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” She frowned at him “I mean Sammi, I need to get back. If I can come up with anybody, I’ll ask around, I mean, and see, but mostly I see are the public defenders, but I’m sure you can get somebody else. I, uh, need to go.”
    “ Dan, thank you, please tell Sherry I asked about her, and you take care of your family. Take real good care of your family, Dan. Let them know you love them,” she said almost in tears.
    “ Yes ma’am, I will,” and as he turned the corner, the tears filled her eyes.

Chapter 5
    The Exquisite You Beauty Salon was the largest beauty shop in River Town with mostly regular customers, but walk-ins were also a great business. Evelyn Young received her cosmetician’s license after her last child entered college about seven years ago. She made lots of money for other beauty shops so two years ago when her husband suggested she open her own shop, she left and most all of her clients followed her.
    She opened with five chairs and two shampoo stations , and within a year, she added three stylist’s stations, two shampoo bowls, a manicure position, and a massage chair. Business had increased so rapidly, she had paid the notes off in only ten months. Evelyn provided education and training for her stylists to maintain knowledge of fads and new techniques. She encouraged her stylists to have openings for walk-ins since that was the future of her business.
    T he shop normally closed at seven. But she was tired and anxious and when the last patron left at twenty minutes of seven, she locked the door. She tallied up the day’s receipts while JJ took the last load of towels out of the dryer and started folding. Jenny came over to help, so she claimed gossiping about the murder. JJ avoided her questions and changed the subject. She just wasn’t going to talk about it. She liked Mrs. Brockton. She was sure there had been a mistake. She was sure of it.
    J enny would not let it go. Her comments were mean and untrue, and JJ wanted no part of it.
    “Jenny , I’ll finish this up so you can get on home. I really don’t need any help,” JJ said. “Mrs. Young, is it okay for Jenny to go on? She’s through for the night.”
    Evelyn picked up on JJ’s comment, “Jenny, if you’re not waiting on a client, why don’t you go on home and enjoy what’s left of the night with Jess. JJ likes the towels folded exactly the same way.”
    “Well , you got it,” she said throwing down a towel. With a crazed look in her eye, she looked at JJ and said, “You’re so naïve, better think about what I said!”
    Jenny grabbed her purse and went out the back door. JJ mimicked her to Mrs. Young, “Better think about what I said! She better think about what I said,” JJ said to Evelyn. “What did she mean by that anyway, and why did she go out the back?”
    “ Sweetie, Jenny’s always been a jealous person. She’s been in love with Blake since she was in high school.”
    “High school?”
    “Oh, at least, the green eyed monster always comes out when he’s mentioned especially when another woman.”
    “She’s jealous of Blake marrying Sammi. She was jealous of all of his wives. She’s even jealous of your relationship with Sammi. So don’t let it bother you. Sammi gets her nails done over on Zebulon so Jenny takes that as a ‘you’re not good enough to do my nails,’ and she just goes on and on about something all the time, I think, just to hear herself talk since nobody else will listen to her.”
    “Well, it makes me think, there’s more to it. She had an evil look in her eye.” JJ couldn’t wait to talk to her Dad. She wanted to talk to Sammi, too.
    “ It’s pretty well known in town that she and Blake had a thing going. I won’t say it was going on after he married Sammi though. May be why she doesn’t like Sammi. They’ve been on again off again for as long as I can remember. Just leave those towels there.”
    “But he’s a lot older than her!”
    Evelyn talked as she walked around the