A New Normal

Ashley had been gone long enough to where she was no longer enrolled at her college. She was academically suspended and would have re-apply. Her parents had not been happy but in they end with Regina's convincing they accepted the face that she was an adult and was able to make own decisions. She got a job a local bar as a bartender and hooked back up with Nick. She hung out with when she was not working or helping her siblings with things. True to Regina's powers, Ashley was a lot nicer to both Mark and Regina. She was basically their **** when no one was looking.

Brett and Julianna Buchannon headed off on a cruise. Brett growing more attracted to his wife after her return from Alaska and her willingness to be a complete sex **** to him. Cliff returned and was under house arrest. As a bit of **** for Cliff's bullying of her brother, Regina had him call escort services to his house and soon the neighborhood was abuzz with rumors of him as a man-slut, sexual deviant and ex-con.

Mark was fully focused on his work and training. Though he still had time to stop time, he always had time for that. He did find a way to unfreeze his phone, Katie's phone and Regina's phone. So he was able to unfreeze them and communicate with them during the time-stop sessions. The phones only worked limitedly via text and it was slow but it was good enough. He would tell them he was going to stop time and they would get ready. Once time was stopped they enjoyed it where ever they were at. Katie and Regina were mostly in class. Regina had started her senior year finally.

Evening and weekends were mostly spend with doll playing and Katie's side business. They were milking photos with Mitch and Nadia, as Katie was planning on freeing them soon. She had plans for them to either move it with her dad to put a damper on Gloria's vision for a perfect home life or to move in with Mitch's parents so Regina could keep an easy eye on them. They planned on using them as how they were using Ashley.

Mason was still Katie's biggest demand though funnily enough Justina had fallen out as one of their top dolls. By weird demand, Mason was paired up with Alexis Joy and Jennifer pretty often. Tracy, the Mission twins, Haley and Abby continued to be the other big ticket dolls. The older women were all pulled from rotation aside from Justina and were mainly used as workers or just stood around frozen. Mark would take them out for a spin every once and while.

It was a few months away from the anniversary of when Mark had discovered his gift. He wanted to do something epic. He was too sure what so he arranged a family meeting with Katie and Regina.