Chapter Forty Seven

Menolly's tricks of the night before were extremely successful, catching both her mother and her older sister

Joshua had got up early that morning and tended his garden happily, oblivious to the drama going on in the house

Tamara calmed down by bottle-feeding the new foal, Dune

Before training Cinnamon over the jumps while Dune played with Midnight

Having finished with the garden, Joshua wandered around the town for a while collecting random seeds, he was hoping to find some special plants as he'd been able to grow all the normal ones in his garden

After a few hours searching for seeds he decided that was enough for the day and went down to the ocean to fish

Miralys and Menolly had both caught the bus to school that morning

But Menolly decided on the spur of the moment that she didn't feel like going to school, so she dropped behind her sister and snuck off to a small park where she spent the morning playing her bass

After a while she started to feel a bit hungry so she headed across town to the cafe where she bought herself lunch

Nearby she found a dingy old pub with a selection of instruments and decided to have a go at playing the keyboard

Miralys meanwhile had spent the day in school, first in class and then at the athletics club.  After she'd finished she and a group of classmates decided to do their homework in the playground at the school before going home.

 Shortly after the group had all finished their homework and gone home, Menolly made it to school at last, but not for class...  She snuck into the deserted school and released all the frogs from the science lab!

Still feeling rebellious, she decided not to go home just yet and paid a visit to the nearby beach club where she ordered a drink

And then spent the rest of the evening tearing up the dancefloor

Unfortunately for her, when she didn't head home at curfew the police came round checking the bars for teens and she was well and truly caught

Tamara was waiting for her when she got home and she was furious, the school had called to let them know Menolly hadn't been at class and they had been getting more and more worried especially when Menolly didn't come home on time either...

"Where have you been?  And what have you been doing all day?!  We've been worried sick about you!  If you can't behave properly, go to school and come home on time then you're clearly not responsible enough to be allowed out the house, you're grounded!"

The next day was saturday and Miralys had been offered the chance to spend the day at the local business offices so she saddled up Cinnamon and rode over there

Tamara tended to Dune, bottle-feeding him, brushing his coat and generally looking after him

While Joshua tended his garden and took the produce down to the consignment store to sell along with the results of his latest experiments in nectar-making

After sulking in the bath for much of the morning and playing her bass loudly on the balcony

Menolly waited until everyone else had left the house for various errands and work before booby trapping the sofa

And sneaking out the house, there was no way anyone was going to make her stay grounded!

She found her way to another club, a dance club this time, and played the guitar for hours, playing out all her frustrations through her music

Breaking her grounding however had results she'd never dreamed of, while she was off enjoying herself, Jo and Joshua had been sitting down watching TV together when Jo felt a strange sensation run through her

As Tamara ran into the room, Jo knew her time had come at last, and while Joshua and Tamara stared she felt herself turn transparent and begin to float

Joshua, Tamara and Miralys (who had just got home from her day of work experience) gathered around weeping as the Grim Reaper came to take Jo's soul away.  

Joshua chose to bury his mother between his growing garden and the pond, he hoped that she would rest in peace there

His last duty to his mother done, he and Tamara sat down on the sofa to await the return of their prodigal daughter

Menolly eventually felt she'd played all her frustrations out and decided she didn't want to be picked up by the police again so grabbed her scooter and headed home

When she got there, her hopes of sneaking back in without her parents noticing were dashed.  Her father was first to greet her as she walked in the door.

"So, you've decided to come home again have you?  Your mother told you not to leave the house so why did you ignore her?  You knew how worried we were last night when you didn't come home, did you not think we'd notice if you disappeared again?"

Tamara then confronted her daughter

"You thoughtless, heedless child!  While you've been gallivanting around town, breaking your grounding and curfew as well, we've been worrying about you!

"Your grandmother died tonight and you weren't even here to say farewell to her when it happened!  Don't even think about leaving the house tomorrow and come Monday one of us will take you to school to make sure you don't skip again!"

Menolly didn't react well to the news and the scolding, screaming at her parents about how unfair they were

Before storming up to bed

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Town News

• Seirian and Bryce Roman have moved out separately
• Aquarius Ocean has got a job in the police
• Irish Marlin & Derrick Crist have got part time jobs
• Adamaris Dennis & Tyson Marlin have got jobs as scientists
• Lukas Sperie & Elijah McKinley have got jobs in the criminal career
• Harper Harris & Yuki Sabo have got jobs in the music career
• Cedric Harris has got a job as a fireman
• Danya Crist & Scarlett McKinley have got jobs in education
• Ryanne Roman has got a job as a mixologist
• Tempest & Raindrop Ocean have grown up to children
• The Sperie triplets have grown up to teens and Adalyn is dating Fabio Sabo
• Scarlett and Elijah McKinley are expecting a baby