by Meg Cabot
From: Trimble Stewart-Antonelli@Stewart&Stewart.com
Date: March 17 10:31:22 AM EST
To: Carly [email protected]; Marshall [email protected]; Reed [email protected]
Subject: Re: Our Parents
Well, it had to have come from someone. Who was it?
Trimble Stewart-Antonelli
Attorney at Law
Stewart & Stewart, LLC
1911 South Moore Pike
Bloomville, IN 47401
(812) 555-9721
www.stewart&stewart.com
From: Reed [email protected]
Date: March 17 10:36:52 AM EST
To: Trimble Stewart-Antonelli@Stewart&Stewart.com; Carly [email protected]; Marshall [email protected]
Subject: Re: Our parents
Well, I guess we’ll find out tonight when we see Rhonda at the benefit, won’t we? We can just ask her.
From: Trimble Stewart-Antonelli@Stewart&Stewart.com
Date: March 17 10:42:27 AM EST
To: Carly [email protected]; Marshall [email protected]; Reed [email protected]
Subject: Re: Our Parents
Are you joking? I’m not going to that thing.
Trimble Stewart-Antonelli
Attorney at Law
Stewart & Stewart, LLC
1911 South Moore Pike
Bloomville, IN 47401
(812) 555-9721
www.stewart&stewart.com
From: Carly [email protected]
Date: March 17 10:45:27 AM EST
To: Trimble Stewart-Antonelli@Stewart&Stewart.com; Marshall [email protected]; Reed [email protected]
Subject: Re: Our Parents
Trimble, you have to. It’s very kind of Rhonda and the Bloomville Police Department to be doing this. You and Tony and your kids really should go, just for a little while, out of politeness. Marshall and I are going, with Reed and our kids. And of course we’re going to bring your mom and dad.
Carly R. Stewart | Accountant | Stewart Realty | 801 South Moore Pike, Bloomville, IN 47401 | phone (812) 555-8722 | Please visit StewartRealty.com for all your realty needs
From: Trimble Stewart-Antonelli@Stewart&Stewart.com
Date: March 17 10:49:16 AM EST
To: Carly [email protected]; Marshall [email protected]; Reed [email protected]
Subject: Re: Our Parents
I told you, we have a previous engagement. Tony is being honored tonight at an award dinner by the Kiwanis.
And I’m really surprised you would subject Mommy and Daddy to something so tawdry. They’ve been under enough stress this week, don’t you think? Mom just called me, weeping, because of all the things that horrible Flowers girl is making her throw out. I had to console her over the phone.
You really ought to be ashamed of yourselves.
Trimble Stewart-Antonelli
Attorney at Law
Stewart & Stewart, LLC
1911 South Moore Pike
Bloomville, IN 47401
(812) 555-9721
www.stewart&stewart.com
From: Marshall [email protected]
Date: March 17 10:55:08 AM EST
To: Trimble Stewart-Antonelli@Stewart&Stewart.com; Carly [email protected]; Reed [email protected]
Subject: Re: Our Parents
You can go to both, Trimble. You can go to the fundraiser, and then go to the dinner.
Try to remember that as a business owner in this town, you have an image to maintain.
From: Reed [email protected]
Date: March 17 11:01:52 AM EST
To: Trimble Stewart-Antonelli@Stewart&Stewart.com; Carly [email protected]; Marshall [email protected]
Subject: Re: Our parents
And that’s interesting about the weepy call you just got from Connie, Trimble, considering the fact that I’m sitting with her right now, and she’s calmly sorting through her cat figurines, deciding which ones are her favorites. She’s allowed to take twenty to the new condo I’m buying her. The rest she’s selling in the new Etsy store that Becky’s sister, Nicole, is setting up for her.
What time, exactly, was this alleged call you had with Connie?
