the bradfords

chapter 25 (mom?)

it had now been afew weeks (7) since autums birthday and it was the weekend before everline, bellamy and jackson's chior concert as they all choose to stay in chior from middle school (it's now like may 9thish) and the bradfords are outside as the weather is getting warmer and they have music on while the kids are playing and tim's mowing the grass and lucy is taking pictures and ordering stuff for the pool once the weather is fully nice out. after lucy was done getting everything she went inside to get changed into clothes that she could play with the kids in and tim went in to change also as he was done mowing.
L-hi my sexy man
T-oh hello my gorgeous wife
L-i got stuff for the pool
T-it's barley may
L-and i need to jump into it
T-okay
they change

tim

lucy
T-you look cute give me a spin
he grabs her hand and spins her around and then kisses her
L-alright we gotta go
T-where
L-outside it's finally nice out and next weekend we will be in an auditorium for hours
tim sighs and they go downstairs but then the doorbell goes off
T-did you order anything
L-no
tim shoots her a "are you sure" look
L-stop no and they never ring the doorbell
T-huh
they both walk over to the door and tim opens it with lucy to his side and she sees an older woman but to tim that's not just an older woman
T-mom
Tm-timothy
they both say at the same time. tim immediately throws his arms around her

they were hugging like that because she was short. lucy is standing there confused as tim had always told her that his mother committed suicide. After a minute of them hugging, they pull away and Tim's mom pulls his head down and kisses his forehead, and hugs him again.
T-i thought you were dead
he says now crying as he thought his mother had been dead since he was 12 and his sister since she was 8 years old
Tm-i know baby and i'm sorry for not coming to you or genny sooner
T-you've seen gen?
Tm-no not yet
T-come in, sorry this is my wife lucy
L-hi nice to meet you i'm lucy
Tm-hi i'm tim's mom Charolette, how long have you been married
L-almost 16 years
T-together for over 20
C-how cute
rico then comes inside
R-DADDYYYY
T-what baby
R-water
T-you need water?
R-yes
T-where's your cup
rico shrugs and tim playfully rolls his eyes and get him a cup
R-ice
T-okay
tim gives him his cup and he runs back outside
C-how many kids do you have
T- 4, twins who are 15 bellamy and everline 8 year old girl autum and that was rico who's 3
C-you have a whole little army
T-indeed
they sit down on the couch
T-so what happened
C-as you know he was abusive and i needed to leave so i went to an attorney (idk if that's right or not) and i asked if i could take you and gen with me and he said no as he could fight me in court for you 2 so i left and ive been looking for you two for months and finally found you, what did he tell you
T-that you committed suicide but there was never a funeral but me and gen never thought about it
they catch up for a little bit and then angela pops in with callie
Ang-hello hello family who's cars in the drive way
C-mine
Ang-hi i'm angela who are you
C-tim's mom
Ang-but i thought-
T-it's a whole story give me my niece now
Ang-okay
she gives him callie and he cradles her
T-this is angela as you know she's a detective along with lucy and i'm a metro sargent
C-so you two work together
she says asking angela and lucy
L-yep
everline then comes in
E-momm dadd
T-yes
E-so like can me and jackson and bellamy go down to the ice cream shop like down afew roads and hangout with some of our friends
T-will you be with eachother the whole time
E-yes, sorry who are you
T-she's my mom, you can go
E-so my grandma?
T-yes
E-okay well nice to meet you bye
she goes back outside and tells the littles to go in as they were all outside and nobody would be watching and then the 3 go and get there bikes and start bikin
E-there was some random lady in the house and supposedly she's our grandma
B-woah what
E-yes i walk in and she's sitting there and i ask to go and ask who she is and she says it's dads mom
B-i thought she was dead
E-yeah me to
J-so she just showed up
E-i think so i mean my dads face was all happy but surprised
J-huh that's weird
E-i know but i'll meet her later
they go to the ice cream shop and meet up with there friends (they've all been in a bigish friend group for quite afew years so there not strangers to eachother)
G-grace
L-lily
O-olivia
P-parker
D-drew
they get there
E-hi guys
L-hii
they all hug and get ice cream and sit down at a table
G-we need to all hangout
P-we do
D-well we all have chior next weekend so how about after that
evbdy-yeah
L-okay but who's house
E-we could probably do ours
she says looking at bellamy
B-yeah we'll ask
they all agree and just continue talking and then bike down to a park witch is down the street from the ice cream shop. with the others back at the bradford house.
T-what are you stinkers doing in here
A-they said to come in cause there leaving
T-okay go wash your hands there all dirty
they all go and wash there hands
A-who's that
she says looking up at tim
T-that's my mom
L-your grandma
lucy says that as she knew tim didn't know what to say as he hadn't even seen her for years
A-grandma?
T-mhm
she goes over and grabs Charolette hand
A-come on grandma i want to show you my room
she looks over at lucy and tim if that's okay and lucy smiles and nods and rico also follows and zoe sits down on the floor next to callie who was in a bouncer thing but she wasn't standing up obviously and zoe shows her all of the dolls while the adults talk
T-i'm still shocked
L-me to
T-i don't even know how to process it, i mean i never thought i would see her again and then she pops up at our doorstep i mean im not mad im extremely happy its just surprising
Ang-i mean its nice yk that she has tried to find you and genny
T-oh my god i haven't told genny
L-and you won't cause your mom can go and do the same thing she did to you
T-yeah
L-how do you think the twins will react
T-i mean everline was cool with it idk about bellamy though
L-i think it will be fine they just need to warm up to her and everything
T-i feel like they would be almost "weirded" out yk i mean the only grandparents they've had is wade and luna
L-well yeah cause no way in hell my parents are there grandparents
T-well im happy rico and autum are fond of her
Ang-she immediately connected like no need to introduce yourself i want to show you my room
L-it was cute
T-it was
they continue talking and then they come back downstairs and they sit down on the couch and kojo cuddles up to her and by now angela has left with callie and zoe as wesley would be coming home soon and for her to start dinner

