4836: Charlie kisses Hugo

Joey and Charlie’s relationship is going smoothly as they contemplate how to tell Leah about it – considering they are both living under her roof. But when Leah arrives home, Charlie loses her nerve. Joey’s brother Brett soon discovers that Charlie and Joey are seeing each other and later that night he drunkenly confronts Charlie and Joey at the house.

Before he’s kicked out, Joey reveals in front of Leah that she and Charlie are an item. To make things worse, when Charlie returns to the police station, she discovers that Brett has filed a complaint against her for making sexual advances towards Joey. Hogan tells Charlie that the complaint has to be investigated and she won’t be able speak with Joey until then.

On the beach that night, while Hugo is walking along thinking about Martha, he spots Charlie. They start chatting when Hugo wonders about Charlie being gay. Having an identity crisis she is quick to deny it and to prove it, they start kissing.

Xavier arrives to pick up Ruby, he tells them about some damage that’s been done to Charlie’s car – someone has written “queer” on it. Charlie, who is preparing for her talk on vandalism at Summer Bay High, isn’t sure whether to press charges. Word gets around quickly and when Ruby arrives at school she finds everyone talking about the vandalism to Charlie’s car. At school, Xavier, Jai and Bartlett are trying to reassure Ruby, but she’s clearly stressed about what’s happened to her sister.

Hugo, Xavier and Brendan arrive back into the Bay, although there’s still no news over whether Xavier and Brendan are being charged for causing the accident that put Roman in hospital. Things are still quite emotionally awkward between Martha and Hugo and the tension is fuelled even further as Martha walks around Hugo very scantily clad. Martha soon gets to see the vulnerable side to Hugo after he briefly opens up about his frustrations and fears over Brendan, but as soon as he open up he shuts down again, leaving Martha wishing that he would open up more often.

The bonding moment between Martha and Hugo is short lived as a frustrated Hugo comes home and has an argument with Martha over banning Brendan from playing with sticks. Soon after, Hugo is soon disappointed in himself for the outburst and apologises to Martha. She accepts this, commenting that it’s a shame Hugo normally hides his real feelings. This unnerves Hugo, as does Brendan commenting that he loves Martha, so he decides to make tracks.