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Friday afternoon marked the end of Jaz’s first week at school. Marnie rounded up all the younger kids because Myles wanted to go to the park… and Phoenix made sure to call in his League of Adventurers to meet them there.

(I started out the outing by modifying the park to add some stuff for everyone to do, including basketball, more kids area, more chess boards, some toddler play stuff, and a closet for the club activities.)

Marnie took the toddlers over to the new jungle gym, trying to give them something to do while she made some dinner for everyone.

Phoenix immediately gathered on the jungle gym, and Myles wandered over curiously, but didn’t join in.

Marnie had brought plenty of Hot Dogs to share with everyone, and with the toddlers occupied for the moment, she set about making them.

Phoenix and friends socialized and had a great time.

Myles socialized a bit, but he had other things on his mind.

Luckily, the twins were having a fabulous time.

… And so was everyone else. (Apparently my modifications to the park were well-received.)

Jaz’s priority for the afternoon was the three games of chess she needed for her aspiration. This is her second. (I have no idea who the lurker man is, but he kinda reminds me of my over-tanned neighbor IRL.)

Once the hot dogs were ready, Marnie called everyone to eat. Myles finished first, and set about teasing his younger sister. (Who was not impressed.)

Phoenix, however, took the moment to try and usurp the leadership of the club from Elsa.

She wasn’t going to hear any of it, unfortunately.

On the other side of the playground, Myles was still torturing his sister… who played off her annoyance with a yawn.

Myles shoved her, and tried to pick a fight, never realizing that Marnie had noticed the altercation and headed their direction.

She arrived just in time to see Jazmyn finally let loose on her annoying brown-nose brother.

Needless to say, Marnie was NOT happy about it, and immediately gave Jaz a time-out and forced her to do her homework. Marnie quickly cuddled Myles, making sure he was okay, and herded him away to work on scouts badges (which was what the outing had been for, after all.)

Phoenix had finally run out of energy, however, and picked himself up and headed back home.

Marnie and Myles finished off their evening with a friendly game of chess, while Jaz (finally out of time-out and with her homework finished) had found young Colin picking at a chess board, and decided to get her last chess game in.

The conversation started out okay, but soon he snidely brought up her school faux-pas. Annoyed, Jaz’s patience broke a bit, and she let him have it. Luckily, Marnie didn’t hear (or care about Colin or Jaz).. so Colin apologized and the game continued. (Although the game became far more cut-throat..)

Myles finished his night off with finding a few frogs for his Young Scientist badge, then Marnie packed up the twins (who were both napping on park benches by this time) and Myles, and they all headed home. She completely forgot about Jaz.. but Jaz wasn’t worried. She knew where home was.

Unfortunately, she came out the loser on the chess match, and she looked on with disbelief. “How did you beat me?!” she wailed, then stood up and stretched.

Yawning deeply, Jaz said goodbye to Colin (who was watching her slyly.. maybe he likes her more than he let on??) and headed home.

She was the last to arrive, but that just meant there was a free bathroom to take a quick, although cold, shower.. and head to bed.

The twins, however, were thoroughly wound up and wouldn’t stay in bed for anything. The active mice were not helping. Marnie struggled with them while Bennie snored happily (having actually attended work on his own for the second day in a row), and she ended up getting no sleep.. which didn’t bode well for the next day.

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