Residents: Damian & Alice Derico, Diana Derico, Jamie Derico, Randy Derico
Jamie: Hey, what’s up? Jamie Derico here. Yep… that’s right. ANOTHER Derico kid. We’re taking this valley over, man! They need to rename it! Derico power!
Oh, uh, sorry about that. Umm… where was? Oh, right… right. The family… well, as you can see, I’m very much a teenager now. Yep, yep… all strapping young lad-like and stuff. Its kinda cool, except the homework is a LOT harder. Meh, someday I won’t need homework… I’ll be rolling in the green stuff. Yeah, that’s right, cashola to the max, man. Just you wait, it’ll happen! I’m gonna take over my grandma’s old corportation!
Anyway, enough about me, right? Let’s talk about Randy. He’s growing like a weed. He can talk, walk, and do pretty much all that cute kid stuff now. I dunno how mom does it. I’d be going crazy, dealing with all this child rearing. Sure, I wanna contribute to the Derico gene pool someday, but four kids? No way, man! That’s just way too much diaper duty for me. Its bad enough I’ll have to babysit when Diana heads off to college.
Speaking of Diana, I’m really gonna miss her when she goes. We do our homework together a lot, and that’s pretty much the only way mine gets done! I’m just not a book guy. School is way too boring. Who wants to sit there and listen to some old person go on and on about crap that doesn’t even matter anymore? Pffft!
One class I do love, though, is economics. I may be kinda dumb, but that is totally my area, man! Money is awesome.
Of course, Dad tries his hardest to get me into military stuff. I mean… its all right, but I know what I wanna do. I don’t mind the training, though. Looking good is important! Plus… y’know… chicks dig being able to wash clothing on your stomach. I dunno WHY, since we’ve got that nice little thing called a washing machine, but hey. Who am I to complain? That’s some we Dericos are great at. Looking good, I mean… not washing clothes. Though I’m sure we’re not too shabby at that, either!
Diana makes that obvious. Ever since Jenna left the scene, Diana is the hot stuff. It drives dad crazy, he’s always shooing some random teenage boy away from the house. He didn’t manage to shoo Kenny away before he got a smooch in on Diana, though. It was the day before she left for college, she didn’t want to be a young adult who’d never been kissed. Good thing she ran off before dad could catch up to her.
Right after Diana took off, Randy left the diapers behind. He’s a kid now, and a strange one, at that. He wears this pirate outfit all the time. It drives mom nuts! You can bet without a doubt that he’ll be in one of the bathroom, playing pirates in the bathtub.
Mom says he’s just “creative”. If he’s so creative, why doesn’t he just make himself a boat instead of hogging the bathtub all the time?
Whole lot of birthdays going on around here! Mom is all old and gray. She doesn’t seem to mind, and neither does dad. Its a little weird, you know? I mean… dad is a few years younger… so its weird to see them being all… parent-like and gross. I mean, even more than before! I guess I should be happy that they still get along so well after all these years, but man. Ew. Get a room!
They’re not the only one’s getting romantic around here, though. I’ve been seeing this girl, Brenda. She’s real pretty and we get along really well. Mom and dad don’t mind, really. We’re not doing anything bad… we just go out on dates, or she comes over and we do our homework together. She’s a little younger than I am, and me being a senior in highschool… yeah… who knows how long it’ll last.
Mom is starting to get ‘empty nest syndrome’… at least, that’s what I heard my Aunt Jania say when she was visiting the other day. She’s really fussing over Randy, her last ‘baby’. He’s not far from becoming a teenager, and I guess she’s feeling the years passing her by or whatever. Plus, I’m about to go to college! Oh yeah, I totally got accepted into the same University as my other family members. Gotta love them scholarships.
Graduation was over in a blink, and so was the summer! Soon I was saying goodbye to Brenda. We both agreed that it just wasn’t a good idea to continue our relationship. She was planning on a different university… so yeah. It was a sad day… but then I started thinking about all the ladies I’d meet at college and I cheered up reeeal quick. What? Hey, I’m young, man. You can’t tie yourself down too early! Gotta experience life and all that. Plus, maybe I’ll meet some rich debutante… now that’d be sweet.
Right before I left, dad had his birthday. Now he’s old like mom. Its still creepy, but not as much. Plus, I don’t gotta watch their smooch fests anymore! I’m off to college. Look out, Aridestra Greek house, here I come!
Jamie Derico
Fortune (Business Tycoon)
7, 2, 9, 7, 10 (Pisces)
Ew, ew! I can’t believe I confused Jamie and Randy. I’m so silly. Too many babies! Cursed Derico breeding.