Reactions to Sophie and Sian 3rd September 2010
Sally: well if you could let me know if she gets in touch, thanks bye
Kevin: no luck
Sally: I’m scraping the barrow now, I’m ringing friends she hardly knows
Kevin: at least they know to keep a look out
Sally: it’s only a waste of time, if she was with somebody responsible, they would have rung now and said she was alright
Kevin: it’s 8 o’clock, if she arrived somewhere late last night
Sally: they still would have rung, it’s all my fault
Kevin: ay, it’s not
Sally: if she hadn’t been terrified about what I said
Kevin: Sally stop blaming yourself
Sally: my own daughter and she can’t talk to me
Rosie: no news
Kevin: no, we’ve rung everyone we can think of, I was up till 2 this morning searching
Rosie: I would say happy birthday dad but
Kevin: thanks, some birthday ay,
Rosie: well if she’s anything like me mum when I ran away, she’ll soon come to her senses
Kevin: yeah Rosie’s right
Sally: yeah and if something happens to her before then, what then?
Police officer: you’ve rung absolutely everyone she knows?
Sally: we’ve just drawn blanks, that’s a recent picture of her by the way
Police officer: how is she for money
Sally: well she’s got a couple of hundred in a savings account, as far as I know that’s it. I don’t know whether Sian has anything
Police officer: and can you think of any reason why she might have run away
Sally: she left this note
Police officer: we had to get away, please understand, what does she mean?
Sally: Sophie and Sian have had a very close friendship just lately, it has something to do with that
Police officer: well, most girls have got a very close friendship with someone
Sally: it’s more than that, I don’t know how to put it, they have feelings for one another
Police officer: you mean they’re…
Kevin: we think they might be lesbians
Police officer: I see
Bill: so it’s true
Sally: I thought it had just been gossip but she told Kevin yesterday, she was worried that I wouldn’t approve, we think that’s why they’ve gone
Police officer: okay well we’ll get these details circulated
Kevin: what are the odds of finding her?
Police officer: most people that run away come back fairly quickly
Sally: and the rest?
Police officer: I can’t generalise Mrs Webster, every police force in the country will be notified as well as all the missing persons agencies, we’ll do everything we can to find your daughter
Bill: it will just be a phase they are going through
Kevin: maybe
Bill: it’s got to be, she’s had boyfriends
Kevin: if you do Weatherfield, I’ll look in Manchester
Bill: alright, no sweat
Lloyd: everything ok, Kev?
Kevin: nah, our Sophie’s run away from home
Michelle: oh no
Lloyd: when was this?
Kevin: last night with her mate Sian
Michelle: have you told the police?
Kevin: there’s only so much they can do, isn’t there, me and my dad are going to have a look for her now
Lloyd: I’ll get Eileen to put out an alert
Bill: ay, brilliant
Michelle: yeah and if there’s anything I can do Kevin
Kevin: thanks
Ashley: have you heard the latest?
Claire: what?
Ashley: Sophie and Sian have run away from home
Claire: no
Ashley: because they’re lesbians folk are saying
Claire: when was this?
Ashley: yesterday evening
Claire: another thing I’ll get the blame for I suppose
Ashley: you didn’t turn them
Claire: no but I did blow their cover
Ashley: you’ve done nothing wrong
Claire: I know one thing, you were right when you said I was taking on to much, if I’d listened to you none of this would have happened
Ashley: I just wonder if there’s more to this than meets the eye
Claire: how do you mean?
Ashley: maybe Sophie and Sian have done something to hurt Aadi and that’s why they’ve run away
Claire: surely not
Ashley: makes more sense than them running away because they are gay
Claire: oh I wish I could run away somewhere
Michelle: well, I thought I knew Sian, I mean she went out with our Ryan
Leanne: did he never expect anything?
Michelle: he never said ought to me
Rita: well this is all idle speculation till we know the whole story
Norris: I don’t know why everyone’s so surprised, there isn’t a young women round here who’s not normal
Rita: you see you’ve set him of now
Norris: but it’s true, look at her sister Rosie, she walks around half naked and Tina lived in a darkened room with a mentally ill window cleaner
Rita: he was quite happy with his banknote till you came in
Norris: yeah a bank note from Becky’s sister, I am amazed you didn’t check it was a fake
Michelle: well I’m with you on that one Norris, she’s a nightmare
Rita: is it a fake?
Norris: well the watermark seems alright and the foil strip doesn’t tear
Rita: so it’s not a fake?
Norris: yeah so we were lucky, this time
Leanne: you know I had a crush on a girl when I was 13, well it was more hero worship than anything, I soon grew out of it
Michelle: well the important thing is that they don’t come to any harm
Rita: exactly
Claire: she’s still giving me the evil eye
Ashley: just ignore her
Claire: so much for a relaxing drink
Rita: she’s a sensible girl and from what I know of Sian she’s the same, they are not going to do anything stupid
Sally: if only I’d realised what the were going through
Rita: Sally, you couldn’t be a better mother if you tried, stop reproaching yourself
Sally: Lloyd any news?
Lloyd: afraid not no
Michelle: is this Sophie?
Lloyd: yeah all we can do is keep looking
Eddie: funny isn’t it that, them running of like that
Ashley: oh hilarious
Eddie: no I’m on your side, everyone’s calling Claire for what happened to Dev’s kid but your not telling me them two lasses didn’t have something to do with it
Sally: ay, I beg your pardon
Eddie: well, why else would they run off unless they’ve got something to hide
Rita: come on Sally we don’t have to listen to this and you keep your grubby little thoughts to yourself in future, ok, come on Sally
Michelle: do you know what Eddie, you should have one of them spam filters fitted, you know between your brain and your gob
Anna: ay, Ashley, Claire have you heard heard about Sophie and Sian?
