Sally Fletcher Tribute
2000
Sally's year started off with her celebrating a 21st birthday, with surprise guest Lance Smart who was at the time AWOL from the army after a drunken escapade during which he had ran over someone's car with a tank. Using the money she had receieved from her inheritance at 21, she bought Jesse's garage and then rented it out to Ken Smith.
Soon after Vinnie told Sally that she was boring and though things through too much. This deeply hurt Sal and so she went out clubbing one night with Shauna, bringing home some guy named Rex. However, Rex ended up nicking the video recorder and Sally was left chastened by the experience. She then did some more unexpected and put her name down for a trip to Ireland that her Uni were running and left the following day.
About two months later, she returned, now engaged, to Kieran Fletcher. Sharing the same surname, the hotel that they were staying in had thought they were a couple and booked them room together. They fell for each other and were soon engaged. She also found her room at the Old Nash House had been taken by English-backpacker Gilly, so Sally decided to move in with Shauna and Leah at James' old house. With Colleen, the Stewart's and the Nashes deciding to sell the caravan park, Kieran and Sally looked at buying it. Unfortuntaley for them, a family from the city outbid them and their dream engagement present was scuppered.
Kieran soon tried to cheat on Sally with Gypsy behind Sally's back and as the wedding got closer, some of Sally's family continued to return for the wedding, including most of her original foster family. Then at the wedding, just as they couple were about to say "I do", Gypsy stood up and revealed what a lying scumbag Kieran actually was. At first no one believed her, but then Colleen and Hayley stood up to back Gypsy up. Initially Sally felt great hatred towards Gypsy, but soon her family talked her around and she realised that she should indeed be thankful for Gypsy for preventing her from getting into a marriage with someone she could not trust.
Sally then had a condition named OCD spring up after this, and she was constantly washing her hands and skiving off Uni. Her friends became increasingly worried and it was Kieran's best man, Luke Harvey, who returned to help Sally overcome her problems and Sally soon began to fall for him. Around this time Gypsy briefly suspected that Sally was her stalker, in retribution for the wedding disaster, but in the end she wasn't.
When Luke returned to help the victim's of the mudslide disaster he proposed to Sally and she accepted. Sally soon started her teacher training at Summer Bay High. One of her particular lessons, a mummification of a rat was met with disapproval from Donald Fisher. In the end however, she got the vacant teaching position and would join the Summer Bay High staff in 2001. Towards the end of the year, Harry kissed Sally.
