"Just leave the organisation of the party to me", Kelli says, with a big evil smile. Eh? What party? You know - Amanda and Peter's engagement party, which Kel has just bullied them into agreeing to. All they have to do is invite their friends - that'll be a quick job, then - and she'll take care of the rest. Later, in the diner, Amanda and Peter stride in and invite everybody to their house that evening. However, they keep the reason for their party a total secret. That afternoon, as Amanda asks Peter to pass her address book, Ethan's phone number falls out of it. Kelli watches with sick interest as Amanda fumbles and covers whose it is, but Peter fails to clock the weirdness. He moves off, leaving Amanda explaining how relieved she is to her sister. After all, the last thing she wants is Peter thinking she's cheating again. But little does she know that this is all part of Kelli's twisted little game... It's feeding time at the zoo, but for some reason Rachel isn't hungry. This is because her dinner companions, Kit and Kim, are waxing lyrical about home births - and as a doctor they're not exactly Rachel's cup of tea. "If you want my professional opinion then I'd have to say I'm absolutely against it", she honks. After all, at a hospital there are way fewer risks and they won't have to spend four grand on a midwife either. Kim takes in what his wife has to say, but ends up siding with Kit. Rachel is left feeling totally ignored and increasingly frustrated. When they get home, she's annoyed further when Kim starts looking through the paper for another job to supplement saving for Kit's home birth! Obviously, his current job of professional vest-wearer doesn't pay very well. And when Kim comes up with the genius idea of using the honeymoon money to pay for the home birth, Rachel can't believe her ears."Stop putting her irrational needs ahead of our marriage!" she shrieks. "I'm not going to be the one who’s constantly cast aside." Kim has something to say about that, though. "It's not easy for me either Rachel, OK?" he shouts back before storming out. Ooh dear. How did things come to this?

It's party time at the haunted house on the hill - and Amanda's eyes pop out on stalks when she discovers that one of the caterers is none other than Ethan (AKA the guy who fixed her car and tried to get her kit off). Didn't think you'd be seeing him again so soon, did you missy? And that's not the only shock in store. Belle is miserable when she sees that Drew has brought his new girlfriend, Lisa, along. However, Drew spends the whole evening making eyes at Belle from across the room - and Lisa soon gets the hump about it. Once everybody has arrived, Peter announces that he and Amanda are engaged. The responses are less than positive - especially from Belle and Drew, who realise that they're going to be pretty much brother and sister. And as Kelli revels in the fact that her sister is losing the plot over Ethan's presence, Lisa has a go at Drew for perving at Belle. And once they're alone, Belle decides to congratulate Drew on his relationship with Lisa before admitting that she's been giving him mixed messages. She goes on to say how into Lucas she is, and that she's really happy that he's got somebody too. This is the last thing Drew expected - not to mention the last thing he wanted to hear.


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