Miranda Porter
Miranda Porter, daughter of Fisher's nanny Ellen Porter,
hit our screens in spring 1999. Lauren Hewett, who played Miranda, actually
wasn't a complete newcomer to the show for she incorporated the character
of Mikki Salter some years ago.
Ellen told Donald that there were
sorts of problems concerning her daughter Miranda and that she had
to leave St Catherine's boarding school. Fisher seemed to be completely
understandable after being told and even offered Ellen to have her
daughter with her at his place.
The first impression Miranda gave
to us all was that she was kind of stand-offish taciturn. She always
answered to all questions put to her with due slowness and brevity.
After having met most of the Summer
Bay gang Miranda seemed to be interested in Will but Gypsy told
her rudely to stay away and to restrain from having further surfing
lessons with him.
Meanwhile Sam learned that Miranda
had some kind of secret and tried to dig deeper but the whole thing
backfired and Sam jumped to conclusions that Miranda ought to be
pregnant and spread this rumour. Oh no, this rumour didn't really
make his day and he had to apologise.
Joey started having the hots on Miranda
till the very moment when Miranda was helping in the kitchen and
had a minor cut because of slipping down while rubbing the cheese.
She threw the whole stuff into the garbage can, put the rasp into
the sink, turned on the tap, and ran away like a headless chook
refusing all help such as cleaning the cut.
Joey wondered what all that was about,
and decided the pay a visit at Fisher's place and was welcomed by
Ellen telling him that Miranda had a shower. Joey wanted to pop
in later on, but Ellen told him that Miranda would be delighted
to see him after all. Both Miranda and Joey thought that they were
avoiding each other due to this odd incident in the kitchen. Thus
Joey took heart and asked about the reasons why she was leaving
irrationally fast the other day and Miranda told him not being able
to face the sight of blood due to a severe car accident. Joey found
this story incredibly unbelievable right from the start and asked
her if she weren't afraid of cars then also but she denied.
The very next day Joey headed for
Fisher's place again to find himself involved in a conversation
with Ellen. The main subject of which was Miranda of course and
Ellen was surprised at the fact Joey being aware of Miranda's most
ever concealed secret. All the problems she had because of being
far too confiding to people not being trustworthy and how much she
had to love him to push things that far for telling being HIV+ isn't
the easy thing to admit. Joey stood beside himself like being struck
by a lightning. Ellen had that uncanny feeling of having revealed
something she'd better not and dug Joey with the question of being
told or not. Joey enlightened her and Ellen felt bad for having
stuffed up the whole thing. Ellen told Miranda but she on her behalf
couldn't fix the whole thing up for Joey was reluctant to hear her
out. Miranda fell crying into Ellen's arms and finally Miranda managed
to enlighten Joey about her white lie. Joey told her he was not
being angry with her because of being HIV+ but due to her shameless
lie for he was the most straightforward guy one could imagine.
The conclusion of all this reconciliation
was that Miranda's gonna change to Summer Bay High; after having
listened to some adult advice to give her former friends another
chance after recovered from the initial shock, Miranda decided to
turn her back to Summer Bay and to return to St Catherine's.
Will that be the end of a fabulous
friendship that only has just begun? Stay tuned and find out.
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