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“There are half a million funeral homes in the Dallas Metroplex,” Garnett argued. “It’ll happen. That’s what I’m going to do today. Plan it.”
“No,” Ande argued. “You’re not. I’ll plan it with Keene. You’ll get everything ready here, like cook a few meals and freeze them like we talked about. Dad and the jerks will go to work and do nothing like they usually do. And then tonight you’ll go to bed early, because you have knee surgery that I plan on personally dropping you off at tomorrow bright and freakin’ early!”
My lips twitched at the vehemence in her voice.
She was really passionate about this.
“I’ll get it some other time,” Garnett argued. “Right now, it’s just…”
“You’ll get it now,” Ande disagreed. “You can barely walk, Mom. Seriously, this is getting out of hand. You have to do it. I can’t watch you be in pain anymore.”
“I’ll be in pain after I have this surgery,” Garnett argued.
“You’ll be in pain for a very short amount of time,” Ande agreed. “But after, you’ll be able to walk. You’ll be able to start your hikes again. Mom, you know how much you love hiking. And think about this… What if one of my brothers decides to go off and have a grandbaby. How will you run around after them if you keep putting this off?”
“Hey!” there were a few chirps from the peanut gallery. “Don’t throw us under the bus!”
“You take that back.”
“Knock on some wood!”
My lips twitched at the utterly horrified looks on the brothers’ faces.
“Fine,” Garnett said, sounding pissed as hell. “Then you get to take me to the hospital, your father gets to go do the planning, and your brothers can hold down the fort in the waiting room.”
“I don’t like the hospital.” Ande was the one to look horrified now.
My brows rose.
She didn’t like the hospital so much that she was unwilling to be there for her mother having surgery?
“I know,” Garnett patted Ande’s hand. “But it’ll be okay.”
“You really think Dad can plan her funeral?” She scoffed. “I’ll do that. Dad can take you.”
Garnett leveled her daughter with a look. “You want me to go, you take me. And stay with me. Or I won’t do it.”
It was obvious that Garnett thought that she was going to win this.
She thought she knew her daughter.
But even I could’ve told the woman that Ande was set on winning this argument.
She’d fight past whatever hold the hospital had over her, and she’d take her mother to the hospital, and stay with her. Whether she was green the whole time or not.
And that’s how I ended up at a hospital the next day with Garnett on one side of me and Ande on the other.
None of the brothers or Germaine were in attendance, either.
Making it incredibly awkward.
But very, very enlightening.
CHAPTER 17
I know I suck at texting back, but please don’t fucking call me.
-Keene to Val
