Chapter 4 – Carol Barry

Tom's POV

I had had more than enough of the Barry's stupid judgements but hitting Kacey was low even for Carol.

After dropping Kace of at school, with Michael's permission I went to talk to Carol when she would not have her children to back her up.

I was walking up the drive when I noticed the remains of Kacey's headphones and football; I picked them up to question her about them.

I knocked on the door and when she answered she immediately tried to close the door again.

'I need to talk about Kacey'

She reluctantly invited me in; I was shocked their house was a lot posher than mine but I sat on the sofa and got no offer of a coffee.

'Hurry up I'm busy'

'Look hitting her is not acceptable'

'Look if I need to knock this out of her I might have to go to extreme measures'

'It won't work; she will still feel the same'

'Do you have kids?'

'As a matter of fact I do, and he is gay but you know what trying to fix him never worked so I let him be'

'Some of us have pride and a reputation'

This was ridiculous I couldn't help shouting

'OH AND THAT'S MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOUR DAUGTHER, THE MORE YOU PUSH THE MORE IT WILL DRIVE HER AWAY AND SHE WILL END UP HATING YOU'

'Oh and wat should I tell my husband when he comes out, his daughter is now his son'

'You can tell him not to rob a place armed for one'

She was shaking her head at me, this was going nowhere fast

'Look the most important thing in this is your children, that includes Kacey, if she wants to change, you can't stop her even if you do hate her'

'Until that girl sorts herself out she is not coming back in this house'

'WELL I'M SURE SHE WON'T MIND THAT'

'Wat about these I said holding up the football and headphones'

'She was being a pain so I had to get rid of it someway'

'Well you damaged my property, I gave her this ball'

'Wat are you going to do about it'

She seemed to only care about her stupid criminal husband and their 'name', no wonder Kacey was so afraid to come out she was obviously never shown love like she should have been, I would be scared of saying I felt ill in this family.

She didn't respond and just carried on watching Jeremy Kyle

I got up and walked out slamming the door, I would look after Kace and give her the life she has never had, there was no way she could go back there.