We all head over to the water park meeting Uncle Tarot and Uncle Miller there with their kids as well. As promised by Kalij, Ace brought her boyfriend with her.
"Hey, Sim-Sim, haven't seen you in a while." Uncle Tarot says with a hug to me. "How have things been in college?"
"Pretty good. I might need your help before I go back on some things I was thinking on about my project."
"Sure, I'd love to help."
"You didn't say you needed some help, Sim." Dad says with a casual look.
"It's not that I didn't want your help, Dad, but Uncle Tarot has some experience from his other studies that will help me with mine."
He makes a face but Tamari smacks him softly.
"Dexter, don't get offended. Sim would have asked you if you had what he needed. Let's have fun and not have a jealousy issue."
"Tamari's right. Let's just have fun with our kids and play in the water. Have fun today." Tarot says, throwing his arm around Dad in a brotherly fashion.
Dad laughs and we walk along to go keep up with the others. I am the oldest of all the kids so I don't have anyone to hang out with.
"You didn't bring your girlfriend home?" Leilani says as she holds hands with Uncle Tarot.
"She didn't want to come. She said something about visiting her own family."
"Not the nicest one that you've had." Uncle Miller says with a look. "Why did you never go out with that young lady that you were friends with for a long time? What was her name?"
"You mean Tayla?"
"Yes, her. She was a lovely girl, though she had some strange hair colors but she was always nice and polite. You both got along quite well I do recall."
"We just sort of lost touch after I skipped grades and everything and never really made contact with each other again until this morning actually."
"You didn't want to invite her to the park and catch up?" Aunt Lotti asked.
"It would be a little weird for me to be here with her without Sansr. I'm sure rumor would get around and then she'd have my hide-"
"Sim!" someone yelled.
I turned and was surprised to see Sansr. She ran up to me and jumped into my arms, kissing me passionately and wrapping her legs around my waist.
"I missed you." She said with a smirk and then looked over my shoulder. "Hello, Mr. Leoda, Mrs. Leoda."
"Hello, Sansr. Fancy meeting you here." Dad said.
"Wouldn't you know that my family was taking a trip to here? My parents and sister are over there by the lagoon ride." She said, pointing.
I looked over and three people waved at me. I waved back and set Sansr down.
"How long have you been here?"
"Pretty much the whole time. I figured you wanted to spend time with your family -I know I did mine- so I didn't bother to say anything. I don't want to go back to school though." She moaned, putting her head on my chest.
I smiled. "I am. I need to get back to my nanobots so that I can get them programmed and tested out."
Sansr rolled her hazel eyes. "You and those dumb nanobots. I swear you care more about those things than you do me."
"I love you both equally." I say with a smile.
She smiles and then takes a step back.
"I have to go back with my family but we'll get together back on campus, yeah?"
"Yes."
"Bye sweetie..."
She trots off in her bikini to her parents and I look at my family as they all watch me. I smile sheepishly at them and decide to go and find my brothers.

"Hey, Sim! Can you get a picture of all of us together?" Jai yelled, waving at me as I got up to the water.
I nodded and he handed me the camera. All the kids got together, minus Billy (Ace's boyfriend) and I snapped the picture. It was odd seeing them all together like that with the secrets that I know, the triplets all beside each other not knowing they were blood brothers.
"Now get in so we have one of all of us." Ace said, holding out her hand. "Billy can take the picture."
"No, I'm okay, I don't want to be in it."
"Aw come on!" Bay yelled. "We hardly have any picture with you and us together."
I sighed but handed the camera to Billy and got in between Bay and Ichor. He took the picture and everyone dispersed a little. Kalij was the youngest of the group so while the others were together, he was left by himself like me. He looked up at me.
"Do you want to go on the slide with me?"
"Sure..." I said with a smile and headed up the ramp to the top of the slides.

After we got done with the water park and everything, I took some of my research over to Uncle Tarot's place and knocked on the door. He opened it up and smiled.
"Hey, come on in. You'll have to excuse the house, we're redecorating."
I nodded and we went to the back of the house where he had a room dedicated just to work. On the way there, Bay walked out of the bathroom, rubbing his hair with a towel.
"Oh, hey, Sim. What are you doing here?"
"I needed to ask your dad some stuff for my project."
