Unlike Rebecca and her colleagues, Kacey and Monique had no problemaccepting Ellie as one of their own, and even accepted Janet herself as'one of them...' without a second thought, just as they had done sincetheir first meeting in the supermarket weeks earlier. Janet had heardstories while growing up, and while raising her own children, about howteenagers could be cruel, could find sadistic pleasure in inflictingsuffering on people who didn't conform to their standards, but as sheobserved the. "Chey, go and dig up a couple of bottles of whisky - we're all going to need cheering up and Ian might want to get drunk."The three of them packed into the little room that served as base office and radio shack. Even without their outdoor clothes they were bulky in heavy sweaters and thick trousers stuffed into boots. The bottles of whisky stood on the table, white with frost.Hamish read the pencilled telegram that Chey had written down from Morse code, crackling over a thousand miles from the. After all, I was the one who was committing most of the mistakes. And I was the one who really wasn't interested in being there in the first place.Finally, after three consecutive weeks of eight-hour practices, we decided that we were as ready as we would ever be for our demo session.Of course, none of us had any idea what we were doing. We also had no idea that studio time is booked in three-hour blocks. We had four songs ready and Carrie's cousin insisted it wasn't enough."Jeff just sent. There have been times she has used them when we were together. I love to watch her get herself off.”Joking, I said, “Has she ever used one of those things on you?”“A few times. It drives me nuts.”Rob and I went back up to the apartment to get more boxes. Once we had all the boxes put away, we sat in the living room while the girls finished putting things away. A few minutes later, Jenny and Kelly came out of the bedroom.“We’re finished, everything is put away. Kelly and I want to go to the.