Hey guys.. This is a very short update. Sorry I have neglected it. For those on twitter who follow me would probably know why I haven't updated in awhile. I'll try and get the next update up by the end of the week. Xx So Sorry.

Chapter 30

Charlie was sitting in the lounge room having a cup of green tea, while she watched the morning news. She knew that at any moment now that she would have to get up and chase the kids around and get them organised for school and day care. As soon as she thought about that she started to hear Emily's cries and she headed up stairs and brought her back down stairs and got her step up in her high chair with breakfast. It didn't take long until Alexis and Lucas came thumping down the stairs looking for their breakfast. She knew there was now only two more people to wake up, Brax and Thomas. Charlie also knew that Thomas would be next; it wasn't often that Brax managed to get out of bed before 8:30am.

An hour later, Charlie had managed to get Emily, Alexis and Lucas in the car and heading off to drop them off at their different schools. Emily always looked forward to going to day care, she loved spending time playing games and arts and craft. Lucas enjoyed going to school to hang out with his mates, and Alexis well she didn't like doing much at all. She hated school and it was always a struggle to get her out of the door in the morning.

Once Charlie had arrived back home she walked into the house carrying Thomas in her arms who was staring up at his mum smiling, as she approached the kitchen she noticed Brax was in there making his breakfast so she placed Thomas down in his swing in the lounge room and headed into see what kind of mess he had made for her to clean up.

"Can you at least try not to pull the whole kitchen a part while you make your breakfast", Charlie yelled at Brax once she saw the mess he had made. "Sorry Chalz", Brax simply replied before trying to pull Charlie in for a hug who just took a step back and walked out of the room. Brax was left standing there wondering what the hell was going on. An hour later it was time for Brax to leave for work and he went to give Charlie a kiss goodbye but she just pulled away from him once again. Brax was really starting to wonder what had gotten into his wife, he knew she would tell him eventually but this had been going on for weeks and he was getting pretty annoyed by it all.

On the other side of town, there was Heath who was struggling with the two kids already. He managed to get Darcy off to school and to get her there on time but he couldn't get Cooper to stop crying. It was like Cooper had become too dependent on Charlie and had no idea who he was. It didn't take long for Heath to get frustrated but he didn't want to have to call Charlie for help so he called the next best thing, Leah.

Leah turned up at Heath's pretty quickly, trying to work out why he hadn't called Charlie to help him with this, she managed to get Cooper settled, before joining Heath on the lounge to have a chat to him about what was going and why he moved into his own place instead of staying with Charlie and Brax to get all the help he needed.

Next time: Leah and Heath's Chat. Brax gets to the bottom of Charlie's problem. Casey and Rubes are still not back.