Ok Sorry for the delay again… Uni work is catching up on me something bad! I'm so far behind it isn't funny and I feel really bad for neglecting this story. Please be patient with me.. I'll get on top of it all soon. Xx Thank you to all my readers I really appreciate you're feedback and suggestions.

Chapter 31

Leah and Heath were sitting on the lounge, stealing quick glances from one another neither of them knowing where to begin or where to start. Leah finally got fed up with awkwardness and spoke up.

Leah: What are you doing Heath? Why didn't you call Charlie for help?
Heath: Charlie hates me, I don't think I'll ever be welcomed back at their place after what I've done not that I don't deserve it. I don't want to talk about it thanks for helping me out Leah, but you should really go.

Leah nodded her head, and got up off the lounge and headed out the front door while speaking out aloud to Heath "If you need any more help or just someone to talk to, give me a call". Heath needed Leah's help, but he didn't need her to be nosey, and that's exactly what he had walked into. Heath knew it was only a matter of time before Charlie found out that he had called Leah for help, and then he would be in more trouble….

Up the Coast a bit off the main road..

Casey looked back at Ruby and their son playing in the sand, he knew they needed to return home and he knew it had to be soon but it had been a much needed break for the two of them. Casey knew as soon as they got back it would no longer be just there little family, but their huge families and running around after each other all over again and he wasn't sure he really wanted to that. Casey wanted his family to be just Ruby and their son and no one else in the world should have to come into play of that he believed but he knew Rubes would never leave Charlie behind.

Casey: Babe.. you ready to head back into the bay today?
Ruby: Not really, but I guess there is no time like the present..
Casey: We could just never go back, start a new life here together.. invite the rest up for a house warming party, letting them know we are safe and alive.
Ruby: I wish I could but I can't, you know that. I can't leave Charles alone with your two brothers to deal with and all the kids… I'm sure she would of gone crazy by now.
Casey: I love you, you know that yeh?
Ruby: I love you too.. and so does the unborn here.

Casey pulled Rubes in for a hug while taking in the scent of her hair, and feel of the smoothness of her skin before he had to let go and started to pack all their belongings back into the car. Ruby was taking the surrounds of their last stop before their small family holiday ended and they went back to face the madness and inform everyone that she just found out she was pregnant with her second child.

Back in the Bay…

Heath was holding little Cooper Scott in his arms, feeding him a bottle. He knew that it didn't matter what happened next, he knew that Cooper and Darcy would be enough in his life. Even though he is struggling looking after them both, grieving with the death of the two girls that mean the world to him he couldn't believe he had the most beautiful children.

Heath was struggling though, and he didn't want to admit it to anyone, especially not Charlie or Brax because he had put them through a lot of over the last two years and he didn't want to have to reply on them anymore. He just wanted to be able to get through it on his ownbut he didn't know how, so he had started to drink to dull the pain and try to forget everything that had happened in recent times.