When upstairs for the night she started thinking about everything that had happened over the last few weeks.

2 months ago

"monkey charlies illness has relapsed he needs radio therapy but there still unsure of doing that on kids her on the island so were going to have to go back to the main land for a bit to get Charlie his treatment, as of yet we don't know weather were going go back to jersey or stay closer to here or what but we need to go to give charlie his best chance, he really doesn't understand everything that's happening and we don't want to freak him out but it wont be good unless we tackle it head on" sighing he put his head in his hands clearly unsure of how his 17 year old daughter was going cope.

"dano" grace ventured "i know we have to get charlie better but can we please find a way for me to stay here i could stay with a friend or with Uncle Steve or Uncle Grover or something please, come on its my senior year, i don't want to restart at a new high school i'm happy here, cheer finals are in a few months ad i don't want to let my team down, my friends are some of the most amazing people out there i don't know what id do without them." grace almost pleaded with her father knowing what his next response was going to be

"no, no, no, not in a million years, we cant leave you with someone we need to stick as a family we need to stick together" as he drew a breath grace jumped in

"dano please just think about it i know that charlie needs this but i'm almost an adult and an handle myself even if i cant live alone but i wont be able to cope with moving high schools, not now"

Sighing dano responded "i'm sorry but this isn't up to you Grace your not an adult yet you cant make these decisions were already struggling as a family due to Charlie we need to stick together" grace got up to go sit besides her father before continuing

"can you please at least consider it, talk to mum, explain my points as well as yours see what she thinks then the three of us can sit down and talk about it see what could work, please dano this means a lot to me" she new the look on her face affected dano as when he looked up he made his thinking face and cautiously replied

"i will THINK about it and THEN talk to your mother and then we can decide as a family, OK monkey?" knowing that was the best she could ask for at the moment she simply nodded and hugged him before leaving the room.

current day

thinking back Grace new that had been a big ask for her father and that he had taken it extremely well. She also thought about all the other very similar conversations about this to both him and her mother that had taken place in the coming months. You see dano didn't realize how much her parents relationship, Charlies first illness and everything else had affected her as a teenager and made her so anxious and depressed at times but she'd found that she relied on this island for two main things really, cheer leading and surfing. Although she could never admit any of those thoughts to dano as she new he'd go straight into protect mode but she kinda hoped that her and Uncle Steve could possibly talk about some of these as some things were just off limits to talk about around dano.