4.25 No two sims are the same

Dragan was a simple sim with few wishes in life. He took what life threw at him with an unnatural calmness. So when Neda asked to go with her to the autumnfestival, he went.

It was beautiful and sunny, like most early autumndays; so a bit of the spooky mood was lost. But nice weather was better than bad weather when beeing outside. Looking at the haunted house, he decided to check it out. From the screams he heard from the inside, it should be quite scary.

Calmly walking through it, he didn't see what other sims saw. Where was the terror? Some of the puppets were really well made, but the robotics made the movements choppy and less realistic. Not that realism would change anything, it still wasn't real. Hey! Maybe he could carve out a pumpkin later! It took a while before he realised that he'd gone through the entire building, and was standing outside. How long had he been standing here?

He forgot all about whatever he'd been thinking about, when he noticed a cute girl looking at him. Dragan really didn't pay that much attention to girls, becuase he rarely remembered what to say when recess came along. That's why it was good that he met her her, because this way there wouldn't be any pauses before they started talking.

Hi. I've seen your around school. Dragan wasn't that bad with faces, it was mainly names he forgot. Unless he actively went in and tried to remember them. So when she said her name was Lillian, he decided to think about her as dolleyes; because she had eyes like a doll.

Damn, look at the eyebrows on that one, he blurted out to Lillian, nearly forgetting he was supposed to remember talking to her.

I love kids! She exclaimed, even if she laughed a bit at the baby. That was one ugly baby.

The baby seemed to know what they were thinking, because he managed to look grumpier than the eyebrows suggested.

Oh, I love kids to! Dragan felt the lie slip out of his mouth before even realising it happening. He'd never thought about kids even once in his life. Why was he even lying about it, he was still a teenager and shouldn't think about it at all. Though, he sometimes wondered how it was to be a chipmunk, so it was probably nothing to worry about.

Really? Lillian rarely met anyone else her age that loved kids, so it was nice to meet one. He seemed a bit daft, but atleast he was really cute.

And I was a really cute baby to, he said pulling out his phone: the only cute baby in the family none the less. Well, that was almost true. But Lillian seemed to agree to his baby cuteness.

Neda had lost Dragan almost as soon as they had showed up at the park. Seeing her brother leaving the haunted house without looking even a bit startled, made her decide to give it a go.

It was horrifying! The dolls were creepy, the robotics used was so realistic and those damned workers that had dressed up and scared everyone was even worse! She came out at the other end a nervous wrech, and feeling sick to her stomach. She was so lucky she'd never had any trouble keeping her breakfast down!

Her breakfast disagreed and decided to make a run for it out of her stomach.

And as usual the cities citizens was all to happy to help a poor teenaged girl that wasn't feeling well.

Neda then decided to participate in the pieeating contest, even if she'd just thrown up.

Yeah, it wasn't a very big surprise she felt sick to her stomach again. But she sure wasn't going to throw up this time. No way would her stomach humiliate her in public a second time around.

Once again, her stomach disagreed. Neda felt even worse than before, and her entire face was full of pie! Could this day get any worse?

You are like the prettiest girl in school. Dragan was putting his best moves on Lillian; which mainly consisted of saying exactely what he though about: Good thing you are, because I'm cute so we'd look weird next to eachother if you weren't pretty. 

She seemed a bit confused for a second, so Dragan pulled out his biggest pearlywhite smile. For some reason girls like that. And he really felt like smiling when he looked at her.

To the approving hollering of a creepy policeoffier, Dragan tried kissing Lillian for the first time. it was clumsy, and he missed; but it still counted as a first kiss.

Since they'd gotten that far, Dragan asked her to go steady already. Might as well try right? And she even said yes! Damn, this was easy! Was this why Irena had changed boyfriends all the time?

From her upsidedown position, Neda saw her brother smooching some girl. That was so unfair! What about her? He was supposed to spend time with her today! Was he going to stop spending time with her now just because he was smooching some girl?

Why was it that Dragan sailed through school when she fought for her grades? Why did everyone approach him when she had to approach everyone? Why did everything come so easy to him when nothing came easy for her? They were twins! Why were they so different?

If it was the sight of someone kissing her brother, or the pirouette was to be unsaid. But Neda felt sick again and ran to the bathroom to throw up. Why did this keep happening to her!

Since Dragan was gone with the girl, Neda decided to try to chat up Arne, a friend of hers from school. He was nice enough to talk to, so maybe she should try to meet up with him outside of school to? Nah, they could stay school- friends. He was kind of dumb, and it showed when you talked to him for a while.

She talked to Berit after Arne left. She was another friend from school, but she kept forgetting she was a bit snarky. Usually not a problem, but she got on her nerves after a while. Neda decided that she could actually be friends with someone, and not want to spend tons of time with them. She had her cousin, Tara, for that.

Dragan and Lillians date was going great. After a nice dinner they took to the bowlingalley. This was going surprisingly smooth, and Dragan didn't forget Lillians name even one time. He was impressed with himself, and didn't care that she completly crushed him at bowling. He's never been athletic anyway. Besides, it was great that she was really good at something, so why not give her the credit she deserved?

They ended the very successful date with gazing at the stars. Well, mainly they gazed at eachother; she was a lot more interesting than stars.

And he even remembered to carve out a pumpkin before going to bed. This had been a very good day for Dragan. Very good. He kept forgetting that he'd gotten a girlfriend, but everytime the thought showed itself, he kept getting butterflies in his stomach. Wow, he had a girlfriend.

Stupid Dragan and his stupid girlfriend, she muttered internally.