From: Trimble Stewart-Antonelli@Stewart&Stewart.com
Date: March 17 11:04:28 AM EST
To: Carly [email protected]; Marshall [email protected]; Reed [email protected]
Subject: Re: Our Parents
Technically the call came last night after Carly brought Mom and Dad home from dinner, and Daddy discovered that someone had removed all of his newspapers.
Daddy was livid!
He’s been saving those newspapers for years, and that ex-girlfriend of yours had the nerve to throw them away like they were trash.
Trimble Stewart-Antonelli
Attorney at Law
Stewart & Stewart, LLC
1911 South Moore Pike
Bloomville, IN 47401
(812) 555-9721
www.stewart&stewart.com
From: Carly [email protected]
Date: March 17 10:45:27 AM EST
To: Trimble Stewart-Antonelli@Stewart&Stewart.com; Marshall [email protected]; Reed [email protected]
Subject: Re: Our Parents
Newspapers are trash, Trimble. Well, they’re recycling, anyway, especially after they become a few weeks old. Your dad should have let go of them a long time ago.
Did you point out to him that he has that iPad Marshall and I got him for Christmas and he could have looked up any one of those newspapers on it, and read all of the articles there? He has online subscriptions to all of them.
Carly R. Stewart | Accountant | Stewart Realty | 801 South Moore Pike, Bloomville, IN 47401 | phone (812) 555-8722 | Please visit StewartRealty.com for all your realty needs
From: Trimble Stewart-Antonelli@Stewart&Stewart.com
Date: March 17 11:04:28 AM EST
To: Carly [email protected]; Marshall [email protected]; Reed [email protected]
Subject: Re: Our Parents
No, I did not. I agreed with Mom that his rights had been violated. I was too furious on his behalf.
Trimble Stewart-Antonelli
Attorney at Law
Stewart & Stewart, LLC
1911 South Moore Pike
Bloomville, IN 47401
(812) 555-9721
www.stewart&stewart.com
From: Reed [email protected]
Date: March 17 11:07:12 AM EST
To: Trimble Stewart-Antonelli@Stewart&Stewart.com; Carly [email protected]; Marshall [email protected]
Subject: Re: Our parents
I can tell. Is that why you came over here last night and pawed through all my carefully sorted boxes?
From: Trimble Stewart-Antonelli@Stewart&Stewart.com
Date: March 17 11:12:08 AM EST
To: Carly [email protected]; Marshall [email protected]; Reed [email protected]
Subject: Re: Our Parents
Some of those things are mine! Mom and Dad promised them to me after they die. You have no right to sell them or donate them or whatever it is you think you’re doing. I’m executor of their will, you know, not you.
Trimble Stewart-Antonelli
Attorney at Law
Stewart & Stewart, LLC
1911 South Moore Pike
Bloomville, IN 47401
(812) 555-9721
www.stewart&stewart.com
From: Reed [email protected]
Date: March 17 11:16:33 AM EST
To: Trimble Stewart-Antonelli@Stewart&Stewart.com; Carly [email protected]; Marshall [email protected]
Subject: Re: Our parents
Trimble, as a lawyer you of all people should know that people who are appointed estate executors are only supposed to handle
the affairs of the deceased. Mom and Dad are broke, not dead.
We’re getting rid of those things so we can pay off some of their debt and provide them with income and a new, safer place to live.
What we need to do now is get them to let us give one of us power of attorney. That way we can find out what happened to all their money.
Why is this so difficult for you to understand?
From: Trimble Stewart-Antonelli@Stewart&Stewart.com
Date: March 17 11:18:28 AM EST
To: Carly [email protected]; Marshall [email protected]; Reed [email protected]
Subject: Re: Our Parents
Wow, aren’t you hoity-toity today? Who have you been speaking to about estate law? Your ex-girlfriend, I suppose.
Well, you don’t need to worry about it, because like I said, Mom and Dad aren’t broke. That’s just that girl putting ideas into your head.
