The Housewife Assassin's Terrorist TV Guide by Josie Brown

Author:Josie Brown [Brown, Josie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Cozy Mystery
ISBN: 9781942052777
Google: 2-4ovgAACAAJ
Amazon: 1942052774
Publisher: Author
Published: 2015-12-31T13:00:00+00:00

“Pass the toast, please,” Mary asks Jeff, who isn’t sitting close to it.

Evan is, but for some reason, Mary is ignoring him. Tit for tat. When Evan came downstairs, he said good morning to everyone but Mary.

There is trouble in Paradise.

Usually, Aunt Phyllis has a way to get them to kiss and make up, figuratively if not literally. (At least, not in front of the rest of the family.) But by seven o’clock she’d been whisked off to Franklin’s sumptuous Beverly Hills offices. I know this because I was stepping into the shower when I heard the honk of the show’s limo in front of our house.

So now it’s my turn to spread soothing oil on the water roiling between Mary and Evan.

I’ve gotten into the habit of scanning all of the online celebrity news. As I do so now, I run across an item in US Weekly. The headline reads:

#HHHilldale Update! Mary Makes Jenna Cry—Again!

The accompanying photo shows Jenna at her school locker. She stares into the camera, teary-eyed. Mary, at the next locker frowns. She has her back to Jenna. Her arms crossed at her waist.

I recognize the picture of Mary. It was taken last spring after her basketball team lost a game. She was not standing at her locker at all, but in the gym.

“I presume you’ve already seen this,” I hold my iPad up to Mary so that she can see it too.

“Oh, yeah, you bet!” With a scowl, she nods toward Evan but doesn’t look at him.

“The picture of you was PhotoShopped!” I exclaim.

Evan whips around to me. “It was?”

Mary turns to him. “See? I told you! Now will you quit believing everything that girl says about me?”

Before he has a chance to respond, she storms out of the kitchen.

“What has she been telling you?” I ask him.

“She says…lots of things. Not necessarily about Mary, though. She just needs a shoulder to cry on.”

“I know Mary has tried to be her friend. Why won’t she let her?”

Evan grimaces. “Because…what I’m trying to say is that it has nothing to do with Mary—although I can’t convince Mary of that! She believes too much of this stuff online.” He rolls his eyes. “And her girlfriends aren’t helping things by reporting every time Jenna and I pass each other in the hall—”

“Evan, I know that you’re…loyal to Mary.” I put my hand on his shoulder. “In a few days, all of this will be over, and you and Mary can go on with your lives as they were.”

God, yes, please!...

I think.

“And I understand you’re concerned for Jenna,” I add. “What is it exactly that has her so traumatized?”

“It has something to do with her family.” He shakes his head. “It’s made her brother, Jason, even angrier than usual. He hates his dad and blames him for everything that is wrong in their lives. And Jordan is…well, he’s just strange.”

Jeff nods. “Yeah, boy. He never opens up in class. And he’s obsessed with…war.”

Not a good sign.

Nonchalantly, I ask, “How are the Garrett kids holding up under all the notoriety from the show?”

Evan shrugs.

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