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Chapter 11: The prettiest snowman

Stanley and Miranda share a tender moment while being locked out of their own house. He lost the damn keys to the house this time.

No one’s inside to let them in, so they wait for either of their kids to get home with one of the spare keys.

Miranda examines her new uniform in awe.

She thinks of how proud her older sister will be, to finally bear the title of a conductor. If she keeps up with this pace, she’ll probably be a hit composer in no time.

Upstairs, the house receives a rare visitor.

Chelsea, the eldest of the kids, finally drops in to announce her engagement with a fellow soldier, Jebidiah Keaton, much to the excitement of her younger siblings.

In the background, her fiance introduces himself to his future mother-in-law while Gaby drops a sick cover of Nobody. Chelsea is too busy admiring her muscles to realize that her mother is interrogating poor Jebidiah.

Chelsea takes her time to explore the house and stumbles upon the guest room, where she finds Vinca’s framed prom picture proudly displayed on the desk. She snickers while taking a picture of it and sends it to her sister’s wife.

She then turns her attention to the unused high bar.

The lack of a progress bar above Chelsea shows that she has mastered the skill of being physically active!

After a few more rounds, Chelsea goes back upstairs.

The couple decides to play one of Chelsea’s old save files before leaving for work. Jebidiah makes a comment about the island in the game, trying to subtly pass it as a hint for their possible honeymoon destination.

She challenges him to win this round so that she could consider it, and then promptly wins.

The remaining twins in the house decide to bond over making a snowman together. They always take turns to suggest an activity that they could do as a pair, and this time Ramona’s request is fulfilled.

Though she ruins the mood by casually mentioning how this pile of snow may have some frozen trash inside.

Gaby pauses and slowly removes her hands from the surface of the snow ball. “Ewww. Ramona, no.”

Though she gets over it and is determined to make this the prettiest snowman, whether it may or may not have any trash inside, so she shushes her twin to concentrate.

Ramona is about to say something again, but continues to work in silence anyway.

Ramona looks up to see her sister still doing that silly pose. “Are you going to help me or not?”

“Shhhh! Don’t break my concentration.”

In the end, they decide to leave it halfway done and go back inside the house to get warm again. And also to work on their homework, which they were definitely not procrastinating on.

Gaby watches her favorite series next to big brother who’s been into reading a lot of skill books these days.

Despite his attempts to rebel against his parents as an act of teenage freedom, Lukas is pretty much mild. He is even the class genius. His sisters know that his rebel phase is just a ruse to attract some girls.

He actually did end up attracting someone, a fellow genius named Lacey Su. She’s crushing on him so bad that she doesn’t try to mind watching the stars with him while almost buried in the snow. (Both kinda want to go back inside the house and finish their homework now.)

Lukas is too flustered to admit that it was a joke anyway, so they continue to sit in the snow, braving the cold like idiots.

(Inside the house, Jebidiah can be seen hanging out downstairs)

Eventually, both admit that it was too cold for the interaction to be romantic, so they stand up. That’s when Lukas realize that this girl should really consider wearing a thicker jacket at this time of the year.

And also, that she’s really cute.

It’s still cold outside of course, but they both agree to pretend that this little kiss warmed them up on the inside.

Like a true gentleman, Lukas offers to continue working on their homework inside the house, to which Lacey gladly accepts.

Could it be really that cold that it forces Ramona to actually wear something sensible inside the studio?

(Yes, yes it is.)

(Author’s note: I’m making sure that Lukas will have a romantic spouse by the time he leaves the house. As for the twins, I don’t have any one in mind for them yet, so we’ll just see what I can work with in the future).