Ashley: yes
Anna: well sorry
Claire: there’s no getting away from it anywhere
Dev: is that the best news ever or what
Kid: yeah
Sunita: that is the best news ever
Claire: hiya how’s Aadi?
Sunita: much better thanks, should have him home next week
Dev: so glad you care
Ashley: look we’ve had enough of this victimization, it’s making Claire ill
Dev: ah
Sunita: Dev didn’t mean anything funny
Ashley: do you know Sophie and Sian have run away? If they had a clear conscience about Aadi, why would they do that?
Rosie: hello, Sophie, Sophie where are you? Sophie are you alright? Mum and dad have been out of their minds, they’ve had the police round and everything. Right where are you? And is Sian with you? Right where did you stay last night?
Sally: is that Sophie? Sophie where are you? Uh listen I’m sorry if you, Sophie? She’s hung up
Kevin: it’s no good, just keeps ringing out
Sally: are you sure she didn’t give you any clue as to where she was?
Rosie: yes positive
Sally: well didn’t you think to ask her?
Rosie: well I might have done mum if you hadn’t snatched the phone of me
Sally: I can’t believe she rang off
Kevin: maybe she just ran out of change
Sally: she hung up on me Kevin, she couldn’t bear to talk to me, why didn’t you explain to her that I wasn’t angry?
Rosie: if I hadn’t made her promise to call I doubt she would have rang at all
Kevin: what are you talking about?
Rosie: I saw her when she was doing a runner
Kevin: so why didn’t you tell us?
Sally: or why didn’t you stop her more like?
Rosie: because there was o stopping her because she was determined to go and you know what I really don’t blame her, she knew that you wouldn’t understand and she was right
Sally: that’s not true, there’s nothing she could do that I wouldn’t forgive
Rosie: mum she’s done nothing to forgive, she just wants to be herself and you can’t hack that and she knows it
Sunita: he’ll be home soon, thank god, it’s over
Dev: no not until those girls have paid for what they’ve done
Sunita: we don’t know they’ve done anything
Dev: don’t we? By running away they might aswell have signed the confession
Sunita: not necessarily, there could be other reasons
Dev: such as
Sunita: Claire was telling the truth when she said they were having a relationship
Dev: what, how do you?
Sunita: right under my nose in the shop, you couldn’t fail to miss it
Dev: and how long has this been going on
Sunita: for months I reckon
Dev: what she’s lied to her mum all this time, over and over again and took her for a fool
Sunita: she was scared, they both were
Dv: scared well how scared do you think they’d be after almost killing our son? How willing they were to tell more lies to cover their tracks, listen this does not make them less guilty it makes them more so, yes, yes
Sally: how does she expect me to react? Put up a bunting throw a coming out party
Rosie: she just wants to fill loved
Sally: she is and she always will be but she’s a child, she’s too young to be making decisions like this
Rosie: mum it isn’t a decision
Sally: isn’t it, I mean girls her age all fads and passing fancies, you used to walk around like something out of the Addams family but you grew out of it
Rosie: well I’m nothing like Sophie and plus you don’t just grow out of your sexuality
Kevin: block picked it up, it’s a payphone in town, I’m going there now
Rosie: I’m coming
Kevin: no you stay here with your mum, let me know if Sophie calls back, it will be alright love
Rosie: mum, at least Sophie’s still into girly stuff like clothes and makeup and that
Sally: what
Rosie: well you know she’s really quite feminine, she’s not like Doc Martins and flannel shirts and that
Sally: and you lecture me on prejudice
Rosie: ah, no luck then
Kevin: nope, it was round the corner from the coach station
Sally: ah no
Kevin: someone in the café remembered seeing them but didn’t know where they were going
Sally: they are going to be miles away by now
Kevin: I’ve narrowed it down a bit, there was only three departures from her call to me getting there
Sally: great, so there somewhere between here and Bournemouth or Leeds and Glasgow
Kevin: at least it’s a start, the police are going to check the CCTV at the coach station, see which bus they boarded and try and work out when they were going to get off from the time they bought the ticket
Sally: they’ll have got to ground by then, they could be sleeping god knows where, it’s dangerous on the streets especially for young girls
Kevin: Sophie’s got a good head on her shoulders
Rosie: yeah dad’s right mum she won’t go taking any risks
Sally: what the hell do you think this is? I just want her home Kevin, I just want her home
Dev: I’m going to go and have a word
Sunita: no let me handle this, we don’t want confrontation
Dev: no I want the truth and quite frankly I’m not fussed how we get it, Sally
Sally: yes
Sunita: Sally sorry to bother you, I know you’re going through a difficult time
Dev: yeah is it true that your Sophie’s run away
Sally: that’s right but I’m sure she’ll be back soon
Dev: yeah you think so, she said anything about what happened to my son?
Sally: like what exactly?
Dev: you want me to fill in the blanks
Kevin: one more crack like that and I’ll fill you in pal
Sally: look, I know what you’re thinking and what people are saying but I’m telling you this, I’m proud of my daughter because whatever else she is she is a good kid with a good heart, she is no liar and she would never ever do anything to harm another human being let alone a child
Sunita: we know that Sally
Sally: I don’t think you do, any of you and that is one of the reasons she is out there now, a frightened kid who doesn’t know where to turn. Now I’m sorry for what happened to your child but I swear if I hear any of you making vile accusations at my daughter again it will be me you have to hold back not my husband
Sunita: happy now…come on
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