This story sets place sometime in the future, Carly and them are now middle aged and have children.

Ariena Lucia, the daughter of Dash and Niko, is our title protagonist, she has pale skin, black hair which as she got older she began putting blue stripes into it. She also almost always wears blue clothes, so it's obvious what her favourite colour is. Despite their many issues with each other, Ariena still has some of her mother's gothic style, like a lip and nose earring, and her hair usually covers one of her pretty eyes, she has Niko's brown eyes but a prettier version of it. She has a tattoo of a rose on her left arm, and another one saying ''family'' on her lower stomach. She didn't originally have any tattoos, but I changed that as she feels like the type.

This story takes place when Ariena's about 15/16, as is Carly's daughter Sachi Klebitz, and Roman's daughter Katie Bellic, who's the first lesbian character. Even Sally and Franklin have two kids, son Carter and daughter Sienna. Sienna is close to Lamar, who's her fun uncle.

Anyway, so growing up Ariena began growing distant from her alcoholic mother, who's addiction caused her to become neglectful, never showing up to Ariena's school plays or soccer games. Even when she did, she'd be hammered drunk and often getting into fights with other parents. Like Carly, Ariena is a lot more of a Daddy's girl. But even they have a flawed relationship. Poor Niko still has some PTSD issues and not only bans movies like Saving Private Ryan (understandably giving his condition), but is also very overprotective of her.

Ariena often sneak away to Los Santos to stay instead with her aunt Sally, Dash's sister. Ariena once admitting she wishes she can switch mom's. Sally is touched but is also angry and tells her not to speak ill of her mother. Sally herself being now married to Frank and they still live in the house Lester gave Franklin.

During Ariena's many stays in Santos, she befriends her second cousin Sachi Klebitz, Carly's and Johnny's daughter, and Pinkie's god daughter. It was gonna be Seras, but Seras refused for one reason or another.

Ari and Sachi become like sisters and Ariena meets Sachi's boyfriend Jeremy who invites them to some parties. Proving herself a bit of a hypocrite, Ariena over-drinks at many of them and becomes that drunk girl. Sachi playfully snarks she can see why Ariena has few to any friends.. She obviously doesn't mean it, but sadly it is kinda true though.

Sachi ends up coming to Liberty City with Ariena on one of her return visits, and meets Katie Bellic, Ariena's other cousin. But unlike Sachi and Ariena, who only met fairly recently, Ariena and Kate are childhood friends, as Roman and Niko are practically neighbours. Katie is the first offical lesbian character, but rather heartwarmingly all the characters prove to be supportive, even jerk characters like Trevor, Amanda and Lazlow don't seem to care very much. In fact Kate's girlfriend, Lily Palmer, seems to be only character that genuinely likes Lazlow, or at least laughs at his jokes.. Lazlow probably only likes her for the pragmatic reasons of having an audience, but it's still more than his own adoptive sister (Pinkie) gets.

Only one who doesn't show tolerance is Lily's homophic mother, Jane Palmer, who kicked Lily out for being gay.. A sad truth in some people.. Unfortunately for Jane, Kate's mother Mallory Bellic is a MamaBear, even to those who are simply family friends. And in response Mallory uses her many connections to get Jane fired from her job at the hospital, getting Lily to replace her. In fact Lily's only real role in the group is "the medic", as she's not a career criminal like the others.