
"I think your mum likes me…" she smiled proudly, looking up with me with her dreamy powder blue eyes, she grinned like a Cheshire cat as I dipped my head to her level and kissed her gently.
"I told you she does." I said with a smug smile as I pulled away, our noses pressing against each other softly. I felt her arms move from my biceps to the back of my neck, playing with the fine hairs like she usually does.
CHARLIE POV…...
I closed my eyes as Brax's hands moved around to my hips and massaged them gently, his thumbs rolling in a caressing motion. I gently gripped onto the back of his neck as I felt his lips against my collarbone
"Brax, what are you doing?" I whispered weakly, letting out a soft, uncontrolled moan as he kissed my neck seductively, I felt his hand snake around to the small of my back, pulling me to him further so that we were pressed firmly against each other.
"What do you think I'm doing?" he winked at me before continuing his excruciatingly painful ministrations. It was painful because I desperately needed to relieve some of the pleasure he was causing me.
"Brax no," I grinned, slapping the back of his shoulders gently,
"But I want it to…" he told me
I pulled away regretfully "Brax, stop this is not happening, not here!" I whispered harshly, pulling away and looking at him sternly.
I groaned as his lips again connected with mine, he arched his body into me "Mmmhmm, down boy!" I mumbled against his lips as I felt his bulge pressing into me, making me want him even more.
"Brax, stop trying to seduce me in your mother's kitchen." I begged, knowing if he didn't stop now, I didn't have the willpower to say no, and we would get caught.
"I don't hear you complaining…" He whispered cheekily against my neck
"Brax!" I squealed, slapping the top of his back softly
"Common, just a bit of sneaky fun." He said innocently, wiggling his eyebrows at me.
I giggled and widened my eyes at him "Oh yeah, your mum would love that!" I said sarcastically, leaning in to peck his lips one last time, I placed my hands over his on my hips and walked backwards slightly, towards the door for the backyard, only to be pulled back by Brax, my palms now flat against his broad chest.
"Just like the good old days…" he whispered suggestively, "My old room is at the end of the hall… I dare you." I looked nervously down the hallway, biting my lip in deliberation.
"Darc is up there Brax!" I muttered anxiously, looking at him pleadingly, not sure of whether this was entirely appropriate or not.
"Yeah at the opposite end of the hall. You just have to try and be quiet…"he whispered seductively before nibbling the curve of my ear and kissing a pathway down my neck
I let out a long breath at the touch of his lips against my skin, it was a pain I couldn't take anymore, I pulled back abruptly, only to have him look at me in disappointment, I pulled out of his grasp and looked at him with a straight face before breaking out into a grin "Race you there!" I whispered before pulling him along by the collar of his shirt and walking backwards to the end of the corridor, our lips connecting in steamy kisses, our tongues slowly moving together.
I smiled as Brax closed the door behind us, his gorgeous green eyes staring down to my heart, and all of a sudden all of the worries of being caught, the fear of being heard swept out of my mind. I felt his lips press against me passionately. He broke our kiss and kissed his way along my jaw line before gently sucking on the sensitive skin of my neck. His kisses were lustful and longing, but gentle and tender at the same time. I groaned as I felt his hand creep up my top and gently cup my breast through my bra and then ran down my stomach towards the zip of my shorts. My hands flew to his belt as I frantically tried to unzip it, my fingers fumbling with the buttons of his jeans. I giggled as he shimmied my panties down my legs and picked me up, holding me against the wall, his hands gently holding me under my bum.
BRAX POV…...
"Brax, we need to hurry up…" She whispered breathlessly against my lips as I kissed her feverishly. I groaned against her shoulder blade as her hand reached down inside my boxers and gently grabbing me, I felt her gently squeezing me, causing me to bite down against her shoulder blade to relieve some of the excruciating pleasure. I carried her over to the cold, unused double bed and gently settled her against the duvet cover before crawling on top of her, our tongues meeting in an ecstasy of passion, I felt her push my boxers down my legs with her feet, our clothes pilled in a heap on the floor. I knew we wouldn't have much time before someone would come looking for us, and I could tell Charlie was already soaked so I entered her easily, pushing deeper inch by inch, savouring just being inside her for a few moments before pulling out and then thrusting into her again, causing us both to moan out in pleasure.
CHARLIE POV…...
