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Generation 1

Chapter 14: Good folks

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Even as the snow has gotten past his ankles, Lukas braves the cold in his underwear just to grab the mail as soon as he wakes up. He’s expecting an intricate and well-written love letter from Lacey, and he needs to get it quickly before his sisters find it first.

Back inside, Stanley mumbles a complaint as he feels the lack of weight beside him.

Miranda simply shushes him to sleep before checking her ringing phone.

Her older sister just called in at 6 am to tell the wonderful news of her getting married to her boyfriend at the age of 95!

Miranda’s so proud of her. She wishes she could have at least called later in the morning, but whatever! Once Eva gets going, their conversation is gonna last until Stanley wakes up.

Ramona tags along with her nephew Brentley to the Ramos-Velasco house to work on a project together.

Tammi isn’t really sure how to interact with this in-law, unlike with Gaby, whose enthusiasm sticks on easily. So when she sees her wife’s signal that she can take over instead, she gladly excuses herself from Ramona’s stare.

Apparently she just wants to give them an update on Miranda, who is starting to show her age.

Behind them, Tammi just hopes that her son is better at handling Ramona’s unpredictability.

Despite the initial weirdness between the two, the sisters express their shared concern over their elderly parents’ slowing pace. The long winter may have been harsh on them; and Stanley’s probably taking it the hardest, who is really fond of his garden.

Vinca smiles reassuringly at her youngest sister. “Just look after them for me okay? Especially Dad.”

After that quick sweet moment between the sisters, Ramona lets Brentley in on the latest gossip on the older kids in school, especially from Lukas’ class.

Then work on their project outside in the snow because they can.

Miranda’s promotion earns her the privilege to ride in a pink limo, and her husband’s eagerness to ride in one.

They’re here to visit Chelsea and Jebidiah, whose child recently aged up to a toddler. Both grandparents are really excited to add a new photo of their grandchildren in their collection, though it’s mostly Stanley handling the growing collection.

Chelsea’s here to greet her parents to her new house as enthusiastically as she could.

Mother and daughter settle in to watch some TV while Stanley grabs Rissa from the nursery.

The young couple got themselves a good house down on the same street where Vinca and Tammi have theirs. Miranda is delighted to see her two older children living close together.

Both grandpa and grandchild are really enjoying this visit as well.

Stanley couldn’t spoil Brentley like this: his parents are always travelling somewhere and bringing him along, and the Ramos-Velasco only really settled down once Brentley started attending high school.

While Brentley is now halfway through high school, Lukas is graduating from it soon. The family prepared a family get-together for his birthday today, and Miranda opens the door to see her older sister gaping at her.

“I can’t believe it; my little sister, wearing gray hair!”

Miranda rolls her eyes at this. “It’s good to see you too, Eva.”

Chelsea sneaks past her mom and aunt to bring in some fancy-looking dish!

Later she admits that it was her mother-in-law, Justine Keaton, who made it.

Tammi spares an amused glance at her older in-laws as they still continue to talk outside in the cold.

But eventually everyone starts piling into the living room, because it’s finally time for the main event!

Jebidiah finds himself being pulled aside by his mother as she gestures to the door. “I have to leave early son, we don’t know how long your father can handle Rissa’s energy.” Her husband Marty has been left with the important task of looking after his energetic grandchild while her parents are out.

“Are you sure mom?” He glances back at his wife who’s clapping enthusiastically. “You should tell them first –“

“Nah, it’s okay,” Justine smiles at him. “You got some good folks there. Let them look after you.”

He turns back to cheer again just as the crowd turns livelier. Beside him, his sister-in-law is silently hoping that her wife can catch up to the party soon.

There’s her wife! Letting all the snow in, just like what her own mother did to this room several chapters ago.

Birthday candles were blown, and everyone sees Lukas Ramos grow up into a beautiful chiseled man.

The cake rush was bad and everyone else had to eat somewhere else in the room, and these three were lucky enough that they have a second cake in the fridge

Miranda finds herself talking about the future of this household with her two youngest children, who have been making plans for a while now. It’s good to know that there is at least two of her kids are planning to stay and look after the house. She’s not sure if she and Stanley can maintain their property at this age.

