That afternoon, Stacey had a mini party at her house. It was with Fred (Stacey's future step-dad) and his family. She told us all about it.

She said she wore a silk pink blouse and light blue denim jeans. She had sneakers on (pink) and her hair in a stylish bun.

When the doorbell rang, she ran to open it and saw Fred and his 7 children. A girl named Casey, at the age of 15, a girl Jennifer, at the age of 13, a boy named Dick at the age of 10, 2 twins Lisa and Lily, 8, a boy named Peter, 4, and a small infant William.

Everyone came in. Stacey's mom came from the kitchen in a red silk dress up to her knees. She had her beautiful dirty blond hair in a pony-tail. She had loads of jewelry on.

"Come on in!" she said, as she took everyone's coats. She gave a couple to Stacey to put them away and she put some away too.

"Hello, Ms. McGill!" said Casey.

"Hi." Said Jennifer, shyly.

"Hello everyone!" said Ms. McGill.

"Hi sweetie!" said Fred, at the doorway, beaming at Ms. McGill. Stacey's mom blushed.

"Hi...Fred." she said.

"Well, we're finally here!" he said smiling.

Stacey thought she heard Dick and the twins giggle.

"Come on upstairs, you guys!" she said.

"Yea! Lets GOOOOOO!" screamed Dick.

"SHH!" said Casey as she held onto Dick. "Shut up!"

"Okay, gosh!" he cried rolling his eyes.

They all went upstairs. Stacey thought she'd faint.

"OOOO! HOW CUTE!" cried Lisa, looking through Stacey's make-up.

"Oh my gosh!" mimicked Dick.

"WOOOOWWW!" said all the kids, as Dick and Peter rolled their eyes.

"Uhh…guys." Said Stacey gently taking the make-up away. "Lets do something…together…!"

"Yea. Come on!" said Casey.

"Okay. What do you have?" asked Jennifer, as she took off her denim jacket. She had a cute shirt, its color a beautiful violet, with dazzling sparkles. She had tight jeans on with lovely attractive diamonds.

"Jennifer!" I love your outfit!" said Stacey.

Jennifer beamed. "Thanks." She said shyly.

"You can call her Jen." Said Casey, smiling.

"Okay…Jen." Said Stacey.

"Well….GAME TIME!" yelled Dick.

"Shh!" said Lisa.

"GOSH!" answered Dick.

"Well…I have…" said Stacey. She took out some games. "LIFE, Monopoly, Clue, Connect Four…" she went on and on with the games.

"THIS ONE!" shrieked Liy.

"NOOOOO!" shrieked Dick.

"WHO SAID YOU'RE THE LEADER PERSON?" asked Peter.

"ME!"

"Well! We don't AGREE!"! shouted Lisa.

"Too Bad!"

"GUYS!" said Casey. They turned towards Casey.

"Who wants to play what?" she asked.

The kids started shrieking the games.

"CONNECT FOUR!"

"Noooo! Monopoly!"

"Clue!"

"Guess Who!"

"That rhymes!" said a girl, Stacey wasn't sure, but that followed Loads of giggles.

"That's rhymes is'nt a game silly!" said Peter. More giggles.

"DUH!" said Dick.

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" cried Peter

"Shut UP!" said Dick.

"MAKE-"

"EVERYONE SHUT UP!" shrieked Stacey.

"If you want to play Connect Four raise your hand." 3 people did. "Go there." She handed them Connect four. "Clue?" 8 hands. She anded them She went on. Finally, and I mean finally they played quietly…until dinnertime.

"Stacey!" called Ms. McGill's voice from downstairs.

"Yea?" said Stacey.

"DINNER!" she called.

"Dinner." Muttered Stacey to Casey and Jen.

"DINNER!" said Jen.

"COME ON!"

"I'm starving!"

"MEE TOO!"

"Mee!" cried William.

"MEE! MEE!" said Peter.

"I like that word!"

"Yea!"

"Lets say it together!" cried Lisa.

"Ready?"

"One, two, three…GO!"

"MEEEEEEE! MEEEEEEEE! MEEEEEEEE! MEEEEE!MEEEE-"

"SHUT UP!" yelled Casey.

"Okay, gosh!" said Dick.

When they finally made it down the stairs, they fought where the'd sit.

Well they had dinner, and than they went upstairs.

The kids played their games.

Stacey, Jen and Casey talked.

"Finally!" said Stacey.

"I know!"

"And we'll have to do this everyday!" laughed Jen.

Stacey's eyes widened. She forgot that they were going to be her siblings…

"Look at your face!" laughed Casey, with Stacey and Jen.

"Well…what school do you go to?" asked Stacey.

"Stoneybrook High."answered Casey.

"Really? So do I!" said Stacey.

"Really?"

"Yea! What house?"

"3"

"Oh…I'm in 6."

"Do you know Caroline?"

"Yea…I hate her!" said Stacey.

"I love her!"

"WHAT?"

"We're best friends."

"Really?"

"Yea."

"She's so mean!"

"Why?"

Stacey told her the story.

"I know…she's been moody lately. Its just that…her mom's in the hospital…cancer."

"Oh." Said Stacey.

"She used to be soo nice. But shes sad and mad."

"Oh."

"You should get to know her.."

"Okay I will…"

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The next day at school, at lunch, Stacey was with Casey and Caroline. Claudia went there to get her.

After 15 minutes, Claudia came crying.

"Whats wrong?" asked Abby.

"N-Nothing." She said glaring at Stacey.

"No…"

"STACEY HATES US! SHE LIKE CAROLINE NOW! SHE…" cried Claudia.

"WHAAAT?" we asked.

"Look." She said.

We looked at Stacey, who indeed was talking to Caroline and Casey.

We went there and talked to Stacey.

"Hey guys!" she said.

"How could you like her?" asked Kristy nodding to Caroline.

"She's nice!"

"SO?"

"SO? She's my friend!"

"But she said something bad to your friend! Your BEST friend!" I exclaimed.

"So?"

"SO!"

"Yea…doesn't mean I can't like her."

"we're not saying that." Said Shannon.

"So…What are you saying?"

"I heard you!" said Claudia.

"what?"

"You said that she was your best friend. Caroline said thanks and 'thank god you left that ugly japenese freak, Claudia.' You're like, I never like her anyways! I heard it! You're giving up true friends for Popularity!" she said.

We looked at Stacey, who frowned and said. "That's right! She's my friend! BEST friend!" than she left.

We hugged Claudia, trying to comfort her, but she kept on crying. I couldn't believe it. Was that really Stacey?