Ronnie and Robbie were about to leave as Whitney walked into the caf followed by Fatboy and Leon.
- 'Oi i thought you was gonna call me this morning about going into town?'Whitney said.
- Hey babygirl what's happening today, brought your fit sister for a meal, i can work you up an appetite darlin''Fatboy said trying to charm his ways with the girls.
- "You keep on dreaming "darling" and don't let me ever catch you talking like this to my "babygirl"yeah! Ronnie said then she looked at Whitney and said: "She couldn't call you sweetie, that part is my fault, Robbie has housearrest cause of bunking off school so she's not allowed to use her phone this weekend'.
- 'Oh' Whitney said giving Robbie a look that she felt sorry that Robbie got caught yesterday.
- 'I'll see you monday then alright'Robbie said giving Whitney the face that she wasn't gonna tell on her friend who bunked off with her.
- 'Gonna miss you this weekend on the square then babygirl' Fatboy said giving Robbie a tap on the shoulder ' if you wanna do lunch sister, i'll be waiting'
- 'Keep your hopes up Arthur' Ronnie said escorting Robbie out.
Ronnie and Robbie crossed the street and walked back into The Vic.
- 'Well that was a long breakfast for someone who has housearrest' Roxy said walking over to the side of the bar.
- 'Well we had some talking to do'Ronnie said'why don't you go upstairs baby' she guided Robbie to the door.
- 'You could look after Amy then, you need to make her lunch in about a half hour' Roxy said giving her orders out while cleaning the top of the bar.
- 'Do i look like your skivvy Rox' Robbie said.
- 'Ehm the day you were born you became my skivvy darling, and it's never gonna end' Roxy said laughing at Robbie.
- 'Ehm excuse me but she's got homework to do, i'll feed Amy for ya' Ronnie said.
- 'Right after that she can take care of Amy then'Roxy said walking back over to the main side of the bar.
- 'You're such a cow…'Robbie shouted at Roxy while Ronnie put her hand on her mouth and leaded her to the stairs and pushed her upstairs.
- 'What does she think, that lazy cow, i'm gonna..' Robbie kept on shouting.
- "You're gonna" go upstairs to get your homework done and just forget about Roxy allright, you know how she is' Ronnie said as they got upstairs.
Robbie instantly walked over to the bedroom, turned around and said: 'When are we going back to Georgestreet?'
- I don't know yet darling, we stay here for a while ok' Ronnie said as she walked into the bedroom also, putting her handbag down.
- 'Great!' Robbie said looking dissapointed, she sat down on the bed and opened some book.
- 'Allright i'm gonna look at Amy and feed her ok' Ronnie said.
- 'She got you just where she wants, if i don't do it you will' Robbie said.
- 'Roxy has to work and Jack is also busy, i don't mind, now go do your homework and don't you worry about me' Ronnie said, giving Robbie a kiss on the head.
Robbie sighed and put her ipod on while getting her pen and notebook out of her schoolbag.
Ronnie looked at her while standing in the bedroom opening and then walked over to Roxy and Amy's room.
Downstairs Glenda walked into The Vic and sat down next to Billy on a barstool.
- 'Hi Billy' Glenda said.
- 'Hi Glenda, so you're staying for a while now?' Billy said taking a zip of his beer.
- 'Yes mum are you gonna stick around for a while?'Roxy said putting a gin and tonic down for her mum.
- 'Thanks darling, and i don't know yet, i don't know for how long you'll have me around' Glenda said.
- 'Yeah we'll see'Roxy said rolling her eyes at Billy.
- 'So where's Jay, heard you been doing a good job being a father for him?' Glenda said.
- 'Yeah well you know, he's a teenager, he's a good lad'Billy said.
- 'Speaking of teenagers where's my little one?' Glenda said looking at Roxy.
- 'Mum she's gonna rip you to pieces calling her that everytime and you know where she is, she has housearrest, so Ronnie keeps her upstairs, what do you think that she can have breakfast at the caf and hang around here all day?' Roxy said 'Ronnie doesn't let her go her own way, when she's punished Ronnie does not give in at any time, believe me i know'.
- 'Teenagers ey Billy'Glenda smiled taking a zip at her G&T.
- 'Yeah they're something else'Billy said.
- 'Allright i'll go have a look upstairs then'Glenda said putting her glass down, empty.
- You finished that already mum' Roxy asked.
- 'A drink is to be drunk darling not to leave it wasting on the bar'Glenda said giving Roxy a smile while getting of the barstool. Glenda left upstairs.
- 'She's something that mother of yours'Billy said to Roxy. Roxy cleaned the glass and again rolled her eyes at Billy.
When Glenda came upstairs Ronnie was in the kitchen feeding Amy, she was just about done and got her out of the highchair.
- 'Allright sweetie let's get you changed and put you down for a little nap then ey'Ronnie said giving her little niece a kiss. Amy gave her auntie a big smile.
- 'Well hello darling' Glenda said seeing Amy being carried by Ronnie. Glenda gave her granddaughter a kiss.
- Are you gonna put her down?'Glenda asked.
