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Round 21: Spring 2013

Principal Betsy Carmody is 42, Ione Romilly is 17, Asha Royce, Lia Novak and Olivia Nihill are all 16 and Finn Romilly, Jacob Weaver and Claudia and Victoria Kirby are all 12.
(Townie students are Gordon Nott in the front and Elmer Miguel in the back)

Monday morning starts out on a somber note for the students at Sullivan High. Principal Carmody gathers all the students outside to inform them that Abhijeet Turner, former student and star player on the school soccer team, had tragically passed away.



Recently graduated, Abhijeet had moved into a small townhouse in Sullivan. He had a job at the bowling alley and was doing pretty well for an 18 year-old alone on his own for the very first time.

However, no one had warned Abhijeet about the lethal danger of toaster pastries left unattended.

He tried to extinguish the flames before realising he didn't have that most basic of home safety devices - a fire extinguisher.

By the time he saw he was in rather grave danger, it was too late.

None of the younger students had ever heard of Abhijeet and their interest in this impromptu assembly is waning. Victoria thinks it's sad but she's already wondering when she can head off and find her friends.

One of said friends, Jacob, has tuned out completely and is focusing and unfocusing his eyes on various things around the playground to pass the time.

Betsy has one student's full attention though - Abhijeet's former girlfriend Asha.

Asha escapes the assembly as soon as the students are dismissed. She and Abhijeet dated for almost two years and she feels like she should feel something. But for now, she just feels numb and just wants to avoid other people and play her beloved drums for a while.

For the other students, life goes on. Gordon regales his girlfriend Ione with a dirty joke he just heard, much to her disgust. Ione's little brother Finn overhears and can't help but smirk.

Gordon's tasteless joke doesn't do any lasting damage to Ione's opinion of him, luckily for Gordon.

On the other side of the corridor, Olivia has put two and two together and realised that Lia has a teensy crush on Gordon. Olivia knows as well as Lia does that the crush needs to be nipped in the bud so she helps out with that time-tested method - distraction!

At recess, Olivia encourages Lia to join her in a game of basketball but Lia's in a bit of a daze today and can't keep her mind on the game.

Perhaps she's thinking about Gordon again. Lia thinks she's managing her crush pretty well, now that she's able to quite literally grin and bear it when she sees Ione and Gordon flirting and kissing. She might be trying a little too hard to show it doesn't bother her though!

In the music room later on, Finn impresses the Kirby twins with a pretty mean bass solo! Who knew he could even play?!?!

Yes, Claudia is quite sure she knows what's going on here! Finn and Victoria soooo like each other!

Claudia gets bored with Finn's bass solo and heads off to do her own thing, much to Victoria's relief. Claudia has such a big mouth sometimes and Victoria's never sure when her twin is going to completely embarrass her. Claudia's absence means Victoria can work up the courage to pay Finn an awkward compliment on his mad bass skillz.

Claudia's right though - there's definitely something there! Holding hands (very briefly!) is about as far as either of them are willing to go right now, which surely will please their parents!

Random pic:

I just liked this pic. Gordon and Victoria are very excited about the pissy amount of snow that fell over the school playground first thing in the morning. Hoping for a snow day maybe?

Just two very random ones of Finn because he might be my new favourite. I've not seen a Sim pull so many hilarious faces since Raffaella. He's too adorable! He's not flirting with Elmer here by the way - I think he's telling him about a bird, for some reason. I love Victoria standing there looking adoringly at him.

Okay, that's the last one, because this is already my longest school update ever! Victoria is laughing at Finn's football skills - he drops the ball pretty much every time.


Notes:

• If you hadn't guessed, Asha was the unlucky Sim who rolled the "Fulfill Greatest Fear" ROS this round. Asha's three fears were "Fall Out of Love With Abhijeet", "Death of Abhijeet" and "Death of Luc". The death ones are worth more than the Fall Out of Love one, so someone had to die! I'm a wuss about killing my own Sims (though I have done it!) and I really want to see where Luc and Asha together, so sorry Abhijeet but you had to go! It's kind of a fitting end for him - he never did have much luck. The one time he got to dump someone he got sprayed by a skunk immediately afterwards.
• I can honestly say that setting up Abhijeet's death was the first time I've ever used that toaster oven. I just remember them being rather deadly in TS1 so I thought I'd see if they were holding up their reputation in TS2. They are, as you can see.
• If any of you ever need to set up a death by fire and have a choice of where to do it, don't do it on an apartment lot! I had to pose Abhijeet to look like he was being consumed by the flames because he kept running out to the mailbox and the fire truck comes even without a fire alarm. LAME! So I had to InSim him to death later. The landlord had swept up his ashes before Grimmy had even left!