The Love of a Father
Fade In:
INT. BEDROOM - DAY
EXT. BUSY STREET - DAY
African America teenaged female Octavia lies there as her father African American male Robert ignored the tears that fell from her eyes and fear she showed while he continued to rape her.
INT: LIVING ROOM
Octavia's African American mother Candace walked into the house from work and went to change her clothes to prepare dinner.
INT: BATHROOM - DAY
Octavia got in the shower to prepare herself for dinner. She put her hands over her face and cried.
Octavia stood in front of the mirror applying make-up. She applys blush to her cheeks to appear happy.
INT: KITCHEN- NIGHT
Candace dropped the battered chicken in the grease and began to mix the mash potatoes. Candace jumped back from the stove to try and avoid being burned by the chicken grease.
Candace called everyone down to dinner
INT: HALLWAY- NIGHT
Octavia's African American brother Myron came into the hallway first and began to walk down the stairs.
Robert then follows Myron
INT: DINING ROOM- NIGHT
Myron, Candace, ad Robert sit down at the table.
Myron hollered for Octavia to come downstairs so they could eat.
INT: HALLWAY- NIGHT
Octavia slowly walked down the stairs into the dining room.
Octavia sat down next to her brother and they ate.
INT: KITCHEN
Myron put his plate on the counter the went to his room
Octavia then put her plate in the sink and began to run the dishwater
INT: DINING ROOM- NIGHT
Robert got up from the table and began to walk towards the door.
INT: LIVING ROOM- NIGHT
Robert grabbed his keys from the mantle and left.
EXT: THE GARAGE
Robert gets in the car and crys while he drives to D.J's House
“ I don’t known Robert I will see what he says but I think he really wants his money now, but I will see if he will give you an extension. But if he doesn’t you need to either find his money, or something that’s just as valuable as money.”
Robert went home wondering how he was going to pay D.J. because he was not one of those people you just wanted to mess with, you just didn’t want to owe D.J. anything.
“If only I could get this money,” Robert thought to himself.
While driving home Robert thought of ways he could try to attain some money but $20,000 is not just so easy to come by, if only he wouldn’t have had that minor gambling problem he would be okay, but we can’t focus life on the shoulda couldha wouldha’s.
Back at home Octavia was wishing that her mother would find out about the sexual activities going on between her and her father so that something could be done, because she really didn’t know how much longer she could continue this type of abuse.
INT: BEDROOM- NIGHT
“Ashley, girl I really need your help?” said Octavia to her best friend Ashley
“ Sure girl anything, whassap?”
“I need you to help me get a job and then eventually move out.”
“Tavia, is your father starting to get to you again?”
“Girl yes, the more and more I try to avoid him, he always finds the time to get what he wants. I just wish one day my mother could walk in and see him forcing me to have sex with him and help me.”
“ Then why don’t you just tell her or set it up?”
“Well I doubt if she would believe it, I mean its her husband, her companion for 23 yrs. And the father of her kids. I mean its happening directly to me and I could hardly believe it.”
“Well if you want it to stop you have to do something, whether you think someone would believe you or not.”
“I know, thanks for talking to me, and I’m going to call you later I’m about to get ready to go to sleep.
About two weeks has gone by and Robert decides that the only way he could try to get $20,000 was from borrowing it from the bank, hopefully his wife Candace wouldn‘t find out.
“ Sure girl anything, whassap?”
“I need you to help me get a job and then eventually move out.”
“Tavia, is your father starting to get to you again?”
“Girl yes, the more and more I try to avoid him, he always finds the time to get what he wants. I just wish one day my mother could walk in and see him forcing me to have sex with him and help me.”
“ Then why don’t you just tell her or set it up?”
“Well I doubt if she would believe it, I mean its her husband, her companion for 23 yrs. And the father of her kids. I mean its happening directly to me and I could hardly believe it.”
“Well if you want it to stop you have to do something, whether you think someone would believe you or not.”
“I know, thanks for talking to me, and I’m going to call you later I’m about to get ready to go to sleep.
About two weeks has gone by and Robert decides that the only way he could try to get $20,000 was from borrowing it from the bank, hopefully his wife Candace wouldn‘t find out.
INT: BANK
“Good Afternoon, thank you for choosing Bank of America how may I help you.
