Episode 6 – Christmas
Crackers
– Divine was pushed down the stairs.
– Russell and Judi kissed.
– Leslie slept with son in law to be Gabriel, and later clashed with
Victor over his philandering.
– Strippers Honey and Elektra talked about Sebastian.
– Kayla knew a way of revealing the person behind Nate’s mystery notes,
as Cleo and Leo got acquainted on the dance floor.
Wednesday,25th December
2002
“Happy Christmas” said Camille as she kissed her husband and then
handed him his present.
“Thanks honey” Russell said, his mind flashing back to the
night of his kiss with Judi.
“I want you” Russell said as he leaned forward and kissed Judi
gently on the lips…
“I like it” Russell said pushing away the
wrapping paper as he slipped on his new jacket. He again flashed back to a
recent moment in his life.
“I am sorry Russell, you are married and I can’t have an affair
with a married man” Judi said as she stood in the staff room. She gave him a
gentle kiss on the lips, before turning and leaving the room.
Russell took up a quickly wrapped present from
under the tree and handed it to his wife. He kissed her on the cheek. He
watched as Camille opened her present. This time he started to dream of what
his and Judi’s Christmas would be like if they were married.
“Oh it is lovely, you really have spent too much on me” Judi said,
opening another present from Russell.
“You deserve it. You are beautiful, intelligent and sexy. Happy
Christmas”
“Oh, it is beautiful” Camille said looking at
Russell’s present. It was an expensive gold necklace. “Christmas is nearly
perfect now”
“Not perfect? What is wrong?”
“Well, it is just I didn’t plan on having Cleo
here over Christmas, and well I don’t want her to get in the way of us
celebrating Christmas”
“Thanks a lot aunt Camille. I’ll go then shall
I” Cleo said from behind. She quickly ran out the door.
“Wait” Russell shouted after her, starting to
run towards her. But the lift doors had closed by the time he reached them. He
turned and ran towards the stairs, but Cleo was gone by the time her managed to
get down the three flights of stairs.
“I love you Russell” Judi said holding a wine glass.
“I love you too”
***
“What are you doing here?” Alex
asked looking at his fiancé, as he lay in his hospital bed.
“I thought I would come and say happy Christmas”
Jenna said leaning towards Alex and kissing him on the
cheek.
“Scared of kissing me on the lips? It is all
right you won’t hurt me”
”I am…”
“What is it?”
“Oh Alex”
“What? Tell me” Alex said watching as Jenna brushed
back a strand of her long, blonde hair. He suddenly saw shiny hair, nearly
identical to Jenna’s, as he flashed back to the day he tried to commit suicide.
He saw a drink of something, a glass falling to the ground. Then it all went
white.
“I am sorry, but I can’t hold on to this any
longer. I am finishing with you. It is over” Jenna said getting up. “You can’t
expect me to come running every time you feel down and try to kill yourself. I
thought you loved me, but you don’t”
“What? No, please no. Not on Christmas Day”
“I’m sorry for ruining your Christmas”
“You were there weren’t you?” suddenly changing
to use a new tactic so he and Jenna could stay together.
“What?”
“You and Grant
tired to kill me, tried to make it look like suicide”
“No, that is not true”
“I remember”
“Alex, you are tired, please rest. Take your
pills, just calm down. It is over”
“Why Jenna, why?”
***
“Leo,
what are you doing here?”
“I couldn’t face it at home. My mom and dad were
fighting and I overheard them say that they were getting a divorce” Leo said
taking a seat beside Cleo.
She was sitting on a bench, in the middle of the park.
“Oh right”
“And you?”
“I heard my aunt say that she didn’t want me. Maybe
it would be better if we didn’t listen in so much”
“I suppose it would” Leo laughed.
***
“So, are you going to visit your darling in the
hospital?”
“What?”
“Well maybe not your darling. Your slut Sophia, or whatever her name is” Leslie said finishing off another glass.
“I am not in the mood for this”
“Who says you have to be in the mood for
anything? It is Christmas” Leslie said laughing to herself.
“Look at you, drunk already and it is not even
halfway through the day. You are a wreck, a drunken wreck”
“Maybe I should tell my children what you have
been up to. Chardonnay and Nate
deserve to know that their father hasn’t enough time for them,
but only wants his little whore”
“You will not ruin their lives by telling lies
Leslie. Over my dead body”
“Oh, well I do look great in little black
dresses and I would love to play the grieving widow, thinking of you as you
burn in hell. I would finally be free of you then”
“Well if you want to be free then you will be
glad to know that the only reason I put up with you is because of our children”
“The same reason I have. And I thought we had
nothing in common”
“The moment Nate leaves home, then I will be
saying my goodbyes”
“What? Are you going to kill yourself or
something and give us all a break”
“No, I am going to get rid of you. I’ll be
kicking you out on the street, and the best bit is after our divorce you will
be close to penniless”
“What do you mean?”
“Too drunk to remember that night when you
signed a little prenuptial agreement all those long years ago? Come to think of
it you were probably as drunk then as you are now” Victor said walking towards
the door of the bedroom.
“Go to hell Victor” Leslie shouted after her
husband, quickly grabbing the first thing that came to hand.
“I am already there, living with you is worse
than hell” Victor laughed. Leslie through the vase at him, the vase hitting the
door, but some cutting Victor on the head.
“You bitch” he shouted closing the door. Leslie
sat down on her and Victor bed, now one of the only things in their lives they
shared with one another, and laughed to herself. Soon Leslie started to become
more serious, thinking of the prenuptial agreement which she couldn’t remember
signing. Then the tears started.
“Oh Victor, why do you have to do this to me”
Leslie said to herself.
“Leslie, what is it, what happened?” came a
gentle voice. Leslie looked up to see Gabriel
standing beside her.
“Just myself and Victor, at it again”
“I know something that will cheer you up though”
Gabe said inching closer towards her and then kissing Leslie.
“So tell me about you and Victor’s problems”
“You know that girl who fell down the stairs”
“Yeah, what has she got to do with you and
Victor?”
“She was sleeping with him, and I think that he
was the one who pushed her down the stairs”
***
Judi stood
looking over a patients chart in their hospital room, smiling as she thought
back to the night of her kiss with Russell.
“Oh Russell, if only you loved me like I love
you” she said to herself.
“What?” came a voice from the bed. Judi looked
at the bed where she saw Divine moving a little.
“Your out of your coma”
“What happened?”
“There was an accident, but let me give you the
once over and then I will tell you everything”