Author's note: And I'm back, hopefully, sorry for not updating! I just have been busy due to school. Apparently my teachers think its an amazing idea to give a test or a quiz each week so I have been way busy. But hopefully I can update more often. Anyways, hopefully this update will make up for it! this chapter starts off in 1968 but skips over to 1970.
Disclaimer: I do not own The Brady Bunch or anything that is associated with it.
Mike Brady stood in front of the door in shock.
"Well aren't you going to let me in?" he said slyly.
"You better leave now Richard" Mike said, his voice dangerously low.
"And who's going to make me?" he said "I want my daughter back Michael" he said.
And just as he said that Laura came down the stairs with the rest of the kids.
"Uncle Mike who was at the door?" she asked.
"Laura, kids go back upstairs" he said.
Laura saw her father and looked shocked.
"Dad?" she whispered.
"Laura, you're coming with me" he said.
"No I'm not" she said as she backed away. Then she and the rest of the kids headed upstairs.
Once upstairs the kids all headed into the boy's bedroom.
"I can't believe he's here" she said shakily.
"Has he ever abused you before?" Greg asked her.
She just stayed quiet until he asked her again.
"Yes" she said quietly but loud enough for all of them to hear.
"How?" he and the other's chroused.
"He would occasionally hit my mother and I and he called me things said I was worthless and was a mistake, why do you think I have so low self esteem and stay quiet here all the time? I'm afraid your dad will hit me too" she admitted.
"Don't be ridiculous, he would never hit you or any of us" he said
"Yeah, I guess you're right, he doesn't strike me of that type, you see there was another kid before me, my parents are in their fifties and well, they had this other kid they named Victoria and she died somehow, I don't know how or when or how she was but I just know that much" She said. "Which is why I think he calls me a mistake, but Victoria died long before I was born, I guess he's just angry at the world it seems"
"Probably, I don't see why a man in his right mind would abuse his kid" Greg said.
"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination" she said simply.
"It does"
Then they heard yelling downstairs and even some things crashing.
"Think we should go check?" she asked
"No" THey all chorused.
"I can see why your mother is divorcing him, no offense" Jan said.
"None taken, I always loved mom more then him, don't tell anyone I said that though" she said
They all nodded.
Then, a few minutes later Richard left and she never saw him again
Flash forward
Two years later (1970)
Laura nervously walked over to the boy's room entrance and knocked on the door. A lot had changed since those two years, the adoption was finalized of course and Mike and Carol now had full custody over her. And they got married also.
Then finally Greg answered the door.
"What is it laura?" he asked.
"I need five dollars" she said simply.
"Why? and don't you have your own money?" he said
"I spent it all going shopping with friends"
He rolled his eyes.
"You girls and shopping, fine, but first tell me what you need it for" he said.
"I want a guitar and I know mom and dad will say no so I thought I'd go buy it anyways" she said.
"A guitar for what?"
"Playing, duh" she said.
He sighed as he took out five dollars and handed it to her.
"Fine, but if you get in trouble, I know nothing" he said
"Thanks!" she said then she left and went down stairs and left the house.
Once she got to the guitar shop she purchased her guitar and went back to the house.
But, when she got in Carol was sadly in the living room
"What on earth is that?" she asked.
She shrugged "A friend gave it to me, to keep" she said covering the fact that Greg gave her the money to buy it.
"What is it?"
"A guitar" she said, Carol has obviously never listened to rock and roll before she thought to herself.
"Why do you have it?" she asked.
"Because I want to learn to play it." she said.
She sighed "Okay, I'll talk it over with your father, just get on upstairs" she said.
When she got to her room she grabbed the guitar and plucked some strings.
"What's that?" Cindy asked.
"A guitar," she repeated for at least the fifth time that day.
"Wow!" she said "Can I play it?" she asked eagerly.
"Sure, I guess" she said.
Then she gently handed it over to Cindy and she plucked some strings to.
"Where did you get the guitar?" Marcia asked as she and Jan walked into the room.
"A friend gave it to me" she lied again.
"Cool, can I play it?" Marcia asked.
"Sure. Cindy can you hand it over to Marcia?" Cindy nodded and handed it over.
Then Marcia played it and the girls left and Greg and the boys walked into the room.
"So that's the guitar you got huh?" Greg asked.
She nodded.
"Thanks again Greg" she whispered in his ear.
"Your welcome, its our secret okay?"
"Okay" she said.
A few weeks later
She was sitting on her best friends bed, she had been grounded for getting written up for misbehaving but had snuck out anyway.
"Okay girls, let's tell secrets" Her best friend Megan said eagerly.
The girls all nodded.
"Wait, Megan what time is it?" she asked nervously.
"Eleven thirty why?"
"Crap! I gotta go!" she said as she dashed out the door.
Author's note: Oh uh! another cliffy! How will Mike and Carol react? And if they don't figure it out how will the others react? And can they keep a secret? I promise I will update by Monday at least if I have time!