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While Catherine is making cards, Mom is busy with a client for her tax preparation home business and asks Catherine to babysit David. David is being entertained with a Thomas the Tank Engine video, as he really loves trains. While David is watching, Kristi the new girl shows up and introduces herself to Catherine. Catherine is in awe of Kristi, considering her cool and fashion-conscious and dreaming about being able to brag to her friends at school that she hung out all summer with Kristi. Kristi appears as shallow and bored. Kristi explains that she thinks Ryan is nice, and Catherine keeps her negative opinion of Ryan to herself.

David bursts into Catherine's room with a cassette tape that had become unspooled. The guinea pigs start screeching, and David can't take the noise so he covers his ears. Catherine tries to...