Chapter 46: Where’s Your Appetite?“Are you both completely out of your minds?” Mrs. Ledbetter asked. “And what on earth is your father going to think?”
“It’s the right decision, Mom,” Jackson said. “Would you pass me the salad?”
“Two children? I haven’t even met the girl. You can’t adopt someone I’ve never met. Really, Jackie. It’s not right. Now I’m going to have to tell my friends that I have two grandchildren. They’re going to think I’m a hundred years old.”
“You’re going to love her, Mom.”
“Does she have two heads or something?”
“Mom!”
“She’s the one whose mother was dying,” I pointed out.
“So she’s going to be traumatized?”
“Probably,” I said.
“She’s going to be fine,” Jackson said. “Isn’t Dad going to eat with us?”
“He said he wasn’t hungry. You really need to make that man
