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Part 1
Part 1.
The Monroe Family
Pearl Robin, 37 & Wren Maddox, 41
Anais Raven, 7
Silas Peregrine, 4
Neve Mavis, infant (me!)
Year 1.5 My parents separate because their marriage isn’t working anymore. Anais & I stays with our mother, and Silas goes with our father. They promised to keep in touch and Silas will join us during family trips and events, and vice versa.
Year 2 Anais & I spend Christmas Day with Silas, our father, and our father’s extended family in Milan, Italy. It was a huge family gathering.
Year 2.5. I become friends with Lachlan Pieter. Our mothers were high school best friends and they visit all the time.
Year 3. My mother adopts twin girls Maude Finch & Margalo Dove with her girlfriend.
Year 3.5 My mother marries her girlfriend Frederica Ailsa in a beautiful beach wedding at Maui, Hawaii. They met there during one of my mother’s business trips as a lawyer.
Year 4. We adopt Bluebell the Bombay cat.
Year 4.5 I become friends with Enid Alana at the daycare after we share lunches.
Year 5. My mother returns to lawyering after taking a break to focus on family. Frederica watches us when she’s not at work and sends us to the daycare when she is.
Year 5.5 My family goes to Iceland to see the northern lights. It is a dream come true for Anais who kept suggesting the trip until my mother gave up and surrendered to her wish. Frederica, Silas, & I are mosly in awe, my mother was mosly concerned with the coldness, and the twins are convinced they are in space. It is breathtaking and I have dreams about it from time to time.
Year 6. My father marries his girlfriend Donata Stella at a church in Venice, Italy. Anais & I are flower girls along with our new stepsister Cosima Matilde. Silas is the ring bearer and our new stepbrother Amadeo Etorre is the bible bearer.
Year 7. I become a die-hard half-blood! Percy Jackson and the Olympians all the way. I also start reading more books.
Year 8. I join the Speech and Debate club.
Year 9. I meet Lovella Huifeng at Speech and Debate club and we become friends. Love, Enid, & I immediately become a trio. Lachlan joins us from time to time but he’s mostly with just me, as we are best friends.
Year 10. I learn to play the flute and start playing at the school orchestra.
Year 11. Our family goes to Disneyland. Anais complains about her feet the whole time, Silas gets rebuked by my mother for being “too hyperactive that it is unsafe” a little too many times, Frederica only rides the mild rides because she “might throw up”, and the twins and I surely had a blast!
Year 12. I decide that my favorite subject is English. I enjoy reading, writing, and speaking! Maybe I should be a journalist or writer? or a lawyer just like mom & dad!
Year 13. I discover that I am naturally talented in creative writing and not just writing after winning a school award. My English teacher, Miss Greta Lois, encouraged me to join the creative writing club and promised to help me enhance my skill.
Part 2
Part 2.
Year 14. I discover the riverbanks a few meters away from Lachlan’s house. We ask his father to set up a treehouse there with a table, chairs, and a hammock. Lachlan and I called it “The Housetree club.” The blow of the wind is refreshing and the view is beautiful at the top. Lachlan and I often hangout there after school and in the weekends. Enid & Love join us sometimes.
Year 15. My father and Donata give birth to twin boys Rumi Alessandro & Rowan Massimo.
Year 16. I realize that I am in love with Lachlan, but I try to keep it a secret.
Year 17. My siblings & I went to Venice, Italy with my father, Donata, and our stepsiblings. We all had fun and got to know his new family more.
Year 18. I am diagnosed with a latex allergy after having an allergic reaction to my latex gloves during Halloween.
Year 18.5. Enid taught Love, Lachlan, & me how to ride a motorcycle. This summer is about to turn so much more fun!
Part 3
Part 3.
Year 19. I manage to enter Harvard University’s B.A. English, minor in Creative Writing program but had an awful professor this semester named Octavius Thor. He is too pedantic, prescriptivist, and so far from the loving Miss Greta Lois.
Year 20. I decide to pursue History along with my English major after being inspired by a historical fiction assignment.
Year 21. I discover that I am cross-dominant because I noticed that I do involuntary movements with my left hand but voluntary movements with my right hand.
