Chapter 86: Pretending to be a good mother
"Of course, dear!" Monica replied with a smile as she held Debbie's face in both hands.
Having never seen Monica like this, Debbie had a hard time getting used to her intimacy, wrinkled her face, broke free from Monica's palm, smiled, and hurried away at Fiona's urging.
Monica looked at Lip, who was still sitting at the table, eating breakfast unhurriedly, and asked, "Lip, don't you have to go to school?"
"I'm a high school graduate, college is still a few days away, and it's still on vacation!" Lip said.
"What? you're in college?" Monica said in surprise, glancing sideways at Frank.
Frank's face was inexplicable, and it took him a long time to react, staring at Lip, and cried out in a lost voice, "You were admitted to college?"
Lip raised an eyebrow and shrugged his shoulders, but did not speak.
"Why didn't you tell me?" asked Frank.
"What's the use of telling you, can you help me pay for college?" Lip said as he glanced at Frank out of the corner of his eye.
"Uh......" Frank was speechless for a moment before muttering, "It seems that you really want to break away from the traditions of our Gallagher family and become a master!"
Lip and Fiona didn't bother to pay attention to him.
Monica ignored him, held out her hands to Lip, and exclaimed, "I'm so proud of you!
Lip pursed his lips and didn't speak.
Monica was a little sad when she saw Lip's reaction, and her expression was lowered.
Seeing this, Frank wanted to show his father's authority, and as soon as he slapped the table, he saw the indifferent gaze swept by Lip, and his momentum suddenly relaxed, and his mouth moved, and when it came to his mouth, he didn't say it after all.
Frank is not afraid, and after the death of Grandma Peggy, he is even more fearless, and he dares to respond to Fiona who supports the family alone, but he can't lift his heart in the face of Lip.
The way Frank saw Lip looking at him was never warm, unlike Fiona and Ian's disappointment and disgust, and not even Debbie and Carl's attachment.
This left Frank wondering what Lip was thinking, and he wasn't sure what he would do if he provoked him.
Although Frank has given up his life and just wants to spend every day drunk and dreaming like he is now, he does not want to go to prison, let alone end his life.
Frank is quite enjoying his current life.
Therefore, he did not dare to risk provoking Lipp, if he really made the act of reporting himself for cheating on disability benefits and defrauding Aunt Jinji of insurance money, and sent himself to prison, it would be more than worth the loss.
Frank knows how to weigh the pros and cons.
After living together for decades, Monica naturally knows Frank very well, although she is a little surprised that he admits cowardice in front of Lip, but she does not take it to heart.
Fiona didn't want to see the relationship between Lip and Monica, and completely stiffened, although she had a lot of dissatisfaction with Monica, who ran away from home regardless of the life and death of her brothers and sisters, but deep down, she actually hoped that Monica could come back and let the brothers and sisters feel the love from their mother.
Fiona, as the eldest in the family, although she was the first to appreciate the unreliability of Frank and Monica's in-laws, she also experienced the warmth of her parents, although not much, but those memories are still precious to her.
Lip and Ian have also experienced this, but when it comes to Debbie and Carl, they don't have such luck.
However, Fiona is afraid that Monica's return this time, like those previous times, will not last long!
Debbie and Carl can only briefly feel the warmth from their mother, but this charming feeling is fleeting, leaving them with endless loss and pain.
Rather than this, it is better for Monica to never come back, so that they can be treated as if there is no Monica as a mother!
Thinking about this, Fiona asked, "How many days are you going to stay when you come back this time?"
"Forever!" Monica replied, "Grandma Peggy is dead, and you need me now!"
"Then, when we're used to having you at home, and then you're going to leave suddenly, and you don't know if you're alive?" said Fiona.
"Not this time! I've made up my mind to come back and take on my responsibilities as a mother!Fiona, trust me!" Monica pleaded.
"Given your 'good' resume, I can't trust you!" Fiona said.
"Then please give me a chance to prove myself!" Monica continued pleadingly.
Fiona stared at Monica for a long time, sighed in her heart, and nodded, "OK! I'll trust you again! I'm going to work now, I hope I'll come back from work, and the house will look like a housewife!"
"Don't worry, I'll get the house in order!" Monica said quickly.
Fiona looked at Lip, who was noncommittal about her decision, and Fiona resisted the urge to retract her decision and walked briskly to the front door.
After a while, the sound of a car starting outside the front door was heard, and Monica raised her eyebrows and asked, "Fiona bought a car?"
Frank glanced up at Lip and explained, "It wasn't Fiona who bought it, it was Lip who bought a pile of parts and came back and assembled it himself." ”
"Lip, you're amazing!" Monica said.
Lip finally responded to her compliment, grinned, pulled out a smile, and said, "Thank you!"
A few mouthfuls of breakfast on the plate were in his mouth, and Lipp, who was impatiently in the same room as Frank and Monica, stood up, walked around the table, and bent down to hug Liam in the children's chair.
Monica, who was teasing and feeding Liam, asked, "What are you going to do?"
"I took Liam out for a walk and I took care of Fiona while he went to work. Lip said.
"No, no, no, no, now that I'm back, it's my job to take care of Liam. You're a young man and you need to have your own time, so go play by yourself!" Monica said quickly.
"Can you take care of him?" asked Lip.
"Of course! Liam needs to spend some time with his mother, doesn't he, my little mouse?" Monica teased Liam affectionately, causing Liam to let out a cheerful laugh.
Seeing this, Lip didn't forcibly take Liam, he also wanted to see how well Monica could take care of Liam.
Lip, like Fiona, didn't believe that Monica would come back this time and completely reform herself, as she said, but Lip was not very worried, Monica pretended to be a good mother for a few days, and then left again, leaving behind a lot of chicken feathers, which broke Debbie and Carl's hearts.
Now that they are Monica's children, Debbie and Carl will experience this day sooner or later!