Please review! Thanks for all the lovely reviews! Most people don't seem to want Brax to find out while there are some who want him to find out right away. So here is the next chap! Btw sorry if I call Charlie Charlie instead of Alyssa. I keep forgetting and then changing it. But in case I miss it just so you know it isn't intentional.

Alyssa got up the next morning. Max was better but he still had a bit of a fever which he was still sleeping off. She found Ruby in the kitchen crying.

"Hey what's wrong?" she asked concerned.

"Nothing." Said Ruby wiping away her tears. Then she ran out just as Kate arrived.

"Hey what's up with her?"

"Can you mind Max for a while?" asked Alyssa.

"Sure." Said Kate while Alyssa rushed out thanking her.

Alyssa followed Ruby all the way to the cemetery. There her daughter collapsed on her empty grave sobbing uncontrollably. Alyssa yearned to rush over to her. To comfort her. To tell her the truth. But she couldn't.

After a while Brax arrived. Alyssa was confused but it soon became clear why they were both there.

"I c-c-can't b-believe it's been f-f-five y-years." She said.

"I know Rubes." He replied. He couldn't believe that Charlie had been dead five years. He couldn't get her out of his mind. She was the love of his life. He remembered the moment he found out.

Flashback

He sat in front of the TV waiting for Charlie to come over. She was late. She was supposed to be there at nine o clock but it was now approaching ten. Charlie wasn't usually late and if she was she would normally call first.

Suddenly there was a knock at the door and Brax stood up to open it. He opened it and felt his stomach drop at the sight. It was Inspector Joyce and Watson both looking grim.

"What can I do for you?" asked Brax.

"I'm afraid I have some terrible news." Brax gestured for them to come in.

"So what's happened?" already knowing in his gut but refusing to believe it.

"I'm afraid Charlie has been killed in a car crash."

End of flashback

He knelt beside her grave now exactly five years later, comforting Ruby and wondering how it had all gone so wrong so quickly.

"I thought you had forgotten Charlie." Whispered Ruby.

"What? Why?" Brax asked shocked.

"Because you keep flirting with Alyssa." Alyssa nearly gave away her position when she gasped from behind the tree. But thankfully Brax and Ruby were too distracted.

"Rubes I could never replace your mum." Said Brax.

"Are you falling for Alyssa?" asked Ruby.

"I don't know Rubes. I mean I think I fancy her but then I think of Charlie and I just don't want to like anyone else."
"I think you should go for it. I mean I don't really like her but if you want to ask her out I think you should go for it. She's not that bad. But she's never going to replace my mum."

Xox

Alyssa rushed home tears streaming down her face. She couldn't believe it. She rushed into the house before collapsing against the door tears still streaming down her face. Kate walked in having just checked on Max. She gasped when she saw Alyssa.

"Hey, hey, hey. Al what's wrong?" she asked kneeling beside her friend.

"I've made a huge mistake."

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