09-12-2022, 12:37 PM
1 of 2: this cd is basically everything glory did during the scw vacation.
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August 5th, 2022
Boston, Massachusetts
Off Camera
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Everyone needs a vacation, even very busy people like “The British Bombshell” Glory Braddock. And for Braddock, a vacation couldn’t have come at a better time. Rise To Greatness has concluded, wrapping up yet another successful season for Supreme Championship Wrestling. And just like she promised, she not only defeated Danny Darko but she also avenged her Rise To Greatness loss last year by winning the Double Jeopardy Match, defeating Darko, Christy Matthews, and Konrad Raab, all to earn an opportunity at the SCW United States Championship. Finally, after a string of bad luck, something finally goes right for The British Bombshell. It is the first good thing to happen to Braddock in quite some time. It seems as if she has been plagued with bad luck at every turn. First her new partner and student, Amelia Stone, got injured. Next she was forcibly teamed up with Danny Darko. To add to her professional wrestling woes there were rumors being spread by certain members of her corporate board of directors that a hostile takeover was under way, trying to remove her from power. And lastly, on top of all of that, she learned that her oldest daughter, Melinda Braddock, had started dating Clyde Sutter.
Clyde Sutter, a ruthless man who Glory quickly identified as having an anger management issue and thus kicked him out of her wrestling school, dated Melinda once before. They broke up and Glory was convinced it was because Sutter sexually assaulted her, even though both Melinda and Sutter deny that was the case. Braddock spent over two years of hard work trying to blackball him from even getting a foothold into professional wrestling as punishment for what she believes he did. Yet now he is again dating Melinda, which creates for a very awkward and unsettling situation for The British Bombshell.
Thankfully she has one problem, namely that of Danny Darko, out of her life for good, she is on break from her busy wrestling schedule and can take some time to address the other problems she has been dealing with. All of these problems have been creating major stress for Glory Braddock. This stress cannot be good for anyone’s health and well-being. Perhaps a vacation from it all is exactly what Glory Braddock needs right now? One person who would definitely agree with that is Glory’s younger sister Julia Braddock.
Ever since Rise To Greatness concluded and SCW went on break, Glory has been in Boston, Massachusetts visiting with her mother, Mary Ford-Kurensky. Julia recognizes how vulnerable her older sister is right now due to the stress and pressures of her life and has flown in from London, England to also be with her sister and their mother. Perhaps if there is one person who is more concerned about Glory’s well being than anyone else, it would be Julia, for she is one of the few people outside of Glory’s therapist who is aware of the PTSD that Glory Braddock has been suffering from for many years now. There were times when the PTSD caused was more visible and apparent within Glory Braddock but most of the time she was able to hide it well.
“I don’t know why we could have let the uber driver drop us off right at mom’s doorstep.” Is the whining, complaining voice of Glory Braddock herself. She and her sister are walking down the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts. The two sisters have bags with bottles inside, mostly of wine and vodka. The wine is for them, the vodka is for their mother who, as a full blooded Russian, enjoys her vodka. Braddock is wearing an ankle length pink skirt, matching pink high heeled pumps, and a white t-shirt. Her long blonde hair hangs down to past the shoulders. The younger of the Braddock girls is walking next to her wearing a classy pair of tight form fitting black dress pants, a silver silk button up blouse, and simple black flats.
“What are you complaining about, Gloria? It’s gorgeous out tonight! The moon is bright, the stars are shining…”
“My feet hurt.”
“That’s your fault.” Julia smirks. “You are the one who wanted to wear heels.”
“That’s because I thought the uber would take us right back to mom’s house! If I had known that you had planned for me to get some unplanned exercise tonight, I would have wore appropriate footwear.”
“What’s wrong?” Julia shrugs her shoulders. “You just beat Danny Darko and Konrad Raab on the same night in the same match…”
“And Christy Matthews.” Glory quickly snaps back, correcting her. Julia rolls her eyes.
