Taking a deep breath Glenda opened the door, A teenage girl dressed in a scarlet hoody gasped as Glenda opened the door. Glenda eyes widended as she realised who had pressed her buzzer. for a few moments Glenda just stood their staring at the girl in amazment and shock. The girl smiled "Hello Mum".
...Lies and excuses...
...Chapter Two...
Glenda stood their astounded, The last person in the world she aspected to see was stood in front of her,
"Nat...Nat... Natasha," Glenda said struggling to get her words out "What are you doing here"
"I have come to see you" The girl said struggling to smile, dreeding being turned away, dreeding the rejection she had so often felt from both her parents.
"Well, I was just on my way out" Glenda said her voice was still shaking from her altercation with Ronnie earlier, Glenda eyes fixed on the rucksack Natasha was carrying on her back.
Natasha stepped forward and pushed her away by Glenda into the entrance of the flat.
"Natasha, I was just umm... leaving to go on Holiday" Glenda said as her daughter stood with her back to her flat door, staring at her mother.
"Holiday, well I don't mind if we go away, I haven't been anywhere in ages" Natasha said suggestively looking at Glenda.
"The ticket is just for one person" Glenda said shrugging her shoulders, speaking in a hushed voice, so that Ronnie wouldn't hear, from inside her flat.
Natasha sighed, "Well can I at least get a drink and use the toilet, I have come along way to see you"
Glenda took a deep breath, stood face to face with the girl and unlocked the door to her flat, "Well you'll have to be quick"
Natasha gleared into her mothers cold eyes, and then turned around stepped inside, and began to climb the stairs.
Glenda pulled her suit case inside, shut the door behind her, and began to follow Natasha up the stairs.
"So how did you know where to find me" Glenda calmly asked.
Natasha paused for a second, releasing, Glenda wasn't best pleased to see her. "Danny texts me sometimes, he said you staying in walford, at the pub across the road, they told me you were over here"
"Oh, you are in touch with Daniel" Glenda said suprised.
"Yeah well, he is my brother" Natasha seemed to stare at her mother, trying to analyse every reaction and gesture Glenda was making, and this really unnerved Glenda.
"You two, you never actually got along so well, I am suprised thats all" Glenda said awkwardly "The bathroom is through their.
Natasha walked in the bathroom, closed the door, and started to use the toilet, "So you forgot, to send me your new address" Natasha shouted to her mother.
"Didn't I put it in you christmas card, I meant to" Glenda shouted back, trying to think of an excuse why she hadn't contacted her daughter in such a long time.
"No just the card and a twenty pound note" Natasha shouted back while flushing the chain, she knew her Mother lying about the address, she opened the bathroom door so she could talk to her mother while she washed her hands, "So Danny told me, you had met up with your first kids, from when you were married"
"Yes I did, but things have gone a bit pair shaped so... "Glenda said, the mention of Ronnie and Roxy, brought tears to Glenda's eyes and she did her best to hide her feelings.
Natasha walked out of the bathroom, "So you running away, Natasha said pointing down at her mothers suitcase, "Its ussually kids that run away from home not grown ups"
"I am going on Holiday, now if your ready, I have to go" Glenda said in a cold and firm voice. trying to take control of the situration.
"Drink, please Mum" Natasha smiled slyly, as se started to realise something was very wrong with her mother.
Glenda walked into the kitchen "You'll have to have a glass of water, thats all I have, as I have said I am about to go on holiday"
As Glenda poured some water into a glass, and handed it to Natasha, Natasha bent down and opened the fridge door, "Your fridge is pretty full, to say your going away" Natasha said grabbing a curtain of apple juice out of the fridge and pouring the water down the sink and filling her glass with the juice.
Natasha suddenly noticed Glenda's bruised cheek, "What have done to your face, your not involved with Jed again are you"
"No, no it was an accident, Glenda said putting her hand up to her cheek, look Natasha, what are you doing here"
"I had a row with Dads bitch of a girlfriend, she told me to go back to my mother, so here I am"
Glenda looked at Natasha, "Well I am sure your father, will have something to say about that"
"I don't want to go back, she and dad have a new baby and all it does is cry all the time, so if your going away, I'll just have to stay here alone"
Glenda guessed that Natasha was most likley jealous of her new sibling "I will give your father a ring, and sort things out"
Natasha rolled her eyed and sat down on the sofa.
Roxy had spent a few nights with Ronnie after she had fallen out with Glenda over Phil and the money,
"She said she was leaving Rox, so I suppose you will have the flat to yourself" Ronnie said cuddleing James.
"She has walked away, just like that" Roxy said feeling sad and mad at the same time.
"Its for the best sweetie, I know its hard, but it was always going to happen, you know what she is like" Ronnie said trying to convince her sister that their mothers sudden departure was for the bast.
I'll move back up their tomorrow" Roxy said wiping a tear from her eye.
Natasha sat on the sofa in the living rorm, listening to her mother on the landing, argue with her father over the telephone.
"I know you have had her for all these years, but I am in no posistion to take her at the moment" Glenda said in a hushed voice.
Parents ussually fight over who gets the kid, Natasha thought to her self.
"Well when a new baby comes along, its very unsettling" Glenda continued over the phone. "Michael she would have to change school and everything if she stayed here"
Natasha kept her emotions deep inside as Glenda entered the room,
"Well it seems, you will be staying here for the time being" Glenda said raising her eyebrows, "At least until you dad and his slut have calmed down"
"I'll be ok, if you want to still go away" Natasha said.
"Your fourteen, I don't think so" Glenda said sitting beside her daughter. "You had better take a shawer, its getting late"
Glenda listened as she heard the shawer starting to run, she stared down at her suit case, she could still go, she could leave and forget about her children, each and everyone of them, she had done it before, she looked back towards the bathroom, picked up her case and carried it into her bedroom and started to unpack, Natasha needed her, even if the others didn't.