“ Yes, I was interested in a small loan.”
“ May I see some identification and how much would you like to borrow?”
“ Here you are, and I would like to borrow $20,000.
“ I see, when were you looking to pay this back and what is your collateral?”
“ I honestly don’t know when I could pay it back, and I don’t have any collateral but I do have a savings and checking’s account here with my wife, but I don’t want this to tie in with that.”
“Well Mr. Gordon since you don’t know when you could pay the loan back nor do you have any collateral the most I could give you is $15,000.”
Robert thought quickly to himself and said that $15,000 would be better to have than nothing at all. So he got the money from the banker then left and immediately called Mike.
“Mike, this is Robert and um……..”
“Go ahead, D.J. is sitting here with me and he said today is the day!”
“Well I am 5,000 short”
Click…………………..
“ Yes, I was interested in a small loan.”
“ May I see some identification and how much would you like to borrow?”
“ Here you are, and I would like to borrow $20,000.
“ I see, when were you looking to pay this back and what is your collateral?”
“ I honestly don’t know when I could pay it back, and I don’t have any collateral but I do have a savings and checking’s account here with my wife, but I don’t want this to tie in with that.”
“Well Mr. Gordon since you don’t know when you could pay the loan back nor do you have any collateral the most I could give you is $15,000.”
Robert thought quickly to himself and said that $15,000 would be better to have than nothing at all. So he got the money from the banker then left and immediately called Mike.
“Mike, this is Robert and um……..”
“Go ahead, D.J. is sitting here with me and he said today is the day!”
“Well I am 5,000 short”
Click…………………..
INT: LIVING ROOM
“Craps, he hung up…. What am I going to do. Think Robert think. Think quickly. Maybe I could make some runs for him, go scare a few people, do a couple of business meetings.. Come on lets be real thats just ain’t in me. Let me just call back.”
“Mike, can I speak to D.J. personally?”
“He said talk he could here you.”
“Look I really don’t know what else to do.”
“Okay I’ll tell you what. Here is two things you could you do. First I want Octavia she looking kind of nice.”
“Tavia my daughter?”
“Yeah your daughter, then you have to make a couple of runs for me.”
“Um…… you sure these are my only options?”
“Yes or you loose your life, and slowly.”
Robert drove home in disgust he really didn’t know what to do he didn’t want to loose his life nor did he want to give up his daughter, it was bad enough he had been sleeping with her since she was fourteen, now he would have to share her with D.J. and God only knows what he would try to do to her. But what else could he do. As Robert pulled up to his home, his son was outside playing basketball, and Octavia was on the porch talking to one of her friends.
“Hey Myron?”
“Hey dad what’s good?”
“Nothing much, bout to take your sister to the mall.”
“Um okay, pick me up some Harold’s on the way home please.”
“Okay”
“Dad please go to the one on 87th St. you know that the best Harold’s in Chicago. If they closed down I wouldn’t know what to do.”
“I got you”
“ Octavia” yelled her father to get her attention.
As soon as Octavia saw her father she immediately got sick and wanted to go.
“Tavia go grab your jacket, I want you to ride with me to go get your brother something to eat.”
Oh God I hope he is not going to try to have sex in the car, Octavia thought to herself.
“Okay.”
In the car on the way to D.J.’s house Robert decided that it was best that he told Octavia what he needed her to do so it wouldn’t come as a surprise.
“Octavia were bought to go over a man named D.J.’s house. “D.J.? The same D.J. who stays on 105th GD D.J.”
“Yeah that D.J.”
“For what and how and why do you know him”
“ Well he loaned me some money a couple of months back, and he wants it back but I only have some of …
“How much is some money dad?”
“why”
“Well I’m going with you so you might as well tell me.”
“$20,000”
“$20,000 for what, and what do I need to go for.”
“Don’t worry about all of that. Basically I only have $15,000, so he said bring you to him and make a couple of runs for him an then we would be even.”
“And you doing right?”
“What else was I supposed to do, he would kill me, do you want your father to die?”
“Honestly, I wouldn’t give a damn..”
“ Aye watch your mouth”
“Oh excuse my potty mouth”
Octavia began to cry and her father knew how much this was hurting her but he didn’t think he had any other choice. They were almost at D.J.’s place.
“Alright, Mike were outside”
“Come In”
“Well her she, now what runs do I have to make?”
