Now here's where things become mixed up like a crazy quilt. Watson has two little kids from his first marriage, Karen and Andrew, who are seven and four. They stay with the Brewers every other weekend, and Kristy adores them. But then Kristy's mom and Watson adopted Emily Michelle, a Vietnamese girl. She's two and a half. And since the family was getting so big, Nannie, Kristy's grandmother, moved in to help run the house and take care of Emily. (Nannie is not what you'd picture — prim and proper like some old ladies. She wears pants and goes bowling.) So when everyone is there, the house is pretty full.

Claudia Kishi is, as I told you before, the BSC's vice-president. Claud is artistic, ultra-trendy, and gorgeous. She's Japanese-American and has these beautiful almond-* shaped eyes and shiny black hair that is soooooo long and straight. She wears it a million different ways: a French braid down her back, double and triple French braids with sparkly ribbons woven into them, or sometimes just

pulled up on one side with a wide barrette that she made herself. She makes her own jewelry out of clay or papier-mache. Sometimes she'll wear a pink flamingo in one ear with a palm tree in the other, and then put a tiny gold monkey on top of the palm tree. (She has two holes pierced in one ear.) Claudia can wear anything and it looks great. Like she'll wear polka dot leggings with a short red skirt. Then she'll wear a long-sleeved T-shirt with a black vest (covered with cool pins that she's made herself) over that. Sometimes she decides to go fifties and wears penny loafers with white anklets.

Claudia may be cool, but she's a pretty lousy student. Her teachers say it's because she doesn't try hard enough. It doesn't help that her sister, Janine, is a certified genius. (I'm not kidding. She has an IQ of 196!) Janine is sixteen years old and already takes classes at Sto-neybrook University. While Janine spends most of her time at her computer, Claudia keeps busy working on her art, reading Nancy Drew mysteries (which she hides from her parents because they think she should be reading important books), and eating junk food. She's crazy about junk food and hides snacks all over her room: Mallomars in her dresser drawers, M&M's in her jewelry box, pretzels and Tootsie Pops in her shoes. With all of