Emmett and Simone were in the waiting room for Stacey to call them into the examination room. Since their first antenatal appointment; Emmett decided to use his status to ensure she would be the one taking Simone’s appointments from now on. “I can just see whatever doctor they have on duty” she argues to Emmett again.“We are at Rocky Valley hospital” he whispers back to her. “I would be happier with someone we know isn’t affiliated with Maxwell.”“As long as you don’t give her the third degree again” Simone chastises. At the last antenatal appointment; Emmett had questioned Stacey about her interactions with Maxwell and what she thought of him. To his surprise; she didn’t think highly of the man and assured them she was not involved or wanted to be involved in any of his research or medical situations.“Simone” Stacey calls out from the doorway. “How are you feeling?”“Great” Simone answers, following her into the examination room with Emmett walking in behind them. “I’ve started to
Emmett drops Simone at Lively Design Studio before heading to the Lester Drake Media building. Simone walks in though the doorway; “Leona; you’re here” Mark says flustered. “We are down 4 models. Angie Berry called and withdrew Tina, Breanna, Lewis and Kim.”“What do you mean; she withdrew them?” Simone asks, looking over at the other models. “We have a contract to use them for the runway show.”“She didn’t give a reason” Mark explains; giving her a knowing smile. Both Simone and Mark knew this was a tactic by Angela to have him become upset with Simone. Regardless of the circumstances behind his court case; he liked Simone or Leona and didn’t blame her for the models being withdrawn. “Are you able to acquire four more models?”“Can we make do with who we have?” Simone asks, wiggling her finger to Urick to come and see her.“If you can’t get anyone else; we may have to” Mark responds; trying to stay positive. “We need one more male model for Quinton’s designs. We will be one short, ot
Simone was starting to get nervous as she sat in front of Renee; having her makeup applied. “Why am I so nervous?” she asks Renee, fidgeting in her seat. “It’s not like I haven’t done a runway show before.”“You have your gorgeous husband out there watching you” Renee remarks; applying Leona’s lipstick. “This is the first time he has seen you go down the catwalk.”“Maybe” Simone whispers as Emmett comes backstage with Josephine to wish her luck.“We have a surprise for you” Emmett states; leaning down to give her a kiss.“No kissing” Renee snaps; fixing up the smudge Emmett left on Simone’s lips. “She can see her surprise as long as it doesn’t ruin her makeup.”“What is it?” Simone asks; shifting in her seat to glance between Emmett and Josephine.Before Emmett could answer; Tiffany walks through the door with Vince, Richard, Tyrone, Lester, Phillip, Jenny, Sebastian, Linda and Cassandra. “Surprise” Josephine smiles as Cassandra runs over to Simone; wrapping her arms around her.“Baby
The following morning; Simone was up early, cooking breakfast for Emmett. She was buzzing on how successful the runway had been and what was happening later that afternoon. Humming to herself; the front doorbell chimes. “I wonder who that could be?” she says to herself heading over to the door to peak out the keyhole.“Aunty Cassie” Simone chimes, opening the door. “Where’s Aunty Josie?”“Doing official police business” Cassandra pouts, walking into the bungalow behind Simone. “I thought since she went down to the station early, I would come and see my favourite baby girl.”“Have you eaten?” Simone remarks, heading back into the kitchen to finish the bacon and eggs she was cooking. “I can make you some breakfast” she adds, pulling some more bacon and eggs out of the fridge.“I would love some breakfast” Cassandra states as Emmett walks through the kitchen doorway. “I can’t believe our babies are having a baby.”“Believe it” Emmett chimes in; taking some plates and cutlery out of the c
Josephine decided to take Tyrone with her to interview Sylvia. She had looked at his service record and found he was a good police officer. He has severe PTSD and failed psychiatric evaluation; thus, needing to leave the police force. “Do you have the PTSD under control?” Josephine asks, glancing over at Tyrone as he drives her to the prison.“You read my file?” Tyrone answers with his own question. “For the most part. It reels its ugly head from time to time” he includes to Josephine’s raised eyebrow. “Why are we interviewing Sylvia Peterson?”“I had a doctor call me with information” Josephine states, letting out a breath. “She had a stat dec from Sylvia against her father and I wanted to question her about it.”“What the fuck?” Tyrone gasps, pulling into the prison carpark.“My thoughts exactly” Josephine giggles, handing Tyrone the copy of the statutory declaration. “The date would have made Ricky about 16 and Sylvia was 35 when she fell pregnant and it was after Vicki and Lest we
Standing at the alter; “You need to calm down. She will be here” Emmett tells Lester, giving him a smirk. It wasn’t long ago Lester was telling him the same thing as he thought of the similarity of the situation. “You and Caitie wanted a small affair and not tell anyone. This is what Simone and I did; it was only fitting to use the same church.”“You didn’t need to bring Cassie with you” Lester murmurs to Emmett, glancing back to the front row seat.“What were we supposed to do?” Emmett queries, looking over at Cassandra, sitting next to Caitlyn’s stepmother, Eleanor and brother, Lincoln. “Aunty Josie is interviewing Sylvia with Ty; I couldn’t exactly leave without explaining what was happening. Her and Aunty Josie will keep quiet.”The priest steps up behind the alter; ‘I should dress up as Elvis and become a wedding chapel if these people keep doing small weddings like this’ he laughs to himself. “Are you men ready?” he asks, looking between Lester, Emmett and Jason. Lester nods as
