Ordeal by Cheque by Brittany Martin

     A rich man named Laurence Exeter the first’s wife gave birth to a little baby boy. He bought his little son everything he could ever want and need.He also paid the doctor who helped his wife give birth to the baby.He gave his son his namesake of Lauernce.When he was 3Laurence Sr. sent his son to a nice private school for boys.He did great in private  school so he bought him a new bike. However when he got older, his sweet attitude started to change. His mother didn’t know what to do with him. So his father sent him to military school.Laurence felt like his son was too spoiled so he decided to spoil himself. He bought himself a beautiful black cadillac. Laurence Jr. got jealous and decided to steal his car to impress girls. While driving pass a gang of groupies, he lost track of the road and crashed his dad’s car. Laurence Sr. was furious,but paid for the car to be fixed anyway.
    Laurence Jr. got excepted into Standford University. Laurence Sr. was so proud of his son that he paid for his son’s entire tutition and books. While in college, he met a girl named Daisy Windsor. They thought they were in love, until he found out she was pregnant. He immidately told his father to send him the money to have and abortion. After that he never spoke to her again. To eacape the drama with his son,Laurence Sr. bought a huge boat and took a tripto France. He put money into a french bakn account so that he’d be rich there too. While in France, he became interested in a pretty french translator. He buys her flowers to win her over and it worked. The two began to date and  they quickly fell in love.Not long after dating, he asked his lady love to move in with him. He pays a fancy decorator to decorate his entire house the way she wants it.
    After a few months of  dating, he finally asks the girl to marry him. Right after the wedding was over, they went to Hawaii for their honeymoon.When his son turned 21, he gave him is inheritance money. Right after that, he rented a hotel room and filled it with flowers and chocolates.Laurence Exeter also proposed to a girl and he gives her everything from a beautiful wedding dress to lingerie for the honeymoon. In order to pay for all of the things his wife wanted, he borrowed money from a n Italian gang member named Tony Spagoni. Tony told Laurence that he was to pat him back with intrest or they would kill him. He and his wife did not get along so well. He tried to buy her stuff to make her happy, but it didn’t work. She decides to leave him anyway and takes 50 thousand from him. Laurence had to pay thousands of dollars to buy attorneys to keep his soon -to –be ex-wife from taking all of his inheritance. He lost the court case and had to pay his ex 5 thousand dollars. He tried to arrange a deal with her but it didn’t work so he had to continue to pay lawyers to defend himself. Tony Spagoni came to Laurence to collect the debt he owed him. Laurence gave him all he could, but Tony didn’t accepted it. He sent his gang members to kill Laurence Jr. at once. While in his office trying to pay off his little bit of debt, the gang invaded his office and shot Jr. 3 times in the chest. Laurence Sr. paid the same hospital and the same doctor who gave birth to him, but this time it was for a sadder reason.Jr. died at only27. He will be missed…..                                                                                                      

Ordeal by Cheque by Amanda Ash.

Mr. Lawrence Exeter was a very wealthy man, he had a good lifestyle, with good morals. On August 30th, 1903, Mr. Exeter was delighted with the news his wife presented him of there first born child. Stunned with utter happiness he ran to the high class, designer baby store, Goosie Yander Baby Shoppe. He showered his wife with gifts for the arrival of their baby. Shortly after on September 2, 1903, Mr. Exeter and his wife visited the Hollywood Hospital to see the doctor to find out when the due date would be and to request a certain doctor that's trusted in the family. They delivered a baby boy, which they spoiled as well with gifts. He was sent to a school for boys. He suceeded there and was sent a bike to pay off for all his hard work.

Mr. Exeter had the idea for dicipline to said his son to a military academey. His son was doing so well and his 16th birthday rolled around, he was gifted with a Cadillac. That was the best present the kid could ever think of because he used that car everyday, he eventually had to get repairs on it. He drove that car all the way to Stanford University for his college education. While at college, he meets a pretty, young girl that he'd like to claim his. He got engaged to Miss Daisy Windsor. In celebration of their engagement and to get closer to each other, his dad bought his son a boat and they sailed to Europe for a party in France. Shortly after there arrival back to the United States the son got married, which the father paid for only the best of the best flowers. He helped his son out with buying relastate, and even better, interior designers to help him out. Now Mr. Exeter strongly approved of his son's choosing in women, he bought her a ring for there aniversy as well as a cruis ship. Mr. Exeter also knew that he was getting older, and his time to go was nigh so he sent his son half of his wealth, and booked into a hotel so he could have luxery for his ladt days. Flowers were bought by his wife in memory of his funeral.

