After the contentious custody battle, Frank & Mary go on with their lives as usual. But it isn't until an eventful night at Ferg's that Frank starts to wonder if maybe his life might be missing something. Now that his niece has a normal life, maybe...
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Joey had been on an emotional roller coaster all morning. The highs were so high but the lows seemed to keep punching her in the gut.
Having Sam wake up that morning and continue to call her mommy had delighted her in a way that Joey had never seen coming, but every now and again her mind would drift off to Frank and his odd change of heart and her happiness would take a sharp nose dive.
Joey couldn't help but wonder where things stood between them and, as much as she tried not to care about him at all, she still hoped that he was okay. After all, he had just run away from her minutes after kissing the life out of her. Who did that? Something had to be going on with him, but she wasn't sure if she would ever get the opportunity to have her questions answered.
On her way to her car, she heard a honk and looked up to see Mary waving happily to her from the passenger side of Roberta's car. Joey matched her big bright smile and waved back. Given the early hour, she figured that Roberta must be taking Mary to one of her early college classes.
Even though Joey was disappointed to not see Frank with them, it was nice to see Mary's sweet smiling face after witnessing her so distraught the previous day. She still had Ed's old chess set to give the little girl, but figured, at this point, it would be better if her mother delivered it to her instead.
Joey swallowed hard and watched them drive away. Once she was sure that they were gone, she let her smile fade and she squared her shoulders. She had a big day ahead of her and vowed not let her unrequited feelings for Frank Adler ruin her day.
She was a mom now. It was time to stop wallowing and put her big girl pants on and get to work.
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Joey tried to focus on the positive on her drive to work. She really wanted to make a good first impression and didn't want to appear miserable and depressed on her very first day. She had to at least pretend to have her shit together.
The more she tried to change her mood, the more she realized that she really did have a lot to be thankful for. In fact, she was on a pretty awesome lucky streak, all things considered. Mostly thanks to her mother.
She had no idea how she would ever be able to thank her mom for everything that she had done for her in the past few weeks. Not only did she give her and Sam a place to live, but she had also pulled some strings and managed to find her a full time job with one of her friends, as well.
Joey had only been working as a florist for two years, but she had mostly worked for bigger franchises and no idea what to expect from the small local shop. From what her mother had told her, they were surprisingly busy since the senior population was so high in their area. Their main business consisting of a series of nursing homes, a nearby hospital, and rehabilitation center.
When her mother had casually told her, over breakfast, that the shop's name was "Pushing Daisies," Joey had nearly choked on her toast.
Naming your shop after a cute euphemism for dying seemed a little bit on the nose. But Joey's mother told her to hang on to her socks because the shops owner, the sixty year old Mrs. Sheryl Nelson, was just as colourful as her shop's name suggested.