I shuddered as I felt Brax's length fill me, our foreheads both pressed against each other as we gasped at the delight and pleasure. I can't believe I was actually having sex with Brax in his old room whilst Cheryl, Darcy, Heath and Bianca are merely a few doors away. It was a whole new experience and surprisingly, it turned me on more knowing that we could get caught at any moment. I felt Brax hold my right calf and hook it over his back, causing him to thrust even deeper, both of us groaning in ecstasy. I gripped onto his back with my hands so that I didn't slide up the bed covers. I could feel myself expanding as I tried to accommodate his large size within me, it always surprised me how I could fit him inside me so easily at the size he was, but everything about him made me cry out in pleasure, my whole body had shock waves running down it, never wanting this bliss to end. I let a loud moan escape from my lips, only to be muffled into a whimper as Brax's lips sealed mine in a passionate kiss.
"Quiet babe" he mumbled, I'd completely forgotten about everyone else by this point.
BRAX POV…...
Our body's moved in a synchronized rhythm, both of us rocking together, meeting each other with each thrust. She began to clench her walls around me, knowing full well that it almost tips me over the edge each time feeling her contract around me. I slammed into her harder, causing her to bite down onto my neck to restrict her cute moaning. She brought her lips up to mine; electric sparks ricocheting down our bodies with every passionate touch.
"Uh Brax…mmm keep going." She panted; moving her arms under mine and sneaking them round to rest on the backs of my shoulders, I held a firm hand under her back as her hips raised, trying to get more of me,
"God Charlie…this feels so good." I moaned out as I oozed deeper into her, her walls now clenching further around me, I knew she was close.
"Harder, Brax…Harder." She whispered into my ear, we both groaned as I thrusted harder and deeper into her.
"Uh Brax! Don't stop!" She moaned, pressing her legs into the outsides of my waist to hold me to her.
"Oh…Brax…" She whimpered, her legs beginning to go slack at my sides and her body beginning to tremor, the tell tale sign that she was about to cum. "Uh Brax!" She cried out, muffling her cries into my lips as I felt her warm juices oozed over me, tipping me over the edge as I exploded into her, both of us moaning in pure bliss. I leant my forehead against hers, smiling as she moved her hands to the back of my head, playing with the tufts of hair as she tried to regulate her breathing, my length still buried inside her.
"Brax…" She said suddenly, her eyes snapping open
"What?" I asked, concerned by her sudden change of demenor.
"Something's licking my foot." She said worriedly, peering over my shoulder and laughing at what she saw, I turned around and began to chuckle at the situation.
"Oh god it's the dog!" I whispered, pressing my forehead against Charlie's both of us trying but failing to suppress our laughter, I froze as I felt Nasher begin to lick at the balls of my feet "Nasher, get out!" I whispered harshly, rolling my eyes as the dog sat doe eyed and innocent at us "Come on dog, this is an invasion of privacy." I said, trying but failing to make her see reason.
"Brax, it can't understand you, you know that right?" Charlie murmured into my ear.
I rolled my eyes at her comment. "Oh haha." I groaned in despair as I felt Nasher beginning to lick my feet again "Common Nasher, don't do this dog." I whined, chuckling as Charlie laughed, "This isn't funny." I said to Charlie, kissing her gently on the lips before we both tilted our heads to look at what Nasher was now up to. "Can you believe Nasher caught us, not Heath or anyone else…the damn dog!"
"Oh no, Nasher, no!" Charlie said as we saw Nasher sat with my boxers in her mouth. "No, common Nash." Charlie pleaded, I rolled of from on top of her, watching worriedly as she crawled forwards on the bed "Just give them here…" she said in a high pitched voice, Nasher refusing to budge.
"Here Nasher, that's it bring them here." I said, creeping forward with Nasher
"Come on Nasher, drop the boxers," Charlie begged, smiling as Nasher stepped towards us slightly "Good girl." Charlie praised, her hands centimetres away from retrieving them "Got 'em! No, wait, I haven't got them!" she said desperately, both of us watching in dread as Nasher ran out of the bedroom door.
"What do you mean you haven't got them!?"
CHARLIE POV…...
"Well she's just ran off down the corridor!" I whispered harshly, gathering up my panties and shorts and slipping them on, luckily we'd kept our tops on, "Stay here." I said to Brax before running down the corridor and calling out Nashers name, trying not to laugh at the situation. I stopped in my tracks as I saw her sitting with her tongue hanging out, Brax's boxers on the floor in front of her. It was almost as if she was smiling mockingly at me. I crept onto my hands and knees slowly, crawling across the floor to her.
"Charlie, what the hell are you doing?" I stopped crawling across the floor and looked up timidly at Bianca who stood over me, trying not to laugh.
"Oh god no, Charlie you didn't!" She asked, biting her lip to try and restrain her laughter.