- "Yes grandma i've had my lunch and now i'm gonna take a little nap cause i'm a bit tired" Ronnie said pretending to be little Amy.
- 'Well sweet dreams darling and grandma will see you later then' Glenda said giving Amy another kiss.
- 'I'm just gonna change her and put her down mum, i'll be back in a few minutes' Ronnie said.
- 'That's fine darling i'll be allright'Glenda said looking into the bedroom where Robbie was doing her homework while listening to her ipod.
- 'Are you alright then darling?'Glenda asked not noticing Robbie had earplugs in.
Robbie didn't respond to her.
- 'You know it's pretty rude not saying anything if someone is speaking to you' Glenda said walking in and giving Robbie a scare as she sat down on the bed.
- 'God you scared the hell out of me!'Robbie said loud, then taking her earplugs off.
- 'Oh i didn't see that, i thought you were just not talking to me' Glenda said.
- 'If that's what you want'Robbie said looking in her book again.
- 'No ofcourse not, so ehm how was breakfast then?' Glenda asked.
Robbie looked up at Glenda.
- 'Breakfast was fine'Robbie said 'look if there's something you want…i'm doing my homework'
- "Oi could you please keep that attitude-tone down, this is not one of your friends you're talking to, do you hear me Robbie!' Ronnie said fierce, who had walked back from putting Amy down, and overheard the way Robbie was talking to Glenda.
- 'Sorry' Robbie said and just looked back in her book again.
- 'Just leave her mum, i want her to focus on her homework for now' Ronnie said still looking fierce at Robbie.
Glenda stood up and left the bedroom.
Robbie looked up at Ronnie and said: 'What?'
Ronnie sighed and bit her lip "You'd better drop that attitude of yours Robbie, i mean it i'm not gonna ask you again!'.
Ronnie closed the door and walked to the kitchen where Glenda was putting the kettle on.
- 'Can i have a cup of tea too mum?'Ronnie said while sitting down at the kitchentable.
- 'Ofcourse you can'Glenda said.
- 'I apoligise for her behaviour' Ronnie said.
- 'I guess it had something to do with last night, she wasn't acting like this before, i mean she helped me out with dinner'.
- 'Yeah' Ronnie said.
- 'Has she said anything to you?' Glenda asked, looking at Ronnie like she wanted to know what she possibly had done wrong.
- 'She said you were talking about the call of nature mothers have and about your pregnancy with her, that it was a good one' Ronnie said.
- 'Yeah well she was a really joyfull pregnancy, i never had morningsickness with her she let me sleep at night and i could do everything untill..' Glenda's eyes lit up talking about the perfect pregnancy a woman could experience.
- 'Mum she..she doesn't understand why you left while she was such a joy to you' Ronnie said.
Glenda stopped and looked at Ronnie.
- 'She doesn't know how hard it was to leave, to leave my beautifull little angels, it was like someone teared my hart out, …your father did that, he ripped me up and threw me out, it wasn't my choice to go….he made me' Glenda eyes filled up with tears.
- 'She knows dad wasn't exactly dad of the year, i mean she experienced that enough growing up with him' Ronnie said.
- 'But she doesn't know he punished me right, he punished me for one mistake, a mistake i made cause he made me so unhappy at that time and some other man made me feel better again, gave me attention, made me feel like a woman again and made me feel special…, one mistake i could never make up again while he wasn't a loyal husband either, some nights he didn't come home till late, i could smell the perfume on his clothes, womens perfume, late night calls, he had "work"meetings constantly…and i made one mistake' Glenda said.
- 'You had an affair…an affair…well i can imagine it could have happened cause i sometimes heard you cry and i noticed dad wasn't around much and he never was really romantic with you, you both never went out to dinner anymore, the tension at breakfast and dinner, you and him just ignoring eachother, i noticed that but i would never had thought you would have an affair, i mean dad yes but you…wow"Ronnies said and stopped for a minute, there was a silence at the table then Ronnie said'well in time i got fed up with dad too, i wanted to leave and i was gonna take Robbie with me, no doubt about that, i was not gonna let her stay with him while we were so far away, i had been raising her practically on my own anyway, thankfully he agreed on that most of the time, but he would not let me take her with me…at first..' Ronnie said
- 'How did you persuade him to let you take her with you?' Glenda asked being all ears with her daughter.
- 'Well ofcourse 'easy' is not in the Mitchellvocabulary so there were fights almost everyday with dad about that, Roxy and me yelling all day at eachother, not because we had real fights we just wanted him to get sick of us, and ofcourse Rox was daddy's little girl so he wasn't really keen on having her leave also, but she really wanted to go, you know Roxy has been born partying'Ronnie said with a little smile.
- "So he got sick of all of you'Glenda said thinking they would have been better of away from Archie.
- 'You could say that, Robbie just started puberty already when she was around 10, it drove dad mad, i think she always took after Roxy with that, dad kept asking me to keep her quiet, ofcourse it was talking to a wall with Robbie, she had always been spoiled with attention from us, and also from dad, she was his youngest and he thought he could still mold her into anything he wanted her to be, how he wanted her to be, he could make her and he could break her, the fact that he only gained rejecting from her made him furious. He could ignore her really well as a punishment cause that worked great, he could not talk to her for about a week long, and as stoburn as she still is she just dared him trying everything to get back his attention, cause when he ignored her it drove her up the wall, it really hurt her.
