George and Anna were chatting away at the bridal shop. They were waiting for Bess to join them. Anna pulled out one of the dresses on the rack to show George, "what about this one?" George examined the lace dress and smiled, "add it to the pile to try on. Have you seen Nancy lately?"
Anna gently hung the dress on a rack near George's fitting room, "no, she did send Frank divorce papers."
"What?" George spun around and pulled them to two chairs to sit down, "When did this happen?"
"A few weeks ago, Frank is beside himself. Nancy won't even talk to me. Has she spoken to you any?"
"A little bit, but Bess is the one she talks to the most now." Anna nodded to George's statement, "we will have to pick her brain." George nodded and got back up to look at the dresses. Anna glanced at her phone to see a message from Joe.
Hi babe, hope the dress shopping is going well. At the office if you need me.
Anna smiled and noticed it was from just a few minutes ago. She had a chance of getting a few more messages out of him, "George, I will be just a minute." She nodded and went back to the dresses, as Anna texted her husband.
It's going. I'm excited that George and Biff manage to set a date even with all the drama. Heard anything new?
Frank is in the office, now. He is holding up. They have some deliberation with their lawyers on Friday.
Anna looked up to see where George was, "George." She turned and walked over to her, "yeah?" Anna showed her the phone. George spoke, "that is in two days, is she seriously going through with this?"
"Looks that way, when will Bess be here?"
"I'll call her now. I invited Nancy but haven't heard anything. Be right back." George grabbed her phone and slipped away and Anna went back to her phone.
Oh no, when Bess gets here George and I will question her to see what she knows. She has spent more time with Nan then any of us.
I think I have rubbed off on you huh? ;)
Hush Mr. Hardy :-P I love you so much.
I love you, how are my babies?
Your mom is spoiling Kendall rotten today pretty sure she has Lizzy too. The twins are good. I can't wait to find out what they are in 2 weeks.
Me too. Okay baby, I need to go do some work. Have fun and Biff said to make sure George gets a beautiful dress. Love you.
Tell Biff not to worry. I promise his bride will be gorgeous. Love you.
Anna looked up and saw George smiling at her, "I can only hope that when I'm pregnant with my two or third child. I am still as much in love with Biff as you and Joe are."
Anna blushed at her words, "I have no doubt that you two will be. Where is Bess?"
"She will be here in a few minutes. I asked her if Nan was coming and she said that Nancy decided to decline having any part of the wedding. It's undecided if she will even attend it."
"Oh George, I'm sorry. Let's try not to think about it. Maybe she will come around."
George nodded biting her lip holding in the tears. Anna gave her a glass of champagne that the sales attendants had left with them. She gave her a grateful nod.
Nancy sighed and looked at her dad, "Dad, can you give me a break please." Carson Drew had showed up at his daughter's house and was giving her a hard time about her choices. Nancy was proud of her dad, he was managing to walk some with a walker and he took full advantage of it.
Carson had fully disagreed with everything that Nancy has done since she returned. He sighed and looked around the living room. It was a mess not normal for Nancy at all, "Nancy Elizabeth Drew, I love you but you have changed so much."
"After what I went through, how would I not change?"
"Why are you pushing away all the people who love and care for you?"
"If they cared so much where were they? Why did it take so long? I even helped them, if it wasn't for me managing to get notes to them."
Carson interrupted her and he knew where she was going to do with that statement, "Enough, you wasn't around. You don't know how they acted. Would you like me to spell it out for you?"
"Dad… I…"
"No, I will tell you first hand. Anna was so upset and wanted everyone to focus on finding you that she wanted to keep her pregnancy a secret. When anyone would say anything about it she shrugged it off out of fear that it would somehow take something away from finding you."
"That's how it should have been focus on me only. She always has to outshine me, or out do me."
"Nancy, listen to yourself you wasn't raised to be jealous and this mean spirited. Frank was so upset that he came close to hurting Anna. He had random outburst of anger. Fenton and Laura made him sign papers because we didn't trust him around Elizabeth. They were going to have him locked up because he couldn't take being away from you. He needed professional help."
"I have heard how he handled things and I can't believe he would act that way towards our daughter."
"You have to pick a side. Either you are mad because he wasn't focus on finding you or you are mad that he was so focus on finding you that he ignored Elizabeth. Who by the way was never in any danger, Anna took care of her. We all did."
"Dad, I don't know if I can be with Frank. A lot has happened and it will never stop."
"Nancy, you really need to think about what you are doing. You are hurting your cousin, your friends, and your family."
Nancy nodded and grabbed her cup of coffee. She did realize it was hurting everyone but now that she has started down the path of separating from Frank, she didn't think it was possible to go back. She didn't know if she wanted to go back.
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