Chapter One

Seeking Sasquatch

It was a warm Friday afternoon in July. I had just started my month at the big house the day before. I was sitting on the couch in the playroom with my stepbrother David Michael. It was time for our favorite new television show Seeking Sasquatch. It is about a team of experts who are hunting down a legendary giant ape called bigfoot also known as sasquatch. They never find any sasquatch and I am not sure if they are real but it is gigundo exciting.

Who am I? I am Karen Brewer. I am seven years old and so is David Michael but enough about that now. If you do not already know all about me I promise you will soon.

"This week on Seeking Sasquatch: The team heads to the Cascade mountains of Washington state to investigate a string of sightings in rural Lewis County including some intriguing video footage shot by a family on a day hike." The opening voice over had begun and we were hooked as we started watching the show.

When the first commercial came on, I asked David Michael, "Do you think that maybe they will find a sasquatch this week? That video clip was very convincing."

David Michael shook his head, "I hope so but I do not think they will. These guys are like the boy who cried wolf. They keep saying they will a sasquatch but they never do."

"You are right but I keep hoping," I was quiet then because the show was back on.

David Michael and I were peacefully watching the show for the next several minutes. It was getting to an exciting part where the team was having an overnight camping trip by the trail the family had taken the video on when Andrew burst into the room.

"Hello David Michael. Hello Evil Karen," Andrew said in the most loud and obnoxious voice possible.

"Andrew be quiet. The show is getting to a good point," I hissed at him.

Andrew ignored me and went over to the toy box and got out a pile of blocks. He began stacking as noisily as he could. David Michael and I tried to ignore him which is really all anyone can do with Andrew lately. Andrew thinks I am mean and evil and does not believe I have reformed. Everyone else believes me but Andrew refuses to. Every time Andrew says something to me I do feel evil and very tempted to go back to my old ways. I made a deal with Mommy though.

When a commercial came on again, David Michael stood up. "I am heading to the bathroom, Karen. I will be back in a minute. Andrew could you please try to be quiet while I am gone?"

Andrew laughed in a mean way, "No I am sorry but I cannot do that."

After David Michael had left the room. I walked over to Andrew. I got up in his face and did an animal growl, "Stop being mean to me or evil Karen really will come back. I want to be nice."

"No you do not, Karen. I am going to be the first one to catch you being mean and tattle on you." Andrew smiled.

I did my animal growl again and was about to pounce on him when David Michael came back in. I winked at Andrew then sat back down on the couch with David Michael. Andrew got a book out and started quietly reading it.

The show ended without bigfoot being located. The team was convinced based on the evidence that there were sasquatches there. Boo and bullfrogs. They did not convince me or David Michael. We sat feeling disappointed for a moment.

"I am starting to think bigfoot is just a big, fat lie," I grumbled to David Michael.

"Or else they are just not looking hard enough." He answered.

I had an idea, "Maybe we can find a sasquatch. We are certainly smarter than they are. We could get rich and famous."

He looked confused, "How would we do that Karen? There are no sasquatches here as far as I know. They always go to the mountains on the show. Or to the deep forest somewhere."

"There might be some here. We can look on the internet," I ran out of the room to the office where Daddy's computer was. David Michael was right behind me.

We did a Google search for 'bigfoot sightings in Connecticut'. It was very disappointing. We could not find more than ten recorded sightings in the last 150 years and none of them were in Stoneybrook.

"See Karen? I do not think we will find bigfoot here. He is only in the wilderness." David Michael whined.

"We need to get to the wilderness. Then we can find him," Anything that meant I might get rich and famous I was willing to do.

"How are we going to get to the wilderness?" David Michael asked. "It is a million miles away from here."

I was not sure, "I will think of something."

Just then we heard the sounds of Andrew laughing in the hallway. We peeked out and were very confused by what we saw. Andrew and Emily Michelle were there. Andrew was wearing a pair of spiderman underwear and nothing else. Emily was wearing a pink princess pull-up and nothing else.

Andrew was singing in a loud voice, "I've got ants in my pants. Oh I've got ants in my pants."

Emily giggled, "Ants pants."

Andrew was doing a little dance where he was shaking his bottom and waving his arms in the air. It was not as good as the sweater pants dance and it was a million times more annoying.

David Michael asked, "Uh Andrew, where are your pants?"

Andrew laughed, "Oh hi David Michael. Hi Evil Karen. I was bored after you guys left the playroom and decided to teach Emily my ants in your pants dance. We sung this song at preschool. I made up a dance for it but Miss Jewel would not let me do it at school so I am doing it at home."

I rolled my eyes, "I can see why she would not let you do it at school if it involves not wearing pants."

"Quiet Karen. I have spied on you doing the sweater pants dance lots of times and I know mine is better." Andrew went back to dancing.

"David Michael? Karen? Andrew? Emily?" I heard Kristy calling us.

"What is it?" I yelled back.

Kristy came down the hallway to where we were, "Indoor voice, Karen. It is lunchtime. Where are your clothes, Andrew and Emily? Come on and I will help you both get dressed. Karen and David Michael go and wash your hands to eat.

David Michael and I went to the hall bathroom to wash our hands. While I was waiting for him to be done at the sink, I had a brilliant idea. "David Michael, I know how we can search for bigfoot."

"How Karen?" He put some soap on his hands and started scrubbing.

I waited while he started rinsing the soap off, "My daddy is a millionaire. We can ask him to take us on a vacation to wherever we want."

He wiped his hands on a towel, "Karen, you are greedy. We cannot just ask him to take us on vacation so we can look for bigfoot. That is really inconvenient to everyone in the family too. Only we want to go."

After that he left the bathroom and I started washing my hands. I just knew I could convince Daddy to take us on a trip to search for bigfoot. Being Karen Two Two has some advantages after all.