Ronnie had just turned down yet another advance from Jack Branning, her business partner

Ronnie had just turned down yet another advance from Jack Branning, her business partner. Never mix business with pleasure, right? Luckily Roxy turned up just in time to persuade her giving up this club wasn't a good idea. Even if she said nothing, Ronnie knew her personality so her opinion was easy enough to predict – make him jealous. They walked away to go and get a couple of curries courtesy of Jase. Jack followed them out and watched her walk before he shut up the club and went back to his flat. Ronnie and Roxy sat on Arthur's bench in the dark with just the overhead street light and odd lights around the square lighting the entire place up. Ronnie looked around. "Do you prefer this to Ibiza? I like this part. The night." Roxy smirked. "You're a vampire." Ronnie laughed and ate a bit more of her curry. They didn't realise there were two people watching them, simply because they didn't expect it.

"Mind if we join you?" A voice came out of the dark and was hard to trace to any point. Roxy looked terrified but a woman and a teenage girl came into the light. "Sorry. I'm Rachel, this is Ruby." She held the thirteen year old girl's shoulders protectively and Ronnie moved over to let them sit down. The two other girls both had blonde hair. The little girl stayed silent but the woman spoke. "I'm Ronnie. This is Roxy. You new around here?" Rachel nodded. Ruby stared at the floor ahead of her quietly. Roxy looked at her confusedly.

"You live in the vic, right?" Rachel asked. Ronnie nodded. Roxy stayed out of the coversation and continued eating. What kinda freaks hung around in the dark then asked to sit next to you on a bench and knew where you lived? "Do you think we could go somewhere to talk? Not the vic. It's important, I don't really want to tell you here." Ronnie looked at her strangely. "It's not bad. At least, I hope you don't see it as bad but we need to talk." Ronnie nodded while Roxy looked at them confusedly. "I own the club around the corner. We can talk there. Look – what's this all about?" Rachel shook her head. "Wait until we're in the light." Ronnie unlocked the door nervously and switched on the lights. It wasn't till the lights were on that they actually saw each other's faces properly without the shadows. The young girl took down her hood and pulled nervously on her hip length blonde hair.

"I, er. I don't know how to say this. Just hear the entire story before you freak." Ronnie nodded, gesturing to the circle of seats that they all sat around. "This involves us all, yeah?" Ronnie and Roxy nodded and Ruby chewed on her sleeve. "Like I said, hear this all first. Thirty four years ago, Archie – your dad. He went out drinking and he had a one night stand. The woman ended up pregnant and Archie pretended to stand by her after she refused to abort it about fifty times even though he tried to force her into it. " Ronnie and Roxy gave each other funny looks. They knew a lot more about stuff like that than they thought. "He waited until she had the baby, and he snatched it. He took it away and put it up for adoption somehow. He was already with another woman by now – Glenda. She was your mum, obviously. She went on to have you, Ronnie and then Roxy a couple of years later."

"So, what, you're telling us we have another sibling?" Rachel nodded and took some papers out of her bag. She pushed them towards Ronnie and Roxy. The adoption papers of Miss Rachel Mitchell. "You?!" Rachel nodded. "Just hear me out. So when you was fourteen, you became pregnant too. You had a little girl. I was fourteen at the time, nearing fifteen. Only, I was three months pregnant too. I didn't tell anyone obviously. Archie turned up out of the blue, told me everything then said that I could have one link to my sisters, just one. I could have your baby. But I had to keep quiet about everything and run away from my foster home. I didn't tell him about my baby, that this was actually a good option for my anyway. I agreed to take her though. I had to. I didn't know what he would do to me or that baby otherwise and I knew if I had her, she'd defiantely come back to you." Ronnie was on tenderhooks, tears falling down her cheek at the mention of her baby girl. "I brought her up on my own, and she wants to come and see you. She didn't want to push you into anything, she doesn't know if you want her or not." Ronnie had tears falling down her cheeks uncontrolably now. "Of course I want her. Please, can you get her here tonight? Is she okay? Oh my god…" She was overwhelmed. Rachel took her phone out and put it on loudspeaker as she rung it. Ronnie stared at the phone with wide eyes and Roxy held her hand under the table. The phone crackled and a voice answered.

"Hi Auntie Rach."

"Hi baby. I told you I'd call."

"So she does want me?"

Ronnie burst into even more tears, sobbing and choking. "What's that?" the girl asked. "It's your mum, baby." The girl laughed lightly. "Am I on loudspeaker?" Rachel told her she was and the girl sounded very excited. "Mum…" Ronnie choked on her tears. "I never thought I'd hear you call me that." The girl laughed. "So you do actually want to see me?" Ronnie cheered up a lot more but there were still a lot of tears coming down her cheeks. "Of couse I do, if you want to see me." The girl started singing lightly down the phone and sounded as if she was dancing around. "I'll be there in abouuuttt ten minutes?" Roxy hugged her sister tightly and Ronnie was shaking with nerves and excitement. "Hey, calm down." Rachel said her goodbyes to Ronnie's daughter and she hung up.

Jack, meanwhile, was looked out of his window towards the vic when he noticed R&R's lights were on. He locked up and remembered switching the lights off, so he assumed it must have been robbed. He dressed hurriedly and ran over where he bumped into a young girl who was just about to go in. "Oi." The girl turned around. "Yeah?" She had the door half open though. If he turned out to be a psycho she could run through. "Why're you going in there?" She shrugged. "Why do you care?" He stopped part way into a 'I care cos this is my club' rant and looked at her with his head on the side. "You look like…"

"Is that you Jack?" Ronnie called out. "Oh typical, more wishful thinking on her part…" Roxy laughed to Rachel. They had gotten to know each other in those few short minutes and were already joking together while Ronnie waited nervously for her daughter's arrival. "Is he her fella?" Roxy nodded. "Not!" Ronnie shouted. "Well, they had a bit of a fight because he tried to seduce her in her own club but they're totally in love with each other really." Ronnie nodded and kept a serious face as she said it until her and Rachel burst out laughing.

