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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Karin Schill" data-source="post: 27518">Thank you Silvie. I'm glad that you think my story keeps getting better and better. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Here's another update:Back at Afton & Becky’s townhouse. The laughter could be heard a long way, as Cliff and Becky obviously had a good time playing video games. “Yes! My win again!” Becky screamed excitedly, “You lost our bet so prepare yourself to do the dishes!” Becky grinned towards Cliff when his little Super Mario man once again missed a jump and fell down a high steep.“Yeah, yeah, seems like. I guess I must have forgotten more than I thought…”“You can say that again, you’ve lost ten times in a row now,” Becky giggled delighted, before adding, “You really haven’t played lately now have you?”“Okay you’ve got me,” Cliff admitted. “I haven’t practiced in a long time. Still I thought it was like learning how to ride a bike. You know once you’ve learnt it…”“You’ll never forget it?” Becky finished his sentence. “Nah this is video games and it’s way harder than riding a bike, as they invent new games all the time and for every new game you need to practice to make perfect.”“I’ve noticed,” Cliff muttered. Sure he had expected her to win their bet. But he hadn’t expected to suck just this much on videogames.“So now tell me how long has it been since you’ve last played?”“Honest?”“Yeah,” Becky nodded.“Um…I don’t know for sure but I think that it was around 11 years ago.”“11 years?” Becky exclaimed. “But that’s a lifetime!”“I know it must seem that way to you. Still it doesn’t seem that long ago to me, as I remember it all like it was yesterday. You’ll see back then it used to be me, Pam, that was my sister, her boyfriend Mark and…”Cliff was just about to tell Becky that her mother used to be a part of the group when Becky suddenly interrupted him, “Was?” Becky pondered. “Why was?” Becky asked. “Is your sister dead?”“No she’s not but…” Cliff shook his head before sighing heavily. “It’s complicated…I’ll tell you all about her some other time, since well you deserve to know all about the woman you’re named after.”“The woman I’m named after?” Becky asked. “You mean my mom used to know your sister?”“Yes they knew each other well…”“Cool.”“I’m glad you think so.”“So how did they know each other?”“Well considering the fact that I used to date your mom back then I’d…” Cliff didn’t even get further before Becky interrupted him again.“Wow! You used to date my mom?” Becky’s eyes got wide with surprise, but also with excitement. Since she liked Cliff and knowing that he was together with her mom before she was born, she was hoping that he might know something about her dad.“Yes sure did,” Cliff confirmed with a smile.“That’s so cool, so does that mean that…you um…know anything about my dad?” Becky wondered hopefully. Cliff gave her a weird glance, “About your dad?”“Yeah I know it must sound like a strange request. It’s just that mom never talks about him and I was sort of hoping that you’d know something…”“Well I do know something…”“So did you know him?”“Yeah but you know Becky this is a conversation you ought to have with your mother…”“I’ve tried to but she won’t say a thing, please Cliff can’t you tell me something about him?” Becky asked pleadingly. “What’s he like?”“Um…well he used to be sort of stupid…”“Stupid?” Becky echoed before shaking her head, “No way I won’t buy that, not my dad.”“Yes Becky he was stupid, since he put his career before your mom, causing her to leave him before he even found out about you…”“Oh well, yeah that’s stupid…” Becky agreed. “Still you said used to be, so what’s he like now…”“Well now he knows better but he’s still pretty lousy at video games apparently,” Cliff gave Becky his best smile.Becky’s eyes went wide as realization dawned on her. “You’re my dad?” She exclaimed happily. “Are you telling me that you’re my father?”“Yes,” Cliff nodded proudly and daughter and father embraced each other in a hug when the door suddenly opened and Afton arrived on the scene just in time to see them.“Cliff?” Afton’s face paled, as she recognized their houseguest. “What are you doing here?” She panicked. “How did you find us?” Afton asked in a shrill voice, but Cliff didn’t even have the chance to answer before Becky started talking. “Guess what mom?” Becky exclaimed happily. “Cliff tells me that he’s my dad!”Hearing that and looking from Cliff’s smiling face to Becky’s smiling face Afton could feel her whole world start to spin. Oh no! This isn’t happening. Why oh why did he have to find us? And why did he tell Becky? He had no right to and…does this mean he’s gonna be in our lives now? What if Becky wanna see him? Or worse live with him instead of me? The thoughts whirled around in Afton’s mind and just the mere idea of that Cliff would want to take her daughter away from her made her feel dizzy. It finally became too much for Afton and her legs pulled out from underneath her, as she passed out.Seeing her mother collapse Becky jumped up, screaming worriedly, “MOM!” “Afton!” Cliff yelled and the two of them ran over to Afton.“Mom wake up! Mom wake up!” Becky started crying almost hysterically, as she touched her mother’s cheek.“Becky calm down!” Cliff tried to tell her.“Calm down?” Becky cried. “I can’t calm down, it’s something wrong with my mom, what if she dies?”“No, no Becky your mother won’t die. She has just passed out,” Cliff replied rationally. “Now if you could help me move her to the couch I’m sure she’ll come to soon,” Cliff then told Becky, who reluctantly did as she was told and then a worried Cliff and Becky sat down by Afton’s side waiting for her to wake up…</blockquote>

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