We poked around the edges, and found enough to smell, but without some hard evidence, there's nothing we could do about a story. What's got you so int...rested in the Defenders of Gaea?" It's a long story, but we're having some problems with them here, and the more I hear, the less I like." That's strange," Andy said. "They're pretty much a bicoastal outfit. They don't do much in the midwest. Probably they got some big donor they could work for a scam." I'm starting to suspect that," Mike said,. I started the car and pulled out of the driveway. I looked at the time and figured that it was too late to show up unannounced at Kara’s house, so I headed to Bethany’s. When I knocked, she answered and was quite surprised to see me.“I needed to get away from the party. Kara was right. Bonnie did have designs on me. All those rumors we hear about the cast parties? They appear to be true. They had booze and pot and Bonnie wanted a one-time fling. It seems cast parties are a no-strings kind of. I walked back into the room and my mom handed me a tiny purse. "HereCharlie. This is one of my best purses. It my Kate Spade baby. Don'tlose it. I put all you need in there. Chuck the lipstick in there tofreshen up later and go have fun," she said as she kissed my foreheadand walked out of the room.Here we go. Once again I was thinking to myself, "It's not too late toback out. But I really want to go."It felt like a ghost just pushed me towards the door because I juststarted walking. I didn't. I still had vivid memories of the first time I took them shopping a few weeks ago. Sue had barely left the house by the time we were on our way to pick up Betsy."Oh, Mr. Long. It's so nice of you to take us shopping again. How can we ever repay you?", Betsy breathed in my ear. She was riding in the back seat behind me, because Marcie took up the whole passenger side of the front seat so she could give me a few cheap thrills on the way to the mall. Scratch that. Nothing was going to be cheap.