"I did…" I said timidly, looking down to try and cover the blush that I'm pretty sure was spreading across my cheeks.
"Drop that Nasher, come on, I don't have to tell you twice do I?" I smiled as Bianca stood with her arms folded, glaring at Nasher. The dog cowered back slightly, dropping the boxers on the floor; even Nasher knew not to mess with a pregnant Bianca, or it would turn ugly and you would be likely to be left wounded from a screaming battle.
"Right, Nasher, outside! Now!" Bianca bellowed, Nasher immediately ran outside with her tail between her legs, as soon as the dog left Bianca stood proudly with her hands on her hips, raising her eyebrows at Charlie she bent down to pick Brax's Boxers up off the floor. "I think Brax might be needing these…" Bianca said, grimacing as she held the boxers with a hook of one finger, I let out a nervous laugh and took them from Bianca before running down the corridor.
"Oh you are kidding me!" I said in disbelief as I walked back into Brax's old room to see him dressing into another pair of boxers "You could have told me you had spare pairs before I crawled down the corridor!" I sulked, hitting his chest gently with my hands as he pulled me towards him.
"You crawled down the corridor?" He mumbled softly into my ear.
"Yes, yes I did it for you." I whined, pulling my best puppy dogface at him
"Aw aren't you just the cutest." He teased before leaning down to kiss me passionately
"Yeah and don't you know it." I grinned, wrapping my arms around him and nuzzling my head into the crook of his neck.
BRAX POV…...
"Good one mate, real smooth." Heath commented, grinning as Charlie and I both walked back outside. I looked down at Charlie whose cheeks had reddened at Heath's comment.
"Shut up Heath." I said, wrapping my arms around Charlie.
"And Charlie, that was an excellent, excellent display you put on back there, sound effects and all." Heath snickered, grinning as Charlie's cheeks reddened.
"Brax…" She whimpered, burying her head into my chest so that her hair tickled my skin.
"Leave my gorgeous girl alone." Brax said in Charlie's defence, Heath immediately snorted with laughter and Bianca grinned, mum just sat with her mouth open.
"Gorgeous girl? Man you are whipped." Heath said between his laughter, I looked down at Charlie who curled into my chest, her cheeks burning red, I'm pretty sure mine had gone a similar colour.
"You my son have just made yourself centre of today's jokes!" Mum added, chuckling before taking another slosh of her beer before turning to point at Charlie "And you my love, have a set of lungs on you!" Mum said, my eyes immediately widened and I felt Charlie hug me tighter, her hair falling in waves against my chest.
"Oi, no teasing, leave her alone, its better to know that someone is enjoying having sex with you." I said, defending Charlie and wrapping my arms tighter around her.
"Well I never get a complaint either mate you know." Heath chuckled, nudging a now red faced Bianca,
"Oh yeah, we know…" I heard Charlie mumble from my chest,
"Daddy, what is sex?" I heard Darcy ask. I saw Heath's face drain of all colour and life within it, Casey was sitting back trying not to laugh and Bianca was simply dumbfounded, opening and closing her mouth like a fish I looked from Heath, to Bianca, and to Charlie, who seemed to be pondering on how to put it to Darcy.
"Well Darc, you see, it's something, that adults do, together…as a couple-" Charlie said carefully kneeling down in front of Darcy.
"Well, why can't kids join in?" Darcy asked innocently, looking down at Charlie with her arms crossed, she sure was one determined little ten year old. I saw Charlie turn around and look at me pleadingly.
"Because Darc, for couples only, so you gotta keep quiet aye ssshhh and all that." I said, winking at Charlie, who smiled at me thankfully.
"So it's a secret?" Darcy asked Charlie, who nodded quickly.
"Yep, a secret…definitely a secret."
CHARLIE POV…...
I bit my lip, desperately hoping Darcy would leave the situation be and drop the subject. I felt Brax's chair creek from behind me and he knelt down next to me, pulling me into his body slightly in encouragement to carry on.
Darcy sighed, pondering on this for a minute "Well if I'm in on the secret then can't I know what it is…" she stammered, stamping her foot in protest.
"No Darc, its just dull you know? Boring adult stuff like…like work, it's boring, the same old thing each week, over and over again, you don't wanna know that kind of stuff." I shrugged, I turned to look at Brax out of the corner of my eye, he almost looked broken, absolutely devastated, I heard Heath laugh from his chair, I shot him a look before turning back to Darcy, looking up at her hopefully.
"Well I am to young to work." Darcy said, furrowing her brow in consideration and placing her index finger over her lips in thought,
I nodded at her, smiling as Heath made a comment from the sidelines "Exactly, so you are far, far to young for sex." he said sternly
"Whatever you say daddy." Darcy shrugged, poking her tongue at him.
