the untold love story pt 1

A few weeks ago Daddy and Mom gave us an envelope and a worn diary. "I think you two are old enough to read these now." Daddy looked on the verge of tears, something I had never seen until that moment.
"They're from your parents, they were left to you after they died." Mom clarified. She gave both Downy and I a kiss on the forehead before they both left the living room.
I'm 15 and Downy, 14. Were we actually old enough to handle reading these? Letters and a diary from our dead parents? Parents Downy had almost no memory of and memories I myself had almost forgotten.
We decided to read the letters in the envelope first, Downy reading over my shoulder as I held them for us both to see.
The first was from our mother. We looked at each other hesitantly before finally settling our eyes on the paper to read,

Tears silently, other then then occasional sniffle, rolled down our cheeks. We didn't bother wiping them away before we read Dad's, there would only be more tears.

For a long while we sat, holding each other and crying. After what felt like hours of crying by ourselves Drover came in. He said nothing, merely kicked off his boots and curled up with us.

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It wasn't until the next day that we were able to read Mom's diary. Most of it was from the time I was born.

Downy and I sat together again in the living room and she read aloud from it, her voice a bit shaky.

Today is the absolute worst day of my life! I slept with a married man! and what's worse? he has KIDS. Berry almighty I feel awful. what kind of person am I?
We let our desires get control of us and BOOM BAM in a hotel room with our clothes off!!!!
"The next bit is more ranting..." Downy explained as she skipped to the next entry.

Found out I'm pregnant today. I had always pictured pregnancy as a joyous time.
Not a time of complete and utter self-loathing. An affair baby. can that scream tart or what?
Downy paused and looked at me, not sure if she should continue or not. I nudged my head towards the book, silently telling her to continue.

Cello has been so great this whole time. He's the best friend I could ask for. He'll do the dishes, the laundry, everything. I told him since he's being such a huge and outstanding help that he doesn't need to pay rent but he insists.
He was the most help when I was going through my hormonal phases.

"I'm an awful person!" I would cry and he would just hold me and tell me how wonderful I was. and I actually believed him too. That was the magic he could work.
he made sure I knew the baby was a spectacular little thing too. I complained about it being all the baby's fault for a while. Cello put a stop to that though.

"Babies are little miracles, Car. So much can go wrong in there, but the baby fights it. Remember that OK? Babies are little fighters and so are you."


Today when I woke up... something started to dawn on me. I ... think I'm falling in love with Cello. My best friend! oh mother of berry what will I do?
No no just calm down self. I don't really need to do anything about it right? It may just be a little crush... right?

Downy let out a little laugh. "What?" I asked. "Mom was a pretty inconsistent with her entries." She said before continuing to the next entry.

Yesterday was THE BEST!
we were watching Splash (Cello loves his soaps) and I was starting to dose off on his shoulder when all of a sudden I felt him kiss me!

it was amazing! neither of us said anything, we just kissed and kissed. My head felt like it was floating!
eventually things got pretty heavy and we went back to my room.
what? preggos can have fun too?
Downy and I laughed together at our mother's words before she read more.
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decided to split this into two parts, next part soon!

temptations

This mini-chapter is from Universe's POV and tells his initial reaction to Genoa.

One good deed in over one hundred years and I pay the price.
Wanna volunteer for some blood test? Free pint of virgin blood for each volunteer!
Oh yeah sure, I'll do it!
Great now just go to the 3rd room on the left and wait over an hour for the doctor to come in!
Pft, wasn't even virgin blood.
What the berry is taking that stupid doctor so long?
Ok so she wasn't really a doctor just some nurse/scientist/whatever. Just come in here and take my blood so I can leave!
"Miss Pinot Noir will be in shortly." Shortly to scientists is an hour?

I heard through the door that they needed to sedate some vampire that had gone off his berry and now things were behind. Boohoo. Maybe you should have been prepared for that.
Finally she came in.

Berry almighty she's beautiful... Even more than.. no. She looked at me and her heartbeat increased, going twice as fast.
For some reason that made me happy. Not the normal "Haha their scared" or "Yeah you know I'm hot" way, but more like"God she's as shaken up about me as I am about her".
Wait... why am I thinking like that?!
To cover myself I just put up the facade that I was the normal me and not rattled to no end by the violet beauty beside me.
It was kind of fun to see her riled up, but still the whole time all that was on my mind was..
Don't watch her blood flow! Don't stare at her boobs! Blink!

My structure was slipping and in the brief moments when we had no communication, fantasies would spurr through my head.

I would follow her. wait until after she was done work. Catch her in the parking lot and capture her in my arms.

Drink her blood. Judging by her scent it would probably be like drinking a delicious wine. Then when she would try to run, I would catch her again and smooch that pretty purple face off.

