Post by Lane Kent on Jun 12, 2005 13:04:53 GMT
I cannot stress enough as you read the following parts, that you may think you have all the answers but you don't. Please don't pass judgement until at least parts 13-14 when the final twist in the tale will be unveiled.
LOVE AND DECEIT - When Mike Met Penny
PART VII
Written Friday, 13 May 2005
Mike’s mind was in turmoil. Whenever he had tried to talk to Penny about their long-lost daughter she just clammed up. When he asked her about the adoption agency she had used, she had replied that she didn’t remember. She hadn’t sorted the adoption details out, her parents had dealt with it all and they were long dead now so there was no way of finding out. Mike couldn’t believe this, he knew the laws had changed over the years making it easier for adoptee's to find out about their birth parents and for birth parents to find out more and besides Penny’s parents would of left some info behind surely?
Mike became more certain as time went on that Penny was hiding something from him especially as the weeks went by and the Private Detective had all but given up Mike was now even trying other Private Detectives but they were turning up nothing also. It really did appear 'Mike’s daughter' had vanished off the face of the earth.
Meanwhile Penny felt sure she was safe from Mike ever finding out the truth. She thought he had bought her lies of ignorance and now whenever he brought it up she would burst into tears saying the subject was too painful for her to think about. She had never had children with Preston and she claimed it hurt just too much to think about how she had lost her only child. “Couldn’t he be just contented with Mark and Adam?” She would plead with Mike.
While Penny contented herself with her lies, she also knew something else. For you see Penny knew there were no legal records linking the baby back to her and unless someone blabbed, no one would ever be able to trace her daughter. Penny had even managed to pay off Ray Sykes and even if he came back for more he did not know the full details. Oh yes he might know who Penny’s daughter was as did a handful of other individuals. However one thing that Ray did not know and neither did anyone else, besides Penny, who the father of her daughter really was!
June 1975, George Harris pulled up outside the family home with Penny in the passenger seat clasping hold of her baby.
GEORGE: Come on get out
PENNY: I don’t understand Dad, why suddenly we are not giving her up for adoption. You said yourself a baby would ruin my life.
GEORGE: Shut up and get inside.
As Penny stepped inside the house she was both startled and nervous to see her mother Gladys, sister Eve and brother-in-law Ray standing there waiting for her.
PENNY: (pointing to Ray and Eve) What are they doing here?
RAY: So this is the little brat then?
PENNY: She’s called Mary.
EVE: Oh let me look.
Penny reluctantly handed the baby over to Eve.
PENNY: Mum, Dad what’s going on? And Mum you never came to see me in the hospital once. Don’t you want to see your granddaughter?
GLADYS: There’s plenty of time for that.
GEORGE: Look Penny, your mother and I aren’t totally heartless but it is difficult for us to accept the situation.
GLADYS: You have done a terrible thing Penny,
PENNY: What, it isn’t that terrible. I had sex before marriage, everyone does it these days but now I’m paying the price…
GEORGE: Penny please let your mother finish
GLADYS: … you have messed up your life and I just can’t believe it would all turn out this way. I had such high hopes for you. However you are my daughter and I love you and I can’t turn my back on you or my granddaughter.
PENNY: I’m not keeping her. She’s going to a new home we agreed and I will be able to still do all those things you wanted for me.
GEORGE: The first part is true, she is going to a new home, as to you sorting out your life well that remains to be seen.
PENNY: I’m getting confused now, you just said she isn’t being adopted but she gets a new home? I don’t understand?
GEORGE: Why bother with adoption agencies and have her disappear from our lives forever. After all this is the 1970s. One time we wouldn’t have had an option however now. Besides she is our flesh and blood and we cannot turn our backs on her.
PENNY: What are you suggesting Dad?
RAY: Isn’t it obvious
PENNY: No it isn’t.
Eve was cradling the baby in her arms quietly, before finally speaking. “You are a young girl Penny, you still have a chance to go and see the world and live your dreams. However me, I’m married and after my miscarriage, they don’t know if I can have anymore children.”
PENNY: No, No way. That brute caused you to have a miscarriage. If he can do that to a grown woman what could he do to a tiny defenceless baby?
GLADYS: It’s the best solution Penny. None of the neighbours know about the baby, you haven’t registered her yet. Ray and Eve are rarely here, it will be so easy to pass the baby off as theirs. You get a life, they get a baby who they can go and register as their own. No one will ever know.
PENNY: I will! No way I won’t let you do this. I’ll keep her. I’ve already picked her name, Mary.
EVE: Where on earth did you get that from?
PENNY: My boyfriend. I’ll take her and go back to London and marry him. He wanted me too. I swear I will. You aren’t having her give her back!
GEORGE: (holding Penny back) I’m afraid not Penny, we have decided and that is that.
George gestured to Eve and Ray to leave which they promptly did leaving a weeping Penny behind them. Penny stormed off to her room, her feelings all over the place. It had all seemed so simple when it was a case of handing the baby over to strangers at an adoption agency. Out of sight, out of mind. Penny would be able to bury her feelings and get on with the rest of her life and eventually have more children.
Penny had convinced herself the baby would be happy and all would end well. However this turn of events, Penny never expected and all her pent up emotions came tumbling out as she realised she would have to watch her daughter grow up without ever letting on. Grow up calling that villain Ray Sykes “Dad”!