"Daddy knows best, just you remember that aye kiddo?" Heath yelled to her as Darcy walked out of the garden and back into the house.
Charlie blushed as Heath and Bianca applauded her from their seats "Wow…I gotta hand it to you Charlie, you handed that well." Cheryl commented
"Wait a second…Boring?" Brax questioned, I turned around to see him scratching the back of his head with his hand and looking at me, a hurt look plastered over his face.
"Aw babe, I didn't mean it." I said, wrapping my arms around him and leaning up to peck his cheek.
"Same old thing? Do you really hate me that much?" he mumbled disappointedly into my shoulder as he gently rocked us from side to side.
"You can't blame her mate." Heath chuckled, earning a slap across the chest from Bianca and a death stare from Brax.
"You're kidding right, dull?" Brax asked, his eyebrows raised "Really Charlie, dull?" he continued, shaking his head in disappointment. I giggled before cupping his cheeks with my hands.
"Hey, you should know more than anyone, that's not true, I love having sex with you, more than anything, you know that." I said softly, gently resting my nose against his, giggling as he raised a smile
"So does everyone on our street. Correction, everyone in Summer Bay." Heath added, taking a swig of his beer.
"Oi!" Brax joked, whacking Heath around the head with the back of his hand.
"I'll prove to you just how much I love you later." I added with a wink, Brax immediately smirked at me and kissed me softly, his tongue gently creeping into my mouth, and his body hot against mine.
"Argh cut it out already, you two are gross!" Heath squirmed, covering his eyes like a horrified child; all of us were pulled out of our conversation by the sounding of footsteps through the house.
A new voice to the conversation caused everyones heads to turn, "What have you two done to gross everyone out now?" Ruby whined, entering from the back door, cringing as she looked from me to Brax.
"Hey Rubes, good to see you too." Brax chuckled as he pulled Ruby into his arms for a tender embrace, I smiled as I watched the interaction, taking in how close Ruby and Brax were of late.
3RD PERSON POV…..
All of them turned as the noticed a new guest in the house. A slightly balding man came through to the back garden, his hair was whitening and his eyes were slightly sunken, his belly slightly bloated but he had a welcoming presence around him, the boys all sucked in a breath as they looked Cheryl's new man "Hi you must be Cheryl's eldest, I'm Jay, nice to meet you." He held his hand out to Brax who hesitated for a second before outstretching his hand to Jay's, shaking it firmly
"Brax, call me Brax." Jay nodded, letting go of Brax's hand he turned to Charlie,
"Hi" Jay smiled, "You must be, Brax's lovely lady." He said, extending his hand to her.
Charlie returned his gesture, extending her arm to him and giving it a gentle shake "Charlie, nice to meet you." She beamed, her and Brax wearing matching grins as they kept a gentle grip on each other's hands.
Jay smiled at them before turning back to look at the back door as a rather chubby man with dark hair in his early thirties walked through "I'd like you all to meet my son, this is Cameron." Jay smiled, introducing Cameron to everyone.
"Oh my God! Cam!" Charlie shrieked, removing her hand from Brax's and running up to Cam and throwing her arms around him.
"Charlie! I can't believe it's really you." Cam beamed, tightening his grasp on her and rocking her left and right as they embraced.
Charlie giggled as she pulled away, her palms resting on his shoulders "Well you better! It's so nice to see you!" She exclaimed, both of them turned back to a crowd of equally stunned people, they all stood in silence for a minute until Brax cleared his throat in a prompt to get Charlie to speak. "Cam was one of my best friends at high school." Charlie explained hesitantly, both her and Cam smiling as a look of recognition crossed Jay's face.
"You're Charlie Buckton!" He exclaimed
"That's me." Charlie giggled, laughing as he pulled her into her embrace
"Oh sweetie its lovely to see you, how are you?" Jay asked, wrapping one arm around Cheryl's waist as she joined him by his side.
"I'm great thank you, things couldn't be better." Charlie beamed, as she looked over at Brax who was now cracking open a new set of beer bottles for the new guests.
"So is Ruby here?" Cam asked, scanning the small crowd for anyone resembling the chubby cheeked little baby he'd once known.
"Hi…" Ruby said hesitantly, peaking out from behind Charlie and smiling weakly at him.
Cam gasped and immediately, to Ruby's surprise gave her a warm and welcoming hug "My gosh the last time I saw you, you were blowing out the candles on your first birthday cake." He placed his hand over his heart as he reminisced,
"Long time ago then?" Ruby said, widening her eyes slightly and turning to Charlie.
