Secret Smile Page #6

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You shouldn't believe anything he might tell you.

Bollocks! It's all lies!

This is more about what

sort of person you are.

Sorry, babe.

I hadn't wanted to go into this but...

It's you who's the liar, isn't it, Miranda?

You deceived Kerry.

You slept with her first boyfriend, Mike.

- What?

- Behind her back.

You had sex with him

in Kerry's bedroom on her bed.

You b*tch!

Oh, my God!

I think you should leave.

Hi.

Thanks for coming. Do you want a drink?

Whatever you've got to say, just hurry up.

I'm really sorry. We were all so young.

You knew how crazy I was about him.

I feel sh*t about it. I always have.

I really am sorry.

I didn't tell you

because I didn't want to hurt you.

It was so long ago. What did Brendan

have to gain by bringing it up now?

I don't believe you.

Right from the beginning,

you tried to ruin it between me and him.

Pretending it was you who chucked him.

- But I did.

- Lying in bed,

trying to seduce him like some b*tch

on heat, getting whatever she wants.

Kerry, he hit you.

Yeah.

Because of you.

You can still leave him.

I don't want to leave him.

Then maybe it's best if

you move out of the flat.

What are you doing? What do you want?

We'll be gone by tomorrow night.

Your mother has found somewhere

we can house-sit.

She's very cut up about all this.

Leave me alone, Brendan.

You still don't get it, do you?

What?

It's me who makes the rules.

Nothing's over till I say.

You know, when we finished,

you didn't even say sorry.

I had nothing to be sorry about.

- Hello?

- Hi it's me

- I need to talk to you

- Sure. Of course.

Can you come to the flat?

- Hello?

- Hi.

Hiya. You all right?

Yeah. Yeah.

- They're not still moving out, are they?

- Yes, they are.

Haven't you made up?

- He promised he would try.

- Is that what you wanted to talk about?

- Yeah.

- It's just not as simple as that.

It could be if you just let it be.

But it's got nothing to do with you.

Don't worry about it.

He's right.

You don't give a sh*t about me!

- If you did, you'd have made friends.

- Troy, that's not true.

You're just pretending.

It's one big game to you, like he said.

- Just don't believe what Brendan says.

- Why not? He tells the truth.

No, he doesn't.

You've got to rely on yourself.

What's the point?

The pain of keeping going.

I did it for you to make you happy.

- But if you don't care...

- Of course I care.

I love you, Troy. We all do.

No!

You just think I'm a burden weighing you down.

Don't be silly. Come on.

I'll make us a cup of tea and we'll sit and talk.

You know what? Now they're moving out,

you can come and stay here.

Troy?

Troy.

What are you doing?

Troy?

Troy...

- Can I go with him?

- No, let me explain what happens now.

We'll go in a police car.

They'll take him away and we'll follow.

- Yeah, but I want to stay with him.

- No, that's not the way it works.

I'm sorry, love. It's all right.

We're going with him. Just in this car, OK?

- But I should be with him.

- No, it's OK.

It's OK

DAD:
Dear Troy

we love you so much.

We always have...

and we always will.

We will spend the rest of our lives

asking ourselves where we went wrong.

What we did wrong.

We are sorry for anything that may have

contributed to your unhappiness with this life.

When he talked about his hopes, his fears...

...his anxieties and his disappointments,

I recognised the voice of

myself as a young man,

trying to make sense

of an apparently lunatic world.

I feel guilty.

Not because I could have done any more,

but because I know how painful it gets

to be locked into that private world.

I lived through it and somehow

was tossed out the other side.

Troy wasn't so lucky.

Derek and Marcia did all they

possibly could.

No parents ever loved so much

or so selflessly.

His sister, Kerry, the most caring

and compassionate woman

that I have ever met,

would have done anything for him.

But in the end, not even Miranda, the sister

to whom he was so close, could save him.

We will miss your energy,

your passions, your obsessions...

...and we will miss your life.

Our lives are more worthwhile,

fuller, more important,

and simply better,

because they have been touched by yours.

Thank you, Troy.

Let me get this straight.

You're suggesting that your brother-in-law to

be had some kind of bad influence on Troy?

Yes.

In my flat, before...

before, he said, "He's right,

you don't give a sh*t about us."

I mean, why would he say that?

He was so wound up as if someone

had been on at him, goading him.

According to Mr Block, they were

in the park in the morning.

Sounds harmless.

Yeah, but what were they talking about?

I mean, what was he saying to him?

He was living in your flat with your sister, yes?

Yeah.

Is there some kind of issue

between you and Mr Block?

Look, I don't like him very much, but you know.

"Troy actively sought me out.

He wanted to be with me."

Must have been hard.

Your brother's feeling bad.

Instead of talking to you, he confides in

this bloke that you don't like.

I believe Brendan encouraged Troy

to stop seeing his therapist,

to stop taking his medication.

Maybe he did.

Maybe he was trying to help

and got it wrong.

It was Troy's decision.

Miranda, Troy was a completely different

person when he was depressed.

He loved you.

He wouldn't have wanted to hurt you.

Well, he's dead now. How do we

know what he would have wanted?

There are some things we'll never understand.

Troy doing what he did is one of them.

Yeah.

He's right. You are drinking too much.

Who's right?

Brendan rang me. He said you went

to your mum's and were sloshed.

What business is it of his?

He's worried about you.

Everybody is, Miranda.

- What?

- He wants to make peace.

Hang on a minute.

- How did he get your phone number?

- I gave it to him at the funeral.

- Whose side are you on?

- Look, it's not a question of sides.

Come on. I know he's been a complete

prick in the past, I do,

but he's genuinely cut up about Troy.

Nothing is genuine with Brendan.

If you keep this feud up,

you won't see your family.

Because he's wormed his way in.

The one good thing that could come out of this

is that you and Brendan can make friends.

What's the matter with you?

Nothing.

- You're quite an unforgiving person.

- No, I'm not.

If you and I fell out, I hope we'd make up.

Of course we would.

I just want my friend back.

I'm here.

It's sort of a wedding present.

Not really... Anyway.

- Thank you.

- Thanks, Mirrie.

Oh, they're lovely.

- A bit grown-up.

- They're perfect.

They'll look great in our new home...

wherever it is.

Actually, because of everything,

we've cancelled the church wedding.

We'll have it at the registry office.

And then just have family

and friends back here.

Top-ups all round, I think.

Thank you.

- Can I help at all?

- I think I'm all right, thanks.

- Let me do that.

- Sure.

Thanks for being so good with my parents.

It's the least I can do.

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