As winter came, the temperature dropped, and Lennon took to operating his robotics store in some warmer clothes, sacrificing professionalism for being able to feel his arms. Some of the locals swore that it snowed here in winter, though that didn't fit with anything Lennon knew about how deserts worked; however, it wouldn't be the most surprising thing about this strange land. One day, as he'd just finished unloading his big ticket item for the day(a robotic cleaner), a woman walked up his path. Her name was Christy, and she was beautiful.
He finished up business that day and closed his store before calling her up and asking her out on a date to the hottest - well, the only - nightclub in town. It turned out that she wasn't just beautiful, she was intelligent too. They hit it off, and Christy agreed to a committed relationship with him - moving in, of course, to help him with the store. As she was moving her possessions inside, the first snowflakes of the season began to fall. She told him that this was normal, and one of the reasons she wanted to be a scientist was to study the peculiarly un-desert-like weather patterns of the canyon. Unfortunately, they wouldn't allow her into the profession until she'd gotten to the pinnacle of scientific knowledge, which was why she wanted to set up a telescope in his backyard. Lennon relented, resigning himself to running the shop solo, just as before.
Ji had a somewhat rocky recovery from his lightning strike. Somehow he managed to continue dragging himself to work every day, and so he wasn't fired. He had finally made up his mind to start the search for a wife when, one day, he stepped out of the carpool from work and found himself face to face with a gorgeous woman.
Her name was Lilly Do, and she was everything he could ever have wanted in a girl. He couldn't believe that he'd been about to just go ask the first thing in a skirt that would have him to marry him. This was what he'd been holding out for! Their relationship progressed quickly; first they agreed to a committed relationship, then Lilly moved in, and then, one night, she agreed to marry him, on one condition. He had to move the bedroom out of the living room.
With the baby on the way, Tanya and Komei thought it best to get married as soon as possible. They rushed through an engagement and had a private ceremony in their living room, not having any money to spare on a party, thereby becoming Mr and Mrs Tellerman.
Having a woman around the house was doing wonders for Lennon's bachelor pad. Christy wasn't impressed at all with his workshop, but, with the addition of a few counters, a sink for washing up and a hot chocolate machine, he would be cosy out there all winter long.
She also suggested a few changes to his merchandise. Looking through the wholesale catalog, she showed him some remote-controlled toys, not unlike his own toy robots, which could be sold alongside his hand-crafted goods for a greater profit. As reluctant as he was to let his old business model go, he agreed that he would be able to bring in much more profit each day if the number of items he was selling wasn't limited by the number of items he could build.
Despite the night's snowfall, customers still came to the shop, and Christy's new idea worked. Tinkering in the workshop late that night, Lennon figured out how to build hoverbots, which he wouldn't be selling in the shop yet, though he intended to build one for use on his own lot.
Ji and Lilly were settling in to their engagement nicely. He received a promotion to a record store clerk, with the associated bonus and salary bump, which made Lilly realize that they were ready, even after their short engagement period, to start a family together. The news of Tanya and Komei's shotgun wedding was still echoing through the small community, so they kept the event private and low-key, accepting congratulations only from their closest friends. And so the Won family gained a new member. Eager to begin building her new family, Lilly wanted a baby right away. With some misgivings, Ji agreed to try, as their financial situation was relatively stable. Lilly wasn't sure whether or not she'd conceived, but she knew she'd find out soon enough.
Things at the Tellerman's apartment weren't going so great. Komei continued to struggle as an artist, always falling short of that masterpiece he strove to paint, slipping deeper into his frustrated depression with every stroke of the brush. Tanya's pregnancy was not an easy one, forcing her to stay confined to the sofa or bed almost all of the time. They'd managed to scrape together some cash, but it was hardly enough to afford everything they would need for the baby, on top of the rent. And then, just as things couldn't get any more complicated, there was a scream from the bedrooom; Tanya's labor had begun.
((Yeah, we've lost the Webster family name. Oh well, I figured it would probably happen. Tellerman isn't a bad name. Somehow she lost a day on her pregnancy visuals, which was really weird. When I left her rotation she had the first bump, and when I came to her again she'd gotten the second bump. But she didn't spawn that day, so...very strange. Also, yes, I'm totally going to leave you hanging there.))
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