"Too long." Charlie nodded, smiling up at Cam before squealing and giving him another tight hug.
"Oh Charlie, she's a stunner, just like her mum." Cam flushed as he looked at Ruby.
"Thank you." Charlie gushed, her cheeks burning crimson red. She looked over Cam's shoulders as someone elses voice filled the air, she immediately recognised it.
"No, Tilly, don't eat that, that's Cheryl's flowers." The man said, tugging a little girls hands away from the rose pots next to Cheryls back door, Charlie grinned as the little girl tugged on the plant before her hand got taken away and she was scooped into his arms.
The man smiled as he wrapped one arm around Cam's waist "Hello! I'm Marcus, nice to meet you, I'm Cam's partner-" he stopped as he registered who was in front of him "Oh my gosh! Charlie!" he yelled, gently lowering the little girl onto the ground and hugging Charlie gently.
"Marcus! I can't believe-did you two- you're together now?!" Charlie shrieked, looking from Cam to Marcus. Cam chuckled and nodded his head
"Yes, that hard work of yours trying to get us to hook up paid off." Marcus gushed, he removed his gaze from Charlie to the floor where the little girl was gently tugging on the bottom of his trousers, he scooped her up and smiled proudly as she giggled at everyone "And this is Tilly, Tilly say hello to everyone." He encouraged, bobbing the little girl up and down into his arms.
"Heyo." She said faintly, snuggling into her daddy as everyone 'aawwweed' around her.
"Well aren't you a little cutie." Cheryl cooed, pinching the little girls chubby cheek gently "I tell you what my grand daughter is in her room, do you want to go see her? She can play dolly's with you." Cheryl offered, smiling as the little girl nodded her head, she gently lifted her out of Marcus's arms and carried her into the kitchen.
...
Charlie smiled as her and Cam took a stroll along the river front behind Cheryl's house. The sun was slowly creeping higher along the horizon but the heat was still intense at 2 in the afternoon.
"So how long have you and Darryl been together?" Cam piped up as they sat down on one of the many small mounds of rocks facing the riverbank. In the distance you could hear the laughter of children playing in the distance, the splashing of water lapping up at their fun.
"Just over a year now." Charlie smiled as she thought about Brax, his smile, his eyes, and his touch. For once in her life everything felt perfect. She couldn't explain it but it did, she never thought she'd be in a position where she could be so happy, but somehow she got there.
"I have to admit, I never thought you'd leave the force." Cam chuckled, thinking of the days back when Ruby was a wee toddler and Charlie, at the age of 17 was already enrolling at the police academy.
Charlie nodded and laughed with him as she thought of all those memories. "Neither did I…I remember saying I'd be senior detective by 32, not gonna happen anymore!" she grinned, picking up a small handful of rocks she handed one to Cam and got up, beginning to skim them across the river. Each ripple glided across to the shore.
Each one made a great impact on the surface, interrupting one and others path as they spread out across the water; rather like life really, we all have a great impact somehow. We all cross paths in one-way or another, but in all honesty as an individual we are just a drop in the ocean,
"Are you happy though?" Cam asked curiously, laughing as Charlie tried to skim another rock but instead it just splashed at the surface and sunk into the water below.
Charlie turned to him and smiled "Yeah…yeah I am happy, the happiest I've ever been actually."
Cam nodded "Well he is hot!" he said approvingly, trying to contain his fits of laughter as Charlie raised her eyebrows and widened her eyes at him.
"Cam, you can't say that!" She squealed, shoving his arm gently
"Oh come on! Besides you know I'm right." He winked
"That is wrong on so many levels." She chuckled, rubbing her eyeballs as she tried to get his words out of her head, she shook her head as he wrapped his arm around her shoulder, continuing to walk along the river bank "It just feels right you know, I know its clichéd but I don't have to try to be anything I'm not." She said, leaning her head against his shoulder dreamily as she thought about Brax.
"Do you reckon he could be the one?" Cam asked, looking down at her and laughing as she looked up and glared at him,
"Oh shut up you!" She teased, laughing as he grinned and shrugged his shoulders,
"Genuine question, honest, do you love him?" he asked, stopping and turning to face her, his hands resting gently on her shoulder blades.
Charlie smiled and bit her lip, "Of course I love him, I don't think I could ever stop loving him. He's everything Cam, he's not just the guy I'm in love with he's my best friend-"
"Look at you all soppy…never thought I'd see the day!" he teased, patting her on the back in teasing congratulations
"Yeah well things change don't they?" She said, widening her eyes at him,
"They certainly do…" Cam nodded, chuckling as he thought of a teenage Charlie and her ways, "I certainly wouldn't have expected I'd be hearing those words from your mouth 17 years ago."
