come undone, extras

Psst, Lara... that's not your husband...

After what was the longest "chapter" I've ever written for this story (totally got carried away there, lol!), I've decided to start doing these extras by chapter from now on, instead of by year.

Okay, so let's see what other extras, misfits, and outcasts we might have from the spring/summer 2083, "come undone" chapter...

first, part 2

June 2083 - Ashlee Deppiesse is 43, Natalia is 13. (Charlie Roseland and Hazel Monif are 13, Fiona McCullough is 15.) Last update, February 2082.

It's probably much too soon for her mother to feel lonely. It's only been three weeks since they left. Instead, she just keeps herself busy here at the restaurant, which means Natty is kept occupied as well. It isn't that she minds spending time with her mother, if she were actually spending time with her, except that her mother is working, talking, selling, and Natty is left watching old cable reruns.

Which is better than washing dishes. Because she has that option too, her mother would say, if she wants to complain of being bored.

first, part 1

June 2083 - Charlie Roseland and Natalia Deppiesse are 13, Gabby Roseland is 4.

It's summer, finally. Charlie is just hanging out in front of his house, with his sister, doing what kids do on these long, sweaty days, which is waiting for something to happen. Nothing is happening here. He can't even score some free lemonade from his baby sister!

"That'll be a dollar ninety-five," Gabby says. "Just like everybody else."

2082, extras

Extras, misfits, and outtakes from the year 2082 :)

your secret admirer

February 2082 - Cabe Deppiesse is 40, Ashlee is 42, Natalia is 12. (Charlie Roseland is 12, Chandler Price is 23, Orion Deppiesse is 48.) Last Update, June 2080.

Valentines day brings out the crazies, and Natalia thinks her best friend Hazel just might be one of them. Thank God they're too old for those stupid paper Valentines now, but Hazel is hell-bent on getting her first boyfriend. She wouldn't have even met Charlie Roseland if it weren't for Natalia. It wasn't like she was setting them up or anything, but they just happened to all sit at the same lunch table for the whole first half of the year, and then she got it in her head that Charlie might like to be her Valentine.

"Oh my God," Hazel says. "What's wrong with your friend?"

"What, now he's just my friend?" Natalia says.

"He won't go out with me?"

"Not everybody wants to go out with you, Hazel."

"Sure they do," she says.

headcount

September 2081 - Phoenix McCullough is 42, Brooke is 40, Fiona is 14, Robbie is 11, Connor is 4. (Liza Hathe is 13.) Last update, July 2080.

*** note: I borked Robbie, lol! I had to age him up to fix it, but keep in mind, he is still supposed to be 11 and in fifth grade. We'll just imagine he had an early growth-spurt ;) ***

*** note #2: and this is LONG! ***

Brooke and Phoenix McCullough try to steal a minute of peace in the bathroom - where else might you find a minute of peace with three kids in the house? But then there is Fiona in the background, except Fiona comes with a force that could never remain in the background. "Mooooooom!!! Robbie's hogging the bathroom and I need to PEE! I'm telling you, I will NOT be happy if I piss myself!!! And I would make YOU clean it up - except that you WOULDN'T because nobody cleans a DAMN thing in this ungodly foul house!!!"

Brooke would like to mention that there are four bathrooms in this house, and only five people living in it, two of which are married to each other - you do the math.

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...