5.1 Fresh attire

Opening the door to the worndown house, Neda was lucky enough to get a place all to herself. It would've been a lot more social to have roommates, but she'd lived in a house chucked to the brim with sims and animals. Now she wanted to feel how it was living alone for a while.

Having no idea how university- sims dressed either, she'd settled for what she assumed was a fresh, yet summerly, hipster attire. Maybe she should've just dressed in something she wanted, but it was hard finding a style when she'd never really cared about clothes.

Just to make her stand out even more, her parents and brother had gone with her to campus to make sure everything would be okay. She appreciated the gesture, but it would've been nice to not stick out this early on. Now that she was an adult, Neda wanted to pretend she knew how to be one.

It's a bit empty here. Do you want us to go with you and get some nicer furniture? Daniel wasn't to thrilled of having his little girl all alone on campus. But, despite his protests, Dragan wanted to take classes online so he could marry his girlfriend instead, and stay in Jericho. That meant that Neda was going to stay alone, far away from home.

Daaad. Neda whined. Like it wasn't enough that her parents payed her rent: I'll be fine. 

Yeah, I'll transfer some simoleons to your account so you can buy something. Daniel decided to do some deaf- parenting. That's when you asked your kid something, and when they answered you did what you meant was best anyway.

As usual, it was impossible to talk with dad about this. Not that she was ungrateful, but she wanted to be a grownup.

Despite her recent thought about wanting to be all grownup, she decided this was not the time to pretend she didn't want free stuff. Not all sims were as lucky as her. Her parents could afford to put her through an education, pay her rent and still give her a more than enough for other things.

Thanks dad. 

She didn't need to specify exactely what she was thanking for: No problem honey. 

As much as Aino had wanted to stay with her daughter until she'd settled in, Daniel had said a pretty clear "no". But unlike him, she'd actually gone to university, and she had a good lot of advice to give: The campus security are useless, and don't be alone outside after dark. And remember; girls are not experiments. If she had any regrets about university, that was one of her bigger ones, just using that poor girl like that.

Neda almost had to ask if mum could repeat herself: Wha... what? 

Don't worry mum. Campus is way safe and if I need to put someone throught an experiment, I'll do it to a boy. That was definitely what mum meant. But, she wasn't studying science or anything, so she wouldn't need to experiment on anyone.

That's not what I meant honey. Aino knew her daughter had never really been interested in any romance, but come on.

Yes mum, that was exactely what you meant! Neda chose to interpret that as she wanted, thank you very much! Damnit mum! Gross! This was even worse than finding the loveletters from dad.

Dragan had been lucky enough to escape mums advice, as he finished carrying her few possessions inside. She hadn't wanted to take to much junk with her.

If you want better grades, just contact me okay? I'll fix it for you in an instance. As the airhead he was, he'd figured that he was going to try his luck in politics back home. A nice little internship and a few classes, and he should be good to go. How hard could politics be anyway?

Uhm, thanks but I think I'll want to try to work for them. You know, so I'll learn something. 

Why would she work for something that he could get her for free: Okay.

But if you change your mind, remember what I said. Just the thought of actually working hard at something made him shiver. What was the point? Why not just enjoy life instead, and you know, work with yapping sims after the mouth.

Sure Dragan. 

Okay, and buy some curtains. There's probably some pervs around here. This looked like a place that would draw pervs to it.

Sighing Neda answered: Sure Dragan. He was hopeless.

Neda planned on becoming that one sim in the family that had a normal job and education. But she was going to get some curtains and new stuff. She wasn't allowed to paint the walls, but she could get some other stuff.

Since it was summer, and the place needed to be a bit lighter, Neda bought home some ligtcoloured flowery stuff, doing her best to create a sense of summerbreeze and home. Because she kind of missed home already.

She was even able to find a cheap tv and even more flowers. Because she knew that grownups had flowers all around the house.

As soon as she was done, she went down to the student union to meet up some of the other students. She could've pretended to be shy, but that train had long passed. She'd barely started talking to  a woman named Ayana, when they were interrupted by the sweet sound of a brawl.

The fight was nearly over before Neda managed to get there. Some poor fairy got his wings handed to him; and pretty brutally it seemed. Since she was such a classy lady, her curiosity got the better of her and decided to chat him up a bit. Poor fairyguy definitely needed a cheering up, and since she considered herself a good sim, it was the right thing to do.

