Wreck The Halls by Jeff Shelby

Author:Jeff Shelby [Shelby, Jeff]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B07LCVHDG4
Publisher: Author
Published: 2018-12-13T13:00:00+00:00

THIRTEEN

“I think I got something for everyone,” Emily announced.

We'd had lunch, then gotten in the car to head home.

“Well, you went in every store,” Grace shouted from the back of the van.

“You did go in a lot of stores,” Sophie said.

Emily ignored them. “So I think I'll only need to go shopping one more time,” she told me as she gazed out the windshield.

“So you didn't get something for everyone then?” I asked.

“Well, no. I did, but I still have things to get.”

“She wouldn't let me go in the candy store, Mom,” Grace complained.

“Because I knew you'd spend all of your money!” Emily said, twisting in her seat. “And then you wouldn't have had any money for presents.”

“I would not have!”

Emily turned back around. “She would have.”

I glanced in the rearview mirror. “Sophie, how did you do?”

“I did okay,” she said. “I've got a couple more things to get and I'm making a couple of things that I should be able to finish tonight.”

“I want to make things!” Grace said.

“You told me you didn't,” I said, shifting my mirrored gazed from Sophie to Grace.

“Now I do.”

I shook my head. “Well, then you better get on it when we get home. Not a whole lot of time left.”

She grumbled something and then she and Sophie started whispering together, plotting.

“I saw you talking to that lady,” Emily said. “Ms. Bradshaw?”

“You saw that?” I wondered if she’d also heard what we were talking about.

“We were walking by,” she said. “She looked mad so I didn't come over.”

“She was mad,” I said. “Do you know her son? Howie?”

“Yeah, he works at Big Mama's,” she answered. “He's fine.”

“Fine?”

“I don't know.” She shrugged. “He shows up on time, at least when I’ve been there. He works. He doesn't talk a lot. He was hired right before I left for school, so I don't really know him. He doesn't seem to do social media stuff.”

“You've stalked him?” I asked.

“I've looked.”

I chuckled. She was a very stealth user of social media and nearly the first thing she did with new people that she met was hunt them down on the different platforms to see what they were doing. I wasn't surprised at all that she'd gone looking for Howie.

“Why was she so mad at you?” Emily asked.

“I asked her a question she didn't like.”

“What was the question?”

“If she took the town's Christmas decorations.”

“Why would she have done that?”

“It's…complicated.” I didn’t feel like launching into an explainer about the dynamics between the members of the committee and the arguments for and against ousting Ava.

“I saw that video,” Emily said. “Where she got all mad after they took her job away.”

I should have guessed. If it was on social media, Em probably knew about it. “Yes, she was pretty mad then, too.

“I don't blame her,” she said. “That was sort of mean.”

“We don't know everything involved,” I reminded her. “There may be more going on than what we know.”

“I guess,” she said. “It just seemed mean. And she seemed like she wanted to punch Mr.

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