Third Person's POV

Frank took Tyler out to lunch in efforts of calming her down, and then Frank saw, his mother. What is she doing here? What does she want?

"Don't turn around, Ty." Frank says giving his daughter a little heads up. 

"Is the witch here?" Tyler says with a mouth full of food but before anyone could say anything the voice of Evelyn Adler was heard.

"I better hope that's not me? Because that'd be just flat out rude." Evelyn says as Tyler almost spitted her food out of her mouth and gave her grandmother a glare.

"Gee, I wonder who would say that." Tyler spat at her grandmother as she is still angry at her at what she said about her mother. 

Tyler has a thing, she doesn't care about what you say about her, but if you even remotely say anything about her family, she will murder you.

Evelyn crossed that line on so many levels as its easy why Tyler can't stand the woman even if she's her own grandmother. Tyler glanced at her grandmother before getting her drink and sitting beside her father, wanting to sit on the other edge of the table.

Tyler looked at her grandmother as she laughed to herself as her grandmother is definitely wearing the wrong clothes for Florida. At least this time of year.

"I drove by a dozen restaurants with air conditioning, you did this to spite me?" Evelyn says as she complains which made Tyler to roll her eyes. She can be a 'sweet' person (to some degree), or she can be a bitch.

"It's bucket of beer Tuesday." Frank said as Tyler leaned her head onto his shoulder.

"Oh well, then." Evelyn says to her son as Tyler plays with the rings on her fingers.

"Want to split one, or get your own?" Frank said as she twirls her rings around her hands.

The moment of silence was nice to say the least. At least for Tyler, but she knew that wouldn't last long. "So, are you teaching?" Evelyn asked.

"He repairs boats." Tyler remarked as Evelyn looked at her for a second before looking back at her father as Tyler made a face at her grandmother just to piss her off more.

"Please." Evelyn says as she scoffed at hearing that. As she seems that's a ridiculous job to have.

"He's not bad at it either." Tyler butts into the conversation as she knows that her amazing grandmother hates when she interrupts conversations. Let alone when she's talking, as she thinks it's rude, but Tyler could absolutely care less about her grandmother.

"Well, that it explains this." Evelyn says as she points to his face. "They don't sell sunscreen here?" 

"I wear sunscreen..." Frank said but of course his amazing mother interrupted him. Like always.

"Not enough. And you need a hat..." Evelyn says as Tyler tried so hard not to smirk and or snicker, as she looked down to her hands with a smile spreading across her face.

"Then a straw hat, a piece of grain in your mouth and oversized overalls, and then a horse. You're all set to look like a hillbilly in the swamp." Tyler says as her father sniggered at her comment, as he knew that she was being sarcastic about it and he wanted to laugh.

"A big hat, that shades your face and neck, you're playing Russian roulette with your skin. You look like a porn producer." Evelyn says as Tyler laughed.

"How would you know? Do you watch porn?" Tyler said even though she didn't want to say anything but she felt the need to state her 'peanut gallery' into this conversation. As that's what her father likes to call it.

He lowkey loves her smart aleck comments, that's what makes Tyler, Tyler. There hasn't been a day in her life where she hasn't made any smart aleck comments.

"Okay, I appreciate the advice. I do, but um, we aren't here to talk about sunscreen and porn, are we?" Frank said.

Tyler frowned when her father said that, as he just took the fun right out of the conversation. "Great you ruined the fun."

"Talk to your boyfriend." Frank muttered to her as she happily took her phone out of her pocket and started spamming his messages.

"Oh, so no more small talk? That's a shame....okay. The environment, uh, you have created for that child, where she lives, the school she attends, it's substandard, every bit of it." Evelyn says as Tyler mocked her as she is sending out her streaks on snapchat like every teenager.

"I disagree." Frank said with a shake of his head.

"We're going nowhere, if we're not going to be honest with each other." Evelyn said as Tyler grabbed her earbuds out of her pocket, and put in one earbud so that she's 'listening' to the 'adult' conversation, but she's smart enough of knowing that this conversation is going to be about Mary.

"I am being honest." Frank said as he took a sip from Tyler's water bottle as it's coffee.

In her defense a teenager needs their caffeine.

"I see. Fine. Well, I'm not leaving without her." Evelyn says as Tyler is mumbling 'blah blah blah' under her breath, as her father tries not to smile at her.

"Then you're staying." Frank said as he took another drink out of Tyler's water bottle.

"Frank, please, listen to reason. At some point, either you are going to come to the conclusion, or someone in authority is going to spell it out for you, that the child's best interest is all that matters. Put in that context, the outcome is a faint accompli." Evelyn says as Tyler slowly looks up from her phone as Rasputin by Boney M. is playing in the background, as Tyler is slowly muttering the words.

