Grace Williams

You don’t have friends. You have people that are so afraid of you they’d rather be on your side.

       ‘ My boyfriend is gonna throw a party at his parent’s house this Friday. You wanna come? ’ That called for trouble because neither her or Grace’s dad would allow them to go to a party, especially not with college boys.

    “ Yea! “ Grace should have reconsidered her answer since she knew Danno wouldn’t let her go, not unless this party had adult supervision. By that he would mean him, and that’s the last thing Grace wanted. “ But I don’t think Danno will let me go.” 

Grace said it out loud and Mary couldn’t help but smile, although she wasn’t quite sure how she was going to manage a huge family. She hadn’t been around the first time, missed out on getting her first experience as a mother. Therefore, marriage was far from her mind and she wasn’t expecting Danny to ask her at all. For that she was too busy with figuring out how to make it right this time.         Grace’s question interrupted the thoughts that clouded her mind. Looking down at her, she smiled much softer this time. “Well, your dad ees making sure we’re going to get a much bigger place.” Was she supposed to break the news to her? To Mary it seemed fine to let her know; Grace was old enough after all.

      Moving to Hawaii was the best thing for her family, Grace knew that now. Danny gained friends and after many efforts at dating after her mom got re-married, Danno seemed to finally find someone he got along with rather well. Grace tried often to not get too attached to her dad’s girlfriends despite how nice or how much fun they were, but Mary was the exception. Not only was she Danny’s girlfriend, but she was also Cassandra’s mom. And they would soon be sharing a sibling between them.       “ Really ? “ Grace seemed surprised that Danny was going to get a bigger place but the thought certainly excited her. “ Awesome! “ Though she still hoped that her and Cass’ rooms would be close to one another. 

Uncle Steve and Grace

    Her brows rose in mild surprise. Not that she already knew how much her father liked her, Mary just was pretending like she didn’t. “’E does?” she asked, scrambling the eggs.

       She had to be playing, right? Or was Danno again hiding his feelings because that seemed to be his thing to do?  The look on her face said what Grace really wanted to on the matter. “ I think it’s pretty obvious. “ 

          Although Mary considered to have another child, as she always had the wish of having a large family, this wasn’t quite how she had expected it to happen ( but that’s what happens when there’s barely protection used ). Now that she was a couple of months in, she was excited as the first time and Danny was also happy about the news. And Cassandra? Apart from that she still was warming up around her mother, they had her blessing. Mary knew she couldn’t make up for the lost time with her daughter, but with this baby she had a chance to make it right. Looking up from cutting peppers, Mary smiled at Grace who hoped for a girl. “Zat would be great, wouldn’t eet? We need more women power around ze ‘ouse.” Whatever it would be, it really didn’t matter to her, however.    

       “ Danno would freak out.” Grace smirked just thinking about that. Having yet another daughter in his life, he already seemed stress with Grace hitting her teenage years and Cass already being there . “ Our family is getting huge. “  Grace had one when she was back in Jersey with her aunts and uncle from her dad’s side. Her mom’s family was smaller in comparison, but nothing compares to the family she now has! A sister, a brother, another sibling on the way, her mom, her uncles, her aunt Kono, and Mary.  She had to wonder if her dad was going to remarry at this point...     “ Where are you going to put the baby?” 

         That was tempting, wasn’t it?                       “O-kay.”

The perks and falls of having a little brother. Easily bribed, and yet needing to bribe him so she wouldn’t get in trouble.                   “ Then it’s a done deal. Shake on it.” 

                “Daddy said no phooones.” 

         “ I’ll give you my dessert for a month            if you don’t tell Danno. “ 

               “You know what? Since I got something to do on the way anyway, I’m gonna drive to his office. Calling him would only ruin the surprise, wouldn’t it? And I’ll get him to get pizza, even if I have to pay for it. And then we gonna spend the evening like we did back in Jersey on the weekends, sounds good?” She was a smart kid, old enough to see when something was off. Matthew couldn’t pull the wool over her eyes, but he could distract her.

     “ Is that a promise?” Grace was excited, even if he seemed nervous about something. She knew that if she asked she may be met with a generic ‘you’ll understand when you’re older’. Did Grace even know anything about Mary? Just that she shared the name of the woman that her dad used to work with but she didn’t know much else. Let alone that Matt behind here was going to throw her dad into a whirlwind.             More so than Uncle Steve does on a  daily basis.       “ Uncle Matt? ”