The following morning; Josephine and Cassandra were packing in their hotel room, ready to head home. “I need to stop off at the police station before we go. I need to let the prosecutor know the outcome of my interview with Sylvia Peterson” Josephine states; placing her toothbrush and toothpaste in her suitcase.Cassandra turns to Josephine and puts her arms around her; “we can stay” she murmurs, giving her a kiss on her forehead.“You have your kinder…” “they are fine with Gretta” Cassandra interrupts as they sit down on the bed. “Emmett asked you here to help with getting Vicki and Lest’s killer. He needs you and you need me. I am not going to stop you from doing what you need to do for yourself; Emmett and Simone.”On the surface; Josephine was a hard-core police commissioner; ready to take on the world to better the country. Deep down; she was hurting for the loss of her two closest friends. She couldn’t hide her feelings from Cassandra; “Everyone except Maxwell Springfield was tr
The following morning; Simone and Emmett headed into Hunter, Hunter and Russell law firm. She was meeting with Gloria and Angela’s lawyers to settle on Simone’s defamation suit against Angela. “Do you think Angela will settle out of court?” Simone asks Emmett, trying to get an idea of what to expect.“If she knows what is best for her, she will” Emmett responds, pulling into the carpark. “You have the emails from potential clients on what she said and Mark’s email from Angela withdrawing the models. Her claim to Tina, Breanna and Kim you emailed and withdrew them didn’t happen.”“How can you prove something that doesn’t exist?” Simone responds with a smile, getting out of the car. “If I get the chance; I want to confront her about Joseph Holland too. She needs to be aware if someone has a stalker; she needs to take it seriously” she adds as the pair walk into the office.“Gloria is waiting in the conference room for you” Helen calls out as she sees Emmett and Simone walk through the
It’s been three years since Simone and Emmett were married. The pair had grown together over the time and the family got bigger with a new arrival six months ago; Lauren Josephine Peterson. Thankfully there was no surprises of a second baby during the delivery.“Are you ready for our special evening?” Emmett calls from the living room as Simone walks out in her bodysuit, dressed in an off the shoulder royal blue evening dress with a slit up the right side. “You always look stunning” he adds, giving her a peck on her temple.They were heading to the charity banquet for the local shelter for domestic violence. Cheryl helped establish it with the money given to her from Evelyn when she passed away. “Dad; we leaving shortly” Simone calls out as Phillip comes out of the playroom with Lauren in his arms and two three-year-olds hanging onto each leg. “Thank you for looking after them tonight” she adds.“You don’t have to thank me” Phillip beams, placing Lauren in the playpen and picking up e
The limousine pulled up out the front of the banquet hall where the fashion parade was being held. Vince steps out and opens the rear door for everyone to climb out of the back. Camera flashes were going off as Drake steps out and extends his hand to Leona with a smile before Lester does the same with Caitlyn. Followed by Jason with Rebecca, Jonathon with Matilda, Richard with Sandy and Vince helping Linda, Tiffany and Cheryl out.Simone straightens her black and green full-length dress as Emmett leans over and kisses the side of her head. “Let’s head in; the others will catch up” Emmett whispers in Simone’s ear.Simone nods, taking Emmett’s hand and beaming a smile as they were stopped for pictures momentarily.“I want to call Aunty Leslie before it starts and make sure the twins are ok” Simone says as the group find a seat to the front of the runway.“I already did” Linda voices behind her, sitting down in her seat. “They’ve been fed and are sleeping peacefully. Jakey is playing wit
It’s been three weeks since the twins decided to arrive; giving Emmett and Simone a surprise of a lifetime. Simone was let out of the hospital two days later. Stacey wanted to make sure the twins didn’t need any additional medical help. Given Linda was their nanny; she was for happy for her to take them home when she did.Tiffany had reported to Simone every evening what was going on at the agency. In Simone’s opinion it was so she could see the babies. Robert wasn’t the only model to have been offered a contract overseas. Suzie’s contract was renewed to go to Australia for their fashion week the following year and Trent will be joining her. Kimberley was given a contract to go to China, while Lewis will be heading to the Milan fashion week in Italy.The Next Fashion Designer was coming to a close and Lively Design Studio’s made the final with Giovanni Boutiques and Le Boutique. “Leslie and Barry are going to look after Jake and the twins while we head to the fashion show tonight for
Tiffany walks through the door of the birthing suite. Seeing the little bundle in Emmett’s arms, she walks over to him. “There’s my little goddaughter” she coos, taking her from Emmett.“Hmm-hmm” Simone sounds, clearing her throat for Tiffany to look at her. She glances up and sees the second baby attached to Simone’s breast. Her mouth gapes open as she glances between the two babies.“Twins? When the fuck were you going to tell us?” Tiffany whisper shouts at Simone. “And why didn’t you tell me you were in labour and heading to the hospital?”“I couldn’t tell you about this one because I didn’t know. This little man decided he wanted to stay hidden. The amnio results were taken from Isabella’s fluid sac since his was behind hers” Simone whisper shouts her explanation back to Tiffany, who starts smiling and cooing at Isabella. “As for being in labour; I didn’t get a chance to tell you. I called Emmett to let him know my waters broke and before I knew it; he was carrying me to the car.”
