He was pretty sure this wasn’t going to end well.When he was about ten feet away from her, Bethany started in on him. She yelled, “What’s this I...hear about you cutting our dates short so you can go camping this weekend? If I’m not more important to you than camping at the Spook light, you can just forget our dates.” She turned and flounced off before Todd could make a reply.He watched open mouthed as Twilah turned and looked at him before giving him a satisfied smirk. After she was sure he saw. “Hey wait up stranger.” I turned around and watched her run up to me. I cursed under my breath asking myself why didn’t I just keep walking without her. She finally caught up and was shortly out of breath, “Why didn’t you wait for me?” I smiled and shrugged, “I figured one of your new friends would offer you a ride home.” She laughed as we began to walk, “Please...those guys just want to get in my pants.” I looked at her as we walked to our respective houses, “What about your female. Hardesy. I heard some things last night that have been bothering me. I was hoping you could clear some of them up." Well, I don't know, John. What I know and what I tell can be entirely different. What exactly do you want to know?" Well, I'm not asking you to break any confidences, Mr. Hardesy, but I was wondering about Harmon-Morris. Last night, I overheard Charles Langley talking to Junior Bishop about taking back control of some company. Mr. Langley also said that marrying Missy's mom. Pete dried his hands and stepped outside.“Hey Mickey,” Pete called, “you on your own today or giving Jason his wake up call?”“Oh, hi Pete, nah, Jace should be here any minute.”“So who’re you talking to?”“My girlfriend Beth, doesn’t go back to work ‘til after the New Year.”“Mind if I have a word with Beth?”“Er, yeah, sure, help yourself. It’s Pete from the club, Beth,” Mickey Denhope handed over the phone.“Merry Christmas Beth ... yeah, great time ... look, it’s eight fifteen, so Mickey’s gotta.