Brax was increasingly worried by the amount of wine Aaliyah had, had to drink. Bianca had now left Angelo's and Aaliyah had ordered another bottle of wine "Make sure she gets home ok" were the last words Bianca said before she left with Liam.

Aaliyah sat at the table drinking a glass of red wine when Brax finally joined her "Don't bother lecturing me, I'm a big girl Brax" Aaliyah slurred as she poured herself some more wine.

"I wasn't, I was just gonna ask you if you wanted a ride home when I finish work" Brax realised Aaliyah was in no fit state to answer so he assumed he would be taking her home. After the restaurant was closed Brax headed back over to Aaliyah's table he could tell she was crying "Ali, it's time to go home" he said softly.

"Why would he do something like this to me?" she sobbed, Brax hugged her the best he could. Aaliyah was pretty much out of it. Brax was finding it hard to hold her up.

"Come in lets get you home" He said as he stood up and picked her up. He carried her out and put her in his Ute. Brax quickly ran back and locked up, before heading back to the car, when he got in he saw Aaliyah was fast asleep wrapped in his jacket.

"What have you done Casey?" Brax sighed to himself as he looked at this young blond woman.

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Aden was sat up waiting for Aaliyah when Brax finally came back with her, Aden was shocked when he saw Brax carrying her through the front door "Oh my god, what happened?" he exclaimed as he rushed over to Brax.

"Two bottles of red wine and 4 bourbons" Brax said as he carried Aaliyah into her bedroom and laid her gently on her bed. "She'll need you to sleep in here tonight" Brax said as he got up and walked into the lounge.

"I could kill my brother for this" Brax sighed as he walked towards the front door.

"You and me both" Aden added. He locked the door behind Brax and headed back into Aaliyah bedroom; he climbed on the bed and laid beside her. Aden knew this wasn't like Aaliyah; she wasn't the kind of girl who would go out and get drunk like this. Casey Braxton had a lot to answer for.

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Aaliyah's head was pounding when she woke up. She could hardly open her eyes, Aden was still laid beside, she nudged him gently "Aden" she whispered. He shot his head up quickly.

"Oh you're back in the land of the living" he smiled. Aaliyah put her hand on her aching head.

"Urgh what happened?" she groaned, Aaliyah had no idea how she got home last night.

"Brax brought you home, you were a mess Ali" Aden said in a harsh tone. Aaliyah looked a little disappointed with herself, before she had chance to say anything they were interrupted by Kyle crying "OW" Aaliyah exclaimed as she put her hand on her head. Aden laughed.

"Why don't you get some more sleep I'll take care of the boys" Aaliyah was grateful for Aden's offer, a few more hours was just what she needed.

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Casey had already gone out by the time Brax surfaced, he headed straight into the kitchen and made himself a coffee. He was surprised when he looked at his phone and realised he had a text message Sorry about last night; I guess I owe you one, Ali. Brax quickly wrote a reply No worries, hope you're ok and your head doesn't hurt too much, DB.

Brax was furious when he saw Casey walk through the front door "Do you have any idea what you have done to her?" Brax yelled. Casey didn't need anybody to tell him how bad he should be feeling, he already felt bad enough.

"Of course I know, I love her so much and she won't even talk to me. I have tried to call her but she's not answering" Casey replied.

"That's probably because she is still getting over what happened last night" Brax snapped, Casey looked worried.

"What happened?" he asked.

"Aaliyah practically drank herself into a coma last night" Brax explained "She was a mess, I had to take her home"

Casey didn't answer he just rushed out the door and headed to Aaliyah's house.

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Aaliyah hadn't been up for long; she had just made herself a coffee and was now sat on the sofa. She jumped when she heard a frantic knock at the door, Aden came out of the bathroom and came to answer it, he wasn't very happy to see Casey stood there "I need to see her" Casey demanded, Aden looked at Aaliyah who shook her head.

"She doesn't want to see you" Aden replied, he tied to close the door but was stopped by Casey holding it open.

"I need to speak to her" Casey pleaded.

"She said no" Aden continued to stand his ground. Whether they realised it or not Aaliyah knew Aden was more than a match for the Braxton's, he too had come from a troubled background and knew how to handle himself.

Casey finally surrendered when he realised Aden wasn't going to back down. Aden closed the door and sat on the sofa beside Aaliyah "You ok?" he asked as he put his hand on her knee. Aaliyah smiled and nodded "Yeah, thank you"

As Aaliyah continued to drink her coffee felt her phone vibrate on the sofa beside her she picked up the phone and read the message I won't give up on us Ali, I love you x x the message was from Casey, Aaliyah just hit the delete button and put the phone back down beside her.

Aaliyah knew she would have to talk to Casey eventually, they did have a son together after all, but right now she was happy just to keep her distance.

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Casey had been walking on the beach since Aden turned him away; he was desperate to speak to Aaliyah so he could explain what happened between him and summer. Casey sat on the bench and looked out at the sea, as he closed his eyes suddenly something came back to him. The night he slept with Summer, he had only had a few beers.