I cleared my head of the fantasy. No. I wouldn't be doing that.

"Is that an invitation, Doc?" I stood to leave and looked over her completely.
"It wasn't an invitation, but free will is free will."  Such a little liar.

of love and lemons

This is told from Drover's POV as he regals Violet with the stories as told to him by various siblings.

Love didn't come that easy for my family.
So it was no surprise that my sisters had some issues with their love life when the time came.
But hey, what do I know about love? I'm only 8.
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Biloba, apparently (I wouldn't know since I hadn't been born yet) , had a major crush on the baby sitter they had when they were about my age. She had kept quiet about it for years, but her and Heliotrope became really good friends as they got older. And some how that crush turned into "puppy-love", whatever that means. I mean she's not a puppy.
Anyways, Bily-Bo blew up when she saw him at that weird domed butterfly place huggin' on some other girl.
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Biloba saw Helio with  a girl his age at the Butterfly Esplanade. She started crying and felt her heart break in two. Poof. There go her chances with him.
Helio turned and saw his closest gal pal (besides the one he was in the midst of hugging) crying and he ran up to her.
Apparently he was at some wedding of a friend's and he got some funny looks when he ran off to a crying 17 year old.
"Bily-bo what's wrong? Why are you crying?" He reached up to her face to wipe away the tears when she smacked his hand away.

"All this time I was waiting for you to finally grow a set of cherries and tell me you love me too, but that was never going to happen was it?! You couldn't have just said 'Hey lets be friends instead'? No! You had to rip my berry-lovin' heart out!" She was fuming , bursting open, and probably not making too much sense to the reception party behind them.
Heliotrope looked at her, his face melted into dumbfounded apprehension before he meekly uttered. "You think I don't love you?"

He sucked in a deep breath. "I do love you, Biloba Flower. I have for a while now. But do you know how hard it is for a 16 year old to realize they're falling for an 11 year old? It's sick! I felt like a disgusting pervert because I was some teenager wanting to whisk you away when you were still a kid!" He sighed heavily. "But I do love you Biloba."

She closed her eyes tight, forcing tears to stay in. "Then why where you just with her?!" She gestured wildly to the reception. "Don't tell me you love me if you don't!"

"I didn't think it would happen, us. So I was trying to move on. But.. I guess I don't need to move on now." Biloba was confused for a second then she realized what he meant as he grabbed her cheeks and kissed her gently.
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"Eee-eeew!" Both Violet and I started laughing then.
"They really kissed?" Violet asked me in her sweet high-pitched voice.
"They did! That's what Genny said." We laughed again.
Biloba's story made me think of something. "Hey, Vi? You know that saying, 'if life gives you lemons then make lemonade?" She gave me a bouncy nod in answer.
"I guess Bily-bo doesn't listen to that." I chuckled.
"The only thing she would do with lemonade is throw it in life's face." She joked and we laughed together again.

After a quick break to get some fruit punch and popcorn, I continued the story session with Vi.
Violet was practically bouncing with excitement when I got back.
"Ok so what about Genoa?" She couldn't hold in her curiosity any longer and asked before I even had a chance to sit back down.
I chuckled at her eagerness. "Genny hasn't actually hooked up with him yet, but Mare and Bily said its only a matter of time."

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Genoa had recently gotten a job at a hospital that did important scientific research. She was requested actually. Both Genoa and Biloba did excellent in school. They tied as Valedictorian, however Genoa had better grades in her science classes than Bily (mainly since Bily would be too squeamish to do dissections).
They had Genny on a team that did research on vampires. The team had two goals; to understand vampirism and to create a cure for those who wanted it. Mariner was actually a back up member of the team, back up meaning if they needed another set of hands or such he would help out. What Mariner mainly did was research dreams and their affects.

One of her first patients was a vampire named Universe. All of the patients were volunteers for different tests that went on. Universe had volunteered for blood testing.
Genoa was one of the few on the team who had gone threw nursing school and also wasn't afraid of the vampires.
Genny caught sight of his face when she walked in and had to take a moment to compose herself.

"Take all the time ya need, Doc. I know it takes people a few minutes to get used to my beauty." He said, seemingly straight faced.
All professionalism went out the window then. One thing Genoa did not go for was egotistic people, and she makes that clear every time. "Don't go patting yourself on the back just yet, Nibbles."
The vampire chuckle then. "I can hear your heartbeat, Doc. It went two times faster when you saw me." A triumphant and cocky grin spread across his face.
Genny cleared her throat and brushed his comment aside. She knew he could hear her heartbeat but she still hoped to Berry that he wasn't paying attention to it.

