Ghost of a friend

Round 27: Autumn 2025

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Amar Hamilton and Jacob Weaver are both 24.
(Finn, Victoria and Claudia are all 24)

Narrated by Amar Hamilton

I've been working as a DJ at a few clubs around town lately. It's not really what I want to do forever but it's fun and it's an awesome way to meet girls.


There are always women crowding around my booth. It's such an ego boost to have all these girls fawning all over you.

After I finish my set, I hardly even have to do anything to pick up!

They're all over me with no effort from me whatsoever.

One of the girls even managed to get me a job as a video editor. I'll miss DJing but this job lets me work even shorter hours, which gives me way more free time.

I choose to devote most of that free time to girls.

Jacob gets annoyed with the stream of women coming in and out of the house all the time, so I made sure to take full advantage while he was away.

He and Claudia have been together for five years, so they went away to Three Lakes for their anniversary.

I can't think of anything more boring that staring at tree rings and sleeping in a tent all weekend, personally.

But Claudia's really into all that stuff so if Jacob's not, I guess he'd better get used to it.

But Jacob says he likes it too and that there's plenty of stuff to do there that's actually fun. I'd rather go to the beach.

I've got no money for that right now though, so I just prepared to enjoy the weekend with the house to myself. I was supposed to be working but I called and told them I had some stomach bug and they totally bought it!

I like Jacob and everything but it was fun to pretend I had my own place for a few days.

I don't know when I'm going to be able to afford my own place. I'm selling paintings for $500 or $600 now and it's all going in the bank but I really want to use it to open up my own photography business.

I've been having trouble finding subjects to practise on though. Turns out that women don't really like it when you take pictures of them when they're not looking.

So I've been taking photos of subjects that don't care, like trees and boring stuff like that. It's nowhere near as much fun.

My ears perked up when I heard Jacob and Claudia talking about her sister's wedding. I could do the photos! I'd do a great job too and I'd do it at friends' rates. I thought it couldn't hurt to ask her if she'd put in a good word for me with them.

Claudia wasn't too excited about doing that. She said if I wanted to do their pictures, I'd have to ask them myself. Geez...so hostile! Still! I cheated on her six years ago!

There was no convincing her though, so I had to go over to Finn and Victoria's place and do my own dirty work.

They were both a little surprised that I was asking. Nobody but Jacob really knows about my burgeoning photography career.

Neither of them were really keen but I finally got Finn to start taking me seriously when I mentioned that they'd save a ton of money if they got me to do their photos. Finn's the kind of guy who's always worried about finances, so I knew how to spin my offer so it would appeal to him.
Victoria was scowling at me the whole time but she agreed to let me do the photos, in the end, as long as she can see some of the stuff I've done already. Finn just wanted me to promise not to hit on any of the guests.

Well, duh. I don't even think there'll be many girls there I'd be interested in anyway. And besides, I am capable of controlling myself!

Notes:

• Title is from Ghost of a Friend by Supergrass.
• Amar was extremely successful with the girls this session but he surprisingly is actually capable of controlling himself! He wasn't really spinning up that many romantic wants this round. It was quite the sight to see - Amar with no woohoo wants in his panel. The girls were falling all over themselves to get to him (seriously - they were queued up trying to flirt with him!) and although he was lapping it all up, most of his wants were centred around buying a community lot, taking photos and painting masterpieces.
• I've downloaded a photography career for Amar and I'm looking around for something I can use as a studio for him. I'm thinking he can sell all those portraits I hang in my Sims' houses. I seem to remember trying to sell photos before and they didn't seem to cost very much though, so I'll probably have him sell his paintings there too. I'm kind of excited about having a real photographer!
• Claudia rolled a baby want. I was waiting for that one. I'm surprised Jacob didn't roll it first, seeing his primary aspiration is Family and it's only Claudia's secondary. But that she rolled it first fits better with my image of both of them, so I'm quite happy.