Chapter 72: Karen's Wedding
Lip accepts Grandma Peggy into the Gallagher House for the simple reason that he wants to see Frank's jokes.
In the past few days, his relationship with Grandma Peggy is actually the most estranged.
Grandma Peggy, who is old and sophisticated, can naturally feel the estrangement of the Gallagher siblings from her, but she doesn't care too much about this.
Although she had the idea of enjoying her family before she died, she really asked Grandma Peggy to play the kind old grandmother in front of the Gallagher siblings, and Grandma Peggy couldn't do it.
She's not that kind of person!
Even if she is old, even if she is seriously ill, even if she is dying, Grandma Peggy's temperament will not change!
The occasional licking of calves is just a special case and cannot become the norm.
The explosion in the basement workshop made Fiona completely recognize the face of Grandma Peggy, and tore apart the loving face she has shown these days.
Frank had already told Fiona that he would kick Grandma Peggy out of their lives, because her arrival would only disrupt the Gallagher siblings' somewhat peaceful lives.
Fiona didn't believe it at the time, and when she saw Debbie and Carl's affection for Grandma Peggy, she thought it was a good thing that she came this time.
Now, Fiona has changed her mind and thinks Frank is right.
Leaving Lip to clean up the mess at home, Fiona goes to Frank and plots how to get Grandma Peggy away.
I haven't figured out the way yet, but I get the news that Grandma Peggy, who is going out alone, faints and is sent to the hospital for emergency treatment.
Fiona, Lip, and Frank rushed to the hospital and saw that Grandma Peggy had come to her senses and was arguing with the doctor to be discharged.
The doctor told Fiona, Lip, and Frank about Grandma Peggy's true condition, "Margaret Gallagher is already in the terminal stage of pancreatic cancer, and according to her current physical condition, she can only live for three months at most! You'd better send her to the terminal cancer care center, it's good for you and her!"
"Don't listen to his nonsense, I know my own body best, I'm not going anywhere, I'm going home, right now!" exclaimed Grandma Peggy.
After taking Grandma Peggy home, Frank was sent away first, Debbie and Carl were also kicked out, Fiona sat on the edge of Grandma Peggy's bed, trying to hold Grandma Peggy's hand, but she dodged away, and said impatiently, "You guys go out too, I want to rest by myself!"
"Grandma, you need to go to the nursery, let someone take care of you day and night! We should have done this work, but I still need to work, Ian, Debbie, Carl are about to start school, although Lip University starts a little late, but it is not long, I really can't spare this time, don't worry, I will give you the money for the nursery!" Fiona said.
"I don't want to go to the nursery, I know what kind of place it is, it's not much like prison, I've been in prison for twelve years, it's enough, I don't want to go to another prison!"
"What did you just say? Lip is going to college?"
"Yes, the University of Chicago!" Fiona smiled heartily and patted Lip's arm, "He's only in the eleventh grade, and he only graduated from high school in one year, so he got the admission letter to the University of Chicago in advance, he's a genius!"
"Wow, are you two Frank's species? Why don't you have a shadow of Frank at all? I thought it would be surprising that Frank and Monica were able to give birth to Fiona, an atypical Gallagher, but I didn't expect Lip to be even more atypical than you!"
"Frank is the most unproductive of my children, I didn't expect to have two of you children! Ian and Debbie are not like Frank, but fortunately, there is Carl, who can carry on the tradition of the Gallagher family. ”
"That's what I'm going to tell you, Carl is only ten years old, he has been violent since he was a child, but he is a good boy, we are all trying to avoid letting him follow Frank's path, even if you don't expect him to be good, you can't just watch him push him into the fire pit!" Fiona was angry when she remembered the basement explosion that had happened before.
"How did I push him into the fire pit? I just want to teach him a trade so that when he grows up, he can support his family! That's how I came here, and so did Frank and his brothers, how did I come to your generation, and it was like a deviation from the Gallagher tradition?" said Grandma Peggy.
"You're suffering from cancer right now, and Frank is an irresponsible drunkard, and we'd rather not have that tradition!" Fiona said.
"Now, you're the boss of the house, and you're going to say whatever you want! Now you can go out, I'm going to rest!" said Grandma Peggy.
Looking at the tired look on Grandma Peggy's face and thinking of her condition, Fiona couldn't bear to say anything more and came out with Lip.
"What are you going to do?" asked Fiona.
"What else can I do? After all, she is our grandmother, and if she doesn't go to the nursing home and receive treatment, according to the doctor, she can only live for three months at most, and with her own tossing method, she will definitely not last three months, and she can't be forced to drive her out at this time!" said Fiona.
"I've got a month before school starts, and I can take care of her a little more during this time, but when I do, there's no way around it!" Lip said.
"What will happen in a month, wait a month to talk about it!" Fiona really couldn't think of any other way, but to take one step at a time.
Although Grandma Peggy's illness is very serious, it is not to the point of being bedridden, and it is mainly Frank who is responsible for taking care of her, and there are not many places where Lip is really used.
Soon came Karen and Jody's wedding day.
The wedding of ordinary Americans is not as complicated as in China, coupled with the special circumstances of Jackson's family - Eddie died early, Sheila's phobia of the strange environment has not healed, and she can't go out, so Karen's wedding was held at Jackson's house without even going to church.
Jody was alone here, and the Jackson family didn't have any relatives or friends, and the people who came to the wedding were all neighbors.
Jimmy and Esthania also join in the fun.
After knowing that they had been together for so long, and that even their real names were being kept from her, Fiona was so disappointed in Jimmy that she never gave him a good look again.
This is even more true today!
Especially now that Esthania was still standing beside him.