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ISLAND #1; #2; #3; #4; #5; #6; #7; #8; #9; #10; #11; #12; #13; #14; #15; #16; #17; #18; #19; #20; #21; #22; #23 Adopt-a-Family Journal --- Family #5 |
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Scenario Barley and Lemon Drop are a brother and sister with opposing outlooks on life. Barley's friend Jack Smith has come to stay and romance is blossoming between him and Lemon. Barely is not happy with the current events and wants Jack to leave. Lemon has had enough with her overbearing brother. Someone has to go. Will it be Jack, Lemon, Barley...or a combination? It all rests on a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors... |
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| The game didn't elicit the proposed decision. All it did was create more tension than before. Jack had had a hard day, so he rather thumbed his nose at Barley and Lemon, and just went on to bed...in Barley's bed. Ignoring Barley, Lemon laid down on her bed, stubbornly denying that there was any problem. By that time, she was upset with BOTH men. | |
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Left to himself, and with no bed for himself, Barley spent some restless hours alone on the first floor, painting, and watching TV. Thinking that maybe Jack had woken up and left room in the second bed, he ran upstairs to check, but...nope...both Jack and Lemon were sound asleep by that time. |
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| Back downstairs, Jack lounged on the sofa for a while, then finally fell asleep. First thing in the morning, after Lemon and Jack had gone to work, Barley made a decision. He went outside and started surveying the lot, making plans for a basement addition, just in case Jack NEVER decided to leave. |
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By the time Jack and Lemon
returned home from work that evening, Barley had changed things very
nicely, so that he had his own suite in the basement, there was a
roomy deck out back, and even the upstairs bedroom now opened onto a
rooftop balcony. There were now TWO telescopes, and the easel had
been moved outdoors. Oh, and a greenhouse had been built for Lemon.
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| Lemon and Jack were ecstatic. Now they could pursue their relationship without fear of totally alienating Barley, who was quite happy himself, since he wouldn't be losing a sister, but probably gaining a brother very soon. After spending a bit of time kissing and hugging with Jack out on their new balcony, Lemon went right to work in her new greenhouse. Soon a man from the Gardening Club dropped by, and Lemon applied for membership. Within just a short time, some of the other members of the club came over to check out her progress, and soon gave her little project their approval, along with some suggestions about making it even better. Lemon was too tired to do anything about that right then, but Barley was due home from work anyway. | |
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| After a nice dinner, the three of them decided to relax out on the new deck, under the moonlight. Barley and Lemon played chess, and Jack did some intense stargazing, as the three of them all honed their logic skills. Lemon kept warning Jack about aliens, but since nothing happened, he didn't really listen. | |
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While they were thus happily engaged, the weather pattern changed, and the neighborhood became immersed in Fall (see the leaves around the skill bars in the last photo above). By the the next morning, the neighborhood trees looked like this. It should be noted that Barley has turned out to be a bit of a womanizer who has already hit on two neighborhood married women. Will Jack get abducted? Will Lemon keep her greenhouse maintained? We'll have to find out in the next "chapter." |
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