Nine months (aka 3 days) later, Arianna welcomed not one, but two half-alien children into her sparsely furnished beach house. As the basement was still unfinished and the house itself was rather small, the two cribs had to squeeze into her bedroom. This meant that the hard job of being a single mom to twins was even harder, as getting a whole night's sleep was nigh to impossible. Was it then any shock that she fell asleep while cooking lunch and nearly burned the house down?
Bastion and Brionna grew quickly, thankfully. Not having much furniture meant that there wasn't much trouble to get into. Other than a few quick shooings from the toilet, the kids kept to their toys. Alternatively, they would just sit around and stare off into space. Very exciting.
"Hi mommy! We're kids now!"
"Great, maybe I can get some sleep."
The twins were remarkably outgoing children who enjoyed playing on the beach in their backyard at every opportunity.
For one day only, Arianna took a chance and hired a nanny. Karen whats-her-name somehow managed not to burn the house down or leave the lot early, causing the social worker to show. She did manage to bug the living hell out of the children and failed to feed them. Eh. Good childcare is hard to find. Thankfully, the twins soon became teenagers and no longer needed supervision before and after school. So far, so good for the Mayo genomes.
"So, like, I heard that you can totally make a lot of money just playing games.""But, Marianne, isn't that the Gamer career? Don't you have to take part in one of those gold-farming scams to move up in it?"
"Just for one day. No biggie."
Bastion secretly wonders what planet his alien mother came from. I don't think she's from Saturn, kiddo.
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