Trimble Stewart-Antonelli
Attorney at Law
Stewart & Stewart, LLC
1911 South Moore Pike
Bloomville, IN 47401
(812) 555-9721
www.stewart&stewart.com
From: Marshall [email protected]
Date: March 17 11:20:12 AM EST
To: Trimble Stewart-Antonelli@Stewart&Stewart.com; Reed [email protected]; Carly [email protected]
Subject: Re: Our parents
No, Trimble, that was you. You’re the one who found all their past due notices and told us, remember?
From: Reed [email protected]
Date: March 17 11:22:11 AM EST
To: Trimble Stewart-Antonelli@Stewart&Stewart.com; Marshall [email protected]; Carly [email protected]
Subject: Re: Our parents
Which I notice are missing from Dad’s study this morning. Did you take them when you were here last night because you and Tony have decided you want to help out with Richard and Connie after all, Trimble?
From: Carly [email protected]
Date: March 17 11:25:07 AM EST
To: Marshall [email protected]; Reed [email protected]
Subject: Re: Our Parents
Ha! Good one, Reed!
Carly R. Stewart | Accountant | Stewart Realty | 801 South Moore Pike, Bloomville, IN 47401 | phone (812) 555-8722 | Please visit StewartRealty.com for all your realty needs
From: Trimble Stewart-Antonelli@Stewart&Stewart.com
Date: March 17 11:28:28 AM EST
To: Carly [email protected]; Marshall [email protected]; Reed [email protected]
Subject: Re: Our Parents
Yes. After we got Mom’s phone call, Tony said we had to do something. He said it would be the right thing to do. So we took those bills to pitch in to help.
Trimble Stewart-Antonelli
Attorney at Law
Stewart & Stewart, LLC
1911 South Moore Pike
Bloomville, IN 47401
(812) 555-9721
www.stewart&stewart.com
From: Carly [email protected]
Date: March 17 11:31:12 AM EST
To: Marshall [email protected]; Reed [email protected]
Subject: Re: Our Parents
Wait. What is happening??? Is Trimble turning over a new leaf?
Carly R. Stewart | Accountant | Stewart Realty | 801 South Moore Pike, Bloomville, IN 47401 | phone (812) 555-8722 | Please visit StewartRealty.com for all your realty needs
From: Marshall [email protected]
Date: March 17 11:35:27 AM EST
To: Trimble Stewart-Antonelli@Stewart&Stewart.com; Carly [email protected]; Reed [email protected]
Subject: Re: Our Parents
Wow. Thank you, Trimble. That’s really kind of you and Tony.
From: Carly [email protected]
Date: March 17 11:37:24 AM EST
To: Marshall [email protected]; Reed [email protected]
Subject: Re: Our Parents
What? No. Don’t THANK her. She’s faking it!
Carly R. Stewart | Accountant | Stewart Realty | 801 South Moore Pike, Bloomville, IN 47401 | phone (812) 555-8722 | Please visit StewartRealty.com for all your realty needs
From: Trimble Stewart-Antonelli@Stewart&Stewart.com
Date: March 17 11:42:02 AM EST
To: Carly [email protected]; Marshall [email protected]; Reed [email protected]
Subject: Re: Our Parents
You’re welcome. We all need to work together at a time like this.
Well, keep me posted on what you find out about who is spreading these nasty rumors about Mommy and Daddy being broke. I’ll talk to you later, I guess.
Trimble Stewart-Antonelli
Attorney at Law
Stewart & Stewart, LLC
1911 South Moore Pike
Bloomville, IN 47401
(812) 555-9721
www.stewart&stewart.com
From: Carly [email protected]
Date: March 17 11:45:25 AM EST
To: Marshall [email protected]; Reed [email protected]
Subject: Re: Our Parents
That did NOT just happen.
