She did not speak to her mother upon her return. She did not at all tell her mother that she had found her son, smacked and knocked about. Imagine the embarrassment she must have felt when his civil part Christian's family saw the marks. More reason to have Christian permanently staying in the Gallagher mansion or off to boarding school and away from the Neanderthals her mother made them to look like.
She had decided to sleep in for a bit, softly rubbing her son's hair. She explained to him in the most modest way that his grandpa was no more. He asked a lot of questions but she willfully answered as patient and as candy-coated as she could put it. He cried for a bit but she assured him that, his grandpa would always be there for him except, Christian could not see him. That made her son really sad. Christian had also made it known how he never wanted to stay with his 'black grandmother'