Chapter 21: Wishes to Buy Tofu

Having been displaced as heir by her sister Sitara, Tamira wastes no time grabbing her boyfriend and her share of the family's funds, and buying herself a new house across town.

Like her grandmother Darleen, Tamira means it when she says she's going to take a cab.

Tamira, Jamie and Magic arrive safely in their new home.

Kesari wishes to learn to drive. Even though there are two cars available, parked on the home lot. Kesari get on a bike, learning to drive from her mother, who stands on the corner the entire time.

Sitara invites Timothy over to get a date in before his shift that evening at the theater.

Okay.

Mmm, no, not quite...

Do you guys need a guide?

There you go! I knew you could do it.

Of course, they go straight for the parents' bed.

Sharks sail like big masts.

The lad endures like a rough girl.

Rise quietly like a stormy wind.

Then it's out to the hallway for some sweet talk.

And then into Sitara's newly redecorated bedroom for round two.

In the moonless darkness of Winter the leaves sleep,  

In the dying of harmony young lovers escape, 

"Uh, Sitara, my shift starts in an hour."

Beside the river of longing the waves rejoice,  

In the dream of evening the waves whisper,  

"Okay, but, I kind of have to go now..."

"Oh, hey Alisha," Chelsea takes a call from Jamie's mother just as Kiran comes around looking for some loving. "Yeah, my husband still totally hates you. No, I'm not doing anything, I can chat."

Somehow I don't think this call will add any points to Alisha and Kiran's relationship.

In the background, Kesari is on the phone talking about shoes. With both Social Butterfly and Charismatic for trait, Kesari needs to be constantly socializing and making new friends.

Eventually, Chelsea gets off the phone and Kiran drags her up to Sitara's bed. 

They are followed by Kesari, who desperately needs to boast about her gamer skillz to someone.

"What is it, Kesari?"

"Um, I forgot. It dropped out of queue. Sorry."

Next morning, a Sunday, Kiran wakes with a midlife crisis wish to grow facial hair. Easy peasy.

Then he wishes to buy tofu. Buy tofu? Really? I didn't think it was possible to wish for that. 

As part of her room redecoration, Sitara got her own desk where she could work on her poetry in private.

Inside the meaning of ourselves the leaves vanish,  

Okay, I'm just going to leave you to it, then, and see what your parents are up to. Probably woohoo...

Yep. 

"Hey, what's that red light on the shower head? Should we check that out first?"

"Woohoo nao, Kiran!"

Kiran does as he's told, and falls victim to someone's prank. The sudden yellowing of her husband's hair doesn't quench Chelsea's ardor, she just jumps right in there for her woohoo.

Tamira got another wish to go on a date with Timothy, and he has Sunday off, so she meets him at the bowling alley.

Despite his flirtation with another girl in high school, he's apparently earned an eternally faithful rep now.

Instead of bowling, they woohoo in the photobooth.

When the dance club opens at 7pm, Tim and Sitara take their date there. On arrival, we get notified that this is the hot place to be tonight. Well, obviously! This placed is packed!

All the action, such as it is, is in the lounge on the first floor. I'm seriously considering a redesign for this club, since no one uses the dance floor upstairs.

They order onion rings and sit at different tables to eat them.

"Does Lucky Palms have dragons?" Tim wonders, "I heard that we banished unicorns. But not dragons, right? We could could totally buy a dragon egg and hatch one, couldn't we?"

"My father is leader of the free world. We can do whatever we want."

"My boyfriend has a hot body," Sitara announces to anyone who's listening.

Tim hears that.

And decides to use it., taking Sitara over to the photobooth for some woohoo. Luckily there's two, because the one on the right is currently in use.

Sorry, Andrae, you don't really get a trophy for public woohoo with your pregnant wife.

"Ooh, these pictures came out great, honey! We should hang them up at home!"

After photobooth woohoo, Sitara and Tim head back home, where she immediately suggests more woohoo.

Sitara is beat after all the dancing and woohoo. But Tim stays up to play guitar.

He's keeps this up until 2am or so.

Then he goes to the bathroom and then plays more guitar out on the balcony. At round 4ish, Chelsea wakes up and goes out to watch.

At some point during the day, Chelsea was pranked and her clothes stolen while skinny dipping, and she's been going around in a towel ever since.

Around 4:30, Tim finally goes to sleep. Typical musician.

Over the course of the evening, we got a pop up about a kitten his mother, Cricket Tanner, adopted. Tim gets psychic knowledge of the new cat in his dreams. Yes, Tim lives with his mother. And yes, if he ever moves in here, we're stealing the kitten.

We were also informed via pop up that Tamira and Jamie got married.

"Bed. Occupied. Cannot. Woohoo."

Yo, Kiran! You Have Your Own Bed! And, if you're trying to woohoo, where's Chelsea?

Ah, Chelsea got waylaid by Kesari and her incessant need to be socializing constantly. Poor Kiran ends up going to work without getting any.

So, after everyone is at school or work, Chelsea decides to take a case, since there's not much else to be doing.

The case she gets is from Darrell Gagnon, who believes there was some fraud in the last election, and wants Chelsea to investigate. That would be the election that Kiran won right? So, yeah, Chelsea, go ahead and find proof your husband fixed his own election. Great idea!

Oh, do I need to point out that Chelsea is wearing a towel?

So, Chelsea goes around town asking everyone their opinions on the last election. Apparently, everyone voted for Darrell and can't figure out why he didn't win.

This here is Don King, who, if not for a game crash, would most likely be Sitara's boyfriend since prom hooked them up. He could use a fashion makeover, but he's cute. Cute, but Insane. Insane enough to not bat an eye while responding to questioning from a woman wearing a towel.

Chelsea does her due diligence and finds enough evidence of fraud to report back to Darrell, who vows to expose Kiran's corruption to the papers.

Of course, nothing will come of this, as it is Suresh who bought this election for his brother. Lucky Palms' only news outlet for both print and TV is housed in Suresh's corporate headquarters, and is not so secretly in his pocket, just like its politicians. Good luck exposing any corruption that touches Suresh the Magic Dragon, Master of All He Surveys.

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So, as I mentioned last chapter, I decided move Tamira and Jamie out to Dragon Valley to start their own wishacy, while making Sitara heir of this one.

I have moved copies of Tamira and Jamie (and Magic, the cat) to DV, and I've set up their blog, Meanwhile, In An Alternate Dimension

Right at this moment, there's nothing there. I'm still getting pics for the first chapter, which I hope to have up this weekend. 

In this dimension, Tamira and Jamie just live a few blocks away. So, when this story mentions Tamira and Jamie (presumably we'll see them at parties or around town, as well), it will be this universe's version of them, not the DVversion.