Year 21.5. Anais & her wife are having marital problems at home due to suspected cheating. I agree to keep my niece & nephew Enola Simone, 3 & Quentin Anselm, 1 at home while the situation at theirs haven’t calmed down yet.
Year 22. I move to a new house just a few walks away from campus. My father gave it to me as a gift after I told him my plans of continuing to law school at Harvard and working at the law firm near it. I totally appreciate the surprise but I feel more pressured to achieve my plans.
Year 22.5 I go to a solo vacation in Iceland to relieve my childhood memories. I never stopped dreaming about the northern lights when I sleep even after several years since that vacation.
Year 23. After years of secretly loving Lachlan, I finally meet someone that I am romantically interested in named Juliette Amabel. She is a Journalism major that I met in one of my communication classes. We see each other for months before we become official.
Year 23.5. Enid dies from a motorcycle accident during one stormy night. I promise to name my first daughter Enid in memory of her. Love, Lachlan, & I kept an altar dedicated to her in our old treehouse.
Year 24. I begin volunteer work as a paralegal in my prospected law firm during my senior year at Harvard.
Year 24.4. I take a roadtrip to Alaska with Lachlan. I realized that I am still in love with him despite being with Juliette, but decide to keep it to myself and try to sort out my feelings.
Year 25. I manage to enter Harvard Law School but failed a class for the first time in my life during the first semester. I asked both my mother and father who are both lawyers for help, and I managed to pass it on my retake.
Year 25.5. In a messy turn of events, the newly-broken-up-with-his-girlfriend Lachlan privately confesses he loved me his whole life right after I got engaged with Juliette on the celebration party of her graduation. I broke up with Juliette months after and got together with Lachlan.
Year 26. Lachlan got a raise in the architectural firm he works at. I decide to become a law clerk as a part-time job in my prospective law firm while I study in law school.
Year 26.5 Lachlan and I get married by the riverbanks after I graduate from law school. Love was my maid of honor and there was a tribute to Enid before the wedding. Our respective families (The Alcott family, The Monroe family, The Monroe-Lowell Family, The Amherst family), Miss Greta Lois and her family, Love’s family, Enid’s family, and our other friends and co-workers are there.
Year 27. I give birth to twins Condor Enoch & Canary Enid.
Year 27.5 Lachlan and I win an all expenses paid trip. We travelled all around Europe but left the twins to Silas & his wife because they are too young to travel.
Year 28. I begin writing a blog about my life as a multi-faceted lawyer who juggles motherhood, travelling, writing, and other hobbies. It immediately accumulated a following, mostly from fellow mothers.
Year 28.5 Lachlan gets diagnosed with a pollen allergy. This explains why his nose was always stuffed whenever we hanged out at the riverbanks, but he didn’t mind anyway.
Year 29. Lachlan inherits money and a ranch from his estranged grandfather. We saved the money in the bank and let the workers keep the ranch running. We visit from time to time. Enid loves cattle and horses, but Enoch is sill a little scared of them.
Year 29.5 I give birth to a girl named Skylark Nouvel.
Year 30. I got in a car accident on the way to the twins’ school. It is major and I have to go on an operation. Fortunately, the operation is a success.
Year 30.5. Enid gets into a fight at school after defending her twin brother from bullies.
Year 31. Enid joins the soccer team and Enoch joins the art club.
Year 31.5 We are surprised to find out that Enoch has a girlfriend in elementary school. Her name is Fleur Emmeline, and she is the most inquisitive and curious little girl. This is obviously innocent puppy love and we didn’t take it too seriously, but we found it cute.
Year 32. Enoch is diagnosed with Synesthesia. We realized why he loves art and is more artistically gifted than the kids his age.
Year 32.5 Lark is diagnosed with Hyperlexia. She is intellectually advanced for her age.
Year 33. We attended Lachlan’s extended family gathering. The Amhersts are surely jovial and warm people.
Year 33.5. Maude gives birth to my nephew Magnus Craven.
Year 34. I become a Partner at the law firm I work at and Lachlan becomes a Senior Architect.
Year 34.5 Lachlan and I go to Barcelona, Spain for his business trip. We left the kids in Margalo’s care. She’s definitely their favorite aunt.
