2083, we don't need no education

September 2083 - schools update, fall.

* note: trying something a little different this time. Since I know you guys usually enjoy the school posts, I'm expanding the usual age-up back-to-school update into a mash-up of age transitions and a regular school update, like I usually do in the spring. This fall one will focus more on the kids in these transitional ages, where the spring update will still focus on everyone or whatever stories are prominent at the time ;) *
Bluewater Township: where they shall practice telepathy....

starting high school, 9th grade (15 years): Liza Hathe

"You're supposed to do the reading before class," Liza says, seeing Robbie flip through his school book in her peripheral vision.

"It was just so hard," he says. "I wish I could come with you." What he means is, he wishes she could still help him with his classwork.

the rules

May 2083 (graduation) - Summer Phoenix, Dallas Deppiesse, and Vicky Garth are 18, Lucy Harris is 16, Sarah Harris is 14.

*soundtrack: "Rhinoceros," by the Smashing Pumpkins*

On the morning of their graduation, the seniors gather in the library to receive their ceremony plans. Dallas has picked up a random physics textbook, just to pass the time.

Summer says to him, "Haven't you learned enough already?"

2082, we don't need no education

Whoa! Who the heck are all these kids??? Let's see who all is growing up this year.

2081, we don't need no education!

Hazel says, "Look, Mom, I grew boobs!"

Let's see who all grew up for this school year...

2080, we don't need no education!

Another school year starts in Lake County!

2079, we don't need no education!

Another school year starts in Lake County!

2078, we don't need no education!

Another school year starts in Lake County!

Lucy Harris is starting sixth grade at Lakeside Heights Junior High School. She is looking forward to making all kinds of new friends, and is dying to get a cell phone for her birthday. She takes an interest in fashion, in an unconventional sense. Don't let those dog-collar bracelets scare you though, she's sweet as pie.

2077, we don't need no education!

Another school year starts in Lake County.

waiting on whatever comes next

May 2077, Orlando Centowski is 62, Audrey is 61, Luke is 18. (Mariah Riley is 18.)

Luke's mom is acting weird lately. He is her last baby to leave home, and supposedly that's a pretty big deal for a mom. She often stops him and says, "Wait, right there, I want to remember you like this." His parents have always been kind of weird though.

we don't need no education!

September 2076, Delphie, Dakota, Robert, Angelo, and Ryanne are all turning 5!

Because there are so many kids starting kindergarten this school year in Lakeside Heights, I figured it would be easiest just to give them their own post.

mediocrity, because they can't all be great

October, 2074, Berjes and Hailey are 30, Hazel is 5.

The Monif family live in an adorable little house in the Hazel Park subdivision of Lakeside Heights. Not named after their daughter Hazel, of course, but they do find it amusing.

pretty faces and the noses we inherit

October, 2074, Cabe is 34, Ashlee is 36, and Natalia is turning 5. Pet cat is Sake.

Ashlee Deppiesse has become a dynamic force in the culinary world. Every single cookbook or blender she puts her name on (or is it the pretty face?) sells like hotcakes, no pun intended ;) Ashlee is a restaurateur and owns Deppiesse's Lakefront Bistro in Lakeside Heights.

making over our alien heritage

October, 2074, Orion is 42 years old, Violet is 41, Dallas is 11, Delphie and Dakota are 5, pet dog is Sheba.

The very complicated Deppiesse family first became complicated when Eliza (Brant) Deppiesse divorced her two-timing crook of a husband Kent. Their marriage resulted in one child, Claire.

Orion Deppiesse is the second Deppiesse child, and though Kent would go on to marry his mistress, Felicia, who would later become Brooke and Cabe's mother, Orion's birth came from more otherworldly means...