Flowers in the Attic Page #6

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I'm sorry.

He was asleep.

I was curious.

You kissed that man!

And he wasn't asleep,

he saw you!

Mom can't know

we passed through a locked door!

We don't have enough money yet.

You think you're the only one

frustrated?

Christopher! Stop!

You're hurting me.

It's okay.

You didn't mean it.

We'll go to Florida.

Sarasota...

Where all

the circus people live.

Yeah.

We can star in a freak show.

We can pretend

this never happened.

We can make sure that

it never happens again.

The thing is...

I want to feel

this way about you.

I love you.

I don't know if I can

ever love anyone else.

Cory doesn't feel so good.

He's been vomiting for hours.

I think it might be food poisoning.

He needs to go to the hospital.

Why are you just standing there?

Don't you care

what happens to him?

Have you forgotten

that you're his mother?

You.

It's always you.

Cathy, stop!

You think

you can do anything you want

And people will believe you.

They'll learn the truth someday.

When your husband learns

You have four children

locked away in an attic,

See how "perfect"

he thinks you really are.

And your father, too.

You won't inherit

one damned penny,

And I'll be glad!

The girl is right, Corrine.

That child should go

to the hospital.

I drove cory to the hospital.

How is he?

Cory had pneumonia.

The doctors did

all they could, but...

It was too late.

Will there be a funeral?

He's already been buried.

I'm sorry.

Carrie?

Cathy.

Just let her be.

We need to run away.

Or else we're all

gonna die like cory.

Do we have enough money?

We'll go tonight.

Take everything we can.

Money, jewelry.

Everything.

She's not coming back.

Is she?

She's dead to us now.

When do we tell her?

After breakfast.

I don't want her

getting scared.

More than she has to be.

So we just walk right

out the front door?

We wait till dinner,

When all the servants and family

Are in the kitchen

or dining room.

So carrie and I will

go to the fence

And you'll go to the shed

So you can turn off

the electricity?

Then we catch up

by the lake

And head to the depot

for the evening train.

And by the time

grandmother comes in

With our breakfast

tomorrow,

We'll be halfway to Florida.

I was thinking,

I can sell my ring.

It's okay.

It's what

dad would've wanted.

You're keeping that ring.

Forever.

I'm telling you,

I did hear someone.

Must be those mice.

They make an awful racket.

You can hear them

all the way up in the attic.

Mrs. Foxworth carries

enough poison up there

To kill a german army of 'em.

Do you think miss corrine

will sell the place?

I doubt she'll be

making any hasty decisions.

Hasty? It's been

seven months

Since Mr. Foxworth died.

Well, never mind that.

All you maids will be

losing your job soon enough

If you don't

mind the silver.

Carrie, you gotta

eat something.

You have to be strong,

for later.

No. Don't feel well.

I have to

take care of mickey.

Where'd you get that?

I saved it for cory,

For when he came back

from the hospital.

Cathy, we need to

leave right now.

It's mickey.

Carrie gave him

one of cory's donuts

And he just started

whimpering all of a sudden--

No. No.

That can't be right.

What?

The powdered sugar on the donuts,

I think there was poison in it.

That's why we're sick.

Are you saying that

our grandmother

Tried to kill us?

You have a key.

Now give it to me.

No.

Give it to me this instant!

Seed of the devil!

Give me that!

You're never gonna

leave this room!

You're gonna hit me?

You're gonna whip me?

Come on!

Come on. Do it.

Beautiful, prideful.

And weak!

Just like your mother.

That's not true.

You were never

meant to be born.

You're a stain

on the foxworth name!

On the name of the lord himself.

Now, if you give me that key,

I may show you a little mercy.

Christopher...

Come on!

Christopher...

Let go!

Cathy, go to the attic!

No! Give me that!

Come back here!

Come back here!

Carrie, please!

Cathy!

Why did you do that?

Don't close the door.

I need for the door to be open!

No. Not the door.

Don't turn off the light.

Open the door!

Turn on the light!

What are you doing?

No! No! Open the door!

No!

What are you doing?

Like you said,

God sees everything.

He'll punish you

for what you did to us.

To cory.

It wasn't me!

It was your mother

who poisoned you, not me!

It doesn't

matter anymore.

[grandmother sobbing]

Where are you going?

Don't go!

Don't leave me!

Help! Help!

Help!

Cathy, we have to go.

Be right there.

Are you okay?

Come on.

I'll cut the electricity

and meet you at the lake.

No! No!

We're not going without you.

Hurry!

We have to make this train.

Stop!

Stop, if you know

what's good for you!

Please...

We're corrine's children.

My god.

Go.

Before I'm sent after you!

I'll cut the power

on the fence.

Go!

We never have to see

that place again, cath.

It's all over.

And for the first time

in a long time,

We felt alive,

Free.

We had everything ahead of us.

But someday,

we'd see mom again.

And we'd look her

straight in the eye,

The children she once loved,

And all our shame

and hopelessness

Would become hers.

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