The Journal of Sterling Rose: Final Chapter (Story Complete)

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Thanks! I wanna wait a while fore Velvet to do the journal too,  but I will play with the life span toggle so Velvet will be young when Sterling Passes.

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Dear Journal,
Velvet has been asked to cut the ribbon at the new art gallery opening! She was also asked to have an exhibit of her paintings their too! The opening is tomorrow so I better get Velvet to Susu and quick! She needs a new modern hairstyle and dress for the opening something very 1960's-modern.

A letter came in the mail today.

Vander said we were invited to The Island Celebrities Formal Ball tonight starting at 3.  A formal ball? I only have 4 hours to prepare! I have to get my hair done, get shoes a dress! How will I make it! I instantly called Susu to make a house call. She rushed over and prepared my with time to spare and even made Velvet her hair and dress for tomorrow. Susu is the best.

Look at me... By that time it was 2:30 and we should head out. It was an adults only formal. So Velvet and Calvin were in charge of the now toddler twins. When we left the girls were napping and Velvet was doing homework, Calvin was in the pool.

I left Velvet my camera to take picture of them babysitting for the first time.  I also told her to write captions for the pictures.

VELVET: Baby sitting journal,


Girls are up from their naps and are in the study toddling around and taking turns falling on their diapers.

I needed to paint for the Gallery so Calvin was in charge. Note: Bad idea

And Calvin took a nap and was not even watching Sapphire. Where is Emerald! I had to run in and wake him up right before Sapphire was about to fall into the fire! I grabbed her just in time though! I found Emmie in a pile of dirty laundry! Eww! Gotta give Em a bath now.
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When I got home Velvet was in bed so was Calvin and the twins too. It seemed that the babysitting went well until I read the baby sitting journal! Calvin! Ugh! My little Sapphire could have been IN the fire!

-The Angry mother Sterling Rose

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I think Calvin need to read a parenting book! Great update

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Hahaha! True that!

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Dear Journal,
Today we the kids are missing school for the gallery opening. Velvet is cutting the ribbon. We all got up quite early to get all spiffed up.

Velvet and Sapphire were playing together this morning.
How sweet are they?

We drove all in the convertible. Which was a bad idea. Our convertible seats 4. We are a family of 6. So Velvet and Calvin squeezed in the back.  The twins on their laps. I was very nervous someone would fall out. The twins kept jumping up and down and climbing all over Velvet and Calvin. It was a long slow ride.

What a lovely gallery! After Velvet cut the ribbon they took a picture of her for the newspaper.

Click! She was in the newspaper!

We drove back all squeezed in.

We rolled the top back on due to the cold wind and no one had a blanket.
Sapphire got fussy and was wiggling when Calvin was trying to hold her still. So she sat on Vander's lap and was perfectly fine. Calvin kept complaining
"See! You See? Sapphire hates me! And I am guessing that Emerald will too!"
I tried to ignore him because he was yelling at a toddler.

Finally we were home and it was late!
-The tired Sterling Rose

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Dear Journal,
The mail came today at about 3:00 pm. Velvet came running in with a pile of letters. We sorted out the bills, fan letters, family and friend letters and put them on the table. 

Then we found a letter that didn't fit into any of the categories. It had a wax seal and was formally addressed to "Miss Velvet Rose of Sunset Valley Royal Family Estate" I was very interested in the letter. Velvet didn't see it yet. I slipped it under the table because I wanted to read it first.
I walked upstairs and into the 3rd floor guest room to read. This is what it said, written in crisp black ink on perfect white paper.

"Dear Princess Velvet Rose,
Let me introduce myself, I am the chief the the Arts College on the northwest side of the island, in a town called Prentville.  I have seen your work multiple times in Sunset Valley. Your singing is amazing, your guitar skills are fabulous as wells as your piano skills, and your painting is exquisite!  Any who, I have written this letter in offering of a 4 year scholarship to our school, we will even put you in a junior dorm instead of a freshman dorm. Please consider our school. With your kind of talent you will make it FAR in the art world and possibly even star in a couple of movies. We arrange auditions for our top students. We have a variety of classes here including Painting, sculpting, inventing, acting, production, plays, writing, dance, set making, prop making, fashion, stage makeup, and we even have sports teams and a cheer leading team which I am aware you are a member of at G.O.E. 
Again, please consider us as a school. If you are interested we will be having tours on the first day of summer.
-The Chief of Prentville College of the Arts and Artistically Gifted
Frank Wilbur"

I stopped and dropped the letter on the floor. No! My baby can't be old enough to go to college yet! Can she? Should I tell her? Should I ignore the offer? But, what if she never gets this change again! What do you think?!?!?
-The Confused Sterling Rose

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Hello Readers of Journal of Sterling Rose!  Ok now for another question... So in the last entry of Sterling's Journal she finds the letter asking Velvet to go to college over 4 hours away from home.  Should Velvet go to this amazing college or stay home with family???

