Back to Shadow Lake

by Tori Atkins

After about eight years, the old and new Babysitters Club makes their return to Shadow Lake in Massachusetts. Karen receives news about her beloved stepsister, Hannah, Margo, Mary Anne and Abby are involved in fights, and Jen and Archie are busy with a th

1. Prologue Karen

A/N: I hope you like this story! It will be way more interesting than my first fic, I promise.

Ding dong! I finished zipping up my travel bag and lugged it downstairs. Looks like no one's going to lift a freaking finger to open the door. So, I flipped the door open and guess that I saw?

I'm probably going too fast for you to understand, right? Okay, so I'm Karen Brewer. I'm fifteen years old and I just graduated the tenth grade. You already know the basics about me, so why don't I just skip to what you actually need to know.

Every year my family goes down to Shadow Lake, ever since the year me and my stepbrother David Michael were seven years old. The first year we went the whole Babysitters Club, that included my step sister Kristy, went. But the last few years there has been a limit to one friend each.

Since this past year my friends and I formed the new generation of the Babysitters Club. So my dad, Watson said that just like old times our whole new club can go on the trip. I at first didn't believe that Dad would let Kristy's club, now twenty two and twenty years old, come. But he did!

This is who is going: me, Nancy Dawes, Hannah Papadakis, Maria KIlbourne, Melody Korman, Margo Pike, Suzi Barrett, Claire Pike, Jen Prezzioso, Archie Rodowsky, Myriah Perkins, (breath) Kristy, Claudia Kishi, Mary Anne Spier, Dawn Schafer, Stacey McGill, Shannon Kilbourne, Jessi Ramsey, Mallory Pike, Abby Stevenson, Emily Michelle Brewer my adopted sister, Marnie Barrett, my brother Andrew Brewer, Jamie Newton, Danny Dawes, Lucy Newton, David Michael, Buddy Barrett my boyfriend, Sam and Charlie Thomas my stepbrothers, and lastly Watson and my step mom, Elizabeth. Good thing we have five cars to drive up to Shadow Lake!

At the door step there were basically all the people living on our side of Stoneybrook, Connecticut. (A.k.a. Hannah, Maria, Shannon and Melody.) If you piled their things one on top of the other they would likely reach the sky!

"Um, hi," I said. "Let's go out to the picnic table with all our crap." This was going to be some crazy vacation!