1.29: Lord of the sims

    

     It was a cool and dry basement, perfect for his hobby. Gard hadn't taken up gardening only by chance. Growing up in a brewery, he'd always dreamed of having a well stocked nectar cellar. And he finally did.

     Slowly matured nectar just laying there waiting to be savoured and enjoyed. He was going to make nectar until the day he died.
     His days as an adult was quickly coming to an end, and he felt himself eagerly waiting for those days. He was going to drink nectar every single day, and just enjoy what life he would have left in him. Not out in the sun though, the sun could go away and never come back!

       But it was still a while away, as he was reminded answering the phone. The voice belonged to someone he tried avoiding thinking about; his youngest sister Evelyn. He hadn't seen her in years and years, and the request was a bit unexpected.

      Evelyn was still his sister, so when she had problems with the stereo, he picked it up at her place and fixed it. To his sons big surprise, for some reason Marco didn't think he knew his way around any tools.

     It was easier than anticipated, so he nabbed her at a break at the hospital, and shared some common courtesy. They simply talked about the weather.
     When a family is struck by tragedy, they tend to get closer or drift apart. And his had drifted apart. There wasn't any animosity between them, but Evelyn looked so much like Nora, he could feel himself dying all over again. It was hard meeting the family, as it always reminded them of the incident.
     Gard had never regretted getting into the prison, tearing those creatures apart. He'd do it all over again if he could. Beeing a genious had it's advantages, and he still didn't feel he'd done anything wrong. But that's how it is beeing a vampire.

     They didn't really rely on gardening as a big income anymore, as Iva earned grotesque amounts of simoleons. So he'd found some unknown seeds and planted them just for the fun of it. Sometimes he was in for an unpleasant surprise, like this terrible plant.
     Feeling sickly over the smell, and trying to avoid the terrible white things clinging to it, he violently pushed his hands around the stem and ripped it up by the roots.

      Garlic, blech. The only disgusting, and useless plant that actually exsisted. A feeling of happiness filled him as he stuffed it into a plastic sack. This wouldn't be recycled, it would be tossed together with the rest of the trash. Garlic... like anyone actually liked that...

     Gard had also gotten a new friend, as mister Evilgnome seemed to take a liking to him.

     Mister Evilgnome also liked his plants.....

     Gard wasn't the only one that had gotten strange phonecalls. Iva had been contacted by the research facility. The nerds needed her helps observing the sky. She couldn't understand how that tiny telescope could be better than that monster they had down at the plant, but whatever....

 
     She actually discovered a tiny whitegiant star, and maturly named it "Iva rocks". When she informed them, they were so happy they arranged Hawaiian labcoat Friday. When asked to join, Iva rudely declined. Nerds!

     Contemplating getting a new cat, Iva went down to the petstore. A little kitty, or a fat and old one, would be a welcome addition to keep them company on their older days.
     But she forgot all about it when she bumped into Lukas. They talked for a long time, until a pretty young lady with an increasingly irritated smile started coughing.

     With a hard handshake, and deep voice the lady said: Hi, I'm Nawar. Lukas wife. It turned out that after a lifetime of having older women, Lukas had finally gotten a younger one. But why did she sound so jealouse? Jealouse people was really unattractive!

     Lukas was having a seizure!! Or so Iva thought, but it turned out he was just really nimble. No wonder he was capable of keeping a young wife happy!
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     Finally reaching top level of her writing careere, Iva was released from all her bonds of a publisher. That meant she could finally start that book she always wanted: Lord of the sims!!
     It was about tiny, fat sims that smoked and ate to much, a completely new and original concept! For real! She pulled a face to celebrate, and immedeately started writing it.

     Ofcourse Gard still worked as a gardener, which meant he delivered fresh vegetables to the local store. As usual he met a lovesick lady about half his age.
     Oh my! You're a vampire aren't you? I can give you the love you need! You're not bad, you're just misunderstood!! Lonelylady pretty much jumped him.

 
     Get away from me lady! Gard growled, he didn't need another crazy lady coming to his house. Why did these things always happen when it was raining? Did all the lonely ladies crawl out of hiding then? And always outside that damed groceryshop!! Maybe they nested there, drawn by all the diapers and babybottles.

     Confused, the lady said: But surely you're looking for love! From an ordinary woman that turn out to be extrodinary!!
     Go away lady! Gard had noticed he didn't have the same patience with lovesick ladies anymore.

      Lonelylady was sad, and surprised. What had just happened? Vampires was always really looking for love! That's what all the books said. And that guy had looked just like an older, ginger, beefier version of the villain in that book she just finished: Greywood, by an I.Sleitinn!

