August 29, 2010
Chapter 17: Double Toil, Double Trouble
Author’s Note: Ok, all, I know, I know, I’ve really been MIA, but truly my excuses are sound. I was away on vacation for some weeks with no computer available to me, and then I moved right after which also left me unconnected. I’m really sorry for the long hiatus. Hopefully it will not happen again. Lol, at this point I’ve been so long from the game I can barely remember what went on in it, so the chapter may seem a littl rushed. But thank you to all who are still reading this.
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Chapter 17: Double Toil, Double Trouble
The birth of the twins, Vienna and Venice, really turned the Van Pagan household upside down. The girls were no doubt adorable, but they were just so noisy. No one in the house got any sleep until they became toddlers, which couldn’t come soon enough in Petra’s opinion. With Joann so often on call at the hospital, she was frequently left alone with both girls, as Petra’s parents died back to back not long after the twins were born.
But with their first birthday came peace, as despite the many differences between the girls, their one common trait were as “loners”, and neither ever minded being left to play on their own whenever Petra decided to spend one-on-one time with the other, or just needed a little alone time for herself.
However, after that one trait, all similarities between the two ended. They were not identical in either looks or personality. Vienna, the older of the two, was good, yet excitable. She truly was an angel, and was always well behaved, though she was known to be a bit absent minded at times.
Little Vienna
Little Venice
Venice
Vienna
Venice on the other hand, wasn’t necessarily bad, only that she was born with the insanity trait, which meant that days with her were wholly unpredictable. Petra was never sure whether her little girl was going to stand in a corner talking to herself or go to school with just a bathing suit on, something she did quite frequently. Yet she was also artistic, a workaholic, and a perfectionist, and could easily spend hours working on her paintings. Petra encouraged this, as it was the only time she ever really seemed to be focused, all of which paid off as Venice was already an accomplished, highly paid artist by the time the twins were in high school. Somehow despite her social inadequacies she made many friends without ever really trying and garnered much attention from everyone around her.
Understandably, this lead to some feelings of jealousy on Vienna’s part. She and Venice were good friends, but it annoyed Vienna how she was so often pushed in the shadows. She herself was a highly skilled writer, though no one really seemed to notice or care, and would spend hours pouring her hidden feelings into her semi-autobiographical works. Both Joann, who Vienna was very close to, and Gabe, her father, tried to talk to her about it. But aside from their usual spiel of “Venice is a very special girl, and that’s why she’s treated differently”, the only thing Vienna got from either of these conversations is that she would just have to be “special” too if she wanted things to be different.
Father Knows Best
So the moment their birthdays came around, and the twins were now young adults, Vienna shed her good girl, angelic image, and went a bit wild. Deciding to put her career as a writer aside, she jumped into a job as a stylist, and made sure her very first client was herself, by dyeing her hair hot pink, and getting a small tattoo on her ankle.
Penny for you thoughts, Vienna
Party time!
Venice
Vienna
With her new found “edge”, Vienna soon found out that life on the edge wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. She quickly got bored of her stylist job, and quickly got bored with flirting around from guy to guy. She missed her writing, and she wanted to settle down with a family of her own. It didn’t help that she had met and fallen for Tom Barclay, a long time friend of the family’s, and quicker than a shotgun wedding, she was dragging him down the aisle for an at-home DIY private wedding.
Tom the cutie
Rules of Engagement
And as often with quickie weddings, quickie babies soon follow, which Vienna was soon to realize. Not long after she said “I do”, she was giving birth to a little girl who she named Havana. Havana was adorable, but still Vienna was surprised that Venice announced that she wanted a baby too. For while Vienna was always jealous of all the attention Venice received, Venice looked up to her twin and wanted to be like her, which meant meant she grabbed up the first guy she met, a short order cook named Adrian, and had a DIY wedding of her own. Her son Melbourne soon followed.
Something's in the oven
Baby Havana
Venice and Adrian sittin in a tree...
B-A-B-Y
Baby Melbourne
tipix7 said,
September 4, 2010 at 7:24 pm
Oh, I wonder who will be the heiress with both girls already mothers? Fastest generation ever – although it’s nice to see what the Van Pagans are up to!