Weeks went by and quiet a few things happened, Fran and Max had made up over the phone of course, CC was now showing that she was pregnant, and in a few days Fran and her kids would be able to move back into their house. It was a nice quiet Friday morning, the kids were at school and Niles, CC, and Fran were sitting in the living room reading the newspaper, when all of a sudden Fran's cell phone began to ring.
Fran got up, walked over to her purse, took out her cell phone and answered it, "Hello?" she was quiet for a moment while the person on the other line spoke, "Oh hi Gia." she said into the phone and then turned to Niles and CC, "It's Gia, Maxwell's assist." she explained and the went back to talking on the phone, "Wha? Honey calm down…I can't understand ya." she said and then paused while she listened to Gia. "Oh no, that's terrible." Fran said into the phone, "Chloe fired her." Fran explained as she covered the mouth piece. "Ok sweetie, well why don't ya come on over here for thanksgiving?" Fran suggested and then added, "I'll invite Brighton." she smiled as she heard Gia respond, "Ok sounds great, see ya then, bye." and then she hung up and walked back over to the chair she was sitting on before Gia called.
"Oy that poor girl. Oh yeah Niles, set two more plates to the table for thanksgiving." Fran said and right a way Niles groaned "Hey ya should be happy Ma, Yetta, and Daddy are spending thanksgiving with Uncle Stanley." Fran pointed out to Niles, "What about Maxwell?" CC asked "Oh they love Max, but Uncle Stanley has shrimp." Fran said she either didn't understand the question or she was trying to avoid it.
"You haven't called him to ask if he's coming, have you?" Niles asked and Fran tried to be surprised as she said, "I didn't call him please..." then she figured she'd tell the truth, "No." she said after receiving doubtful looks from Niles and CC.
CC leaned over Niles and grabbed their house phone, "I can fix that." she said as she began to dial, and Fran began to get worried, "CC wha are ya doing!" she asked "CC put down the phone!" she commanded but it was no use CC was already waiting for Maxwell to answer, "Hello Maxwell" CC greeted "Fine, uh Fran wants to talk to bye." and she handed the phone to Fran. She grabbed it and whispered to CC "I hate you." but CC just smiled as Fran glared at her and then put the phone next to her ear, "Hi honey!" she said cheerfully Maxwell smiled "Hello darling. How's everything going?" he asked. He wanted to hear everything he was missing, and he even planned on asking the littlest things just so he could hear Fran's voice.
"Good. The kids are all getting good grades, I'm missing ya." Fran explained "Aw I'm missing you too." Max said which caused Fran to smile as she added, "Oh yeah and CC's driving Niles crazy with her cravings." Maxwell laughed "Ah I remember those days." "Yeah" Fran said softly. "So what did you call for?" Maxwell asked, he hoped nothing else was going wrong. "Oh…um Niles was making out the menu for thanksgiving dinner and he was wondering if ya were gonna be able to make it over here for it." she explained half lying, "Oh well tell Niles that I'd love to but a scene from the play is going to be in the Macy's parade!" he exclaimed happily.
"Oh honey! That's terrific!" she said happily but then realized what that meant, "So you're not gonna make it huh?" "I'm afraid not." he said sounding disappointed himself so he tried to cheer both of them up by adding "I promise I'll be home for Christmas." That made them feel a little better, but not completely, "Ok, well I'm sure you've got a lot to do, so I'll let ya go." Fran said trying to sound like her happy self, "Bye sweetie." she said softly "Bye sweetheart." he said in the same tone she used.
They hung up and at about the same time they sighed, which was something that would happen often once they hung up with each other. Fran looked at Niles and CC and sadly said, "He's not coming home." Niles got up and soon CC followed as they went over to give Fran a group hug, letting her know they'd be there