     Well at home, he was pretty much jumped by his wife
     What's happened? She sounded dark and suspicious. How did she always know when someone had been hitting on him? Iva was really a jealouse woman.

     Clapping her hands so hard together, that he actually jumped, she said: If another bitch crawls up those stairs, I'll strangle her with her bimbo hair and beat her until a bloody pulp! She sounded surpisingly calm and calculated. Then I'll rip out her silicone and shove it down her throat! 

      Her jealousy was flattering in a strange way, and disturbing, very disturbing: You're still as beautiful as the day we first kissed. Gard knew how to calm down his wife. It that didn't work he'd do laundry.

 
     And once again, all bimbos and lonelyladies were safe from Ivas wrath.
     Gard... I can't breath....
     It wasn't all that strange that Iva was more unstable than usual. Not only was their own birthdays coming up quickly....
   

      ...Oriana had made it very clear, that she had no intent to celebrate her birthday with her parents! She didn't want anyone from the family there!
     She'd gotten the cake herself, and met her friends at the bowlingplace! It was so exciting having a birthday!! Oriana was totally going to be sooo pretty, and successful, and tall!! She'd totally be tall.

      But what if she turned out to be really gnomeshort? And didn't turn out successful, or rich? Maybe she'd end up looking like mister Evilgnome! What would she do with her life? Was she going to move out, or stay with her parents?

     Or maybe her parents could stay with her?! That would be kind of neat, or maybe she and all her friends would move in together, like in tv- series, and they could get their own realityshow! Oh! Or maybe she could be a modern ninja, like a secret agent or something! Agent double O-riana!!!

     To the fanfare of birthday trumpets, clapping and cheering from her friends, and others she had no idea who was, Oriana decided it was time to turn into an adult! Four candles met their end at her breath. Four, was that a magic number or something?

      This was so exciting, she just couldn't wait! Beeing an adult was going to be so awesome!!

     No wait! I've changed my mind!! Oriana didn't want to turn into an adult, she looked weird enough already! But sparkles are always relentless. When they have seized your body, there is no turning back.

     Turned out it wasn't so bad as she feared, and she didn't turn gnomesized! Even if she still looked like female version of her dad. Atleast she didn't look like mister Evilgnome.

     The birthday tasted even better as an adult! Even better, the day still wasn't over!!

    She wasn't the only one aging up today!

     All of her friends did too! It was so cool!
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     Oriana hadn't had a single drink, but still didn't get home until the early morning hours. Diving into bed, she quickly fell into a heavy and much needed sleep.
     She hadn't been sleeping for long when not one, but two visitors decied to drop by.

     Gard wondered why both his wife, and daughter was outside in their underwear. Now he had to injure both the cop and burglar for looking at them.
     He forgot all about it when the policeman actually won the fight. But then the guy wanted to check the house, even if the thief never had entered.

     For some reason, green lonelyladies was drawn to his home, instead of the groceryshop.
     Greetings earthling, the lonely alienlady said with metallic voice: What a nice piece of species you've got there! She'd taken the spaceship through the galaxy to find herself a manlyman, for some reason.

     
Go away lady! Gard swore the citys lovesick ladies got weirder every day.

     This was so typical!! It was supposed to be Orianas big day, and then everyone else gets attention! Now her birthday would always be rememberd as the day her dad got hit on by an alien! The cop even caught the burglar! What was this world coming too?

     Atleast no one could take away her beeing voted best in class! And most likely to become mediocre, but that wasn't important! Oriana was going to have an AWESOME life!!!
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And heres a picture of Milo, because I know you're all curious how he'd look. (That, and I wanted to show him off) Sure you all can recognize the corners of his mouth, even if he lost a lot of Alders looks on age up :(
I thought it was cute how all of Orianas friends had birthdays the exact same day, including Selim. He's with them, but hid next to a door and stayed there, just to ruin the picture. He's also at the bowling place, but hid behind some unknown sims just to ruin those pictures too.

And I am so sick of all the women that walks up to Gard and start hitting on him. Leave the man alone!! He's not interested!! Can't leave that guy alone for a second....

Iva rolled "opportunist", but doesn't really get a lot of opportunities. So I let both her and Gard do it, as it became more challenging that way. It just haven't been mentioned a lot, but finally managed to put it into the story. Ivas challenges has been writing two books, paint one picture and that stargazing thing. And that's it, as far as I can remember.

Next chapters will be all about Marco, since he's younger. I always let all kids grow up until I let the next generation "officially" take over. Might change that later, but for now I'll do it the old- fashioned way.

Thanks for reading.