The Story of Dean and Ziggy

Chapter 16:

"What are you doing here?" Dean asked, taken back at seeing Ziggy for the first time in over a month.

Ziggy threw her hands up in the air.

"I've been an idiot, Dean. Believe it or not, I've really missed you," she told him.

Dean still didn't approach her.

"Is that it? Or is the baby okay?"

"Dean, everything's fine. The doctor said our baby is doing great. We have a strong one. I genuinely only came back for you. I want to get things back on track with us. I had enough time away to realise how important our relationship is," Ziggy smiled.

"It shouldn't have you taken you four weeks to figure that out," Dean stormed off.

"Dean, what's wrong?" Ziggy called after him.

"Maybe try again later," Ryder suggested.

"He could barely look at me. I must have really hurt him," Ziggy admitted.

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Colby was typing up a document on his computer at work.

"What the hell is wrong with women?" Dean burst out in frustration in the middle of the police station.

"Thorn," Sergeant McCarthy warned Colby about his friend.

"Dean, what are you doing?" Colby hissed as he tugged on Dean's jumper.

"Zig is back," he told him.

"Well isn't that a good thing?" Colby wondered.

"How can she think she can just waltz back into my life and expect everything to go back to how it was before? She was gone for ages and I was left here, with no clue what she was doing or if she was ever going to come back," Dean snapped.

"Dean, Ziggy was a mess when she found out what I did to Ross. She is a pregnant twenty one year old girl who is confused. I'm surprised that she didn't do worse than take off for a few weeks," Colby confessed.

"I just don't get why she came back. She said that she missed me, but I can't help but think that there is something more to the story. You don't know anything about it, do you?" Dean wondered.

"No, of course not," Colby answered.

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Ziggy was sitting on the counter at 'Ben's Boards'.

"Ziggy, you're back!" Maggie exclaimed as she and Ben walked in to the building.

"Good observation, mum," Ziggy hopped off the counter.

"What are you doing here? We got the impression that you were going to be away for a while," Ben chimed in.

"Why does everyone want to know the answer to that question? Can't a girl just come back without being interrogated?" Ziggy cried out.

Ben and Maggie stared at their daughter.

"Sorry, pregnancy hormones. I get irritated easily," Ziggy mumbled as she picked up her gelato.

"I wish you would have let us been there for you more, sweetheart," Maggie rubbed Ziggy's shoulders.

"I needed some time away from Summer Bay. Everything that I thought I knew about my friends was a lie and I was struggling to be around them," Ziggy revealed.

"What did Dean have to say about you being back?" Ben asked.

"At first I thought he was happy about it, but after a few minutes, he seemed like he just had enough and couldn't get out of there faster," Ziggy pouted.