Chapter 29
"You can't be serious, Pippa." Kerri said.
"I'm afraid so." Pippa told her bluntly.
"But that's not fair!"
"Kerri, you left me with no alternative."
"You can't blame Pippa for doing this, not after the way you've been carrying on." Irene said to Kerri.
"No one asked for your two cents, Nosy Parker!" Kerri shouted. "So, shut your mouth!"
"OI!" Irene snapped.
"Kerri, respect your elders please!" Pippa warned her.
"You cheeky little brat!" Irene shouted. "Pippa took you in as her foster child and this is how you behave?!"
"Go worry about your own children, you dried up old fogy!" Kerri shouted back.
"That's enough, Kerri!" Pippa shouted at her. "Get upstairs and stay upstairs for the rest of the evening! I DON'T want to see you!"
Kerri scoffed angrily before storming upstairs.
"I am so sorry, Irene." Pippa said.
"Doesn't matter, Pip." Irene said. "I'll just be glad to see the back of her real soon."
"Me too." Pippa said.
After school, Stephanie and Tiegan are at the Bayside Diner with Chloe. They are drinking milkshakes when Sonia Hammond and her cronies march in.
"A hamburger with the lot!" Sonia barked at Ailsa.
"Coming right up." Ailsa said, looking unimpressed.
"Did no one ever teach you any manners?" Tiegan asked Sonia.
"Rack off, bitch!" Sonia snapped.
"Leave it, girls." Chloe told them. "She's not worth it."
"Hey, Chloe." Sonia said. "I hear Miss Brennan is out on bail. Do you think you'll go back to be her regular customer?"
Chloe got tense as Sonia smirked at her.
"Shut up, Sonia!" Stephanie said angrily.
"Free country, idiot!" Amy sneered.
"I can't help that she's a junkie." Sonia laughed. "That's all you are, Chloe Richards."
Chloe got up from the booth and ran off as Sonia and her friends laughed.
"You really are a bitch, Sonia!" Tiegan snapped at her.
"What are you going to do about it?!" Sonia asked her angrily.
Tiegan smashed the chocolate cake she was eating into Sonia's face!
"Tiegan, that was so funny!" Stephanie said, laughing.
Sonia, however, wasn't laughing.
"Oh, you are going to get it!" she screeched at Tiegan before her and Amy stormed out.
"Point one for us, sister from another mister." Tiegan said to Stephanie.
"Too right." Stephanie said.
The girls then gave each other a high-five.
Meanwhile, Kerri was in her room packing her belongings when Jack walked in.
"What's with the suitcases?" Jack asked her.
"Didn't Pippa tell you." Kerri replied.
"Tell me what?"
"I've been asked to leave."
Jack was shocked.
"Why is Pippa chucking you out?!" he asked angrily.
"Because I took the car for a test drive." Kerri replied, sobbing.
Jack gave Kerri a hug as she continued to sob.
"I can't leave now." Kerri cried. "Mr Fisher is thinking about putting me into the mainstream class and I've made friends here. I don't want to leave schools again. I just can't."
"Pippa's way out of line." Jack said angrily. "She can't just chuck you out because you made a mistake!"
"Yes I can, Jack."
Jack turned around to find Pippa standing in the doorway, her arms folded.
"I have given Kerri plenty of chances." she told Jack as she entered the room. "She has left me with no choice but to ask her to leave."
"But I can't leave." Kerri sobbed.
"I'm afraid you don't have a choice, sweetheart." Pippa told her. "Mrs James will come first thing in the morning to collect you."
"I CAN'T LEAVE!" Kerri screamed at her.
"Kerri, you just have to-"
"LISTEN!"
"Kerri Winslow, you just have to accept the fact that you are leaving!" Pippa shouted at her. "You have pushed me to the limit with your atrocious behaviour!"
"If she goes, then so do I!" Jack said.
"Jack, you're not helping matters." Pippa told him.
"I don't care." Jack said. "I love Kerri and I don't want some nagging housewife trying to break us up!"
Pippa looked really hurt.
"If that's how you feel, Jack." she told him before walking out.
"Thank you, Jack." Kerri said, sniffing.
Jack hugged her tight.
"I won't let Pippa break us up." he told her.
At the Beach House, Selina has invited Jerome over.
"So, what's the big news you wanted to tell me?" Selina asked him.
"I would've told you at lunch, but I had rugby training." Jerome replied.
"Go on."
"I didn't know this was going to be so hard." Jerome said, before breathing heavily.
"Take your time." Selina told him gently.
"I'm moving away."
Selina was taken aback by this news.
"Moving away?" she said shocked. "To where?"
"My family and I are moving to the Gold Coast." he replied sadly.
Selina felt like she was hit by a bus. She wasn't taking the news well.
"What's going to happen to us?" she asked him.
"I don't know." he replied.
Both of them looked really sad.
NEXT TIME...
- Kerri and Jack flee to the city
- A dejected Selina refuses to talk to anyone
- Stephanie and Tiegan once again defend Chloe from Sonia