Chapter 11

 Spring, Esther, spring!

(2005-2008)

The spring festival came into town, but this year Donner family skipped it. Marcel was searching for a job, but they didn't trust him anywhere. In april Dhanvi was taken to hospital. Genevieve was born. Three boys and three girls. 

Before summer break triplets could do a project about their family if they wanted extra credit. Tamara was really excited about it, but her brothers weren't interested at all. She realised soon that she knew nothing about her ancestors. When summer began Marcel found a job, he worked only at night, but apparently money was good. Tamara went to the library, because she remembered that grandpa Emil once said that his grandfather was good friend with Goth family, they were one of the founder families of Sunset Valley. She tought that she could find something about him at town cronicles. 

She even found out why grandpa Emil was disinherited. He had to give a name starting with letter F to his son, but he broke this family tradition and that's why he had fight with his cousins Esther and Evelyn and then moved away from family house. Tamara was little jalous of Genevieve, she thought that she receives more attention from parents that she has. 

But then she realised that she can use her as a leverage to set relationships between hers and Goth's family. At summer Marcel had a job in Egypt. He took kids with him. Dhanvi and Genevieve stayed at home. 

For kids it was an adventure, they slept in tents and visited also a market there. Marcel made a deal with local relic merchant. 

Tamara was the one who enjoyed it the most. She loved that beautiful scenery.

Jacob, James and Meredith were subscribed to boarding schools, Tamara had a project here and wanted to know her family, John wanted to finish his scouting class. At Spooky day Tamara decided to go knock on Goth's house door. She took John with her cause she was a little scared. 

Esther Goth opened and gave them treats, Tamara encouraged herself to tell her who they were and what they want. Esther smiled and invited them for a cup of tea. John seemed scared, so Tamara politely declined and said that she arrives another time. 

The Snowflake day arrived and whole family celebrated it. Marcel's uncle Dustin and sister Ursula came also to party.

Tamara and Genevieve became quite close, they were playing in the basement in playroom and reading books for toddlers.

In summer whole family went to the beach, Tamara noticed that Gary proposed to Dakota, they seemed to be happy couple. The next day Tamara accepted an invitation to cup of tea, Esther and Evelyn were very friendly, they told her everything that they knew about their family.

Now Tamara had enough material to her project, but only from father's side of family. Only thing that she knew, was that mother's family lives next to her best friend's Blair house. Nothing special was happening, at Snowflake day Tamara received a snowboard so she went to try it at winter festival. 

She met there Esther, who told her that she wants to meet her parents. 

When Genevieve reached 3 years, the Donner family went to spring festival. They collected eggs and were skating. Only Tamara noticed that there was an ice-cream truck parked in front of their house. It was suspicious because the weather was still freezing. 

One morning a police officer showed up at doorstep, Marcel wasn't at home yet. 

He told Dhanvi that her husband was arrested and accused of a crime. They sent him to prison. Dhanvi was terrified and cried a lot.