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"Save it Rox - It's my problem" boldly stated Ronnie as she heaved herself up from the kitchen table "And only god knows why I trusted you - I keep thinking with Amy you know maybe she's changed - but no. Instead you've left my daughter completely in the dark…" Ronnie let out an exhausted sigh as she ended her last words to her sister in no more then a murmur.
"Ronnie, Ron wait" Roxy flew out of her seat and followed her sisters tracks into the Vics hallway, lowering her tone to a bare whisper she proceeded "I don't really know her though Ron, you never really fixed us up on that aunty - niece bonding course, I couldn't just say - hey by the way Dan, your mother left because she found out she -".
"- No but Rox you could've, and you could of helped her instead of letting her do all this" Ronnie looked Roxy up and down, pure resentment burned throughout her. Roxy could feel herself at the brink of shedding a tear, she knew what she should've done but all the times she had to tell Danielle she had held herself back - not wanting to face the reality herself.
Ronnie abruptly turned to face the room in which she had left her daughter moments previous, her eyes however narrowed in angst as she slowly registered a difference in surroundings. "Roxy -" whispered Ronnie, "I know for a fact I didn't leave the door open -".
Racing full speed just to keep up with her fear stricken sister Roxy defiantly released her feelings "Ronnie she's nineteen! - She's probably only went out to get some fresh air, Aunty Pegs going to have kittens when she finds out I've just left the bar -" Roxy knew how she sounded like a child whining to its parent but as she hoisted Amy into a more comfortable position she angrily came to a stop outside the mini mart. Roxy could see Ronnie was urgently trying to find Danielle as fast as she could, and the desperation in her sisters eyes as she turned around only ignited Roxy to continue "Ron - she's lasted this long hasn't she? She's a big girl yea? Now come on back to the Vic".
"Roxy! She's drunk, pregnant, and only nineteen! How many other reasons do I need to track her down-" Ronnie now found herself overwhelmed by worry, she had to find Danielle she knew she had to, her eyes began to well up as she calmly uttered her next few words indignantly "She's my daughter Rox, my beautiful baby Amy - Now I am going to find her with or without you if needs must."
"Well you obviously don't need me then - don't ask me for help again Ronnie -" Roxy stood dead still muttering as much as she could without shedding the dramatic emotion she was indeed harbouring inside. She couldn't believe her own sister was being like this, subconsciously she found herself shaking her head in utter disbelief, slightly creasing the side of her lips into a pity like smile . "I'm sorry you feel like this…" And with that Ronnie watched on as her sisters head came to a fix and her and her daughter began to walk back to the Vic looking totally defeated.
Ronnie started to look around frantically, there were only two stalls up today and Stacey's was one of them and if Danielle wasn't with Stacey she knew she would've made her way back to the flat, hopefully she would've anyway.
As Ronnie paced quickly towards her flat she fished out her mobile frantically as it began to vibrate, desperately hoping it was Danielle "Yes, Hello?" Ronnie quickly answered in an overly up beat manner, "Oh Stacey - wait - how do you have this number?" Ronnie immediately let out a heavy disappointed sigh when she had realised the callers voice was not her daughters.
"Does that really matter Ronnie? - I think it could have been from when you hired me at R and R, during Christmas, I duno- anyway look - I just saw you walking past the stall and now Dan's just walked past completely ignoring me - daft cow she is - and she had bags of her stuff in her hand -" Stacey sounded rushed, particularly panicked over the phone and it was as if there was something else bad that could arise because of this development, and this just purely added to Ronnie's motherly worry.
"Well Stacey! You could of at least diverted her to your house!" retaliated Ronnie as she glumly sat down on a wall facing Lucas's old food stall placing her head in her free hand.
" I am working your majesty, we cant all own swanky night clubs can we?" Retorted Stacey cockily, "Anyway I can't just control what she does or where she goes, I know you don't have a lot of friends here Ronn-".
"Do you have any idea where she might've gone Stace - Telford maybe? Where does the Chris guy live?" Ronnie's voice had now come to the brink of shrieking as the frustration within her began to rise, "I need to find her Stacey ok? Even if it's just to save my grandchild-"
"She's gotten herself pregnant, again!? With Chris?" Stacey couldn't help but snort in laughter, her best friend Danielle ladies and gentlemen, the girl who always appeared so calm, collected and responsible. Now she was the better one Stacey thought.
"Oh well look I've got to go, tell Danielle - if you see her - to at least turn her phone on, make sure she knows people care about her Stacey-" Ronnie slurred, as she tried her best to hang up quickly and place herself back into reality.
