Trailer Park Royalty

Part 2 Lot # 5 - Doug & Kelly Fisher

:: Trigger Warning! Some material in this section may be sensitive, or graphic::

After Nick introduces himself to Doug and Kelly, they head inside to enjoy their final day off from their jobs at BIC Pens and supplies. Doug is tall, balding, close to a middle-aged man, and an Area Expert at work, while Kelly, who's about two and half years younger with salt and pepper hair and a figure any teenage girl would kill to have, is a Senior Line Production worker. They're excited to get off work Monday afternoon as their social worker called a few days earlier to tell them that they have a foster and could end up in adoption if all things go right.

Kelly is especially excited since she has endometriosis, and every time throughout her 20's would suffer a painful miscarriage where she would be bedridden. Being the compassionate Southern Baptist Christian man, Doug always brought up the idea of adoption, but Kelly was convinced they would be blessed with a child. It wasn't until they went with their church on a missionary trip to India that her heart would fill with guilt, seeing babies underweight and suffering.

"C'mon Monday! I want to meet our foster child." Kelly tells Doug as they prepare dinner.

"It will come, my love. We need to stay calm. I'm excited, too; I get to be a dad, and I don't care what this child has been through, and we will support, nurture, and, God willing, become a family at last. It is our time, and our lord has finally blessed us." Doug replies while he chops up vegetables for homemade soup.

While the couple continues to make dinner, they can overhear Candie Garner and her oldest daughter arguing again. Doug and Kelly stare at the other and gulp when it dawns on them that it could be them in time with the child coming to them.

"My goodness, they're at it again. Trixie needs to get away from her mother. I don't mean to sound judgmental, but when she made that poor girl drop out of high school to help out with all her brothers and sisters, it just breaks my heart. I am glad she went and got her G-E-D, but she deserves better than being her mom's glorified babysitter." Doug says with a hint of concern to his voice.

Kelly nods then shakes her head with her eyes closed. The sounds of the mother-daughter verbal assault carry throughout the trailer park. There is so much yelling it draws Nick from his office to try to handle the situation. When he knocks on the door, Candie flings it open and screams in Nick's face.

"WHAT? WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT ASS-CLOWN?"

"Listen, Ms. Garner, I understand families argue, and all of that stuff, but you both need to bring it back down to an acceptable level. If not, I'll have to write up a noise complaint and file it as a strike against you." Nick politely informs her trying to keep a level head.

Candie leans against the door. She's a lean woman in her late thirties with brown hair and big brown eyes. She's a chain smoker, and she's had several kids since dropping out of high school and living off the welfare system. Trixie's oldest is nearly identical to her mother, with a lean figure with long brown hair and brown eyes, but Trixie refuses to smoke or get pregnant to get government assistance. Trixie wants more in life and wants away from her mother.

"Excuse me for bothering you, your majesty! Good God, I'm disagreeing with my daughter. It's not like I'm killing her or nothing. Get off my back, man." Candie says in a snarky manner.

How Candie comes across begins to annoy Nick. He stands there with his arms crossed and begins to tap his foot.

"Listen, how you talk to your child is on you, but how you talk to me has other consequences. I'm not the others that have come and gone as manager. I will toss you out of here in a heartbeat and call CPS if I ever hear, see, or expect any abuse on anyone in your home. I am here to ensure rules are followed and rent is paid on time. Do you understand what I'm telling you?"