With Zheena having reached the halfway point, the Ghast household was...Jhinx! What exactly are you up to, young lady?
"I'm sure I have no idea what you mean. I certainly didn't booby trap the sink for Alfonso again."
Anyway, today was not about clowns playing pranks, but instead, about the graduation of Ishaveen.
"It's so super-sensational that the whole family could be here for me on this fantastic day!"
gushed Ishaveen. However, she slightly miscounted as one member of the household did not, in fact, come to her graduation.
"Come on, Mark Mark,"
said Zheena, "let's go backstage and cross genie off my list of occult fathers."
After making out for a while, Mark Mark said, "Oh, did I not mention that you have to free me from my lamp before I can father a child?"
"Seriously?!?!"
And thus, grudgingly and bitterly, Zheena undertook all of the challenges involved in freeing 2(Mark).
With all of the tasks completed, Zheena said, "Okay, now that I've frozen and burned my hands and been mauled by zombie bears, what say we head back to my place?"
"And by 'your place' I assume you mean one of your resorts?"
the genie replied.
"Of course,"
she said, "now, what say you help me out with this little challenge?"
"I'll help you in two ways,"
he answered. "I'll father the child, who will hopefully be a genie and thereby able to do all sorts of cleaning for you, and I'll also give you some advice."
"Okay..."
she responded, sounding less confident."Learn to trust again,"
he said. "I know that Akoni hurt you and that you've hidden that much more strongly behind your challenge, but you're shutting off a part of yourself. You'll live forever since you had the age freeze potion. Why be miserable?"
Zheena didn't respond with words. She simply fell into him weeping. Then, after other things were tended to, fell asleep in his arms.While Zheena was ensuring the next baby would arrive in timely fashion, one of the previous babies was making her exit.
"Bye bye, baby 'cello,"
said Ishaveen. "Don't forget to grow up, okay?"
With this exit, all of the teen baby-tending duties have been solidly placed on Jhinx' shoulders.
"The saladkid just needs a bit of attention and some naps. I want one of these kids when I get older."
Speaking of Zheena's kids having kids, she is now up to seven grandchildren.
Abbica and Bret had a daughter named Alma, Folon and Catherine had a daughter named Lakesha, and Galilaia and Hans are having another child...and she's a gloriously lovely firefighter."As long as you concede that I'm prettier."
Yes, Jhinx, you're adorable. And this next scene is absolutely not adorable.
"Gross!"
Correct, Jhinx. Morning sickness is a gross thing."Oh, I meant it's gross that we're going to have more dirty diapers."
Well, the good news is that you're about to have a brief break from diapers.
"Little salad just got super-sized!"
Be nice, Jhinx.
And so, both Lhasa and Mahcello aged up to toddler while being photobombed by Jhinx."Hey, the readers need something pretty to look at. Have you seen how homely my brothers are?"
Anyway, we transitioned quickly into teaching the toddler skills as Zheena likes to age up her kids as soon as possible.
Not sure why Alfonso's being quite so morbid.
However, the birthdays weren't done just yet as the next morning brought a cake for another young Ghast boy.
"Oooo, see? He's gross. I should have photobombed these shots."
It's just a momentary age-up glitch. See? He gets all better and provides help so that you don't have to do all the childcare.
And so, with two teens lending a hand, Alfonso continually getting soaked by the sink, two "gross" boy toddlers learning skills, and the next child on the way, it seems the second half of this challenge is off to a good start.