Year 35. I give birth to a girl named Myna Sloane.
Year 35.5 I publish my first fictional book after a long creative slump after college. It slowly become a best-seller and I got a following under the detective mystery genre due to my unexpected, elaborate, and detailed twists. I used my law knowledge to conceptualize the happenings in the book.
Year 36. I give birth to a boy named Sparrow Lior.
Year 36.5 I renewed my vows with Lachlan on our 10th year anniversary by the riverbanks. Our love never faltered even after years, it is still as magical as the day we realized that we have loved each oher for the longest time. I guess this is what happens if you marry your best friend.
Year 37. Lachlan’s father passed away from cancer. My father visited from Italy to attend his amigo’s funeral. The whole family mourns, but Myna is especially affected by her grandfather’s passing because she is the closest to him.
Year 37.5 Our whole family took a road trip to Alaska. We retold the story of Lachlan and I’s trip and how I realized I’m in love with their father. Enid & Lark are upset with me for hurting Juliette’s feelings, and we joked about it on the way home. I assured them that Juliette and I are in good terms right now and that she is thriving with her career and engaged to a Victoria’s Secret model as of the moment. They realized that the Juliette I was talking about is Juliette they see hosting a famous late night show on Television. The kids jokingly roots for her now over their father.
Year 38. Enoch comes out as bisexual. Everyone offers their unconditional love and support.
Year 38.5 Inspired by her twin brother, Enid finally comes out as lesbian. Everyone offers their unconditional love and support. The family decides to donate to several LGBTQ+ organizations to honor their newly out children.
Year 39. Sparrow begs for a cat. You remember Bluebell and how brokenhearted you were when she finally succombed to old age. Nevertheless, you don’t want to deny your child of the happiness and love a pet can bring. You get him a Bombay cat which he specifically requested after you showed him pics of Bluebell. He names it Carolinus.
Year 39.5. Lark learns how to swim and is exceptionally good at it for a beginner.
Year 40. Sparrow is diagnosed with ADHD.
Part 4
Part 4.
The Alcott & Monroe Families
Pearl Robin, 70 & Frederica Ailsa, 59
Wren Maddox, 74 & Donata Stella, 65
Anais Raven, 46
Silas Peregrine, 44
Neve Mavis, 40
Maude Finch & Margalo Dove, 37 (adopted)
Amadeo Etorre, 39 (stepbrother)
Cosima Matilde, 37 (stepsister)
Rumi Alessandro & Rowan Massimo, 23 (stepbrothers)
Bluebell, deceased
The Monroe-Amherst Family
Neve Mavis, 40 & Lachlan Pieter, 40
Condor Enoch & Canary Enid, 13
Skylark Nouvel, 11
Myna Sloane, 5
Sparrow Lior, 4
Carolinus (cat)
Friends
Lachlan Pieter, 40
Enid Alana, deceased
Lovella Huifeng, 40
Greta Lois, 59 (former teacher & mentor)
Affiliations
Creative Writing Club (former)
Speech and Debate Club (former)
School Orchestra as a flutist (former)
Harvard University (alumni)
Harvard Law School (alumni)
Law firm (partner)
Skills, Hobbies, & Favorite subject
English
Creative Writing
Riding the motorcycle
Nieces & Nephews (only those revealed in the story)
Enola Simone, 19 (Anais’s daughter)
Quentin Anselm, 17 (Anais’s son)
Magnus Craven, 7 (Maude’s son)
Year 41. I join a PTA of my children’s school. I mostly acted as a leader in discussing possible activities for child development. Lachlan & I specifically chose this school because of its excellence.
Year 41.5. Lachlan & I decide to become foster parents. We fostered two infant girls named Ode Acantha & Rue Agape.
Year 42. Sparrow is diagnosed with autism along with his ADHD.
Year 42.5 Lachlan & I are having marital problems but we are able to sort it out and stay together. We consider taking couple’s therapy to find out what is happening in our relationship.
Year 43. We move to England due to a work opportunity. We transfered to our respective law & architectural firms’ English branch.
Year 43.5 We had a stay-cation to fully familiarize ourselves with our new city.
Year 44. I decide to kick my alcoholism.