“Fine, all three of them. Although you only pinned the two. But you managed to do all that and you are going to let a pair of shoes beat your ass?”
“You’re a real comedian, you know that mate?” The British Bombshell sighs and nods her head. “But I guess you’re right, I just came off of a big win at Rise To Greatness. Why am I complaining?”
“That’s my point exactly. You won and now you’re on vacation. You should be trying to just relax and enjoy yourself.”
“I wish it were that simple, mate. I mean, I suppose things will be a little easier now that my wrestling problem has been dealt with…” she begins, referring to Danny Darko “...but I still have so many other problems that I have to deal with. Like my company for instance…”
“I don’t want to hear about it.” Julia stops her sister from speaking. “You are on vacation, young lady, you should leave your problems at the door.”
“Young lady? Mate, I’m older than you! Besides that, I can’t just leave this problem at the door. I had my company taken from me once before and now I am hearing from a prominent member of the board of directors that there is talk of a faction within the company trying to take it from me again.”
“Yeah, talk from someone who we both know has his eyes on a more prominent spot on the Board of Directors, and having you as his ally would help his bid immensely.” Julia answers back. “Don’t you see, Glory? This guy…Floyd Ryan? He’s just using you to promote his own agenda.”
“But what if he is right?” Glory asks. “I have to take this threat seriously. I have to at least consider the chance that he is telling the truth.”
“From what little you told me, he thinks that there is a group within the company trying to put Aurora Alan in charge of the company, am I right?”
“That’s the gist of it, yeah.” Glory answers with a nod of her head.
“You and I both know that Aurora is almost too pure to be true. She would never betray you like that.”
“She may not…but what is to stop others who are not pure from forcing me out of power? Aurora would be next in line to take over as a result. I agree that Aurora probably wouldn’t intentionally betray me, but there are people within my company still loyal to her brother who really was scum of the earth. They would probably settle for having his sister in charge over me.”
“Why don’t you just confront Aurora about this?”
“I did. That shows you how much I do trust her…but I still don’t trust her enough to just blindly leave this alone and let her handle this. I don’t trust Floyd Ryan, either. You make a good point, he probably has his own agenda.”
“So what are you going to do?”
“I think I’m going to ask mother for her advice.”
“Oh well that’s a great idea.” Julia beams happily, seemingly pleased with her older sister. “When we’re done visiting the family here in Boston, you can fly back to Miami and see Mother. She did teach you everything you know about business and how the corporate world works. Surely she would know how to handle this situation.”
“Huh?” Glory now looks thoroughly confused, but only for a moment. She realizes what Julia meant and she chuckles softly. “Oh, no, no, no, not Aphrodite. I meant OUR mother. Not your ‘mother.’” Glory says with a smirk on her face.
“Why not Aphrodite?”
“I would rather not get her involved in this, Jules. And you know why. She did something to my mind, I don’t…” Glory shakes her head “...I don’t know what, but I do know a big part of my PTSD is because of her. I don’t want to involve myself with her and risk reigniting my mental issues along with all of the other problems I’m currently dealing with.”
Julia sighs and nods her head. “I suppose you’re right. I just thought that her knowledge of boardroom politics would help.”
“Maybe it would, but let’s face facts, Jules, she would be more of a hindrance than a help. I mean, the woman has convinced herself she is royalty, she lives in a god damn fantasy. And I have had to watch you live that same insane fantasy along with her and it makes me sick!”
“Yeah, I remember.” Julia’s face suddenly turns into a nasty scowl. “You had me institutionalized over it.”
“Yeah…and I’m sorry about that…” Glory sighs and shakes her head “...I thought I was helping you. But I was wrong. I just need to accept that if you want to live in that woman’s insane fantasy world then you can. But I tried once, and it drove me to the edge. I kept myself from falling off that edge. But the PTSD still lingers.” She shakes her head. “I have too many problems on my plate to deal with without the risk of adding that one as well.”
“I suppose you’re right, Gloria.”
