The Baby Sitters-Club -- Super Special #12 -- Here Come the Bridesmaids! Prologue-Ch. 2

I promised you some snark, and snark you will get! This is my first BSC Snark, so bear with me.

In addition to gratefully acknowledging Peter Lerangis (go Peter!) for his help with this manuscript, Ann also thanks Stuart Schultz of A Perfect Pear. What?

Prologue

The book opens with a journal entry by one Miss Dawn "OMG Bicoastal" Schafer. She informs us that she lives in the 'brook, but got permission to spend time in good old Palo City for a few months following her dad's wedding. She explains that it's hard to have a wedding in December because she has to pass her finals if she wants to move back to Connecticut. Wait! There's more! There's another wedding. This one is on the other side of the country. She can't go to both weddings because being bicoastal is hard, doncha know? She wishes that everyone could be at both weddings. This gives her an idea! Let's make journals! One for each wedding!

Chapter 1

Apparently Dawn's bridesmaid dress will make her a "Radiant, Luminous, and Up-to-the-minute" bridesmaid. Did Charlotte the Spider write that description? Sunny agrees with me, as she laughs at Dawn and says "That sounds like Wilbur the pig from Charlotte's Web!" Dawn and her friends spend the afternoon wandering around the mall after looking for her bridesmaid dress. I don't know about you guys, but every time that I've been in a wedding, I didn't shop with a crowd of friends at the mall. I went to bridal shops with the bride and bridal party. Just Me? Okay then. Moving on.

Dawn talks some more about the BSC the W (heart) KC and her two lives. Blah Blah Blah Bi-coastal cakes. We're only on chapter 1, and I'm already annoyed. The illustration on page 14 makes it loook like Sunny has really really long hair. (You know, the kind that Dawn is supposd to have, but never does in the illustration?) Anyway, it's not all her hair. She's standing near a dress and it all blends in.

Oh noes! I smell some trouble! Dawn decides to buy one of the dresses for Mary Ann too! She ends the chapter by saying how much Mary Anne will love it. Famous Last Words?

Chapter 2

Stacey is happy that it's snowing. Um, Stace, don't you remember the time when you got stranded in a snow storm?

Oh, Okay. This time, it's only a few flakes. Stacey tells us about HER 2 different lives. She and her mom eat breakfast, then at the honk of a car horn, Stacey takes off for some fun and adventures with the Barrett/DeWitt clan. The kids fight. They don't like the new house. Apparently, "Mee-oke" is Ryan DeWitt speak for "Milk"

Mrs. Barrett talks about being on top of things. She mentions that the bridesmaid dresses are all set except for Stacey's. Stacey is surprised because Mrs. Barrett hadn't actually asked her yet. Another nitpick: don't most people ask their bridesmaids more than a few weeks in advance? Just saying. Also, Mrs. Barrett verifies that Stacey is a size 6. Who is she, Jessica Wakefield? Oops, sorry. Wrong series.

Stacey is all "You want ME to be a bridesmaid?" Mrs Barrett is all "You mean I didn't ask you?" Mr. DeWitt wins the first "Harrumph!" alert when he says "Harrumph! On top of things?" Hahaha. I love Peter Lerangis and his glorious use of onomatopoeia.

Up next: Mallory sings! It's going to be a long 23 chapters.