The cheque book got inherited down to Mr. Exeter Jr. With all this money being handed to him, the spoiled kid let his imagination go free. He was always used to getting what he wanted, and that meant everything he wanted. Mr. Exeter Jr always had new things as well, so nothing stayed around forever. He got bored with his wife and let his eye wander, he started buying a new lady candy, dresses, lingerier, shoes, anything and everything a girl could possibly want. Also he had to pay up some money to a man named Tony. Tony gets him all his conections, and keeps his secrets. Mr. Exeter and his wife split, he sent her flowers in apology but she didn't want anything to deal with him anymore, he returned there rings and payed her alimony's. They got divorced at Wall and Smith at Law, and more money to his ex-wife was sent out. The divorce was made final in the Calerk Reno Municipal Court. Mr. Exeter Jr stayed with his mom for some time when he was fighting with his ex-wife. He payed her rent and payed the attorneys from the divorce as well.

Mr. Exeter Jr got himself into some deep trouble with Tony and Tony's friend Peter had to get involved. Mr.Exeter Jr was forced to pay them both, he got illegal drugs from them and several days later he ended up in the hospital. Worst came to worst, Mr. Exeter Jr is now deceased.

Ordeal by Cheque By: Lauryn Robinson

Lawrence Exceter was a man of great modesty. He was a faithful resident of Galveston, Texas. In the early 1900’s, Lawrence’s father died, leaving him with a huge inheritance derived from an oil rig. At the tender age of 25 he became quite wealthy and spoiled himself with good times and greater conquests. He quickly became was the entrepreneur as he bought four hotels, and owned most of the restaurants in the area.

However, when a natural disaster hit Galveston, the fun times were cut short. A hurricane killed more than 6,000 residents; including the majority of his friends and all of his family members. The closest living survivor to Lawrence was his widowed neighbor, Mrs. Kate Middleton. The pair, who were in their late twenties at the time, became romantically involved. Shortly thereafter, they decided that it was best to move away and start over. Consequently, they moved to Hollywood, California to begin anew. They were later married and after three years of living in California, Kate became pregnant.

On October 3^rd, 1903, Kate gave birth to their first born, a healthy baby boy, Lawrence Exceter Jr., whom they joyfully nicknamed “Junior.” Junior was an intelligent and social able child who always managed to find some type of mischief and trouble to get into. Therefore, in 1909, and to help their son develop greater character and discipline, Kate and Lawrence sent Lawrence to Palisades School for Boys. Still, the school did not help change Junior’s poor behaviors. Kate and Lawrence decided that Jr. needed a more restrictive setting and placed him in Columbia Military Academy.

In military academy Lawrence Exceter Jr. met many new people, and experienced many new things. He became great friends with a young, Italian man named Tony Spagoni. They were roommates, and soon became “partners in crime.” Together, they caused more trouble than the entire student body. For instance, Toni and Jr. would often sneak off of school grounds and place bets on whatever venture they could find. They also threw many parties and snuck off to many more off- campus events. Still, somehow they never got caught in their misdeeds. Years of mischief helped the pair develop a lifelong friendship.

Upon Jr’s arrival home, Lawrence Sr. surprised his son with a new Cadillac. However, within weeks Jr. had wrecked his new car. With hopes to straighten Jr. out once and for all , Lawrence Sr. sent Jr. to Stanford. He was a shoe-in as he always excelled academically. Jr.‘s irresponsible behavior continued. That is, by his second year in college, Lawrence Jr. and a fellow student were expecting a baby. Once more, Lawrence Sr. had to bail his son out of a bind and paid the woman $25,000.00 to speak nothing of the child’s father.