Year 44.5 After slowly becoming sober, I begin taking a yoga class to further elevate my health. I find it boring but my classmates were nice & friendly, so I continue attending.
Year 45. We attend Lark’s swimming event. She wins the championship and we ate at a fancy restaurant to celebrate right after.
Year 45.5 Myna asks me to teach her the flute. She follows my footsteps and joins the school orchestra.
Year 46. Sparrow gets diagnosed with a heart disease. Everyone is anxious and devastated with the news but I told them to not alarm their brother. Sparrow is the calmest out of everyone even though we know he fully understands the implications.
Year 46.5 To our surprise, Enoch reintroduces Fleur as his actual girlfriend. Everyone welcomed her to the family. Lachlan says he expected it, he truly is his son.
Year 47. Myna’s best friend’s family invited her to go with them on a camping trip in Devon, England. I let her go but not without tons of warnings and safety reminders.
Year 47.5 Sparrow confides to me about feeling lesser and weaker than his siblings: the artistic Enoch, the adventurous and athletic Enid, the academically gifted and athletic Skylark, and the musical genius Myna. He thinks that his defining characteristics have become his illness and neurodivergence, which he isn’t exactly proud of. I assured him and promised to help him find what he enjoys like his siblings.
48. Sparrow tries the Astronomy club. He enjoys it and says that he wants to work in NASA someday.
48.5 Enid has a soccer event. They win the game and she bags the MVP award. We went on a picnic to celebrate right after.
49. Fleur’s family invited Enoch to come along to their vacation all over Italy. I let him go and he visited his grandpa Wren while at it.
49.5 Lachlan & I make a lifelong goal to travel as much as we can while we still can.
50. I begin taking a photography class. My head spins at the different terms. I think I’ll stick to writing.
50.5 Sparrow wins an award for his research project on Astronomy. We visited the planetarium right after to celebrate.
51. Enoch was injured from fighting goons that attacked Fleur. He is in critical condition in the hospital but his vitals are slowly stabilizing.
51.5 Enid introduces her girlfriend named Georgette Anatolia. She provides balance with her tact in contrast to Enid’s rashness.
52. Rowan’s wife give birth to a girl named Leopoldine Agatha.
52.5 Lachlan & I discovered a quiet green spot near us that reminded us of our Housetree club back home. We build a treehouse for the kids to enjoy and experience.
53. We took a vacation to Iceland to see the northern lights and make them experience what I experienced before. Sparrow falls in love with the phenomenon and wants to study it. Skylark offers to help in the study, although we know she already knows what causes it.
53.5 Lachlan, Love, & I went on a vacation back home. We left Skylark in charge of Myna & Sparrow.
54. I decide to open a book-binding business for fun. Skylark mostly runs it, while Myna & Sparrow helps in their free time.
54.5 Skylark confides to me about the pressure she feels in studying in Oxford University’s Politics, Philosophy, and Economics program. I was able to emphatize with her because I experienced the same imposter’s syndrome caused by studying in a prestigious university. I assure her that I’m proud of everything she has achieved and she is doing great, so she doesn’t have to try harder.
55. Enoch & Fleur marries and gives birth to a girl named Robin Dorothy.
55.5 Lachlan & I bought the 2022 Rolls-Royce Ghost Black Badge.
56. Enid & Georgette marries and adopts twins Claudia Bellatrix & Georgia Cassiopeia.
56.5 Enoch’s art is being displayed at a local gallery event. He uses mostly oil paint.
57. Skylark learns how to drive a racecar and starts doing it professionally.
57.5 Skylark marries fellow academic Pomona Isault at a castle wedding in Germany. The whole family attended and welcomed Pomona to the family.
58. Myna gets accepted into the prestigious English Symphony Orchestra after graduating from Royal Academy of Music. Sparrow is in his senior year of his BS Astrophysics program at Imperial College London.
58.5 Skylark & Pomona adopts a boy named Blanchard Swan.
59. We take a family vacation back home! I missed my mother & siblings.
59.5 My mother dies from several complications due to old age.
60. Lachlan & I decide to have more date nights like trying out and learning a different board game every week.
60.5 My father dies from several complications due to old age
Part 5.
