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her to the hospital to be checked out. After the ambulance pulled away Charlie yelled from across the street. “You got my coffee?”
     
    Stormi looked at us. “Nothing deters that man from his coffee.” She crossed the street with Charlie’s coffee.
     
    I turned to Bruce and Paige. “What do you think happened?”
     
    Bruce leaned against the building and crossed his arms over his chest. “I’m not sure. Hopefully she wasn’t poisoned.”
     
    “Why does your brain go there?” Paige asked. “Maybe her blood sugar was low and she got woozy. There could be a number of simple explanations.”
     
    Trixie wasn’t as convinced. “Yes, but you add in the deal with the car accident and now she’s sick…what’s the kids say nowadays…it sounds hinky.”
     
    Stormi came up behind us and waved the air in front of her face. “Maybe it was the aroma of Charlie’s cigars. Even I’m feeling a little peaked after getting a snout full.”
     
    Trixie agreed. “Yes those things are pungent. But surely it wouldn’t make her almost pass out.”
     
    We all agreed and decided to table the discussion as it was time to open my shoppe and Bruce had clients coming in. However, when Sammy came in for her shift after school both Stormi and I pounced on her for any information on Jeremy’s mother. Even Paige raced over from Bruce’s office when she saw Sammy.
     
    Stormi cornered Sammy in the back as she put on her Frozen Scoop apron. “What happened to Jeremy’s mother?”
     
    Paige and I gathered around her. “Still don’t know. They’re running blood tests. They gave her fluids at the hospital to flush out her system, and she’s home now.”
     
    “Are they thinking she was poisoned?” Paige asked.
     
    Sammy shook her head. “Don’t know until the tests come back.”
     
    “This is getting stranger by the minute,” Paige remarked.
     
    I wasn’t sure what to think. We still didn’t know the test results, but like Trixie alluded too…if it walks and talks like a duck. Fortunately we didn’t have to wait long before we knew the outcome of the blood tests. Around 6:30, Colton, Jeremy and his little brother Joshua entered the shoppe to see Sammy.
     
    The last few customers left the shoppe and when they did Stormi rushed over to their table. “Jeremy, how is Sandra? Did you find out what happened to her today?”
     
    Leave it to Stormi to be subtle. Jeremy didn’t seem to mind.
     
    “They found an abnormal amount of sleeping pills in her system. She said she only takes one at night and doesn’t know how that many got into her system. The doctor said it wasn’t enough to kill her or anything like that.”
     
    I walked over to the group sitting at the table. “But why would someone do that?”
     
    Sammy spoke up. “Maybe to scare her?”
     
    Sammy had a good point. Perhaps someone wasn’t trying to actually hurt her but to scare her. But why? Jeremy had his head down while Joshua looked over the ice cream in the case.
     
    “Joshua, would you like some ice cream?” I asked.
     
    “Yes please,” he answered. “I’d like one dip of Coffee in a sugar cone.”
     
    “Coming right up.” I looked over at the group who remained huddled at the table talking about the recent events. Then I looked at Joshua who didn’t seem in the least interested at what was going on thank goodness. I could see how Sandra Morgan doted on the boy. He was soft spoken with gentle manners. Of course in a few years when puberty hit that could possibly change.
     
    Joshua handed me a couple of dollar bills and I gave him his change. He smiled and took a lick of his ice cream.
     
    As I walked over to the group still discussing what occurred that day the door opened and a woman said, “Your father thought you boys might be here.”
     
    Joshua jumped up and ran to his mother. Jeremy stood up and took his cell phone out of his pocket. “Yep, my phone’s dead. Sorry Mom.”
     
    Jeremy introduced us to his mother. She