Broken and bruised - Season 1 - Episode 24

4 years ago

Broken and bruised - Season 1 - Episode 24

Melanie sits covering herself and trembling while shading tears, she has not said a word ever since the news was broken to them but rather everything comes back like it just happened this morning, she could here voices in her Head, voices of mockery and many many telling her she deserves it, that she’s cheap and called this on herself, she could still feel his touches in every core of her skin……she tries covering her ears so she won’t continue to hear them but that’s when she’s brought back to herself with a sounding slap, she sits still and looks up to see Ron so furious and enraged
“I’m sorry…..I’m so sorry” she says amid sobs

“Melanie how could you…. how could you be so heartless and choose to break my heart like this”

“I’m sorry”
“Who is the the bastard you have been sleeping with, tell me now before I do more to you”
“Please Ronald sit down and let me explain”
“You have no right to demand that from me Melanie…… you pretended to be an obedient girl and even made me believe you were different from others when in reality you’re worse”

“That’s not true”
“What’s not true huh?….. here you’re pregnant yet I have never touched you ……who do you think you’re?…. Mary the mother of Jesus?….. I should have seen and realised you’re nothing but a cheap prostitute, you made me introduce you to my family, declare to the whole world you’re the woman I want to spend the rest of my life with when all you wanted was to ruin me and indeed you have ruined me completely”
“I have never cheated on you Ronald, never and my God is my witness”
“No no no….don’t bring God into this Melanie….. don’t annoy me more by bringing God into this……you have been acting so strangely and I thought you were just showing me the other side of you that I didn’t know, then you started sleeping out side home”
“That only happened once and I tried to explain but you stopped me in the middle”
“Don’t use that as an excuse Melanie….. you were lying to me that day and it was obvious, I couldn’t let you continue with the lies as if I’m some fool but this is the last stroll, this is the limit” the shouting match continues with both of them talking amid tears, they have no idea they are not now the only ones in the room when Mrs Pope descends on Melanie with the poor girl’s second slap

“You s--t, how could you bring shame to this family we have worked so much to build, we took you in and accepted you even when some of us saw right through your façade in the first day, I knew you were not the right person for my son but I respected his choice” she’s ready to strike her again but Ofelia holds her arms

“I won’t let you touch my daughter again…. I’m not justifying Melanie but it would be the right thing to do if we let her explain what really happened”
“Look at this shameless woman, your daughter here who knew she wasn’t good enough for my son pretended to be an angel to get her way into this family and now that her true self is revealed you still have the guts to tell us we should let her explain….. truly an Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree”

“That’s enough” the minister comes in
“Let’s not all be carried away by this……miss Ofelia is right, it would be good to hear her side of the story, Melanie doesn’t strike me in a way a loose woman would”
“I can’t believe you’re on this pretentious woman’s side Dad” patience adds but Perry shuts her up, Perry has been providing counselling services to troubled people aside from running her Charity organization, she has dealt with so many similar cases and she thinks all of them are not handling Melanie in the proper way, she walks over to her brother who is crying more this time, she for the first time can see Melanie is unwell both physically and psychologically, she could see her tremble in fear, she turns to the rest of the people in the room

“I will have to ask all of you to excuse us, I need to talk to her alone” Ron doesn’t want to saying he needs to hear all the lies Mel is going to come up with but Perry says that’s the only way they can get to solve this
“Melanie is not alright and if she’s not handled properly, she’s going to lose her Brain or even take her own life……. they all agree to leave with their mother and Perry hauling insults at Mel on their way out, minister has to tell them the discussion should not cross the corridors………..