| Adventures of Lane Avenue |
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| Follow the lives of 4 lonely housewives as they find ways to pass the time in their otherwise humdrum existence. |
| Receptionist With A View | My name is Candice Normont. If you have never lived in a small town before, you probably heard how everyone knows everything about everyone. To a certain extent, they'd be right, but people do try like hell to keep some secrets which eventually do see the light of day.
I have worked for Tom Carpenter for a number of years since I left junior college. I can't believe I spent all the money just to become a glorified secretary for a horny pervert who can't keep his hands to himself, whether on the women or the money people entrust him to at the investment office. I hear from his trusted accountant, Jill, that the books are cooked to perfection so no one can really trace what's what.
I guess one could call me an accomplice because I know there is trouble brewing and I keep quiet about it, but I also know how a small town mentality can work. Tom is also a very beloved deacon at the Community Church of the Lord, volunteers with the Red Cross, leads a troop of Boy Scouts, head of the Rotary Club, and seen as the perfect head of the family.
It is funny that everyone considers him a family man, like they all purposely try to ignore the fact that Tom is still married to Belinda, but consider Wanda and their children together as his real family. I personally have nothing against Wanda and her kids. They are really nice. Too bad they don't know the real Tom. It would destroy them if they did.
I never really did like Belinda. She is my best friend's mother, but even when we were kids I thought she was quite a b***h. When Tom left, I really wasn't surprised. My mom left my dad when I was four, but after watching the two of them arguing everyday, beating each other up, and throwing things around the house, I was glad she did leave me behind with Dad. When she left, he was the best father I could have ever asked for. I never did see Mom again. She was done with us.
When I finished junior college, I thought perhaps I could make it big in the city and be a teacher. After a year of children I couldn't control and the politics of the jobs, I just wanted to go somewhere quiet with fewer backstabbers, so I came home. I stayed with my dad until he passed away. It was around this time when I met Doug who owned Doug's Bar in the center of town.
I was so depressed after dad died that I wanted to go have a drink in a social setting to cheer up. Brenda was with me at the time and pointed out this great looking guy who couldn't keep his eyes off me. She noticed him coming by our table and knocked into him so she could get his attention and said, "We are really thirsty here and need a drink. I could get it myself if you wouldn't mind sitting here with my friend."
He fell for the bait and we talked all night long. I gave him my number and we were an item before long. After a brief engagement, we decided to tie the knot and I sold my home to buy a home across the street from Brenda. In 3 years we had a beautiful boy named Lonny and a girl named Lane. The twins were born late in 1984 and had a mutual friend, Amanda to grow up with. She was only 6 years older than the twins, but loved them dearly.
In about two months after the twins were born, Bobbie Smith moved in right next door to Brenda when she got out of college. She brought along a surprise for everyone, a brand new baby boy, Tony, who was born the same month as my twins. And I thought my college experience was a wasted trip! She spent tens of thousands of dollars to become a lawyer, but after a year went to school on a part time basis to work and to have more time to see some guy she thought was special.
She found out she was pregnant and he disappeared. Work and college with a baby on the way was too hard. Once the baby came, without support it was impossible to keep up, so she dropped out, got a mortgage loan, bought a house, and found work in the county courthouse as a paralegal. She is up to debt to her eyeballs, but fortunately she has friends to help out with daycare. We all take turns watching each others children so we can have a life.
It was so fun watching Lonny, Lane, Amanda, and Tony grow up. Time flies. I could hardly believe it when Lonny, Lane and Tony all were on the stage getting their high school diplomas together and within a month they all moved out and went off to college and go their own way. I miss them, but I hear grandchildren are on the way.
| | Posted: 14 October 2007 at 1:05:02 PM | Read 120 times | 0 comments | Leave Comment |
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| Mytigodess | "I am I said, to no one there. And no one heard at all, not even the chair."
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