The Babysitters' Club: Animal Crossing Style!
By Whinnie
Hello, I'm back! Sorry for the long inactiveness. School has started. Oh, no! O(O Anyway, Lulu has moved, and I haven't played AC for a long time, so I've forgotten all about who has moved out and replaced her. :P
Brampton Residents:
Liz (lives in Acre B1)
Tutu (lives in Acre B1)
Boots (lives in Acre B2)
Goldie (lives in Acre B2)
Chow (lives in Acre C1)
Velma (lives in Acre C1)
Yuka (lives in Acre C2)
Anchovy (lives in Acre C4)
Monique (lives in Acre C5)
Midge (lives in Acre D5)
Teddy (lives in Acre E2)
Buzz (lives in Acre E4)
Prince (lives in Acre E4)
Tabby (lives in Acre F1)
Whitney (lives in Acre B3, Brampton; bottom right corner)
Megan (lives in Acre B3, Brampton; bottom left corner)
Amani/Amoon (lives in Acre B3, DinoTown; top left corner with Tahani)
Tahani/Hani (lives in Acre B3, DinoTown; top left corner with Amoon)
I'd just like to thank JDFusion for his review, and Babyoshi, too. You two ROCK!
JDFusion: A great story up to chapter 3! Will read chapter 4 tommorow!
Whinnie: Thanks! You better read it; the two chapters after that hold a surprise that I know you'll love.
Babyoshi: Yay. :D I am enjoying every chapter of this, keep up the good work.
Whinnie: Thank you for the review! And I'll be sure to take up more of the good work.
Chapter 6 - Condition of a Kind - Chapter 6
"Hey, Whinnie!" Jordan greeted Whitney with her old nickname. The two had been childhood friends, and had first met in the middle of Animal Crossing City, now renamed Animal Crossing Community.
"Jordan!" Whitney gasped. "What are you doing here?"
"Well, I remembered the day you left the city, you gave me your address. I was passing by to visit my parents in a town a few miles away, so I decided to visit." He grinned at her.
Suddenly, the girl remembered her manners. "What do you think you're doing standing in the rain?" she said. "Come on in!" With that, she opened the door more wider and stepped to the side so that a soaking 14-year-old could enter.
After helping him set his backpack on the floor, and giving him some dry towels, Whitney introduced Jordan to Goldie. "You two can introduce yourselves while I make some hot chocolate," she said, heading into the kitchen with a flashlight.
"Well..." Goldie started off. "Welcome to Brampton!" He thanked her and then they started to chat about a few things. A few minutes later, when Whitney returned, she found both her best friends laughing as they started a game of Speed. She placed the hot chocolate on the table nearby, then grinned and offered, "Would you like it if I show you to your guest room?" He just nodded, and followed Whitney up the stairs, Goldie behind him. After showing Jordan the vacant room beside hers, she left downstairs to play on her portable laptop.
Sunlight was streaming into Goldie's face the next morning, as she lay on her sleeping bed spread out on the floor of Whitney's room. The dog yawned, turned the other way in a desperate attempt to get back to sleep, and then stretched her little arms and legs before slowly getting up and heading down the hall to the bathroom.
A few minutes later, the brown dog emerged, looking fresh as she headed down the stairs and into the kitchen. Getting out a glass of peach juice, and setting a plate filled with two boiled eggs on the table, she sat down and ate her breakfast.
Just as she was placing her silverware in the sink, she heard the wooden stairs creaking, and then two minutes later, tapping. Exiting the kitchen quietly and poking her head into the next room, she found Jordan in front of the computer desk facing Whitney's laptop, head down as he typed. Leaning against the frame of the door, she smiled and asked, "Whatever are you doing?"
Jordan jumped and turned around, grinning ear-to-ear. "I'm just checking out the web," he replied, turning back to the screen and typing a mile a minute. Goldie stared at how fast he was typing; his hands moved all around the keyboard amazingly. After commenting on his speed, she waved goodbye, grabbed her coat and small handbag, then left for Nookington's. Not surprisingly, Whitney was seen in Acre B5, watering the flowers in the Winter Gardens. It was called that because, for some reason, the trees and flowers managed to survive the bitter cold and snow in winter each year. Goldie grinned before heading off.
1 PM, Whitney's House:
"Cool!" Whitney heard Jordan shout from the living room as she hung up her coat on the rack beside the front door. Slipping off her sandals, she walked past the living room, grabbed a cheese sandwich in the kitchen, and then crashed on the couch behind the computer desk. After testing the power out by attempting to turn on the TV, Whitney finally gave up and watched her friend surf the 'Net. Suddenly, after a minute, the screen lit up and different coloured blocks appeared around the screen.
