CHAPTER 1 - In The Beginning

Something Else is set in the Australian beach suburb of Coogee NSW in the mid-nineties and revolves around the charismatic Cockney cab driver Lee Stevens. He is wickedly good-looking and notorious for his chat up lines, womanising, penchant for living the fast life of clubs, drugs and alcohol and the beautiful mild-mannered country girl Stacey, who has just moved to Coogee for work.
At first, they seem worlds apart - him with his bunch of backpacker and ex-pat mates, and she with a group of local Aussies with whom they have frequent run-ins.
It is love at first sight. And after a string of unfortunate encounters where Stacey witnesses Lee's violence, aggression and sexual morals - or rather lack of, in a public place, he is determined to get to know her, to put things straight.
Claire is Lee's bitter ex-girlfriend. She cannot get over being dumped and is hell-bent on getting him back - at whatever cost.
Joe is another one pursuing Stacey. He's one of her crowd, aggressive, anti-social and with an unhealthy hatred towards Lee.
When Stacey and Lee meet by chance, they discover amongst many other things that they share an identical taste in music - something they share with no one else.
The story then unwinds with plenty of lust, passion, love, anger, violence and revenge. There is fighting, upsets, a pregnancy, an attempted rape, a stabbing and a wedding that ends in disaster. It's an emotional rollercoaster from the beginning to the unexpected end.