A big house on the edge of the big forest in a small city lives a big family. That family is very big. It has 4 daughters and 1 son, and they live in a huge house. The house has stone pillars, wooden railing, and a brick staircase. Sliding down the wooden railing are the 5 kids. The eldest is a 19 year old girl named Jocelyn. She is a hard worker and writes poetry and is considered the family's second mother. Her skin is barely lighter than peach. Her light brown hair and bangs are as tightly wrapped in a bun as her emotions are tied with reality, looks as if never to be loosened
And in her lap sat the youngest Halentines Joan. Joan is 2 her birthday will be in a few days and is the wildest which is quite convenient because she can't walk yet and doesn't have a driver's license and isn't old enough to reach the pedals. Otherwise, she would be in big trouble. She wears a little night gown with a J on it. Her brown bangs are always in the way. Her hair is loose and is too short to go down and sticks up. The only word she can say is “yes”, so as you would think this would get her in trouble. “Do you wanna play tag?” an 8-year-old girl would ask. “Yes,” Joan would say, but of course she can't because she can't run.
Sitting next to her are the twins, Janice and Julian. They are 14 and very similar. In class, they always play little jokes on the teacher, but it never seems to get them in any sort of trouble. They are a very intelligent duo. They have the same facial features. They have brown bangs and Janice has long wavy hair. They always cause mischief, even if they look like angels.
Next to them sliding down the railing is 8-year-old Julie. She is a girly girl who loves to wear pink and green silk dresses. Her hair is in tight pigtails. She loves to sing and isn't bad at it either. She loves flowers and family.
All of the Halentine children collapsed onto the floor. Joan crawls away before the twins fall on top of Jocelyn. “Eeeeeee!” Julie squeals. Jocelyn stands up and walks over to her desk near the door and starts typing on the thin purple computer. Julie runs upstairs singing “hey I just met you but this is crazy so here’s my number so call me maybe!” The twins run into the kitchen trying to find glue or tools to use on the teacher. The baby, on the other hand, keeps trying and trying to make her way back upstairs. The twins had found a neon sharpie in the bottom of the junk drawer. They had planned to draw a mustache on their very boring teacher, for she would fall asleep of boredom from her own stories. She was very bland. Even her look was boring, though she had a pink streak in her hair. The twins had hoped the neon sharpie would lighten her look and maybe even change her mood.
Meanwhile, Julie was singing all of the Taylor Swift songs by heart and jumping on her light green and white bed “I was reminiscing just another day when I caught a sight of him and it took me away and darling it was good,“ Her pigtails were flying up in the air, blankets and pillows flying, hitting the light pink walls. “Oowaoo oo oowaoo,” she sang.
Thud! She heard her baby sister on the stairs. She jumped off the bed and threw open the white door with pink flowers. She ran down the stairs to pick up her baby sister, carried her back up stairs, went back into her room, and placed Joan on her bed. Joan grabbed a little rag doll and threw it at her sister, who was jumping on the bed. “Hey,” she said to her little sister.
“Squee!” Joan said, as she crawled out the door and slid down the wooden railing. “Eeeee!” Once she gets back to the bottom, she attempts to get back up again.
Jocelyn comes over to tie Joan's hair in a ponytail and sits back down in front of her computer and starts typing away. Joan whips her hair around and the lace string flew out of her hair as she continued to come back up the stairs
DING DONG DING DONG! Their parents came through the door. mom placed her black leather purse on the green cotton couch. Dad had placed his brown jacket on the wooden coat rack next to the door. “Kiddies, we’re home,” he called out and the five Halentine children raced down the stairs and ran over to their parents to hug them.
“ARFF!.”
“What's that,” Julian asked.
“We got a cat too?” Julie asked. Suddenly, their parents open two gray cages and a very happy grey sheep dog and a white baby tabby cat trots out and immediately runs to Julie and purrs on her ankle. Julie picks her up and cradles her. “Kitty!” Julie shouts.
“What's that?” her mom asks.
“Kitty, her name is Kitty!” Julie smiles.
“RUFF!” The excited dog runs around the twins. “ARFF!” “ARFF!” the dog barks.
“Jackie,” the twins say at the same time.
“Perfect,’ Jocelyn answers. Jocelyn pulls two long laces and ties them around the new pets’ necks. “All we need are name tags,“ she sighed.
Julie, who still had the cat in her arms, ran around to all the different rooms to show the cat.
Their mother goes to look at the pictures of all her kids wanting to add another. She looks at the one of Jocelyn reading a Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone at the age of four. Next is a picture of the twins Janice and Julian when they are two years old. Then the third daughter Julie at age seven taken just one year ago. And the hopefully the last Halentine child, Joan in a hospital incubator with her frizzy hair. Above all of them is Jack and Caroline in 1998, just 3 years before Jocelyn was born in 2002 They had met in 1989. Caroline was a politician and Jack was in a colorist company. They were friends for seven years and then one day she went into the colorist to get posters done and Jack was at the counter. She said “I would like two of these laminated,” and he said “4.99 and a date.” She said, “Yes, Jack, I was just going to ask you first.” And three years later... they got married
And so far, they've lived a happy life with five kids. And their kids’ friends...
