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haven't had a chance to sit for David |i a while, so you take it." w, I didn't think anybody was going 'thing like that.
Claudia cut out three scraps of a star on one, folded them in half, im in a shoebox, and said, "Everyone. The person who gets the star, yid Michael." chose the star, cried Stacey. "You knew which one
ot!" exclaimed Claudia. "How would tljat?" made
the scraps of paper." calling me a cheater?" id it, I didn't."
brother. I thought. Here we go again, nd, Stacey allowed Claudia to keep phone rang two more times before our meeting and we managed to baby-sitting jobs without actual
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six o'clock, Stacey stood up and out of Claudia's room without so word. Claudia and I looked at each Claudia didn't say anything, either,
so I followed Stacey. Mimi watched us walk silently out the front door.
As we stepped onto the lawn, Stacey broke into a run, but for some reason, I turned around and looked back at the house. Claudia was in her window. I hesitated. Then I waved to her.
She flashed me a hopeful smile and waved back.
On impulse, I ran up the Kishis' steps again, opened the door, called Mimi, and handed her the note I had written to Claudia. Then I ran across the street to my house.
My father hadn't come home yet. When the numbers on the digital clock flipped to 6:15 and he still wasn't home, I took it as a sign and decided to call Claudia. If I didn't talk to her before supper, I'd have to wait until the next morning.
I dialed her private number.
"Hello?"
"Hi, Claudia," I said nervously. "It's Mary Anne."
"Oh. Hi."
"Well, I Ч "
"I got your note. Mimi gave it to me. Thanks."
"You're welcome."
"I forgive you. And I'm sorry I got mad, too," Claudia said rather stiffly.
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. " I didn't know what to say next. ;ht over? "Well . . . one reason I'm J^risty. Since she went to the Shilla-," I said, "and skipped our meeting, t means she doesn't want to be part I mean, I don't know. ..." for a while, anyway, she doesn't part of it," agreed Claudia. should we do about the club then? I is president."
. I was thinking about that. We Хally keep taking jobs without asking r she wants them." On the other hand, she should come tings." didn't say anything.
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don't know what to do. Stacey is mad as Kristy is." strange," I said, "is that Kristy she wants the club to go out of 's just ignoring it Ч and the club Why would she let us run it when we're the ones she's mad
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was probably shrugging her shoul-be you and I should talk to Stacey tomorrow and see what they want
to do. We certainly can't keep having meetings like the one we just had. If you talk to Kristy, I'll talk to Stacey."
"All right/' I agreed, "but it's not going to be easy." I didn't tell Claudia about Kristy and the door-slamming. I figured she was having just as much trouble with Stacey as I was having with Kristy.
How was I supposed to talk to Kristy? I didn't want to go to her house again, and I had a feeling that if I called her on the phone, she'd simply hang up on me. The only thing left to do was to surprise her.
I ambushed her at school the next morning as she came out of the girls' room. I stepped right in front of her.
"Excuse me," said Kristy haughtily.
My heart was pounding like a jackhammer, but I stood my ground. "I have to talk to you," I said.
"No, you don't."
"Yes, I do."
"No."
"Yes."