Chapter 1.5

And tonight, the happenings of the Legacie abode are slightly off from the norm.



 Run, run run as fast as you can...



Now where, oh where, could this young lad be off to on a Friday night?

A social gathering area? For this loner? How unusual indeed.

Liam: Hey, it's Friday night. My teenage years have passed me by and I've done little to nothing in order to enjoy them!
Well, I say, are you -- Liam! Are you, drinking?!

Liam: What, are you going to stop me? You're nothing but a silly voice.

Liam: And anyyhhoww.... is juss like.... if I'mm not gonna carry on the next genrashun, I juss, I juss wann out of the whole thing. Ya know? I don't like wassing my time. And the dynamic is juss like.... you wouldn't believe!
Bartender: I think I'm cutting you off.Liam: But can I, can I finish my shtory?
Bartender: Everyone has a sob story, kid. And these days, everyone wants to be the heir of a Legacy, too.
Liam: Well, I nn....never.... *falls off chair*
Bartender: Someone call this kid a cab! 

In the meantime....

Lana, Old Creepy Popular Witch that she is, was invited to a little party. Took her a couple hours to find the right house, poor senile thing, but eventually she arrived. In fact, she arrived at about the time Liam finally stumbled home (just in time for curfew, I might add). Lana was off doing her own thing when disaster struck.

Lana: Disaster? Say what?

What happened, you may ask? Well, let's just mosey on over to the Legacie abode, leave Lana to her partying, and see what's going on.



Grady isn't stargazing! What in tarnation?!
But wait..... his feet are mysteriously off the ground! Is it..... time?

Natalie: Please, Mr. Reaper, we need our father!
Caden: Don't do it! I hardly know the guy!
Grady: Do you hear them? They need me.
Grim Reaper: Alright, enough. We've been doing this for like 2 hours. Jump into your urn already.
Grady: Please, have some sensitivity!
Grim Reaper: Not in my vocabulary. On with you, go on!
Natalie and Caden: Noooooo!
And Lana missed the whole thing. Her husband is gone, and she's off sipping cocktails with her elderly friends. Tsk, tsk.



Poor Liam.....



Naturally, bad occurences must happen all at once, and therefore....



Needless to say, Lana shouldn't have been cooking while mourning. It is dangerous to multitask when emotionally damaged. But the family needed to eat, and she was making an effort to fulfill her motherly duties. And, naturally, there was no fire alarm, because the Legacie's had been saving up for some redecorating and renovating. Lana, snap out of it and retrieve your children!

Lana: Oh, goodness! Liam, Natalie, Caden, go outside immediately! Run, run!

And call the fire department! For god's sake, hurry!

Lana: My stove, my beautiful stove!

GO OUTSIDE!



Of course the children were panic stricken and really just wanted to witness the terrible fire. Lana had a terrible time keeping them outside with her.

Lana: And that blasted repairman! He won't listen to me! He's just standing right by the fire and screaming! Oh dear, I hope the firemen come soon.

Oh dear.

Fireman: We can't reach the fire! Hopefully it burns out quickly.

Could you at least extinguish the gentleman? These children do not need to witness a man burned alive.

And Mr. Reaper paid us another visit, less than 24 hours later. Lana was starving, and I believe Natalie was thinking about.... theatre?

RIP Bubba. You should have stayed out of the fire (his gravestone engraving).

With all the turmoil it's easy to see why the family would be in disarray.


And to top it all off?


Natalie: Mom! Get Mr. Reaper out of my room! I don't like him!
Lana: How dare you stick around! Have you any compassion?
Grim Reaper: Excuse me? Do you know who I am?!Lana: You've done enough to us. Please leave.
Grim Reaper: I will leave, but only because I have other places to be.


Of course, life must go on in the Legacie family. Death is a natural course of life and everything continues, so the family will continue as well.
Today is Natalie's birthday.

Ehhh.....




Here we are. Natalie Legacie, who officially Cannot Stand Art.

Lana: I beg your pardon?
Natalie: And I wonder how that came to be. Maybe it was because you spent my entire childhood at that blasted easel!
Lana: Art is a part of this family and you will respect it, young lady!
Natalie: We'll see about that.

Lana is just Miss Popularity when it comes to parties. She gets invited left and right!

Lana: You know, Demarcus, I have a beautiful daughter I think you might like to meet. She's simply stunning, you would LOVE her.
Easy, Lana, she just became a teenager.



Natalie: Caden! Why are you eating cake when your brother is making us dinner?!



Caden: I can eat whatever I choose, whenever I please! So there! You're not the boss of me!
Natalie: When mother's not here, Liam and I are in charge.
Caden: Whatever. You're not in charge! Liam's the oldest! If he didn't want me to eat cake, he would have said so!
Natalie: He is too busy COOKING for us to even notice, you brat! And I AM in charge over you because I'm older than you!
Caden: Well, we'll just ask MOM about that!


And as the days passed by, things continued as normal in the Legacie house....

Lana continued painting, and finally was allowed to return to work.

Lana: I'm so good at what I do, my hand sparkles!
Yeah, you might want to get that checked out. Could be eczema, or dandruff of the hand, or something...

The chidlren spent their time attending school and doing their homework.



And, not so normal, Liam has been spending an awful lot of time making mysterious phone calls.

Caden: Could you keep it down Liam, I'm trying to study here.


And finally, the day arrived.

Lana became the Leader of the Free World! It has been done!

Lana: I did it! I did it! Yahooooo!
And now what, Lana?

Lana: I dunno. Maybe I'll retire. Not sure yet.
Well, alright then.


The same day, a birthday cake was on the dining room table. We all know what that means, but whose birthday is it today?






Why, it's Caden's, of course!

And here he is, with the handy trait.




Now is the time when an heir must be selected. It could be......

Liam Legacie
Loner, Workaholic, Eccentric, Friendly




Natalie Legacie
Clumsy, Virtuoso, Excitable, Can't Stand Art


OR

Caden Legacie
Genius, Friendly, Easily Impressed, Handy


If you read, please give me some feedback on who you think should be the heir!
That's all for this installment. We will find out the heir in the next chapter!







RIP Grady Legacie