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Let her go to college! But don't forget the bodyguard! Great update.

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Dear Journal,
I didn't get any sleep last night! I kept thinking about the College in Prentville... I got up early this morning and decided I am going to look at this college.

I drove 4 hours then I finally pulled up to the college

Wow... I can't help but be impressed by the sheer size of the college.
I asked a man to give me a tour and he said "Sorry Mam, there are no guided tours today but feel free to look around the first floor class rooms. Please don't go to the second floor or third though."
I nodded and entered the big doors. A stair case leading up the the second floor was in the center of the lobby. I spotted one of Velvet's friends Alison! I called
"Alison Lee?" She was half way up the stairs.

She turned around and calm down the stairs.
"Queen Sterling! How lovely it is to see you!" She hugged me.
"Do you attend school here?" I asked
"Yes, well I will be freshman this summer. Just moving in and checking out the girls dorm." She said.
"Oh lovely!"
"Yes, what is the Queen doing way out in Prentville?" she asked. I was amazed by how grown up she was. Although all of Velvet's friends are 2 years older than her due to skipping grades.
"Well, don't tell Velvet but, She go a 4 year scholarship here and was offered a junior dorm... what ever that mean... but I wanted to look into this college more before sending her away. She doesn't know about any of this..." I said feeling guilty.
"Oh Queen, This school is amazing! Best on the island for the arts!" Alison said.
"Here I will give you a tour!" She offered.
"Welcome to the acting and play producing classroom. Anything to do with plays, stage, props or acting is in here.

Lines of chairs lead up to a small stage.
"Very nice..."  I said. Following Alison to the next room.
"Now the music room."

Lots of instruments and books of music all over.
"That's it for the first floor." Alison said,
"Second floor? Can you show me?" I asked
"Well... I am not suppose to..." She said looking around.
"Well... I guess, if anyone asks your my aunt and helping me move in ok?" she said I nodded.
She showed me the dorms, freshman had around 10 beds. Sophomore had 3. Junior had 2 (that's what Velvet would get.) and Senior got its own dorm.  I spotted stairs to the third floor.
"What about the third?" I asked
"Oh no! I really can't do that! I think you should go now Queen..." She said looking around. I heard music from the top floor blasting.
"What's that?" I asked.
"Oh umm... the dance classes." She said.
"oh ok!" Then I went home wondering what that could be...
So should I let her go or not? That's what I thought about the whole way home...
-The wondering Sterling Rose

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Oh my! I wonder what is on the third floor, look like a strange school to me

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Dear Journal,
I felt a little better since I went to the College. I slept amazing last night. I woke up at 10:00! Wow I slept in! I went down stairs for breakfast and Velvet was sitting at the table with a strange look oh her face.

I waved.
"Hi Vell!" I said happy as can be.
"Mom..." She said then standing up.
"Why?" She said sadly.
"Why what?" I asked alarmed.
"You didn't tell me..." She said her eyes welling up. Then I saw the letter from the College in her hands. UGH! I should have hid it better...
"Between the box spring! Really mom!" She whaled.
"Honey I am sorry." I said feeling my heart fall to my stomach.
"You know, I have 3 days warning if I wanna go or not now! If you had let me read my own mail, I would have known!  This is my dream! And your trying to hide it from me? What is this!?!?!" She yelled.

"I..." I started.
"I am going!" She said. I cryed. She is a princess! Some psycho  is going to hurt her! But, I had to let her go... she needs to follow her dreams and I can't be the one stopping her.
"Now you don't cry!" She said hugging me.
"I'm sorry I am just a little upset..." she said.
"I didn't want you to get hurt or kidnapped!" I admitted. She looked up at me.
"What?" She said with loads of concern in her voice.
"I am over protective... College is safe... you will be fine..."  I said stepping back.
"You will be fine..." I repeated quietly to myself.
- Just Sterling Rose

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Dear Journal,
I haven't really talked to Velvet after the fight. She has been talking to Vander about leaving and he has been helping her pack. On the other hand... The twins are growing up!  Today is there birthday. Oh I feel so now that I am an Adult instead of "Young adult".
Last night I heard the sweetest thing...  I peeked through the crack in the door into the study. Calvin was sitting on the floor with Emerald.

He was talking to her. This is what he said.
"You know something Em?" 
"You and Sapphire aren't so bad..."
"Your kinda cute!... Don't you tell anyone I said that ok Emmie?"
Then Emmie crawled into his lap.
"Oh dear, its getting late you should go to bed huh?"
the Emerald said in misspoken baby language.
"Story!"
"Oh Emerald! Its late though... but ok!" Calvin said then reading a story, I went to bed after that.

OH! I got caught up in writing I gotta go celebrate with the twins!

