Chapter 2 – Alice

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1984.

Alice, ever the sensible had fallen in love with a banker at the age of twenty five. His name was Robert Glass; tall, smart, good-looking, fantastic with money and even a dab hand in the kitchen. What else could a woman need in a husband?

They had been dating a good three years before Robert had popped the question last June. They had an autumn wedding in mind as the two believed it was the best season of the year but Robert's mother Agnes disagreed.

"Robert. Autumn is not the season for weddings." She exclaimed raising her arms in the air dramatically. "Spring is the season for a lovely wedding. Especially as after that you'll be in time to grace me with another grandchild before the end of the year. Your sister Michelle managed to do it."

Robert being a complete pushover agreed to his mother's wishes and set a date in March.

"March!" Alice cried, pacing the study like an angry lioness.

"Yes, March has the best weather of the whole year." He lied.

"Oh, you call rain all month the best weather of the year then do you?"

"Well…"

"It was a rhetorical question!" she snapped.

But the arguments continued. Not between fiancés, but between mother and daughter in- law to be.

They finally agreed on a September wedding, much to Agnes' dismay. This meant she wouldn't receive a grandchild before the year was out.

"I would've preferred a Halloween wedding, you know, dressing up instead of doing the whole white wedding thing. But your mother was totally against it." Alice told Robert once they had finally agreed on a date.

"I don't care what day it is. I just want to marry you." He said wrapping his arms around her. They were definitely going to have a great marriage.

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Alice had become a doctor. She was the first doctor in the family for years. She had studied hard and achieved top grades making her mother and father the proudest they had ever been of her.

"Oh, a doctor in the family." Her mother gushed, "That'll come in handy."

"Yes, once Greg's completed his time there he'll be one too." Her father said but with less enthusiasm that should have gone into the sentence. The truth was Greg was looking to be booted out of the medical school he was attending, he was taking shortcuts and he'd only been there for two years.

Alice just smiled and enjoyed the moment around her, she was going to wait a little longer until she announced she was engaged to Robert, but she was sure she'd get positive feedback from her family.

It turned out her father didn't like was the fact that she had fallen in love straight after she had finished studying medicine. This man was a banker. He would end up tying his Alice down and stop her from becoming a fantastic doctor, but the truth was Robert let Alice do what she wanted to do.

The couple finally talked her father round and he allowed them to get married with his blessings.

But Alice was no trouble at all compared to what Erica was to achieve in life.

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