"Neither did I…" Charlie sighed "What about you and Marcus? How are you going?" She asked curiously, stopping at a little bench near a small peer along the riverfront, she sat down with Cam and gazed out at the river, awaiting his response.
"Na ah Missy, don't try and change the subject here…but to answer you're question we're very happy." He grinned, pursing his lips together and looking at Charlie who sat with a smug grin on her face "Oh don't look so smug, it just took us a while to realise-"
She cut him off "What was in front of you all along?" She nodded, as did Cam "I know the feeling."
"So what does Ruby think of Darryl?" Cam asked as Charlie chuckled at some young children running along the peer, racing each other up and down, their parents cheering them on in the distance like it was the 2012 Olympics all over again.
Charlie smiled and rubbed the rims of her eyes as they clouded up with tears, "She loves him Cam… I wish he was her real dad." She nodded and sniffed, smiling as Cam wiped away a tear that trickled along her cheek bone
"Biology isn't all that matters Charlie, Tilly's not ours, but we love her all the same…" he said soothingly, "Does he know-about Grant?"
She shook her head and let out a shaky breath "No, no I don't know how to bring it up anymore…I don't know how I'm supposed to talk about it-how I'm supposed to feel." She sighed, wiping away the wetness under her eyes,
Cam placed a reassuring hand on her knee and gave it a gentle squeeze, "Charlie there is no right or wrong way to feel about this-"
"I don't want him to look at me any differently…" Charlie whispered, fiddling with her hands in her lap.
Cam looked at her disapprovingly and shook his head, "Charlie, this man can't look at you any differently-"
"No I don't want him to be like everyone else and give me that sympathetic look- like you're doing now." She raised her voice as she spoke, pointing at the 'I feel sorry for you' look Cam was giving her "I don't want him to be ashamed like my dad was. I don't want him to look at me under a different light." She finished in a whisper. She chuckled as Cam took her hand and gave it a reassuring squeeze,
"Charlie if he can't handle you at you're worst, then he sure as hell doesn't deserve you at your best." He said, she smiled as he pulled her up from the bench and the pair of them began walking back to the house.
...
Charlie smiled as she walked up to Brax in the garden as he and Heath manned the barbeque. Placing the beer on the makeshift wooden shelf she leant forward and pecked Brax's shoulder blade, her cheek gently resting against it.
"Hey I was wondering where you got off to." Brax said softly, leaning towards her and catching her in his arms, burying his head into her neck. He felt her fit comfortably in his arms as she rested her chin on his shoulder, her hands falling up and down his back, running over each ripple in his spine, thinking of just how lucky she was to be with him. Her emotions battled with her conscience as she held onto him. It was a mixture of pain from her past, the joy of finding solace in Brax's arms again and the guilt of not telling him when many a time he had asked her.
"Me and Cam just went for a walk." Charlie smiled faintly,
"You ok?" Brax asked, his hands falling to her waist and holding her there tightly,
"Yeah, yeah just a trip down memory lane that's all." Charlie nodded leaning into his arms as he looked at her, his eyes filled with curiosity, his gaze was broken off as she gently pressed her lips to his, her arms slowly crept around his neck holding him him there, she moaned softly into his mouth as he slipped his tongue into her mouth, only for the pair of them to be broken off by someone coughing gently in the background.
"Enough with the PDA's there's only so much one can take!" Bianca chuckled, rolling her eyes when Brax just winked at her and began kissing Charlie again.
"Ew dada look at them kissing!" Tilly squealed, causing Charlie and Brax to break away in fits of laughter, "Dada, I no kiss anyone." She giggled as Cam scooped her into his arms,
"That's right sweetheart and that's how its gonna stay." Cam cooed, tapping her nose with his little finger.
"Oi Darc, grubs up!" Heath yelled from the garden, causing Tilly to cover her ears at the loudness of his voice, everyone laughed as a crash came from inside the house and Darcy came running outside, stopping by the table and crossing her arms at her dad from a distance.
"Dad, why are you yelling at me? I was in my room. Just text me." She sighed, waving her phone in the air at him and rolling her eyes.
Brax chuckled, nudging Heath across the chest with the spatula as he loaded the meat onto the plate "Yeah, because you're so good at using that phone of yours aye Heath." He teased,
Heath raised his eyebrows and turned to his smug older brother "I text. LOL: laugh out loud, OMG: oh my god, WTF: why the face?"
