Prologue

The following is back story for the characters of Susan and Rachel Brantford. They are people I have created to interact with existing Young and Restless characters.

In the spring of 1994, Susan Brantford came to Genoa City to visit and reconnect with her old friends, the Abbott family. Shortly, after arriving in town, Susan discovered her old boyfriend, Ryan McNeil, also lived in Genoa City. She and Ryan had a relationship, in the past when both were eighteen and he proposed. Before a marriage could happen and following a miscarriage, the relationship failed and although both went their separate ways, Susan's feelings for Ryan never dissipated.

Susan decided to stay in Genoa City and began to make friends, with others such as Malcolm Winters and Sharon Newman, whom ultimately became her best friend.

Despite warnings from others, like Sharon, Susan became involved romantically, with Matt Clark. She moved in with him and ultimately married him. The marriage lasted only one week before he left town.

Seeking comfort from Ryan on a night when his wife Nina, was out of town, they slept together. The following day, after Ryan rejected her, she made the foolish decision to drink and drive, which resulted in accident with another car. The driver of the other car was Ryan. Shortly, after he recovered, Susan found herself pregnant. It became a paternity issue, with either Matt or Ryan as the potential father. She gave birth to a baby girl, whom she named Miranda and Ryan was eventually revealed to be the father.

Over the years Susan began her career working retail at Fenmore's, and then moving on to Malcolm's photo studio where she became his assistant. She also spent some time working as an office assistant to Michael Baldwin. She had developed feelings for him but they were not returned and an argument ended that job. She then found herself working at Newman Enterprises as a personal assistant to Ryan.

Several years later, Susan's younger sister Rachel, came to Genoa City. Rachel had a penchant for getting into trouble and shortly after coming to Genoa City she met Billy Abbott. Even though she was two years older, Rachel developed a crush on him. Billy initially showed an interest in her, but her stronger feelings unreturned and they conceded to be friends.

Rachel developed great distain for Brittany (mostly because of Brittany's relationship with Billy), which resulted in several spiteful occurrences between the two.

The following chapters pick up, in September 2004, a few years after the sisters left town and Susan's return to Genoa City.