After college Jr. finally met what his father referred to as a “ suitable woman”. After a three-year-courtship, Lawrence Sr. he paid for their wedding and the couple was joined in matrimony. The only problem was that Jr. wasn’t really that into the marriage, but he went along with it as to please his father. As a result, he cheated on his wife. Surprisingly, the affair was with his old friend Tony Spagoni’s wife.

Jr. already owed Tony from their college days at the track. In an effort to make up for his affair, and to probably rid himself of guilt, he paid back Tony, and attempted to rekindle their friendship. He also began gambling again, and his marriage of four years was now coming to an end. After the divorce, he quickly spiraled back into his gambling addiction, which caused him to slip into a deep depression. He now owed more than five people money. Deep into debt and without financial resources available for payments, he was brutally beaten by his debtors, and ended up in the hospital. Sadly, Lawrence Exceter Jr. died. His father paid off his debt and planned his funeral. Lawrence Sr. never had the son he expected, but he was still his son, and he loved him dearly.

Ordeal by Cheque by Morgan Murphy

Once upon a time there was a man named Mr. Lawrence Exeter. One day his wife Mrs. Lawrence Exeter came home and told him that she is due to have a baby. When he found this out he and his wife went out to the store and bought some baby clothes. The baby was born in Hollywood hospital September 2nd 1903.The baby became very sick and had to go back to Dr. McCoy. Mr. Lawrence Exeter goes to the California Toyland Co. to pick up some presents for the baby for the boys 3rd birthday.
A few years later they send the boy to an all boy school to make sure he turns into a gentlemen. Since the boys got straight A’s on his report card they got him a bicycle. They taught him how to ride a bike thought the whole summer. The boys started to act up during the summer and disrespect his family and friends. For the start of the next school year, the parents made him go to the Columbia Military Academy. They hoped that it would make him into the gentlemen he needed and they wanted him to be. When he graduated the Military school and his parents saw that he was a nice, sincere, grown gentleman they decided that he deserved a gift. They got him a Cadillac for his graduation. He hadn’t had the car for 5 days and he wrecked the car and had to take it to the auto repair shop. After graduating from the military school he decided to go to college. He went to Stanford University. When he was there he met a girl named Miss Daisy Windsor and fell in love with her. When he got home from graduating Stanford, his father took his new found love Daisy and his mother on a cruise to France.
When they were in France his father bought the ladies flowers from the club everyday. They had a wonderful time and the son decided to have Miss Daisy Windsor move in with him. The father decided to buy a house for them from Riviera Heights Land Co. since there house was not large enough. He even decided to get the house decorated for them as a present. Him and his son went out and bought a new diamond ring from Beverly Diamond and Gift Shoppe. He decided to propose to her on the Hawaii Steamship. Lawrence Exeter Sr. wrote a check to his son for $200,000. The father also paid for the hotel room for their honeymoon. He bought flowers for them and sent the flowers to the room they were staying in to congratulate them. Lawrence Exeter Jr. sent his first check. Because his father started to become very ill and could not write any checks Jr. started to pay off the wedding dress. Later in the week he went to the salon with his new wife.
The next month he went to the sports bar with his dad to catch up and have some laughs and talk about the wedding. While they were there they met a man named Tony Spagoni. They made some fun bets with him and next thing they knew they owed him a lot of money. He said that they better pay him or else his new bride would disappear. After the sports bar they decided to met up again and they went to the bootery and bought some new shoes instead of the sports bar. They decided to start paying off Tony. It took them two different checks to be able to pay him back. The son bought flowers for his father and sent them to him hoping that it would make him feel better.
Lawrence again paid off the diamond that he bought for Daisy. After a couple years of being together, Daisy had to much and filled for divorce. Then Jr. had to pay for his and her lawyer, trying to be a good and proper man like his parents raised him. Tony Spagoni came back and said that Jr. owed him more money, so Jr. never looking and wondering if he really did owe him more money gave the money to Tony. He didn’t owe Tony anymore money but Jr. wasn’t going to argue.
Tony came back and said that Jr. owed him more money but this time Jr. wasn’t giving him anymore money. Tony didn’t like that so he ordered one of his men to kill him. He was badly beat up and the doctor said that he didn’t have a chance of living. The father started wring the checks for his sons medical bills. Jr. later died. Before his father died he wrote out a check for his wife to pay for the funeral and burial. As soon as he was done writing the check he put the pen down and died.