"And there is the technological divide…" Bianca muttered, her and Charlie shaking their heads and beginning to walk to the table
"Hey, I'm a pretty cool dad, act like a parent, talk like a peer. I call it 'peerenting'." Heath defended himself, winking at Bianca as she turned around and laughed at him.
"God save me and my child." She teased him; both her and Charlie giggling as they turned to see Heath standing with a mock hurt look on his face.
...
"This is really nice guys." Marcus said as he chomped away on a beef burger
"Oh I'll have some more sausages mummy." Heath said as Cheryl offered the sausages to everyone around the table,
"There you go darling." Cheryl said, Charlie giggled as she heard Brax cough on his beer at the conversation, knowing Heath had just made himself tonight's topic of jokes.
"You know, there's a fish in nature that swims around with its babies in its mouth. That fish would look at Heath's relationship with mum and say, 'that's messed up.'" Brax teased, Heath didn't say anything; he just took a mouthful of his burger and tried to hide the crimson colour creeping across his cheeks
"That is classic" Casey laughed, clapping his hands approvingly "Mummy!" he managed to say in between his laughter, trying to imitate Heath's voice.
"Oi don't tease your brother! You're not too young for a slap across the backside!" Cheryl scolded, back handing Casey across the back of the head,
The whole table sat in silence; all of them engrossed in their food. Cheryl nodded at each of her boys before speaking "So how are you all, I haven't seen you for-"
"A very, very long time." Heath piped up,
"Well it's so nice to see all of my boys so loved up." Cheryl commented, smiling at all of the girls,
"Awh don't mum, you're making me tear up." Heath teased, wiping away a pretend tear from his eye.
Cheryl rolled her eyes and pointed her fork at Heath, "Shut-up Heath! You know, when I grew up, we had a saying…love is just around the corner." She reminisced, "Isn't that right honey?" She said, nudging Jay
"Huh, what? Oh…yeah" Jay smiled, suddenly paying attention to the conversation
"That's very sentimental of you mum." Brax said,
"I lived in a neighbourhood with a lot of prostitutes." Cheryl said, causing Brax to choke on his beer and Heath to splutter his out. Casey, Ruby, Charlie and Bianca struggled to control their fits of laughter as Cam and Marcus placed one hand each over Tilly's ears.
...
Everyone had moved inside now, it was 7pm in the evening and bitterly cold out, Charlie started to shake like a leaf on Brax's lap, even though she had her dress on and his shirt…so much to Cam and Marcus's approval, Brax was now shirtless. Bianca's lips had turned slightly purple and she was complaining about how cold it was, and Ruby and Casey were already cuddled up around the fire inside, telling Darcy and Tilly stories from when they were little.
All of them bundled inside into Cheryl's lounge, Charlie and Brax now sat in the corner with each other, Brax's arm wrapped lovingly around Charlie's waist as she leant her head on his shoulder, her hands gently stroking Nasher, who lay on the rug in front of them with her head on their laps.
Heath and Bianca curled into the armchair, their hands gently resting over Bianca's protruding bump and Marcus and Cam sat in deep conversation with Jay on the main sofa. Everyone was sitting around contently, laughing and joking with one and other when Cheryl came in with bundles of albums and video tapes in her hands, the boys all widened their eyes, instantly knowing what was going on.
"Mum no not now, I wanna keep my girlfriend, not drive her away!' Casey whined, burying his head into Ruby's shoulder.
"Shut up with your whining Casey, it's tradition!" Cheryl snapped, placing everything on the coffee table and sitting on Jay's lap. "Now, who wants to see my boys when they were wee little tearaways?"
"You know if you want to we can go home now?" Brax mumbled to Charlie in her ear, Cheryl had always made sure to take pictures of the boys when they were growing up, and once they got past the 1 month mark with their girlfriends, she considered their relationships to be serious, considering the majority of Brax and Heath's relationships were one night stands before Charlie and Bianca.
"Ok…so these are pictures of the boys when they were little." Cheryl said, flipping the book open as the girls crowded round. "So, that was when Darryl tried to trick Heath into jumping from a tree…it was funny because he actually did it. You thought you were super man or something, you figured out that you weren't when you face planted the ground" Cheryl chuckled, shaking her head as she turned the page. She looked up to be met by everyone's horrified faces.
"I wouldn't worry though, he has a thick skull, and you turned out alright." She teased, patting Heath sympathetically on the back as everyone erupted into fits of laughter.
"So this is bath time, Brax and Casey regularly tried to drown Heath in the bath tub." Cheryl explained, everyone laughing as Brax and Heath sat in the bath, Heath only around the mere age of 1 and Brax about 2 or 3 years old.
