2.7 Keep on movin’

The Kyoti family loved a party, and they seemed to be throwing them most days.  With eight family members, that was pretty inevitable.  Liam was the next to age up, and he became a cute toddler, who caused the family very little grief.

The whole family pitched in to raise Liam, as usual, but things weren’t quite right with the three teens.  The girls were so stressed out with trying to keep up with homework, part-time jobs and skill development that they couldn’t meet boys.  They were getting incredibly stressed by this.  Not being able to do homework with his cousins was also making Christopher feel isolated, so he often withdrew to play his guitar, leaving the work undone.

Carmel was stuck in the middle of a toddler and some teens so was mostly left to her own devices.  She was happy to get on with school work, though, and lived to paint the rest of the time.  She didn’t seem to make many friends, but she didn’t seem to mind too much.  She never asked about her mother, figuring that Stacey was just a subject that wasn’t to be mentioned.

Kali maxed out his music skill and spent some time working on the garden as his parents had done.  He wasn’t lonely and had become accustomed to being a single dad.  Having Elias and Lola around had really helped.  They might be a somewhat unconventional household, but he wouldn’t have had it any other way.

Amanda and Rhiannon became fed up of mainlining coffee and scouring the job ads for something better.  Their part-time jobs were in careers they couldn’t care less about and their school work was suffering, not to mention their social life.  They made a pact to quit their jobs.

They spent the days trying to catch the attention of all the boys they could find, but nothing was working.  The day soon came for them to age up, and they held a joint party with Carmel.  No-one noticed Carmel’s transitioning, and she rolled unflirty.  It was probably a good job she wasn’t going to be the heir then.

Amanda hid Rhiannon’s deodorant.  This was their most important birthday party yet, and a good chance for them to find mates and get a step closer to becoming the heir.  She knew Rhiannon was the prettiest and wanted to increase her own chances of finding love.

Amanda’s wish, of course, was to be the heir.

Rhiannon, meanwhile, KNEW she would be the heir.  After all, who could resist her?

Whilst Rhiannon basked in her own self-assuredness, Amanda started to work on talking to the different men at the party.  The race was on…