Carly R. Stewart | Accountant | Stewart Realty | 801 South Moore Pike, Bloomville, IN 47401 | phone (812) 555-8722 | Please visit StewartRealty.com for all your realty needs
From: Marshall [email protected]
Date: March 17 11:47:48 AM EST
To: Carly [email protected]; Reed [email protected]
Subject: Re: Our Parents
Carly, my sister can be kind sometimes. She’s not a witch out of a Disney cartoon, however much you might like to pretend she is.
From: Carly [email protected]
Date: March 17 11:49:00 AM EST
To: Marshall [email protected]; Reed [email protected]
Subject: Re: Our Parents
Oh, no! She’s fine! She’s great. Have I ever mentioned how much I love your sister? She is just so charming and sweet and in no need of therapy.
Carly R. Stewart | Accountant | Stewart Realty | 801 South Moore Pike, Bloomville, IN 47401 | phone (812) 555-8722 | Please visit StewartRealty.com for all your realty needs
From: Reed [email protected]
Date: March 17 11:52:11 AM EST
To: Carly [email protected]; Marshall [email protected]
Subject: Re: Our Parents
I have to go.
From: Carly [email protected]
Date: March 17 11:54:01 AM EST
To: Marshall [email protected]; Reed [email protected]
Subject: Re: Our Parents
To therapy? Don’t we all.
Carly R. Stewart | Accountant | Stewart Realty | 801 South Moore Pike, Bloomville, IN 47401 | phone (812) 555-8722 | Please visit StewartRealty.com for all your realty needs
From: Reed [email protected]
Date: March 17 11:57:16 AM EST
To: Carly [email protected]; Marshall [email protected]
Subject: Re: Our Parents
No, I have to go. I just saw Becky’s car pull up. Although for some reason she hasn’t gotten out of it.
She was here earlier, Connie said, then left when I got here—said she had some kind of errand to run. Now she’s back, but she’s just sitting in her car.
We had a date last night, and it didn’t go well. Maybe she’s afraid to come inside. Should I go out there?
From: Marshall [email protected]
Date: March 17 12:00:22 AM EST
To: Carly [email protected]; Reed [email protected]
Subject: Re: Our Parents
Yes, Reed, a really good idea would be for you to go out there holding a boom box over your head blaring Peter Gabriel and stare at her longingly.
From: Carly [email protected]
Date: March 17 12:00:27 PM EST
To: Marshall [email protected]; Reed [email protected]
Subject: Re: Our Parents
Marshall, don’t be so mean.
Reed, don’t listen to him. I’m sure she’s on her phone, or going over her notes or something.
Tell me about your date. Why didn’t it go well? What happened?
Carly R. Stewart | Accountant | Stewart Realty | 801 South Moore Pike, Bloomville, IN 47401 | phone (812) 555-8722 | Please visit StewartRealty.com for all your realty needs
From: Reed [email protected]
Date: March 17 12:02:26 PM EST
To: Carly [email protected]; Marshall [email protected]
Subject: Re: Our Parents
Nothing happened on our date. Nothing that I’m going to tell you guys about, anyway.
I think she’s sitting there listening to music. I think it’s . . . Beyoncé.
From: Marshall [email protected]
Date: March 17 12:03:22 PM EST
To: Carly [email protected]; Reed [email protected]
Subject: Re: Our Parents
Oh, bro. You are so screwed.
From: Carly [email protected]
Date: March 17 12:05:54 PM EST
To: Marshall [email protected]; Reed [email protected]
Subject: Re: Our Parents
Marshall, stop it!
Reed, I’m sure whatever happened last night isn’t as awful as you think it is. Just talk to her.
Carly R. Stewart | Accountant | Stewart Realty | 801 South Moore Pike, Bloomville, IN 47401 | phone (812) 555-8722 | Please visit StewartRealty.com for all your realty needs
From: Reed [email protected]
Date: March 17 12:07:46 PM EST
To: Carly [email protected]; Marshall [email protected]
Subject: Re: Our Parents
Fine. I guess I can try.
Reed
12:25 PM
Hi.
Becky
12:25 PM
Hello.
Reed
12:25 PM