He occasionally gave her a slap when she mouthed him off, when i was at home i could keep him away from her and otherwise but when we were not there she had it coming'Ronnie said 'One night he got so angry but Roxy got home earlier then normal and caught them in a big argument in the livingroom, Robbie was about to smash that snowball dad had, can you remember that thing, he went so mad he literally grabbed her by her hair while taking the snowball of her and it thankfully fell onto the sofa, he was gonna smack the living daylights out of her, but Roxy came in and saved her from that. Rox was so angry at him that she talked him into to letting her come with us. She told him the older she got it would get even more worse then it already was, that she didn't see no use in letting her stay at dads, it would do nobody good. She also told him that i had always been looking out for her that he didn't have to worry about stuff like that anymore, finally he said yes, he told us to leave and get out of his house, he was fed up with us also.
He told Rox and me then that he got sick of us, that we were just like you and leaving him after all that he had done for us all these years, that we were ungratefull to him.
Roxy being "daddy'sgirl"never believed him getting sick of us but believed that you left us, that we really were a hassle for you, she really believed that'.
I think he had more trouble with Rox leaving. And i think deep in his heart he knew that we stayed at home for the sake of Robbie i mean i was like 28/29 maybe and Rox around 23 i think, we left just before Robbie's 11 birthday, he couldn't care less if he wasn't there to celibrate so, he was done with us, so we left for Ibiza and gave her the best birthday ever'.
Glenda just sat there feeling more and more guilty about having the affair.
- 'I'm so sorry Ronnie…if i didn't make that one mistake then maybe…' Glenda said still with the tears in her eyes.
- 'We're beyond maybe mum, we can't turn back time, it happened and well, it was obvious he blamed her now and then for the fact that you left and leave him with a little baby, now i know it was because of the affair, because of that he threw you out…'Ronnie sighed 'And it's what he always told her when he was angry with her, that it was her fault you left, that you had some sort of postnatal depression, that you couldn't handle us anymore'.
Then when he arrived here at Walford he turned it all around, wanted to become close to her, he just did it to get in the good book with auntie Peg, to show her his so called love for his 3 "princesses" he called us once, what a pathetic man.
But unfortunately Robbie wouldn't have it, all the attention, he overloaded her with gifts but instead of turning to dad she turned away more and she got scared of him. She was afraid dad was gonna come take her back to Weymouth where he lived then, it was then that she asked me to adopt her so he would have no rights anymore and she could stay with me she wanted me to be her mum, make it official "to make it official what we always have been" exactly her words when she asked me' Ronnie said starring at her cup.
- 'And he agreed on that right away?' Glenda asked surprised.
- 'No ofcourse not, thanks to aunty Peggy he agreed it was for the best she stayed with me, i mean no offense mum but she has always been my child and i've always been her mum' Ronnie said' Auntie Peggy threatened that she wasn't gonna marry him if he would not sign the papers, give his rights away, i'm always gonna be thankfull to her for that, i mean she ended up in misery, she ended up with nothing'.
Ronnie turned around hearing a door open, it was Robbie coming out of the bedroom.
- 'Are you done with your homework?' Ronnie asked, in a minute she felt so much love for her babysister, her baby, how big her mouth was and how bad her attitude could be, what they had gone through with Archie always made her feel sorry for Robbie, she wished she would have been brought up in a home filled with much more love, with her mum there but that wasn't the case, she could instantly forget how bad Robbie's behaviour had been just before. Talking about Archie always made her so much more protective of Robbie, she would let nobody ever hurt her baby again.
Robbie looked at both women, both with watery eyes.
- 'Yeah, ehm what's going on in here, are you alright?'Robbie asked both.
- 'Yes sweetie we're ok'Ronnie said grabbing Robbie, putting her arms around her waist and made her sit on her lab.
- 'So what were you talking about then, i mean you don't think i would believe it if you told me that you both got something in your eyes' Robbie said taking a cookie from the plate on the table.
- 'We were talking about your schoolwork which is dreadfull'Ronnie said starting to smile again.
- 'My schoolwork, yeah right, i got good grades on my last report and you know it' Robbie said standing up and walking to the fridge.
- 'Ehm, aren't we forgeting something babe?'Ronnie asked Robbie.
- 'What?'she asked getting some juice out of the fridge then looking at Ronnie with a question on her face. Ronnie only had to look serious at Robbie and knotting towards Glenda.
- Oh, look ehm i'm sorry about earlier, i didn't mean to act like that to you, i've got a bit of an attitude problem sometimes and...'Robbie said.
- 'Sometimes?'Ronnie whispered while looking down.
- 'Did you wanna say something too Ron?' Robbie said smart.
- 'You'd better get me some juice too, and maybe mum would want some?' Ronnie said.
- "Yes please, and how about those grades, i wanna hear all about your schoolwork' Glenda said.