Witherspoon Caterers arrived mid-afternoon to begin dinner preparations and Jennalee, who’d been pushing tables into place in the Oak Room with Jane and Wesley, was offered by her mother to assist in whatever capacity needed. Jennalee knew the Witherspoon twins from school, both seniors—Andrea, blond and popular, and Donna, blond and unpopular who compensated for life outside the inner circle by stringing along the Malvern boys. She had suffered with Jennalee’s arrival and it was she, in fact, who had coined the San Francisco Slut nickname.
Benita Witherspoon, a compact middle-aged woman, also blond, welcomed Jennalee into her temporary employ and set her spreading tablecloths, arranging chairs and centerpieces while the Witherspoon girls did likewise, Jane Preece on the periphery.
Donna
