Chapter Nineteen

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On the first day of Autumn I maxed my cooking skill.




I had neglected my garden and two of my trees died. I vowed to take better care of the remaining one.










M & M achieved level three in all their skills and I made their birthday cake one day early. Magnus aged up with the Genius trait and the goal of becoming a Rambunctious Scamp.




Marko aged up with the Glutton trait and aimed to be a Whiz Kid.




Both of them complained about sleeping in their older sisters' purple room. They said it was a "girls room". They quickly received a dose of STFU when I lectured them on not being little sexist pigs. Colors do not have a gender, you little shits. That night I decided to tackle another biography gig. The payouts were very nice on these types of jobs.




The next morning it occurred to me that for the first time since Daria and Bianca were born I'd have infants without juggling toddlers at the same time. And I'd have my first day alone with all the kiddos in school. Sweet!






Once I fed the kiddos and sent them on their way, I decided to enjoy the taste of freedom.




I grabbed my lappy and decided to check out the new pub and write there.




It was a very nice place.










Arnav showed up and was as flirty as ever.




I met some new dudes: Raj Rosoya, Brent Hecking, and Gavin Richards. Lotsa eye candy.








Needless to say, I didn't get any writing done. I made it home just before the school bus. The triplets had pulled 'A' honor rolls and the twins were pulling 'C's. It was time for birthday cake again. Hunter rolled the Geek trait with an aspiration of Party Animal.




Jasper aged up with the trait Perfectionist and the dream of being a Serial Romantic. Takes after his momma, that one.




Gavner aged up to be a Loner - that'll go great with being a Klepto - and aspired to be a Painter Extraordinaire.




As happy as I was to have teens to help out, I now had two budding vampires to guide and kept full of plasma so they didn't go insane with blood lust. This was going to get expensive and time consuming.




Now that I'd achieved max cooking skills. I decided to aim for gourmet cooking skills.










Having spent too much money in the last reno and having hungry vamp teens to feed prompted me to get busy writing.














The teen testosterone was getting on my nerves. I hoped I was pregnant with a girl again.




As the night passed, I wrote on the biography. Before I could complete it, I went into labor. I flew up to my nursery nook and fortified myself.






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