Chapter 11: Steph's Decision
A few hours later, the doorbell rang, Ranger answered the door, he was wearing black slacks with black suede shoes and a tan turtle neck top with a diamond stud earring in his left ear. He smiled, he saw Helen Plum come in with a freshly cooked twenty pound Turkey. "I did not know if you were going to have a bird prepared so I prepared one." She smiled.
"Babe, your mom is here with a big bird." Ranger yelled to her.
Stephanie came out of the kitchen with an apron around her waist. "Well we have your family coming too, so I think we could use the extra meat." Stephanie told him. She hugged her mom Grandma and her dad.
There was another ring of the doorbell, Stephanie answered it, and she saw an old man and woman. The older man looked like her dad Frank.
"Dad, I think these two are for you?" She questionly looked at her father.
Her father walked up with a beer in his hand, "Hi mom and dad, this is my youngest daughter Stephanie. Behind her is her future husband Carlos." Frank told them.
"Come on in Grandma Plum and Grandpa Plum" Stephanie told them, she then walked with them to the living room.
"So you are our youngest granddaughter, what do you do?" Grandpa Plum asked Stephanie.
"Well you have two great granddaughters, and one great grandson, and I myself am a Bail Bond Enforcement agent, I work for my cousin Vinny Plum."
"Good for you, I am very proud of you." Grandpa Plum told her.
"Thank you so much" Stephanie told them.
The doorbell rang again; Ranger answered it and saw that it was his mom, brother, and some of his uncles aunts and cousins.
"Hey the party is just getting started come on in." Carlos told them. They entered and saw everyone in the living area off the dining room. Carlos was just about to shut the door, when Albert, Valerie, Mary Alice, Angie, and Albert Jr and Lisa came in. Ranger shut the door showed them to the living room too.
"Valerie I like you to meet your grandparents the Plums on my side." Frank told them.
"Nice to meet you, what do you do Valerie?" Grandpa Plum asked.
"I am a house wife; I take care of you great grandkids. This is Mary Alice, Angie and the youngest is Albert Jr. My husband right here is a Lawyer; he is still trying after four years, to get his law firm up and running." Valerie said to them.
"Hi I am Albert Kloughn" he held out his hand to Valerie's grandparents.
"So you are a lawyer, how would you like to run a law firm that is already underway and has been up and running for fifty years." Grandpa Plum asked Albert.
"Wow that would be great whose law firm is that?" Albert asked him.
"Mine, I started it fifty years ago and I want to retire, if you want it I can work on the paper work after dinner. There is a catch you would have to move to New York. We help you get set up with a house, and enroll the kids in school there if you want the help." Grandpa Plum asked him.
Valerie Looked at Albert, and they both shook their heads yes. "Yes, I would love to take over your firm." Albert said, and then Valerie also said "What my husband said"
"For you my darling Stephanie, we would like to pay for you to go back to college to major in Criminal Justice if you would like right here in town at the local college." Grandma Plum asked her.
"Mom, Dad what are you doing? Why are you doing this? What the hell is going on?" Frank yells at them.
"Wow grandpa said a bad word again!" Mary Alice shook her head.
"We are not getting any younger Frank and we are sorry we were so rough on you for marrying Helen. We want to make it up to you." Grandpa Plum told him.
"Okay, I guess, but you said that if I married Helen I was out of the family." Frank told his parents.
"We were wrong, and we are sorry." His parents told him.
Helen went into the kitchen to look for some booze.
Stephanie followed her.
"Mom are you okay?" she asked her mother.
"After all these years, my mother in law and father in law come back and say that they are sorry. They offer my son in- law a job that he needs but it is in New York when will I see my grandchildren. I need a whole bottle of whiskey." She told her daughter. Helen could smell a turkey in the oven. "What is that great smell?" she asked her daughter.
"I cooked a turkey for Thanksgiving, it is not quite done, but it will be soon." Stephanie smiled at her mother.
"Really you did, if it tastes good I am so proud of you." Helen told Stephanie.
"Yeah, okay thanks mom" She said. She heard foot steps coming down the stairs.
Julie walked into the kitchen with a black skirt on with some heels and a white turtleneck.
Stephanie turned around and saw her. "Hey there sweetie." Julie walked up to her and gave her a hug.
"Mom do you remember Carlo's daughter Julie?" Helen smiled and answered "Of course I do." She walked up to her and gave her a hug.
"Your dad is in the living room with your family if you want to go see them." Steph told her.
Julie went into the living room and was mobbed by her great uncles, aunts, cousins, and then grandmother.
"Grandma, I can't breathe." Julie told her.
"I am sorry sweetie, but I can't believe you are here. Carlos why did you not tell us." His mom asked him.
"I did not know she was coming until a few hours ago, and I wanted to suprize you." He replied to his mother.
Mary Alice came over, "Hi"
"Hi I am Julie"
"Mary Alice, and this is my sister Angie, and my baby brother Albert Jr."
"Hi would you like to see the horses?" Julie asked "I am dying to see how Tucker is."
"Julie we are about to eat dinner, you can so them Tucker after dinner okay," Carlos told her.
"Okay" Julie said in a sad voice.
Stephanie walked in to the living room, "Everything is ready let's eat."
Everyone got up, and went into the dining room, which Ella had fixed up very nicely.
Ranger took the head of the table, with Stephanie next to him on his right, Julie on his left and then everyone else picked a chair. They saw two perfect turkeys, stuffing cranberry sauce, squash and everything else that was possible.
"Let's all bow our heads for Grace." Ranger told everyone.
When all the heads were bowed, "Thank you lord for this blessed meal and please bless everyone…."
"Hello everyone, we are here." Lula said as she rushed in to join them for dinner.
Lula was in a black skimpy mini skirt and a sports bra top, with blue sparkles on it, and very high heels on.
Everyone's mouth was wide open in shock at the new arrivals.