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shoulder.
    “Goodbye
… for now, Ellie.”

 
    Chapter
4

 
    I could see Phoebe
crying before I reached her.   I was instantly
angry that this trip was suppose to be a fun and amusing getaway and now Phoebe
had done something to upset herself.
    “What
in the world?” I said as I reached them, gathering Phoebe in my arms.  
    “Oh,
I’m fine.   Dad was just telling me how
much he loved me and how well he thought I was doing without anyone,” Phoebe
blew her nose into a tissue.   I looked at
Jess over the top of Phoebe’s head just in time to see her give one of her
famous eye rolls.  
    “Phoebe,”
I said, squeezing her to me, “I don’t like you upset.   Maybe this was a bad idea.”
    “No,
no, it was good to talk to him again, through the medium Charlotte of course,
but I know it was him.”
    Jess
had a hard time suppressing her sigh.   She then turned her attention to me, “What about you?   Did you end up getting a reading?”
    I
wanted to tell her the truth about what happened but I didn’t dare with Phoebe
in the condition she was in, “She’s retired, I was just visiting with her to
pass the time.”
    Jess
knew me well.   Her dark eyes narrowed
towards mine which told me that she could tell I was lying.  
    “Come
on.   Let’s find Blair and go back to our
room.”
    When
we returned to the little cottage where Blair had peeled off from the rest of
us we approached the door slowly, still hearing her voice inside.   Jess went in first and gasped when she saw at
least 3 hundred dollar bills on the table between Blair and the medium.
    “Blair
Blakley,” Jess said, storming inside, “You have spent over $300 since we’ve
been gone!”
    Blair’s
attempt to ignore Jess was futile, “This is good stuff.   She’s telling me exactly what I need to do
and what I should avoid in the next few months.”
    Jess’s
patience was gone, evidenced by her march towards the table where she hauled
Blair up by her arm, “She’s done, no more.   We’re out.”
    I laughed
as I watched the woman’s eyes dive toward the money on the table.
    “You
can keep that, but you’re not getting a dime more,” Jess warned her and the
woman didn’t dare utter a word.
    “Thanks
for everything Ruby, you’ve probably saved my life,” the sound of Blair’s heels
on the wooden floor clicked as Jess hauled her towards the door.
    “Yes,
thank you Ruby,” Jess threw over her shoulder sarcastically.  
    Phoebe
and I smothered our laughter as we watched Jess haul Blair down the street
toward the Angel House Inn.  

 
    Safely
absconded in our room Jess was still ranting about how Blair had dropped a
ridiculous amount of money.   “She told
her not to drive for a month … a month!   Who on earth believes shit like that and then lays down another hundred
dollar bill?” Jess was frantically scrubbing the make-up off her face in the
tiny bathroom.  
    “A
hundred dollars is nothing to Blair, Jess.   She is typically the kind of person that these women prey upon,” I tried
to calm her but I could see it was useless, “Blair has certainly spent a lot
more money on more ridiculous things, don’t you think?”
    “I
don’t know, Ellie, this might take the cake,” Jess threw the cotton ball in the
trash and reached for her glasses, “Although there was the time she paid a few
hundred to have that wack-job at the massage place hypnotize her fat away.”
    I
laughed out loud at the memory.   Good ole
Blair, there was never a dull moment, “At least we got Phoebe calmed down.   Did she buy into all that talk from her dead
dad?”
    Jess
sat on her twin bed and brushed out her hair, “It was kinda convincing. She did
say things that only he would know.   I
don’t know what to think about all of it but I wouldn’t change my life based on
what they said.”
    Her
answer brought back my own memories of my conversation with Mona.   Jess instantly detected my silence and asked,
“Okay, spill it.   What did your