The very next day was the first day of summer! I barely could believe it. Also, it was Saturday, maybe my friends and I could do something together. Margo was already gone when I woke up Saturday morning. I figured she'd probably be out with her friends. I was very happy for this. But, don't get me wrong I love being a part of a big family. I got up and got dressed. I was wearing a pair of pink sparkly shorts, a white tank top with a pink star on it, and pink high heeled sandals. Then I put on some gold bangle bracelets on both wrists, and then put my hair up with a poof rose scrunchy.
I clamored down the stairs to see who was still home. Vanessa was in the rec room, absorbed in a poetry book and mom was cleaning the kitchen from last night. I sat down on our livingroom couch. To tell you the truth, I was bored. I wished we had a club meeting today, then my friends would all be over at my house and we'd be having fun. I glanced over at a framed picture on the stand beside the couch. It was of me and Margo, when I was five and when she was seven. I was wearing a sailor dress and Margo was wearing painters pants with a tool belt. She was happily munching on a banana. I smiled and then laughed. That picture always cracks me up. It was taken at the Little Miss Stoneybrook Pageant years ago. Margo and I had both entered, and lost. My friend Myriah Perkins had one second place. I think she's very talented.
Mom walked in and saw me on the couch. "Dear, you look pretty bored. No baby-sitting jobs today?" Mom asked.
"Nope." I replied. Mom looked at me in thought.
"Why don't you start a new book?" she suggested.
"No thanks. I don't feel much like reading." I answered.
"Okay, how about watching a movie?" Mom suggested, trying again. Then I had an idea. "Mom, can I ask the club members if they wanna sleep over tonight?"
"Well...all right. All of them?"
I nodded pleadingly. Mom agreed and I called Karen Brewer, Nina Marshall, Myriah Perkins, Suzi Barrett, and Jenny Prezzioso, the new members of the Baby-Sitters Club.