THE STORY OF DUCKIE

Wolfie's dad and his friends and the woman's neighbours and ex neighbours, thought and thought,how can we hurt the woman most?  She ignores our insults, sure she gets sad and mad sometimes, but that's not enough, we want her to suffer.  What better way than to hurt her children?

She loves her children.  So they decided to start with the oldest child, she was only 19 when they hatched their evil plan.  We'll call the girl Duckie, because she was a sitting duck, easy to pick on, easy to hurt.

Duckie was a good girl, she was into the goth scene and liked to dress up and go out and meet up with other misfits, they became friends and she liked her new social circle.  They were a group of kids and some older who never really fit anywhere else but together they felt part of something,like they belonged somewhere.

One night Duckie met Damien.  He was everything a goth girl could want.  He had long dark hair,wore black clothes and big black boots with buckles on them.  Duckie didn't know Damien was a plant.  No, not a vegetable, but someone the woman's enemies arranged to meet Duckie and destroy her.

Duckie fell head over heels for Damien.  She practically moved in with him straight away.
Although Duckie was a goth on weekends, she had a good full-time job, assisting a solicitor in the city and she never touched drugs, even though some of her friends did.
Damien started out being quite nice and Duckie and Damo (as some people called him) were happy for a short time.  The woman hardly ever saw Duckie anymore but she was happy that Duckie seemed happy, and therefore she never really noticed at first that when she did see Duckie, Duckie was becoming more withdrawn.
Then Duckie left her job, Damo had had a job but he had gotten the sack, (he had worked in a restaurant) and Damo went on the dole.  But because Duckie had quit, she couldn't get the dole.  She was totally dependant on Damo.  That's when things really started to go downhill.

Damo started going out without her, he kept going to her about money, he started treating her like a whore.   His prediliction to violence started showing in the bedroom, he convinced her that being hit with a belt was erotic, even though she didn't like it.  He confused her, sometimes he was nice, he encouraged her to draw, she was very good at it.  They started up a little street mag and sold it to fellow goths.  Damo thought Duckie might be a meal ticket one day if their mag really took off.
One time the woman asked Duckie where Damo was and Duckie said that he had gone to visit friends in the town that the woman and her family used to live, the town where Wolfie's dad and his friends had persecuted the woman.
Damo started having gatherings in their garage where he and his friends smoked dope while Duckie sat upstairs on her own.  He met another girl (or he may have always had her on the side who knows) and he started bringing this girl home in front of Duckie, yet he kept Duckie hanging on.
Throughout all this Duckie occassionally visited her mother and father, and they were worried about her, sometimes they gave her money.
They watched her change from a happy confident young woman into a shadow of her former self, so unsure of herself that one time when her mother went to drive her back to the unit she shared with Damo, Duckie hesitated at the car and asked where she should sit.  This broke her mother's heart, that Duckie wasn't even sure if she should sit in the front seat,what had happened to her?  It was as if she was incapable of making a decision, even a simple one like that.
The woman kept telling Duckie that she could move home anytime she wanted, that her old room was there, but she couldn't force Duckie to leave Damo, she was nearly 20 years old.  Lots of awful things happened to Duckie.  Eventually even Duckie knew she couldn't keep living like that and she agreed to come home.
Duckie's mum and dad helped her move back, it wasn't hard she didn't have much to move. When the woman was helping Duckie to pack up, she found a photo of Duckie, she was wearing a bra and looked miserable and holding up a piece of paper that had 'whore' written on it, like a police mug shot.  The woman threw it in the bin.
Duckie fell into a deep depression and hardly ever left her room.  She would come out at night when everyone else had gone to bed.  A few days after Duckie moved home and was hiding in her room, the woman got a text from someone unknown, the text said '"the first one is mine, yes?".  the woman tried to call the number to see who it was, but the number had been disconnected.  The woman still has this number.
Duckie spent a year in her bedroom, slowly getting better and eventually able to go out during the day.  She re-connected with some old friends and started being more her old self.  She eventually fell in love with one of her old friends and if Wolfie's dad and his friends leave her alone she will be OK.  But the mother lives in dread that they will hurt her or her partner just to hurt the mother.
People said the woman was paranoid for thinking Damo was sent to destroy Duckie, but then what about the text?  What about the fact that he had 'friends'  in the regional town that they had escaped from, the town where surely everyone not living under a rock had heard of Duckie's mother.
Damo and his new girlfriend were to turn up at a workplace of the woman a couple of years later, but that's another story.