The Baby-Sitters Club Page #8

to use the structure.

Weve done it!

But lm afraid its not possible.

-Why?

-You charge for your services, dont you?

Definitely.

Then you consider yourself

more a business than a club.

Absolutely.

-And your business makes you money?

-What good business doesnt?

l believe we have a problem.

Our charter states that any facility....

Bird Face is on the committee? Were dead.

They wanted the place for their garden club,

and give us a commemorative plaque.

Come off it, Harold.

Were not talking about

a multimillion-dollar corporation here.

How much money

could their business possibly make?

Our expenses ran a little away from us.

l mean, between start-up costs,

freebies, camp supplies...

the money to fix up this place

and miscellaneous expenses...

our total profit...

is $168.1 7.

What?

-Thats all?

-l cant breathe. l have to go.

Theyre dropping like flies.

lf memory serves me correctly...

our committee bylaws state

that any company...

must show a profit of $1,500 a year

to qualify as a viable business.

These girls are obviously nowhere near that.

Therefore, l see no reason

why they cant use this as their office.

Fine. Do whatever you want, Emily.

l dont care.

l need some air.

l dont think theyre quite used

to this tropical environment.

Reminds me of my days in Calcutta.

ls it always gonna be this hot in here?

lt was turning into an amazing day.

We got the greenhouse.

Jackie hit his first home run.

Cokie got it so bad...

l knew it was the last time the BSC

would ever hear from Cokie Mason.

For this summer, anyway.

All right, Jackie!

Way to go, Jackie!

Will you go to the movies with me tonight?

Alan, get real.

l am.

lve been trying to ask you out all summer.

Really?

Yeah.

Okay.

Are you lovebirds yet?

When l got home,

there was another letter from my dad.

l couldnt believe l heard from him so soon.

lt used to be years between letters.

Now its days.

$168.1 7.

We had a lot of overhead.

Most businesses

dont even survive their first year.

We had to work out all the kinks.

Are we taking the bed, Claudia?

-We cant take my furniture.

-What will we sit on?

Can we take the rug?

-lm gonna miss it here.

-Me, too.

-Where it all began. Right, Claud?

-Right.

Can you get the licorice

from my nightstand?

l dont want to forget it.

We spent some of the best years

of our lives in this place.

lts so nice and cool in here.

lts almost gone.

-What?

-Summer.

-Hi, Mrs. Haberman!

-Hello, Dawn.

lm sorry to bother you, but....

The more we thought about it,

Clauds room really was home.

And Mrs. Haberman

had really come through for us.

So, we figured

after what wed put her through...

the least we could do

was give her the greenhouse.

lts all yours, Mrs. Haberman.

-What do you mean?

-Come on.

We thought you could use it.

Might help you grow

all your flowers and stuff.

We asked the nursery for whatever

might attract hummingbirds and butterflies.

The sunflowers were my idea.

l guess Stoneybrook could use

a nature conservancy.

You guys are gonna end up

with your names on a plaque after all.

Okay, well put those there.

All right, everybody. Come on. Group shot.

After buying Mrs. Haberman plants

and getting our answering machine...

all we were left with was $18.

So we splurged and blew the whole thing

on an extra-large pizza...

double cheese, double sauce,

double anchovies.

Dawn had a tricolore salad, whatever that is.

Mary Anne couldnt believe we worked

the whole summer and got only a pizza.

But l think we got a lot more than that.

Claudia wasnt the only one

with a test this summer.

Each of us was tested in our own way.

We really learned what it meant

to come through for each other...

and how hard that can be.

But l guess thats what it takes sometimes

to really be a friend.

Mom says, lf you can count the number

of friends you have on one hand...

thats a lot.

lve got five fingers

and more than five friends.

All right, everybody. Lean in.

Mom says lm way ahead. l think shes right.

And say, trees.

Trees!

-What do you wanna do now?

-l dont know. What do you wanna do?

-l dont know. What do you wanna do?

-l dont know. What should we do?

-l dont know.

-l dont know, either!

lf you dont know, l dont know.

-Are you hungry?

-Yeah.

-What do you wanna eat?

-l dont know.

l dont know, either.

-Where do you wanna go?

-l dont know.

l dont know, either.

-What about you?

-l dont know.

You guys are useless. lm going home.

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