Happy Valley -Andrew –Part 6

Happy Valley -Andrew –Part 6
Angie and Jesse’s new home
‘Frankie is William here?’ asks Angie
‘No he’s gone off with Tad, Mike, and Jenny to the fireworks. I know you wanted him for dinner but he wanted so bad to go off with Mike and Tad we didn’t have the heart to say No “explains Frankie ’Tad’s probably stuffing him with pizza, pogos, chips and soda as we speak’
‘Good your Dad and I have something we want to talk to you and Randi about’ Angie says
‘If it’s about the fact that Frankie didn’t tell any of us about William .....’Begins Randi defending Frankie
‘No it’s something that we have to talk about though in private’ says Jesse
‘This sounds very serious did something happen to Natalia and Brot again? Are they okay?’ asks Randi worried
‘Come sit down so we can talk you two’ says Angie trying to appear not worried
‘What is it Ma what’s up?’ asks Frankie sitting down with Randi
‘I had a visitor today at my office’ says Jesse ‘Someone I knew from the past a long time ago .’
‘That must have been nice seeing old friends! Randi says then seeing Jesse’s face she says “Wasn’t it.’
‘It was and it wasn’t she told me a very sad story that happened to her. It seems that my friend had a child a beautiful daughter with a man. She was a travelling singer a sultry singer of blues and sad soul ballads. She was good too so good that a lot of people thought she should have a record contract.’
‘Wow that’s pretty good my Mom was that good too. She sang ballads and the blues.’ Randi says remembering
‘Well my friend trusted this man and he offered her what she had truly wanted a way to be discovered by a record company. She was grateful and she fell in love with this man. They had a child together but he was always travelling as was she .They had a long term relationship as he kept promising that the record company was this close to signing her.’
‘Oh the oldest story in the book. He had a wife.’ Says Randi
‘Yes he was married but she didn’t find out until the child was five and then she broke it off with him.’ Jesse says
‘That was a strong woman!’Randi comments
‘Yes she supported her young daughter playing in clubs at night and getting friends to babysit well she sang!’Jesse says ’however one day when the child was seven she found out she had breast cancer. She grew gaunt and her hair fell out from the radiation. She was sure she was going to die the doctors gave her six months. But she fought hard and she was feeling like she was winning the battle. The treatments and the disease took a toll on her however so she contacted him. The child would need her father if she was wrong and she should die. Besides she needed some financial help.’
‘How odd she had cancer like my mom when I was seven’ Says Randi
‘Yes!’ says Jesse and then continuing he says ‘The man came and he offered to take the child for the night. She was weak and needed the rest so she agreed. She awoke the next morning and he hadn’t come back. She was sure he would arrive at any moment but he didn’t come .She called all the numbers she had for him with no answer. She was sure that it was just an error he would come back but she filed a missing person case by sunset. He however lived in another city. He lived in Pine Valley. He took his little girl there and surrendered her to the child authorities saying she had been abandoned. My friend had no idea he had done this she lived in California not Pennsylvania and he had said he lived in Miami Florida that’s where she had always seen him. She went out of my mind a little! Her little girl was missing. She found him,her little girl’s Daddy and begged him to help her to tell her where he had taken her child. He laughed at her and told her that his wife hadn’t wanted that child in their house and that he had given her to the Children’s Aid in Pine Valley like a sack of potatoes. She went to the authorities but by this time two weeks had passed. They had told her little girl that she was dead. They said she had abandoned the child she had no discernable income and was not getting her daughter back. They had transferred the child and wouldn’t tell her where she was.
She went back to the little girls’ father begging pleading him to tell her where they had taken her daughter to help her....’
‘Oh how awful Jesse the poor lady. Did she get her little girl back?’ asks Randi
‘No she didn’t and something worse happened to her. She had a pistol when she went back she pulled it from her purse and held it to him so he would tell her where her child was.’
‘He wouldn’t tell her? What kind of man steals a woman’s child and then won’t give her any information where she is. Did he know where the child was? ’Asks Randi
‘He knew but he wouldn’t tell her. He laughed at her instead he said he wasn’t even sure she was his and besides what good was she with no breasts! Besides she was a walking corpse he was doing the child a favor. She lost it. She took that gun and held it at him but chickened out and put it away. She said find her little girl now call them and make them give her back! He laughed at her again and said she’d be better off without her that she was easy! That she was going to die anyway! She told him that she was expecting to hear that she would soon to be cancer free! He said it didn’t matter she’d never find her. His wife Iris had seen to it she’d helped him with his problem! She pulled out the gun again and they fought over the gun as she begged for information of where her child was ! It went off and killed him dead! The police came and she went to jail! The lawyer was paid by the state and gave no defence she got 20 years! She got out of jail a month ago and picking up a magazine and she saw her daughter! She saw my daughter alive well and here in Happy Valley!’Jesse says
‘Wow that’s a terrible story but now that you know where she is did you help them reunite?’ asks Randi
‘Randi....’ begins Frankie figuring out what Jesse meant
‘Randi that little girl was you. My old friend Yvonne your mother is alive!’Jesse says
As we see Randi look shocked
Fadeout