David sighed as he sat down at the couch, his hands running through his hair as he watched Helen and Cassy talk over at the kitchen table. He could see that Helen wanted to be somewhere else. She'd spent most of the afternoon with him and David knew that's because she loved being with him. The happiness had been blatant when she'd stepped back into the house but it had quickly evaporated as she realised she needed to take care of David.

A knock at the door stopped their thoughts as they slowly turned to look at the door. Helen turned to look at David and he looked straight back at her.

Was this them?

Helen stood up, sorting out her top, and moved over to the door pulling it open. David watched as she let out the air that she'd been holding in.

"Bree! What a lovely surprise." She said fakely opening the door and letting the woman in.

"Afternoon, Helen. I'm here to talk to David."

Helen had already voiced a hate towards the redheaded woman due to how bright her hair was when hers was a pale shade of ginger that looked less glamorous. She rolled her eyes as she moved over to sit back with Cassy, leaving David to talk to Bree.

David indicated for the woman to sit down, noticing that she was holding a pot of what smelled like stew. How do you tell a kind woman that only Cassy eats stew and she wouldn't eat a pot that big? He smiled at the irony that that was his only thought running through his mind.

"How may I help you Bree?"

"You must be so upset about what happened today."

"That's a good guess." David muttered in his usual sarcastic tone. Bree, however, didn't bat an eyelid because she understood how he was feeling. She had felt like this when Andrew had disappeared.

"I mean, you have no wife to cook you amazing dinners anymore. So I thought I'd bring you some stew."

David smiled wryly as he accepted the bowl that she held out and could feel Helen looked at him, knowing that she was close to tears at the idea someone had brought them stew! Her worst enemy.

"It just needs popping in the oven to heat up and then you can have what you want with it."

"Good old fashioned mash potato and cabbage." Helen commented moving over and taking hold of the stew dish, not noticing the appalled look that Bree wore on her face.

"Ignore her. She isn't the cook of the house." David said wryly knowing that he would kill Helen when Bree left for showing them up like that. She'd already learnt that Bree was the famous cook of the area.

"I guessed." Bree said softly smiling. "Okay, the second part of my visit is to invite you three to dinner one day."

"Oh that's lovely." Cassy said moving over and standing behind the couch, her hand lightly squeezing David's shoulder. "You bet we'll be there."

Bree smiled brightly, "I was hoping you'd say that." She stood up, straightening her shirt before smiling again. "Tonight, seven o clock?"

"I was going to go visit Lauren…"

"You can go afterwards. It will make you feel better."

"Me and Cassy will come. David is better off at the hospital with Lauren in case she wakes up." Helen said in tone dripping with authority that Bree immediately guessed she used in the classroom. There was also a cold glare in her eyes indicating that if Bree dared challenge what she'd just said then there would be hell to pay.

"That's a glorious idea." Bree smiled brightly. "I can put David's meal in the oven for when he comes back."

"Fantastic." David said brightly standing up and taking Bree over to the door. "Thanks for coming Bree." He said opening it and waving at Susan Mayer who was stood out in her lawn watching the house. She shyly waved back.

***

Bree walked over to Susan and sighed. "Helen is a little more tart than I imagined."

"Pardon?"

"She's cold. I don't know why people are falling over themselves to be with her."

Susan sighed as she looked over at the house, her arms crossed over her chest to protect herself from the light breeze that was blowing.

"To be fair Bree, her little sister has been rushed into hospital and her niece and nephew was kidnapped."

"I know but we're branching out to her, trying to make them feel that everything is okay and they're just coldly pushing us away."

"Most people don't like people interrupting their lives. You are one of them."

Bree sighed as she realised that Susan was right. They needed time to themselves and tonight, they were going to get that.

"You and Mike are invited to the meal I'm having tonight."

"Oh?"

"Well how else are we going to get to know our new neighbours."

***

Gabby sighed as she linked arms with Hafid, her head resting on his shoulder as she listened to him talk longingly about Helen.

"She's a complete bitch to everyone but when you get to know her, she's…" He stopped talking and Gabby looked up at him.

"Why are you in love with her when you know she's engaged to Cassy?"

"They're married. But she was in love with me first. I don't know why she left me for Cassy. It hurts me just thinking about it." He sighed as he looked at Gabby.

"She probably had her reasons."

"Probably." He agreed silencing as he heard her phone ring. He listened as she said the odd yes and no before watching her hang up.

"We have a dinner party tonight. Bree's house."

Hafid sighed. Bree was an annoying woman to him. She was too dominant and too perfect. He looked at her.

"That'll be fun."

"Don't lie, i can see the fear in your eyes." She taunted before starting to move again. "What do we buy our guest?"

"Arsenic." Hafid teased making her laugh.