Chapter 6:
Sorry it's so long, got a little carried away....haha..xx (remember to review)
Charlie and Angelo woke the next day and decided to head to the diner to get some breakfast before heading into work. They ordered and ate their meal, still surrounded by the feeling of last night's fight. When they had finished, they headed outside, Angelo put his arm over Charlie's shoulder and they walked towards their car parked down the street. Charlie was about to get into the passenger side when she realised she had left her phone back inside the diner.
"Oh, wait up Angelo, I've left my phone inside, let me go grab it".
Angelo nodded in reply and Charlie jogged back to the diner. Irene had the phone waiting for her as she had picked it up when she cleared the table.
"Thanks Irene" she said smiling in gratitude.
"No worries love, thought you would come back for it so I just popped it behind the counter for you".
Charlie was walking back to the car and saw Angelo leaning against the car waiting patiently for her. She saw a car drive up and park on the other side of the road. A young girl got out and grinned when she saw Angelo, who didn't seem to notice her. She ran across the road, squealing and jumped up onto him and gave him a huge bear hug wrapping her legs around him. Angelo seemed happy but surprised to see her and returned the hug. The girl jumped down off him and gave him another tight hug.
Charlie was bewildered at the scene unfolding in front of her eyes and walked up to her husband and the young girl who was standing next to him.
"What are you doing here?" asked an overwhelmed Angelo, not even noticing Charlie had walked behind him.
"Well I just got back and I thought I'd come visit you" replied the girl happily "thought I'd meet your wife..." the girl looking at a confused Charlie, who was frozen to where she was standing.
"Oh Charlie" said Angelo turning around and seeing her "this is my sister, Clara" he put his arm around his sister's shoulder and gave it a squeeze. "Clara, this is my wife, Charlie". Clara glanced from an excited Angelo to his dumbfounded wife and went up to Charlie and gave her a warm hug. Charlie was taken aback by her sudden kindness but returned the hug.
"It's really nice to finally meet you Charlie" said Clara excitedly "I've been overseas for the last two years, studying so I haven't had seen my brother in a while". Clara looked at Angelo and said "I only got back a few days ago, visited mum and she told me you lived and worked here now and that you had gotten married so I decided to come over here and pay you a little visit".
Angelo laughed and replied, "well little sis, it's always good to see you, but unfortunately I have to get to work, do you think you can just hang around for a little without getting into trouble and we can catch up later tonight?"
Clara smiled "sure thing" she looked at his name tag "Sergeant Rosetta" she added giving him a mock salute. Angelo just chuckled and stepped into the police car, igniting the engine. Charlie followed; still not sure of what was happening around her.
"Your sister didn't know you got married?" Charlie asked looking over at Angelo.
"Well she has been over in Italy for the past two years, with family, studying, I thought mum would have told her over the phone".
"Oh right" replied Charlie.
For the rest of the day, Charlie noticed that Angelo was chirpy and smiling a lot. He seems genuinely happy that Clara was in town.
At about lunch time, Charlie went into Angelo's office and asked him
"Hey, Ruby just sent me a text; she wants to know if we want to meet her in the diner at grab something to eat together. You can introduce her to your sister".
Angelo smiled and agreed saying, "yeah sure, you go ahead and I'll give her a call to let her know. I'll meet you there". Charlie nodded and left the station to go meet Ruby.
Ruby greeted Charlie with a hug and they sat down at a booth in the diner. Charlie told Ruby about what had happened this morning with Clara.
"Wow" Ruby laughed "she sounds exciting. See I told you there was nothing to worry about".
Charlie looked at her questionably.
"You know, the young girl on the phone at the station, who asked for Angelo...remember?"
"oh yeah" said Charlie, still not convinced, maybe it had been Clara on the phone, but that still didn't explain the mystery girl at the Surf Club, the mystery phone call a few mornings back or his disappearance yesterday afternoon.
Charlie's thoughts were interrupted when Clara and Angelo walked in the diner and came over to where she and Ruby were sitting. Ruby stood up and introduced herself.
"Hey I'm Ruby, Charlie's daughter". Clara just looked at Angelo who gave her an 'I'll explain later' look and sat down.
"I'm Clara, Angelo sister".
"Nice to meet you, I didn't know Angelo had a sister" Ruby said, looking at Angelo.
"Yeah well I have been in Italy, studying" replied Clara "guess I've been forgotten" she said glaring at Angelo who just looked guilty.
They chatted some more and had lunch and coffee together. When they had finished Angelo said to Clara,
"Look I've got two hours left of my shift, meet me back here at three and then you can come home with us" he said glancing at Charlie, who gave Clara a smile in agreement.
"Oh really?" she asked in surprise "thank you thank you thank you! You won't even know I'm there".
"Yeah.....right" laughed Angelo, giving Clara a quick kiss on the forehead before taking Charlie by the hand and walking out of the diner together.