Title: Karen's Choice

Rating: PG (Until further notice, rating probably won't change.)

Summary: Karen is thirteen and is now facing one of her biggest choices she'll ever have to make.

Disclaimer: I don't own BSC/ Babysitters Little Sister, or any of the characters involved, Ann. M. Martin does.

Seth

"My life is ruined!" I yelled as I slammed the door. I collapsed on my bed in a fit of tears at my Mother's house. This all brought me back to when I was seven years old and heard that my step father Seth was offered a job in Chicago. This was much worse. You see my Mother and Seth only moved to Chicago for a little while, they came back to Stoneybrook, but now, well Seth always ruins everything, and what is worse, Andrew does not even seem to care about this choice at all!

I am sorry; I just realized that you do not even know who I am. Well I am Karen Brewer. I am thirteen years old. I have long blonde hair, blue eyes and some freckles. I also wear glasses, much to my dislike. Andrew, well he is my little brother, he is eleven. He looks a lot like me only younger. He also wears glasses.

Anyway back to my story, I will tell you more about my families later. Seth been offered a job somewhere again, somewhere even farther away then crummy old Chicago. I do not like the sound of this news, not at all. I have to wait until Mother and Seth tell me more details before I get too upset, or so that is what Mother says. I am already upset despite hearing all the information. This is bad news, very bad news; in fact… if I was still seven, I would call it gigundoly bad news.

I think this may be time to call Nancy and Hannah, after all, they are my best friends and I want to see what they think of this whole predicament.

I marched downstairs stomping my feet.

"Karen!" Mother shouted, "You stop that right now."

I rolled my eyes, and sighed, but Mother did not see or hear. Then I shouted "Fine!"

"Karen…" Mother warned sternly.

"I am just going to use the phone, okay?"

Mother just gave me a look.

I picked up the phone in the living room and dialed Nancy's number.

It rang and it rang. I tapped my foot impatiently and huffed. I was just about to hang up the phone when I heard a familiar…

"Hello?"

It was Nancy!

"Hey Nancy!" I exclaimed.

"Oh hi, Karen." Nancy replied.

"I just got the worst news ever!" I said.

"Oh my!" exclaimed Nancy, "What is it?"

"Seth…" I sighed.

"What about him?" asked Nancy.

"Hold on a second." I say, "I am going to put Hannah on threeway."

"Okay." Nancy said.

We waited and waited and finally Hannah picked up the phone.

"Hello?" Hannah said.

"Hi Hannah." Nancy and I said.

"Hi Karen! Hi Nancy."

"Karen has some bad news she wants to tell us... about Seth." explained Nancy.

"Oh no!" exclaimed Hannah, "Is Seth okay?"

"Yea. He is fine, but he has ruined my life." I said.

"How?" questioned both Hannah and Nancy.

I sigh, "He's been offered a new job, and now I think I have a big decision to make." I say.