New Year

"I remember that time! Mimom was very angry with you!"

"Ha! Yeah, I remember that. Too much candy."

There were many more sentences like this that Lucy Tucci could hear, sometimes a few laughs as well. Her daughter Tip and her Boov son Oh were sitting at the top of the stairs looking through photos taken throughout the year they had and laughed at many.

It had been a good year for everyone, despite a few fights along the way. Oh had found love with a Boov named Krunkle who was yet to have a gender, Tip had recently gotten her arch enemy Pom Pom Peppernacki taken down at a sleepover using her best friend's fancy gadgets and Lucy had taken down Pom Pom's mother Pauline with her Queen of Thighs video.

"Aaaaaw! The Gorg babies that time we babysat them," Tip said, gushing over a picture of K-Tron's children. Shaped like tiny, orange stars the Gorg babies looked like their father and were growing up fast.

"Yes, and also the time they became a gigantic monster since you had no experience in sitting on babies," Oh answered, making Tip laugh at his tiny mix up in words.

"Come on, you two! The fireworks are going off soon," Lucy called, getting her coat on. In a flash, Tip and Oh were downstairs and getting cosied up in coats and scarfs.

The Tucci family, including their cat Pig, sat on the stoop outside as the countdown echoed through Chicago.

​​​​​​​​​​​​"Five!"

"Thanks for such a great year, Oh," Tip whispered as she pulled her Boov brother into a hug.

"Four!"

"And thank you too, Tip," Oh answered, returning the hug.

"Three!"

Lucy pulled the two close as Pig headed inside to avoid the fireworks. "I love you both so much," she said happily.

"Two!"

"I love you too, Mom," Tip said softly.

"One!"

"And I do too, Mimom," Oh chipped in.

"HAPPY NEW YEAR!" the whole of Chicago cheered at once before the sky lit up with fireworks.

"I can't wait to see what happens this year," Tip said with a mischievous small to her bestie.

"I can't either, as long as we do it together," Oh answered, returning the smile before Tip hugged him again.

"Always, Boov brother​​​​​​," she muttered softly with a smile on her face.