“I know I’m right.” She sighs deeply. “You know I hate to admit it, and it is a secret that I keep closely guarded, but my mind is much more fragile than anyone would think. I just found out my daughter is dating Clyde Sutter again, my company may be plotting against me, my mind is already being stressed to its limits, Jules.”
“And that’s why you need to take a break.” She smiles again, trying to brighten the mood. “Forget about these problems. And definitely don’t put them on OUR mother’s plate.”
“I just need advice, that’s all.” Glory insists. “And our mother is one of the few people who I believe in, who I know I can trust not to lead me astray.”
There is a brief moment of silence between the sisters. Julia then approaches and embraces Glory in a hug. “Look, I’m sorry if I got angry there for a moment. It’s just that…”
“No, you have no need to apologize. If anything, its me who should apologize. You’re right, I tried to institutionalize you for a life choice you made. It wasn’t my right to do that. I’m just lucky you did forgive me.”
“Hey, its water under the bridge, Gloria. We live, we learn, we make mistakes, we move on. Right?”
“Right.” The siblings turn and continue their walk through the suburbs of Boston. The walk isn’t much farther. And in just a few more minutes after their warm sisterly embrace came to an end, they stop in front of a modest Victorian style home. All of the lights are on which tells the sisters that their mother is home.
“It looks like she’s home.”
“Come on, let’s go.” They approach the front door. Glory tries the door but it is locked. But the oldest of the sisters happens to know where Mary Kurensky keeps the spare key. She grabs a potted plant and moves the pot. Underneath is a small key. She picks it up and inserts it into the door. She unlocks the door and then opens the door. Glory walks across the threshold followed by Julia.
“Mom! We’re here!” Glory exclaims. “Your favorite daughters!”
“Your only daughters!” Julia chimes in. Glory giggles a little. They wait for a few moments for their mother’s response but they hear nothing. “Mom?” Julia calls out again. Again they wait but again there is no response. Glory motions down the hall.
“Let’s try the living room.” Julia nods her head in agreement as she follows her older sister down the hall and then into a room, the living room to be exact. “Mom? Are you in here?” Glory asks the question but a quick scan of the living room clearly shows that it, too, is empty. “Where could she be?”
“Wait…” Julia pauses “...I hear running water from the kitchen. She must be there.”
“Hold on, mom!” Glory calls out. “We have the alcohol right here!” They make their way out of the living room and over into another door that leads into the kitchen. They find that the water is running in the sink and, in fact, the water is running over. But then they see why…lying there on the floor, lifeless, is their mother.
“Mom!” Glory is stunned. Without thinking she drops her bag containing wine and vodka, causing them to hit the floor and shatter as a result. But at this point The British Bombshell doesn’t care. She only cares about getting to her mother’s side and checking on her. She checks for a pulse. “No pulse…” she goes to her mouth and then her chest “...she isn’t breathing…” she looks up at Julia incredulously “...CALL THE DAMN AMBULANCE! CALL 911! CALL SOMEONE!”
“Yeah…yeah…on it!” Julia rushes out of the kitchen to get a phone. Glory immediately cradles her mother’s lifeless body next to her.
“Mommy!”
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August 12th, 2022
Boston, Massachusetts
Off Camera
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Everyone needs a vacation. Glory Braddock certainly needed a vacation and was lucky to have one long vacation after SCW Rise To Greatness. She just wasn’t expecting to have to use it for this particular reason. She was not planning to stay in Boston with her family this long. She certainly was not expecting to have to prepare for her mother’s funeral while on vacation. But on the night of August 5th Maria Kurensky, who had her name changed to Mary Ford upon moving from the Soviet Union to the United States to escape persecution, the woman who gave birth to Glory and Julia Braddock, has now passed away from a massive and sudden heart attack. For Glory and Julia, this means that they have no parents left. Both are dead. They are alone.