Back at Ronnie's flat Danielle had just about finished packing the contents of her last remaining possessions she had acquired in her time in Walford and she now had begun to dial Chris's number "Hey Chris, It's Danielle - look I dunno when you'll get this message but when you do ring me - I'm on my way to yours now okay bye". Danielle knew Chris would be at work or out somewhere lighting up if he wasn't here, and she was willing to wait on his doorstep just to escape everything to do with Ronnie Mitchell. It had all started reasonably well between them, and Danielle could clearly say in her inebriated brain with no doubts at all she had done all she could to work things out with her mother. But Ronnie - what could possibly so bad she just upt and left Danielle soon found herself standing regretting all the things she could have asked Jack weeks previous, all the things she could've asked moments previous even, to Ronnie herself - but she hadn't. Maybe I am partly to blame - maybe I pushed everyone away, I know I even haven't seen that much of Slaters - Stacey even, Danielle then back tracked and supposed she had indeed gotten herself so far under a false, disillusioned state, whereby she became consumed by the idea of being Ronnie Mitchells daughter - a daughter that belonged somewhere, she had totally forgotten her old self. That and the fact Chris, a man, actually wanted her for her. Feeling this sudden sense of doubt within her mind Danielle quickly wrote down her thoughts on the fridges post its pad and left it for Ronnie to find - hopefully that would ease her mothers mind, if she was in fact worried Danielle argued to herself.
Outside as Danielle made her way to Chris's it was just beginning to spit with rain and the clouds over head looked treacherous, people on the paths began to put up hoods and umbrellas as they too noted the weather. But Danielle soon realised she had nothing. She had nothing to protect her and her baby from the rain and the storm ahead. A small crease of the lips formed upon Danielle's face as she drunkenly realised the irony of it all, without Ronnie - her mother - she literally had nothing, her father Andy could offer her a home yes, but not support. Danielle let out a hugely tired sigh as the rain pelted down getting heavier by each passing second, her bag too was becoming heavier and she had only made it to the station. Just as she was beginning to lose complete faith in god and albeit just plain life she quickly recognized a distant figure whom was fast approaching her.
"Chris, I'm so glad you're here!" Danielle dived around Chris dropping her bags as a result.
"What is it babe - you really wont like my gaff by the way- I came to say why cant we go back to yours?" Replied Chris through the wave sounding gushes of rain.
"We can't Ronnie, my mother - the woman who kicked you out we had an argument Chris! It was awful and look I don't want to go back tonight - lets just go back to yours? Just for tonight?" Danielle looked into Chris's eyes pleadingly, "Plus I have news to tell you about…"
"Yea? What is it babe? Chris looked Danielle expectantly, his eyes appeared normal and he didn't smell particularly smokey but there was something not quite right about his state, "Well" Danielle began to say over the pelting gushes crashing down on them. "I dunno how to say this and well it was a shock to me as well - but I'm pregnant Chris" Danielle immediately hushed herself as she awaited Chris's response to the matter.
His eyes darted down to her stomach and lay there for what seemed an eternity, until finally her whispered "I have to um you know go off - think a bit, I'm sorry Dan I really am" Chris immediately turned away not making the slightest bit of effort in eye contact.
As he began to walk away Danielle's heart dropped, he cant just leave me as well she began to fret. "Chris - WAIT!" Danielle raced full pelt towards the man who in less then two minutes had shattered her world entirely, she tried desperately to turn him around but he simply kept walking. Why won't he stop, he has to stop. Danielle began pounding into his back repeatedly much like the rain was doing to her, she yelled and yelled for him to look at her. "Dan let go - just please, let me think I need time" Chris had come to a stop but still had not turned to face her and instead tried his best to shrug her off, Danielle tugged at his arm reluctant to accept this unfair dismissal "I cant let you go Chris, I won't let you go, please, please stay - just look at me, just look at our baby -" Chris suddenly turned and took an all mighty swipe at Danielle's face causing the totally oblivious teen to be thrown crashingly back onto a white vans tyre. A piercing shriek filled the street and the rains sound paused whilst Chris looked on, totally frightened at what he had just done, he looked down at his fist covered in blood and began to yell violently "Dan I told you! I told you - to just to let me go! I needed time, and you didn't listen, What the hell did you expect!" and with that Chris again, unexpectedly lashed out and started kicking to the side of Danielle's head , continuously denting the framework of the van.
Ronnie turned the last of many roads she had looked on in order to find Danielle and get her home safe and dry, but still yet to no avail had she any clue as to where she might be. Ronnie's hair was soaked through and her mascara was leaking down her cheeks partially because of the rain and a little do with the tears she had been crying at the same time .She was just about to give up and call it quits when, through the rain, she heard a sudden distant shriek from behind a white pick up truck parked opposite Walford's train station.