After the passive aggressive comments about her pregnancy and boyfriend had passed they had all settled down for dinner. Her sisters didn't bring their kids as they were all busy with their respective activities and couldn't stand the dinner. So at the dining room table were the four couples and Carolyn.
"Mom can you just explain why your selling it?" Lizzie asked.
"I've been over this, can we just drop it girls?"
Carolyn expectingly looked at the four of her daughters and waited for them to nod in agreement. The remainder of the dinner was relatively quiet. Afterward Amelia and Lizzie went to help their mother with the dishes while everyone else interrogated Link.
"You haven't explained it to me yet." Amelia suddenly said while she was drying a dish her sister had passed to her.
"Amelia, I'm getting to old to run the store. There are way too many bad memories attached to the place." Carolyn sighed.
"There are countless good memories there mom. Is this what dad would've wanted?" Once she said that last part she regretted it after seeing her mothers face.
"You girls can finish up here. I'm going up to bed. Good night." Carolyn said leaving the kitchen.
"That was a little uncalled for." Lizzie said to her little sister.
"Well am I wrong?"
"No, but we can't force her to keep it." Amelia rolled her eyes in response.
"I just can't believe she wants to sell it."
"Me either, but it's her store we can't tell her what to do. And I mean she is getting old, Amelia."
"Mom is not getting old."
"Your just in denial. Maybe it's a good thing, she's slowing down, some days I think she's going to over work herself." The two sisters continued cleaning the dishes quietly when Kathleen walked in the kitchen.
"Mom seems upset is she okay?" Kathleen asked while she propped herself up to sit on the counter.
"Amelia asked 'is this what dad would've wanted' and mom got upset." Lizzie answered, which caused her to get punched in the arm.
"That was kind of rude Amy." Kathleen reprimanded.
"We were all thinking it." Amelia commented.
"Dad would be mad at all of us. For everything thats happened since he died. Mom not raising you, resulting in you getting a drug habit." Kathleen said gesturing toward Amelia. "Nancy getting pregnant before marriage, and a matter a fact you too. How Derek handled his marriage after Addie cheated. How Lizzie stayed with her cheating husband. How we treated Derek after the divorce, and not really staying in contact with him. God, he'd be so pissed."
"I noticed you didn't say anything you've done that would make dad mad." Amelia said getting annoyed with her sister.
"Because he wouldn't be mad with me." Kathleen smirked.
"Whatever." Lizzie chuckled, while Amelia groaned and rolled her eyes.
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A couple of days had past, and Carolyn had officially sold the store. All they had to do was clean everything out. The family were taking their last walk through of the store before handing the keys over to the new owners.
"Mom, remember when Amy was born?" Nancy asked, she remembered her and her siblings had to stay at their grandmothers for a week, because of the hurricane the roads weren't safe to drive on.
