Life was now settled at Nancy’s place. Avri, being at the top of his career, had a lot of time on his hands so he built a shed out the back and began making toys. He made a kite for Mary and a firetruck for Joe.
Nancy had a concrete fence built around the house. Unfortunately it used up a lot of money and they found the simoleons greatly dwindled, but thanks to Avri’s salary it soon built up again. Nancy was promoted to MVP. The family was happy and the kids loved their parents.
But Nancy found, to her horror and quite by accident, that the twins were not Avri’s! (Actually I happened to look at the family tree and find that Avri wasn’t the dad!). No wonder the kids were good-looking. They took after their real father – Forest Greenwood (an old boyfriend). It’s no wonder she had twins – with twins on her side of the family and on Forest’s side (he’s from a family of 10). Oops. Nancy could’ve sworn she got pregnant after the wedding but it must have been before (and she didn’t even remember the deed!). Poor old Avri. But at least the kids had his surname.
Nancy found out that the old Broke house had been bought and a new family had moved in – none other than one of Forest’s younger brothers. That wasn’t so bad. What hurt was that the new family did away with the headstones – sold them off! The ghosts of Brandi and the girls were no more. Nancy felt even worse for abandoning the house but then they all seemed so much happier where they were (as long as Avri didn’t find out about the twins!).
Nancy’s older sister, Jeanette, continued to breed puppies. Another litter had just been born. She’d now bred 8 – almost halfway to her goal of 20. But tragedy struck. Lightning struck a tree at the back of the house and it burned the tree down and then set alight the untended garden (ie the weeds). Jeanette in her panic got too close.
She died and the dogs were taken away for adoption. I hadn’t planned this but I let it happen. I didn’t really want 20 dogs that all looked the same in the neighbourhood. She’d wanted to get married but there were no suitors and it was all rather tedious (mopping up dog wee and cleaning…).
So out of Brandi’s four girls, only one remained.