One week has passed and the family are now receiving friends in the fellowship hall of Mary’s home church, Our Lady of the Annunciation Catholic Parish. Thankfully for the two sisters, they do not have to handle this terrible situation all alone. In this large fellowship hall you can see members of the extended family; Mary’s nieces, Angelica Jones and Kayla Jones. Angelica’s daughters, Marie, Kimberly, and Jessica are there. This is just as hard for them as it is for Glory and Julia. Angelica and Kayla lost their mother when they were both teenagers and their father almost never came around before he finally passed away. Mary was almost like a surrogate parent for them. One of the few people here to try and console Glory is her husband, Kurt Logan, who flew in from Florida as soon as he could.
The British Bombshell is wearing an all black dress with a hemline that stops at the knee, dark stockings, black patent leather high heel pumps, and a black blazer. Kurt stands next to her with his arm wrapped around her shoulder in an attempt to comfort her.
“How are you holding up, babe?”
“Not very good.” Glory admits quietly. Kurt rubs her back.
“It’ll be ok. I’m here for you.”
“Thanks, Kurt.”
The priest, a balding man dressed in all black with a white clerical collar named Father Heiney, approaches the pair. Glory looks up with tears in her eyes. “I am sorry for your loss, Ms. Braddock. I promise to pray a rosary for the repose of the soul of your dear mother.”
“Thank you, Father. Everything you and this Parish have done for my family…” she sighs “...I appreciate it.” The priest turns and walks off. Julia Braddock is the next. She is dressed similarly to Glory, they almost look like twins in their matching all black outfits. Glory immediately leaves her husband and embraces Julia in a tight hug. “I’m so glad you stayed, Jules!”
“Where would you expect me to be?”
“I don’t know.” She shakes her head. “I just need someone right now. Anyone. Thank you for being here for me.”
“Of course, Gloria.” Julia clasps her sister’s hands tightly. She gazes lovingly into her eyes. “We both need each other right now more than ever but believe me, we can make it.”
“I’m not sure I can. I already told you about my mind. All the stress, all the pressure, and now this on top of it all.”
“I know.”
“No, you don’t.” Glory insists. “You don’t know. You were making the phone call last week. I was there holding our mother’s corpse in my hands hoping against all hope, praying that God would breathe life back into her but my prayers were left unanswered!” Her voice grows in decibels. “I feel like I’m losing control.”
“You can survive, Gloria. You are tougher than this. WE are tougher than this.” She points to Angelica and Kayla, their cousins, over in a corner. “Look at them. They have had to survive this same situation for much longer than us and it only made their relationship stronger. We may have lost our dad and now our mom, but we still have each other.”
“No!” Glory pushes Julia away from her. “No! No! Shut up!”
“Glory, calm down…”
“No! You’re wrong!” She points an accusatory finger at her younger sister. “You are not alone! You have a ‘mother’, you claim Aphrodite as your mother because you choose to live that insane fantasy with her! You choose to be as crazy as her! But what about me?! I choose to live in reality but I have no one, not one single person, to help me through it because NO ONE understands what I’m going through!” Kurt tries to approach his wife from behind but Glory pulls away from him as well. “No! I want to be alone!”
Braddock rushes past Kurt, Julia, and everyone else. She quickly makes an exit out of the fellowship hall and outside underneath the moonlit night in Boston, Massachusetts. There she drops down to her knees and stares up at the moon. She lets out a wail of grief and anguish.
“God! If you’re there…if you exist…WHY did you take her from me?! One of the few people I trust and you took her from me! I have no one!” Glory shakes her head. “No one at all…” her voice trails off as she buries her face in her hands and begins to bawl. She is crying so hard and so intensely she doesn’t even notice someone approaching her from behind. She doesn’t notice that person kneeling down next to her and wrapping their arms around her to comfort her. Glory is in so much grief to notice that she is being held in someone else’s arms right now.
“She went outside.” Kurt says as she and Julia exit the fellowship hall in search of Glory. They luck up as they immediately find her right there, just outside the door, crying as she is being held by none other than her former mentor, the woman whose relationship with Julia she despises and detests.
