Chapter Seven Amanda, Raymond and Heather were sitting at the table eating birthday cake. Heather had aged up into a child, and couldn't wait until she could open her gifts. Well, actually, Heather finished her cake a long time ago, and was waiting for her parents, who were eating
slowly.
"Aren't you
done yet?" Heather asked, impatiently rocking her chair back and forth.
"Be patient, Heather." Amanda replied. "You ate your cake so fast, I'm surprised you even tasted it."
"Well, I did. Can we pleeeeeeeze open presents now? You can put the rest of your pieces in the fridge."
"Alright, Heather, you win." Raymond said with a sigh, but he was smiling.
"Yaayy!" Heather ran over to where two presents wrapped in glittery pink paper sat. She picked them both up, and looked at the tags. "To: Heather From: Mom, and... To: Heather From: Mom. Don't I get one from Dad?" She looked confused.
"Sure you do, but mine is to big to wrap." Raymond assured her. "Open Mom's first."
"Okay!" Heathere carefully peeled off the tape for the first present, and lifted it off, so she was holding a large piece of wrapping paper without a single tear on it. "Wow! A music box! Thank you so much, Mom!"
"You're welcome, sweetie. Open the next one, I'm sure you'll like it." Amanda replied. Once again, Heather lifted the tape off slowly, so she could save the paper for an art project she read about. Slowly, she put the paper down, and picked up a large, flat picture frame, with a bunch of weird green feather-like thing in the picture.
"Um... thanks Mom, but what is it?" Heather asked.
"Those are trees, honey. I took a photo of a tree, so you could see what they looked like."
"Ohhh- hold it, how'd you get out? There's no doors here, I spent a whole day looking." Amanda and Raymond exchanged uneasy glances. "Wait- Zeneporting, right"
"That's right, but how in Spodes name do you know that? We never told you." Amanda asked, surprised. Heather help up
Martial Arts Vol. 1: Wax on Philosophic.
"I was reading this while you were wrapping the presents and cutting the cake. I don't understand much, but it looks like if you meditate enough, you can teleport."
"Well, you saved us the trouble of explaining it to you, that's for sure. Now, are you ready to open
my present?" Raymond asked.
"Yup! I can't wait!" Heather replied enthusiastically. "Where is it?"
"Close your eyes." Raymond replied. "And no peeking!" Heather giggled, and closed her eyes. Raymond took her hand, and led her through the basement.
"Ok, now open them, annnd..."
"Oh, wow! An easel! Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!" Heather bounced up and down withy joy. "I
love it!"
"You're welcome, sweetie. Happy birthday!"
Later that night, when Heather was already asleep in her new bed, Raymond and Amanda were talking.
"How's Heather going to go to school if she can't get out of the basement?" Amanda asked.
"The school doesn't know about Heather. No one but us does, so they won't be expecting her to show up." Raymond stated matter-of-factly.
"Oh, yeah."
"It doesn't matter, though. We can teach Heather ourselves." And with that, they both went to sleep.
Then next morning, Amanda and Raymond woke up, and sat dow at the table with their cups of coffee. Heather ran up, already showered and dressed, holding something behind her back.
"Guess who made muffins~!" Heather announced cheerily. She set a plate of vanilla muffins on the table, and sat down to join them.
"Wow, these look great, honey! I can see you've been busy." Amanda says, noticing the three paintings that decorate the basements stone walls.
"Uh-huh! I love the easel, and I
love painting and cooking!" Heather exclaims.
Amanda felt relived. Despite the fact that Heather would be raised in a different enviorment than most kids, Amanda knew her daughter would be just fine.
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Chapter Notes:
* I actually made a Spore reference in this chapter. It should be fairly easy to spot.
* Heathers line "Guess who made muffins~!" is taken from an Invader Zim episode in which GIR says "Guess who made waffles!"
* The way I ended the chapter, it sounds like I'm ending the story, but believe me, it's far from over.
* I'm sorry to say, I won't be able to post a picture of Heather, because she's already a teen in the game, and I won't be able to recreate her in CAS. I can say that she had a tank top, cargo shorts, flip-flops, and had that base game hairstyle with the hair clip and the ponytail.
* I know Jenna hasn't been mentioned for a while, but she'll appear again soon, and not in a good way...
* Jenna got a job in the Criminal career, even though she doesn't need it at all. Also, has anyone noticed the pun in Jennas name?
* Tell me what you think of this chapter! Pwease? :3
