Chapter 2 The BSC's New Generation…..That's us!

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THE BABYSITTERS CLUB

Reach:

Karen Brewer, fourteen

Hannah Papadakis, fifteen

Nancy Dawes, fifteen

Maria Kilbourne, sixteen

Margo Pike, fifteen

Melody Korman, fifteen

Junior Members:

Jen Prezzioso, twelve

Claire Pike, thirteen

Suzi Barrett, thirteen

"Come on, guys, let's go to my room!" I all but yelled.

Right now, walking up to my room, we were kind of in groups. Though we've all known each other since we were just little kids involved in BSC activities, we were still not one happy group. Okay, if I sound like Barney, just tell me to shut up. I don't mind; I'm used to it. I kind of am known for my big mouth.

None of us are much like we were back then. "Brett said, 'You know you're the hottest girl in Stoneybrook High! You're so talented, and…….' It was so cute!" Melody Korman is not some hyper seven years old. She is a high maintenance sophomore, though pretty nice. Melody has short, layered hair and we go shopping together. Our favorite store is American eagle.

Maria Kilbourne leaned in to listen. Brett Lewis---if we're talking hot, he is scorching hot! The high scholars were mega interested in this conversation. He had just broken up with Pamela Harding, winner of the super snob award.

Well, Maria is the oldest, a junior at SHS. She's a little quiet, a little reserved and yet she has Ricky Torres falling into her arms. She's had about six boyfriends since her thirteenth birthday. Maria's hair is long, layered and blonde. My hair is over the shoulder, even and blonde. Maria and I both have contacts.

Hannah is "the brain." She is fun, very adventurous. What annoys me about Hannah is that she is sooo self conscious. I kind of like, wonder if her goal in life is to be popular. She has really long brown hair and is starting to grow out her bangs. I like her just the way she is. Life is weird sometimes, just ask me.

Nancy is my other best friend. Since I skipped most of first grade I got into the same classes with he rand Hannah. Her hair is long and has her natural red color with subtle blonde streaks. Nancy curls her hair a lot, but I think it looks great straightened too. She's one of those people who are nice to everyone.

I wasn't really friends with Margo Pike until my friends and I decided to take the public school route starting in sixth grade. This kind of started a lot of Stoneybrook Academy kids going into Stoneybrook Middle School. Will you believe that there is no such thing as Stoneybrook Academy anymore? Just Stoneybrook Day, Kelsey Middle School or Stoneybrook Middle School and of course I chose the school that Kristy went to when I was little.

So then I got to know all the other kids around my age I never knew that well like the Pikes. Now I came name all of them and their ages. I'm smart, right? Uh, no, that's kind of a geeky thing to know. Claire is thirteen. Margo is fifteen. Nicky is sixteen. Vanessa is seventeen. Bryon, Adam and Jordan are college freshman, eighteen, and Mallory is nineteen year old top chart writer.

Margo has a great sense of humor. She's talkative, funny, caring, everything you'd want in a friend. She has long, layered brown hair and she tends to wear A LOT of mascara.

Claire is a "junior member." In Kristy's club thirteen year olds were officers and eleven year olds were junior members. Bt for one thing us older members are fifteen, so junior members are twelve and thirteen Another thing, Andrew's twelve and he wants to do everything I do, so its sooo likely that he would join the club. I don't really associate with younger kids much so I don't know a lot about her.

Kristy has said as a four year old babysitting charge, Jen Prezzioso was the worst spoiled brat. Now she's simply a spoiled snob, in our opinion. Her idol is Pamela Harding (EW!) and other kids. But she is responsible and she wants money and likes kids. I get the vibe that since her eight year old sister Andrea is a child actress, she is always competing to be better than her.

Lastly, Suzi Barrett is a thirteen year old with short, curly hair. She has two technical siblings: ten year old Marnie and Buddy, who is also fifteen but he didn't join because he doesn't want to hang with girls. I don't think Andrew would mind.

"And he's like, 'I love your hair,' So I flipped m hair and said flirtatiously, 'like, what's your point, Brett?' And he goes, 'Melody, be mine.' It was sooo romantic."

The high school people "awed." The eighth graders and seventh grader looked puzzled.

"First business!" I shouted to get everyone to shut their mouths. "Meeting times………"

Ring! "Hello, Babysitters Club. Hi, Mrs. DeWitt. Oh, you do? Seven to nine, two sitters? Sure, bye." Maria looked utterly excited as she put my phone back in its place.

"Suzi, I don't care if that was your mom, but we just got our first job! She wants two sitters for Marnie, Ryan, Katherine, Joe and Brianna. Madeleine will be hanging around there. It's for Saturday night, seven to nine."

Last weekend Kristy came over again, helping me set up our club notebook with everyone's schedules in It., I had to keep calling our members to ask "What are you doing Mondays?" etc. We hung fliers around the neighborhood.

Did I forget to tell you that Suzi has a step dad, four stepsiblings and three half siblings? Well, a long time ago the Barrett's merged with the DeWitt's. Lindsey is fifteen (too busy with art classes to join), Taylor (boy) is fourteen, Madeleine is twelve and just not interested in babysitting, Ryan is ten. Now there are ten kids! Brianna I s five, Joe seven and Katherine was two, too cute. 

I set the notebook on my lap. "Saturday. Hannah-soccer practice from six to seven. Nancy-Grandmother's house from Saturday to Sunday. Melody-sleepover at Becca Ramsey's. Maria----study for chemistry test all Saturday. Margo and Claire—hanging out with Mallory all weekend. Suzi---movies with Buddy, Lindsey and Taylor.

Really, I don't have to say anything else. Jenny Prezzioso and I had the first BSC job!