Glory is being held and comforted by Aphrodite Noel.
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August 5th, 2022
Boston, Massachusetts
Off Camera
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Everyone needs a vacation, even very busy people like “The British Bombshell” Glory Braddock. And for Braddock, a vacation couldn’t have come at a better time. Rise To Greatness has concluded, wrapping up yet another successful season for Supreme Championship Wrestling. And just like she promised, she not only defeated Danny Darko but she also avenged her Rise To Greatness loss last year by winning the Double Jeopardy Match, defeating Darko, Christy Matthews, and Konrad Raab, all to earn an opportunity at the SCW United States Championship. Finally, after a string of bad luck, something finally goes right for The British Bombshell. It is the first good thing to happen to Braddock in quite some time. It seems as if she has been plagued with bad luck at every turn. First her new partner and student, Amelia Stone, got injured. Next she was forcibly teamed up with Danny Darko. To add to her professional wrestling woes there were rumors being spread by certain members of her corporate board of directors that a hostile takeover was under way, trying to remove her from power. And lastly, on top of all of that, she learned that her oldest daughter, Melinda Braddock, had started dating Clyde Sutter.
Clyde Sutter, a ruthless man who Glory quickly identified as having an anger management issue and thus kicked him out of her wrestling school, dated Melinda once before. They broke up and Glory was convinced it was because Sutter sexually assaulted her, even though both Melinda and Sutter deny that was the case. Braddock spent over two years of hard work trying to blackball him from even getting a foothold into professional wrestling as punishment for what she believes he did. Yet now he is again dating Melinda, which creates for a very awkward and unsettling situation for The British Bombshell.
Thankfully she has one problem, namely that of Danny Darko, out of her life for good, she is on break from her busy wrestling schedule and can take some time to address the other problems she has been dealing with. All of these problems have been creating major stress for Glory Braddock. This stress cannot be good for anyone’s health and well-being. Perhaps a vacation from it all is exactly what Glory Braddock needs right now? One person who would definitely agree with that is Glory’s younger sister Julia Braddock.
Ever since Rise To Greatness concluded and SCW went on break, Glory has been in Boston, Massachusetts visiting with her mother, Mary Ford-Kurensky. Julia recognizes how vulnerable her older sister is right now due to the stress and pressures of her life and has flown in from London, England to also be with her sister and their mother. Perhaps if there is one person who is more concerned about Glory’s well being than anyone else, it would be Julia, for she is one of the few people outside of Glory’s therapist who is aware of the PTSD that Glory Braddock has been suffering from for many years now. There were times when the PTSD caused was more visible and apparent within Glory Braddock but most of the time she was able to hide it well.
“I don’t know why we could have let the uber driver drop us off right at mom’s doorstep.” Is the whining, complaining voice of Glory Braddock herself. She and her sister are walking down the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts. The two sisters have bags with bottles inside, mostly of wine and vodka. The wine is for them, the vodka is for their mother who, as a full blooded Russian, enjoys her vodka. Braddock is wearing an ankle length pink skirt, matching pink high heeled pumps, and a white t-shirt. Her long blonde hair hangs down to past the shoulders. The younger of the Braddock girls is walking next to her wearing a classy pair of tight form fitting black dress pants, a silver silk button up blouse, and simple black flats.
“What are you complaining about, Gloria? It’s gorgeous out tonight! The moon is bright, the stars are shining…”
“My feet hurt.”
“That’s your fault.” Julia smirks. “You are the one who wanted to wear heels.”
“That’s because I thought the uber would take us right back to mom’s house! If I had known that you had planned for me to get some unplanned exercise tonight, I would have wore appropriate footwear.”
“What’s wrong?” Julia shrugs her shoulders. “You just beat Danny Darko and Konrad Raab on the same night in the same match…”
“And Christy Matthews.” Glory quickly snaps back, correcting her. Julia rolls her eyes.
“Fine, all three of them. Although you only pinned the two. But you managed to do all that and you are going to let a pair of shoes beat your ass?”