"Whitney, look!" Jordan's call attracted the pink-haired girl to standing beside him. The word "WELCOME!" was stretched out across the web page in large, black text. He was automatically directed to another page.
"What is that?" Whitney asked, confused. Jordan suddenly jumped out of his chair, hopping around the room as if he'd found a million bucks.
"I've managed to do something no one else can do!" he yelled out happily. Seeing Whitney's puzzled face, he explained, "By using the Chip-Bits, small microchips that power up each village's computer system, it has allowed me to check each and every profile of people living, or used to live, in this part of the world. It can tell of their medical records, where they live and their age, stuff like that." With a grin, he said, "Now I can check out how my old friend, The Crossing Raven, is doing."
"Who's The Crossing Raven?" Whitney asked once again.
"He's a friend of mine. I'm not sure why, but we always called him that," Jordan replied with a grin.
"...Cool." Whitney was still a bit confused, but she felt less puzzled now that Jordan had cleared most things up. Leaving the room, she headed back to the kitchen and cleaned up. Looking at the time, she once again grabbed her coat and her Kid-Kit. Just as she left to begin her babysitting job at Midge's house, Jordan asked, "Hey, Goldie told me about your babysitting club and your meeting today. I know this is akward, but... Can I come along, too? My class has a project on clubs and stuff, so I was hoping I could record some stuff while you guys work." Whitney nodded with a smile, glad her friend was fitting into Brampton easily, then left.
It was humid and misty as Whitney walked around the town, making her way to Midge's house. The pink bird was due for a meeting at the museum around 3:30, so she had to hurry. She arrived just in time to see Midge shooing her cousin back into the house.
"Sorry I'm late," Whitney apologized. The bird quickly countered back with a kind, "It's okay," before she briefed her cousin's sitter on emergency phone numbers, contacts, and where the milk and Bridget's favourite snack was. After leaving with a large backpack and some prints, Whitney shut the wooden door after entering and walked towards the kitchen.
Bridget, Midge's cousin, was drawing at the kitchen table. "She's a pretty good artist," Whitney thought with a small smile as she hung her coat on one of the chairs, placed her Kid-Kit on the table, then sat down as she watched Bridget create a tree, then two lions sitting at a river. But it wasn't what she was drawing that attracted her, it was how she was drawing it. The piece was fantastic; it looked as if it was made by a professional artist. After a while, the peace and silence was broken with a, "Can I have some Coffee Crisp?"
Whitney stopped leaning against her chair, nodded, and happily fished out one of the small candy-wrapped treats, then handed it to her with some sun-seed cookies and half-a-cup of milk. Hungry, Bridget gulped down some of the liquid, then ate as fast as she could. Then, she helped Whitney clean up and resumed her art.
An hour passed before Midge came home. Smiling, she handed Whitney a golden bag labelled with a star. "There. 850 Bells, just like I promised," Bridget's cousin said as she handed the money over to her friend. Just as she left, though, Whitney said, "Don't forget the BSC meeting!" with a little wink.
5:40 PM -- Liz's House
Liz had to remark how time passed quickly. It seemed that she had only been working on her embroidery for an hour before she realized two hours had passed, and it was time for their club meeting.
Whitney, keeping her word to Jordan, brought him along as well. The girls were quite surprised that this boy might not be comfortable in this room full with girls, but he didn't seem to mind. As the others took in calls, recorded details, and sechulded babysitting jobs, Jordan jotted down notes on the pad he had brought along as Goldie explained to him the whole thing of making their club. All he had to do now was check the Internet for a few things, then send this to his teacher.
After getting permission from Liz, he slid into the seat and booted up the computer. Logging him with his own name, he typed in the name of a website after opening up a window and in the box, punching in 'Crossing Raven'. Tutu, noticing this, came up to him and asked what he was doing. Jordan once again gave the explanation he told Whitney earlier. Suddenly Tabby's head jerked up, interested, and asked the blue check shirted guy if she could borrow the keyboard for only a few. Quickly scratching out the name Jordan put in earlier in the box, she then entered in a different name before results started to pop up on the screen. Jumping out of the seat, she screamed, "She's okay!"
After the next call, Goldie put down the phone and asked, "What is it?"
"It's Maddie," Whitney replied, just as excited. "We found her village profile, and it's all thanks to Jordan!" She went up to her friend, hugged, even gave him a little kiss on the cheek. Blushing, he just grinned.
Tabby read the online file out loud. "Name: Maddie Woofie. Birthdate: Mar. 29, 1987. Current Job: Clerk at Yellowpad Tailor's..." There was a lot of information but there were two certain labels that went as far as their concern...
"Living Records: Acre B-5, Magdalent; Acre E-1, Cllij; Acre F-2, Gamecube; Acre F-3, Brampton; Acre F-1, Kapi. Condition: Excellent."
The day passed on with a very happy note to it.