Making Movies
Sandra’s Tricks
Chapter 13
The visiting room was crowded and my father leaned across the table and grasped my hands in his a sad expression on his face. “We went to visit Laura and Billy and just as I was pulling out of the drive way Sandra pushed Laura’s cat under the wheels and she was so upset I could not bring them” my father explained.
“She pushed Laura’s cat under the car wheels?” I repeated.
“Yes I saw her bend down at the back as I was reversing out of her drive way with the cat but I did not realise what she was doing” my father replied.
“She said that she is not going to let you see them when you get out, but you have an access order from the judge” my father said.
“An access order from the judge, but I would have to go back to the courts again, get a solicitor and all that and she is probably telling them all sorts of lies about me, alienating them from me so that they won’t even want to see me” I said sadly.
“It’s a shame Michael but there is nothing that we can do” my mother said nodding her head in agreement. “She has got millions, you ought to see it down there at
Battle, she showed us round, sunken baths and everything it must have cost a fortune” she said.
“She has not got millions Glad, she is filthy rich that is obvious” my father commented.
“Yes all the sunken baths, she is running a prostitution racket from there, and that is where she gets all her money from. I doubt if she works
over the Kings Road anymore” I observed.
“She said that she is running a beauty therapy business and she showed us her clinic and certificates, she has even marketed her own beauty products” my father said.
“That’s just a front and I know other hookers who take a six week course to get these bits of paper. It’s not a beauty clinic but a treatment room. She told me about it on a visit down the island once. She certainly is certainly earning lots of money though but I’ll show her when I get out” I said angrily.
“Don’t do anything silly Michael” my mother replied a worried look on her face.
“I mean that I will earn more money than her and when I am rich again I will get my children back” I vowed.
“Mick how are you going to get rich again so quickly, the shops are only selling a few copies under the counter to their regulars now and ripping people off, no one has got a licence believe me” my father said.
“Fuck the shops, I’m going to start a legitimate mail order business, I have it all planned and no one can stop me” I boasted.
“What hardcore blue films? Michael you will be back inside again, they have told me” my father said.
“Don’t worry Dad I am going to sell on video which is not covered by the Obscene Publications Act, and anyway it will all be legalised soon. Denmark was the first, I think it was 1967 and rape dropped over eighty per cent and now all of Europe, the Common Market is legalising it, the Labour government will legalise it soon. I have
been keeping up with things in here” I said.
My father looked at me doubt showing in his eyes.“We have not had a cup of tea yet Michael. I will go and get one. Do you want any chocolate or biscuits? he asked.
“I will have some digestive biscuits if they have got any” I replied.
My father walked off to the WVS canteen to join the queue of prison visitors who were purchasing lots of sweets, biscuits, tea, cakes, lemonade and orange juice for their loved ones.
“Mum don’t worry about me I am not going to do anything silly when I get out, I promise you. Anything I do will be legal and I have been studying English Law while I have been in here. I’ve got O level English Law and would have got the A level too but they would not let me take it but I studied it myself and I am studying it at degree level now” I assured my mother holding her hands.
END of read more: The best is yet to come. Mike