Ordeal by Cheque by Bri Guy

Right around the turn of the century a wealthy man names Lawrence Exters was expecting a baby. On September 2nd 1903 baby Lawrence Exeters J.r was born. When Lawrence J.r was about six years old he was sent to a school for boys. When he was around seven years he received his first bike. As Lawrence became older he became disobedient, when he was twelve he father decided to send him to military acadamy.J.r graduated and his father bought him a Cadillac and just four days later he crashed it. 1921 J.r attended college at Stanford University. J.r mother had been out of him and his fathers life since J.r was born, but in 1923 she found her son and husband Mr.Exeters and begged him to borrow money. Exeters S.r wrote a check to Miss Daisy Windson for $25,000 dollars. Miss daisy and Mr.Exeters S.r realized how much they absence each other. So the packed up and went on a trip to France. S.R showered Daisy with gifts, and flowers. When they cam back from there trip they decided to invest in a house, and decorate it with top of the line decor..1926 they got married. Shortly after they took a honey moon trip to Hawaii to celebrated there new life together. J.R felt that his mother had abandoned him through his childhood, and that his father was making a mistake. Growing up J.R used his father in every was possible. On February18 1927 it was like J.R's father disappeared, all of the checks that were made out were made by J.R himself. J.R found the right woman later on in life and gave her all the money she could ask for, but things turned for the worst he made a big investment on hiring a attorney against his wife. J.r started getting caught up with the wrong people and was apart of a mob and gave a big chunk of money to a man named Toni Spagoni. While J.r was getting caught up in all of his money, J.r began to do drugs and his life turned for the worst and he became sick. Shortly after jr died, his bother became a very depressed and up living the rest of his life as a rich lonely man.

Ordeal by Cheque by Amelia Atkins

The year was 1903 on the the hot and humid 2nd day of September. This day was not only a day of great joy, but also, of emense sorrow. For this day, a beautiful baby boy was born. But in contrast, a beautiful young woman died. Lawrence Exeter was filled with bitter sweetness as he held for the first time his son, Lawrence Exeter Jr. As he smelled his new born babies smell, he began to cry. His son seemed to have a taint of lemon smell to him; the same smell his mother, who died while concieving him, had. As he continued to fondle the baby, he remembered something that had been bothering him that past week. Just 4 days earlier, as he and his wife had been picking the baby out some toys, he rememered her stating, "My love. If anything should ever happen to me after we have our son, promise you will always give him the best". It was as if she knew she would die somehow... Upon thinking this thought, he felt he must have been losing his mind, ergo, he took the baby home, hired a nanny, then called the best psychiatrist in all of Hollywood. His name was Dr. David M. McCoy. He recieved mental therapy there for about a 2 months.

Sr. Always spoiled Jr. It became so bad, that even by two months old, he expected to get anything he wanted. He knew his father would always oblidge. Sr. always thought his son had to have the best and get whatever he wanted. He found this reasoning to be correct because he felt as though this would make up the spot of his mother. But this was clearly incorrect. Nevertheless, Sr. continued to spoil and lavish his son. When Jr. was at the appropriate age, he was sent to the best all boys school in Hollywood, the Palisades School For Boys. It was there that Sr. noticed Jr. had a couple problems. Sr. recieved a call home at least twice a week about Jr's. behavior. Either he had bullied a student, got into an arguement with a teacher or caused a confrontation between other students. He even stole another boy's bike which Sr. had to replace with his own money.

When Jr. came of age that was limited at the All Boy's school, Sr. decided it best to send Jr. to a military school. He felt this would change his attitude for the better. For a while, it seemed to work. There were never any calls with complaints. No letters home. No anything. So when Jr. returned 5 years later, Sr. supplied him with a brand new cadillac. Yet, to Sr.'s dismay, after only a few days, the car was crashed. Jr. decided to get into a street drag race. It apperaed that Jr. hadn't dodged his old ways after all. Sr. payed for the repairs on the car but decided to keep the car for his own. Deciding that, once again, Jr. could use a change in environment, he sent him off to college at Standford University.

