[Jersey's POV]
Everybody's doing fine, and I've got a chance to talk! I should, I was an heir, too. Too bad my father never got a chance...
Oh well. The kids are finishing up high school, I've been at the top of my game for a long time now, and Lucinda's taking it easy. She tends to her garden, but she's not too worried about progressing in her career. It's more of a hobby for her. Still, sometimes I catch her crying when her plants die and she has to dig them up... And then such a stony face as she goes to the recycling bin...
However, she has been visiting the Science Lab a bit lately. They've been teaching her some gardening tips, and suddenly she's been growing eggs and cheese... Literally growing them on plants. I'm not entirely sure how that works, but I have noticed that her waffles taste better than usual!
Also, recently Ivory has been calling my new work uniform "lame".
I asked Lucinda her opinion, and it she said it was alright, but she didn't sound completely sure. So I changed back to the traditional sports uniform. My teammates appreciate it, and I suspect I'll suffer less heat strokes, too! Lucy seems impressed, as well.
Thursday finally came around and I got my first day off in what feels like FOREVER (even though it's just a week). I celebrated by visiting the park, and I was thinking, aren't flowers cool? After getting an allergy shot recently, I've realized that they're pretty great. Really pretty, and they smell good!
I decided to call over one of my teammates, Shanika. She's at the bottom of the Athlete-chain, but she seems to be the only other person on the team that hasn't gone wrinkly and gray... It was nice to visit with her.
I also made a point of talking to Ivory about her duties as an heiress. She's going to become a young adult soon, after all. I mentioned that she has to find someone to marry to continue the chain, and that's when she decided she was done with the conversation. I guess she doesn't think it's too cool to talk to your dad about getting married one day. Not as a teenager, anyway. But I think she at least listened, because the same day she asked Leo to call up an acquaintance of his, Conrad Casillas. He lives in one of the giant mansions up on Summer Hill with his sister, Whitney. My daughter sure has her priorities straight.
Ivory was quick to talk to Conrad when he arrived. Things started off rocky when Conrad blew off Ivory's congratulations of graduating. I thought it was all over when Conrad expressed his disliking of art...
Somehow the pair ended up putting aside their differences and getting long, though. They had a nice conversation of ice cream and leftover veggie burgers.
[Ivory's POV]
Watch out, Dad. It's my turn! This chapter is turning to focus on me, now, anyway. My birthday came about and Mom was eager to throw a party. Swimsuits required, of course.
My dad insisted we had a little father-daughter dance. Leo popped in some of his favorite emotional Classical music, and the self-proclaimed "Dance King" started dropping it like it was hot. We never did learn how to dance appropriately to music that wasn't Hip-Hop...
A girl named Rain Perkins from school showed up by Mom's invitation, and she seemed to like following Leo around. I wonder if that could turn into anything. She actually lives in the neighborhood, unlike that other guy Leo's been flirting around with. By the way, he never showed up to the party, even though he was invited. Rain could be pretty pleasant, if she'd stop making nasty faces... and got her bowl hair out of her face... and learned how to match her clothes...
And then it was time to blow out the candles... I wonder if there's something I'm missing, I wonder if there's more to the teenage life that I've seen...
It's a tough time, with storms of hormones. On top of that, you're trying to become an adult, getting responsibilities, balancing family and friends, a social life with school and maybe even a job, and everybody expects you to know what you want to do with your life. What if--
Wait, I wasn't done yet!!
Will you get that noisemaker out of my ear? --Ooh, cake!
After cake, my father gave me a present.
"Being an heir is a big responsibility... To acknowledge your advancement into adulthood, I was going to give you something special like a death flower that's gone down through the generations as a family heirloom......But we don't have one of those, so I'm giving you this apple I picked this morning in your mother's garden."
Thanks, Dad.
[Gamer POV]
Well, that's enough of that! Here's Ivory's new look. I decided to give her a new hairstyle, move her bangs out of her face. I wasn't entirely sure what I wanted to do with her clothes, but I tried using the soft yellows and whites to give her a gentler artsy style as opposed to a more rebellious look.
And to finish off, have a picture of the excitable Molly Frio's cute face!
