Residents: Davina Derico, Rex Derico, Jenna Jeffress
Jenna Jeffress slid into bed with a sigh. Here she was, in one of the spare room’s of the house Davina had purchased. Rex was on the otherside of the wall. It seemed wrong to be this way now, that they were no longer in college. Why hadn’t they married yet? Everyone else had. It just didn’t seem right. Still… what could she do? If she were to say something, he’d likely get mad, and tell her to leave. She didn’t want to live in her brother’s house and she certainly didn’t want to live alone. So she kept quiet.
Her lonely days were filled with feeding her pet plant, a trinket she’d picked up on a spare job she had while going through the police academy. It was a strange and gruesome looking thing, but Jenna couldn’t help but love it. She found it harmless and endearing. When Rex saw it, he simply blinked, shook his head, and walked away. He didn’t go out of his way to avoid, but he wouldn’t feed it, either. Davina was fascinated by it. She would feed it while Jenna worked. She could also be found observing it from the kitchen window when the house was quiet.
It wasn’t long before the plant became affectionately known as ‘Spooky’.
When Davina wasn’t feeding Spooky or wandering about the house, she was catching up with her old ways. She’d forfeited much of it to raise Rex, but he was an adult now. So she phoned up her former lover’s children and the cycle began all over again. It was a little odd, dating their children instead of them… but they were almost indenticle, so what did it matter?
Jenna didn’t mind, and Rex didn’t seem to even notice. So Davina let herself enjoy the last of her living years.
After Elle and Diana had settled back in the neighborhood, they could often be found visiting. Elle was always caring for the garden. Anytime she happened to be walking by, she would stop and water the Derico’s flowers. It was a little odd, but knowing Elle, not completely out of character. As normal as she tried to be, there was definitely something extremely… off… in her mind. She was a walking case of OCD at times.
Rex didn’t notice the flowers, nor much of the house. He hardly slept in his bed, and when he wasn’t working, he spent his nights gazing at the stars. He ignored Jenna’s pleas for attention, and he brushed aside his aunt’s lectures. Being normal was driving him crazy. He was restless and irritable, his patience wearing thin. He had things to do, but before he could do them, certain events needed to take place.
So he vented his frustrations by looking to the sky for answers. The only reason he even spoke to Jenna originally was because of the stories he had heard. Her mother, Jania, had been abducted while Jenna was still a fetus. Whether it impacted the girl or not was still a mystery. One thing was for sure, though… Jenna had the uncanny ability to learn things almost instantly. Rex even found himself asking for her help when he needed to improve his skills.
One night, the stars gave Rex their answer. It wasn’t the one he’d been hoping for. Jenna witnessed the entire thing, her anxiety over what had happened to her before she was born washing over her once again. She’d never felt entirely normal, and in truth, she wasn’t. She could learn by osmosis… a fact she tried desperately hard to hide throughout her life. It was the reason almost all her skills were maxed. It was how she did so well in school with minimal effort. She wasn’t an alien, perse, but the experience had definitely changed her.
Now they’d taken her fiancé! Rex was bizarre enough as it was, he didn’t need to be made any worse!
The rest of the night was an anxious and tense one. Both Jenna and Davina were walking on pins and needles, waiting desperately for Rex’s return. When he finally walked through the door, Jenna jumped on him. She was so happy to see that he was okay. He wasn’t green, there wasn’t anything weird attached to him, and he didn’t seem to be too out of sorts.
Rex assured her that he was fine. When he was finally able to pry her off him, he retired to his room. Jenna reluctantly went to hers, but she didn’t sleep. Rex was okay, but something felt… different.
Rex was ‘alien’ pregnant. It was a fact that the entire house had a hard time coming to terms with, especially Rex. This would set back his plans considerably. Now he had a child to care for. This was what he was trying to avoid by keeping Jenna at a distance! Oh, the funny ways in which fate works.
Jenna eventually warmed up to the idea. She felt a strange bond with the unborn child, despite it having no relation to hers. She also hoped that having a child himself would bring Rex around. She was getting tired of waiting. Her patience was all but gone.
Yay for alien babies! Especially attractive ones. I have a Polli Tech mod… so no deformed alien children for me. Too bad it took him so long to get abducted. The house cycle ended before he could give birth.