Chapter Three
Charlie arrived back at the station after finishing her lunch, she walked into the reception area where she immediately saw Watson sitting at the table near her office reading a magazine, she walked over to her and let out a false cough that startled Watson slightly
"Shouldn't you be working Georgia?"
"God you scared me, and I'm on my break"
"Sorry and I know you're on your break, so...what you reading?"
"Nothing just a magazine, wouldn't be your thing"
"What magazine, you never know I might read it myself"
"I doubt it very much"
"Why you don't know what I'm into come on tell me what it is"
"It's a magazine about what's going down in the gay world" Georgia looked at Charlie and could see that she was a little embarrassed
"Oh, what's it called then?"
"You really want to know"
"Yeah, I have to explore my inner Bisexuality"
"Okay, it's called Cherrie"
"So what's happening in the gay world then?"
"Not a lot really, the music scene is interesting"
"So, what's interesting about the music scene then?" Charlie asked intrigued by Georgia's statement
"Well, there's this group called The Fifth Element, and their touring around Australia"
"And what's interesting about that"
"Well, they are touring near here, so it looks like there are gonna be some fights breaking out, which in turn means we are gonna get called out a lot"
"So, that's means..."
"Well, extra shifts and possibly trouble around this area"
"If there touring the city then, why does the magazine say the trouble will be around Summer bay"
"Well, it's not the magazine saying that it's me"
"Okay, why do you think that trouble is heading this way?"
"Because earlier one of the members from Fifth Element came in her with..."
"With who?"
"Nobody, just a friend of hers"
"And you know the friend?"
"Yeah"
"And this friend do I know them?"
"Yeah, you do, very much so?"
"Well who is it, tell me?"
"It's..." Georgia paused unsure whether to tell Charlie the truth
"Georgia, who was it?"
"Look for yourself" She said handing over the magazine she was reading to Charlie and pointing to the picture that was with the article she was reading
Charlie looked at the bottom of the picture which had the writing, pictured from left to right: Brooke, Frankee and mystery woman (Another of Brooke's 'lady friends') after a couple seconds she looked at the picture, then immediately reacted to who the mystery woman was...
"JOEY" She said uncontrollably loud, she was relieved when no one looked over at her and Georgia, readjusting her voice she continued "Joey, my ex Joey?"
"Yep, you're ex Joey"
"And you're sure it was this Brooke she was with?"
"Look, there aren't many people who are bold enough to chat up a policewoman on duty in the middle of the station"
"Are you sure though 100%?"
"Yeah"
"When where they here?"
"She arrived about five minutes after you went on your lunch"
"And she was with this Brooke from the photo?"
"Yeah, they arrived together and kind of left together"
"How did they kind of leave together?"
"Well, Brooke came back to talk to me about..."
"About what?"
"You"
"Me, why did she ask about me?"
"Well, she wanted to know if you're single."
"And what did you say?"
"I said that you are Single"
"Why did you tell her that?"
"Because she said she wasn't asking for her but a 'friend' "
"Friend what friend? And how is she a problem?"
"Huh?"
"You said that there is gonna be trouble with her around, why?"
"Well, she has a lot of fans, in particular female fans who will do anything for a chance to touch her"
"I don't get it what exactly is it about her that female fans love"
"No one knows but she's notorious for being able to charm any woman she wants"
"And did it look like her and Joey were you know together?"
"From what I read about her she quote-unquote doesn't do relationship"
"But was there anything that screamed couple about them?"
"Nope, look if they were a couple then Brooke wouldn't have come back to flirt with me"
"But if she is 'god's gift to woman' then being in a relationship wouldn't stop her"
"Well, she asked about my love life so I doubt she'd go out with me when Joey is in the same town"
"Well, some people aren't very intelligent and do stupid things even though they shouldn't...Anyway we better get back to doing what we're paid for" Entering her office Charlie couldn't help but sigh inside hoping that Georgia was right and that Joey wasn't with Brooke and indeed Single...