Chapter 68: Graduation

"Maximus, are you ready yet? Jeez, it always takes ages for you to get ready. You're worse than most girls." Even though no one is there to see me, I roll my eyes far back into my head as I hear Helena once again annoying the crap out of me. It's my graduation day, and she's come back to congratulate... or annoy me? I can't really tell the difference. I think she's back for the summer anyway. I hope she brought Soleil with her. "Yeah, Helena, I'm...

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Chapter 67: Responsibility

"Waaaah!!!" The sounds of a baby crying jar me awake from the peaceful sleep I was having. I swear I just fed and changed the baby five minutes ago. The sheets of my bed rustle as I get up to see what Nikolai wants. RATTLE! RATTLE! The crib threatens to fall apart into a million pieces with how hard the baby is shaking the rails. How did he get so big already? I feel like it was just yesterday when he came home from the hospital, all wrapped...

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Chapter 66: Party

I suddenly had a desire to learn something new after fixing the shower and finding it kind of fun. I'd read one of the handyman books we had lying around the house and was going to test out an addition to the kitchen sink to make it self-cleaning. Mom was out of town, with Helena, who finally got accepted to a college that was in Sapphire Valley. They were on a campus tour to get Helena acquainted with her new surroundings. My phone rang in the...

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