A/N: Thanks for the reviews! keep them coming! Well, there's not much else to say, just that I don't own the BSC etc. etc. But you already knew that right?

Dear Kristy

Congratulations on your marriage, and daughter. I'm sure she will grow out of her shyness at some stage. Perhaps it's just a phase. As for me, (seeing as how you didn't think I gave you enough information the first time round!), I work as an interpreter for a government department and really enjoy it. I travel a lot with my job, particularly to English speaking countries as I'm one of the few native English speakers in our department. Consequently, there is no way I could even think about having children without giving up my job – I would certainly never want to put them in someone else's care for long periods of time. I do have a fiancé, Henri Chapin, who is a lawyer. He also works long hours, and is devoted to his job, which is why we haven't got around to marrying yet despite having been dating for the past four years. Henri also wants to get really settled in his firm so that we are more financially secure and can afford to buy a nice apartment here. We have discussed the children issue, and he agrees completely with me. Besides, it looks like Mallory's adding to the world population enough on her own! (Just kidding, don't mention that comment to her!)

Now, you still haven't told me much about you or any of the other ex-club members! I'd love to hear about everyone else, as I've completely lost touch with all of you!

Hope to hear from you soon,

Shannon

I re-read Shannon's letter for what seemed like the eightieth time today. I'd had a lot of time on my hands that evening. James and I had been going to go out to dinner in Stamford, but James had had to work late and had canceled at the last minute. I was furious, partly because I'd been looking forward to it and partly because it was getting embarrassing canceling our babysitters all the time. Lucy Newton had been very polite about it, but I could sense she was annoyed that out of the last four sitting times we'd had set up for her, only one had actually happened.

I pushed thoughts of James far from my mind and thought about Shannon. She seemed to be turning into a workaholic too. I still couldn't quite believe she didn't want kids. Surely she'd change her mind sometime. Yes, that was it. She just hadn't got all maternal yet. By her thirties, she would be. She seemed to be much more cynical than she had been in high school though. For the first time I began to wonder if this reunion was really such a great idea. What if we had all just changed too much to get along anymore?

I pushed those thoughts away too, and instead thought Jessi's phone call last night. I didn't actually know what an ACL was, but it was obviously a very serious injury. I wondered what Jessi was doing with her life, apart from dancing. Suddenly, I felt very despondent. How had everyone managed to drift so far from each other? Jessi, Logan, and Shannon especially. I guess Logan wasn't very surprising. After he and Mary Anne broke up for the last time in high school, he didn't really have much to tie him to us. Consequently, no one knew where he was now. I kept meaning to ring his parents and ask them for his address so I could contact him about the reunion, but so far I hadn't. But Jessi and Shannon – why had no one kept in contact with them? Had they deliberately removed themselves from us, or had it all just been unintentional? I'd been getting a sense of reluctance from Shannon's letters. It was almost like she didn't want to come back. Jessi, well, I guessed she had just become so involved in her dancing that keeping in touch with us was the last thing on her mind. As for the rest of us – well, since moving back to Stoneybrook I'd seen Claudia when I was picking Brooklynn up, and I'd seen Mallory a few times, but never actually sat down with either of them. I still kept in contact with Mary Anne, but that was all. I knew she emailed Abby and Stacey, and saw them often, and I knew through her a little about them. But the last time I'd seen either of them had been Abby's wedding, 5 years ago. How much had we all changed? Would we still have anything to talk about? Or would we all just sit there and stare at each other, occasionally making inconsequential remarks about the weather? I hoped not.

I gave myself a mental shake. I was being so despondent lately. I wondered why. My life was fine. Better than fine in fact, I reassured myself. I had a wonderful husband, even if he did work too much, and a wonderful daughter. I remembered back to when Brooklynn was little, and James didn't work so hard. Maybe that was it. Maybe he needed something new and exciting to get him to work less and spend more time at home with us. I thought some more. My friends used to call me the "ideas machine" back in middle school. There weren't a lot of problems I couldn't fix back then – there must be a solution to this one now. Then it occurred to me. We'd always wanted more kids. And Brooklynn was six now, so maybe it was time to have another one? I decided to talk about it with James when he returned.

That problem dealt with, I turned to a much easier one – accommodation for the reunion. Mallory and William said they could squeeze in another couple of people. It couldn't be anyone with a family though, as the house was crowded enough already and really couldn't cope with another child. So Shannon, Stacey, or Jessi could stay there, hmm…Stacey should stay with Claudia, Shannon and Jessi with Mallory, unless Shannon wanted to stay with her parents. (The Ramseys had left Stoneybrook a few years ago.) Dawn could stay with her parents, I assumed, and Mary Anne too, if they could cope with 4 children and a spouse in the house. Which left Abby and her family, and Logan. I figured we could squeeze them in, unless Logan had done a Mallory and had umpteen kids. Which reminded me, I had to get Logan's address. I wandered into the kitchen and picked up the phone smiling. It was nice to have a problem I could solve for once.