Vincent and Jamie and Catarina: When Freshiedency Reaches Its End

A New Band of Friends

When Jamie and Vincent II approached the area, Clotho had just brought down a full house, which made a young man fold his cards. After that, all of them looked towards the two. The other people followed suit, and they noticed the President and his friend looking right at them.

Clotho was the first to speak, and she exclaimed, "Vincent! Jamie! So glad you two could make it!" She skittered her way, using her telepathic location to find the two, and when she found them, she wrapped her arms and all her eight legs around them in a nearly crushing hug.

"We couldn't breathe, Clotho!" Vincent II exclaimed softly. Immediately, the blind drider removed both of them from her grasp and jumped to the floor. Vincent and Jamie then took a very deep breath, for their skin turned a shade of periwinkle blue.

"My apologies," Clotho replied, "Anyway, let me introduce you to the rest of the gang we have now." She approached Isabella, the now Luxanna-lookalike Natura breeder with cyan eyes. With the breeder was the Greenpeace girl and her twin sister, who just looks like her but with fiery red and orange hair, eyes, lips and wings.

"Isabella!" Jamie exclaimed, waving at her.

"Jamie! Vincent!" Isabella exclaimed, flying from her seat, "How nice to see you two!"

"Same to you as well!" Vincent replied, waving to the Natura. Isabella's twin younger sisters looked at them, and instantly Jamie and Vincent exclaimed, "The Greenpeace Girl is your sister?! Isabella, we see her outside the office window."

"Yes she is," Isabella replied, and then lowered her voice, "but don't shout too loud." Immediately the Greenpeace Girl exclaimed a loud "H-E-Y!" in reply and waved her hand energetically. Her twin nudged at her and commanded her, "Sister, pipe down!" Immediately, the Greenpeace Girl piped down, but her expression suddenly turned to that of sadness. She was about to cry.

"My bad," the redhead Natura said to the two, "It's just that Philomella can get a bit too hyperactive when near people, especially those she has just met. You see, she was born with a gold star on her certifica--+"

She was interrupted by Philomella, who then began wailing loudly. Immediately, Varra asked her, "Hey Phoemela. That's enough for tonight. Calm your twin down, okay?"

"But she always gives me the evasive treatment, Ma!" the fiery redhead Natura replied.

"Well, if I may intervene, aunt Varrah," the President replied, "that is not how you calm a special person down."

"You simply give her some love and affection," Jamie said, patting Philomella on the head. The Greenpeace Girl stopped crying, and she began to take a few  deep breaths to calm her down. 

Once Philomella calmed down, Isabella said, "We'll deal with them later. Anyway, let me introduce you to the rest of the gang. Hey Marwyllise, Zenthi!"

"On it!" the black widow drider known as Marwyllise replied. She stood up, and instantly Vincent and Jamie rejoiced at the sight of her. They rushed to her and wrapped her in a very tight hug.

After the greetings, Marwyllise said, "I've heard your recent stories, you two. They're awesome, but you can brag about them later. By the way, this is my BF, Zenthi. He's actually Ridan's twin brother, but he sports a cyan diamond color to Ridan's silver."

The elfin drider male known as Zenthi waved hello to them, and then gestured to the three humans and drider with him. "These are the Hana siblings: Cee, Jay, and Ceejay," he said, "Cee and Jay are younger carbon copies of the Napyarda siblings themselves, while Ceejay is the younger carbon copy of Christian's blockmate who sports the name CJ back in college."

The three rose and shook hands with both of them.

"And finally, this is the red widow drider Catarina," Zenthi concluded, "She is our cousin. Looks like the Rift Games champion, no?"

"In a way, yes," Jamie replied while nodding, "The red hair and eyes."

"I'll take that as a compliment," Catarina replied, "It's nice to meet you two." Suddenly, she switched her attention to Philomella and said, "Hey Phil! Be careful of those hedgehogs resting on your area!"

"I am!" the Greenpeace Natura exclaimed. In fact, she wasn't lying, because a family of twenty-two hedgehogs were nestling in between the back rest of the sofa and her insect queen abdomen. They appeared to be very cozy, and slept soundly.

Catarina switched her attention back to Vincent and Jamie. "Yep, Clotho keeps a family of hedgehogs," she said, stretching her red spider forelegs, "The weird thing is that they're closer to Phil rather than their owner."

"Well because Philomella is, one, a Natura; and, two, a Greenpeace member aiming for a greener planet and harmony between, man, humanoid, centaur, plant, and animal," Jamie explained, "She is pretty much used to a lot of critters."

"Very much addicted to critters," Vincent II added, "but Clotho said that the hedgehogs her family and she was taking care of are the second and third generations of hedgehogs that lived in this very mansion." He approached Phil, saw a baby hedgehog trying to climb the backrest of the couch,  stretched his hands over her insect "thorax", and then held the hedgehog at his face. The baby hedgehog had tiny quills and a white underside, but its beady black eyes and pointy nose were the boon of everyone's visit, including Vincent's  --- it was just too adorable!

"Excuse me Philomella?" Vincent asked the breeder, "What's it's name?" Philomella turned her upper body around, and replied, "First of all, it is a he. Second of all, his name is Mint. Finally, put him down! He has to sleep." 

"Okay, okay! Philomella, I'll do it," Vincent put Mint down and he went back to sleep atop his brothers and sisters. Meanwhile, he and everyone else but Philomella went towards the kitchen for it was dinner time, and everyone was hungry AF.

...

They spent the rest of the night with more leisure and more icebreaking. At midnight, every family parted from the BenQuill residence, and on the way back to the pad, Jamie slept in Vincent's arms.