Oh no! Gardenia had another moodswing.
She was ranting and raving to sis April as she was very tense.
She proceeded to have a temper tanrum too. Wow. What a morning!
At least she left the rest of the family alone and dragged herself to take a shower and get ready for the day. Room in no way finished. Just placeholders.

April had a little emergency. Dad helped her out.

After dad and girls had gone to work/school, Duchess was on her own. Working too.
Okay, nice. But she needed to collect more donations.
She got a brand deal offer for the Up & Out lifestyle retailer. She didn't have too much time to deal with that. Also she got a job offer for acting. Um, no.
Anyway, after this nonesense she finally got to working. With Hayley.
Oh yeah, she was sick too. Gardenia had been sick for the longest time, now it was Duchess' turn.
The job needed to be done though. And as a sidenote, the pinkhatted, fabulously dressed sim is Holly Alto. She spent some time socializing there and then went home.

Bills arrived for the second week of winter in Windenburg - 6502 simoleons. No problem, they had the money.

Vanessa contacted Gardenia. She was still a kid. Gardenia wanted her to grow up already to have fun together.

Duchess had a spare second to think about Christian and she got very sad. Tried to give herself a pep talk in the mirror. Also she was reminded her time was running out as well as well as Barone's and the kids were stil teens. So much worry.
But she had more work to do. Eventhough she had made the cause a success she still was driven by it and wanted to raise more money for it.
As she was promoting the cause and gathering donations, she became even more famous for it.
She now had that celebrity sparkle and gait. Her reputation was still pristine. And her mood finally perked up too.
As did her fame.
She could give really good, inspirational speeches now.
That motivated her to really go out there even more and gather more donations.
She was fearless! Even promoted her cause to the Grim Reaper.
And even the paparazzi.

She got home very late. And again!! The maid hadn't come.
She had to hire a butler.
Alden Gibbs.

In the morning she got a call from school.
Problems with April. But it got sorted.
Then another call.
Sure.

April met step-/half-brother in school. They met as kids too but this time they must have to to know each other better.