Baby-Sitters Beware by Ann M. Martin

Author:Ann M. Martin [Martin, Ann M.]
Format: epub
Publisher: ePub Bud (www.epubbud.com)
Published: 2011-03-22T04:00:00+00:00

We promised we would.

Kristy looked at her watch. "This meeting of the BSC is officially adjourned."

"Allll right!" I cried. "Shadow Lake, here we come."

Chapter 12.

Abby.

"My skis," Kristy said with a gasp. "Did you put my skis in?''

"They're in the van," said Charlie, "with all of ours."

Stacey said, "You're sure I can rent skis when I get there?"

"Sure you can," Kristy told her as Charlie reached out for my skis.

"Hey, be careful with those," I warned him. I looked at Claudia, who was standing next to a large duffel bag. "Did he treat your skis like that?" I said. I was kidding, of course.

Charlie grinned. Claudia frowned. "No," she said.

"Hey, are you playing favorites? Or what?" I asked Charlie.

"The binding is broken on one of my skis," said Claudia. "I have to rent them."

"See, Stace? You can rent skis just like Claudia."

"Not if it doesn't snow," Kristy put in. Suddenly she leaped forward. "I'll take that," she said to Watson, and jerked a suitcase out of his hand so quickly he almost lost his balance. "Where do you want it?"

Watson looked surprised. "Uh, thanks, Kristy. It goes in the luggage rack on top of the station wagon."

Mr. Brewer was driving a van. Mrs. Brewer was driving a station wagon. If anybody had been hovering overhead in a helicopter, we would have looked like a bunch of ants on an anthill, running back and forth from the house to the cars, and from car to car, trying to pack everything in.

But at last all the gear was tied on, tucked in, stowed away, and accounted for. That left only the people.

Kristy said, "Why don't we divide up into two groups of two baby-sitters? We can keep an eye on Karen, David Michael, and Andrew."

"Fine by me," I said. "I think I'll go in the van. Keep an eye on the skis, too."

Claudia said, "Then I'll go in the station wagon."

Kristy looked faintly surprised, and I myself was a little taken aback at how grim Claudia sounded. Maybe she hadn't counted on babysitting on this trip. If she'd asked me, I could have told her that with Kristy around, we'd be organized into doing something.

Karen announced, "I am riding in the van. It has taller seats. You can look down into the cars you pass and see what is in them."

"It'll be dark, Karen," said David Michael. "It already is."

"Well, if the cars we pass have ghosts in

them, we will be able to see those in the dark," Karen began, her blue eyes growing huge behind her glasses. Karen has what some call a "vivid imagination." Sometimes I think she's plugged into Mars. I mean, I've never met a kid like her.

"Ghosts?" David Michael's eyes grew huge, too.

"We're not going to pass any cars full of ghosts," I said. "They only travel on Hallo-ween. That’s a ghost rule."

David Michael nodded seriously. But he said, "I think I'll ride in the station wagon." Watson scooped Andrew up. "Why don't you ride in the van with us, Andrew?"

"Okay," said Andrew, and yawned.

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