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do to them?”
    “One tablespoon of almond flavoring,” I reveal with a grin.
    “Mmm. These are the best,” she declares around her bites. She finishes her cookie
     then pours herself a cup of tea and after taking a sip then snatching another cookie,
     looks at me, eyebrow up. “All right, Pipe, I know you’ve always said you don’t want
     to know, but this has been bugging the shit outta me for a week now.”
    Besides owning a kickass clothing store, Elise is also a self-proclaimed psychic,
     another reason the older townspeople have had a tough time with her. I’m sure she’s
     been the ridiculously thinly-veiled topic of a few sermons in the community churches
     as preachers warned their parishioners about not suffering a witch to live but she’s
     always laughed it off saying that God made her the way she is and they can bite her.
    But now I sigh not really wanting to hear what she has to say because from what I’ve
     heard, she’s usually right and that scares me. Even though I dislike Brody right now
     and we’re broken up, I still love him and there’s always a bit of hope that we somehow
     might still be able to repair things, right? I mean, what if she tells me Brody’s
     supposed to marry someone like Jennifer Lawrence? I can’t compete with her! After
     a moment, I finally nod for her to go ahead and tell me since she has gone through the trouble of coming over here.
    “You and Brody aren’t finished. But I’m seeing two roads. One’s easy and the other’s
     hard.” She looks at me seriously. “It just depends on which way you want to go, Piper.”
    “Are you saying we’re supposed to be together?” I prompt, crossing my arms over my
     chest secretly thanking my lucky stars that JLaw didn’t come up.
    She shrugs. “I can only tell you that I see him as a strong presence in your life.
     If that means you get back together, well, I guess that’s up to you two.”
    “Before that happens, he’s got a lot of explaining to do, Elise.”
    She nods. “He does.” She grabs another cookie and finishes her tea, throwing her cup
     in the trashcan. “I’ve gotta get back and close up. I left Amber in charge and she
     was freaking out a bit since it’s only her first week.” She walks to the door then
     turns and inquires, “You’re participating in the bachelorette auction, right?”
    I nod then narrow my eyes at her as she smiles huge before mysteriously stating, “Excellent!”
     and leaves.
    ~~~
    “Twenty dollar bid, now twenty-five, now twenty-five, will you give me twenty-five?”
    Mr. Axelrod, the town’s postmaster, is the auctioneer and he’s been going at it for
     a half hour. Um, I guess there are a lot of bachelorettes in Serenity Point. Everyone’s
     in the Knights of Columbus hall that’s just up the street from my store and Ryan’s
     now on the stage being auctioned off. She’s up to twenty dollars which is actually
     pretty high, matching only Brody’s older sister Cassie who went earlier to Jeremy
     Pitkin, one of Brody’s fellow firefighters and Cassie’s “kind of” boyfriend. The other
     dozen women have pulled in around fifteen bucks each, so I’m impressed that Ryan’s
     bid’s this high.
    “Twenty-five!” old Gus Batchelder shouts out from where he’s sitting and Ryan shoots
     me a look of panic from the stage which makes me snort.
    “I’ve got twenty-five! How about thirty? Thirty? Thirty?”
    “Thirty!” Mike Heller calls out. Apparently, Ryan’s arm wrestling comment didn’t scare
     him too badly. When she whips her head to me giving me a seriously panicked look now,
     I crack up then wink and give her a big smile because this is awesome!
    “I got thirty, who’ll give thirty-five? Thirty-five? Looking for thirty-five? Sold
     for thirty to the dapper, young gentleman in the navy shirt!” Mr. A points at Mike
     who’s now grinning. And it’s not like Mr. A doesn’t know everyone in town, he just
     likes describing people, I guess.
    I