C-what's this cuties name
L-kojo
C-cute
T-where are you staying
C-an "elderly" place like 15 minutes from here
T-what's the name
C-city veiw
T-okay that's a good place
C-i think i'm going to see genny tomorrow
T-stay for dinner
C-you sure
T-yes your my mother and you haven't even met all of your grandchildren
C-okay
T-luce it's been like 2 hours there's no way there still getting ice cream
L-there location says there at a park
T-okay
C-is he always like this
L-like what
C-concerned
L-ALWAYS LET ME TELL YOU
she says starting to get up so she can motion out everything but tim stops her and pulls her back down onto the couch
T-sit down, no i am not just looking out for my family
C-so concerned
L-yes he always is the twins always have to have there location on and if they turn it off he got life360 pro so he can get a notification if they do and when they do he will not stop texting and calling them until they answer AND turn there location on and when everline tore her ACL he carried her EVERYWHERE for days and my gosh he's just a big softie for all of the kids and people say for me to but he's always been like that

tim watches in awe because he never really saw how he was so different from being in his work place to bring with his family and his mom listening learning more about how her little boy is with his family.
L-that's enough for now i want stories of tim when he was little
T-absolutely not mom please no
C-okay so when tim was about 3-4 i was pregnant with genny and just us 2 were at the park and there was this other boy about 6-7ish and he was picking on tim and i didn't know that but then tim pushed him down the rock wall thing and he fell and tim ran over to me giggling but saying we needed to leave immediately so we did and it wasn't until much later when i found out why we needed to leave
lucy and there littles are laughing at that while tim's looking at his mom with a smile cause he somehow remembers that
T-okay enough with the stories for now it's been a stupidly long time since they all left
L-so then call them dofus
T-okay
he calls them as there at the park
E-hello
T-hello
E-yes
T-when are yall coming back it's been almost 3 hours
E-oh shit okay well leave soon
T-okay
with there friends they get there stuff and go back home and now 30 minutes later the twins go back home and jackson went to his
E-hi were home in showering
T-okay
B-me to
they leave and go to shower
L-what should we do for dinner
she says looking at tim
T-i think you should cook
he says looking at his mom
C-you sure
T-yes
C-okay but what
T-whatever you want nobody allergic to anything
C-fried rice and chicken
T-oh my god yes
C-come on
T-what
C-to help come on all of you
they all smile and get up and head to the kitchen and tim helps her get everything out and they place it on the island and then the twins both come downstairs everline with her wet hair down and they both have on shorts and a t shirt
B-what are yall doing
L-making dinner
B-oo what is it
C-fried rice and chicken
E-oh my god yes
T-your exited for that
E-yes it's all over my tiktok
C-alright so...
they all spend there time together making fried rice and chicken and helping out on the stove or mixing or pouring or anything they could help out with. once they have all finished they plate it and all sit down at the table and eat. once there all eat they put there bowls in the sink to be dealt with later per time demand so they could all spend more time together. they go outside as it was the perfect evening weather and the adults sit on the couch and the kids go play
C-it's been good hanging out with you today
T-it's good knowing your alive
C-again tim i'm sorry for not coming to your sooner
T-no it's okay i understand why you left and why you did what you did, im not mad at all i swore never to be mad at anybody so im not like, him.
C-you'll never been like him, your worrying that you could be him and that proves to me that there's no way for you to anything like him
L-that's exactly what i said! but we both swore not to get mad or hit or anything like that to our kids, timeout and taking away toys does just fine for us
C-i'm glad, i really need to get going now as it's getting late and i would like to leave for gennys early
(she lives about an hour away)
T-okay i get that
they stand up
L-KIDS
they come over
L-say bye to your...
T-nana
tim said that because he knew his mom would always want to be called nana to his children
L-nana
they all hug and say goodbye and then the adults all go inside and she puts on her shoes and hugs lucy
C-it was so good meeting you, i'm happy you make him happy
L-it was good meeting you to, i'm glad we are all happy
she then hugs tim
C-i'm glad you let me in
she chuckles
T-why wouldn't i your my mother and i love you
C-i love you to baby
T-not a baby
C-you always will be
she pulls his head down and kisses his forehead
T-where's your phone so i can put in my number
C-here
she hands it to him and he does that and texts himself so he also gets her number
T-so i'll expect to see you soon
C-definitely
T-i love you mom
C-i love you to tim
she gets in her car and leaves and blah blah blah they end there day