PIC 2: If we hadn’t seen him with our own eyes, we wouldn’t have believed it… but… Jeremy Isaacs, Alice’s poor departed first husband (formerly victim, so we thought) isn’t dead. Nope, the man who spent his honeymoon years with Alice charming all of Juniper Shores is as alive as a, well, what’s the opposite of a doornail? He’s alive, he’s here, and he was conducting a securities fraud scheme for the ages. Alice, we’d like to take this moment to formally apologize for all those Black Widow jokes. We’re sorry and we’re #teamalice all the way forever and always. Looks like the man was to blame after all. Who would’ve thought? (Cue eye roll.)

PIC 3: In lighter fare, Oliver-the-hunky-Brit and Julie-the-hot-single-mom were reportedly getting just a little cozy at the coffee shop this morning. The Sitterlys might have united them. But will love keep them together?

PIC 4: Say it isn’t so. Rumor has it that our perfect ten of a Mommy Blogger is getting back together with her five (rounded up to a seven because he’s so rich) of a husband. Grace, you are the glue that holds the mommune together. You are the reel that we save daily to our Insta. You are the haircut we take to our stylists. In short, Juniper Shores needs you more than Tokyo does.

TNT (’Til Next Tokyo Takeoff—first class, of course)

JUNIPER SHORES SOCIALITE

Iris Brotherly Love

When the dust had settled and it was just us in the house again, Alice, who looked like a wrung-out dishrag, said, “Well, girls. You saved the day!”

I turned to Mom. “Oh my gosh, Mom! And we got our house back! We can go home!”

I was surprised at how torn I felt. I mean, yes, sure, of course I couldn’t wait to go home. But also, we had had so much fun here. It was kind of like, now that I knew it was over, I wished I’d taken more advantage of the moments we had together.

Mom bit her lip.

“What? You have been acting so weird about the house.”

Mom grimaced. “It’s just that, we maybe, might have been able to go home, like, a while ago.”

“What?” I was shocked. “And you didn’t tell me?”

“Dad was worried about our safety, and I knew if you knew, you’d try to talk me into going home and…”

She trailed off. And I started to be mad but then I realized that, really, I wasn’t. “Actually, I said. “I wouldn’t have wanted to go home even if you’d told me.”

“Really?”

I nodded. “Yeah. I love being here. It has been so awesome.” I turned to Alice. “Thank you for giving us such a great place to stay.”

“Alice, you have been so gracious to us,” Mom said. “We can never ever repay you.”