4:1 Routine

 "Come on little ladies, lets go to work." Kaity carried her daughters out the door, and the short distance across the grass to her cabin. This was work. After realising she needed a job, not for money, but for sanity, she'd tried applying but nowhere would hire with the right hours. After moaning continuously to her siblings and Shaena for months, Shaena had pointed out that she had a gift and should use it.

The best part about working at home and being her own boss, was that she didn't have to find a babysitter for the twins. Rose didn't work, and Shaena hadn't until Kaity had hired her, but it was so much easier not having to worry about dropping them off and picking them up.

It had started off really quiet when it had just been Kaity. Apparently there weren't a lot of people around daytime on weekdays in Sunset Valley, and the ones that were, didn't want to know their future. Shaena had yet again, made a great suggestion at this point.
"Why not sell herbal remedies and those gem stones that are supposed to soothe the soul?"
And so that was Shaena's job. She'd go out and collect stones, herbs, flowers and insects on a Monday, and the pair of them would spend the rest of the week polishing the stones and grinding the plants and insects into fine dust to be compacted into pills.

"What time do you call this?" Kaity joked, as Shaena burst through the doors of the cabin ten minutes late.
"Sorry, I couldn't get away from Alex-"
"EW! Shae! There are kids present!"

"Not like that!" Shaena sighed as she dropped down into her chair. "That's all you ever think of. Where the next hot guy will come from is second."
"Hey, nothing wrong with appreciating the fine male form." Kaity grinned as she sat at her own desk to start polishing. The twins were playing calmly with their toys, as they always did.

"So, what couldn't you get away from?" She asked.
"It's nothing, just a tiny argument. Didn't want to go to work without clearing it up because he's working late again tonight." Kaity wanted to point out that Alex was 'working late' a lot recently, but didn't seem to bring in any extra money. Remembering how she'd pointed it out last week, and the two hours of the silent treatment she'd recieved as punishment, she changed the subject.

"Hey, it's Wednesday. You coming with me to your brothers?" Luis and Layla had had twin girls not long after Kaity's twins were born, and so every Wednesday evening, the girls had a playdate. Occasionally, Rose would bring Lucas, but if not Kaity would take the twins over to see him a different night. All the parents were happy the babies had been timed so well, even if it hadn't been planned. The kids would have loads of friends their own age.
"Of course, Alex won't be back 'til about ten, so I'll help you put the girls to bed after if you want?"
"Of course I want. You can be on diaper duty." Kaity grinned at Shaena's disgusted expression. "You know you love it."

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When they arrived at the Lansing household, they were shocked to find little Liana out in the snow on the porch on her own. Layla opened the door, and was as surprised as they were, apparently.

"Liana!" She exclaimed, picking her daughter up and inviting the visitors inside.
"Mummy! Snow is fun!" Liana gurgled as Layla bought her through to the living area.

The house soon turned to mayhem, Jaydean and Liana crawling and flying around the living room, while Sophie and Lyris were creating havoc in the entranceway. None of the adults minded, not even Shaena, who had no kids of her own. They were all used to this, and as Rose, Myles and Lucas lived just next door, this house or theirs was usually the meeting place for all the playdates.

Luis and Layla didn't mind when Kaity asked if they would be ok watching her twins for a few more hours while she took Shaena out drinking, even though Shaena was adamant that she didn't need cheering up, and didn't want to go to a club midweek, she soon went along with it when Kaity gave her the puppy-dog eyes.

It was ladies' night, much to Kaity's dissapointment. She wouldn't score tonight, but she'd invited Bonnie out as well, and the three girls had plenty of gossip to share.

Shaena wasn't really comfortable gossiping. Especially when they started talking about Alex's younger sister. Sure, she thought she was odd too, but she also hoped to one day be joined to the Farrah family, and didn't fancy her future sister-in-law finding out.

And so she headed to the dancefloor, leaving her friends to carry on gossiping.

And to order the drinks for her.

Kaity was very confused by how the bartender was dressed, and she looked like she was fishing for tips the way she juggled the bottles and hummed a tune.

"Ta-da!" The bartender finished with a flourish. What a loser! Kaity thought as she took a drink.
"Bonnie! Shae! Drinks are served!"

This drink was strong. Very strong...

She could just make out Shaena's angry expression as she stood next to Alex's sister. She could tell that was Bonnie on the dancefloor... Was that Alex? Why was Alex here with his sister? He was supposed to be working late...

She picked up a drink from the bar, not realising it wasn't one of the ones she'd ordered. One more for courage, she thought. She was going to do something about Alex once and for all.

Shame she couldn't remember anything past that...





Yep. Luis, Layla, Liana and Lyris Lansing. LOL! :p
Sophie is the one who inherited Kaity's eyes and hair, Jaydean is the one with darker eyes and hair. I realised I didn't really differentiate between them throughout the whole chapter. And yes, I made them identical, because I was annoyed when they weren't >:( I did make them look slightly different though, it should be more obvious as they get older and dress themselves differently, though.

You may have noticed (probably not, it didn't feature a lot) that I did a LOT of renovations on the legacy house. I'll post all that in it's own chapter in a few days, because I have a lot of pictures and am very proud of it :)