K.O.T.L.C. The next Generation

"Kids! Did you finish cleaning up?" Sophie Foster called to her three kids, Keneric, Jolie, and California (preferably Calla), in the kitchen of the Foster family's grand home and animal preserve, called Havenfield. "The guests will be here any second, and I don't want this place to look like a bomb dropped in it. "I did!" Calla said in a sing-songy voice. "Thanks, that is great, California." "Ohhhhh!!!! Looks like Calla's gonna win!!!!" Keefe, Sophie's husband, yelled as he burst through the crystal doors leading to the kitchen. "Woah, woah, woah. Slow down. Calla's gonna win what? "Jolie said, following after her father. She let her pet tarantula crawl off her arm and onto the kitchen table. It scurried away, cowering in fear. Apparently, the spider was afraid of his owner. "Well, let's just say that maybe, the winner might get a full batch of sweetberry swirls all to themselves." "All to themselves?" Keneric said, bursting through the doors. "No one else gets them. Not even one?" "Not even one." Sophie laughed as she watched the kids run up the stairs, pushing each other, trying to be the first to their rooms. "Now I guess I have to make a whole batch of sweetberry swirls!"

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 As the kids finished putting the final thing on the ground away, an old teal book with worn, yellowed pages and a bird on the front, the doorbell rang."Kids! August and Adela are here!" "You're finally here!" Jolie yelled as she tackle hugged her best friend. "Guess what I got as a midterms gift from August!" she whispered to Adela. "Wait. August got you a midterms gift?" asked Adela excitedly."Yeah! It's this beautiful tarantula! I named it Vennie, because it is venomous! " "What?!?!?!? You have a venomous tarantula?!?!?!?" Jolie laughed as Adela tripped over her foot and toppled backward backing away from Pinchie. "No, I was just joking. I named him Pinchie, because he has big pincers. But they are rubber banded! " "Oh, good!" Adela said with a sigh of relief. Out of the corner of her eye, Jolie spotted the parents making their way over to her. She didn't want to be told how big she was getting, because, hello! Embarrassing! Adela must have seen them too, because she asked: "Do you want to go upstairs? Like, now?" "Sure." Jolie replied. They climbed the staircase to Jolie's room, which used to be Jolie's room. Well,it used to be her Aunt Jolie's room. Her Aunt Jolie had died in a tragic fire, and Sophie was later adopted after leaving her human home when she found out she was an elf, but later learned her genetic parents, but she still only counts her adoptive parents as her real parents, even though they aren't.

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Earlier That Day...

Jolie 

As I sat in my room staring at my spider, Pinchie, in his terrarium, I thought about how unbelievable it was that  Kenric had manifested before me! How was it possible that a kid as annoying and clumsy as him had manifested? And before me!? I'm only, like, five minutes older, but still! It counts! It's not fair. But, as I looked around my room again, and I knew exactly what to do. I ran up to Calla's door. "Knock-knock" I said, stepping through the open doorway. She was levitating about a foot off of the ground, adding the finishing touches to a family portrait of the three of us. Me, her, and Kenric. Her cloths were paint splattered and her hair was messy. "Oh, hey, Lee-Lee." she said, setting down her paints. "I have an idea to prank Kenric." I said, a devilish smile spreading across my face. "And what would this prank involve?" she asked, with a matching one. "You'll see. Oh, and how attached are you to your eyebrows?"