Rebecca: Are you sure? I mean don't you
want to give her to your mum or something?
Pam: My mum is dying of
cancer. She will be dead within a couple of months. So I am gonna
tell Amy and give her this.
Pam felt under her pillow and pulled
out a silver locket.
Pam: It has a picture of her birth mum in it
but she can open it in her own time. Amy dear, come here.
Amy: Yes
mummy.
Pam: I just want you to know that you are a very special
little girl. Somewhere out there you have another mummy and daddy. If
I go to Heaven, I want you to live with her.
She placed the locket
in Amy's little palm.
Pam: Inside there is a picture of your other
mummy. You can look in it whenever you want.
Amy: Alright mummy.
But I don't want to look in it just yet. I love you.
Pam: Love you
too baby.
Just then the nurse came in
Nurse: Visiting time is
up.
Pam started to breathe very heavily and inbetween those
breaths she said " Good-Bye " and the hospitals machine's
steady beeping turned into 1 long beep and Pamela's hand
dropped.
Amy: Mummy?
Nurse: It looks like we have lost her. I'm
sorry but there is nothing we can do.
Rebecca: C'mon Amy. I think
we should go.
Ronnie had just gone out for a walk after
booking herself into a local B&B. Taking in the warm air of
Telford she walked into a park a sat herself down on the bench near
the sandbox. It was empty, just like her heart. All there was was
sand. Then a woman walking along with a small blonde girl
stopped.
Woman: Go on Amy. Why don't you go play in the
sandbox.
Amy just went and sat in the sandbox and the woman went
to sit down next to Ronnie. Ronnie just stared at Amy then started to
talk to the woman.
Ronnie: She yours?
Woman: No, I work with
social services. Her parents and her little brother died of a car
crash and the mother wanted to give her to her birth mum. Amy was
adopted you see? Anyways I have aid enough already.
Ronnie: No.
What is her birth mum's name?
Woman: Emmm, Veronica Mitchell. I
don't suppose you know her?
Ronnie: I am her. I am Veronica
Mitchell.
Woman: Really? Well, can I see some ID please?
Ronnie:
Course.
Ronnie opened her big brown handbag and dug through it
looking for a little folder. She found it and inside it was her
driving lisence and her passport. She handed it to the woman.
Ronnie:
There you go.
Woman: Well lady. You just made my job a whole lot
easier.
Ronnie: And, she's my daughter.
Woman: She's your
daughter. Amy come over here please.
Amy: Yes.
Woman: Y'know
how mummy said you had another mummy.
Amy: Yeah.
Woman: Well
this is your other mummy.
Ronnie: Hi, Amy.
Amy: Hello.
Woman:
You don't mind coming down to our office do you?
Ronnie: Of course
not.
The social worker led Ronnie and Amy to the car and drove
them to her office.
Woman: So we will have to discuss housing,
court dates all of that but first. Do you want custody over the
child. Are you ready to look after Amy.
Ronnie: Yes, yes I
am.
Woman: And where are you living?
Ronnie: Well, I have a
flat in London but I think I will be moving down to Walford, with my
Auntie.
Woman: And do you have a job to support Amy?
Ronnie:
Well my auntie owns a pub down in Walford so I was planning on
working there.
Woman: Well Miss Mitchell, you are in a very fit
state to look after little Amy so the adoption should be processed
within a week or two. Until then Amy will be staying in care but you
can take her out on day trips and stuff, but no
funny-business.
Ronnie: Thank-you Miss?
Woman: Just call me
Kate.
Ronnie: Alright Kate. You can call me Ronnie.