“Well D.J. said that you will do the runs after you watch.”
“Watch? I have to watch him do my daughter.”
“That’s what he said.”
“He is really sick!!” Robert said angrily
Robert watched in anguish and disgust as D.J. had sex with his daughter, then Mike got his turn. Although that was not part of the plan, there was nothing he could really do.
Octavia cried frantically wanting to just die whether than being forced to have intercourse with both of these men. When they were both done Robert left and made the runs and then came back to get Octavia, and they drove home in silence.
Prior to going into the house Robert spoke.
“Tavia thank you, I am so sorry for the pain and hurt you endured today, but I love you.”
“ Well I hate you, I HATE YOU with a true passions and I wish that God would remove one of us from this earth and made you rot in hell.”
“Well”
“Yeah well”
Months passed and everything seemed like it was going fine. Robert hadn’t slept with Octavia after the time before she slept with D.J. everyone was doing fine, until Octavia went to the doctor and found out she was pregnant. She didn’t know who the father of her baby was. It was between three men and she didn’t know who’s it could be. Octavia went home to tell her father, but he told her he didn’t care and she was to have an abortion but that wasn’t on her agenda she wanted to keep the baby. Two weeks later her father asked if she had gotten rid of it.
“Octavia have you had an abortion yet?”
“No!”
“And why not?”
“Because I’m not having one, this baby is apart of me and I want to keep it, its my body I’ve let you use it for too long now and I will do as I please and I want to keep the baby and that’s what I will do.”
“No the Hell you will not, Octavia you will get rid of it and do it now!!” Robert was highly upset and yelled at Octavia, but forgot Candace was in the house and could here them.
“ Or else what Robert? What are you talking about and in such tone to our daughter” said Candace Octavia’s mother
“Yeah dad what are YOU talking about?”
“Shut up Tavia, nothing honey”
“Well it didn’t seem like nothing!”
“Yeah daddy it didn’t seem like nothing.”
“Tavia I’m not going to ask you again to shut up.”
“What? You know what mom, me and dad were discussing what we were going to do about this baby that’s in my stomach that may be fathered by him, or the other two men that he forced me to sleep with.”
“What wait say that again?”
“ We were discussing..”
“She’s lying Candace she’s sick and don’t know what she’s saying.”
“Yes I do mom. Daddy just doesn’t want you to know.”
“You know what…” said Robert before he slapped Octavia, she fell to the floor and he began to kick her yelling she’s lying. Candace tried to stop him but couldn’t and was hit in the process. Robert then started to beat his wife out of anger. During this time Octavia was able to get up, she went in the kitchen got a knife and started stabbing her father repeatedly. Although her father had died after the third piercing of the knife into his heart, Octavia continued to stab him out of anger. When the police came Candace and Octavia told them that it was act of self-defense because of what he was doing to them. The police believed them. A week later the funeral was held and Octavia had a miscarriage. Candace was upset that Octavia never told her what her father was doing to her, but Octavia is just glad that its all over, and Myron is just in shock.
FADE OUT:
“Mike, can I speak to D.J. personally?”
“He said talk he could here you.”
“Look I really don’t know what else to do.”
“Okay I’ll tell you what. Here is two things you could you do. First I want Octavia she looking kind of nice.”
“Tavia my daughter?”
“Yeah your daughter, then you have to make a couple of runs for me.”
“Um…… you sure these are my only options?”
“Yes or you loose your life, and slowly.”
Robert drove home in disgust he really didn’t know what to do he didn’t want to loose his life nor did he want to give up his daughter, it was bad enough he had been sleeping with her since she was fourteen, now he would have to share her with D.J. and God only knows what he would try to do to her. But what else could he do. As Robert pulled up to his home, his son was outside playing basketball, and Octavia was on the porch talking to one of her friends.
“Hey Myron?”
“Hey dad what’s good?”
“Nothing much, bout to take your sister to the mall.”
“Um okay, pick me up some Harold’s on the way home please.”
“Okay”
“Dad please go to the one on 87th St. you know that the best Harold’s in Chicago. If they closed down I wouldn’t know what to do.”
“I got you”
“ Octavia” yelled her father to get her attention.
As soon as Octavia saw her father she immediately got sick and wanted to go.
