A Strange Birthday

The long awaited twins birthday finally arrived. Sabrina, however, couldn't completely enjoy it.

 

  To begin with, that same day she discovered that Wylie was still seeing Siobahn. Even worse: he had invited to the boys' party. She, of course, didn't remain silent and, not caring that some guests had already arrived, she complained aloud to Wylie, and she even slapped him in front of everyone!

When the moment came to blow out the candles on his cake,  Winston didn't make a wish but three of them. The first one, that his parents would stop fighting and make up, the sooner the better. The second one: return to Hidden Springs, if possible, by tomorrow.

And the third wish, a total secret, was that something extraordinary would occurr that would prevent his father from seeing that Siobahn woman again.

 He still didn't understand how Wylie had dared to invite her to the party. If only there was a way to make her disappear...

Anyway, Winston blew out the candles, hoping to see his wishes fullfilled soon and... poof! He was a young adult now.

Sabrina celebrated cheerfully, while Wylie seemed a bit anxious, perhaps he knew that after the twins' birthday, he would have to return to Hidden Springs and wouldn't see the infamous Siobahn again.

 

By the way, she looked kind of worried too, which made Winston extremely happy.

"Sorry, Miss Murphy, but you'll have to find yourself another boyfriend".

Now it was Tristan's turn to blow out the candles on his own cake. The wishes he made weren't different from Winston's. 

 

 "Let's see... I want to go back to Hidden Spring by tomorrow and... that Siobahn vanishes!"

Sure enough he didn't say this aloud, cause the female alluded to was right behind him. He wished this wouldn't bring him bad luck.

 

Once his wishes were made, he blew with all his strenght, but the candles didn't go out. 

Then, something unexpected happened...

The cake caught fire, burst into flames until and burned to the ground! Had Siobahn done some kind of trick? It was difficult to know, it could've been just an accident. The worst was that not only did the cake burnt,the fire spread across the table, burning Winston's cake too, and then engulfed the dining room.

 Some of the guests were terrified and started to scream: "Fire, fire!"  Others prefer to leave the party. In the beginning, nobody knew what to do, until finally, Wylie grabbed the extinguisher and bravely tried to put out the flames, while Sabrina called the firefighters from outside the house.

FFew things are scarier than a fire, and boy was this a scare for the Lucks and their guests. The one who had the worst time was poor John Burb, whose clothes were completely scorched. Luckily he survived, 

Still, what had just happened mortified Sabrina. Why had this happened to her best friend? And during her sons' birthday party! Did the hideous Siobahn have something to do with this? She better not!

But the party should continue so for the modest sum of 30 simoleons, they replaced the burnt cake with a new shiny one. Albeit with some hesitation, Tristan decided to blow out the candles again. 

"Now I understand why it is called Inferno Cake, I hope it doesn't catch fire again".

 

Right at that time the firefighters arrived to the Lucks' house, a bit late by the way. Had it not been for Wylie's quick intervention...

Thing is, Tristan was already a young adult, just like his brother Winston and both were happy about it.

But they couldn't deny it had been a rather strange birthday. Fortunately, this was their last night in Dragon Valley.

Trouble in Dragon Valley

The days before the Luck twins graduation went by in relative peace. Winston and Tristan prepared themselves as much as possible, learning new skills like, for example, Gardening. Winston planted a chamomile seed which he watered carefully every night.

But the calm that reigned in the Luck's home was broken when, after being promoted to Mad Scientist, Wylie got a phone call...

It was his neighbor and 'friend' Siobahn Murphy, asking him on a date that night. Wilye was still angry at Sabrina because of her meeting with John Burb, so he accepted Siobahn's invitation.

The rest of the week, Wylie was acting suspiciously. Between work and his mysterious night outings, he was almost never home, and if he ever was, he only cared for his little dragon Scarlet.

This strange behaviour wouldn't let Sabrina leave in peace. Perhaps Wylie was back dating their obnoxious neighbor? She was so worried that she didn't even celebrated the promotion to Teacher Substitute that she had just gotten. She could just think of Wylie and his little friend Siobahn. Those rumors better not be true or she'd have to take drastic measures.

 "Watch out, Wylie, don't forget I'm still a Goth".

With all these things happening: the coming exams, Wylie's weird behavior and Sabrina's concern, the nightly domino matches weren't the same anymore.

Nobody seemed to be focused or interested enough...

And almost always the winner was Tristan, which really annoyed Winston. This was starting to get repetitive.

Well, the next night Sabrina unexpectedly won the game, now that was some change.

By the way, she seemed more self confident and calm than the night before. She had heard that Siobahn Murphy was among attending Hugh Gray's party, so she decided to go too.

Maybe if she confronted her once and for all, and told her a thing or two, she'd manage to get her away from Wylie. And if she didn't understand, then Sabrina would have to use other 'methods'.

To her bad luck, in the middle of the party, Dorren Delaney died.

This sad event left the guests sad and apalled, among them Siobahn, who, a few minutes later, said goodbye to the host and left. Sabrina the opportunity to talk to her, which mad her moody. 

"Come on, Grim, why Dorren Delaney, why not Siobahn Murphy?

 Ah, if Siobahn was the deceased, she would have saved so much trouble! Anyway... The twins graduation and departure for the University was just a few days away. Then, she and Wylie would leave Dragon Valley forever. All this would be far, far away from them.