Chapter 51: Food Fight
"Excellent dinner Meredith." Carolyn said across the dinner table "Thank you so much."
"Your welcome." Meredith smiled as she took a bite of chicken.
"Well, it's not home cooked." Nancy scoffed "But it's decent."
"Beggers can't be choosers." Derek muttered and flashed his sister a glare.
"I was perfectly fine eating with my colleagues at the Ritz." Nancy glared back.
"Then go, no one is stopping you."
"Well apparently I have a niece I want to get to know." Nancy said, taking a moment to smile at Bella "I'm so sorry your parents hid you from the rest of your family for so long."
"I'm not." Bella muttered.
"What?"
"Bella," Derek warned "Just eat, they'll be gone soon."
"Whatever." She mumbled into a mouthful of green beans.
"You seem to do a good job eating your greens." Carolyn admonished "It's nice to see a girl so young concerned about vegetables, your Dad was the same."
"I always kind of liked them." Bella shrugged "Plus, Mom said if I ate them, I'd grow boobs."
Nancy gasped as they all looked at Meredith.
"What." She shrugged "I can't tell her it'll put hair on her chest."
"Can't say I'm surprised you would tell a nine-year-old that." Nancy rolled her eyes "You were always crude with your comments, I guess you would tell your own daughter that."
"I tell my daughter what she's going to hear soon enough already." Meredith said politely "I don't wait until they're knocked up to give them the sex speech."
Nancy turned red "I thought Carly had heard it in school already ok!" she huffed "And she wasn't pregnant, it was a scare."
"It's a pitty she doesn't have a mother who's an OB or anything." Meredith snickered.
"At least I kept all my children!" Nancy scoffed, it was a slap in the face, and she knew it. "At least I had the balls to do that."
"Nancy." Derek growled in warning.
"No, I'm not going to hold it in any longer Derek! She needs to know how selfish she was and—" Nancy was suddenly silenced as a gob of mashed potatoes smacked her across the cheek, everyone gasped and turned to the source of where it was thrown.
"Bella!" Derek gasped.
"What." She muttered "Someone had to shut her up! You might think that my mom was mean and selfish, but she did her best. And you know what, I'm not upset over it so no one else should be. My parents died and she could have told them she didn't want me; she could have made me go to a foster home with eight other kids but no. She sucked it up and took me in like she'd been a mom all my life. Yeah, maybe it would have been nice to have been her daughter my whole life, but she's my mom now and a good one ok? So, shut up and stop being mean, as of now I really don't like you."
All mouths were open but not speaking as Bella huffed and sat back in her chair. Finally, they heard a snicker and Derek turned to his wife who was holding her hand over her mouth and trying not to laugh.
"Meredith." Derek hissed. It only made her laugh harder "It's not funny!"
THWAP! Derek gasped as he felt a pile of warm mashed potatoes hit his face, his eyes widened as he looked across the table.
"Mom!" he gasped.
"Don't pick on my granddaughter for speaking her mind."
He felt a slimy green bean hit the side of his cheek and looked to see his wife giggling.
"Yeah." She laughed "Stop being so serious."
"Oh, you want funny?" He grabbed a handful of potatoes and heard her shriek as he wiped it down her face.
"This is ridiculous!" Nancy gasped as she saw the food being flung back and forth, she gasped as a green bean hit her in the chest.
"Oh come on Nancy pants." Meredith snickered "Stop being a prude and join the fun."
"Yeah!" Bella giggled as she dodged a pile of potatoes being thrown at her.
Nancy started laughing and picked up a green bean and tossed it at Bella. They all burst into laughter as an all-out food fight broke out over the dinner table. Carolyn sat back and smiled at how happy her son looked, it may have been unconventional for him to get to this point, but the point was that he was happy now, and that's all that mattered.
What did you guys think of the family food fight?