3 The Great Jackalope Stampede by Ann Charles

Author:Ann Charles [Charles, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Jackrabbit Junction Mystery Series
Publisher: Ann Charles
Published: 2014-01-14T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Friday, October 5th

The grocery store in Yuccaville was crawling with shoppers. Ronnie dodged heaped carts in every aisle. With their paychecks still warm in their bank accounts, the mining community en masse appeared to be stocking up for another week of living the glamorous life of digging for copper.

Ronnie grabbed the barbecue sauce scrawled on Ruby’s list and dropped it into her grocery basket. She scanned the slip of paper—refried beans, bacon, bananas, BBQ sauce, beets, brownie mix. Apparently, tonight’s feature film was going to be “Dinner at Ruby’s,” brought to viewers by the letter B.

Standing in line behind a sweat-ringed guy who looked and smelled like he had spent the day eating the dust billowing off a mega-huge mining truck, Ronnie searched the sea of heads. She was looking for a familiar patch of ginger red in the crowd.

Jessica was supposed to meet her in line with her own basket full of the other half of Ruby’s list—dish soap, liniment rub for Gramps’s leg, three packs of low-energy lightbulbs, and a box of tampons. They had split up to save time, but now Jess was nowhere to be seen.

She was probably still sulking about Ronnie being the one to pick her up from school today instead of her new boyfriend, whom Gramps had waylaid back at the R.V. park. The silly boy should have known better than to ask the old man running the General Store counter directions to the high school in Yuccaville. He must have left his brains back in his dorm in Tucson and packed his dick instead.

“This is so embarrassing.” Jessica spoke from behind her.

Ronnie turned. “What? Being seen at the grocery store?” She was clueless as to what was cool these days on the teen scene.

“No, hanging out in the tampon aisle. I can’t believe you made me pick those out.”

If she thought that was embarrassing, she should try having a handful of Feds explain that the video camera Lyle had hidden away in the master bathroom had a clear shot of the shower—the one with the handheld massaging shower head installed behind the clear glass shower door. Ronnie had nightmares about the stag parties in the evidence room for weeks after learning that detail.

Ronnie emptied her basket’s contents on the black motorized belt. “They’re for you, kid, not me. Why should I have to carry them around?”

“Mom always buys them for me so I don’t have to be seen with them.”

“You know,” Ronnie grabbed the box from Jess’s basket and tossed it on the belt. “If you move in with your dad, you’re going to have to buy embarrassing stuff like tampons all of the time.”

“Who said I was thinking of moving in with Dad?” Jess’s voice had an equal pinch of suspicion and defensiveness. “Is Mom trying to get rid of me?”

Ronnie shook her head. “Nobody said anything. I figure that with your dad in town buying you stuff left and right like that necklace you showed me, taking you to

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