“You’re a real comedian, you know that mate?” The British Bombshell sighs and nods her head. “But I guess you’re right, I just came off of a big win at Rise To Greatness. Why am I complaining?”
“That’s my point exactly. You won and now you’re on vacation. You should be trying to just relax and enjoy yourself.”
“I wish it were that simple, mate. I mean, I suppose things will be a little easier now that my wrestling problem has been dealt with…” she begins, referring to Danny Darko “...but I still have so many other problems that I have to deal with. Like my company for instance…”
“I don’t want to hear about it.” Julia stops her sister from speaking. “You are on vacation, young lady, you should leave your problems at the door.”
“Young lady? Mate, I’m older than you! Besides that, I can’t just leave this problem at the door. I had my company taken from me once before and now I am hearing from a prominent member of the board of directors that there is talk of a faction within the company trying to take it from me again.”
“Yeah, talk from someone who we both know has his eyes on a more prominent spot on the Board of Directors, and having you as his ally would help his bid immensely.” Julia answers back. “Don’t you see, Glory? This guy…Floyd Ryan? He’s just using you to promote his own agenda.”
“But what if he is right?” Glory asks. “I have to take this threat seriously. I have to at least consider the chance that he is telling the truth.”
“From what little you told me, he thinks that there is a group within the company trying to put Aurora Alan in charge of the company, am I right?”
“That’s the gist of it, yeah.” Glory answers with a nod of her head.
“You and I both know that Aurora is almost too pure to be true. She would never betray you like that.”
“She may not…but what is to stop others who are not pure from forcing me out of power? Aurora would be next in line to take over as a result. I agree that Aurora probably wouldn’t intentionally betray me, but there are people within my company still loyal to her brother who really was scum of the earth. They would probably settle for having his sister in charge over me.”
“Why don’t you just confront Aurora about this?”
“I did. That shows you how much I do trust her…but I still don’t trust her enough to just blindly leave this alone and let her handle this. I don’t trust Floyd Ryan, either. You make a good point, he probably has his own agenda.”
“So what are you going to do?”
“I think I’m going to ask mother for her advice.”
“Oh well that’s a great idea.” Julia beams happily, seemingly pleased with her older sister. “When we’re done visiting the family here in Boston, you can fly back to Miami and see Mother. She did teach you everything you know about business and how the corporate world works. Surely she would know how to handle this situation.”
“Huh?” Glory now looks thoroughly confused, but only for a moment. She realizes what Julia meant and she chuckles softly. “Oh, no, no, no, not Aphrodite. I meant OUR mother. Not your ‘mother.’” Glory says with a smirk on her face.
“Why not Aphrodite?”
“I would rather not get her involved in this, Jules. And you know why. She did something to my mind, I don’t…” Glory shakes her head “...I don’t know what, but I do know a big part of my PTSD is because of her. I don’t want to involve myself with her and risk reigniting my mental issues along with all of the other problems I’m currently dealing with.”
Julia sighs and nods her head. “I suppose you’re right. I just thought that her knowledge of boardroom politics would help.”
“Maybe it would, but let’s face facts, Jules, she would be more of a hindrance than a help. I mean, the woman has convinced herself she is royalty, she lives in a god damn fantasy. And I have had to watch you live that same insane fantasy along with her and it makes me sick!”
“Yeah, I remember.” Julia’s face suddenly turns into a nasty scowl. “You had me institutionalized over it.”
“Yeah…and I’m sorry about that…” Glory sighs and shakes her head “...I thought I was helping you. But I was wrong. I just need to accept that if you want to live in that woman’s insane fantasy world then you can. But I tried once, and it drove me to the edge. I kept myself from falling off that edge. But the PTSD still lingers.” She shakes her head. “I have too many problems on my plate to deal with without the risk of adding that one as well.”
“I suppose you’re right, Gloria.”
