Unexpected

Revenge.

After talking to Marjorie, Ivy made her way home. She dreaded taking the test, but she knew she had to do it.

Once she arrived home, Clara was there waiting for her. "It's about time." She rolled her eyes.

"Sorry." Ivy whimpered.

"You'd better be. Now go and take that test." Clara demanded as she kicked Ivy in the shin with the tip of her heel.

"Ow!!" Ivy cried. "Stop it!!"

Clara loosened her grip on Ivy and watched her scurry up the stairs.

Ivy locked herself in the bathroom and took the test, she set a timer on her phone and then called Marjorie.

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"Ivy? Are you home now?" Marjorie asked.

"Yeah." Ivy sobbed.

"Aw sweetheart, why are you crying." Marjorie asked. Serena was crying in the background. "Sh." Marjorie tried to soothe the baby while speaking to Ivy on the phone.

"You know what- I'll call you later, baby sounds unsettled." Ivy whimpered as she hung up.

She knew she didn't have Marjorie's full attention, maybe she was a little jealous of her sister, spending all this time with Marjorie and Marjorie doing things with Serena that she never got chance to do with Ivy.

Clara banged on the bathroom door and Ivy opened the door.

"You'd better be praying that this test is negative little miss." Clara snapped. She clenched the test in her hand before looking at it. She let out a sigh of relief. "You might have just been lucky, but that's no excuse. You are not to see your boyfriend and you are most definitely not to engage in any..." she paused for a second. "Activities."

Tears rolled down Ivy's cheeks. "But- mum I love him." She cried.

Clara grabbed Ivy and pinned her against the wall. She shouted "love is weakness!! You don't love him. Even if you did, you won't be seeing him now. You're so pathetic!!" She then punched ivy across the face causing her to fall to the ground.

Clara left the bathroom, leaving Ivy sat on the floor, holding her eye and staring at the bruises that covered her from head to toe. She then called Marjorie.

"Ivy, speak to me. I've just set Serena down for a nap, you have my full attention sweetheart." Marjorie smiled.

"She's hurting me." Ivy whispered.

"That woman- right, I'll deal with her.. what about the test? What did it say?" Marjorie asked.

"Negative." Ivy replied.

"Are you okay? Even though it was negative, it can still be quite scary."

"I don't know at this point. I'm not even allowed to leave the house." Ivy whispered. "If she catches me on the phone to you..god knows what she'll do"

"Sweetheart- If you don't feel safe in your own home then there's a problem." Marjorie sounded worried.

"I've got to go. Bye." Ivy said dryly as she hung up.

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Marjorie was stressing, Serena wouldn't settle, Reece was on the late shift and she was worried sick about Ivy.

About an hour later, Reece arrived home.

He walked into the living room. "Hey sweetheart!!" He smiled as he took Serena out of Marjorie's arms and into his own. "I missed you." He said as he placed a gentle kiss on her head.

"Reece." Marjorie began.

"Yeah?" He replied as he sat down next to Marjorie.

"I need you to watch Serena for an hour or so, will you be alright with that?" She asked.

"Yeah, why, where are you going?" He asked, sensing the anger in Marjorie's eyes.

"Well- I need to get ready first, but I'll explain later, I don't need you worrying about me." She snapped as she made her way upstairs.

She put on some red high heels, black trousers with a black bodysuit, a leather jacket and some leather gloves. Once she was dressed, she topped up on makeup and perfume, went over her hair with the straighteners and went downstairs to say goodbye to Reece and Serena.

"Right, I'm off." She smiled and took Serena from Reece's arms. "I'll be back soon my darling, I love you." She tickled Serena and gave her a quick kiss.

Reece stared at Marjorie. "I'd love to know where you're going dressed like that.."

Marjorie shrugged. "Dressed like what?"

"I haven't seen you in those heels since before you got pregnant.. is this a special occasion or something?" He questioned.

"I suppose you could call it that." She gave Reece a kiss and grabbed her phone and bag from the table. 

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She sat in her car, turned on the engine and began to drive to Clara's house. She had rehearsed what she would say to Clara in her head a million times, once she pulled up, she took a deep breath and walked toward the door.

She knocked the door.

Clara opened the door and looked shocked, she rolled her eyes. "Mrs knight, Ivy doesn't want to see you."

Marjorie smirked. "Great, I'm not here to see Ivy.. I'm here to see you."

"I don't have all the time in the world, hurry up." Clara snapped.

"I was with ivy yesterday, she told me what you've done to her, the bruises and cuts.. they're all over her. How dare you? What kind of mother treats their daughter like that?" Marjorie shouted.

"She's not my daughter, I'd be embarrassed if I were related to her. She deserves to be treated the way I treat her, she's a disgrace." Clara yelled back.

"No. Nobody deserves to be treated the way you treat Ivy." Marjorie argued.

"Oh really? And how would you know?" Clara asked.

Marjorie went silent for a second. "B-because my mum was exactly the same."

"Whatever, I can treat Ivy however I like, and that includes taking her away from you." Clara snapped.

"You're a sociopath. You are seriously out of your mind." Marjorie began.

Clara scoffed. "Am I now!?"

Marjorie nodded. "Look, I don't care what happens to me, I definitely don't care what happens to you but I do care about what happens to my daughter, and I'm not going to let you get away with this."

"Really?" Clara laughed.

Marjorie took a step closer to Clara and began to click her knuckles. "You hurt ivy, you tried to take away someone that I love, and now Im taking back my daughter." Marjorie threatened.

"Is that so?" Clara giggled.

"Watch me." Marjorie turned on her heel and headed back to her car.

For once, Clara felt scared. Marjorie's plan was working.

Marjorie was seeking revenge.