It was just too much to bear for Penny. The "real father" did not deserve this he could have brought the child up himself, her baby did not deserve this and neither did Penny!
TO BE CONTINUED!
LOVE AND DECEIT - When Mike Met Penny
PART VII
Written Friday, 13 May 2005
Mike’s mind was in turmoil. Whenever he had tried to talk to Penny about their long-lost daughter she just clammed up. When he asked her about the adoption agency she had used, she had replied that she didn’t remember. She hadn’t sorted the adoption details out, her parents had dealt with it all and they were long dead now so there was no way of finding out. Mike couldn’t believe this, he knew the laws had changed over the years making it easier for adoptee's to find out about their birth parents and for birth parents to find out more and besides Penny’s parents would of left some info behind surely?
Mike became more certain as time went on that Penny was hiding something from him especially as the weeks went by and the Private Detective had all but given up Mike was now even trying other Private Detectives but they were turning up nothing also. It really did appear 'Mike’s daughter' had vanished off the face of the earth.
Meanwhile Penny felt sure she was safe from Mike ever finding out the truth. She thought he had bought her lies of ignorance and now whenever he brought it up she would burst into tears saying the subject was too painful for her to think about. She had never had children with Preston and she claimed it hurt just too much to think about how she had lost her only child. “Couldn’t he be just contented with Mark and Adam?” She would plead with Mike.
While Penny contented herself with her lies, she also knew something else. For you see Penny knew there were no legal records linking the baby back to her and unless someone blabbed, no one would ever be able to trace her daughter. Penny had even managed to pay off Ray Sykes and even if he came back for more he did not know the full details. Oh yes he might know who Penny’s daughter was as did a handful of other individuals. However one thing that Ray did not know and neither did anyone else, besides Penny, who the father of her daughter really was!
June 1975, George Harris pulled up outside the family home with Penny in the passenger seat clasping hold of her baby.
GEORGE: Come on get out
PENNY: I don’t understand Dad, why suddenly we are not giving her up for adoption. You said yourself a baby would ruin my life.
GEORGE: Shut up and get inside.
As Penny stepped inside the house she was both startled and nervous to see her mother Gladys, sister Eve and brother-in-law Ray standing there waiting for her.
PENNY: (pointing to Ray and Eve) What are they doing here?
RAY: So this is the little brat then?
PENNY: She’s called Mary.
EVE: Oh let me look.
Penny reluctantly handed the baby over to Eve.
PENNY: Mum, Dad what’s going on? And Mum you never came to see me in the hospital once. Don’t you want to see your granddaughter?
GLADYS: There’s plenty of time for that.
GEORGE: Look Penny, your mother and I aren’t totally heartless but it is difficult for us to accept the situation.
GLADYS: You have done a terrible thing Penny,
PENNY: What, it isn’t that terrible. I had sex before marriage, everyone does it these days but now I’m paying the price…
GEORGE: Penny please let your mother finish
GLADYS: … you have messed up your life and I just can’t believe it would all turn out this way. I had such high hopes for you. However you are my daughter and I love you and I can’t turn my back on you or my granddaughter.
PENNY: I’m not keeping her. She’s going to a new home we agreed and I will be able to still do all those things you wanted for me.
GEORGE: The first part is true, she is going to a new home, as to you sorting out your life well that remains to be seen.
PENNY: I’m getting confused now, you just said she isn’t being adopted but she gets a new home? I don’t understand?
GEORGE: Why bother with adoption agencies and have her disappear from our lives forever. After all this is the 1970s. One time we wouldn’t have had an option however now. Besides she is our flesh and blood and we cannot turn our backs on her.
PENNY: What are you suggesting Dad?
RAY: Isn’t it obvious
PENNY: No it isn’t.
Eve was cradling the baby in her arms quietly, before finally speaking. “You are a young girl Penny, you still have a chance to go and see the world and live your dreams. However me, I’m married and after my miscarriage, they don’t know if I can have anymore children.”
PENNY: No, No way. That brute caused you to have a miscarriage. If he can do that to a grown woman what could he do to a tiny defenceless baby?
GLADYS: It’s the best solution Penny. None of the neighbours know about the baby, you haven’t registered her yet. Ray and Eve are rarely here, it will be so easy to pass the baby off as theirs. You get a life, they get a baby who they can go and register as their own. No one will ever know.
PENNY: I will! No way I won’t let you do this. I’ll keep her. I’ve already picked her name, Mary.
EVE: Where on earth did you get that from?
PENNY: My boyfriend. I’ll take her and go back to London and marry him. He wanted me too. I swear I will. You aren’t having her give her back!
GEORGE: (holding Penny back) I’m afraid not Penny, we have decided and that is that.
George gestured to Eve and Ray to leave which they promptly did leaving a weeping Penny behind them. Penny stormed off to her room, her feelings all over the place. It had all seemed so simple when it was a case of handing the baby over to strangers at an adoption agency. Out of sight, out of mind. Penny would be able to bury her feelings and get on with the rest of her life and eventually have more children.
Penny had convinced herself the baby would be happy and all would end well. However this turn of events, Penny never expected and all her pent up emotions came tumbling out as she realised she would have to watch her daughter grow up without ever letting on. Grow up calling that villain Ray Sykes “Dad”!
It was just too much to bear for Penny. The "real father" did not deserve this he could have brought the child up himself, her baby did not deserve this and neither did Penny!
TO BE CONTINUED!
