Leaving Greenvale

Things started to tense up further at Mels. I  had asked one of the locals, magic,  Mels friend, standing outside of the pub, to get me some food since they were going to charters towers. When magic asked me why I needed food I explained i have a really big appetite and I can't limit my eating, i just can't function when I diet, neither can I live off peanut butter and the general stores stock can be expensive. It's not like I'm obese either, I just burn it all off. I also said I felt bad I was eating Mels food etc. so all of this got back to Mel, not because of magic but because of her colleagues overhearing at the bar, and perhaps got twisted because she asked if I could not talk to anybody about her.  

Mel decided she could no longer afford to pay me with the rate at which I was eating food.

Matt and Elliott were about to go in a few days and I'd heard they were getting a lift to Townsville so I'd asked them if I could join them but there was no space. Mel also got wind of this. I guess that's the down side to being in a small community. It can be like big brother. I trusted the guys hadn't said a word, one of the locals must have over heard again, not that I was just going to go without saying a word, just that I wasn't sure if Mel would continue to let me stay once she knew I wanted to go and I was just being cautious. Though I had a feeling that's not how Mel had seen it.

 So it was all drama and I had to get away. Mel arranged for me to go to Townsville with shalene, another local that Zoe was nannying for. I loved shae, she was another who helped me with scott. 

The last remaining days with Mel were icy cold, the nights she had drinks with friends I no longer cleaned up the bottles and cans all over the garden and generally stopped making any extra effort at all which Mel had noticed. i was spending most of my time outside of the house and going back just to eat peanut butter or rice. As childish as it may sound I made the lack of effort a conscious decision since I wasn't being paid, I'd spent the money shed given me on food over the 2 and a half weeks and it cost me over $200 just to get there which didn't seem to be appreciated. I'd said goodbye to Scott who didn't seem particularly fussed which i was gutted about and Mel, in her room just responded "bye"

I felt really bad about how things ended with Mel. I know that she is a good person with a big heart and there was probably a lot of things I could have done differently to have eased the drama. 

The journey back involved taking 2 separate cars as one was to be sold in townsville. zoe and i and the dog in the back in one, shalene and the kids In the other. We had radios to communicate with each other in the car too so it was fun to talk to shae. we passed a military base and she told me about that. We also spotted an emu too and Zoe told me all about her travels. She'd been to Africa before Australia and It sounded like she had an amazing time. Before we reached Townsville we sweeped around mountains that made me feel like we were making a journey to South Wales till I saw the view. Along the side of us was an incredible stretch of flat land surrounded by mountains, the landscape looked African. 

Finally we arrived in Townsville.