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Authors: Phoebe T. Eggli
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with a loaf of my mother’s favorite bread from the Kill Devil Delicacies – lemon sage bread. The proprietor, Melissa Maples, poisoned my father with her bread. Just last summer she was suspected of killing someone else. Somehow, she got out from under those charges. She will NOT be so lucky this time,” Joey Hawkins ranted.
Logan grabbed the remote control and hit the power button. The two sat in stunned silence for a long time. Within minutes, Melissa’s home phone began to ring. The shrill tone of the house phone startled them from their reverie. They were both afraid to answer the phone. Just as she was about to pick up the receiver, her cell phone blared her ring tone – “Sweet Home Alabama”. Flustered, she motioned for Logan to let the home phone go to voicemail as she checked the caller id on her cell phone. It was her brother, John David. Taking a deep breath, she answered. Logan could tell the conversation was not going well, even though he just heard one side of it. The home phone began to ring again. Again, Melissa indicated to Logan to not answer it.
Eventually, she handed her cell phone to Logan so he could talk with his father. As the home phone began ringing yet again, Melissa decided to risk answering it. Of course, it was a news reporter. She replied calmly, “No comment”. She hung up the phone and immediately unplugged it from the wall. Logan’s father informed the boy that he was coming out to the shore to pick him up. The teenager explained to his dad that the cops would not allow him to leave the area. Besides, there was no way he was leaving Aunt Mel during this craziness. His aunt interrupted that perhaps it was best if Logan went back home to Charlotte, NC. He exerted his stubborn streak – a common trait in the Jones family. He refused to leave her. Together they would get to the bottom of this fiasco.
John David, for the first time in years, really listened to his son. He agreed Logan could stay, but they were going to have another guest. He was coming out there to check things out for himself. Besides, he argued, if Aunt Mel needed help then there was no one better to do so than her own brother. Logan wasn’t so sure his mom would agree to all this, but his dad told him not to worry about her. Mom was on a business trip in Chicago for a couple weeks anyway. As he hung up the phone, Logan smiled.
All was quiet in the small cottage for a few minutes. Logan and Melissa both were overwhelmed after the call with John David. The silence was broken suddenly as someone knocked on the front door. “Oh dear,” Melissa fretted, “It’s probably the reporters already.” She peeked out a small window in the kitchen to try getting a look at who was at her front door before she made the mistake of opening it. Relief flooded over her as she saw one of her best friends, Cheryl, and her husband. The couple rushed through the door as it opened. Cheryl hugged her friend tightly. Ronnie muttered something about the news vans causing a traffic mess on the way over.
Cheryl took charge of everything. She ordered Melissa and Logan to sit down and relax while she prepared some chamomile tea for them. Ronnie informed his wife that Melissa may need something stronger than tea. She agreed and instructed him where to find a bottle of red wine and a cork screw. Logan, however, could only have the tea. Within a few minutes, the group congregated in the living room to discuss the day’s events. Melissa retold the story of being hauled into the precinct and questioned by Jason’s partner. She explained what the cops had discovered about the seagulls being poisoned and that the poison apparently came from bread from her bakery. “Now, they’ve expounded on the poisoned birds to suggest that Mr. Hawkins was poisoned, too.”
Ronnie perked up a bit at the mention of the poison. He asked, “Did the cops indicate what poison specifically?” Melissa shook her head. Cheryl’s husband
Logan grabbed the remote control and hit the power button. The two sat in stunned silence for a long time. Within minutes, Melissa’s home phone began to ring. The shrill tone of the house phone startled them from their reverie. They were both afraid to answer the phone. Just as she was about to pick up the receiver, her cell phone blared her ring tone – “Sweet Home Alabama”. Flustered, she motioned for Logan to let the home phone go to voicemail as she checked the caller id on her cell phone. It was her brother, John David. Taking a deep breath, she answered. Logan could tell the conversation was not going well, even though he just heard one side of it. The home phone began to ring again. Again, Melissa indicated to Logan to not answer it.
Eventually, she handed her cell phone to Logan so he could talk with his father. As the home phone began ringing yet again, Melissa decided to risk answering it. Of course, it was a news reporter. She replied calmly, “No comment”. She hung up the phone and immediately unplugged it from the wall. Logan’s father informed the boy that he was coming out to the shore to pick him up. The teenager explained to his dad that the cops would not allow him to leave the area. Besides, there was no way he was leaving Aunt Mel during this craziness. His aunt interrupted that perhaps it was best if Logan went back home to Charlotte, NC. He exerted his stubborn streak – a common trait in the Jones family. He refused to leave her. Together they would get to the bottom of this fiasco.
John David, for the first time in years, really listened to his son. He agreed Logan could stay, but they were going to have another guest. He was coming out there to check things out for himself. Besides, he argued, if Aunt Mel needed help then there was no one better to do so than her own brother. Logan wasn’t so sure his mom would agree to all this, but his dad told him not to worry about her. Mom was on a business trip in Chicago for a couple weeks anyway. As he hung up the phone, Logan smiled.
All was quiet in the small cottage for a few minutes. Logan and Melissa both were overwhelmed after the call with John David. The silence was broken suddenly as someone knocked on the front door. “Oh dear,” Melissa fretted, “It’s probably the reporters already.” She peeked out a small window in the kitchen to try getting a look at who was at her front door before she made the mistake of opening it. Relief flooded over her as she saw one of her best friends, Cheryl, and her husband. The couple rushed through the door as it opened. Cheryl hugged her friend tightly. Ronnie muttered something about the news vans causing a traffic mess on the way over.
Cheryl took charge of everything. She ordered Melissa and Logan to sit down and relax while she prepared some chamomile tea for them. Ronnie informed his wife that Melissa may need something stronger than tea. She agreed and instructed him where to find a bottle of red wine and a cork screw. Logan, however, could only have the tea. Within a few minutes, the group congregated in the living room to discuss the day’s events. Melissa retold the story of being hauled into the precinct and questioned by Jason’s partner. She explained what the cops had discovered about the seagulls being poisoned and that the poison apparently came from bread from her bakery. “Now, they’ve expounded on the poisoned birds to suggest that Mr. Hawkins was poisoned, too.”
Ronnie perked up a bit at the mention of the poison. He asked, “Did the cops indicate what poison specifically?” Melissa shook her head. Cheryl’s husband
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