2.3 What’s goin’ on?

Amanda woke up excited.  Her Auntie Alli may have gone yesterday, but she didn’t miss her too much – she’d be back later, because today was Amanda and Rhiannon’s birthday!  Now they’d get to make the most of the walking and talking they’d learned and they’d get to go to school.  As a genius, Amanda was very excited indeed about the prospect of school – lots of lovely learning!

Learning was something Christopher was getting plenty of, too.  It had taken the adults in the house no time at all to collectively train the twins, so with just one of him to work on, they were confident he’d soon be walking, talking and pooing like someone several days older than him.

Elias rehearsed some songs to play at the party.  Kali had been helping him work on his technique [apparently there is a real subtext beween Elias and Kali I hadn’t noticed until writing this blog!] and his skills were really developing.  He was still determined to do well in the law enforcement career, as per his lifetime wish, but music was a great way of relaxing.

Amanda aged up… but got a little confused about which of the lookalike gents in the kitchen was her actual daddy.

She looked at the imposter (actually Elias’ brother, Jamar) with suspicion.

Kali eyed up the young pretender.  He wasn’t ecstatic about having a rival.

Jamar reeled as Kali punched him in the gob.  No-one else noticed though, as they were busy watching Rhiannon grow up.  Even the elderly Miraj Alvi, a man Alli had unsuccessfully tried to come onto at a party when she was just a teen, turned up for the occasion.

Rhiannon aged up, looking very similar to her sister, hair colour aside, and immediately started thinking about cooking, just like her dad and grandad.

The girls immediately took pride in their status as the elder children and started bossing Christopher about in the guise of ‘playing’ with him.

Kali and Stacey retired for the night.  The girls’ birthday had been an emotional time for both of them and had stirred up a lot of emotions.  Seeing Jamar French had reminded both of them of their youth.  Kali felt insecure that he wasn’t that young.  Stacey was reminded of the young Kali she’d fallen in love with.  For the first time in months, they shared an intimate evening.

Amanda rolled a lifetime wish to be a creature-robot cross-breeder and got onto working on that wish straight away.  She regularly invited her aunt Roberta over to play chess.  This had several benefits.  Firstly, because Roberta’s chess skills were excellent, Amanda learned very quickly.  Secondly, Roberta’s life of crime made her excellent interview material for Lola, who then got promoted, and thirdly, if Roberta was busy playing chess, she wasn’t out beating people up, which was good for Sunset Valley as a whole.

Stacey, meanwhile, withdrew even more from the family and spent all her time chatting to men online [seriously.  She did this of her own accord with no prompting from me].

Stacey wasn’t impressed with Elias’s attempts at cooking.  Those waffles he made for breakfast had disagreed with her violently.  She decided to go and eat out instead.

On the way home, she popped into the library, where she bumped into an attractive young man.  They got talking, but she was offended when he asked her when she was ‘due’.  She’d always been exceptionally slim, how dare he insinuate she’d put on weight?