Acquiring Trouble

line too. A man might not remember you naggin ' at him, but he sure remembers a smack to the head with a frying pan." Miss Violet folded her hands neatly on her lap as the other ladies surrounding her nodded in agreement.
    "I never tried a frying pan, I always , accid ently of course, dropped a horse shoe on Beauford's foot, " Katelyn's grandmother, Mrs. Wyatt, respon ded in her slow Georgian drawl.
    "Well, a woman's gotta do what a woman's gotta do." Miss Daisy said as she started to pick up empty cake plates.
    "Oh fidd le dee , put that down Daisy Mae. T his is my house and you're not cleaning up my granddaughter's wedding shower. Now sit down a spell and enjoy yourself."
    "Well, now that the shower is over and most of the people are gone , I have something I want to know about," Kenna said as she took a seat next to her best friend, Danielle De Lucca Ali Rahman , who became the princess of Rahmi when she married Mohtadi Ali Rahman , or Mo to everyone who knew him. Dani had just found out she was pregnant at Christmas, but wasn’t yet showing.
    "Oh! Gossip, do tell," Kate ly n giggled as she too joined the circle.
    "Don't start without us !" Paige Davies Parker shouted from the other side of the room along with her similarly baby- toting sister-in-law, Annie Blake Davies. Little So phie and Ryan weren’t quite three weeks old yet and were enjoying being fussed over at their first outing.
    "Well," Kenna began, " Last week when I was in town a black Mercedes pulled up at the courthou se. I thought it was Dani or Mo, and so I waved and waited for you to get out. Only, it wasn't you."
    "Who was this impostor ?" Dani teased.
    "Some woman with black hair and eyes so dark blue that they actually appeared to be violet. She looked l ike Elizabeth Taylor and with the diva attitude to match! Who is she?" Kenna asked.
    "She's my sister," Pam said as she sat down with a glass of Rose sister special ice d tea.
    "I never knew you had a sister." Kenna leaned forward along with Dani , Annie, and Katelyn. Paige however, just scowled.
    "I haven't seen her for seventeen years now."
    "Too bad it couldn't have been another seventeen," Paige sneered.
    "Paige! I've only heard you talk that way about Kandi and her sultry ways. What's this person ever done?" Katelyn asked as she took a tiny sip of the tea. She'd learned her lesson about the Rose sis ters' drinks. They were potent.
    "She destroyed Miles' s life!" Paige exclaimed.
    "She wasn't very nice or good growing up," Pam's motherly voice cut in, "She had a crush on Miles and kissed him on her last night here. His girlfriend walked in and saw it. She broke up with him because of Morgan. It seems Morgan ruins whatever she touches."
    "Geez Pam, that doesn't sound like you either . What is it about her that makes people who are so open and nice talk so harshly?" Kenna shook her head and look ed from Pam to Paige.
    "She was a bad apple," Miss Lily put in. "She stole little things from the store, she vandal ized some properties with paint, knocked over trash cans and so on. "
    "She pierced her eyebrow and dyed her hair purple," Miss Daisy added .
    "She tortured my father by acting up constantly. She wore my mother's nerves out. She not only broke up Miles and Stacy, but she made my boyfriend break up with me too. Then she just up and left graduation night and was never seen or heard from again until she waltzed back into town last week. She never even came back for my mother's funeral or my father's wh en he passed a few years later," Pam explained. "But, my parents wer e very hard on her. Now that I’ m a mother, I see that maybe they were a little too harsh on her. I just don't know, can someone really change?"
    "I’ ve been thinking the same thing," Miss Lily shook her head, "I yelled at her and hit her with my broom that night when I caught her messing with my roses before she left town . I don't know what's she's been doing all these years, but she appears to be very successful, even with a big chip on her shoulder."
    "And, every year on the date of my mother's death, there’s a fresh bouquet of red roses placed on her grave," Pam told them.
    "Do you think it's Morgan?" Dani asked, getting more into the legend of Morgan.
    " I don't know. I don't know what to think or how to handle having her back in town," Pam shrugged.
    "Well, you may be in doubt, but I’m not. Miles was heartbroken over losing Stacy. I don't know if he ever recovered. He certainly hasn’t had any long - term