So when Summer found him why the hell was he sat on the bench completely out of it. Then it dawned on him, Summer had brought him a beer to apologise for her behaviour. Then conveniently it was her who found him on the beach. Casey shot up off the bench and headed towards Angelo's he had to tell Brax what he had remembered.

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Aden had managed to persuade Aaliyah to let him take her and the boys to Angelo's for dinner.

Aaliyah grinned as she walked up to the bar; she saw Brax was serving a customer "Hiya not really sure how to greet my knight in shining armour" Aaliyah teased, she could see Brax was blushing a little "I mean it though Brax thanks for last night" she smiled. Brax smiled back.

"It's the least I could do, after all it was my brother who caused this whole mess" Brax handed Aaliyah her drinks, before following her to the table with a menu. Aaliyah sat down and looked at the menu.

"You gotta be kidding me" Aden scoffed as he saw Casey coming up the stairs. Aaliyah shot her head up and turned to look at Casey, whose face dropped the minute he saw her.

"Brax can I have a word" Casey asked, Brax just glared at him.

"I'm a bit busy right now Casey" he said as he turned back to Aaliyah.

"Please, Brax it's important" Casey insisted, Aaliyah nodded at Brax, who then turned and gave in to Casey, he took him into his office.

Aden grabbed Aaliyah's hand when he saw how shook up she seemed. Riley was just sat playing on is Nintendo DS, he didn't even lift his head when Casey come over.

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Aaliyah and Aden had just started eating when Brax and Casey finally came out of his office. Aaliyah looked a little uncomfortable when she watched Casey walk over to her. "Can we talk" Casey asked softly.

"She doesn't want to speak to you" Aden interrupted much to Casey's annoyance.

"I wasn't asking your permission" Casey snapped "Ali please" he begged as he tried to grab her hand, Aaliyah jumped away. This infuriated Aden causing him to stand up. He grabbed Casey's shirt "She said no" he threatened.

"Aden please stop it" Aaliyah stood up and was pulling Aden off Casey. Brax noticed how scared Riley looked so he offered to take him out back for some ice cream.

"I just want to talk to you, please Ali" Casey tried again, this time to both the men's surprise Aaliyah agreed; she followed Casey downstairs and into the surf club.

"So what do you want to talk about?" Aaliyah snapped "How you slept with another girl as soon as my back was turned?"

"Ali, I" Casey tried to speak but Aaliyah wouldn't let him.

"You don't get it do you Casey, I gave up everything to be with you. I gave up my career, Johnny…" Aaliyah yelled

"Johnny?" Casey questioned

"Yes, although we weren't together he took care of me, I've lost everything Casey all because you couldn't keep it in your pants" Aaliyah was furious

"What if I told you I don't think I slept with Summer that night?" Casey said in his defence, Aaliyah looked confused.

"What are you talking about?" Aaliyah was confused.

"Well I had only had a few beers that night and for some stupid reason I let Summer buy me one of them. After I drank it I started to feel dizzy so I went outside, Summer came to me and that's all I can remember" Casey explained.

"You mean you think she could have spiked your drink and took you home?" Aaliyah's angry tone had gone, Casey nodded.

"Yes and I swear to you Ali, this isn't just me trying to worm out of it. I love you with everything I have got. I would never just go out and cheat on you, you mean more to me than that" Casey pulled Aaliyah into a hug, she resisted at first before finally relaxing into him.

"I believe you" she whispered as she lost herself for a moment in Casey's arms.

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The couple spent the rest of that afternoon making up, Aden reluctantly agreed to take the boys to the beach for a few hours so Aaliyah and Casey could have some time to themselves. Although Aden didn't know what to make of Casey's explanation, he did trust Aaliyah's' judgement completely, so he gave Casey the benefit of the doubt.

"I love you" Aaliyah whispered as she snuggled into Casey's chest.

"I love you too" he grinned "I can't believe how close I came to losing you"

"What are we going to do about Summer?" Aaliyah wondered.

"I don't know, I mean I know I didn't sleep with her that night, now all we need to do is make her admit it" Casey said as he ran his fingertips up and down Aaliyah back.

"That should be fun" Aaliyah sighed, Casey kissed Aaliyah on the tip of her head, he knew she was right making Summer admit the truth was going to be hard. Casey had a feeling she wasn't ready to give up on him just yet.

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After there few hours 'making up' Aaliyah and Casey finally joined Aden on the beach, as they walked hand in hand along the beach they were spotted by a furious summer. She watched as Casey reached down and picked Kyle up and she watched when Casey kissed Aaliyah. Summer's blood was boiling; she continued to watch the couple.

Summer realised she needed to up he game plan if she was going to get hold of Casey, she continued to wait for the opportune moment and it soon came, Aaliyah had gone to the toilet in the surf club. Summer watched her with daggers as she disappeared inside.

To her surprise Casey had also got up and took Riley for some ice cream leaving Aden with Kyle. Aden spotted Irene and took Kyle over to her so she could look at him, she hadn't seen him properly yet, this left the blanket completely unsupervised. Summer saw this as the perfect opportunity; she ran over to the blanket and picked up Riley's sweater before heading towards the sea. She threw the sweater into the sea and waited for Aaliyah to come back. Summer knew full well the sea was extremely dangerous today, Alf had warned her about the undercurrents earlier that day.

