Wednesday 22 August 2012

Chapter Seven

Dot is barely in high school a week and a formal dance is upon them, since the town is so small, the PTA likes to throw a lot of dances and talent shows, in the hopes of keeping the kids on the path of righteous. Whatever the hell that is. Because of this, there's a flurry of hook ups between the teenagers in town, and considering there's only about six at the time of the first formal, it was safe to say it was first come first choose. William Cooper-Jenkins is a little younger than Dot, but he's cute and polite and his mum and dad are best friends with Lolita's co-workers, so it's easy to assume that Dot won't get much flack from them about who she's dating. She decides to ask him to the dance before someone else does, although it's difficult to when his mother keeps eavesdropping on their conversation. Brttia's asked out the next day by Bradley Bird, one of the only other redheads in town besides the Webb girls. He's cute, so Britta can forgive his goofy sounding name.

Lolita finally reaches rock star status, propelling the woman to a level of fame she had never expected. What she had expected was limos and tour buses and fancy cars, instead all she got was a group of pushy people screaming at her for taking to long to scrawl her name on various scraps of paper. It's that moment that Lolita quickly decides, being a rock star sucks.

"Welcome to Deep Space Nine, please enter the docking bay in an orderly fashion."

"Whatever you say kid."

"The alien life forms you seek will arrive shortly, we're just de-sliming them now."

"Watch it kid, or we're gonna sell you to the Duggards." Brttia threatens her younger sister, prompting Margo to go running off screaming DAD! at the top of her lungs. The foursome heads to the formal in a white stretch limo, the girls are glad that Lolita is away giving a concert or seeing the car would have set her off on one of her rants again. Usually about how she gets no respect even though she placed this crappy little island on the map, and how this never would have happened had they stayed in Bridgeport.

With the girls at the dance and Lolita at work, Bernard is left to field Margo's constant string of never ending questions. "Why couldn't I go to the dance too? I like dancing. I'm better at it than stupid Britta, that's for sure."

"Don't call your sister names."

"Why? She is stupid, she picks on me all the time."

"Play nice." Is all Bernard can think to say, he's sort of a lackluster parent.


The girls have a great time at the dance, Bradly and Britta get their picture taken after Dot and William do, so of course the couple trolls by mocking the other couples chosen pose.

Lolita is starting to feel old, she's starting to see wrinkles and life lines. And yesterday she was pretty sure she found a grey hair! Bernard assures her that she's as beautiful as ever.

It takes some convincing before she believes him.

"Listen, if you don't stop calling me frog leg breath, I'm telling dad that I saw you booby-trap that computer."

The girls don't get to continue to argue for long, because next up it's Margo's birthday. Finally, she won't be the baby of the household anymore! Something she's been looking forward to immensely.

Margo becomes a teen.

You know, eventually one of you will have to do the dishes.

Dot found out through various different sources at school, that Britta and Bradley had been caught snogging under the bleachers at the formal. When questioned, Britta gave a shrug and said; yeah. Dot couldn't believe it, she was the older sister, but Britta had gotten her first kiss before Dot did!? That was just crazy to her, and so not acceptable. At the time of the dance, she was so happy that William had been a proper gentleman. He held her hand when they walked through the dark to get to the limo, which helped Dot's cowardly nature. He gave her his tux jacket when she was cold, and even gave her a warm hug goodnight after asking her if she wanted to go steady. But he didn't kiss her! Well, she was going to change that. Since she knew that he worked in town after school, Dot waited around until he got off. He was surprised to see her there, but not in an unhappy way.

Without much fuss or lead up, Dot placed a simple kiss on William's lips. He was shocked, given her cowardly ways, he had always assumed that he would have to be the one to make the move. But after an extremely firm talking to from his military man father the night of the dance, he had pretty much vetoed the 'moves' idea until he and Dot were closer. Seems like she didn't agree.

The two spent the rest of the night at The Bluffs, playing pool and takihng silly pictures in the photobooth. Dot didn't even notice the darkness outside it's walls or the curfew that was quickly creeping up on them, which was rare but nice.

Dot didn't get in trouble for being out late, because Britta had once again stolen the spot light from the quieter girl. Brttia was good at that, she liked to cause trouble but was really bad at not getting caught in the middle of it.

Really bad at not getting caught.


Even as teen, Margo continued to be a homebody, sucking up to their parents. She was well behaved for the most part, sparing with her father and helping her mother clean. To Britta she was a brown noser, to Dot, she was just being nice. The three were polar opposites, so it was safe to say that the house was chaos.


Notes:
And that's three teens! The house is feeling really packed, I need to expand some more. The lot isn't the biggest, but I've worked with smaller. It's just hard to build decently when there's sims always around because they get in the way constantly. Margo's teen trait is Loves the Outdoors. She and Britta really do argue all the time, but they still have a really high friendship bar. It's like normal sisters I guess, you bicker, but you still love each other. I don't know why Brttia is such a trouble maker, because she doesn't have any of those traits, she's not rebellious or hot headed or anything. She's grumpy, but I've never had that trait in a teen cause them to lash out in such a way.

Lolita reached the top of her career and got fuck all! I was so annoyed. So I spent for-fricking-ever getting her up to a five star celeb. She went to every drink promotion, did every cameo, worked out, made friends with every damn celeb in town. When she finally made it, I was like yes, now I get the cool rock star tour bus? Right? Right!? Wrong! No bus, no personal blue or pink limo, nothing. I'm so annoyed. Especially since one of her co-workers, who's only a fricking lead guitarist has a pink limo! So Lolita's diva attitude toward how she's treated in town, is really just from my annoyance.

In the next update Dot becomes an adult and takes over as heir, wow, this gen went by like really fast.

1 comment:

  1. I really like the story. I like how it just goes with what the Sims are doing and isn't so forced.

    I also like that the three girls have their own personalities. :)

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