Auggie and Lauren are going to be besties, I just know it. (Queens of clocking shit no one else has yet!!) Also uhhhh, I know that we basically get all of the intros in the story but can you also break down all the new Grove members as well? (And who all does she meet bc there are sooo many that I started wondering if I was misidentifying ppl again lmao bc of how big this grove is.)
new (and new-ish) people
Elliot's kids - you know Prez, and there's also Crystal (Date Everything Creativity) and Rian (Rain) - Rian has two older siblings, Parker and Marnie, twins, who turned eighteen after only a few months of living with elliot and left wickhills. but they come visit pretty regularly
the adams-jennings - the big one.
Nate has two kids with Betty (whose name is actually Buttercup, this will become clear in a moment) named Heidi and Barbara, but the two of them are such cutesy parents that eventually "Honey" and "Baby" just became their names. Everyone calls them that.
Betty has two sisters, Eowyn and Jadis, who are unmarried and do not have any children
Polly, Lila, Lauren, Kai, Bell, and the still-mysterious Wen have linked up in a complicated configuration and are indeed micromanaging one single child, Brook Adams. Brook bears a godparent mark from Wen that was covered by her socks, so Auggie didn't see it
this isn't new but its the connecting thread to the next part - Betty, Eowyn, and Jadis are Sloanes maternal first cousins, which is why he and Corbin are there
Chloe is Corbins maternal first cousin, who you have met before once, in Dominoes, and she has been bubbling on the backburner since. Milton is her husband, and they both start dating Harley soon after he and Thomas get married, after a shenanigan im fleshing out that'll probably come as 202 or 203