April 2085: lie to you, part 2

April 2085: Benny and Leo are 21; Sophia, Charlie, and Natty are 20 years old; Josh is 18.

Soundtrack: "Would I Lie to You?" by Eurythmics


Natty found the party, after driving for miles figuring she'd missed the right spot. "A patch of trees around the bend," he'd told her. "Look for the fire." So she finally saw the fire, small as it was, and she parked behind a row of bushes. She didn't see anyone she knew, a couple guys playing kicky bag. "Whoa," one of them said, dropping the bag. "Girl just came out of the woods."

"Whoa," the other one said, and then they both started to laugh hysterically. They were drunk already, and maybe high too. It smelled like campfire and the earthy smell of rain, and she didn't see Josh anywhere. She considered maybe this party was a bad idea, but then the first one of them came over and greeted her.

April 2085: lie to you, part 1

April 2085: Charlie and Natty are 20 years old, Josh is 18.

Sountrack: "Would I Lie to You?" by Eurythmics

She remembered the first time they did it -- "did it", because at fifteen, you're not really mature enough to "make love" yet, even if you might really grow to love each other some day. It was her idea, after school before her parents got home for work. They had approximately sixty-five minutes and two condoms, and so it happened.

At twenty now, in their second year of college together, Natty had loved Charlie as long as she could remember knowing how to love. She loved him even though he was annoying sometimes, and a little bit anti-social, and had planets and stars on his boxers. She loved him because she'd grown up with him and watched him become a man. She loved him because she couldn't imagine loving anyone else.

a rebel yell

April: (Natty) lie to you, part 1
April: (Natty/Sophia) lie to you, part 2
April: (Ruby) spring birthdays
April: (Barbara) date night

May: schools, elementary field trip: little animals 

May: (Joey/Ocean) dresses

May: (Charlie/Natty/Josh) crazy for you, part 1
May: (Sophia) crazy for you, part 2
May: (Josh) crazy for you, part 3
May: (Natty) crazy for you, part 4

May: (Natty) crazy for you, part 5

May: (Charlie) crazy for you, part 6
May: five days

June: (Lily) kissing frogs
June: (Natty) break free, part 1

June: (Natty) break free, part 2

June: (Ingrid/Ian) adult supervision, part 1
June: (Ingrid/Laney) adult supervision, part 2

June: (Charlie/Gabby) adventures in babysitting, part 1

June: (Charlie/Gabby) adventures in babysitting, part 2
June: (Debbie/Darla) girls just want to have fun (June birthdays)

July: (Gabby) if looks could kill

July: (Quinn) work ethic

July: Independence Day: little explosions
July: (Paige) how to make castles (July birthdays)
July: everybody loves Ezra

July: (Charlie) the answers
July: (Natty) in between days, part 1

July: (Natty) in between days, part 2
July: (Natty) in between days, part 3
July: (Ingrid) in between days, part 3.5

July: (Hilary) in between days, part 4

July: (Charlie) in between days, part 5

July: (Ingrid) in between days, part 5.5

July: (Charlie/Natty) take on me

on Nessa Phoenix and Sim cancer

I realize now that I never blogged about the gameplay tidbit that prompted Nessa's cancer storyline, which I promised I would write about after her story was finished.

March 2085: Mary Jane, Tonya, and Pete the lizard, a vignette in pictures

March, 2085. Mary Jane is 10 years old, Tonya is 22 months.

February 2085: The Snowflake Ball (Ruby)

February, 2085. Ruby McCullough is 17, Claude is 12. Kevin Pittman is 19. Lily is 12.


"Smile," Barbara said, holding the camera up at her son and his girlfriend.

Claude's grades were ridiculous, and it was a miracle his father was even letting him go to prom. But they knew it would only disappoint Lily if he didn't go, and she looked so lovely. Her parents were lovely, and rich, and had five children in the school district. Barbara knew it never hurt to have powerful connections when her husband going for school board president. Best not disappoint one of their daughters.

Claude and Lily smiled for the camera.

no, THIS one is not the Sim story...

As you'll see here in a minute, I've decided to separate the postings of my story Sims and my playing Sims. Because I'm flighty and indecisive like that, lol!

But really it's because the storylines for my play Sims are being held up by the lethargic storylines of my SSA sims. As Sims, they all live in the same world, but I'll be posting about the SSA bunch over there, with proper stories and stuff, and the Alt-LH set will get picspam and gameplay updates over here. The SSA Sims may get picspam updates over here too if they're not going to be used for the story. You'll likely see some of the Sims in the background of others too, since they technically all live in the same world, same universe, same timeline and stuff.

I just know that I want one of these neighborhoods to actually make some progress for once! So this time I'm keeping my book storylines vs. blog storylines tightly checked. No stray stories, no tangents, no added storylines. Because you know, I've got these other play Sims to blog about too. And I thought I'd work on bringing my nerdy resident databases over here too.

Anyway, so that's what's up! Carrying on! :)