My Daughter
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- What a way you look good! Where are you going?
- Hey! old woman
- You look lovely
- I’m going out to the beach shortly
- An album just remembering some old times
- What do you have there?
- An album just remembering some old times.
- I have something to say to you, Grandma.
- Without a doubt, what's wrong?
- I need to come clean with a few things
- Go ahead nuh!
- I don’t want to do medicine
- U crazy, i was thinking you like it
- Pretend! Be yourself
- We are happy, especially your mother.
- This is going to break her heart grandma
- We're happy, especially your mother.
- This is going to break her heart grandma
- No it’s not but Melissa...you have to learn to be honest with yourself first before you can be honest with anyone
- Well then it shouldn’t matter what your mother thinks, what I think, what anyone else thinks...as long as that is what you think and that’s the truth
- I never did...I was only pretending because I knew how much it meant to you and Mummy
- I am sorry I already know that you both have been going through so much and I never wanted to add to it.
- You’re gonna need the chemistry child, eh eh speaking about chemistry. How are you and Mr Chemistry??
- Just be careful, men know how to get their ways with us women.
- Well that’s good...just make sure you’re being careful.
- Well I am being honest with myself....
- It is...and I am sure. I could do pharmacy.
- Laughs…. Grandma ! U mean Mr. Milkman ? Laughs again, We’re pretty good just taking things a bit slow enuh
- I will. And this week has been best of all...we discovered we loved each other, I met his aunt and his sister this week and they really like me and we’ve just taken our relationship to a completely different level.
- We both are in the science field so we are taking all the necessary precautions.
- Just be careful and don’t go unprotected like I did, you hear?
- Yes grandma, he’s taking me out for an after exam celebration dinner...just a quiet evening for the two of us.
- Very good dear.
- Oh Melissa...of course you can...as long as one day you plan to introduce him to Janet
- I will Grandma, this is just for today.
- Ok dear heart I would be delighted to do this for you...more than you know.
- Great, Wow she’s beautiful...was that you when you were younger Grandma?
- No that was your mother, Janet.
- Mommy? You mean she wasn’t born like that.....
- No.....no
- What happened?
- I don’t want this to sound bad but I don’t think I am ready to introduce him to Mommy yet. I just can’t bring myself to terms with her face yet. I know it’s bad and one day I am sure I will be able to but for today can I introduce you to Keith as my mother.
- Well you see...well...thinking about it now......
- There was a fire...almost thirty years ago
- Janet !! You chat too much mek the past stay ina the past !
- And what you just agreed to do, we spoke about that too...There was a fire Melissa...
- A accident chro…
- Janet stop nuh !
- Molly a true she a talk? You have me here thinking you were my grand mother and nobody nuh seh Janet
- Yes my child...you are my daughter...
- You neva want me ? You nearly mek me dead! Thank God fimi Mada, wait, mi sista!
- Half sister yuh mean!
- Janet continues:...a house not too far from here...where a man and woman lived with his two daughters. The eldest of the two was just about to graduate from UWI and on her way to do medicine and the younger was just a little baby, a little over a year old.
- Vera Lu Chen a who invite yuh? Every time you come ova yah you come stir up trouble!
- Let us cut our losses and move on. Donald and Molly Parkin left their year and a half old daughter Melissa to burn at Lime Crescent lane. It was her poor sister Janet who couldn’t bear the thought of watching her little sister burn who bore the sacrifice to go back for her...in the blazing inferno
- Janet continues: Everyone ran out to save themselves but the man and woman forgot that they had a little baby girl named Melissa sleeping in a crib. When I said “Janet continues:...Mama Melissa is still inside” her response was she was sorry and it’s too late now.I then said “Papa please she will burn to death up there” He said if we go back we will all die...
- Which man ya talk bout Vera?!
- I am the man ! Here you go my love.
- The lamp fell to the ground and caught the curtain...within seconds the entire house was aflame.
- Parkin walked away that night and never looked back and Molly so Janet took Melissa as her own and raised her all these years...now she’s a woman ready to give her heart to the man she loves and doesn’t want the love of her life to see her mother because she’s ashamed of the appearance of her face. That is quite fine Melissa but just know that I wear this face because I decided that your life was just as important as mine.
- Janet Cont: In trying to save herself, she tries to go through the front door but the door swings back and smashes into the In trying to save herself, she tries to go through the front door but the door swings back and smashes into the side of her face. leaving her with a mark that she will have to carry for the rest of her life. Both parents were so ashamed that they could not love the child. Donald Parkin, the disgraced mother of a daughter she left to burn and another she watched lose half of her face, blinded herself to her daughters for decades...
- My love ? My darling ? A wah gwan yaso…..
- That fire that was so hot it made her vision blurry, but she trudged and toiled to get through the fire to save her baby sister. She gets to her sister’s room which is pretty much engulfed in flames and the baby, left unattended is crying. She grabs her sister and just managed to lever her down outside a window unto the grass. I
- I know your sister made the sacrifice of her life to save you but believe it or not you are my beloved…. Donald didn’t want me to go through with it...but I insisted...
- (Enter Vera)
- Mi not even know wah fi seh! I cannot believe you are my mother and you are my sister
- You nuh watch that, the right man will soon come deliver the news?
- (Donanld enters) Vera continues: ....but as Christian, I must say it. The truth must come out…it will set you free.
- Thank you my darling. I say this now Molly knowing that we may never speak in this life again...
- (Keith enters)
- Melissa did you know that Parkins isn’t your real name its Lu Chen.
- What ? I'm so confused!
- Vera shut yuh mout! And Donald, you having an affair ? Memba, we are still married !
- You are a wicked woman Molly! How could I stay around you? I left a long time ago.
- STOP !! Mommy If you did tell the truth from morning and did not have an affair none of this wouldn’t happen.
- And nothing is wrong with that but legally he’s still my man!
- ....
- Vera, you have finally ruined my life ehe ! I Don't even feel good.
- .I love him still but I fell for Cecil Lu Chen when my ambition was in its prime and one thing led to another and...Melissa was our gift...I am sorry Mellissa, Janet and Donald I love you all……..
- knock knock
- Speaking about love, Mellissia with all this drama thats going on let me make it positive. Will you marry me ?
- Speaking about love, Mellissia with all this drama thats going on let me make it positive. Will you marry me ?
- Yes !! It should have been Melissa Lu Chen...I have the birth certificate for myself to prove it.
- You had a whole child Molly! Leave us let us prosper nuh!
- Cecil said (takes out the will to read it)...the house on 12 tumeric way is for my daughter. Now you ruin my life Molly because I don’t have a daughter and Cecil was married to me. So now I put the puzzle together with the help of Donald because he wanted answers too. All those late night business meetings you and Cecil were having were actually private rendezvous where you had this “affair”.
- No you ruin it yourself...I knew the child didn’t look like Janet but is when I went and looked at the will the other day to try and probate it for this house to be sold.
- I love you too mommy, but why?
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