While Jenny and Nina were having their birthday party "adventure", I was at home doing a little packing for Sea City. I even found an album with loads of picutres in it. There was one from when Stacey McGill and Mary Anne Spier (two of the club members from when I was little) came with us to help baby-sit. It was of me and Stacey when were at Fred's Putt Putt course, the mini golf place. I remembered that I had won a free game that year. I'm not really a great golfer to tell you the truth, and I'm sure I wasn't back then either. Also in the album was a picutre of Margo and Karen in their mermaid outfits at the Fun in the Sun festival one year. I couldn't believe all the good times we had in Sea City, I could not wait to go back. Two more days to go and I still didn't know who to bring with me.
On Friday, I went to the Newton's for my sitting job with Lucy. Jamie was there too, he had a dentist appointment and Lucy didn't want to go. Mrs. Newton gave me the instructions and she and Jamie left.
"Hey, Lucy. Remember me? My name's Claire Pike." I told her brightly.
"Hi-hi Claire Pike. Wanna see the new picutre I drew?" Lucy asked me.
"Sure." I replied and Lucy led me into the kitchen. She showed me a picutre of some flowers she had drawn. It was actually pretty good.
"Very nice picutre." I told her.
"Thank you. Wanna draw with me?" Lucy asked me. So we decided to draw at the kitchen table. I was in the middle of showing Lucy how to draw unicorns when the phone rang.
"Can I get it?" asked Lucy.
"No thanks Luce, I better get it." so I picked up the phone and guess who it was? It ws Karen and she sounded mad.
"Guess what?" she asked me angryily.
"What?"
"The only people at this meeting are me and Nina!"
"WHAT?!"
"My thoughts exactly. Suzi forgot, Myriah forgot to tell us about this shoe sale at the mall she's going to, and to top that off, Jenny's not here either."
"Oh my gosh, I can not believe that. Do you want me to come over?"
"Please do."
"Okay, me and Lucy will be right over." I hung up the phone feeling very peeved. The Baby-Sitters club wasn't working out as well as I had hoped. Sure, we were getting jobs but then again, there were problems with the club members. If our clients found out about these problems, they wouldn't want our club's business anymore. I was angry, not just at my friends and so called fellow club members, but at the thought of having no more club business. It was sad too. The original baby-sitters club had run the club for quite a few years and now that they were older, we decided to past it on and run it too. I wanted Kristy, Stacey, Claudia, Dawn, Jessi, Mary Anne, Abby, and exspecially Mallory to be proud of us. I realized this was all I wanted the most.
I told Lucy we were going over my house for a little while and left a note for Mrs. Newton, knowing that she'd be home soon and for in case she came home earlier than planned.
Minutes later, Lucy and I burst into my bedroom, where their was a terrible scene before my eyes. Everyone was in my room. The whole club and they were all screaming and yelling. Karen was shouting at the top her lungs at Jenny, calling her the worst and most obscene names she could think of, Myriah was yelling at both Karen and Suzi, and Nina seemed to be calling everyone mean names and yelling for them to be queit. Lucy looked up at me waryily. I knew she was worried and she didn't know what was going on. I knew it was up to me to do something, and fast.