So did you speak to them?" Leah asked curiously as she watched Brax approach the diner counter.

"Yeah, well I spoke to his mum anyway" Brax replied.

"What did she say?" Leah wondered.

"She said she'll talk to him"

"Oh well that's good isn't it" Leah smiled and Brax nodded

"Yeah I guess" he replied.

"Aw thanks Brax, I know this'll mean a lot to VJ" Leah turned and walked back into he kitchen.

Brax still couldn't get Leah's recent confession out of his head. Leah had declared her love for him just recently and seeing Leah like this made Brax wonder if getting involved in VJ's problems was helping the situation with Leah, the last thing Brax wanted was to give her the wrong idea. Especially when it had taken him so long to persuade her he wasn't interested in the first place.

As Brax thought about Leah he started to think about Courtney and what she had said to him. That was when it dawned on Brax, just how anxious she seemed when he mentioned Jett. He then started to think about how old Jett was.

This then led him to thinking about the relationship he had shared with Courtney, and how that relationship ended just before the time Jett would have been born. Then finally it hit him "Shit" Brax sighed as he put his hands behind his head.

Why hadn't he thought about this sooner, surely if this was true then Courtney would have said something? Maybe she did when she got all defensive at the mention of her son.

This couldn't be happening Brax thought as he sat and tried to do all the maths.

Brax had worked out in his head that if what he was thinking was true then Courtney must have been pregnant when she left Mangrove River with her mum and dad. If that was the case then that meant that there was a good chance Jett was his son.

Brax knew he had to talk about this with Courtney; he quickly stood up just as Leah walked out of the kitchen "Hey where are you going? I was gonna asked you if you wanted any dinner" Leah said.

"Er no I'm good, I gotta go" Brax replied shakily as he rushed out of the door and towards his Ute.

He pulled up again outside the house he had been at earlier and watched for a few minutes. The children who were out on the street when he first arrived had now gone inside. Brax walked to the front door of Courtney's house and knocked gently

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"I'm so sorry I have had to call you into school on a weekend Mrs Jenkins" Gina apologised sincerely.

"Its Miss actually" Courtney corrected Gina "And it's fine, I don't work weekends anyway"

"The reason I have called you here is because we have had a lot of complaints recently about thefts, and people are saying that they have witnessed Jett…" Gina started to explain why she had called Courtney.

"I don't believe this how many times have I told you to stay out of trouble?" Courtney snapped at Jett "As if I haven't got enough on at the minute without you bringing the police into our house"

"I don't think it will come to that Miss Jenkins, we just want to give Jett a chance to see the error of his ways" Gina smiled.

"Yeh well I appreciate you bringing this to my attention Mrs Palmer and I can promise you Jett will be a different boy on Monday, won't you" Courtney frowned at Jett before dragging him out of Gina's office.

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Brax wasn't really sure why he was waiting in the Ute for Courtney to come home; she probably wouldn't even talk to him any way. But Brax had to know if what he had worked out in his head was the truth, he looked out of his wing mirror and spotted Courtney's car coming up the road.

"What does he want?" Courtney frowned as she parked in her drive way. Brax got out of his Ute and walked towards Courtney and Jett "Jett go inside" Courtney said to Jett who hurried to the door unlocked it and went inside.

"What do you want Brax?" she asked when she saw Jett was safely inside.

"Is he mine?" Brax asked

"What?" Courtney was horrified how could he have worked this out?

"Is he my kid" Brax asked again. "I've done the maths Courtney and you must have been pregnant when you left"

"Well that's where you're wrong I got pregnant just after I left" Courtney lied "So you can relax now you are off the hook"

Although Courtney knew Brax was right, he was Jett's father. She had no intention admitting this to Brax. The last thing Courtney wanted was for Brax to wade in and take Jett away from her.

Courtney was pretty sure as soon as Brax realised she was ill, that is exactly what he would do. Trouble is Courtney didn't know the new Brax, the man Charlie had turned him into.

Courtney was just scared of what the old Brax was capable of.

Ok thoughts please. Thanks to NZGirl25 for being my first reviewer, love always Nikki x x