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Round 37: April 2046 (Autumn)

Lane 2 household profile

Luc Lane is 53, Asha is 49, Marcus is 17 and Felix is 15.
(Everett is 16 and Daphne is 15)

Narrated by Marcus Lane

This is my final year of high school but my friend Everett still has another year to go, so he’ll be hanging around in Sullivan while I go off to uni.

Hopefully he won’t spend that year still pining after Daphne Kirby. 

He says he’s over her now that she has a boyfriend but Everett’s really not a very good liar. 

I wouldn’t mind finding someone to date myself but I’m pretty focused on finishing school at the moment. 

I did really well with my SAS and scored a 67. There's still time to retake it though and I think if I keep studying, I can get another 3 points and earn a free ride at Suffolk.

Dad keeps telling me to take it easy and that he and Mum can easily afford to pay for me to go to college but it’s not about that.

But I’ve just set myself a challenge and I want to be successful at it. It’s not super common to earn free tuition and I’m so close.

Besides, maybe I want to do post-grad study once I’m done and my parents can pay for that instead!

I’m not entirely sure what I want to do with my life yet but probably something in the sciences or maybe with computers.

This is baffling to both my parents. They’re both creative types and I really don’t have a creative bone in my body.

They’re supportive of whatever I want to do. They just don’t understand why I’d want to. I definitely don’t get it from either of them. 

Ruby is away at college now, so I took over her room. It means I no longer have to share with Felix. I love having my own space.

It’s smaller than Felix’s room but I don’t even care. At least I don’t have to kick Felix’s dirty clothes out of the way every time I go in.

I’m sure I lost more than a few things to one of Felix’s piles of smelly laundry!

I do have to share the room with Ruby’s cat, Boots. Once Ruby moved out, he decided the room was his. 

In his view, he probably thinks he’s just allowing me to sleep here.

He’s a pretty nice kind of cat, even if he is also extremely dumb. I don’t mind “sharing” with him too much.

It’s kind of a shame I really don’t have much longer to spend in this room. It’s become a cool little sanctuary to me.

I’m hoping I can at least get a decent dorm room next year, hopefully without a roommate, so I can keep it exactly as I want it. 

Notes:

• So this one is a little shorter than usual. One thing that trips me up with getting updates out in a timely fashion (or has been lately) is that I put this arbitrary word minimum on myself. And the other week, I thought "hey, this isn't uni! If the update is only 400 words, then it's only 400 words". I'd rather get out a short update than none at all. 
• Marcus just scraped into getting those extra 3 points on his SAS, so he'll be paying no tuition. I've run him through the careers criteria and there are several careers he's a perfect match for but I'm thinking either science or game development at the moment. 
• Poor Everett is still rolling wants for Daphne! I hope he meets someone else once he gets to uni because she seems pretty happy with Joaquin for the meantime.