this is not LH, #1: I'm a hot firefighter

How this started was that I just wanted a family to play. Since my neighborhoods usually get so bogged down that I never get to see anyone actually grow up. And my stories get so heavy that I hardly get to really play. So here, I wanted a world I could just play.

I started with Micah and Mariah. I was going to play them fast and silly, and let them actually grow up. But my story-progression never immigrated any Sims to fill up the town, so I ended up needing to move some families in. Rather than spend time creating new families, I just tossed in a few more familiar faces from my family bin. And then I threw in a couple more. I tossed them in and I paid no mind to what they did, what jobs they took, or who they made friends with. Before I knew it, I had this alternate dimension LH, and what they ended up doing was more crazy and fun than I could have expected! They went crazy! And they started interacting and causing the most ridiculous drama that I just *had* to share.

I'm not sure how much of these episodes will make sense for those who have not followed Lakeside Heights. It's funny to me because I know who these people were, and how much that both relates and clashes with what they're doing here. But who knows? It might be amusing still.

There are not many rules here. There is no concrete time like there is in my other stories. I'm mostly leaving SP on in the background, as this is sort of an experiment in play. For some of the families, I've marked them for no moving though, because they move so fast it kind of makes my head spin! Otherwise, they'll just live and age and breed, and I think some of their offspring might be able to make townies for my new hood.

Disclaimer: please note that none of this has anything to do with any real stories, blogged, published, or otherwise. This is all alternate-dimension kind of stuff.

Onto the shenanigans.

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Approximate ages: Jack and Nessa are 35, Micah and Mariah are 34, Corbin is 32, Carly is 31, Leila and Matt are 28, Beau and Tyler are 24, Summer is 23.

Micah and Mariah seem to be my happiest couple so far. I'm always getting lovey-dovey notifications about them when I'm not playing them directly.

They've had a little boy, Ben, and they've got a third on the way. Quinn is growing up to be an adorable young lady, and she's actually nearly a teenager now! I can't even believe it. I was playing on my "short" lifespan for a bit, but I've now moved it to "normal" which is about the equivalent of one day = one season. Even in my play hood, I don't like them to grow up *that* fast!

I moved many of them in as singles, just to see who would pair up with whom. Summer and Tyler were quick to form a relationship, and also quick to have an oops preggy! Like, within minutes, lol! They had a shot-gun wedding soon after, all before I could even get back into the house - so no pictures there, unfortunately.

Beau and April tried out a quickie relationship, and just as quickly broke up. And now they're not even friends anymore. :(  They were actually together and then broken up before I could even get into their house! She does have commitment issues though. Not sure yet if they'll continue to date or be friends after this. Even in this alternate dimension, I'd be sad to see them not be friends.

But April is a bartender at a club on the shady side of town. She's happy though, living on her own in an apartment at the moment. I feel like she needs a roommate, so I might try to find her one. I actually don't even know where Beau is living at the moment. (They move so freaking fast if you don't have that locked down!) I do get notifications that he's working on his gardening skills though, wherever he is.

Summer and Tyler ended up having a baby girl, which I didn't make it back in time to name. SP named her Tonya, which was not a name I would have normally thought to pick, but okay, lol!

My apologies to any real life girls out there named Tonya, but it always reminds me of that ice skater that bludgeoned that other ice skater in the knee cap. And for the record, I grew up in a place where girls were named things like Tonya, where people drove tractors down the street instead of cars, and set things on fire for fun, and where people may or may not have had teeth. And the thing of it is, I can really, truly see Summer and Tyler ending up being parents to a little girl named Tonya, who would grow up a bruiser like her mom and angsty like her dad, who would push little boys down in the mud and steal their lunch money.

Sorry, Tonya. I'm sure you'll grow up to be a lovely and very classy young lady!

Corbin and Carly started dating rather quickly. Not because they liked each other much, but just because they were my only two single Sims at the time and SP threw them together. And it keeps throwing them together, even though I keep having her break up with him.

Keri and Justin live in the neighborhood too, and I always forget Keri is a firefighter because she was so busy with babies for a while. Lily is nearly a teenager at this point, and she and Justin have a little boy now too, Elijah.

Leila Watts is a pretty kick-ass firefighter in this dimension (when she's not watching daytime soaps at the firehouse, that is), and she's super-cute doing it too! I forget what level she's at, but she's won quite a few awards for her firefighting skills.

I actually have Corbin living with Matt and Leila at the moment, for simplicity's sake. Which sounds like it would be disaster, except that Leila really takes no interest in Matt and vice versa. Matt and Leila have no children in this dimension, and I wouldn't have even had them married at all except for the fact that I made them that way back when I created them. In fact, Matt doesn't seem to care in the least that Corbin and Leila flirt right in front of him. It's like he already knows I plan to break them up.

Smart guy.

Anyway, Corbin actually still has wonderful chemistry with Leila, and he goes to visit her at work some afternoons. He was in between jobs and had some time off, while she works quite a lot.

Leila is a hot firefighter. "I'm a firefighter," she declares to him, as if this alone should be impressive enough to charm the pants off of him.

(It's a flirt she can do! How funny is that?)

"I'm a firefighter," she says to Jack then. (Because Leila wants to flirt with EVERYBODY. Even if she has a husband at home and a lover in the same room with her, which Corbin doesn't seem too happy about - he came to visit her at work, after all!)

"Um, yeah," he says. "I'm a firefighter too, remember?"

And Jack is happily married, with a second baby on the way. He's not impressed.

But Corbin and Leila are good. Mostly. With their sketchy living arrangements, her husband in the next room, his on-and-off girlfriend living across the street. It's not like they're impervious to scandal or anything.

But it weighs on Corbin's conscience still. Not Leila's. Leila is thrilled by the naughtiness of it all. She's having the time of her life! Or else she's just having a hot, hot mess. Your call.

One thing for certain is that Matt is not interested in being a part of it. Matt gives her a quickie divorce in the bathroom (because, where else!?), and he's going to find someone a bit more stable.

Leila is like, "You're breaking up with me?!?"

"Yes," he says. "In this story, I certainly am."

Not a second thought about it.

Matt moves to a big house out in the vineyards  and he's going to be a nectar maker here. He has an enormous plot of land, and his freedom. We'll see how he's getting on in a bit, but I have a feeling this life is going to suit him just fine.

And by the time we get back to Carly, even though Corbin has been in bed with Leila all week, he and Carly are thinking about getting engaged! (For real, SP? Like seriously, what?!?) This isn't going to work, besides the fact that they don't even like each other, she's also got a little crush on the tattoo artist at her salon.

She likes her men inked, and you know, this one has dreamy eyes.

So she calls Corbin over to her workplace. (Because she can't be bothered to take a day off work for this nonsense.) Gonna have to put an end to this hard and fast! Sorry, Corbin. Breakups are never fun. But you know, remember Leila? So she breaks it to him. "Um, don't call me. Don't ask me out. Don't ask me to marry you anymore."

Corbin takes it to heart, and it doesn't feel good. It's not like they were soul mates or anything, but you know, they were gonna get married! Poor Corbin is just not having a very nice life so far in this world. Bad karma from a previous lifetime, he probably wonders.

*** to be continued... ***

It's sort of my mission in this world to let SP play out when I'm not directing them, apart from some silly things that just don't make sense. Like Corbin and Carly, lol! It's just an experiment to see what SP does, but by the end of the week (= about a year or so in Sim time), I also had to put Leila's romance on pause, because she was just too hot to handle and pretty much intent on tearing through everything male and that had a pulse (except for her husband). Girl needs to cool it down.