“I um, I uh, I’m getting something for Bree’s birthday. I just hope she likes what I get her,” I placed my hand over my heart. “Why do I fee... so nervous?”Erin looked at me for a long time before she answered, “Let me ask you this. Steven’s birthday is next month. Do you know what you’d get him?”“That’s easy. I’d get him an autographed copy of his favorite book from his favorite author,” I answered her question.One of her eyebrows rose, “How was that easy?”I smiled and went to my closet and. Would be that way. I always assumed that college boys weren’t as ingratiating as they are in high school,” Carol pined.The rest of our evening at Coyote Café was fun, the food is always so good, and Carol and Shirley hit it off really well. We left and had a quiet drive home to our place, stopping at a drug store.“Why are we stopping, Rann?” Carol said.“At auditions next week, I want to take a Polaroid of everyone who auditions. How many do you think we need? 40, 60 ... maybe more?”“I wouldn’t. " Kim. Don't worry about it, really. You're under a lot of pressure and you were just blowing off a little steam. Besides you didn't do anything those other two little instigators didn't do. They can be a bad influence sometimes so watch yourself. Even so, none of you did anything that bad." Right." Kim said rubbing her forehead, "Other than taking all my clothes off and having to have you put me to bed. I know you're kidding about Jen and Vicky being a bad influence. There're just so very. ?Well fuck it! I?m riding back to the Casino; is my room still comped??Cassie smiled at Jill who nodded.Cassie unwound her Super Glide and was enjoying the freedom of the roadwhen she came to a barricade across the highway with an arrow below a?detour? sign pointing to a secondary road. The detour was still blacktopand Cassie was in no rush so she shifted down and took the side road andwas working her way through the gears when a black van with shaded windowspulled up beside her.Cassie had.