Him and Lillian was inseparable now. Neda didn't seem to be able to get a boyfriend though. Just because she wasn't interested in anyone, didn't mean that the boys in school shouldn't be interested in her. Standing in front of mums makeup and clothes she decided to try on some of the makeup.

She completely failed to put on anything on the eyelids, but the glossy lipstick slid onto her lips without any problems. It was sticky and she tried moving her mouth without it ending up on her teeth. It almost succeded. Neda thought it looked pretty okay, but she didn't like the feeling of having it on. She could barely handle chapstick. It was fun playing a bit of dressup, and maybe mum had some pretty clothes that would fit her?

She silently opened the drawers one by one, looking through the carefully folded clothes. If mum or dad, or Dragan caught her, she'd be so embarassad that she'd die!

It wasn't to ignore though, that even if mum was thin; her boobs were enormous and the fabric would end up under her own no matter what she tried on. Mums clothes had very little cloth in them. She'd never really decided if she wanted to look like mum, or if she didn't.

Her hand grabbed onto a some pieces of paper. Without taking it up from the drawer, she almost expected it to be some more cheezy loveletters from dad. Because she'd come over them before, and boy they were embarassing.

These papers looked awefully official though. Neda quickly read through it several times, without fully understanding what they said.

She got the most important part of it though: reckless endangerment of a child, witholding parentalrights and some other stuffs she didn't really get. The name of the lawyer and the man suing her was pretty clear though.

Mum had endangered the baby; Catherine; the name was in the paper. And she hadn't even let the dad meet her! And she was missing. It didn't say exactely what had happened, but if mum hadn't been treating the baby well, she'd probably lost custody. That's what happened wasn't it?

Nedas young mind had an appifany; the mean old lady! The old lady mum and dad hoped were dead definitely had her! That's what had happened. Mum hadn't treated the baby well, and an old lady had adopted her. Now mum and dad were mad at the old lady!

But how could they be mad? If mum hadn't taken care of the baby properly then ofcourse someone took the baby away. That's what they did! Because parents didn't own babies, they weren't property!

She felt sorry for mum for a while. Someone had taken her baby from her. Maybe that's why she was so scared that one of them were going to go missing to.

Then  she got angry, because mum had been mean to a baby. A baby was innocent! And here they were having everything they wanted, and the poor baby didn't! She had an older sister somewhere, and mum and dad hadn't said one word! Not one little slip in so many years! How could they do this to them?! To her?! She deserved to know she had a family.

Letting the papers stay where they were, Neda got an idea. Maybe she was looking at this the wrong way. There was no point telling mum and dad, because they'd just lie. And Dragan had already said to let it go, besides; he only cared about his stupid girlfriend- just because she looked like a doll. Neda didn't look like a doll.

She'd never though she could feel this betrayed. Wonder how she looked like? Maybe her hair was red like Dragans, but she'd look like her; because she looked like mum, atleast that's what dad said. She thought she looked more like dad. Though, she'd know her if she saw her right? And she knew just where to start looking now. The most obvious place. But first she needed to wipe off the lipstick and beg a bit.

Daddy, can I have a computer? It was best to ask this way, because she usually got what she wanted. Atleast from dad, it was just mum that said "no" all the time: It would be a lot bettter to have my own for schoolwork and stuff. 

Just use the one in the dogroom. Office, I meant office. Daniel didn't really see the problem with letting the kids have their own. But Aino wasn't to fond of it. Not that he got why, because they had phones anyway.

He pretended not noticing the cat doing it's best impression of how he was sitting. For some reason Fudge absolutely adored him, and stalked him around the house. The most eerie thing was when the cat sat in the doorway and just stared at him. All this time, and he still didn't understand cats.

But daddy! Dragan overclocks it, and "fixes" it and makes it faster and I don't understand how to use it anymore. I just want a simple one that doesn't need me to be a computertechician to understand. And he's always on it! I never get to use it. I promise I won't post nudes of myself or something like that. Only the girls that care about what boys think about them, does that.

Daniel swallowed: I didn't even think about that! Why had she mentioned that to him? Now he was going to constantly worry about her getting groomed, and then blackmailed by creepy boys and men online!

Daddy! 

Fine! I'll talk to your mum and we'll order one. Okay? Sheesh, what was the problem. Let the girl have a computer of her own. Neda had a good head on her shoulder, she wasn't going to get tricked by some dude pretending to be a young girl or something. Even his airhead of a son didn't fall for that. This would definietly show his wife he was not a pushover.

Thank you daddy, Neda put on her sweetest voice.

The new laptop came the very next day. Dad was such a pushover that he'd payed the extra fee for an overnight delivery. And Neda didn't spend an time waiting before setting her plan in motion.
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Lillian is the daughter of FutureCarries Ashton Matthews btw. Finally a sim that doesn't have any connection to the family whatsoever, so she had to be claimed before anyone else sank their claws into her.

And I finally got a baby with eyebrows in game, and that's the eyebrow he gets? He better keep them until he turns into an adult.

I also have no idea why Neda keeps getting sick. She has the looser- trait, but as far as I've seen it just gives her the wish saying "win at a game- for once" and a pop- up from school saying that she sat in gum.

The girl that's beeing mentioned in the text, Tara, is vaguely seen in last chapter when Neda pillowfights with her. Figured I'd just mention her, so it doesn't seem like she's antisocial out of school, because she isn't. I just haven't found a good opportunity to show it in game, and probably won't either. It's just the usual karaoke- singing, going swimming thing, so nothing exiting happens. Point is, she has several friends and one bff.

Thanks for reading