"Wha-what!" Eliza screamed.
"I said Bridgette is pregnant." Geoff idiotically answered.
"She heard what you said lamebrain she is in shock!" Mike yelled.
"Geoffrey please tell me this is a joke!" Eliza begged.
"Why are you so upset? You were thrilled for Ian and Lynn!" Geoff said.
"Yeah because me and Lynn are twenty-six year old years old you just turned seventeen!" Ian said.
"I don't see what the big deal is." Grandma Blanche said. "So Bridgette is going to be in a pageant whats all the hubbub about?"
"She is not going to be in a pageant mother she is pregnant!" Eliza said.
"Oh...pregnant...pregnant!" Blanche said as she choked on her turkey.
Bridgette's mother Andrea got up and left the table.
"Mom where are you going?" Bridgette asked to no response she followed her mother outside.
The table turned into chaos everyone started arguing most not even about Bridgette's pregnancy. Grandma Blanche and Grandma Meredith were arguing over beauty pageants, Grandpa Kevin and Grandpa William started fighting over politics. Uncles, Aunts, and cousins were fighting over numerous issues.
"Happy Thanksgiving everyone!" Mike yelled as he took his plate into the living room.
"Mike! Mike! That furniture is new your not going to mess it up!" Eliza yelled as she followed him.
Outside Andrea was sitting on the front porch Bridgette was stranding behind her, but neither mother or daughter would say anything.
"Mom...are you okay?" Bridgette asked breaking the silence.
"Is it true?" Andrea asked her daughter.
"Yeah...yeah it is." Bridgette answered.
"Bridgette how could you do this! I am just...I am so disappointed in you!" Andrea said as she stood up.
"Mom I am sorry...I don't know what to say."
"How could you do this!" Andrea yelled.
"I am sorry! But don't you think your being a bit hypocritical? You were sixteen when you had me." Bridgette said.
"Yeah I know! But I have always talked to you about how difficult it was! I always said if your thinking about having sex talk to me! Because I know what its like to be a sixteen year old single mother!" Andrea yelled as she walked over to her car.
"Mom where are you going?"
"I just...I need some time to think. I need some time alone for a while." Andrea said before getting in her car and driving away.
Bridgette sat down on the McGraw's front porch and broke down in tears, about twenty minutes later Geoff came outside.
"Bridgette are you alright?"
"My mom is so disappointed in me!"
Geoff sat down next to his sobbing ex-girlfriend. "I am sorry...I guess I shouldn't have told everyone like that."
"Geoff why did you do that?"
"I don't know when I seen how happy my mom was to be a Grandma, I guess I thought she would be happy for us too."
"But Geoff we are teenagers they are adults there is a difference!"
"I know...I know." Geoff said embarrassed at his stupidity.
"I feel pretty bad...we took that special moment away from Lynn and your brother."
"I am just glad everyone knows now." Lynn said as she came out onto the porch. "Bridgette are you okay?"
"My mom is so disappointed in me...I feel terrible." Bridgette said.
"Where is your mom?" Lynn asked.
"She left I assume she went back home she said she needed some time to think."
She just needs some time to herself. She will come around just give her sometime...why don't you two come back inside." Lynn said.
"Its not chaos in there anymore?" Geoff asked.
"Everyone has calmed down...well Grandma Meredith and Grandma Blanche are still fuming. But! Were going to try dinner again!"
Bridgette and Geoff went with Lynn back inside.
"Geoff! Bridgette I am so sorry for how we reacted!" Eliza said.
"Yeah you kids just sit down and relax and enjoy your meal. We will talk about this later we are all going to relax and enjoy our meal! You hear me mom?" Mike said to his mother.
"Blanche is the one who always starts with me!" Meredith said.
"No its you Meredith! You have always started with me for the past 28 years! I never told her to enter a beauty pageant, I said I thought Geoff said she was going to. But you and your crazy feminists ears heard what they wanted to hear!" Blanche yelled.
"Oh please blah, blah, blah, that is all I hear coming out of your mouth." Meredith said.
"I have had just about enough of you!" Blanche said as she stood up.
"Mom sit down." Eliza said.
Blanche sat down "I am only doing this because my daughter asked me to." she said.
"Dad are you okay?" Mike asked his father Kevin.
"Oh I am fine! Just as long as this know it all conservative keeps his mouth shut." Kevin said.
"And I will be fine as long as this crazy liberal keeps his mouth shut!" William said.
"Dad!" Mike and Eliza both yelled.
After the fighting between the rivaling Grandparents calmed down, the family finally ate their Thanksgiving dinner. As expected it was delicious after dinner the women gathered in the living room, and made the men clean up the dishes which did not go over well. But the women persisted and the men cleaned up the dishes, after they finished cleaning up Geoff asked Bridgette to talk to him. They sat on the McGraw's swing in the backyard Geoff tried to get Bridgette to take him back, especially now because Bridgette was pregnant. And all though she was still angry at him, she didn't rule out the possibility but at this time she decided to stay apart.
The teens spent an hour talking before Eliza came outside to check up on them.
"How are you two doing?" Eliza asked.
"Okay." They both answered.
"Why don't you two go in and get a piece of pumpkin pie!" Eliza said.
"Alright you coming Bridgette?" Geoff asked.
"No I think I am going to sit out here for a little while longer." Bridgette answered.
"I'll be in in a couple minutes." Eliza told her son as he walked inside, "Can I sit down?" she asked Bridgette.
"Sure." Bridgette said.
"Now that football is over all the guys are watching AMC's The Godfather movie marathon." Eliza informed her.
"Oh...you and Mike are handling this a lot better then I thought you would."
"Well it was chaotic for a while there but everyone calmed down. I know this must not be easy for you...or your mom."
"You can say that again." Bridgette said.
"Speaking of your mom where did she go?"
"She said she needed some time to think alone."
"She is just in shock she needs some time alone...you know this is going to be difficult."
"I know." Bridgette said.
"But you will have Geoff, and me, and Mike! Your not going to do this alone."
"Thank you Eliza." Bridgette said.
The two shared a hug before Geoff came out, "Bridgette your mom is here!" he said with a mouth full of pumpkin pie.
Andrea walked out into the yard.
"I'll leave you two alone." Eliza said before getting up and going back inside.
"I am sorry I left you." Andrea said as she sat down next to her daughter.
"Its okay...I know how disappointed you are in me."
"Bridgette...when I found I was pregnant with you I was terrified to tell my parents. I thought they would hate me!"
"How did they react?"
"They were upset my dad was furious he didn't speak to me for months."
"Months?" Bridgette asked.
"Yeah months not until after you were born...I wasn't the good Catholic girl he said he raised."
"What about Grandma?" Bridgette asked.
"Grandma was more sad then angry but eventually she came to and supported me."
"I really screwed up didn't I?" Bridgette said.
"When I got pregnant I thought the same thing. But I was wrong having you was the best decision I ever made, and I have never regretted it. But do you want to be a mother? You know Bridgette there are other options."
"I have thought about this for over and over again...and yes I want to keep this baby."
"Then I will be here to help you! I just want you to know this isn't going to be easy...I just hope Geoff steps up and helps."
"I think he will."
"I hope so because you know the most your father has ever, done for you is send his monthly child support."
"I know." Bridgette said she hugged her mother "I love you." she said.
"I love you!" Andrea said.
"You must be hungry Eliza said there was some pumpkin pie!"
"Yum that sounds good!" Andrea said.
"Come on lets go in and get you something to eat!" Bridgette said.