“I know I’m right.” She sighs deeply. “You know I hate to admit it, and it is a secret that I keep closely guarded, but my mind is much more fragile than anyone would think. I just found out my daughter is dating Clyde Sutter again, my company may be plotting against me, my mind is already being stressed to its limits, Jules.”
“And that’s why you need to take a break.” She smiles again, trying to brighten the mood. “Forget about these problems. And definitely don’t put them on OUR mother’s plate.”
“I just need advice, that’s all.” Glory insists. “And our mother is one of the few people who I believe in, who I know I can trust not to lead me astray.”
There is a brief moment of silence between the sisters. Julia then approaches and embraces Glory in a hug. “Look, I’m sorry if I got angry there for a moment. It’s just that…”
“No, you have no need to apologize. If anything, its me who should apologize. You’re right, I tried to institutionalize you for a life choice you made. It wasn’t my right to do that. I’m just lucky you did forgive me.”
“Hey, its water under the bridge, Gloria. We live, we learn, we make mistakes, we move on. Right?”
“Right.” The siblings turn and continue their walk through the suburbs of Boston. The walk isn’t much farther. And in just a few more minutes after their warm sisterly embrace came to an end, they stop in front of a modest Victorian style home. All of the lights are on which tells the sisters that their mother is home.
“It looks like she’s home.”
“Come on, let’s go.” They approach the front door. Glory tries the door but it is locked. But the oldest of the sisters happens to know where Mary Kurensky keeps the spare key. She grabs a potted plant and moves the pot. Underneath is a small key. She picks it up and inserts it into the door. She unlocks the door and then opens the door. Glory walks across the threshold followed by Julia.
“Mom! We’re here!” Glory exclaims. “Your favorite daughters!”
“Your only daughters!” Julia chimes in. Glory giggles a little. They wait for a few moments for their mother’s response but they hear nothing. “Mom?” Julia calls out again. Again they wait but again there is no response. Glory motions down the hall.
“Let’s try the living room.” Julia nods her head in agreement as she follows her older sister down the hall and then into a room, the living room to be exact. “Mom? Are you in here?” Glory asks the question but a quick scan of the living room clearly shows that it, too, is empty. “Where could she be?”
“Wait…” Julia pauses “...I hear running water from the kitchen. She must be there.”
“Hold on, mom!” Glory calls out. “We have the alcohol right here!” They make their way out of the living room and over into another door that leads into the kitchen. They find that the water is running in the sink and, in fact, the water is running over. But then they see why…lying there on the floor, lifeless, is their mother.
“Mom!” Glory is stunned. Without thinking she drops her bag containing wine and vodka, causing them to hit the floor and shatter as a result. But at this point The British Bombshell doesn’t care. She only cares about getting to her mother’s side and checking on her. She checks for a pulse. “No pulse…” she goes to her mouth and then her chest “...she isn’t breathing…” she looks up at Julia incredulously “...CALL THE DAMN AMBULANCE! CALL 911! CALL SOMEONE!”
“Yeah…yeah…on it!” Julia rushes out of the kitchen to get a phone. Glory immediately cradles her mother’s lifeless body next to her.
“Mommy!”
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August 12th, 2022
Boston, Massachusetts
Off Camera
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Everyone needs a vacation. Glory Braddock certainly needed a vacation and was lucky to have one long vacation after SCW Rise To Greatness. She just wasn’t expecting to have to use it for this particular reason. She was not planning to stay in Boston with her family this long. She certainly was not expecting to have to prepare for her mother’s funeral while on vacation. But on the night of August 5th Maria Kurensky, who had her name changed to Mary Ford upon moving from the Soviet Union to the United States to escape persecution, the woman who gave birth to Glory and Julia Braddock, has now passed away from a massive and sudden heart attack. For Glory and Julia, this means that they have no parents left. Both are dead. They are alone.