Though seeing the guy that was doing the beating, quickly changed her mind. Yeah, the fairy definitely didn't need any comforting, he was probably to embarassed.

He wasn't even breathing heavily, so he had to be used to beating fairies up: Steve Texas, nice too meet you.

Your name's Texas, and you went all Texas on him! Neda was impressed. And he was hot, unlike the fairy. Not that it had anything to do with her talking to him instead of the fairy. It was a total coincidence.

Went what on him? Steve Texas didn't seem to have heard that expression before, so Neda smoothly tried to save her face: Nothing! Nothing. It was... Hey, nice right hook! She didn't know the first thing about boxing or fighting, but she'd seen they say that in movies.

I know. Wow, he seemed so confident. She'd never met a guy like him before. Ofcourse, she didn't have any experience with guys at all, but was still pretty sure they usually weren't like him.

As the charming woman she was, she knew exactely what to say to impress: Aren't you afraid that you'll loose you shiny white smile? 

Nah. I barely ever loose a fight. Steve was quite the jock, so he was used to beating up nerds and hipsters. This girl looked like a hipster, but he was pretty sure she was a fake hipster.

Neda decided Steve wanted to play pool with her, and didn't take no for an answer. What he thought about beeing bossed around by a citygirl is unknown, but atleast he wasn't complaining.

After loosing the game of pool, Neda and Steve tried a game of pingpong. They were both terrible at it. But it was fun trying something new, and it looked pretty simple.

Desperate to win, she forgot to put on her sexy- face for Steve. He didn't say anything. Not that it mattered at all, because as usual, she lost the game. Beeing a looser, Neda was used to loosing at games.

For some strange reason Steve wanted to meet some other sims than just her, so Neda went and got a soda; just to have it blow up in her face. It was something about her and doing something right, that just didn't go well together. Well, she didn't fail all the time. It just happened a lot more to her than other sims.

After cleaning the sodastaing, Neda couldn't find Steve anywhere, so she tried chatting with Ayana a bit instead. She was quite the nerd, so the two of them had a lot more in common than her and Steve. Not that she was insterested ofcourse.

Are you noticing the creepy barista following our every move? Ayana seemed very uncomfortable.

It's probably because we're standing right infront of him. Neda tried calming her down a bit. After all, she'd also stare if someone stood straight infront of her physical workplace.

As soon as Ayana couldn't stand chatting more with her, Neda happily moved on to the next nerd; she was already getting good at picking them out. She instantly regretted chatting up Walter. To be fair, he looked like he was crazy with those staring eyes. Besides, his hands were way to soft. Wonder what handlotion he used?

Turned out looks could decieve, and he was actually quite nice. They spent the rest of the evening talking about music. She was pretty sure he was wealthy, not just because of the soft hands, but he just looked and sounded the part. Like he wasn't used to tired teachers that just wanted to go home, and classmates spitting paper at you throught papertubes.

Before going to bed that day, Neda called Niko. She'd promised to phone him to tell how it went: University is really great! I've already gotten three friends! 

Weren't you supposed to focus on studying? She never got used to how clear his voice was from the other end. He also sounded a bit tired. Wonder what time it was in China?

I can do both! She could! How hard could it be?

Walking into the first lecture the very next day, Neda was a bit scared. It looked very official. But the teacher said it was nice to have her in class, even if she hadn't been paying a lot of attention. And that was good right?
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So, I dropped off the face of simplanet for a while again. because photobucked changed their  rules, so I have to pretty much make the blog from scratch. I'm way to cheap to pay money per year, to be able to use them as host for pictures to a simblog. Anyway, it's really just my own fault, but I had so much done and ready, and then I had to do it all over again. So I went and felt sorry for myself instead, playing an uglacy for a while. Sorry bout that, but I do love to wallow in selfpity and despair. 

So to something completly different:

His name is Texas! How awesome isn't that? I've never noticed him around uni before. How can a guy be called Texas and I've never seen him? And if you see any of Ainos old friends, pretend you don't.

Back to the story; I don't really feel Neda in any way, but that can happen when you roll. So it'll just be some gameplay for a while to see if she fleshes out a bit. She's good at getting friends though. And I tweak every guy she meets, just in case she gets the hots for some of them. They're still pretty similar as they look already though, so ugly sims aren't my fault this time. *crossing fingers for Steve*

Thanks for reading