Mary Anne hung up her phone and leaned back in her chair in the student cafeteria, drinking her coffee and eating her eggs and oatmeal before starting her work day in the library. She watched her phone turn to black and said quietly to herself "10..years." and smiled, reflecting on that for a minute, but also of the past 15 years of friendship, adventures and memories created while she was in the Babysitters Club. She really hoped everyone could attend the reunion, imagining the event with all the girls there before she snapped out of it, realizing she was daydreaming and needed to be in the library in 5 minutes so she got up, dumped her trash and quickly headed over to the library.

She clocked in and saw her student employee already there and smiled at her, like she does every morning. Her student employee was none other than an old babysitting charge, Charlotte Johanssen, now 23 years old and a stunning young woman, with beautiful brown eyes, long dark hair and who now towered over petite Mary Anne at 5 foot 10 inches tall. Despite knowing her since she was a little girl, working every day with Charlotte didn't really remind her of the Baby-Sitters Club. More than that, Charlotte just reminded Mary Anne of herself at that age, only with very different goals. While Mary Anne was, is and always will be content working in the library, Charlotte sure wasn't and she was going places far beyond anything Mary Anne wanted to do. She was strictly in the library to earn extra money, as her stipend from the University just covered the basics. She is in her last year of her graduate studies at Stoneybrook U, having skipped 2 grades in school and due to receive her PhD this year. She plans to go into cancer research, after her mother, Dr. Johanssen passed away from a rare cancer called Synovial Sarcoma while she was still at Yale as an undergrad. Despite receiving treatment in Texas at one of the best cancer facilities in the country, Dr. Johansen still passed away and after Charlotte heard about Claudia Kishi's cancer battle going on around the same time, she decided it was a sign to go into that field. Charlotte handled the death of her mother quite well but she is very heartbroken that she will never get to see what she has acomplished.

"Good morning, Mrs. Carnahan" said Charlotte with a wink, since up until two months ago, everyone called her Miss Spier, and Charlotte just always calling her Mary Anne, having known her for over 15 years. "Good morning, Char" Mary Anne replied. "How are you this morning?" "Tired" she said, adding "Working on my thesis until 1am. Thank goodness I don't have morning classes on Tuesdays." "Well..I hope you're ready for the purge we're doing today" said Mary Anne. "I'll be ok" replied Charlotte, always willing to help.

Mary Anne and Charlotte had a big project for the day, pulling their entire inventory of freshman english lit books to make room for the updated version, which was to arrive 2 days later in a huge shipment. It was also a long and exhausting process of scanning each barcoded book, deleting it from their inventory in the system as well as scanning on a paper list, to make sure their physical inventory matched their printed one. Plus, getting back all the checked out books from each freshman and trading the new books once the shipment came in, THEN divvying up the old books and donating them to various community colleges throughout Connecticut. Mary Anne predicted this process would take two weeks, but it definitely was a nice break from the quiet monotonous days in the library. They got to work, pulling, scanning and boxing up books, chatting all the while about the various things going on in each other lives but Mary Anne deciding not to bring up the reunion to Charlotte just in case Stacey couldn't make it and she didn't want to get her hopes up, as she was sure she would want to see her favorite former baby-sitter if she was in town. Mary Anne wasn't even sure if Stacey and Charlotte were even in contact these days and didn't want to ask. Obviously they spoke of Kristy but the only mention of any other BSC member was Claudia and that was Charlotte just asking how she's doing, health wise. Mary Anne wasn't even sure how Charlotte found out about Claudia's cancer.

Mary Anne and Charlotte worked on their project for hours, leaving the library in the hands of of two other librarians, before Charlotte finally complained about being hungry. Mary Anne, now noticing her own stomach rumbling as well, checked the clock and saw it was 11:58. Perfect timing, as it was almost her lunch break and the end of Charlotte's shift.

As they were walking out of the library together, Mary Anne asked, "Would you like to grab lunch with me?" Charlotte said sadly "Aww, I'd love to but I really want to get back to my apartment and take a quick nap. I have class at 2 and I'll just eat at home."

"Ok, no problem" said Mary Anne. "You're working with me Friday morning, right?"

"Sure am" replied Charlotte

"Ok. I think all that will be left for you on Friday will be checking out the new books to the freshman so you'll probably be at the desk all day" said Mary Anne.

Charlotte replied, "I have NO problem with that!" before laughing and saying "Physical labor in the library wasn't really what I signed up for. I'll see you on Friday!" and she waved as they parted ways, Charlotte to the parking lot and Mary Anne back to the cafeteria.

Mary Anne just grabbed a quick sandwich from the refrigerated sandwich vending machine and a water from the soda machine next to it and sat down at a table alone. Normally, Mary Anne always has a lunch buddy, be it Charlotte, a fellow librarian or even a student but today, her mind was elsewhere, deciding if she should in fact talk to Charlotte about the possibility of Stacey coming and whether to reach out to Claudia and Stacey, even though Kristy said she'd handle it, mixed in with thoughts about her house and all the things she still needs to do. Finally, she decided to shut off her brain and give her step-sister, Dawn a call.