A/N: I've been considering whether or not I should make one chapter for each person's story, or do it in the style of the actual book. Opinions? Please?

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"Hi, Katherine."

"Hey, Skye. Tell Nichelle and Kali to meet at my house ASAP."

"Okay, Katherine, what's this all about?" Kali asked.

Katherine told the story of the Pants. She didn't have all the details.

She just had as much as Tibby told her before their parents wondered where they'd gone off to. But that was enough. She told the story of how they were found, She told Tibby's (She's called her Tabitha) story of the first summer, then Lena's, then Bridget's, then Carmen's. She did the same with all the

following summers. Granted, she didn't have very much information. But she had

enough to keep her friends mesmerised until she finished.

"So why did I bring you here? I brought you hear because Tabitha is my sister Tibby and these" She pulled the pants out of the bag she kept them in,

"Are the pants."

It took a moment for what Katherine said to sink in. Then Nichelle spoke up.

"Why don't we all try them on?"

"Pardon me? I'm 5'6", and built like Marilyn Monroe, to put it lightly, you're almost 5'9" and average weight, Skye is 5'4" and skinny, and Katherine is 5'7" has that curve-less Dancer build." Kali pointed out.

"Were you not listening? They're magic pants!" Skye said.

Katherine grabbed the pants and took off her sweatpants. She pulled them up to just above her nonexistent hips and buttoned them.

"How do I look?" She asked.

"Stunning."

"Amazing."

"Awesome."

"Try them on, Skye." Katherine urged.

"Yeah, I'm going to look like an anorexic midget while the rest of you will look like models."

"Come on, Skye"

"Please?"

Skye groaned and removed her denim skirt. She put on the pants.

"They're in love with you, Skye, seriously." Nichelle said. Skye studied her image in the mirror. "Is it my imagination, or do these make my chest look smaller?" Skye asked. Skye may have been skinny with modest curves, but she had a very large chest. She and Katherine envied each other. Katherine was small-chested. Not flat, but small. She hated it.

"Your turn, Kali." Skye said.

"They're going to make me look like a fat--"

"Kali..."

Kali tried them on.

"I look fat, don't I? I look like a blubbery sack of lard."

"Hardly. I'd say you look more like a model" Nichelle said.

"Yeah, or an actress that's always the heroine that the hero has a crush on."

"Okay, then, Nichelle. Try them on. Try and see if they don't look like floods."

They didn't look like floods. They looked like the pants of a covergirl

on a teen magazine.

"Wow."

"Oh, my God."

"They were right."

"My sister and her friends all made rules. She said that those rules had something to do with nosepicking, some of them. And inscribing them." Katherine said.

"I don't think we have room to inscribe them." Kali said.

"I know. Let's come up with some rules of our own. And our own name."

"How about the sisters of the jeans?"

"The denim cult?"

"The sisterhood reloaded?"

"The fellowship of the pants?"

They pitched ideas, laughing as each one got sillier, weirder, and more embarrassing.

Nichelle had a straight face when she said "The Second-Generation Sisterhood?"

They all agreed, nodding. They came up with some rules, too:

1. Members must never ridicule another member on their opinions, things about themselves that they cannot change, or people that they love, unless they are kidding.

2. Members must never wash the pants in bleach or any strong detergent

3. Members must never call each other tacky nicknames ending in "-ster"

4. One must never talk dirt about another member behind their back

5. Sisters are required to wear a belt with the pants, or a belt substitute

6. At the end of the summer, members must inscribe properly:

Describe in a few words the most memorable thing to happen to you when wearing the Pants on a piece of paper, which will be laminated, and have a piece of denim attached to it

7. Members must never, ever, ever, under any circumstance, use the words phat, dope (meaning cool), fetch, youngin, word, G, Dawg, or (intentionally) da

8. Members must never spell Hot "Hott", and must never spell God "Gawd". Also, members must say "shut up", never shut it, zip it, shut down, or hush up

9. Pants must follow normal cycle, unless a sister in need requires them

"What are you girls giggling about? Toenails?" Nicky barged into Katherine's room.

"Why the hell isn't Rain wearing pants?"

"My name is Skye." Skye said quietly. Katherine held up the Pants.

"Oh, my God. The Pants!" Nicky shouted. So he remembered.

"I'm going to kill her for not telling me." He snarled.

"Why? Were you planning on wearing them? Along with some eyeliner, lipstick, and a peasant blouse, that'd be a good look for you." Katherine

hissed.

Nicky turned bright red.

"Sayonara, Nicky." She said. "I won't be missing you."

"Call me Nick."

"In your dreams."

Skye, Kali, and Nichelle all stared at Katherine.

"Okay, now that evil incarnate's gone, maybe we can set out the fundamentals of who will have the Pants, and when." Katherine said.

"You should have them first." Skye said.

"Maybe. I think, after school's out, we should swear we'll live by our rules, and make it official, you know? Maybe at Wildflower Park. At, say, 5:30?"

"Yeah, definitely."

Nichelle had known, without having to discuss it with her friends, that she had to look pretty for the meeting of the Second Generation Sisterhood.

Although the Pants didn't look like floods on her, all other pants did. She found some skirts. She wasn't really the kind of girl to wear skirts, but that evening was a special occasion. She found a skirt that wasn't too short, with blue camo print, and a one-shoulder shiny blue-greenish top. She tied her black hair into a ponytail and wondered if she should appply makeup to her dark-mocha colored skin. I'm not that girly yet, I still have some dignity. She said to herself. She started walking to Wildflower Park, which was about a mile and a half away. But she had just consumed a can of Red Bull, and needed to burn off the energy. She started running. When she got to Wildflower Park, she looked to find the one and a half gazebos, which their spot was sandwiched in between.

Nichelle glanced around the group. No one had brought the pants out yet. Nichelle sat, cross-legged on the grass. Katherine pulled out the Pants and the list of rules. Everyone put one hand on the list.

"We swear to honor these rules, cherish our friendship, and live out our summers in the Pants. To remember the first Sisterhood." Katherine said.

"For Carmen" She said.

"For Tibby." Nichelle said solemnly.

"For Bridget" Kali said.

"For Lena" Skye said.

"For each other. Forever" Kali added.

"For love, for truth, for sense" Nichelle said.

"For friendship. And for The Pants" Skye said. They all looked around at each other. They had all known to swear on the sister whose personality most matched her own, and they had made a speech up on the spot.

"Katherine should get them first. For-- 6 days. Then someone else gets them for 6 days, and someone else, and someone else." Kali suggested.

"Okay."

"Yeah."

"Sure."

"All I can say is I wish good Karma on these pants." Nichelle said. It was so like her to say Karma, Kismet, or Chi, rather than luck, like everyone else.

"Good luck." Katherine said.