A box appeared on my computer screen.

Message to: from: k. What's going on around the house?

Hey Karen, what's up? Do me a favor, okay? Go to my old room and there's a folder labeled 'Kristy's Old Papers'. Could you try to find something on the exoskeleton?

Love ya, Kristy

On the hunt! That will give me something to do! No one's been on, anyway……

Oh, um, hi! I'm Karen Brewer. You are probably like, "Um, what?" The basics: I have mid-length, even, straight blonde hair. I have blue contact lenses to go with my blue eyes. I'm fourteen and a half years old. I am a sophomore at Stoneybrook High School (SHS). I live on 1210 McLelland Road in a mansion. Seriously, my family would NOT fit in a regular old house.

I'll list us:

Me-14 ½

Brother Andrew-twelve

Stepbrother Charlie-twenty five

Stepbrother Sam-twenty three

Stepsister Kristy-twenty one

Stepbrother David Michael-fifteen

Adopted sister Emily-ten

My dad, Watson

My step mom, Elizabeth

Nannie, my step grandmother used to help around the house. But she passed away just last year. I will miss her a lot.

Nemo, my pet fish

Dori, Andrew's pet fish

Rosie, the family dog

So I jumped out of the chair and sprinted up the stairs. Sure enough, right by Kristy's bed was the manila folder. The first sheet definitely caught my attention.

It said something about a babysitters club. When I read the names, I cocked my head in surprise. "Kristy Thomas! Claudia Kishi, Mary Anne Spier, Stacey McGill." I read that aloud. Suddenly a flood of old memories came to me. The year I was five……

My dad had just met Elizabeth and they were going on dates and stuff. When y mom, now Lisa Engle, broke her leg, my dad called Elizabeth, saying something about "The Babysitters Club." Then Kristy met me while baby sitting me and Andrew while Dad was at the hospital (it was a friendly divorce, F.Y.I.)

The BSC had dropped when I was eleven. But my friends and I like babysitting, and……

I'd better think about that later. Kristy has a job for me. After a lot of searching I found a diagram of the exoskeleton. I slipped back into my place at the computer. When Emily and Andrew got back from Stoneybrook Elementary and Stoneybrook Middle School (respectively), they'll want to play games and stuff.

Karen Brewer wrote: Hey Kristy what's up. I have the diagram on that exo-thing. L8r, Karen

Kristy Thomas (k. wrote: Thx I'll get it when I visit this wknd---love u.

Karen: Ur coming! Yes! Lol I'm so hyper—

"Karen! Dude, I have to get on! 'Cause Danny has it and at recess we were talking about it and…….."

I rolled my eyes at him. "Shut up! You can go on, just zip it." Gosh, he can be annoying some times. After he got into grade school he was definitely not that quiet kid that he used to be.

But that reminded me of my two best friends on earth…..Hannah (she decided Hannie was too dorky) Papadakis and Nancy Dawes. Nancy's eight year old brother Danny has kind of grown up with us. My mom, her husband Seth and my twin half siblings Jessica and Jordan (four years old) live next to Nancy and Danny Dawes. So when we live at our other home every other month, we all walk together (we usually hang around talking until SMS students get out of school). Otherwise, Hannah's sixteen year old brother Linny drives us to school (he has his mom's minivan currently.) David Michael, Emily, Andrew, Hannah, Linny and I would not have fit in a convertible!

Emily was looking pretty happy. "Hi! Guess what? Guess what? Guess what?"

What is Emily so happy about………….