Nothing Continues to Happen
Erin: Can I age up yet? Please?
All it means is you'll have slightly more options of ways to do absolutely nothing...
Erin: And it means cake.
Good point.
Iris: Careful with those candles! Don't you know fire can kill your eyebrows?!
Do you mean singe? Or burn?
Iris: It can do both those things as well. But if your eyebrows die, they NEVER come back.
Erin: Looks like they're still here to me, Granny.
Pansy: I think an invisible mother-in-law is even more annoying than a visible one. You can't ignore the door and pretend you're out.
Here's teen Erin. With her eyebrows intact.
Iris: It's worth being aware of the dangers...
She became Charismatic. And, as usual, dressed in pink.
Having your birthday on a weekend brings massive benefits - firstly being able to escape your family ASAP. While Nate and Pansy are eating cake and Iris is doing her weekly review of the house's shark defences, Erin heads off to the Ampitheatre.
To meet a BOY.
Erin: Hey.
Eddie: Hey.
*awkward silence*
Eddie: How was your bir... *muffled sound*
Erin and Eddie, sitting in a tree, K.I.S.S.I.N.G!
Erin: Both my feet are firmly on the ground, last I checked.
The outing turns into a date (aww), but Erin still manages to find time to go make a new friend in NPC firefighter Seamus.
That isn't popular with Eddie.
Eddie: Hey! Who d'you think you are? I'm her boyfriend, not you, even if you're older and cooler and a firefighter and stuff! It's me she wants, fire-boy!
Erin: My boyfriend, are you?
Eddie: Erm. If you want me to be... I guess I'd like to be.
Erin: I want you to be, my fluffy-wuffy bear.
Eddie: My beautiful smooshums.
Ewwwww.
After a lot more smushy talk, Erin heads off to spend time with her other relatives (the less mad ones). This is Connor, who's a Young Adult now. For Audren's benefit, Connor is Laura's kid, and Laura was Nathaniels Imaginary Friend. I really, really do need to make a family tree for these guys.
Sort-of-Uncle Kenyon beats Erin at table football.
Erin: Not fair, you've had years of practice!
And Alice, Connor's sister, stares evilly through windows. That's obviously what you do with your Saturday night, right?
Iris: Youth of today. Always so self-obsessed. You never caught me looking at myself in a mirror.
No, you were too busy fighting sharks that were nowhere to be seen and arguing with yourself.
Iris: Exactly! Sensible pasttimes!
In other news (and away from Iris...)
Iris: You can NEVER escape me!
Parker: Don't you think you should have your elder makeover, Nate?
Nathaniel: I'm happy how I am. I look cool.
Parker: You look like you stole your outfit from a bin.
Nathaniel: It's only got a few stains on it!
But he submits anyway.
Nathaniel: Argyle print, that's a young man's fashion. That'll keep them thinking I'm an Adult.