Here goes Sapphire! Who got the trait "Party Animal (not by choice)"

Now Emerald! Who got the trait "Light Sleeper (not by choice)"


There are the twins! Emerald has rich red hair and tan skin with light blue-green-gray eyes like her dad.
Sapphire has beautiful blonde hair with golden highlights and fair skin and gray-blue eyes.
Sapphire looks a lot like me when I was younger. The red hair came from my mom. My hair is dyed red to cover gray!

Look at their new room!

Hahaha! I love this picture! The girls in their underwear painting side by side. Hahha! Cute!
-The Aging Mother Sterling Rose

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Dear Journal,
Today is the weekend before we send Velvet to College! We made up and everything at home is good yet busy. The twins are being very snoopy. They got a hold of my camera and were sitting on the balcony snapping pictures of Calvin then reporting them to me. I didn't ask of this!

So this all started yesterday when Calvin told me he was having a friend from school over and to make sure the family left them alone to study. I was fine with that and they were in the study room doing homework.

After about an hour they decided to go swimming then come back inside, change and continue working. Little did I know that his friend was a GIRL!

She was very pretty and her name was Staci Hart.

This is where is gets interesting I didn't comment on his friend because there was nothing wrong with studying with a friend from school that just so happened to be a girl.

The girls were very interested and snapped up my camera. The said they were playing spy! So I thought they were back to "Studying" but I was wrong... so very wrong!

They were really dating! And umm.... I had know idea until the girls showed me the picture. Velvet brought it up at dinner last night. This awkward conversation went like this.

Velvet: Sooo... How is your romance going?

Calvin looked shocked and looked up from his food.

Calvin: What are you on?
Velvet: Twins snapped picture of you and Staci lovin' it up in the "Study"

The Twins giggled

Calvin: I hate you two again...

The twins shrugged and continued eating like it was know big deal.  Me and Vander exchanged some looks through out the conversation.

Velvet: Come on Cal what's up with you and your Study-Buddy
Calvin: I am gonna kill you Vell!
Velvet: Hey I wasn't snooping!
Calvin: Who cares if I got a girl friend! At least I'm not single like you!!!!

Calvin was screaming at Velvet...
Then it got real quite and Calvin stormed off.
Vander: Let him cool off and then after dinner you talk to him Velvet, Understand me?!?
Vander sounded kind of mad too. Velvet was bright red and the twins were looking down into their plates and eating quickly. But I saw them after dinner give each other a little high-five.
-The Awkward feeling Sterling Rose

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Dear Journal,
We bought a van! We have decided to take more family trips now and needed a big car to fit everyone and everything. The family trips will keep us in touch with Velvet even though she is going to college.  During college breaks we will vacation with her. Today we are going camping half way between home and the college. Velvet is now a young adult! 18 years old. Wow! The twins are 5 and Calvin is 15. Tomorrow is Velvet's first day at college!

We all got Velvet a gift for her birthday from teen to adult. We all sat around the camp fire and gave Velvet a gift.
First up was Sapphire. She handed a purple box to Velvet.  She opened it and there was a new pair of boots and over the knee socks. 
Next was Emmie's turn she handed her a green box.  She opened it and there was a jean skirt and light blue shirt.
Then Calvin. He handed her a 20 dollar bill. Velvet glared at him.
Now was Vander he gave her a beautiful diamond and white gold necklace and earrings.
Then she opened mine it was a camera.
"What's this for?"  Velvet asked.
"E-mail us everyday with updates and pictures..." I said.
"Oh mom! Thank you so much... I will!"
-The Best gift-giver Sterling Rose

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Dear Journal,
We dropped Velvet off early this morning, she was dress in what the twins bought for her.

Parents were aloud to spend a few classes observing.  I stayed.

It started with guitar class. She was in the highest level guitar class called "We Will, We Will Master it" the classes have levels starting at
-Super Newby (Never ever touched a guitar before)
-Basic (Played before can read music)
-Ready-to-learn music (knows the notes)
-Building Skills (learning tips, tricks and learning more music)
-Advanced (Doing hard music)
-We will, we will, master it! (mastering skills class)
I had to leave after that class but I was excited to get an e-mail from her later that night.
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E-mail:
From: Rose, Velvet
To: The Rose-Lammerwright Family

Hey Family!  My classes rock! I met up with my friend Alison... I had know clue she was going here!

I also auditioned for the College Production of "Another War" its a musical about a young women who fled her home country to go to an island off the grid along the way she meets a young man that she falls in love with then when they are elderly and on the end of life they go back home to see their country again... I tried out for the young women (the lead) her name is Angelina Randell.   Well gotta go to sleep now... bye!
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How sweet! I hope she gets the lead, with a voice like hers she will get some role.
-The 1-child-down mother Sterling Rose