Young Adult Revisited

It's almost Carson's birthday and Nancy has no idea what to get him, so she starts wandering around town and looking for ideas. While visiting with River Height's resident palm reader and psychic, she sees a black woman in a pantsuit with a man who looks like her husband. The man starts towards the police station before his wife grabs his arm and drags him away. Nancy thinks the woman looks familiar but doesn't remember until later that it's Mrs. Simmons, a woman planning on running for town mayor in the next election. Mrs. Simmons is also the mother of Leslie, a pianist and a shoe in to win some massive scholarship to the local conservatory. Leslie is so popular that people pay to hear her play already. Also running for mayor is a guy named Granger. He's super rich and owns homes all over the country but somehow just can't get enough of River Heights. The girls all chat about how it's weird he wants to run their town and not live in a better

Jessica and Elizabeth just can't wait until their cousins Robin and Stacey come down from San Francisco. They haven't seen Robin since they were in first grade and worry that she might have changed a lot since then. The twins hang a bunch of balloons on their mailbox to help the family find their house. Stacey brings along a battered doll that looks just like one the twins had when they were younger. Jessica even shows it to her little cousin who promptly decides they must be twins and plans on sleeping with the two dolls every night. Robin gives them gifts: a pink satin hair ribbon for Jess and a comic book for Liz. She then gives Steven a gift too, which is actually a pen with disappearing ink inside. Robin makes him think he spilled ink all over himself before laughing and telling him what she did. Robin then convinces the girls to play some more pranks on him. They give him a hamburger with a thick layer of hot sauce on it, which almost makes his head explo