Chapter number 8.
"Who's Gypsy?" Charity asked, eager to know.
"She was my sister" Mumma Rose told her. "When I first started the believers, she didn't agree with anything I said or did, and eventually she began to convince some of our followers that what we were doing was wrong and that they should come and join her group of people in Tasmania called heaven sent".
"So, are you saying that she's back to do that again?"
Mumma Rose just nodded her head and paused before talking again "That's the least of our worries though, not only does she convert some of our followers but she also spreads the word around towns near by and last time she did that we ended up being forced out by all the surrounding towns. We have changed our names and location so many times, but she always manages to find us and expose us almost every time, it hasn't happened in the last few locations, we thought maybe she'd given up but obviously not" Mumma Rose told her shaking her head with disappointment.
Tash sat on the edge of the bed in the room she she shared with Robbie in the hunters house, she was lost in her thoughts, her eyes filled with sadness. "Tash what's wrong?" Robbie asked warmly, Tash didn't reply she just stared into thin air straight ahead of her. "It's Lilly isn't it" Robbie said pulling Tash into his arms.
"Yeah, I just miss her so much" Tash told him resting her head on his chest.
"We'll get her back Tash, I promise".
"So, what have you found" A lady in her early to mid forties asked, she had long light brown hair and green eye's.
"Gypsy, we've located the property they're staying on".
"Well done my children" She congratulated them.
Maddie walked along the path in the park quickly eager to know what Lucas was up to, she couldn't imagine Lucas to be the type to cheat on her, but she had to admit the way he'd been avoiding her lately suggested otherwise. She kept walking until she came to about ten meters away from a picnic blanket that had been layed out, Lucas was there, not by himself though, there was somebody else there too. She studied the person closely 'Another girl' Maddie mind told her in disgust. Her jaw dropped from the shock and she stared until Lucas' eye's fell upon her.
"Maddie" Lucas started, Maddie just shook her head in even more disgust and turned around and ran, tears were beginning to form in her eyes. "Maddie, wait I can explain" Lucas called out running after her but Maddie had gotten off to a quicker start then Lucas and she soon was out of sight.
Martha and Jack were still sitting on the park bench watching the whole thing "gosh, it was him" Martha commented.
"Yeah, I never thought he'd be like that" Jack said in disbelief.
"How could he" Maddie cried to herself as she got to the beach and fell on her knee's and berried her face in the palms of her hands "I though he loved me".
Next time:
What's Lucas' side of the story?
What will be uncovered about the believer's?
What will Jack and Martha name their baby boy?
Will Maddie and Lucas sort things out?