As Sr. lived lonely in his home for two years, he decided it best to go out on the town and find a suitable woman to mate with. He went to the fanciest bar he could find and skimmed his surroundings. Sitting alone in the corner, he saw a gorgeous woman. As he continued to gaze, he began to recognize her. Daisy Windsor. The most popular girl at Hollywood High back when he was a teen. Everybody wanted her, yet no one could get her. She was much to ambitious. He didnt know if she would be married by now or still too held down with any work she was into. He knew he had to try though. He approached her and decided to strike up a conversation. Although she at first seemed up tight, through out the night, she seemed to loosen herself to him. Pretty soon, they were leaving together. Sr. felt as though he had finally found his soul mate. He wanted to show her he could give her anything she could ever want. So after only 3 days of meeting, he gave her a check for $25,000. Only about a week later, they had plans for marraige.

Even though this was a joyous occasion, there was one thing Daisy had to straighten out before they got too excited. "I can not live with your son," she stated. She explained that she had heard about his reckless ways and that she couldnt deal with such chaos. She said he would have to leave the picture if he had planned on making a family with her. Now, most fathers would never abandon their son. Most fathers put there son's first, even if a woman was up at the stakes. But was Lawrence Exeter Sr. most fathers? No. He was only one man. One man, who hadn't had the love he needed in a long time. So what did he do? Set up a flight to France and sent money to a bank account in France. After that, he bought flowers for Daisy and flowers for his wife's grave. He felt this would keep her spirit from haunting him as he re-wed. Once he set the flowers on his dead wife's grave and gave the new flowers to Daisy, he prepared for his new wife. He bought a huge, old elegant mansion in Hawaii. He then got it renovated so that it looked more new. After he got all this established, he bought his new finace a ring with a huge diamond. He then bought cruise tickets for his honeymoon to their new home in Hawaii.

He didnt want to hurt Jr's. feelings, so as he came home from College, he decided to only tell him that he was sending him on a trip to France. Exstatic, Jr. asked no questions. He only packed his bags and left with a $200,000 check in hand. His father told him he had payed for a stay at the best hotel in all of Paris. Before letting his son board the plane, he bought him, too, a boquet of flowers to place on his mother's grave. Just because it seemed right. It was two months until Junior became bored. He called home to his father. He was calling to tell him that he was ready to come home. He felt as though his father would be exremely excited about this some you can imagine his surprise when his father sounded surprised by the news. Sr. realized he couldnt keep his marraige a secret much longer. He explained that he had gotten remarried, and that he wouldnt be welcome at his new home.

This hurt Jr. badly. Not only did HE feel betrayed, but he felt as though his father had somehow ALSO betrayed his mother. He had the mindset that his father should never remarry and that what he was doing was somehow unspeakable. He felt he needed to get back at his father and in the stongest and worst way. He didnt know what that way would be yet, but he knew he had to first get a woman involved. He went to ever lounge he could find until he found the most beautiful woman he could find out of them all. He found her. Her name was Marie Whanton. She was gorgeous. She was down to earth. She was perfect. Jr. wanted her, and wanted her now. And like his father always had him believed, he got whatever he wanted. Marie wasnt an easy girl, though. No matter how much he spent on her, with expensive gowns, lingerie and dresses, she would not open her heart or her legs.

Jr. found this tedious, yet also invigurating. Finally, he came across a challenge. But this challenge was a tad hard on his male needs. He found himself a prostitute. Her name was Flossie. He got her from the best pimp in town. He was also the meanest pimp in town. If Flossie came back stating she was underpaid or she was treated wrongly, you had to watch your back. Tony Spagoni would send his men after you. But see, Jr. just seemed to be unfortunate. He never really did anything to Tony. There was just something about Jr. that Tony didnt like. So when he found out that Jr. Had accidentley gotten Flossie knocked up, Tony was about ready to kill Jr. He made it so Jr. had to pay extra money every time he saw Flossie on the street. If he missed a payment, he was to be killed.

