“I could marry one of you legally and both of you spiritually like Dad with our mothers.”“So you’d be marrying Pam, huh?” Melody asked.Pam s...iffened beside me.“I didn’t say it would be Pam,” I said carefully.“She’s the one to marry though,” Melody said. “No rumors that she’s really your sister. No one outside the family has any idea about it. There would be no issues. I’m still your cousin. Might look weird to outsiders.”“You’re not mad?” I asked, still studying Melody.“No,” Melody purred and. “He pulled that crap when we went camping last weekend.” “He did? But you said you were cold.” Johnny feigned ignorance and was a little relieved that the rumors hadn't reached his closest friend. With commencement coming a week from Friday, he had a lot of soul searching to do if he wanted to keep his friend once school ends. “Why would Lance even think he could approach you like that? And why would he call you Dr. John?” Bonnie huffed as they walked to their next class together. “I don’t. The pearls around her neck accented the dress perfectly. Every one of the men in the hotel lobby turned to watch as she walked up to him and took his arm. They walked out of the lobby and to the rented car.The dinner was all that they had hoped it would be. They talked incessantly and laughed often. He admitted that he knew little about wine and let her pick the wine that best went with their meal. He thanked her for her contributions to the new products and she told him that she was only able. If she only knew. Anyway, we were at the pizza parlor kicking back with some meat lovers and pitchers of root beer when the news flashed on the screen.That skanky news reporter with the dark roots and the boob job smiled as she delivered the very grim news about the unearthing of a skeletal body wrapped up in a tarp from a makeshift grave. Construction workers had dug it up while breaking ground for the mall.Not much could be determined from it, and she reported this as two men carried a black.