The Plumbobs – an OWBCChapter 9

Welcome back to the wonderful life of me, Brody! It has to be said, my life is currently focused pretty much on little Dotty, my alien daughter. Now that the triplets are teenagers they pretty much spend all of their time working or studying to complete the Golden Trio Bonus, so me and Kana don’t have much to do except dote on Dotty, and each other too of course.

Dotty even knows nursery rhymes and she always singing to herself. It seems a bit odd that Kana and I have been so relaxed throughout her toddlerhood, seeing as things were crazy hectic with the triplets.

You may recall Rhys, Lainey and Pip only recently grew up, but they’re even more popular than ever. They are always bringing friends home from school with them.

And those friends, and the triplets of course, spoil Dotty rotten with all the attention they give her.

Meanwhile, I’ve managed to max out my tinkering enthusiasm, the safe way. I’m pretty certain you can’t set yourself on fire by just reading.

Just as I painted a portrait of my parents when I was a teenager, Lainey did the same for Kana and I. It’s a gorgeous picture, and it takes pride of place in the dining room.

Early one morning we found Dotty trying to escape and figured she was old enough to grow up, so Kana made her a cake and we had a little celebration while the kids were at school.

Kana did the honours, and all of a sudden little Dotty wasn’t so little anymore.

With an abundance of energy she cheered for herself, wolfed down some cake and then bolted off somewhere. Kana and I shared a knowing look …

And headed straight for the bar. This was going to be a long week.

That night, Dotty decided to sleep in her grandmothers’ bed rather than the one we bought for her. Stuff like that reminds me of Oona, but at least now no one else is using that bed, not like when Oona used to nick it from Mum!

Kana helped Dotty out with homework after her first day of school. It was hard work but they got there in the end.

And then Dotty was free to play. It’s a shame doesn’t have any siblings her own age to play with, especially as the triplets don’t have much spare time on their hands.

Since Dotty was old enough we invited the headmaster over to get all the kids into private school. Unfortunately Lainey was the only one available to do the tour …

It didn’t go well.

Fortunately Kana serving pork chops in her undies and Dotty’s babbling and relentless question asking seemed to sway the headmaster in the right direction.

Dotty loves stargazing, she’s a total natural at it too. She knows she’s part alien, I told her that much. I imagine Rhys has filled her in on the rest, what with his love of all things supernatural.

I recently finished my novel, and it’s a best seller! It’s a pregnancy and parenting book written especially for men, with some sciencey alien stuff about how to get abducted thrown in for good measure. Who would’ve thought there’d be so many men eager to learn all about alien pregnancies. It’s hard to believe I don’t know any other part aliens myself!

After that I felt accomplished and relaxed, there’s not much more for me to do now other than to look after my family and keep them safe and happy.

That means putting out fires that the kids start. They try to cook, bless ‘em, but Pip especially has bad luck.

It doesn’t seem to have dampened his confidence though.

At the weekend I decided to invite the family over to celebrate my birthday into elderhood. Almost every one came. Isaac and Gen didn’t have time to change out of their work clothes, but at least they made it.

And they bought the kids along too, to get to know the triplets and Dotty. The dark haired boy is Lucas, Genesis and Sam’s son, the other boy is Oona and Jihoon’s son Glenn and the girl is Sophia, Oscar and Pamela’s daughter. She’s certainly changed since I saw her last! And it was nice to get to meet the boys too.

Glenn is such a mummy’s boy.

But he join the rest of the kids in the garden eventually, for an epic water fight to end all water fights.

And then I grew old. It was awful, by back ached, and everything went … south.

The party carried on regardless of my aging, and all in all everyone had a great time.

Did I mention that I got a job in the Military? Well I did, and I managed to enter pretty high up. I guess alien abductions and raising triplets makes you perfect military material?

I know I have mentioned in the past that Kana and I wouldn’t be able to get jobs, but once the triplets became teenagers we realised that they’d all need to get jobs to complete the challenge, so I decided to get one too.

As well as part time jobs, the triplets also spent a lot of time painting in order to earn £3000 each. They all painted some stunning pieces, it’s a shame they all had to be sold.