On the other side of the room, Lukas sings a lovely duet with Vinca. They would have loved to sing with Chelsea too, but she has to leave early with her husband to let her in-laws rest from looking after Rissa.

Stanley is just about to grab the TV remote to watch a movie with Ramona when THIS happens.

The ringing from her phone remains ignored, and Ramona gasps as she slowly acknowledges that her father is suddenly transparent in front of her. Then she starts to sob loudly.

Miranda, who just finished brushing her teeth, rushes to the room to see what the commotion is all about.

When the last of Stanley’s ghostly silhouette fades from the room, Miranda finds herself shaking, and Tammi has to quickly catch her mother-in-law from stumbling.

The older woman is devastated; today was supposed to be a good day.

Behind them, Gaby walks away from the room in silence and went straight to bed.

Amidst the shock, Lukas goes around the house to look for his youngest sister, and finds her sobbing heavily in the bathroom.

(Author’s note: I take it back, this is the longest chapter that I’ve written. The poor sim just turned 90, and I really didn’t expect Stanley to die just as he was legible to do so. Eva, his wife’s sister, is several days older than him, and she’s still kicking and even married her boyfriend after this long! At least his lifetime wish was fulfilled, but it’s too bad about the grandchildren wish — he would have at least waited for 3 more.)

Generation 1

Chapter 12: Up in smoke

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Miranda visits her second daughter at their new house. It looks like she has interrupted an epic snowball fight between the couple, and Vinca resorts to using the unused pile for a snowman instead.

Tammi finds it amusing to see that both mother and daughter are wearing similar coats, but doesn’t point it out for her wife’s sake.

Vinca’s nonplussed expression proved that Tammi’s decision was for the best.

Anyways, she made the coolest snowman anyone has ever seen.

As Tammi redirects her attention to marvel at the awesomeness of her wife’s creation, she didn’t realize that her mother-in-law is about to attack her with a snowball.

Vinca watches the chaos unfold in front of her, but she still finds it hard to believe to see her mother starting it. She wasn’t this playful before, but it looks like the weather was enough to let her own childishness out.

Ever since her engagement, Chelsea has been occasionally dropping by the house for breakfast. She misses her dad’s cooking, though it’s mostly because neither she nor Jebidiah ever bother to learn more recipes.

Lukas almost forgot how much of a quick eater his sister is. He figures that it could be a useful skill at the military facility, with the rigid schedule and all. (But he still think it’s disgusting though)

Gaby doesn’t want to be reminded of how much of a slow eater she is in contrast to her older sister. Hence, the threatening smile at Lukas, who is teasing her off-screen.

Behind them, Jebidiah bakes a new batch of pancakes for his fiancee. Not only a quick eater, Chelsea eats a lot.

Ramona’s influence on inappropriate clothing may have placed quite an impact on her other family members.

She stares at her elderly father, who always checks on his garden’s conditions every morning. The grayness of his hair is already starting to blend in with snow, and Ramona fears for the inevitability of it.

Stanley also checks on his garden at night. The colder days makes him wish for spring to come back sooner. He really, really wants to work on his garden again.

Today, he goes out and sees the twins’ snowman. Just as he finishes decorating it, he turns around and is pleased to see his youngest behind him. When Ramona notices that she has been discovered, she lets go of the huge snowball that she was about to hurl at her father, shrugging.

Stanley has a special fondness for his quiet kids, particularly with Vinca, and to an extent, Ramona. Her usual, weird, cryptic, and oftentimes inappropriate nature doesn’t bother her father, and he finds it endearing sometimes.

Featuring two of Stanley’s loud kids, as they enthusiastically sing a cover of Of Monster and Men’s Crystal.

They’re still at it at 9pm. (Gaby is probably planning to sing the whole album)

Sadly, all things come to an end, even the good ones.

So when the Gaby and Lukas turn around to find smoke rising up from the karaoke machine, they are reasonably in great distress.

“Okay bro, let’s not panic, yet,” Gaby raises her hands to calm herself down, clearly in panic. She did not anticipate this to happen at all.

Lukas doesn’t seem to hear her; he’s too busy focusing on the rising smoke. This is something too obvious to simply blame on an electrical malfunction. “Gaby, we are officially screwed,” he announces.

Gaby is panicking too much to even think of a new dramatic pose to go along with the situation.