The Alcott & Monroe Families
Pearl Robin, deceased & Frederica Ailsa, 79
Wren Maddox, deceased & Donata Stella, 85
Anais Raven, 66
Silas Peregrine, 64
Neve Mavis, 60
Maude Finch & Margalo Dove, 57 (adopted)
Amadeo Etorre, 59 (stepbrother)
Cosima Matilde, 57 (stepsister)
Rumi Alessandro & Rowan Massimo, 53 (stepbrothers)
Bluebell, deceased
The Monroe-Amherst Family
Neve Mavis, 60 & Lachlan Pieter, 60
Condor Enoch & Canary Enid, 33
Skylark Nouvel, 31
Myna Sloane, 25
Sparrow Lior, 24
Carolinus, deceased
Friends
Lachlan Pieter, 60
Enid Alana, deceased
Lovella Huifeng, 60
Greta Lois, 79 (former teacher & mentor)
Affiliations
Creative Writing Club (former)
Speech and Debate Club (former)
School Orchestra as a flutist (former)
Harvard University (alumni)
Harvard Law School (alumni)
Law firm (partner)
Skills, Hobbies, & Favorite subject
English
Creative Writing
Riding the motorcycle
Nieces & Nephews (only those revealed in the story)
Enola Simone, 39 (Anais’s daughter)
Quentin Anselm, 37 (Anais’s son)
Magnus Craven, 27 (Maude’s son)
Leopoldine Agatha, 8 (Rowan’s daughter)
Grandchildren
Robin Dorothy, 5 (Enoch’s daughter)
Claudia Bellatrix & Georgia Cassiopeia, 4 (Enid’s daughters)
Blanchard Phoenix, 2 (Lark’s son)
Year 61. I decrease work hours as a lawyer to take our book binding business seriously.
Year 61.5. We host a family gathering. We invited our extended families.
Year 62. Lachlan & I went on a vacation all over Asia. The Philippines’ tropical islands were exceptionally beautiful.
Year 62.5. I am falling out with Love due our busy schedules and far distance. Nevertheless, we promised to have video calls more often.
Year 63. Lachlan & I renew vows on our 40th anniversary! It is still as magical as it has always been.
Year 63.5. Myna gets married with her long term boyfriend, a pianist named Dmitri Vaughn. He is a sweet and caring lad who suits her so much.
Year 64. Myna gives birth to a boy named Hawk Atticus.
Year 64.5. Dorothy comes out as pansexual. Everyone offers their unconditional love and support.
Year 65. Enoch & Fleur gives birth to a girl named Merle Verity.
Year 65.5. Myna & Dmitri gves birth to a baby boy named Heron Alexandre.
Year 66. I went to a Taylor Swift concert with Claudia & Georgia. I’m amazed at how the twins know every single lyric to every song Taylor Swift performed.
Year 66.5. I had an argument with Myna because she thinks I’m spoiling Hawk & Heron. We were able to sort it out by agreeing that I should be stricter and she should be less strict.
Year 67. We adopt another Bombay cat named Mistletoe.
Year 67.5. We attend Merle’s first ballet dance recital.
Year 68. Sparrow comes out as gay and introduces his long time boyfriend, Stefano Giorge. He is a very extroverted, friendly, and sassy person. There is no dull moment with him and he truly balances with Sparrow’s more serious and awkward demeanor. We learn that he is a vintner.
Year 68.5. Merle joins the performing arts club.
Year 69. Lark & Pomona gets a divorce. A marriage between two overachievers rarely work because they’re both prideful people who never back down. Phoenix stays with Pomona but they agree to co-parent.
Year 69.5. Dorothy joins the Lacrosse team and invites the whole family to her games.
[name_f]Pearl[/name_f] [name_u]Robin[/name_u] 
& [name_u]Wren[/name_u] [name_u]Maddox[/name_u] 
[name_f]Anais[/name_f] [name_u]Raven[/name_u] 
[name_f]Enola[/name_f] [name_u]Simone[/name_u], 59
[name_u]Robin[/name_u] [name_f]Dorothy[/name_f], 25 & unnamed boyfriend
[name_u]Falcon[/name_u] [name_m]Pierre[/name_m], 2