Chapter 2
Guess what. We all hold offices in the club. My job is alternate officer. That means whenever someone misses a meeting, I get to be their position. While our vice-president Claire Pike, was in Sea City, New Jersey for two weeks, I got to be vice-president in her place. I guess it was pretty cool.
Karen Brewer is the club president because she's take charge and has alot of great ideas. She's also loud, sometimes bossy, and likes her voice to be heard. She's also the oldest out of all of us and the only one going to high school. She is fourteen. Karen's step-sister is Kristy Thomas, the girl that originally started the club and they are a lot alike. Karen has blond hair, blue eyes and wears contacts. She has a very interesting family. Her parents are divorced like mine. She spends one month at her dad's house and the next month at her mom's. I think her dad's house is much more interesting than her mom's. At her mom's are her, her mom, her step-dad, and her little brother Andrew, who's twelve. Then, at her dad's is her, Andrew, her step-brother David Micheal who's fifteen and hangs out with Buddy sometimes, her little step-sister Emily Michelle, who was adopted from Vietnam and is ten years old, her step-mom, and her dad. Her dad is wicked rich and they all live in a mansion. Three other people used to live there too, Kristy and their two other brothers Charlie and Sam. They also have loads of pets.
Nina Marshall is another member of the club. She's very nice and level headed. She never gets herself into trouble. She does what's asked of her. I wish I could be more like Nina because she never forgets anything. Nina has a little sister named Eleanor (she's eleven) who we baby-sit for all the time. Nina is our club treasurer. She collects our club dues every Monday club meeting. With our club dues we can buy things for parties and for the Kid-Kits we don't have yet.
Kid-Kits are boxes full of games and books we can bring on sitting jobs. Kristy thought of them when she was president of the club.
Our club secretary is a good one, Myriah Perkins. Myriah keeps track of our club record book, where we record our jobs and other important club info. Sometimes I think Myriah is too busy, either that or too perfect. She's multi talented and she's only thirteen years old. She takes summer dance day camp and sychronized swimming lessons at the city pool. She horse back rides, tap dances, and even sings better than anyone I know. I wouldn't be surprised if she could ride a unicycle or balance and twirl plates on sticks. Don't get me wrong, Myriah's very nice and I can always count on her. She has two little sisters and lives with her mom and dad. Her little sisters are Gabbie Ann, who's ten and Laura Beth who's only eight. They have a big dog named Chewbacca.
Our vice-president, as I already mentioned is Claire Pike, my best friend. We hold the meetings at her house and use her phone. Get this, Claire is the youngest of eight kids. The oldest is Mallory, who was in the Baby-Sitters Club and now she's in college, then there's the triplets Adam, Byron, and Jordon. They are all eighteen and have their own apartment now. Vanessa is seventeen and wants to be a poet. She's going to college next year to try and get her books published. Nicky is sixteen and the only boy left in the Pike household, except Mr. Pike. Nicky is over at our house a lot, he and my big sister Lindsey are going out! Next there's Margo, she's fifteen and kind of a friend of Karen's. Margo shares a room with Claire, but she's never in there when we are. She's pretty good at not coming to our meetings. Then last but not least, is Claire. Claire is a fun and different person. She's very nice, creative, and imaginative and she collects Care Bears! Claire and I are best friends, we have been for a very long time.
Okay, then there's Jenny Prezzioso, who I think doesn't even wanna be in the club. She hardly ever even comes to meetings either. Jenny is the same age as me, Nina, Claire, and Myriah, but she acts as if she's better and older than us. You should see the way she dresses, like she thinks she's a super model. She can be okay sometimes though. Jenny has a younger sister named Andrea, who is seven. Jenny's our associate club member, meaning she only takes jobs when no one else can. That's a good thing because Jenny needs baby-sitting training lessons.
Well that's us, the new Baby-Sitters Club. We meet three times a week from five to six in Claire's bedroom. We take job calls and then...we do our thing, baby-sit!!