Home and Away Uncovered: Secrets and Psychos

Chapter One

Hayley Lawson sat at her kitchen table, twisting the ring on the finger of her left hand. She had felt so happy the last couple of months but today she felt anxious. She knew why she felt this way because, on this day five years ago her, Noah her husband, Sally, Flynn, Leah, Kirsty, Kane and Jesse had all been held hostage by the crazy Sarah Lewis.

Flashback

Sarah pointed the gun at Dani "Sarah Wait!" Sarah turned around and saw Noah standing at the door Sarah aimed but two police officers stoppedand drove her away in a car.

End of Flashback

Sarah's words still rang in Haley's ears tick tock tick tock. Haley shivered she was sure Noah was going to be killed that night but was so grateful that the police had arrived in time. Her five year-old daughter Tammy interrupted her from her thoughts.

"What's for breakfast?" Tammy asked curiously

"What? Oh! Sorry Tam! We're going to have pancakes call your sister and I'll start cooking them", Hayley ordered.

Hayley and Noah had twin daughters, Tammy and Claire Lawson. Tammy immediately went back upstairs and told her sister to come down for breakfast. Noah had already left for work he was still the counsellor at summer bay high school and for work at seven o'clock it was now eight and Tammy and Claire were hungry as usual. I'll get through the day Hayley thought.

At Summer bay high students were arriving earlier than usual this confused Sally and Noah so they went to the school gates to check out what was happening. At least twenty or more students were crowded around the school gates.

"Amy, what's happening?" Sally asked a sensible sixteen year-old student.

"It's her miss, she's been released and is moving to the bay tomorrow", Amy said.

Sally was just about to ask whom Amy was talking about when Noah nudged Sally and pointed to the woman standing outside the school with a policeman, Sally almost fainted...

The diner was empty and Tasha was busy cleaning tables before the customers started arriving. Tasha had left school three years before and was at University and worked at the diner daily. Only Tash, Colleen and Alf worked there now ever since Leah left the bay four years ago. Before Leah left she married Peter Baker and had a baby girl called Daisy. Peter still worked in the bay so the residents saw him often and he showed them pictures of Leah, VJ, Daisy and their brand new house in the city. Riiiinnnggg the burger phone in the diner started ringing "Tasha? It's me, I think you should come up here now bring Alf and Colleen with you", Sally told Tasha over the phone.

In the city Leah was ironing all the clothes that had just come out of the wash. But for some reason she couldn't stop tears from rolling down her cheeks. She was thinking about her best friend Sally and how she was coping she had no idea what was going on in the bay. Before they left she told Peter not to tell her anything about anyone in the bay, as she would remember the hostage disaster too much. She then started thinking about Hayley and Noah Sarah had aimed the gun at him, she was sure she was going to shoot but thank god Dani, Rhys and the police had got there in time. She didn't know how any of her old Summer Bay pals were getting on for all she knew they could be dead or living half-way across the world. Just as she was thinking her silver Nokia mobile started vibrating on the blue kitchen counter it was Peter.

"Hi Leah! It's me look I know you probably don't ever want to come to Summer Bay again but this is really important. Pack us two cases for me, you and the kids and then meet me at the Sydney Harbour Bridge in half an hour".

Before Leah could even ask Peterwhat was going on he hung up, Leah sighed andheaded upstairs to pack the cases. She definitely didn't want to go back to the bay but she knew her husband and if it wasn't that important he wouldn't ask her to go.

Flynn still owned and worked at the surgery but when Leah left the bay Colleen had to work full time at the diner and so he had to hire a new receptionist. Her name was Briget Hyde and she was Kim's half sister. They had the same dad but different mums. Briget definitely knew who her mother was but nobody else did.

"Um Dr.Saunders your wife's on the phone and she says she needs to talk to you as it's really important",Briget explained, she was quite shy and didn't like to disturbFlynn while he was seeing a patient.

"Ok thanks Briget can you beep her over?" Flynn asked kindly.

"Sure", Briget replied.

"Hi Sal! What's wrong is Kirsty having trouble looking after Pippa?" Flynn asked concerned for his daughter. Kirsty Phillips was a nanny and picked Pippa up from school.

"No Kirsty's fine. Listen, you need to shut the surgery and meet me at the school bring Briget with you and bring, Kim, Robbie, Jesse and Josie too. Oh yeah! Josie'sstill at the city visiting Dylan.I've tried calling all three of their mobiles but they're all switched off. Kim will be at the gym with Jesse and Robbie will be at the kiosk. See you there bye!".Flynn gave a puzzled look but did as his wife told him and headed to the school.

"Hey Kirst?" Kane called to his wife.

"Yeah?" Kirsty answered.

"Well I've just had the weirdest call from Tash saying that everyone needs to meet at the school right now including us", Kane explained.

"Why?" Kirsty asked.

"I don't know but she told us to bring Irene, Pippa, Rebecca and Joe".

Rebecca and Joe were Kirsty and Kane's son and daughter. Rebecca was six and Joe was only eleven months. Rebecca was best friends with Hayley and Noah's daughters, Tammy and Claire and Sally andFlynn's daughter, Pippa.

"Let's get going", Kirsty sighed.

Dani still lived in the palace but with Robbie, Tasha and Kim. Tasha moved out of the beach house because Kirsty and Kane wanted to have a family and there wasmore room in the palace. Scott fled the bay a year agoas his dream sailing tripcame true. He always wanted Dani to go with him but only one person could go. Dani recieved a text message from Beth tellingher to get to the school now. Dani grabbed her handbag and left the palace.

Beth still owned the caravan park and lived in the houseshe had also married Barry Hyde(Jekyll) a couple of years ago. Henry and Matilda hadgone back to boarding school, Jadereturned to the bay andBeth had adopted her. Jade had changed her surname to Hyde because didn't feel like a Sutherland anymore and she knew she definitely wasn't Laura DeGroot. Beth was still the president of the P& C atSummer Bay high school. Hyde wasn't the head teacher anymore (Sally was). He had bought the land where the Hunter's farm was and had built a primary and nursery school there calledSummer Bay Junior School. Some of the students that went there were; TammyLawson, Claire Lawson, Pippa Saunders and Rebecca Phillips. VJ, Leah's sonused to go there but then left when they moved to the city. Hyde was the headmaster and Jade was a teacher and Rebecca and Pippa were in her class. Hyde now had three kids Kim, Briget and Jade.

"Right", Hyde began "Let's head down to the school"