addicted to junk food, and she loves to share it.

It's hard to believe that Claudia eats as much junk as she does. For one thing, she has title most beautiful complexion, and for another, her figure is terrific. I guess she's just one of those people who is naturally gorgeous, no matter what she eats. Claud has a very exotic look. She's Japanese-American, and has lovely brown almond-shaped eyes and long, long silky black hair. She is a really sophisticated dresser: for example, that day she was wearing a lacy white top over a solid white bodysuit, a black mini skirt with white polka dots on it, lacy white leggings, and red high-tops. Plus some really outrageous black-and-white jewelry (earrings and bracelets and necklaces) that she'd made herself out of papier-mâché". Claud's an excellent artist. You should see the portrait she once painted of Tigger.

Compared to mine and Kristy's, Claud’s family is really small and, well, normal. it’s just her, her mom and dad, and her older sister Janine, who is a true genius. Claud's really smart, too, but she'll never do as well in school as Janine does. She just doesn't seem to care about getting good grades. Except in art.

Claud's best friend is Stacey McGill. She's the treasurer of our club, which means that

she collects dues every Monday. (Ugh! We all hate to part with our money.) Also, she keeps track of how much money is in the treasury. We use the money to cover what Kristy calls "overhead." It helps to pay Claud's phone bill, for example, and we also use some of it to pay Kristy's brother to drive her to meetings. (When her mom married Watson, Kristy moved across town to that mansion of his. She used to live right next door to my old house.) Stacey's a real math whiz, so the job is a breeze for her.

Stacey doesn't exactly look like the stereotypical idea of a math whiz, however. She doesn't have slicked-back hair, and she doesn't wear black-framed glasses or carry pens and a slide rule in her pocket. In fact, her hair is blonde and curly (she often gets it permed), and she's just as cool a dresser as Claud is. I think that’s partly why they're such good friends: they share a certain sophistication the rest of us just don't have.