Aniko: Shattered dreams of love

The accident

Laszlo arrived home, emotionally tired and very disappointed with Anikó. But he was not hurting, just scheming how he would get even with them. He told Rose entirely what had occurred, how Mary, Anikó and that spineless Joe had behaved. It was clear to him that Mary was pulling the strings, and she had retaken total control of Anikó again.

The commotion in the morning with Anikó in her room was when Mary must have told Anikó, "You have to get rid of Laszlo! Your feelings for him do not matter. Time to move on to find a wealthier fool, to hoodwink as many assets and valuables out of them as they could get."

Anikó delivered her performance, even if it was detrimental to her real feelings, as those feelings were not allowed to get hold of her psyche. The feelings of love and self-worth had to be eradicated from her mind, conscious and unconscious.

Mary had no scruples. She was just a conniving and dominating gypsy full of deceit and depravity. Mary wanted her own daughter to be her instrument of revenge against men. It was shameful how she had raised and destroyed the innocence and the love of her own child.

Laszlo understood the reality of the situation. He was not angry with Anikó. If anything, Laszlo felt pity for her. Both of them were so morally corrupt there was no point in him even trying to rescue Anikó and help her see just how wrong it was what her mother had forced upon her.

The only way he could help Anikó was what she had suggested to Laszlo many times. To take her and go away to another part of the world. Somewhere, so far from her mother, where she could never find her again, vanished like her father had. It was more clear to him now, why he had left. Anikó had such wonderful qualities she was bright, but she submitted totally to her mother's evil will when she was around her. Unfortunately, Laszlo did not had the means to do so.

Rose was very upset about how they had misled her and Laszlo once again. She could not believe the level of deceit they were capable of. Laszlo calmed her down and mentioned to her that he had a plan, a simple and efficient one. There was a car rental place not too far from where they lived. He would rent a car, go down tomorrow, and he would take the ring back and the camera too if he could. He didn't have to go to work it was boxing day, so they had to act quick. But to do this, Rose had to call Mary and demand that she wanted to see her and Anikó tomorrow in the afternoon. He knew that Mary and Anikó would not be around to avoid verbal wrath from Rose or Laszlo when they arrived. All that Laszlo had to do was find the ring and take it back with him. He would sell the ring for whatever he could get for it and pay it towards his Visa balance.

Rose picked up the phone and called. Mary picked up the phone, and was surprised that Rose called, she thought if anyone would call it would be Laszlo. Rose very firmly insisted that she wanted to talk to both of them in person and that she would be there tomorrow in the afternoon, and hung up. The trap was set.

Laszlo rented a car and took Rose as a decoy. Of course, Mary and Anikó were not around to avoid facing Rose's wrath, only Joe. He let them in, and they sat by the dining room table. The empty camera and lens boxes were around the pine tree, but Laszlo could not see the camera. They waited about half an hour, and Laszlo stood up and said he had to go to the bathroom. This was the clue that Rose had to talk to Joe to draw his attention away. Instead of going to the bathroom darted to Anikó's bedroom. The small dark blue ring box was on the top of her dresser, along with the camera. He put the ring box in his pocket and picked up the camera. Since Joe was not around when he gave the camera to Anikó, he would not know whose camera it was. When he appeared in the dining room, he faked a surprise.

"Oh, this is where my camera was! I left it here yesterday by accident, and I will take it home now. Joe, please tell Mary and Anikó that we waited for them, but now we have to return to Toronto."