Episode 7 – An Issue Of
Trust
– Divine woke up after being pushed down the stairs.
– Russell and Judi secretly thought about each other over Christmas.
– Cleo overheard Camille talking about her and then ran away. Cleo later
met up with Leo in the park.
– After a massive row with Victor, Leslie revealed her fears to Gabriel
that Victor had pushed Divine.
– Alex was visited by Jenna, who told him the relationship was over, as
he started to remember the suicide attempt.
Wednesday,25th December
2002
“I am sorry, but I can’t hold on to this any longer. I am
finishing with you. It is over” Jenna said getting up. “You can’t expect me to
come running every time you feel down and try to kill yourself. I thought you
loved me, but you don’t”
“Jenna,
why did you and Grant
do this to me. Why?” thought Alex
as he lay in his bed.
“Did you hear that?”
“What?”
“You might be out by New Year, if you continue
to make such good progress” Judi
said smiling at her patient.
“Oh, thanks doctor” Alex said.
“Are you okay? You seem very distant. Usually
when I tell patients that news they are beaming from side to side”
“It is just…” Alex began, but stopped.
“Go on” Judi pushed.
“I don’t know if you will believe me or not”
“Try me”
“I think my girlfriend, well ex-girlfriend
drugged me and then my stepbrother Grant tried to kill me, by making it look
like I had slit my wrists” Alex stated, looking at Judi’s face for a reaction.
She was motionless, shocked by what Alex had said. At last she spoke though.
“Do you have any evidence?” she asked.
“Evidence, no. You don’t believe me, do you?”
Alex asked.
“I don’t know if I do or not”
“Surely I would remember killing myself though”
“I suppose you would. Why do you think that your
girlfriend and your brother tried to murder you?” Judi asked.
“Murder?” Alex murmured, the fact that someone
had tried to kill him hitting him badly.
“I don’t think people who love you like that
would do such a thing” Judi said, noticing the time.
“The people I trusted don’t care for me at all
do they?”
“Look I have to go. I will visit you again
tomorrow” Judi said as she got up and left.
***
“Were you pushed or did you slip Ms. Cassidy?” a
police officer asked.
“What?” Divine
asked, awakening from a flashback.
“Were you pushed?” she repeated.
“Yes, I think so”
“You think so?”
“I can’t remember if I was or not. Everything is
a blur. All I remember is being on the stairs and then waking up here” Divine
lied.
“Okay I will be back in a moment” the female
officer said rising to her feet and walking out the door to where her
co-officer stood.
“She doesn’t remember anything”
“We should just come back tomorrow and try her
then”
“Okay”
Divine closed her eyes as she remembered the
moment she had been pushed down the stairs.
“You are going to pay” Divine said to herself,
knowing the identity of the person who had pushed her.
***
Cleo pulled away from the kiss she had just shared with Leo.
She got up and turned her face away from him.
“What is it?” he asked.
“I don’t know about this” she said.
“What is wrong? What don’t you know?” asked a
confused Leo as he stood up.
“Nothing, it is nothing”
“It doesn’t seem like nothing. Tell me, let me
in” he said. He sat back down, and motioned for Cleo to sit beside him. She
sat, but made sure she wasn’t too close to Leo.
“You are the first boy I have ever kissed” Cleo
said, surprising both herself and Leo.
“I am the first?” Leo questioned.
“Yes, I always act so rebellious don’t I.
Everyone thinks that I am so outgoing, but I have never really had anyone to
care about me. Mum has always just been wrapped up in her boyfriends and my dad
he left us years ago when I was a baby”
“It is only a kiss. You are safe with me Cleo”
“I don’t know if I can trust anybody” Cleo said.
“What do you mean? Something happened to you
didn’t it?”
“A man tried to rape me back in Australia. Mum
wouldn’t believe me when I told her though” Cleo said, feeling safe with Leo.
Safer with him that with anybody else.
“But he didn’t rape you did he?”
“No, I managed to grab a candlestick and hit him
over the head” Cleo said getting up off the bench she was sitting on and
walking towards a small fountain in the park.
“Cleo you have to tell someone. He could do this
to someone else” Leo came up behind her.
“I can’t” Cleo said, a tear rolling down her
cheek.
***
“Are you okay?” Chardonnay asked as she walked over to where Gabe
sat.
“Yes I am fine”
“Are you sure?”
“Yes, I am enjoying myself just watching you
have fun”
“Okay. Is everything all right?”
“It is just…”
“What?
“This is the first proper Christmas I have had
where I really have felt I have fitted in”
Chardonnay sat down beside her boyfriend.
“I thought you liked spending time with your
family. In fact I was surprised when you accepted mom’s offer to spend
Christmas here with us”
Gabe shifted uncomfortably. He was unsure about
how to tell Chardonnay that he was adopted.
“It was never easy for me. I never fitted in
because I always knew deep down when I was growing up that I was different from
the others”
“I don’t understand”
Gabe sighed, turning his face back to
Chardonnay.
“The others all had blonde hair and I had dark
hair. Both mom and dad were blonde too. Just after my eighteenth birthday I
found out that I was adopted”
***
Nate smiled as he heard a beep from his cellphone. Probably another text he thought as he picked up the phone. But instead of a message saying
Happy Christmas he saw one which scared him.
“Merry Xmas Nate :) it cud b ur last” the
message read.
Everything had been fine recently, although Kayla’s
plan had not worked. She and Nate had looked at the security footage, but the
face of the person putting the note through the letter box was hidden. Nate had
not received any threats since before the party, but now they were starting
again.
Nate looked at the number, which he didn’t
recognise.
Continue with Episode 8 – Deep
Emotions