Connie and Johnny

This story was never finished. I believe I wrote it as a backstory for a script idea I had in mind. Maybe someone who reads this can finish it and do something with it. It seems like an excellent start.


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Introduction:

One in every 200,000 births occurs like this. So horrible the birth that many times, the parents would dispose of their own children to escape the humiliation or the burden of having these children around. This mother in this particular case died while giving birth to Connie and Johnny, the Siamese twins from Kentucky. The mother was in labor for thirty-two painful hours, the screams could have possibly made Johnny partially deaf. But partially deaf he wasn't. He rather wanted to born completely stupid and so his wish was granted.

Johnny: He is the half of the Siamese twins that gave his part of the brain to his brighter, much more intelligent sister. Johnny had a rough childhood to say the least. He was always a quiet child, never went over someone's house to play board games nor did he have any friends to spend after school time with. He was in a special class but before long, had to be home schooled for the lack of any kind of sense. Soon his father gave up on him and just asked him to feed the chickens whenever he remembered how. So all Johnny ever did was go out to the chickens and throw them pellets of food and go into the barn to exercise. Now what people say about jocks and how dumb they are probably goes in reverse as well. Johnny was one stupid fellow, but he was stronger than anyone in his town and the state for that matter. He went into the barn and lifted weights until his father called him in for dinner. And still he continued to lift weights partially because he was too stupid to realize that his father was calling him. The lack of any kind of intelligence gave him brute strength that was unimaginable in those days. He was a beast, with a beast like temper to match. Anything that would upset him, he would release his frustration with his mighty fist, that must have weighed fifty pounds alone. He once even flattened his father to the kitchen door, just picked him up and threw him, not thinking twice about any consequences for no one was able to discipline him. No one but his sister.

Connie: She is the intelligent half of the Siamese twins. She is half the size of Johnny but has taken most of his brains and quiet smart, even for her own age group. You see, the twins are still attached, and with Johnny lifting weights all the time and not being able to go to school and learn, Connie was forced to dangle from Johnny's head and teach herself all the essentials of life. Connie was a well-spoken lady, being able to annunciate all the proper syllables and knew all the synonyms to the words Johnny can only hope to learn in his lifetime. Connie was a small girl, not much physical mass to her at all but then again, she had Johnny for that.

Part 1: On the farm

"I want to be separated" exclaimed Connie. Connie was in one of her foul morning moods and the thought of being stuck head to head with Johnny for the rest of her life wanted to make her kill herself. She threatened Johnny that he’d just have a dead corpse hanging from his head by the day’s end. Her father tried to calm her and held her hands to his heart. “You hear this pulse, that’s my life. I will gladly give it to the either of you if you asked.” Connie being the devilish one, asked for it and when she realized it was all a metaphor, she wanted the separation again and threatened to kill herself. There were many attempts at this separation but was foiled by their father. Connie would deceive Johnny into using his massive strength to try and detach her head from his. Nothing worked, and fortunately for them because any physical removal of either person from the other, would cause immediate nerve damage to the brain killing them both instantaneously. It was difficult for the father and Johnny to deal with Connie’s tantrums sometimes, but for the most, the two men took it well.
Johnny adored Connie for she was his better half. Johnny admired the fact that she was able to read and that she was able to analyze things and comprehend meanings. Johnny knew that as long as he had Connie attached to his head, he wouldn’t have to feel handicapped in terms of information. Connie was bitter towards the fact she lacked any physical strength and blamed Johnny for that but she knew it was a fair trade off and soon realized that Johnny was more than just a brother to her. He was her. The father loved both of his kids, even if they were part of the same and treated them both as complete separate individuals. Two birthday presents, two Christmas presents.
So they all lived peacefully on their farm, a bitter but sweet Connie, a stubborn but child-like Johnny and a headstrong family head in the form of their father.

Part 2: Life experiences

The family never ventured past their property lines, most of their daily needs were self produced and completely self dependent, but on occasion the father would travel out to indulge just a little, getting some chocolate for his two children and a copy of the next alphabet in the encyclopedia, the local shop carried. Right now, they are on the letter “L.”
The reason that they never traveled outside much was the fact that there were terrible stories about the twins going on. They weren’t accepted at school so they were home schooled. The kids can be so cruel and they would come to the farm to throw rocks and sticks and anything else they can find in the near vicinity. That was the reason the father put up a high fence, closing them off from the rest of the world. The parents were just as cruel and gave the father a dirty stare whenever he came into town as if he was the owner of a two headed monster. Soon, even the friends he had before stopped visiting, probably from the pressure of the town’s people.
This never bothered the father. Yes his wife was taken away from the birth of his twins and yes, he has secluded himself from any form of a social life because of his twins but he loved them so. He became a father, a dream he had for many years and something that he thought he was never able to attain. His wife was a beautiful much younger bride who he met at a local town meeting. She had just moved into the neighborhood and with the blessing of their parents, married underneath the twinkling skies at the local recreational center. She vowed to give him many children in exchange for comfort and stability but was a vow she could not keep. They had tried for twenty years until she nearly reached the age of forty and still was unable to bear children. The father had become the brunt of all jokes in town and was ridiculed by even the closest of friends. They’d given up any hope of having children but to much surprise, the twins were born. The process was all too traumatic for his wife and soon she passed but not before leaving a pair of children attached at the head, who would become a social outcast and an oddity tailor made for the freak show or the traveling circus. All this the father took in as a gift from God and thanked the Lord for providing him with children despite many of the unfortunate events.
The father was raised up with protestant values and possessed strong family morals. He was an only child who never had many friends so the longing of a large family was there from the start so there was no possible way he could go on and despise his children for they are the product of his prayers for so many years.