Trouble was brewing at home as Anelle was in a yelling match trying to speak to Shelby, who had shut herself in her bedroom to get away from her mother.
"Anelle! What is going on?" Sammy asked his wife.
"Your daughter went out drinking with that boy!"
"Don't you mean, Jack Jr.?" Sammy asked, perplexed by his wife's behavior.
"She can't be drinking, Sammy, she's underage," Anelle stated matter-of-factly.
"Geez, Anelle, what's the problem?" Sammy said irritated with her. "It's not like we didn't do that sort of thing when we were her age?!"
"I did not do that!" Anelle stated. "And that's not the issue!"
"Yes, I forgot, Saint Anelle was a good girl!" Sammy replied. "So, she had a drink with Jack Jr. All teens do it! It's a rite of passage!"
"I can't believe you would defend her!" Anelle said.
Turning to face the upstairs toward Shelby's room, "Shelby get down here now! Your father wants to see you."
"Daddy! Help me! Mom's crazy!" Shelby said on her way downstairs.
"Shelby, your mother is just worried about you," Sammy told her, trying to diffuse the situation.
"But Dad, don't be a hypocrite! I know you and mother did the same thing when you were my age!"
"And how do you know that?" Sammy asked her.
"Oh c'mon dad, be serious. I know my friends' parents did, so I figured you and mom were the same too."
"Shelby, it doesn't matter what we did as teens," Anelle told her. "That was then, this is now and I'm only concerned with your well-being."
But Anelle was having a hard time getting through to Shelby, who left the house to see Jack Jr.
"Now look what you've done?!" Sammy said before leaving for the bar. He was getting fed up with Anelle.
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Steel Magnolias: 15 Years Later
FanfictionAnelle gives birth to her and Sammy's daughter, Shelby, named after Mylynn's late daughter, Shelby, who passed away shortly before Annelle gave birth to her daughter. But motherhood isn't all that Anelle imagined when the demands of taking care of...
