Though the first four parts are short, the last one is much longer. I don't own any of the characters used, except for a few names here and there.
Also, an edit I just put through: Peri's mother, it seems, does have a canon name that I only just came across, so I threw that in here as well, to make everything accurate.
I: Colin Brown
Her father's name is Colin; her mother's, Janine. Her mother, however, never left her.
Peri grew up never knowing her father, only seeing pictures, only hearing stories. She never understood why he'd left. Janine always told her daughter that she forgave him for his choices, and that she would always love him, even after he'd left her with their two-year old daughter to take care of.
For the rest of her life, Peri never understood why.