Home and Away Uncovered Secrets and Psychos
Chapter Four
Leah had been lying on her hotel bed in exactly the same spot and position for the last fifteen minutes. She was thinking, thinking about the secret Peter had told her last night. Leah had been crying from the minute he told her last night and was still crying now. She couldn't understand why he had kept it from her they're married, he said he had a reason but when she heard it she told him it was a pathetic excuse.
He said "I was going to tell you when we were held hostage" and when she asked why didn't he tell her sooner he said "I was scared that you were going to break up with me and hate me".
Leah wiped her face with her hands. She felt sorry for Kirsty for dumping her kids on her again. The problem was she hadn't seen Peter since last night and neither had anyone else in Summer Bay. Why would you keep something like that from someone? Especially your own wife. She would have understood if he told her the minute they met, the minute she said "Hi I'm Leah Patterson and this is my son, VJ short for Vinnie Junior". But no Peter a Detective kept it until five years after they met. She wouldn't have minded if he kept it for five days, weeks or months but five years. That was pathetic!
He told her something, something that Jesse had suspected six years ago but it wasn't true. Peter told her that Vinnie, Vinnie Patterson, Vinnie, Leah's ex-husband, Vinnie, VJ's father was well and truly... Alive! And that Vinnie was Peter's cousin! Leah almost fainted she just sat down and stared then shouted at Peter. Leah finally got out of bed and packed all of her stuff into a case. Sally and Flynn had been kind enough to let her stay there for tonight and then tomorrow she was renting a caravan from Beth.
When Leah arrived at Sally's ten minutes later nobody was in. So she tried the surgery but the only person there was a young-looking girl with blonde wavy hair tied into a bun. For a second Leah though it was Tasha but when the girl turned around she saw her face was quite different but still fairly similar. She had a badge on which said:
SAUNDERS SURGERY: MISS. B. HYDE Briget Hyde RECEPTONIST
Colleen's replacement Leah thought.
"Hi can I help?" Briget asked Leah kindly
"Um is Flynn in? Or Sal, Sally sorry", Leah asked the blonde receptionist
"Sorry Dr.Saunders has popped out for a second and Ms. Fletcher is out looking for Leah? Is it Leah's husband?" Briget asked and explained.
"Yes it's Leah", Leah paused "Leah Baker", Leah said reaching out her hand for Briget to shake.
"Oh Sorry! I didn't realise that you were Leah so um are you staying with the doctor and his wife tonight?" asked Briget whilst sorting out the files of 'Kirsty Roberts' and 'Irene Phillips'. "Oh no! That's totally wrong! Could you please help? It'll only take a sec", Briget said. Leah explained to the newcomer that Irene and Kirsty lived in the same house but were not relatives and that Kirsty was Kirsty Phillips and Irene was Irene Roberts. Briget felt embarrassed she'd lived in Summer Bay for two months and didn't even know people's surnames.
In the city Peter was sitting at a desk with a familiar face sitting opposite him. It was his meeting with Sarah Lewis and Michelle Rain to talk about Sarah's 'improvement' in prison.
"So Sarah said that she realiseswhat she did waswrong", Michelle explained to Peter who was surprisingly concentrating with everything happening with Leah.
"Too right it was wrong she stole Natasha Andrews' gun, shot Jesse McGregor with it, held half of Summer Bay hostage,almost killed Dani Sutherland and Noah Lawson and then made me end up ina coma", Peter said explaining everything Sarah haddone wrong inSummer Bay. Sarah just sat there she hadn't said a word since the meeting beganwhich Peter foundquite strange. "Sarah what do you think of all the things that you've done wrong?" Peter asked her.
Sarah took a while to answer but she finally did "I am sorry I never meant to hurt anyone but I wanted the one that killed Felix to pay", Sarah said her head still down.
"Sarah you do know you killed Felix", Peter told her
"Yes but I wanted to make him better so he could get out of the hospital", Sarahsaid again
"Sarah, you knew that you gave him Crystal Meth. The drug you and Felix wereaddicted to and you also knew that if you gave him an overdose he wouldDIE!" Peter said annoyed that he was stuck talking to Sarah when he could be sorting things out with Leah.
About an hour later Peter arrived back at theSands and knocked on the door of number 16 the room him, Leah, Daisy and VJ were stayingin. He waited for three minutes but when he didn't get a reply he went to the front desk. "Excuse me but do you have a key for number 16?" Peter asked the woman at the front desk. The woman didn't say anything but handed Peter a gold shiny key. When Peter got into the room the first thing that caught his attention was a piece of paper;
Dear Peter,
I have left the hotel and I am staying at Sally and Flynn's tonight and VJ and Daisy will be with me. Tomorrow I'll rent a caravan from Beth and stay in it for as long as I need. If you need to talk to me my mobile will be on but that doesn't mean i'll answer it. Basically I'll be out and about in Summer Bay it's my home and I can't leave it. I'm sorry, you can have the house in the city. I'll get my old job back here and eventually buy a house. I can't live with someone who keeps a secret for so long. I'll be in the Bay forever maybe I'll see you around.
Leah
(Daisy and VJ X)
Peter read Leah's note through again and again he was stunned. He knew it, he knew if he told her about Vinnie she'd leave him. Peter then saw a silver ring shining on the bedside table it was Leah's wedding ring! Peter grabbed his keys and headed for the door he was going to find Leah...
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