Two Families Under One Roof

Well, I wanted to make this update really dramatic. But I bought Open for Business last weekend and I’ve been busy with that, so I had to hurry this story. There’s a lot packed into it.

As told by Owen Armani-Versace

Allow me to introduce myself. I’m Owen Morgan and I live in a quick-expanding neighborhood called Whitecreek. I moved here right when I became a teenager; my mother passed away after my baby brother Evan was born. My father worked as a security guard and it was getting us by. Then I met a girl while I was at the grocery store, buying some milk for Evan. A girl about my age with curly brown hair dropped a couple of milk cartons. I helped her pick them up. She introduced herself as Ella Armani-Versace. I immediately felt uncomfortable; me, a poor kid with no mother and a baby to look after, and I was in the presence of one of the richest people in Whitecreek. She was really nice, though. And pretty. We became friends and after awhile she agreed to go steady. Some time later, I proposed to her and she said yes! We had a lovely wedding in the small gazebo in her backyard.

After the wedding we all danced. I came to know her family and friends.

Ella’s nephew, Jacob, had a birthday. His father, Edmund, says he’s grown nicely.

And then Ella realized she was going to have a baby girl!

The baby was born in the kitchen, actually, and all but Jacob were there to greet the child.

We named her Carly, and she soon grew up to be a child. But she doesn’t look like me or Ella.

We began doing a fair bit of reconstruction around the house, as the first floor was large and empty.

Then Jacob had another birthday! I wonder if he’ll start running after a girl as soon as possible, like Edmund says he used to do. I sort of did that, too, come to think of it!

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