When we last left the Legecci’s, Bianca was picking up right where her father left off, though she quickly discovered that what’s good for the goose is not always good for the gander.

(Or in this case, the other way around — she being the goose and her father, the gander.)

Yes, Bianca was indeed pregnant.

This realization came as a shock to her, as she had not even thought once about birth control and did so much enjoy woo-hooing with her former headmaster.

He, being a man and a married at that, told her that he could not (or is that would not) support her or the child. This news devastated Bianca and left her wondering if she shouldn’t abort the child.

In desperation, she went to her mother and told her the whole thing.

Anna Maria was saddened to hear that her daughter was following in Goopy’s worst laid tracks and angry to hear that Bianca had defiled her marriage bed. Was nothing sacred anymore? But she loved her daughter more than anything and told her not to worry… as long as Bianca lived under their roof, she and the baby would want for nothing.

Feeling less discouraged and less helpless, Bianca soon fell back into her Romancing ways. It didn’t help matters that since she couldn’t work, she was home alone and bored out of her mind.

So, she started up a fling with neighbor Brandon Lillard. (Another Romance Sim… this neighborhood seems full of them!)

In the interim, Belinda Grace finally graduated high school and became an adult.

Unlike her sister, Belinda has no intention of disgracing the family name by handing out pieces of her body like candy at Halloween. She has a more romantic notion of love and life and long dreamt of sharing her life with just one man.

Pao Mellon, their mailman.

For years, Belinda watched him bring the mail. Sometimes he would stop and talk to Goopy or Anna Maria… and even herself, once she became a teenager. He always seemed to have to have a smile for her, especially.

Sometimes she would leave notes for him in the mailbox.. .never much, usually just a post-it with a smiley face on it.

Now, she was an adult. But a hesitant one. She did not want to throw herself at Pao, as her sister did with any man who so much as walked by.

Finally, she got up the courage to ask him out for coffee at the local Starbucks. He smiled and said “yes, I’d love that.”

Thus began the beginning of the real dream for Belinda. Love.

In the months that followed, she and Pao grew closer and closer, and happier and happier.

Bianca on the other hand, grewer only larger and larger and wanted nothing more for this baby to out of her. She hated being pregant and hated that her sister was in love and flaunting her freedom in front of her.

(Not that Belinda really was, mind you, but to Bianca it sure seemed like it!)

Finally the baby was born.

A beautiful baby girl with Bianca’s hair and Headmaster Vince’s blue-gray eyes.

Anna Maria was the first to hold her, staring lovingly into the eyes of her first grandchild. “What will you name her?” she asked her eldest daughter, hopeful that motherhood would change Bianca’s wild heart.

“I dunno,” Bianca said with a shrug. The baby went days without a name, except for Baby Girl, while Bianca thought it over.

One day, one of her male friends, with whom she’d been flirting with at work, called ‘such a capricious thing.’

“Caprice…” she mused aloud.

When she came home, she announced that her daughter would be ‘Baby Girl” no more… she was now Caprice Eve.

Naming her child, however, did nothing to improve Bianca as a mother. She simply had no time for a crying, smelly baby. Her first official act, therefore, was to hire nanny –

– whose first official act was to try and burn down the kitchen.

Anna Maria worried about her daughters and her home. She and Goopy had both worked hard to make this home a place where their children and grandchildren could grow up happy and loved. Belinda seemed to be on the right path, but Bianca was worrisome. All she cared about was parties and men and woo-hoo. Plenty of nights, Anna Maria would be awakened from sleep to the sound of Bianca stumbling into the house, giggling and flirting (or worse) with some man. Sometimes she’d invite the men inside and then around back to the hottub, where Anna Maria would hear things a mother shouldn’t hear her children do.

Anna Maria worried more for little Caprice, and what would happen to her in the future.

Her time was running out.

Filled with concerns, she called for her lawyers and drew up a will that would, she hoped, provide for all of her family.

And it was a good thing, too…

… because her time had indeed run out.

The Grim Reaper came for her on the very day that she was elected Chief of Staff at Legacy Bay Memorial Hospital.

As her family sobbed with grief, Grim handed her a tropical drink and a suitcase and motioned for her to follow him.

Bianca and Belinda put her headstone next to their father’s beneath the weeping willow tree and their friends all gathered to bid Anna Maria Legecci farewell.

Not even a week had gone by when Anna Maria’s lawyers came to the house, looking for both the girls.

When they all sat down in the living room, they explained that Anna Maria had left in their care two things — her Will and a letter.

“The letter,” one of them, a stodgy type man with thick glasses and serious expression, said to Bianca, ‘is yours, miss. We were instructed that you read it first, before the Reading of the Will itself.”

Bianca shrugged and took the letter from the man. She didn’t see what the big deal was. Her parents were both dead and she was the eldest. She got it all, right?

“Just read it, miss,” the lawyer encouraged.

Bianca was caught between anger and shock, so much so that she barely heard the reading of the will, which stipulated that Belinda, her sister, would inherit the house, so long as she kept the Legecci name when she married. It was Anna Maria wish that the name continued with the house.