"Yeah, it's me. What's going on?" He shouted through once he had stopped looking at the girl like that. Her little girl took her chances and wandered on through. "Rihanna!" Rihanna ran towards Ronnie and Ronnie lifted her into a tight hug as Jack watched in confusion before closing the door. "Anyone mind telling me what's going on?" Roxy waved a hand at him to shut him up. "Shush. Just go and have a drink or something." She didn't want him to spoil the perfect moment. Ronnie was crying again and so was Rihanna. "You thought I didn't want to see you…" Ronnie said without breaking the hug. "Yeah, I thought after all these years you'd move on or whatever…" The girl shrugged, not breaking the hug. Ronnie broke it eventually and took off her locket and opened it to show her her baby picture. "The only picture I had of you."

"She's wore that for years. Ever since she lost you." Rihanna smiled, wiping her tears away. "I'm sorry," Rihanna said simply. "What for?" Ronnie said. "It's my fault." Ronnie pulled her into another hug. "You okay Rubes?" Rihanna asked the young girl. "Yeah, I was just scared for you." Ruby had brightened up a lot since Rihanna had said she was on her way because Ronnie wanted her. "I told you two, didn't I?" Rihanna and Ruby rolled their eyes. Roxy interrupted. "Look, they can even do the Ronnie look!" Ronnie laughed at her. "I do not do that!" Roxy smirked. "Yes you do!" Ronnie shook her head. "No, I don't!" Jack drank a shot of vodka and sat on the other side of the bar. "Yes, you do!" They all laughed at Ronnie glared at Jack, blushing. "Earth to Ronnie! Children in the room!" Ronnie snapped her head around to her sister. "Oh god, I knew I should have sent you back to Jase."

Jack blushed too, and drank another shot. "Can someone tell me what's going on now?" he asked impatiently. Roxy stood up. "I suppose introductions are in order. Rachel, Ruby and Rihanna, this is Jack. She bent down to Rihanna and whispered loudly, "He's your mums' eye candy." Ronnie smacked her annoyed, but blushing furiously. "Mum's?" Ronnie turned to face him. "This is Rihanna, my daughter." She took her hand. "And who are you?" Rihanna asked, tilting her head to the side. She said it with a hint of sarcasm and humour and Jack could see the resemblense straight away. "Why didn't I guess? I'm Jack Branning. Co-own this place with your mum even if your mum likes to think she owns the place." She looked at him cheekily with a lot of sarcasm. "Which means I don't class a table in a place I partly own as a date. Comprende?" Rihanna stayed staring at Jack who watched slightly open mouthed as Ronnie walked away. "You didn't!?" she aksed with shock and laughter.

"Thanks for putting me in my place Rihanna. Do I get any more introductions?" Rachel laughed. "Nice one Rhi Rhi." Rihanna and Ruby both looked at each other and did a mental little dance, clicking their fingers. "We still got it!" They giggled to each other as Ronnie watched, laughing. Jack smirked and his eyes trailed down the back of Ronnie when he thought no one was watching. "Oi, Branning. Eyes off my little sister!" Jack's eyes tore away from Ronnie over to Rachel. "Whaddya mean?" Rachel and Roxy went into fits of laughter while Ronnie sat down next to them, putting her feet up on a stool from another table. "She's my little sister. Both of them." Roxy laughed. "Oh god, now I have two to boss me about! Maybe you can put Ronnie in her place though!" They all laughed but Ronnie hit Roxy jokingly too. "No late night returns from…" She looked at Rachel. "…Branning Boy's place!" They burst into fits of laughter while Ronnie blushed furiously. "What happened to the children in the room thing?" Ronnie bitterly questioned Roxy.

Rachel moved on. "Anyways… I'm Rachel, as you've heard. Older sister to these two." She gestured to Ronnie and Roxy. "Auntie to her." She gestured to Rihanna. "And mother to her." She pointed at Ruby. "Wow." Over the next hour and a half they explained everything to Jack, chatted about stuff from when they were kids and found out more about each other. It was near one o'clock now and Rihanna and Ruby were yawning. "You feel like sleeping here tonight?" Ronnie asked them all. "We've got nowhere else." They all nodded, Ruby and Rihanna were really excited to stay in a club. "I'll go back to the vic and get sleeping bags." She didn't really want to leave Rihanna but she did, regardless. She sneaked into the vic, grabbed a lot of sleeping bags and quilts and struggled back to R&R without being caught. She dropped them off, went back for more and they layed them out in the VIP area. Jack said he would leave and Ronnie offered to walk back with him. "That okay with you Rihanna?" Rihanna nodded, smiling fondly at her mum before she carried on moving her sleeping bag around. Ronnie left with Jack and walked back. "Why didn't you tell me about her?" Ronnie sighed. "My dad snatched her from me. She's my only weakness. I hid it cos it upsets me too much." Jack nodded. "Night." Ronnie tried to kiss him on the cheek but he moved his head but Ronnie moved hers too and kissed his cheek. "Nice try," she said, smirking before she walked back across the square, Jack smiling after her before her went into his flat."

Ronnie got inside the club again, locked the doors and went through to the VIP area where there was lots of girly chat going on. "Mum!" Rihanna hugged Ronnie and Ronnie wrapped her arms around her. Ronnie held back the tears, looking up to try and get them out of her eyes. Rachel and Roxy smiled at them. The five Rs fell asleep very quickly, despite how much they wanted to stay awake. Today had been an exhausting day. They had tommorow to talk. And they definitely had lots to talk about.