One week has passed and the family are now receiving friends in the fellowship hall of Mary’s home church, Our Lady of the Annunciation Catholic Parish. Thankfully for the two sisters, they do not have to handle this terrible situation all alone. In this large fellowship hall you can see members of the extended family; Mary’s nieces, Angelica Jones and Kayla Jones. Angelica’s daughters, Marie, Kimberly, and Jessica are there. This is just as hard for them as it is for Glory and Julia. Angelica and Kayla lost their mother when they were both teenagers and their father almost never came around before he finally passed away. Mary was almost like a surrogate parent for them. One of the few people here to try and console Glory is her husband, Kurt Logan, who flew in from Florida as soon as he could.
The British Bombshell is wearing an all black dress with a hemline that stops at the knee, dark stockings, black patent leather high heel pumps, and a black blazer. Kurt stands next to her with his arm wrapped around her shoulder in an attempt to comfort her.
“How are you holding up, babe?”
“Not very good.” Glory admits quietly. Kurt rubs her back.
“It’ll be ok. I’m here for you.”
“Thanks, Kurt.”
The priest, a balding man dressed in all black with a white clerical collar named Father Heiney, approaches the pair. Glory looks up with tears in her eyes. “I am sorry for your loss, Ms. Braddock. I promise to pray a rosary for the repose of the soul of your dear mother.”
“Thank you, Father. Everything you and this Parish have done for my family…” she sighs “...I appreciate it.” The priest turns and walks off. Julia Braddock is the next. She is dressed similarly to Glory, they almost look like twins in their matching all black outfits. Glory immediately leaves her husband and embraces Julia in a tight hug. “I’m so glad you stayed, Jules!”
“Where would you expect me to be?”
“I don’t know.” She shakes her head. “I just need someone right now. Anyone. Thank you for being here for me.”
“Of course, Gloria.” Julia clasps her sister’s hands tightly. She gazes lovingly into her eyes. “We both need each other right now more than ever but believe me, we can make it.”
“I’m not sure I can. I already told you about my mind. All the stress, all the pressure, and now this on top of it all.”
“I know.”
“No, you don’t.” Glory insists. “You don’t know. You were making the phone call last week. I was there holding our mother’s corpse in my hands hoping against all hope, praying that God would breathe life back into her but my prayers were left unanswered!” Her voice grows in decibels. “I feel like I’m losing control.”
“You can survive, Gloria. You are tougher than this. WE are tougher than this.” She points to Angelica and Kayla, their cousins, over in a corner. “Look at them. They have had to survive this same situation for much longer than us and it only made their relationship stronger. We may have lost our dad and now our mom, but we still have each other.”
“No!” Glory pushes Julia away from her. “No! No! Shut up!”
“Glory, calm down…”
“No! You’re wrong!” She points an accusatory finger at her younger sister. “You are not alone! You have a ‘mother’, you claim Aphrodite as your mother because you choose to live that insane fantasy with her! You choose to be as crazy as her! But what about me?! I choose to live in reality but I have no one, not one single person, to help me through it because NO ONE understands what I’m going through!” Kurt tries to approach his wife from behind but Glory pulls away from him as well. “No! I want to be alone!”
Braddock rushes past Kurt, Julia, and everyone else. She quickly makes an exit out of the fellowship hall and outside underneath the moonlit night in Boston, Massachusetts. There she drops down to her knees and stares up at the moon. She lets out a wail of grief and anguish.
“God! If you’re there…if you exist…WHY did you take her from me?! One of the few people I trust and you took her from me! I have no one!” Glory shakes her head. “No one at all…” her voice trails off as she buries her face in her hands and begins to bawl. She is crying so hard and so intensely she doesn’t even notice someone approaching her from behind. She doesn’t notice that person kneeling down next to her and wrapping their arms around her to comfort her. Glory is in so much grief to notice that she is being held in someone else’s arms right now.
“She went outside.” Kurt says as she and Julia exit the fellowship hall in search of Glory. They luck up as they immediately find her right there, just outside the door, crying as she is being held by none other than her former mentor, the woman whose relationship with Julia she despises and detests.
Glory is being held and comforted by Aphrodite Noel.
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