In the Family Page #5

Hello, you've reached the Hines' home.

Hello?

Oh, hello Sally?

Oh. Yes.

Sally, it's Joey.

Yes. Joey.

Turkey must have really knocked you out,

Ive been out here ringing your bell.

Yes, I know.

Sally, what's going on?

Why didn't you come to the door?

Sally, is something wrong? Are you okay?

Sally, are you there? Sally do-

Chip isn't here, Joey.

What do you mean he isn't here? I told you

I was coming by to pick him up. Sally, where is he?

Im sorry, Joey, Im sorry.

But, it's okay. Chip is with his family.

Sally, what's going on?

Eileen. You see, Eileen is the legal guardian.

She said the judge said so.

And she and Dave, they'll take really good care of Chip.

Sally!

You've looked after him really well, Joey.

We all know that.

And we hope...

Sally, I am Chip's dad!

Joey, you were so good for Cody.

Cody after Rebecca.

And Joey, it was so nice...

my Cody and Rebecca, the two of them.

And Chip looks just like Rebecca...

Sally!

Why are you doing this?

Where are they? Where did they take Chip?

Sally, where did they take Chip?

No, Joey. It'll just make it harder.

Itll just make it harder.

Thank you.

Come on, Eileen, I know

you're in there. Open up!

Chip! Hey, Chipmunk, can you hear me?

Its going to be okay.

We're going to go home soon.

Eileen! Eileen!

You can bring them back now.

Hey, you okay?

Whoa! Careful, I don't think you want

to be swimming around in this mess.

This is Rebecca's...

Its okay, alright?

She loved... I...

Sit back. Its okay, Cody.

Sit back. Okay? Sit back.

You know, this is nothing.

Yeah, we'll put this back together again.

I didn't mean to.

We'll put it back together again, no problem.

Yeah, just sit back. Here we go, here we go.

Okay.

Good, um...

Can't put her back together again.

Cody, I...

She's gone.

Yeah. I know.

She's gone...

She was something else, wasn't she?

Wasn't she?

Yeah.

Hold on.

What is it? You need something?

Sorry about that.

Yeah, that was a good one.

I didn't mean to.

Well, let me...

No, no, no. Its okay. Just leave it.

Its okay. Ill be right back. Okay?

Sorry about the mess.

Hey, it's Tennessee. It happens.

Hey. Cody, where's Chip?

Oh. Chip's... Chip's at his grandparents now.

That's where he is...

at his grandparents... not here...

Okay. Okay good. Good good good.

Then we only got one baby to take care of.

Let's uh, let's get you cleaned up,

you've got some stuff...

No, you don't have to do that.

Yeah, yeah, you just sit back and shut up.

What'd you say?

Shut up. Is that how you talk to a baby?

Yeah, come on, you need some rest.

This you don't need. Rest you need. Come on.

I don't know what to do.

I don't know what to do.

I don't know what to do.

Sure you don't. I mean, that's natural.

What am I supposed to do?

Cody, you'll figure it out.

Don't you tell me to figure it out!

Hey!

I just need to know what to do.

Im so- Im sorry, I just...

No, it's okay, Im...

You're terrible at this.

Yeah, yeah I kind of am.

Yeah nothing makes sense.

Yeah uh... Ive been there.

No.

You don't know what it's like now.

Yup, shut up, I have.

Yeah?

Yeah.

Yeah, who died?

Uh, sister.

Mother... father...

Foster father... foster mother.

Seriously?

Yup.

All those people?

Yup.

See what we got here.

I think maybe Id be a good contractor.

I think Id be a good...

carpenter. Think maybe I ought to try it.

Okay! I think you need to sleep on it.

Yeah.

Yeah, come on.

Yeah? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah.

Here we go. Up.

Yeah Ill do it...

These are kind of tough.

Good?

Uh... don't you want to brush

your teeth or something?

Man, you're going to regret that, um...

Here.

Come on, you'll feel a little

less nasty in the morning.

Oh Betsy, have you seen...

They're in the hallway, Miss.

So when I went to go look for him at Eileen's...

Good morning. Sorry, I,

I didn't mean to interrupt.

No problem. Did you need me or Helen?

Helen.

Joey, Ill come find you after were done.

Yeah, okay.

What the hell.

Joey, Im so sorry...

Oh, this is wrong!

Helen, this is wrong!

Yeah, you don't have to convince me.

Joey, what kind of beer you got?

Never mind. I can get it. You sit down, Joey.

You just... sit down.

Gloria, hey.

Chicken pot pie.

You're an angel, Gloria.

Just thoughtful beyond belief. Thank you.

Got it. And do you have...

Yeah, I have his number here.

Well, Ill let you get back to your guests.

Gloria, there's just a couple of us.

Can you come in for a bit?

More company tonight would be nice.

Yeah? Wonderful

Hey everyone, this is Gloria. She teaches at

Cody's school. Gloria this is Helen and Anne.

And sorry, it's been a while since we've had

company. Can I get you something to drink, Gloria?

Do you have tea?

Sure, sure.

Joey, how many women you got feeding you?

Can you believe what Eileen did? Seriously,

the police? As if Joey would hurt anyone.

Who's Eileen?

Joey, you got to let your people know what's going on.

We're good for more than just cooking.

Yeah, I know. Im sorry, Gloria.

Who's Eileen?

Cody's sister.

She took Chip away.

Wouldn't let Joey see him,

not a word of discussion.

Joey goes to pick him up one day...

And sorry. No. You know what? He's our kid now.

We don't need you.

Can you believe that?

And stay away.

Then this happened today.

A restraining order.

Okay, I have known Eileen for a while. And you

know our kids have grown up together.

But she should have gotten

the restraining order on me,

because I am going to kill her!

Do it.

I mean what is she thinking? I mean seriously!

Trying to keep Joey away from Chip?

I mean, why do you want to spend your

time on that? Why? Why that?

We've been coming up with a list of names,

people who have gone through

some sort of child custody case or...

Charles, it's Gloria.

Yeah. Be in your office tomorrow at four,

Im sending a friend over. Treat him right.

Yeah, his name is Joey Hines.

Its Williams.

Williams. Sorry. Joey Williams. Yeah.

Charles did my divorces and my

custody case. Talk to him tomorrow.

How come I haven't met Gloria before?

Here you go, Gloria.

Ah! She gets things done.

We like Gloria.

Thanks. Yeah, it'll be good to talk to your friend.

Ive talked to some lawyers

over the phone, and uh...

they pretty much can't

get off the phone fast enough.

Well you got Charles tomorrow.

And all these people, Joey.

And these are friends, not just some stranger on

the phone. They're going to help you figure something out.

Trying to keep Chip away from his dad, I swear... Eileen...

Get you another, Joey?

Uh, yeah.

Helen?

Please.

What's a Paiste?

What's a who?

Paiste. Irish dragon.

She's a teacher. They know things.

Chip, he's kind of going through a dragon phase right now.

We used to look up a dragon a week.

You know, look up all the stories about him.

Well that was Cody and Chip's job,

to do all this research.

They'd give me these pictures and Id

make Chip a little block with the dragon on it.

He calls them blocks. They're art.

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