The footsteps coming behind them confirm that these two are, indeed, officially screwed.

It wasn’t as bad as they thought; washing the dishes after every dinner was a doable task. Miranda knows that the real challenge was for Gaby, who pretty much spends most of her time using that thing.

She manages though. Gaby decides that it’s time to use the chemical set that she specifically asked for as a kid. Today, she accompanies her twin in the studio.

She’s not as fond for this thing as she is with the karaoke machine, but this better not go up in smoke too.

(Author’s note: I’m really starting to like Gaby. I guess she’s fun to write! This makes me look forward to the twins’ birthday soon!)

Generation 1

Chapter 11: The prettiest snowman

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Stanley and Miranda share a tender moment while being locked out of their own house. He lost the damn keys to the house this time.

No one’s inside to let them in, so they wait for either of their kids to get home with one of the spare keys.

Miranda examines her new uniform in awe.

She thinks of how proud her older sister will be, to finally bear the title of a conductor. If she keeps up with this pace, she’ll probably be a hit composer in no time.

Upstairs, the house receives a rare visitor.

Chelsea, the eldest of the kids, finally drops in to announce her engagement with a fellow soldier, Jebidiah Keaton, much to the excitement of her younger siblings.

In the background, her fiance introduces himself to his future mother-in-law while Gaby drops a sick cover of Nobody. Chelsea is too busy admiring her muscles to realize that her mother is interrogating poor Jebidiah.

Chelsea takes her time to explore the house and stumbles upon the guest room, where she finds Vinca’s framed prom picture proudly displayed on the desk. She snickers while taking a picture of it and sends it to her sister’s wife.

She then turns her attention to the unused high bar.

The lack of a progress bar above Chelsea shows that she has mastered the skill of being physically active!

After a few more rounds, Chelsea goes back upstairs.

The couple decides to play one of Chelsea’s old save files before leaving for work. Jebidiah makes a comment about the island in the game, trying to subtly pass it as a hint for their possible honeymoon destination.

She challenges him to win this round so that she could consider it, and then promptly wins.

The remaining twins in the house decide to bond over making a snowman together. They always take turns to suggest an activity that they could do as a pair, and this time Ramona’s request is fulfilled.

Though she ruins the mood by casually mentioning how this pile of snow may have some frozen trash inside.

Gaby pauses and slowly removes her hands from the surface of the snow ball. “Ewww. Ramona, no.”

Though she gets over it and is determined to make this the prettiest snowman, whether it may or may not have any trash inside, so she shushes her twin to concentrate.

Ramona is about to say something again, but continues to work in silence anyway.

Ramona looks up to see her sister still doing that silly pose. “Are you going to help me or not?”

“Shhhh! Don’t break my concentration.”

In the end, they decide to leave it halfway done and go back inside the house to get warm again. And also to work on their homework, which they were definitely not procrastinating on.

Gaby watches her favorite series next to big brother who’s been into reading a lot of skill books these days.

Despite his attempts to rebel against his parents as an act of teenage freedom, Lukas is pretty much mild. He is even the class genius. His sisters know that his rebel phase is just a ruse to attract some girls.

He actually did end up attracting someone, a fellow genius named Lacey Su. She’s crushing on him so bad that she doesn’t try to mind watching the stars with him while almost buried in the snow. (Both kinda want to go back inside the house and finish their homework now.)

Lukas is too flustered to admit that it was a joke anyway, so they continue to sit in the snow, braving the cold like idiots.

(Inside the house, Jebidiah can be seen hanging out downstairs)

Eventually, both admit that it was too cold for the interaction to be romantic, so they stand up. That’s when Lukas realize that this girl should really consider wearing a thicker jacket at this time of the year.

And also, that she’s really cute.

It’s still cold outside of course, but they both agree to pretend that this little kiss warmed them up on the inside.

Like a true gentleman, Lukas offers to continue working on their homework inside the house, to which Lacey gladly accepts.

Could it be really that cold that it forces Ramona to actually wear something sensible inside the studio?

(Yes, yes it is.)

(Author’s note: I’m making sure that Lukas will have a romantic spouse by the time he leaves the house. As for the twins, I don’t have any one in mind for them yet, so we’ll just see what I can work with in the future).