Jr. tried to keep his mind off this. He got into sports because it was one of Marie's many hobbies and bought a bunch or sports utilities. But he also bought a gun. He decided that if Spagoni was out for him, he should carry some protection. Nevertheless, he did pay Spagoni his checks. But another problem was that Flossie seemed to have really caught feelings for Jr. She not only was keeping the baby, but wanted to marry Jr. And it seemed she wouldnt take no for an answer. She followed him home every night. She blew up his phone. She came to the hotel looking for him. She was obssessed. The only way Jr. felt he could get out of it was to tie the knot with Marie. So he went out and bought a boquet of flowers and an expensive diamond ring. They were happily married a few days later/

 3 moths later, he payed Flossie $50,000 to stay away from him. She had stilll been obsessing for the past 3 months. When Marie found out about Flossie and the secret baby she flipped. She was hurt he had kept such a secret from her for so long. She immediatley filed for a divorce. She demanded $5,000 dollars from Jr. for a good lawyer. Their case wasnt really bothered until June. It ruled in favor of Marie, where she recieved $75,000 of his money. As he began paying back the lawyer he had hired, he then remembered he hadn't been paying Tony Spagoni. He tried to make all the checks up by writing another one every day, even if he didnt see Tony, but it was too late. Jr. knew this. He didnt really have anything else to live for. The love of his life left him. He wasnt welcome home from his own father. He didnt have a mother to go to. There was no one else in the world for him ! He then realized maybe if he died, no one would really care.

On the 3rd day of August, he saw a man standing outside his window. He could tell it was one of Spagoni's and he could tell there was a gun in his pocket. He came out of his hotel, hands in the air with a small piece of paper in his right hand. He said, :"Before you do your job, please, just give this letter to my father,". He gave the man the letter then asked for his name so he could pay the man a check for his troubles. The man's name was Peter Ventizzi.

2 days later, Jr's, body was found imported from Paris to the Hollywood Hospital where his father was phones to confirm the identitiy of the body. It was Jr. Jr. with 2 shots to the chest and 1 shot to the head. A few days later, he recieved a letter in the mail saying, "Dear father, I know I may have acted out all time and you werent always the proudest of me, but I always wanted to make you proud. I'm sorry I failed you. I love you. Don't worry about me, I'll be with Mom now." & it was signed, "Junior". Lawrence found this check very depressing and found it suitable he go back to Dr. David M. McCoy for mental help. A day after his first session, he felt he should have his son barried right next to his mother at the Hollywood Montuary.

My Ordeal by Cheque by Kristen Zolnierzak

On August 30th, 1903 Lawrence Exeter did some baby shopping for his soon to be coming son. A few days later Lawrence Exeter Jr. was born. He came out to be a healthy baby. When he was a month old Lawrence Jr. came down with something so his father took him to the hospital. Dr. McCoy sait it was only a cold and if he takes his medicine daily it would be gone in about a week. When Lawrence Jr. turned six he joined Palisades School for Boys. For his seventh birthday he got a new bicycle. A few years later after he was done with schooling he joined the military. He got enough money in the military to buy his own Cadillac. Unfortunitly it was a used one and the engine was bad so he had to get it fixed. When he finally left the military he went to Standford Unibersity. There he found someone he really liked, Miss Daisy Windsor. After many years of dating they decided they wanted to live together so they bought a house. He always bought her flowers. Lawrence Jr. and Miss Daisy were doing very well. One day he thought, " I want to get married." That day he bought a diamond ring. He planed a trip to Hawaii and there he proposed to her. Daisy excepted excitidly. They wanted to get married right away so they started to find the perfect dress and suite. They rented out a very nice castle in Italy fro the wedding. A few days later they got married. Daisy is now called Mrs. Lawrence Exeter Jr.. That year and the year after they lived happily. Lawrence Jr. began to feel very sick. He went to the Hollywood Hospital. Only to find out that he had cancer and would only live for about a week and a couple days unless the chemotherapy worked out. Dr. David M. McCoy tried giving him chemo but sadley it wasn't working. Mrs. Exeter stayed by his side the whole time even though it wasn't easy for her to see him like that. She cried almost everyday and told him how much she loved him. On July 16th, 1931 a year after their marriage Lawrence Exeter passed away.