Sunset Valley, June 2024 - The students return for the summer and some new beginnings..

I'll give the chapter link first if you don't want to spoil the story by reading the summary below. 😉

Chapter 18.9 – June 2024 - The beaches we run to

It does deal with some health issues, but it is on overall a positive and optimistic chapter.

This chapter is also one of my more lengthy ones, so here are some stats before you decide if you to check it out:
Word count: 5518
Reading time: ~20-30 minutes or so.
Number of screenshots: 55

Yep this next chapter takes place in Sunset Valley and begins early in the morning with Oliver Freddy and Inge returning from university. It begins where the previous Sunset Valley chapter left off, inside the Holmesen-Fredriksen household where the parents Pia and Fredrik are still sleeping. dreaming their dreams of outer space or long days at the office helping patients through therapy and medication, yearning for that promotion still...

When Oliver Freddy returns home he finds that his dear mother Ranveig has finally renovated the old house at Mosquite Cove now that she has began therapy at the doctors' office and feels more on top in life...

Oliver Freddy makes them waffles for breakfast and encourages his younger brother Robert Bråge to do well in school and puts on his swim wear because he heard Ranveig saying they would be going to the beach later..

They aren't going to the beach, though. Atleast not yet...  Instead Ranveig does what she has already done with her younger sister Monica and her niece Lise Veronica (and herself). She takes Oliver Freddy to the doctors' office.. a new and stressful experience for him, but it will be for the greater good in the long run... and perhaps from now on no more putting on swim wear when the situation doesn't call for it...

Ranveig told Robert explicitly to watch the house while they were away, but pfft... that's lame, so he called his girlfriend Margrethe and after some playful arguing about what they were going to do they went to the beach to swim...

When they are finished at the doctor's office Ranveig takes Oliver Freddy to a beach as well, the one below the now abandoned Wolff Estate, since it is at a more secluded location. . Less people, less elements that can disturb the fish... 

She has for a while now had a wish to catch a death fish, but doesn't know which bait to use to get one, so after an unsuccessful trip to the graveyard earlier, she needs to experiment more to find the right bait..

Oliver Freddy, who is not very skilled at fishing, doesn't catch a single fish, but Ranveig gets two cat fish of perfect quality and a shark of great quality. Oliver Freddy is impressed by her catching such a big shark, but Ranveig is not.. it was only great and not perfect...

Before leaving to go back home Oliver Freddy autonomously asked Ranveig for a DNA sample to add to his collection, because, you know, science. He still has the idea, inspired by his aunt Monica and a book he read at university, that one day it should be possible to create a fusion between plants and humans.. so called 'plantsims'... 😉