“What club is that?” she asked as slurped her soup.“The oldest child club,” I responded. “When I was your age I really wanted an older siste... or brother to hang with.”“I know what you mean,” she said. “In my family, the oldest child means permanent babysitter. Do you have lots of brothers and sisters?”“I have a sister who’s nineteen, a brother who’s fourteen, and a half brother who’s three,” I said.“That’s cool,” she said. "I have two sisters who are eleven and eight, and three brothers who are. "He's not some kind of monster nowis he?" No, quite the contrary, other than an unusual eye color she appearscompletely human in all respects."Jake scooted a bit further forward in the chair. "Then what's all thisbull..." Jake paused realizing what the doctor had said. "You said she?" Yes Mr. Kontos I did." Doctor Peters sighed heavily. "Kelly has thebody of an eleven year old girl." WHAT!" Jake gasped."A little girl that is scared to death of how you will react when yousee her," the doctor. If it hadn't been apparent to the rest of the girls yet it was obvious to me that we were going to need several secretaries or office people. We couldn't pull any more trainers out of the gym, we going to need more of them as it were.A forklift and a scissors-lift arrived and were sitting parked under the canopy of the long loading dock. Other materials were unloaded by Bob, pallets of ply wood, drywall, pipe, and wire. Another small dumpster was sitting in one of the parking places.I started. Roger worked a few hours everyday for Jacob and on some Saturdays,when I was working. He was settled into his apartment but, still cameover for dinner most nights. Mom took him under her wing, so to speak,and said that as long as he was going to live on his own, he had tolearn how to cook. Besides, she didn't want him to poison me with hiscooking. He took to cooking like a duck to water. He even had us overfor dinner one night and we all survived.Sometimes the stylists would ask me to stay.