"Okay. Hey, when you're done you want to play Halo with me?"
"Sure..."
We went in and he shut the door behind him.
"What is it that you needed to ask me about?"
"It has to do with the nanobots. I have them but I don't really have a use for them so I was wondering if maybe you could use them in your research with regrowth and everything. You're still having a problem with things regrowing from parts that get chopped off and stuff right?"
"Yes."
"I was going to see if maybe the nanobots can help with that. I can program them to stop the regrowth from happening when it's only a certain measurement or something. I don't know quite yet how it would work but I think my nanobots would be able to help you keep those amputations from growing into other people but still have people grow back their amputations."
Uncle Tarot nodded a little. "Yes, it would be a pretty good idea to do something like that... Your nanobots are genetically encoded?"
"Well they aren't doing much of anything right now but yes, they are encoded to react to certain genes and such right now. I can reprogram them though for your project or I can give you some and you can use them however you like..."
"I see... That might not be such a bad idea, Sim. I'll have to ask my boss and see if that would be allowed since it's coming from a college and not from another scientific facility."
"If it would make him feel any better, I can just make you some new nanobots that are not programmed at all and you can just program them from scratch."
"No, I don't know how to do any of that computer whiz stuff. I know how to work with my project but anything else is above my head. Even your father's work goes over my head sometimes."
"How is he, by the way? About the work and all."
"He's doing very well. We haven't had an accident in a long time –knock on wood- and things are running smoothly. He's had a couple of successful batches of seahorses bred and if he gets a little more done he thinks he'll be able to present it to the board and they will grant the serum to ichthyologists everywhere to get populations of seahorses up. After that, he says he's going to try and get a more general one so that it can work on other sea creatures and then for mammals."
"That's good. I'm glad that he's getting some progress after having me and all..." I say, looking away.
"He wouldn't take that time away for the world, Sim. Having you was scary, yes, but he loved you with everything. You are his pride and joy."
"But because of that he got hurt by me and the rest of everyone-"
"Sim, what's gotten into you? Did you have another dream again?" he asked with a serious expression and a hand on my arm.
I sighed, running my hands through my hair. I leaned on the wall and held my hands over my face for a second.
"Yeah, I had a memory... Dad knows about it and he called Dr. Peters and everything but still... I'm a freak and a nerd and stuff that people don't like."
"Sim, you're perfectly fine. If anything, the only person they would say was a freak would be your father but that's all the past now. Have you been experiencing anything that your father did with the others? Are you feeling like you might be like him?"
"I don't know! That's what's so confusing. I don't know if I'll be like him or something. If I have sex will I have the seahorse syndrome? Will they?"
Uncle Tarot's eyes widened for a minute and then he mumbled something to himself.
"God, I hope not... Bay is so promiscuous... I guess we'll know if something happens, huh?"
"I guess but I just don't know anymore and I don't want to talk with him about it because he already feels guilty that because of me I was put through that trauma and everything. I don't want him to feel guilty because it was my fault. Maybe I should have never been made."
"Sim! Don't ever say that again! It was no one's fault but the experiment that things turned out the way they did. Your father would be so heartbroken to hear that from you... Are you sure you're alright?"
"I was just thinking about it and everything..."
"Well stop, you're making yourself feel guilty for something no one had anything to do with. It was all a strange occurrence in the first place and what happened afterward was all coincidence. Nothing was caused, you got that?"
"Yes..."
"Come here..." I walked up to him and he wrapped his arms around me. "Don't beat yourself up over these things. If you have any more dreams and you don't feel comfortable talking with your dad you can always call me. I can drive up there and talk to you face to face if you want me to but don't you dare go around shouldering unneeded burdens, okay?"
"Okay..."
He pulled away and rustled my hair a little.
"I hate when you get this way because I helped raise you. You're like a son to me anyway so it hurts when you hurt."
"I'm sorry."
"Don't be. Just make sure you keep up your smiles and remember you need no guilt over anything in the past."
I nodded, comforted by his words. That was one thing that I loved about my uncle that I didn't really get from my dad. I mean, Dad was cool with a lot of things and it was easy to talk to him but when it came to the past, only Uncle Tarot was able to help me feel that things weren't my fault. Even though I know they were, for a little while, Tarot could make me feel as if I didn't cause anything.