corroded 17 - repercussions

They finally let Chief go so he showed up to meet me at school today and he's so thankful about Sam but I can tell something is bothering him.
We get back home and I get Sam set up on the computer 'level 61!' and he pulls me and Cody into the dining room when Joel walks in.
'What's wrong?'
'We have a big problem.'
And he sighs.
'Joel, could I get a glass of whisky? Maybe all of us need one.'
Joel looks nervous but agrees.
And fuck I have a really bad feeling so I don't go light on it and he waits til I'm three in before he drops what it is.
'Easy, baby,' whispers Cody, his hand on my arm.
'You have a grandmother, Xander. A very persistent one.'
'What? Both my grandmothers are dead.'

And fuck it comes back to me like knocks me right out of the chair cos it's one of those things I buried like the screaming between the old lady and mom when I was little and being told over and over again that she was dead but they found a box full of old cards, birthday cards, Christmas cards, that I never got to open. I feel so dizzy I fall on the floor, trying to get my breath, and Cody's right there while the Chief and Joel look on, worried about me and not giving a damn that Cody is being super-affectionate to calm me down. I get my breath back slow.
Fuck. This can't be happening to us.
'She's called the State Police, because apparently your mom called her every week even if she was smashed out of her mind. She wants you back, Xander. And she wants to know what happened to her daughter, at this point she just thinks your mom drove off of a bridge. But State Police, man, this is bad.'
And the rest is unspoken but right there cos once again my shit family is trying to destroy my life. Even in death mom is getting the upper hand.

'I don't know what to do here, Joel,' he says, quiet but loud enough I can hear. 'Apparently she's a very religious woman married to some guy who's a big deal in the Church.'
And Cody's crying with me and what I wonder is fuck she couldn't even take care of her own damn daughter, fuck she probably made mom who she was, and now she wants to do it to me.
'Bottom line is we don't have a lot of time before questions are being asked. A lot of questions that can't be asked, we covered enough about your mom but then they're going to ask how it is you wound up living here, wound up, well, I know you did a great job, how you wound up taking care of my son for a week when in the eyes of the law you're only a kid yourself, for example.'
This can't be happening. No, it just can't.
Fuck, now what?

Cos if she has her way, that old cunt will never let me see Cody again even though she never did a thing for me except give me shit for a mother.