Chapter 8 - Whipe that makeup from your face!

 Ulv and Liv,  two very different souls indeed. People they meet in school are trying to see where the resemblence lies between their ancestry. That Ulv is the son of Rose is quite obviously they say. He has got her nose and eyes. While Liv really does not look like Rose at all. All the gossipers at school would love to snicker about that.

 How very different they are. How Ulv really does not seem to like school at all. He is often heard loudly complainin about how boring school is. Especially geography.

 While Liv takes any opportunity to learn as much as possible. Studying with her mom....

 ..... or reading one of the classics: "The Fellowship of the Sims".

Ulv in turn does not like to read about dragons and dungeons at all. But he really loves to dream about them. Question is - is he the dragon or the knight?

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Time flies by and soon the two mid-twins Flora and Viola are ready to grow up too. They were really close as toddlers. But now it is even clearer that they share a bond that goes deeper than their colour of their skin. When they play they both prefer to do it outdoors or in the greenhouse. Although their pillowfights can get ratehr wild Rose is never afraid that they will destroy the plants. Instead she feel calm when they are around plants strangely enough.

 

 

The next weekend the air starts to chill and Rose decides to take her large family on a family - excursion. To celebrate the twins birthday and to celebrate the arrival of Fall in general.

 

 

Flora often drifts of into the forest greenery (or whats left of it ) just happy to be outside. She is never afraid. Why should she? She totally knows her worth and how to make it! Maybe is it this absorption of herself that attracts the young Bluebird to sit on Floras hand for a short while. Singing to her about that he too is all that. Ulv can't believe his eyes when he sees them. That was a feat he had tried for many weeks without success!

 

The following schoolday the students are all taken on an excursion to the closest graveyard as an after-school project about ancestry. Liv, Ulv and Viola all tags along and are having a great time.

 

While Flora is trying to get her homework done at her freinds house. It is hard to focus though since Kiley's mother Cassidy Oss er seems to be glaring at her all the time. As if she has something on her tounge but can not quite spit it out.

 

When it is time to go Kiley's mother approaches Flora:

-Young lady, this is a serious house. If you want to come here in the future I want to see without all that clownmake up on!

 But Flora is not that easily pushed:
-This is NOT make up! It is all ME and I can not wash it of pale-face!
And stomps off.

Meanwhile, far from all the commotion Thorn is growing up to be a youngling and gets a big bear-moma-hug from Rose. She can not believe that the days have flewn by so fast. Where have all her little babies gone?

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I thought this chapter would be hard to write, despite the fact that I had the major mini-plot clear for me after I reviewed the screenshots.But it all went very smooth and the text actually helped me solidify even more the character of the siblings. And place a hook in for a potential drama in the future. I have not quite decided yet how to do it tbh. Time will tell.
Just as an offnote. The dialogue between flora and the mom is actually a real quote from the first book in the Cherry Ames series. It is a series about a nurse named cherry who always ends up in one mystery and trouble after the other. The surgeon went after her because her rosy cheeks in the first book and demanded her to remove the makeup.... The books are from the 50's, but I re-read them from time to time because a) Sometimes I want to read really easy fiction b) It was what my mom used to read so I want to read the same