"Well, if you're done having fun we'll look at your blood results." Genny put on a serious face and did her best to push all snarky comments back. "Oh I could still have a lot more fun with you." He wiggled his brow at her and yet again she knew he could hear her heartbeat increase.
Damn vampires and their improved senses!

Before he had a chance to make some comment that would reinforce the growing notion that he was a berry-hole, Genoa started analyzing his blood and commenting aloud.

"Your rainbow blood cells seem to be normal in shape and size-"
"Oh my size is anything but normal." Ignoring that.
"But your red band on each rainbow blood cell seems to be larger. And your white blood count seems drastically higher." She scrawled notes in her own short hand in her note book that lay beside the monitor.
"This may be why you vampires seem to glow."
"No, Doc, that's just the aura of sexiness." His grin grew wider when Genoa turned to give him a straight faced glare.
Genny let out a deep breath, calming herself from verbally ripping the vampire a new one.
"Anyway, we'll analyze the results further and call you if we need further testing or if you wish to volunteer for any other research experiments you're free to come back." Of course that last bit was added in, just in hopes of seeing him again.
"Is that an invitation, Doc?" He eyed her as he stood to leave.
"It wasn't an invitation, but free will is free will." Genny was never a good actress but not for the lack of trying.

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> Hospital used is by camimh
> Universe is so fun to write dialogue for X3

Poll!

I have just put up a poll since I need help deciding wether or not Lo and Ana should spawn again.
Ana is 1 child away from her lifetime wish and is they are gonna have another (or more) it needs to happen now while they have time before elderhood.
So please cast your vote!

<3

a new life pt. 2

"Mom, Dad, there's something I need to tell you."
All attention was on me now, which didn't help the lump in my throat at all. Half an hour after a double funeral isn't the best time to break this sort of news, but if I didn't now then I never would.
I took a deep breath as the concern on their faces grew ten fold each second I didn't speak.
Oh if only Paprika could be here it would be less heart-ache inducing.

Finally I had enough courage to speak. "Momdadpaprikaispregnant!" Unintelligibly.
Slowly realization dawned on them. Then Anger. Then half an hour of yelling and two hours of "I can't believe you did this" 's later resignation cleared the anger from their faces.
It didn't help any that when I was going to bed I was greeted with "Wow, Mare I'm surprised you got laid." From Bi-baby. Really helpful.

My parents emotional storm had calmed eventually, though mostly due to the fact that I was moving in with Pappy and her family to help do my fatherly duty. Berry that sounds weird!

By the time 6 months rolled around we were both 18, which helped support my "I'm an adult" campaign. Some what.
To show their support my parents gave me all of the money from my college fund to buy a house, after all I wouldn't be going to college anytime soon with a baby on the way.


Through out the pregnancy Pappy would play the piano for the baby and I would sit behind her and watch her for hours.

Her stomach grew quickly, so quickly that she had to switch to maternity clothes almost immediately. She was worried that she was getting too big and asked the doctor about it.

Now if teen pregnancy wasn't at the top of every parents' "What to Kill My Child For" list then teen pregnancy resulting in twins definitely was.

My parents were less then enthused but they weren't angry, just surprised. I guess all the anger came out with the original shock.

Anyway, when the long nine months were finally up we brought home two little bundles. I thought Drover grew up quick but when its your own child (OK in our case children) it seems so much faster.

My little girl, Padua Bouquet Pinot Noir, thought she was queen of the castle and demanded the respect of one too.

Her big brother by 13 minutes, Aero Picton Pinot Noir, was much more laid back and patient. Padua demanded that her needs be met first and Aero was just fine to wait, my good boy.

Everyone loved the twins, mainly because they knew how to work people over. Which is how they got their dolls, they batted their purple eyes at Dad till he got them.

One day after they were tucked in their cribs I asked Pappy if she wanted more children.
"Ask me that again and you're getting a vasectomy."
... Maybe in a few years.

Also, I didn't realize how much happens in a year until I wasn't there to see it every day.

Drover was in first grade and apparently had an imaginary friend. Mom knew it was normal but she still worried about him when he would tell her all about his adventures with Violet Umber.

Wisty was a sophomore and Downy a freshman. Dad didn't enjoy the "erruption of over-emotional volcanos" that much. He liked it even less when Wisteria was hanging out with a boy.

Of course as the loving big brother that I am I had to interrigate her about her new boyfriend.

"Oh for Berry's sake! London is NOT my boyfriend! He's just my friend and unlike you all he doesn't obsess about a 'personal bubble'!"

Ya, I don't believe her.

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Much more drama to come.... well mainly for Downy but that's in a little bit ;D

Fun with Generations!

Some pic spam of me testing Generations with the family~

mood swings O.O