“Tavia go grab your jacket, I want you to ride with me to go get your brother something to eat.”
Oh God I hope he is not going to try to have sex in the car, Octavia thought to herself.
“Okay.”
In the car on the way to D.J.’s house Robert decided that it was best that he told Octavia what he needed her to do so it wouldn’t come as a surprise.
“Octavia were bought to go over a man named D.J.’s house. “D.J.? The same D.J. who stays on 105th GD D.J.”
“Yeah that D.J.”
“For what and how and why do you know him”
“ Well he loaned me some money a couple of months back, and he wants it back but I only have some of …
“How much is some money dad?”
“why”
“Well I’m going with you so you might as well tell me.”
“$20,000”
“$20,000 for what, and what do I need to go for.”
“Don’t worry about all of that. Basically I only have $15,000, so he said bring you to him and make a couple of runs for him an then we would be even.”
“And you doing right?”
“What else was I supposed to do, he would kill me, do you want your father to die?”
“Honestly, I wouldn’t give a damn..”
“ Aye watch your mouth”
“Oh excuse my potty mouth”
Octavia began to cry and her father knew how much this was hurting her but he didn’t think he had any other choice. They were almost at D.J.’s place.
“Alright, Mike were outside”
“Come In”
“Well her she, now what runs do I have to make?”
“Well D.J. said that you will do the runs after you watch.”
“Watch? I have to watch him do my daughter.”
“That’s what he said.”
“He is really sick!!” Robert said angrily
Robert watched in anguish and disgust as D.J. had sex with his daughter, then Mike got his turn. Although that was not part of the plan, there was nothing he could really do.
Octavia cried frantically wanting to just die whether than being forced to have intercourse with both of these men. When they were both done Robert left and made the runs and then came back to get Octavia, and they drove home in silence.
Prior to going into the house Robert spoke.
“Tavia thank you, I am so sorry for the pain and hurt you endured today, but I love you.”
“ Well I hate you, I HATE YOU with a true passions and I wish that God would remove one of us from this earth and made you rot in hell.”
“Well”
“Yeah well”
Months passed and everything seemed like it was going fine. Robert hadn’t slept with Octavia after the time before she slept with D.J. everyone was doing fine, until Octavia went to the doctor and found out she was pregnant. She didn’t know who the father of her baby was. It was between three men and she didn’t know who’s it could be. Octavia went home to tell her father, but he told her he didn’t care and she was to have an abortion but that wasn’t on her agenda she wanted to keep the baby. Two weeks later her father asked if she had gotten rid of it.
“Octavia have you had an abortion yet?”
“No!”
“And why not?”
“Because I’m not having one, this baby is apart of me and I want to keep it, its my body I’ve let you use it for too long now and I will do as I please and I want to keep the baby and that’s what I will do.”
“No the Hell you will not, Octavia you will get rid of it and do it now!!” Robert was highly upset and yelled at Octavia, but forgot Candace was in the house and could here them.
“ Or else what Robert? What are you talking about and in such tone to our daughter” said Candace Octavia’s mother
“Yeah dad what are YOU talking about?”
“Shut up Tavia, nothing honey”
“Well it didn’t seem like nothing!”
“Yeah daddy it didn’t seem like nothing.”
“Tavia I’m not going to ask you again to shut up.”
“What? You know what mom, me and dad were discussing what we were going to do about this baby that’s in my stomach that may be fathered by him, or the other two men that he forced me to sleep with.”
“What wait say that again?”
“ We were discussing..”
“She’s lying Candace she’s sick and don’t know what she’s saying.”
“Yes I do mom. Daddy just doesn’t want you to know.”
“You know what…” said Robert before he slapped Octavia, she fell to the floor and he began to kick her yelling she’s lying. Candace tried to stop him but couldn’t and was hit in the process. Robert then started to beat his wife out of anger. During this time Octavia was able to get up, she went in the kitchen got a knife and started stabbing her father repeatedly. Although her father had died after the third piercing of the knife into his heart, Octavia continued to stab him out of anger. When the police came Candace and Octavia told them that it was act of self-defense because of what he was doing to them. The police believed them. A week later the funeral was held and Octavia had a miscarriage. Candace was upset that Octavia never told her what her father was doing to her, but Octavia is just glad that its all over, and Myron is just in shock.
FADE OUT:
