Down the Rabbit Hole by R L Delaney

Author:R L Delaney
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: PureRead
Published: 2020-04-26T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

"Would you mind passing the peanut butter, Lilly?" Leopold Witherspoon asked his daughter Lilly, without looking up from his newspaper. If he had not been so engrossed in the article he was reading he would have spotted the dark, murmuring scowl on Lilly's face, but now all he saw was the fine print of the Dewsbury Clarion.

The Witherspoon’s were sitting around the breakfast table in their remodeled kitchen. As was the custom, father Witherspoon sat at the head of the table and was working his way through the newspaper. His wife Belinda, well-known in the community for organizing tea parties for Dewsbury's cream of the crop, sat at the opposite end of the table, stirring her tea with a bored expression on her face and nibbling at her 'appetite control' cracker. Lilly Witherspoon sat in the middle and looked like something the cat dragged in.

"It's really bad," Leopold said while he shook his head. He was still looking at the newspaper, but was now holding out his hand for Lilly to put the peanut butter into it. "This is terrible."

"What is, Leopold?" Belinda asked, while she used her silver teaspoon to fish a few crumbs out of her cup of Earl Grey tea.

Leopold looked up at his wife, while he curled his lips. "The news, honey. The news is terrible. It seems everybody is corrupt these days." He lowered the newspaper and sighed. "It says here, there's a serious problem with drugs in town which has led to several killings and local detective Harrison Ames seems to be spearheading the local Mafia. I had not ever suspected such a thing was possible in Dewsbury." As he said the name Harrison, he started to drum with his fingers on the table. "And I always thought that detective was such a decent man."

Belinda shrugged her shoulders, let out a yawn, and unsuccessfully continued her hunt for the floating cracker-crumbs in her tea.

Leopold stared at his wife for a second and wanted to say something more, but realizing his wife was not interested, he turned his attention back to his daughter. "Honey, I was asking for the peanut butter?"

Lilly Witherspoon glared at her Dad. "I am not your honey. Just get the stuff yourself if you need it that bad."

"Excuse me?"

"You heard me," Lilly said with a scowl. "And just for the record, you are not any better than that detective. You and Mom are just horrible."

"What did you say?" Leopold's lips began to tremble. The newspaper slid out of his hand and dropped on the head of their brown German shepherd dog who usually stationed himself near the table in an effort to catch crumbs.

The expression on Leopold's face had changed from unbelief to horror and he stared with wide, dark eyes at his seventeen-year-old daughter.

Lilly's eyes flashed, and with an obstinate move of her hand she threw her long, blond curls on her back. Then she wrinkled her nose and hissed, "I am sick and tired of having to live with the two of you.

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