Before long it was time for Kana to join me in elderhood. She looks as gorgeous as ever if you ask me, but she’s been moaning and saying she looks as if she’s melted!

I tell you something, laying down on the bed after a long day feels so good now. I don’t feel old except for this achiness! I can’t believe my mums were both world class ballet dancers until they were much older than I am now, I don’t know how they managed it!

Life went on as normal after that round of birthdays. Dotty skitted around doing whatever she fancied,

Such as missing the school bus.

The triplets continued to work ridiculously hard, although they said private school made homework much easier.

And I became General! I loved my astronaut space suit, but Kana much prefers the uniform I wear as General.

On the very same day Dotty got her first A+. She’s certainly took to Private School.

It wasn’t long before Pip, Rhys and Lainey all topped their teen careers too. Pip went into Business, Rhys Athletics and Lainey went into Law Enforcement.

In the meantime Dotty enjoyed what was left of her childhood by smustling in the bathroom,

And being read bed time stories in the middle of the day.

I can’t believe the triplets are old enough for kissing! Rhys found romance with a local girl from his work called Charlotte Roseland. I have to say they are very sweet together.

In no time at all it was time for Dotty to have another birthday. She grew up beautifully and decided to pursue knowledge, just like her aunts Oona and Genesis.

Kana and I managed to get the portraits of the kids finished too and put them up next to the one of us in the dining room.

It’s safe to say Dotty is very outgoing, but then so are Pip and Rhys. She’s also very helpful around the house.

She also loves to dance and has managed to pick the slap dance up from somewhere, and Lainey and Rhys have both managed to max out the arts and crafts hobby because they paint so much!

I decided to show Dotty the school cheer I learnt at Uni. I’m not sure if she was impressed or if she was just being polite.

I did cheer her up enough to do her homework though.

And then she went back to her dancing.

Now that the kids have earnt £3000 each and are over achievers they just need to make sure they each have 3 best friends, apart from each other of course, so now they keep fighting over the phone!

*sigh* My children are such posers.

Dotty decided she wanted to meet her other father, and I may have failed to mention that you need to have been abducted via the telescope for the dance sphere thing to work. Ah well, no harm done.

Guess what! Rhys and Lainey have completed their part of the Golden trio challenge. Now they have both started working on collecting bugs, hopefully it won’t take them as long to collect all the bugs as it took Oscar.

So, the weekend rolled around again and it was time to get Kana permaplat with an anniversary party!

We danced long into the night. It was brilliant.

Although it was all a bit much for Kana, and she fell asleep with the whole family partying around her.

Well, that’s it for this chapter I’m afraid. However, we still need you! The triplets have completed the Golden Trio challenge and are all eager to go off to University, so it’s time for you to vote on who you would like to be the heir or heiress this generation; Lainey, Pip, Rhys or Dotty. You decide …

Lainey PlumbobFortune/romance – become head of the SCIA

Scorpio – 6,3,9,6,1Likes – Non smelly boys wearing cologne and glasses

Other – Completed Golden Trio Bonus

Pip PlumbobFamily/fortune – Reach Golden Anniversary

Aries – 6,10,6,4,6Likes – Non smelly girls who are both creative and good with mechanical things

Other – Completed Golden Trio Bonus

Rhys PlumbobPopularity/pleasure – Become The Law

Pisces – 6,8,10,1,10Likes – Boys and girls who wear jewellery but not make-up, and are good at cleaning

Other – Completed Golden Trio Bonus

Dotty PlumbobKnowledge – LTW unknown

Unknown personality – but she finger guns and is somewhat neatLikes – Creative blonde boys without hats on

Other – Bad Apple

Also, I just wanted to show that the triplets earnt £3000 each and have 3 best friends each. They also are in Private School, have an A+ and have topped their teen careers. As kids they maxed three skills and interests and as toddlers they learnt to talk, walk, potty and sing the nursery rhyme. 10 points for me!

Thanks for reading, and an heir poll will be posted on Boolprop ASAP.