A/N: I love how persuasive I can be sometimes... 5 reviews, that's more like it! :) And just to show how much I appreciate it, I'm giving you a cookie called one of those weird chapters that's really short and a bit disconnected. :D
The day Frank died, Madeline didn't get the ominous, sixth sense feeling they always tell you about. She was utterly shocked when she got the call, telling her he'd been in a huge pileup and had died before the police had arrived. She wasn't entirely sure how to react to the phone call after hanging up. She stood stock still for a while, a strange mix of relief and emptiness welling up steadily inside of her.
Nate's reaction was a little more passionate than Maddy's. He heard the news from Maddy a little after she got the call herself and adamantly declared the world a better place. He softened marginally when Maddy got on his case for that, but pointedly told her he wasn't going to miss his father in the least.
At the funeral, both Madeline and Nate put on somber faces for the world. Madeline still hadn't quite figured out how to feel and Nate felt like a better way to commemorate Frank Westen's passing was with a party. Nate was well aware that guests thought their behavior was strange, but Maddy was too distracted to realize a more acceptable reaction to her husband's death would be tears. To tell the truth, she was more annoyed that Michael wasn't there than anything.
When Michael heard his father had passed away, he simply muttered "good riddance" and threw the funeral invitation in the trash bin.
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