"Wow, Evelyn, that's a lot of scheming for just a three hour flight." Frank said as Tyler tries to listen to this conversation, as she takes back her statement of this being boring. It just got interesting as soon as her amazing grandmother mentions Mary.

"I skipped the movie. You absconded with a six month-old girl without so much as phone call..." Evelyn says as her father interrupts her.

"A girl you didn't care about until thirty-six hours ago." Frank said as Tyler looks between her and her father while still lip syncing the words to Rasputin.

"Not true." Evelyn says as Tyler darts her eyes between the two.

"The worst private detective in New England could've tracked me down without ever leaving his office." Frank said as the waitress drops off menus.

"I'll be right with you." Tyler heard the waitress said but neither of them said anything.

"I'll tell you this, I've said nothing, done nothing, to poison the well. If you want to be in her life, I think that's terrific, come on down." Frank said as Tyler raised an eyebrow at her father as this just got really good. Maybe just a little too good.

"Sorry, I have a strict 'No Third World' policy." Evelyn says as it took Tyler a moment to realize what she was talking about.

In her defense her grandmother is using words that she doesn't understand and her one brain cell doesn't comprehend.

"Aww, you'll love Florida. You'll be wrestling gators and riding the scooter-carts at Walmart within a week." Frank said as her head is starting to hurt from looking between her father and grandmother.

"Why don't you, for once in your life, do a sensible thing?" Evelyn asked.

"I did by raising my daughter, mother. If you're going to make me pull rank, I will. Diane didn't want you to have her." Frank said as Tyler didn't realize that he talked about her for the first part.

"Diane, Diane didn't always think things out very..." Evelyn said as Tyler paused her music without missing a piece of this conversation. For once she isn't on her phone. She is shocking herself.

"Arguably one of the brightest minds on the planet, good luck going down that road..." Frank said.

"And what do you think she'd stay if she saw how her child is living now? Huh? Do you honestly think she'd be pleased? I can provide her her. I can enrich her life..."

"Come on, you're gonna take that girl and bury her in tutors. Then, you'll loan her out to some think tank where she can talk non-trivial zeroes with old Russian guys." Frank said.

"And you'd bury her under a rock. Look, I don't expect you to understand the price you have to pay for greatness." Evelyn said.

"Oh, I do, it's why I have Mary in the first place." Frank remarked to his mother.

"That's uncalled for...your sister had a laundry list of problems. Yes, she had a great mind, given to her from God and me..." Evelyn said as for once in the past four minutes she rolled her eyes at her grandmother.

"Not necessarily in that order..." Tyler whispered under her breath.

"But she was flawed. The lack of focus, the self pity, the promiscuity. She could have solved the Navier-Strokes problem, and gone down in history as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, but she didn't, because she couldn't finish. Yo can have all the ability in the world, but it's meaningless without results. The ugly truth is, she was weak. Weak like her father, and weak like, well." Evelyn said as Tyler's one brain cell was trying to comprehend what her grandmother was saying. 

If another thing she doesn't like about her grandmother she has a 'smart' brain, which is 99.9 percent smarter than Tyler's. Which might be why she gets 'C's or 'D'.

Why must this woman use words I can't understand. Sweet Jesus, mother of God.

"If it's who I think it is, kind of a black cloud over our luncheon." Frank wittily said to his mother.

"I had hoped we could have talked like adults about this, but it seems you have a different agenda." Evelyn said.

"This table is full of agendas, don't sell yourself short..." Frank said as Tyler finished her coffee in her water bottle.

"You're still stubborn, and vindictive..." Evelyn said before her father interrupted.

"Careful, mother, there's an apple and tree analogy lurking." Frank said as Evelyn stands just as the waitress returns.

"You guys ready to order?" The waitress asks them.

"Here's an idea: stop thinking about me and you, and your bratty daughter, and start thinking about what's best for the child, then do an inventory of your resources versus my resources. For any reasonable person, a clear picture will emerge." Evelyn says as she hands the waitress a ten dollar bill.

"He'll have the bucket of beer." Evelyn says as she walks away.

Tyler and her father left the restaurant, as they headed to the truck. There was silence, but an awkward silence. "I thought she'd never leave." Tyler said outloud, but also mainly to herself.

"You're telling me. That woman pisses me the fuck off." Frank said as they got to the truck as Tyler got in the passenger seat.

"You don't say." Tyler sarcastically say as he drives off.

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Finally here is a chapter. I'm sorry I've been busy with my other books. I love Tyler in this book, she's my little nugget, who is a sarcastic bitch (like myself hehe), but anyway yeah.

The roasts Tyler says to her grandmother are going to be the highlight of this book. I've recently watched the movie and I got ideas for this book. (The good, the bad and the ugly).

Hehe, love you guys.