Summer waited until Aaliyah had got back to the blanket before she started shouting "OH MY GOD, HELP, HELP" Aaliyah looked over to where the noise was coming from and saw Riley's sweater floating in the sea. Before anyone had chance to stop her Aaliyah had dived into the sea and started to swim to where the sweater was. Aaliyah was struggling to keep her head above water in all the undercurrents "RILEY" she screamed as she searched for him, she couldn't see him.

A crowd had gathered on the beach by the time Casey and Riley were walking back, Casey wondered what was going on. It wasn't until Casey saw Aden running towards the sea that he realised there is only one person who could have been in there "AALIYAH" he yelled as he ran towards the sea, Casey didn't even pause, he just dived straight in after her. Irene noticed Riley standing on his own and headed towards him; she still had Kyle in her arms.

"What's going on?" Brax and Charlie had now arrived to see what all the shouting was about.

"It's Aaliyah" Irene cried Brax watched and saw Casey disappear into the sea, he started sprinting, Charlie followed him "BRAX, NO" she cried as she watch him dive into the waves.

Aden and Casey were frantically looking for Aaliyah there was no sign of her "ALI" Aden yelled, as he swam around.

"AALIYAH" Casey yelled "BABY WHERE ARE YOU?"

Charlie watched in terror as the men searched for her, suddenly she spotted the young blond "Oh my god" Charlie exclaimed "BRAX SHE'S THERE" Charlie yelled as she pointed towards the lifeless body being tossed around in the sea. Brax quickly headed towards Aaliyah, he looped his arm around her waist and started to swim back in. Casey and Aden arrived back the same time as Brax; they helped him to carry Aaliyah to shore.

Brax started CPR, Casey watched on helplessly as Brax frantically tried to save the woman he loved. "Come on baby, breathe" this hadn't been the first time Casey had seen this, but at least this time people knew what she meant to him.

Aden was horrified he couldn't believe this had happened, one minute they were joking about Colleen's gossiping and the next they were stood around watching Brax trying desperately to save Aaliyah's life. Aden looked up at all the people who were now stood, watching and praying for this young mum to be ok. It was then he spotted her, standing in the crowd of people was Summer "You did this" he yelled as he headed over to the girl. Summer looked petrified.

"I…I" Summer tried to speak but couldn't

"You let us believe Riley was in there, you let her believe her son was in there. Well I hope you got what you wanted" Aden screamed furiously. Summer couldn't speak she just broke down.

"Is this true?" Charlie noticed all the commotion, Summer just nodded.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean for this to happen" she cried, unfortunately Casey had heard the whole thing.

"You evil, twisted bitch. Why the fuck would you do something like that" Casey just lost it, he launched himself at Summer, Aden restrained him.

"I'm sorry I just…" Summer was hysterical "I just wanted you to notice me, we had sex before she came along and then you just dropped me"

Casey's eyes widened "Come again, you did all of this because I dumped you after a one night stand, I love her more than anything and you were just going to take her away from me because of that" Casey couldn't listen to any more he just turned and walked back to Aaliyah.

"I did it because you got me pregnant too" Summer yelled, she had finally found her voice.

"He what" Aaliyah's voice shocked everyone, she was now sat resting against Brax. Casey rushed towards her and hugged her tightly "Oh thank go" he repeated as he kissed her over and over again. Casey had now taken over from Brax.

"I was pregnant too, but I had to get rid of my baby. When I found out you were seeing eachother it made me so angry, but not as angry as I was when I found out about you carrying his baby. I wanted you to split up so I drugged his drink and took him back to my house; I knew you would never forgive him if he had cheated. And with your track record I knew it wouldn't be long before you jumped back in bed with his brother" Aaliyah suddenly felt adrenaline rush through her body as she launched at Summer "You bitch, what have I ever done to you" Aaliyah yelled as she tackled Summer to the floor.

Before Aden or Casey had chance to move someone was already pulling Aaliyah off Summer, as Aaliyah looked round she realised it was Heath "Oh look lover boy to the rescue…again" Summer laughed callously. Heath held Aaliyah tightly to prevent her from flying at Summer again "I wish you had died in there" Summer yelled "Maybe then I would get what I wanted"

"Summer Horgan-Jones I am arresting you for attempting to harm Aaliyah Cooper" Charlie interfered putting handcuffs on the young girl. Heath was still holding Aaliyah, he didn't have a clue what had just happened, although he did wonder why Aaliyah's clothes were saturated, as were Casey's, Aden's and Brax's.

"What the hell did I miss" Heath asked as he let Casey take over from holding Aaliyah, Riley had also ran to his mum for a hug.

"I'll tell you later" Brax grinned as he watched Casey and Aaliyah together.

Wow that was longer than I expected but it had to be done. Please review this chapter; I am dying to know what you think. Love nik x x

Coming up-

Aaliyah helps Brax bring in the customers at Angelo's but what is her suggestion?

Bianca goes into labour in the middle of nowhere, can Aaliyah deliver the baby?

Aaliyah is shocked when she notices some bruising on Riley's body, who is behind it?