Valentine
Mary:She was always a catch she was funny she laughed along at all my jokes. She was really fun to be around. That was until everything spilled out! She told me things beyond imagination and belief. At first i thought she was just kidding around, i really did .... but to be honest you never know with her, ... you just gotta keep moving forward and try not to spill out her nasty secrets to another soul.
Courtney: why don't you tell me these strange secrets you heard from her.
Mary: well i can't secrets are secrets!
Courtney: she's dead for goodness sake! Just tell me. It's all confidential and i won't tell a living soul if its the last thing i do. I just want to help. Sometimes sharing things makes you feel better.
Mary: i don't know hmmm ..... do you think i should?
(Courtney nods)
Well... i guess i have wanted to get it off my chest. It all started June, at hot summer day at brighton peer. It was a beautiful day. We went into her little cottage and she the room was bright, you could hear slight music play on record player and it was jazz and there was a lady with a smooth voice singing a beautiful song. She walked up to the record player and lifted up the music thing so that it could stop playing. I sat down.
Valentine: would you like a cuppa?
Mary: it's way to hot for that Valentine dear. Why don't you get me some juice.
Valentine: alright, wait here i'll be round in a few seconds.
(Valentine walks out the room and Mary sits down looking around the room, first at the clock then the all the sea shells and little artifacts and then she looks at the sea through the windows and then sun. Then Valentine comes back in with two glasses of orange juice.)
(Valentine sits down and takes a sip out of her juice and puts it down and starts to speak.)
Valentine: so what brings you here?
Mary: can't a mother come see her baby girl?
Valentine:well yeah?... but you've never been here and as you can see i'm not a baby or a girl anymore i'm a woman.
Mary: Valentine, I've missed you.
Valentine: then why did you leave?
Mary: i don't know dear. Things weren't going well and i needed some time to myself i needed to be able to be a better person. You know i had a drug addiction!
Valentine: I felt though like i couldn't talk to you!
Mary: dear, im sorry, i was stupid! I had you young and i wasn't ready and i had to marry your dad and he wasn't really the best role model but he was your dad and everything got too much so i couldn't take it! I should'ave been a better mum. I should'ave i wish i was there to see you take your first steps to see you dance to see you go to school or cook for you solid foods for the first time. I wish i saw all that, but i was stupid and young and once i realized i was being a burden i left.
Valentine: well, mum... im mean Mary, there is something i'd like to tell you. I aven't told anyone so don't spill. See i don't want him to go to jail.
Mary: what dear! what happened! whats going on!
Valentine: well, when you left! I had to fend for meself! I was my own child. Dad became a drinker and always drank everytime! I was very painfull! He would get really mad and attack me physically and mentally. He would call me names and then slap me and punch me. I cried every night! You always used to say that if i was crying and i looked up at the moon you'de be somewhere also looking at the moon and you'de be able to hear me cry and you'de come and help me! You never did! I CRIED FOR YOU MUM! I SAID "MUM! HELP ME! GET ME OUT OF HERE!" You never came for me. (sobs)
Mary: oh Valentine, I've been the worst person ever! I really have. I know sorry won't make up for it and all the lost time but i am sorry. Maybe if i was there i would have stopped him but i wasn't and im really sorry babe i am. I really am. I'm being dead honest.
Valentine: (wipes tears) it's okay, you were just trying to sort yourself out. It just took longer than expected. It's fine. I just want to go to sleep now. I don't feel well.
Mary: before you go, what happened to your dad?
Valentine: This lady was luckily walking past our house in the middle of the night when i was being attacked by him and i presume she was going to some kind of party and she called the police they showed up kicked the door down and sent me to a care home and put him in jail. While i was there i did jobs and things and saved up the money and i moved to Brighton and bought this stunner of a house.
Mary:okay, and where am i sleeping?
Valentine: oh? there's a guest room to the left and some towels. If you want anything to eat just call up a take away or get some food from the kitchen. Don't eat the cheese. In fact will you throw it away for me?
Mary: sure love, will do. Good night then,
Valentine: goodnight.
(goes to her bedroom turns off the light. its dark,)
TO BE CONTINUED
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