Note: I'm sorry I have not updated in a long time, I was at Disneyworld for a WHOLE WEEK! I do not own Family Ties; the only person I owned is Nancy Fox, Elizabeth, Emma, and Sally McDollers. (Who is Sally McDollers? You will find that out later in this chapter. Stay tuned.)
"You're kidding, you're not going to let her stay with us, are you," asked a shocked Steven.
"We have to let her stay with us," Elyse said. This is just like the time we took in my brother Ned after he broke up with that rich, selfish, cold-hearted girlfriend Sally McDollers, and my parents were so mad at him for it because she was rich that they wouldn't let him come home.
Remember?
Steven did. "It was raining that night when he showed up on our doorstep asking if he could stay for a week. Man, I'll never forget that…Hey! You're trying to make me think that Nancy is Ned and we're the only ones who can give her a place to stay," he said.
"Well that's…one way you can put it," said Elyse. "We can work out an agreement with her, like she can help out with stuff around the house while having a free room where she can stay."
Elyse then noticed her husband looking at her like he did when he knew there was no arguing with her when she'd already made up her mind. "What," she asked.
"So…have Mom & Dad made a decision yet," asked a confused Jennifer. Steven had called the entire family into the living room and said that they were going to have a family meeting, but Elyse and Steven were still in the kitchen having a last-minute conference themselves. Two hours later, the kids were getting pretty bored in the living room. Alex was pacing back and forth across the living room floor.
"Are you worried about Nancy, Alex?" asked Jennifer.
"Me? Nahhhhhh," Alex said as he started biting his nails with his left hand and running his fingers through his hair with his right.
"Alex?"
"Yeah?"
"You ARE nervous about this, Jennifer replied. You think that Mom & Dad won't let Nancy stay with us and that while we are celebrating the holidays she'll be a bagger in a grocery store asking people 'paper or plastic?' …And don't tell me you're not nervous because when you get nervous you start out with walking back and forth on the carpet. After that, you start biting your nails and running your fingers through your hair, and I do not want to go on to the third thing."
Alex looked shocked. "How did you know all that stuff?"
"You're not the only diary in this house that I read," she said.
Mallory looked up from putting on her lipstick. "Non of that stuff in MY diary is true, I swear!" she yelled.
Just then, Skippy walked into the house. "Hello Keatonrios!" he yelled. (Note: I do watch "Full House", and I am going to say that Kimmy is Skippy's step-cousin!)
Alex looked at Skippy, annoyed. "Don't you know HOW to ring a doorbell?"
"Don't need too," Skippy answered. "You people never lock your doors!
Alex sighed and changed the subject. "Skippy, do you remember Nancy H. Fox?"
Skippy thought about that for a moment. "Wasn't she the quiet girl who wore the same sweater almost the entire year during 3rd grade?"
Alex slapped the back of his head. "No, you idiot, that was Hannah Cluck! I meant Nancy H. Fox! She…she… oh, never mind."
Finally, Steven walked into the living room. "Good, you're all here, Skippy I think that you should be here too for this family meeting."
"All right! My chance to see what a Keaton family meeting will be like," Skippy said as he took a seat right next to Mallory. Mallory looked at him.
"Just because you're sitting right next to me doesn't mean I'll stop ignoring you," she said.
"Ok, we have made a decision about Nancy," Steven said. "She can stay."
Alex ran up to his father, jumped into his arms and kissed him. "Thank you, Thank you, oh thank you Dad!"
Steven put Alex back on his own two feet and warned them all: "But, she will have to act like a Keaton, not just a houseguest. She will have to help out with chores like taking out the trash, folding laundry and washing dishes. Stuff like that."
Just then, Nancy came in. She had taken off her coat and was holding the cordless phone. She went to Steven and handed the phone to him. "It's for you," she said.
"Hello? This is Steven Keaton. …Yes she's here. …No, she couldn't go back to her old hom. The court said so…What? … Who? … Ohhh, you're 'Miss McDollers,' I mean, used to be? …Your daughters, Emma & Elizabeth, are both 19 now? That's nice but what about Nancy? She's supposed to be part of your family too…"
Elyse walked in and grabbed the phone from Steven. She'd heard enough. "Hello, Sally? Yes, I know all about you too. I was never mad at Ned for breaking up with you…wake up and smell the coffee! Now listen, none of that matters anymore. What matters is Nancy. Now, tomorrow I'll get into a car with Nancy and drive to meet you…What? You're in Paris? Fine then, well fly… Hmmm? You can't mean that. Keep her?…Hello. Hello?
"She hung up on me!" Elyse yelled..
"What was that all about?" asked Alex. "They said, 'keep her,'" Elyse said. "They want us to keep Nancy," she said.
Nancy started to cry and Alex tried to comfort her again. Mallory even started crying on Skippy's shoulder.
Skippy looked up the sky. "Thank you big guy!" He yelled at the sky.
Elyse looked at Steven. "Well, that's that. She is staying here with us because that terrible family she was with should never, ever have gotten her in the first place."
She looked at her husband and her kids. "Everybody, please go to your rooms. Skippy, go home now," she said.
Soooo, what do you think!
Batkid1. 05/06/05.