"Daddy, you had a tiny willy." Darcy criticised, everyone burst out into fits of laughter as she pointed at little Heath in the bath with bubbles in his hair
"That's right Darc well observed." Cheryl said, winking at Heath.
"Mum!" Heath exclaimed, throwing his head back into the armchair in embarrassment. "I don't know what you're laughing at me for, look at little Darryl there…now I know what you meant when you said you and Charlie weren't exactly size compatible." Heath yelled in laughter, slapping Brax on the back of the neck. Everyone laughed as Charlie's cheeks went a crimson colour and she buried her head into Brax's chest.
"Hey Heath, at least I grew a pair, unlike you…" Brax teased.
"Ooooh burn." Cam and Marcus chuckled as
"Well Darryl is right Heath, we did have to take you to the doctors a few times because of a few problems," Cheryl commented, stopping Brax and Heath's teasing and everyone else's laughter in an instant. "Well he's obviously fine now, he has Darcy and he's knocked Blondie up!" Cheryl chuckled as she looked at everyone's shocked faces.
"Oh and Heath, I can assure you, Brax isn't small anymore…" Charlie commented cheekily, snuggling her body up to Brax's and kissing him softly causing everyone to scrunch up their noses in disgust.
"I think I just threw up a little." Ruby said, patting her chest and cringing.
"Ah now this is the boys' girlfriends." Cheryl said, tapping the double page spread as Charlie, Bianca and Ruby leant forward to have a look,
BRAX POV….
"So this was Amelia Thurrock, she was Darryl's first girlfriend." Mum explained, pointing to the young girl in the picture with braces, sure she was pretty cute back then but she was really needy, I literally couldn't get away from her. She wanted a sit down family meal and for me to have 'the talk' with her parents after a week of dating…I was 12.
"This is Darryl's prom!" Mum exclaimed, I saw Charlie grin at the picture and I cringed, sure enough I went to the prom with Evangeline Newham. She was a total Goth, believed in witchcraft and everything. Charlie sat looking at me in a tux with Eva on my arm…and sure enough she went as a witch to the prom. That night was the last she saw of me. I got out of there. Fast.
"That's horrific." Heath muttered, causing Charlie to giggle.
"Lets say your standards improved Darryl," Cheryl nodded, "I don't know what happened to you back then, I'll blame it on your hormones." She said, giving the picture a puzzling look.
30 minutes later you would have thought our torture would have been over, but no, mum had just finished flicking through Casey's pictures and thought it would be a good idea to put the video's on. Great.
"So videos, do you wanna watch bath time, potty training or school nativity play when Darryl was Mary and Heath was an angel?" She said, holding each one up, causing Heath and me to hang our heads in despair at her.
ONE HOUR LATER….
CHARLIE POV…
"We wanted to announce something…" Heath piped up one hour later; Brax and me were by the door with our shoes on, ready to go. Heath and Bianca, Ruby and Casey were staying at Cheryl's for the night, she asked me and Brax if we wanted to stay, but we politely refused, a night to ourselves was a nice thought. I watched curiously as Heath pulled Bianca to him, wrapping one arm around her waist.
"Me and Bianca just wanted to say thank you, to you all, for supporting us through this exciting time in our lives." He said, looking at Bianca briefly as she spoke,
"And we've made a big decision." She said, grinning wildly "We have decided that our god parents are Charlie and Brax, we couldn't think of two people we'd be happier to have, our kids gonna be one lucky child." I immediately ran over to her and embraced her in a hug, both of us laughing and crying,
"Aww B!" I said, hugging her gently and wiping my eyes with the backs of my hands
"Thanks mate." I heard Brax say both him and Heath embraced in a manly hug.
"Nah, I should be thanking you, for everything." Heath nodded, shaking Brax's hand firmly.
"Well I reckon Nanna Cheryl has a ring to it, you reckon?" Cheryl gushed from the corner of the hallway, her arm wrapped around Jay, I had to admit they were pretty cute together.
"Yep, sure mum, just remind me not to give you baby sitting duties." The boys teased as me and Brax said our goodbyes to everyone and walked out of the door into the cold and crisp night.
3RD PERSON POV….
The journey home was a silent one. Brax's hand resting gently on Charlie's thigh as it usually did, everything was comforting about the moment, just the two of them together, spending the night alone. How it was supposed to be. Little did Charlie know what Brax was about to ask her when they stepped through the doorway…
I hope that was good, a little bit of romance, a little humour and a little drama. Please review :D
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