Emmett raced to the hospital with Simone protesting beside him to slow down. ‘I knew it wasn’t Braxton Hicks this time’ Emmett fumes in his mind. “Slow down, Emmett” she says again, pulling him out of his thoughts.He looks over to her and beams a smile in her direction; “we are going to meet our little girl” he says as another contraction hits Simone and she screams out in pain. “We are almost there” he whispers in a hushed tone.He pulls up out of the emergency department. Linda is waiting out the front with a wheel chair for them to arrive. “You called Linda?” he asks as she nods and tries to breathe through another contraction.“How far apart are the contractions?” Linda asks Emmett.He gives her a blank stare; “I was a bit preoccupied, trying to get her to the hospital; I forgot to time them. If I was to guess, they are 2-3 minutes apart” he tells her.“And her waters broke while she was on the phone to me. Let’s get her up and see how far along she is” Linda states as Emmett pus
Sitting at her desk; Simone started fidgeting as she glanced at the doorway, hoping Cheryl, Vince, Tiffany, Jonathon and Matilda would walk through. “Calm down” Emmett states, running his hands through his hair as he sat on the sofa. “You decided to let Cheryl and Tiffany go to the runway show and be pleasantly surprised at the clothes tomorrow night.” They decided not to tell Emmett the real reason behind not going to the production warehouse for the final and gave him the excuse she wanted to be pleasantly surprised. It was a good thing too, since the day at the hotel with Alexandro; she had been getting Braxton Hicks contractions every couple of days.“I know” Simone murmurs, walking out from behind her desk and taking a seat next to Emmett on the sofa. “I’m nervous because I’m not there to stop Alexandro for doing or saying anything to Jonny.”“He wouldn’t be game with Vince or Tiff there” Emmett chuckles, putting his arms around her and pecking the side of her head. Emmett pulls
Over the next few weeks; to Simone’s surprise, Alexandro stayed away from her when she went to the warehouse for the production. Holly and Quintin confirmed he hadn’t been asking questions about her or her relationship with Emmett anymore. ‘Maybe he has finally gotten the hint’ she says to herself.Emmett had made an effort to get to know Albert for the time he was in Rocky Valley and both decided to keep in touch. “I’m glad you and Al could become friends” Simone says to Emmett in the bedroom as she steps into her green maternity dress to get ready to head over to the production warehouse. “He really is a great guy.”“Ehh” Emmett voices with a shrug of his shoulders, causing Simone to giggle at his attempt to downplay his friendship with an old school colleague. “Are you and Vince taking Jonny in today?”“Yes” Simone replies, putting her watch on her wrist and looking at the time. “He should be heading up any…” she didn’t get to finish her sentence when they heard the knock on the do
Albert had left the room to head down to the lobby. He had mentioned to Adam before walking out the door to make sure the ladies were safe; one thing he was certain of, Alexandro wasn’t to be trusted with them. He had a feeling Simone’s comment to the hotel receptionist; Emmett would be notified of their whereabouts and would be there soon. He wanted to explain his involvement before it got out of hand.He barely made it out of the elevator before Emmett ran through the front door; stopping dead and folding his arms in front of him with a smirk on his face. “Why am I not surprised; he had you kidnap my wife” Emmett spits at the man in front of him.Albert’s eyes widen with Emmett’s statement before composing himself again. Leona only told him Emmett wasn’t her brother; he didn’t know any other details. “What kidnapping?” Albert states; glaring back at Emmett as two more men walk through the doorway to stand behind him. “They came freely and Leona gave you a message she was ok on the s
Caitlyn and Simone were shocked they were ushered into a waiting vehicle out the back of the supermarket. Because of this, Simone was inwardly cursing herself for leaving Sandy and Cheryl without giving them an explanation on what was happening. She was even more annoyed both of them had left their handbags in the trolleys so she couldn’t message Emmett what was going on and tell him she was ok; ‘hopefully he will see the camera footage and know they were fine’ she tells herself.“We should have bought our bags with us” Caitlyn giggles, trying to lighten the mood with a joke. She too was annoyed she didn’t think it would be more than two minutes to go out the back to talk. Seeing Simone wasn’t amused by her comment; Caitlyn turns her attention to the men in the front seat. “Al; we understand he can’t leave and everything. Why is it important for him to see us?”The chestnut brown-haired man driving, looked at the two women behind him in the rearview mirror. He didn’t say anything exce