Chapter 24.
"No" Martha said, pulling away from Callum's grip. "No I can't do this. I love Jack. I'm not ready to move on." She said, standing up. "Sorry, but no." Callum looked confused and hurt.
"So you're going to go back to Jack?" Callum asked angrily.
"No. I can't go back to him after what he's done, but it's still too soon to move on. If we were together it'd probably only be rebound or something, I'd be using you to get over Jack."
"What's to get over?" Callum argued. "He drugged you Martha. He doesn't really care about you! He'd only thought you were dead for about 2 weeks before eye-ing up another girl, you obviously don't mean that much to him. I doubt he really loves you. Not like I love you." He stood up and went to kiss her again, but she pushed him back.
"I said no Callum. Now get out!" She screamed, pointing at the door. Just then Christie appeared at the door.
"What's going on?" She demanded.
"Callum was just leaving." Martha stated, staring at Callum. He stood up and left the room. Martha collapsed on the bed, covering her face with her hands. 'What have I done?' she thought to herself.
"What the hell happened?" Christie said concerned. Martha sat up and looked at her friend.
"A big damn mistake that's what." Martha told Christie about the events that had just occurred. She didn't say anything about Alice, because she didn't want to sound jealous, even though she clearly was.
"I knew he liked you.." Christie said. "I just can't believe you hadn't noticed! It was so blatantly obvious!" Martha sighed.
"I wish I had, I may have foreseen this mess and could have done something to prevent it!"
"Are you mad because you've lost such a great friend?" Christie guessed.
"No." Christie looked shocked.
"I mean, he turned out to be not such a great friend after all." Martha said. Christie gave a look of confusion. "He got quite mad, and was saying that Jack didn't care for me, and that he thought he didn't love me."
"Jerk!" said Christie. "Anyway, are you ready to go?" Christie asked, standing up.
"Yea, my bag is over there." She said, pointing towards the sports bag in the corner. Christie picked it up and started to head out the door.
"Come on girly! You're going home! You should be excited!" Christie laughed. Martha was excited about seeing Alf, Ric, Tasha and Robbie, but she wasn't looking forward to seeing Jack.
Meanwhile, Jack was walking around Sydney Police Station, searching for Peter.
"Finally." He sighed, looking up at the metal plaque that clearly stated Peter's office.
"Hello?" Jack said, knocking on the door.
"Hey Jack, come in!" Peter welcomed, looking up from his work. "Take a seat, have a drink." Peter offered, taking out two glasses and going through his second draw.
"Nah, I'm fine mate. Just popped in to say goodbye that's all." Jack explained. Peter shut the draw.
"Ok. Well, as long as you know that I was about to get some water out my draw, not a bottle of whisky that's fine..." They laughed. "You're going back to Summer Bay then?" Peter asked.
"Yea."
"When do you have to be at the airport?" Peter asked.
"I don't. I'm driving." Jack said.
"Why? It takes loads less time on the plane? And you're only renting the car anyway."
"Well, the company I'm currently renting off is a kind of major company, with branches all over, including the airport where my car is parked currently. They were transferring a few cars over anyway, so they're letting me drop this one off at the airport."
"Oh, right. Well, I'm thinking of going back to Summer Bay for a while anyway. Claire and I are due a holiday, and it'd be nice to see Dan, Leah and Ryan. So we might see you there in a couple of days." Peter smiled.
"Oh, cool." Jack replied. "Better go then. Got a long journey ahead! See you soon." Jack said, and left the office.
"I'll miss you so much!" Christie cried, fighting through the tears.
"Oh my god you wuss, we'll see her soon!" Ryan laughed. "Won't we?"
"Yes of course! You're going to have to come down to Summer Bay and see me! I know Granddad will love to meet you." She smiled. The PA system rang out, calling Martha's flight. "Well that's me." She smiled, reaching out to hug Christie again.
"Bye! I'll..miss..you" she snivelled.
"Me…..too…Ahhh" Ryan mocked, putting his arms around both of them. "See you Mac." He smiled, hugging her.
"Bye!" She waved walking away.
