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Round 24: Autumn 2020

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Amar Hamilton, Jacob Weaver, Claudia and Victoria Kirby and Finn Romilly are all 19.
(Ione Romilly is 24, Josie Benton, Maia Novak and Patience Draper are all 18)

As soon as Josie has the time, she rushes over to Claudia's dorm to question on her cousin on just who that was she was making out with in the park the other night.



Claudia quickly tells Josie that his name is Elmer, she's not seeing him any more anyway and could she please not broadcast this information to the entire campus. Claudia's really not keen on the idea of being the big news around Suffolk.

Claudia went out with Elmer in high school, just the one time, where he proved himself to be kind of a jerk.

And he's still kind of a jerk, but compared to Amar, he was Prince freakin' Charming.

Claudia feels like she's finally over Amar. She's not even really angry at him any more - she just kind of likes messing with him.

Who knew he was such a cry baby?

Amar has brought it all on himself, of course. His other dormmates sided with Claudia, which was hardly surprising. Victoria is her sister, Finn's hated Amar from the start and Jacob...

Well, Jacob has feelings for Claudia and that's about as specific as he's able to be.

He and Claudia have had several more sessions in the hot tub and the guilt is killing him. He's just going to tell Maia and deal with the consequences.

Maia is somewhat surprised. She suspected something was going on but she felt for sure it was with Patience. Claudia though? She never saw that coming.

Jacob starts getting defensive and Maia just does not want to hear it.

So Maia stops him and suggests maybe it's time for them to take a break. Jacob can sort his head out and maybe they'll get back together somewhere down the line, maybe not.

As Jacob gets in his taxi, he sees Maia talking to another guy out of the corner of his eye. Is she flirting with him? Trying to make Jacob jealous? If she is, it's working.

Jacob and Maia haven't spoken since their break-up, although he thinks he's seen her loitering outside the dorm, either willing herself to enter or walk by.

And he's pretty sure it was Maia who left the stinky letter in the dorm's mailbox too.

Inside the dorm, Amar is making the moves on Claudia.

To look at them, you could swear it was working too.

Jacob has spotted Amar and Claudia hanging out together a lot recently and he's not happy with this development at all. He hasn't actually seen them doing anything other than talking but he's assuming there's more going on that what he's seeing.

He's even tried to talk to Claudia about it. Normally, she might just tell him the truth, that there's nothing going on but the very idea that Jacob's getting jealous, when he won't even make up his mind about her really irritates her. So she tells him to mind his own business and leaves it at that.

But for the record, there's really, really nothing going on. Amar is kind of relentless though and Claudia's not even sure she wants to be friends with the guy again now.

Finn and Victoria take frequent breaks from all the drama at their dorm, often at The Blue Lion, where they meet up with Finn's sister, Ione.

Victoria's very serious about her pool. Finn's idea of strategy in pool is pointing at the pocket he wants the ball to go in.

Which actually works for him.

Victoria and Ione are both a little annoyed that Finn is so good at pool without even trying very hard but they pretend to be impressed anyway.

Then it's time for girl talk. Ione got engaged several months ago and the wedding is coming up fast - only six months to go!

Finn's heard all about his sister's wedding - multiple times - and he's kind of over it now. He's already kicked their asses at pool and now he's sleepy and wants to go home. The girls are still talking though, so he'll have to wait.

It doesn't take long for Patience to hear about Maia and Jacob's break-up and she's soon over at Moretti Hall making her move.

Jacob's always carried a torch for Patience so he doesn't take much convincing.

Josie saw Patience and Jacob in the hot tub together and immediately stormed back into the dorm to rant about it to Victoria. She's wondering if she should have just told Jacob straight out there was nothing going on between her and Amar, and then maybe he'd be with her, instead of Patience. Victoria is usually a good listener but her mind is somewhere else right now.

Victoria hasn't told Finn yet but she's late. She's trying not to freak out but at the same time, she's been too scared to take a test to find out for sure.

Claudia's noticed Victoria's sudden and seemingly constant nausea and asks her if she thinks she might be pregnant.

She still hasn't taken a test but at this point, Victoria is pretty sure she is pregnant. Claudia is able to convince her to at least get a test. Then she'll know and if she needs to, she can figure out what to do from there.

The test is positive, just like Victoria knew it would be. Victoria is terrified. Finn is too, but he's trying to pretend he's not.

His mind is racing though. They'll have to tell his parents, and Victoria's parents, of course. He's a little more worried about telling her parents than his, though he doubts any of them will be thrilled with this news.

Once they come to terms with their upcoming status as parents - at least enough to be functional, anyway - they start looking into new places to live. They can't stay in the dorm (which Finn is secretly thrilled about), so they're checking out the family housing on campus. The rent seems kind of steep though.

Fortunately, Finn has been paying attention in his economics classes and has managed to build a decent little nest egg. He was saving it for the future but it looks like the future is coming a little bit sooner than he'd planned. It'll be enough for the rent and for a few baby essentials, at the very least.

So financially at least, Finn and Victoria just might be okay. All they can do now is wait for the baby to come and hope for the best!

Random pic:

My Sims don't tend to autonomously serenade very often but Finn and Victoria do it pretty often. It's a little silly, so I don't tend to use the pictures much but it makes me smile. It's so adorable.

Notes:

• The title is from Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd.
  
• I just finished saying yesterday how Finn and Victoria never give me any trouble and then she goes and gets herself knocked up! I couldn't believe it when I got that pop-up. "Victoria got pregnant from risky woohoo. The father is Finn Romilly". I was like, "um, WHAT?!?!" It's funny though, because way back when Finn and Victoria first had sex, I was convinced she'd end up a teen mother and I dosed her up on birth control as soon as I loaded her lot the next time. So it kind of came true, I guess. Victoria's still a teenager now, but she'll be 20 by the time the baby is born. The baby is due in Summer 2021, so he/she will just miss this round's baby boom.
• For those who are curious about those sort of things, Baby Romilly was conceived in the hot tub via ACR and Victoria was using ACR birth control at the time. I was still a little unclear over whether Sims could get pregnant from risky woohoo if they were using ACR BC but there you go. They can!
• My next scheduled family was already going to be Finn's parents, so that works out well. Finn and Victoria can do their big reveal then. I'll have them go to Victoria's parents and fit that in somehow too.
• Still no closer to figuring out all this Jacob silliness! I think Maia might be through with him - they're not even best friends any more but there is still Claudia and Patience to consider. He booty called Patience but he'll only do that while Claudia is at class. If Claudia's there, he'll go for her every time. He's a very confused young man - maybe he should be grateful to Maia for taking herself out of the running!
• And finally, grades, because these crazy kids actually did study among all the woohoo and getting knocked up! Claudia, Finn and Victoria all still have 4.0s, Jacob's GPA dropped to 3.7 (was 4.0) and Amar's is still 3.5.