Straight thru you

Round 30: May 2031 (Autumn)

last update/next update/Ethan's next update

Matilda Jacobson and Ethan Novak are both 25 and Adrienne is 24.
(Claudio is 50, Virginia is 41, Maia is 29 and Alice is 5)

Narrated by Matilda Jacobson

Ethan just told us that he's not going to be living with us for much longer. He's my ex, so living with him has been slightly awkward at times. But he's also my friend and although I'm happy for him, I'm going to miss him around here.

Up until Ethan's recent promotion, we both worked nights, so we ended up hanging out a lot while everybody else was at work.

Kaiser is Ethan's dog, so he's moving out too. I've never had a dog before and Kaiser really grew on me. So I'm all kinds of sad right now.

But Ethan's moving out for a happy reason, at least. He and Maia have been talking about moving in together for a little while now and they're finally going for it.

When he's not with Maia, he's talking about her. Always good things.

It's very sweet, actually. I think so, anyway.

Adrienne's getting a little tired of it and is ready for another topic of conversation.

Ethan will be going on and on and Adrienne will just completely tune out.

If she's in a good mood, sometimes she'll feign interest but it's rare.

I'm actually jealous. Not because I want to get back together with Ethan but because they're buying a house! I would love to be in the financial position to buy.

It sounds like a lot of fun. The setting up house part anyway. Organising finances doesn't sound quite as fun.

Maybe if I make it really big one day, I can buy a nice house too. I did my first big movie recently and then I was cast in a musical!

Miles took me out to celebrate my new role at a really nice restaurant. It's a new place and it's very romantic.

We've been together for two years now and neither of us are really thinking marriage yet. But I'm definitely in love with him.

Fridays are my favourite day of the week, simply because I don't have any shows so from the afternoon onwards, Miles is all mine.

We have very different interests but we make the effort to meet in the middle. I've been trying to get into comic books, because Miles draws them. I think his stuff is really good but I can't say I've become a total convert to comics.

But then, I haven't managed to convert Miles to video games either. He has fun with them but he kind of sucks.

We took my little sister Alice there, both as something fun for her and so she could meet Miles. I think she liked him.

She mostly just wanted to show off her pinball skills though. She was giving Miles some tips. I don't know where she gets all this confidence from, at only 5 years old.

After we were done there, we met up with my dad and stepmother for lunch. I've been trying to get some time for Dad to meet Miles for a while now and this was the first opportunity we had where we were all free. Dad is a comics buff as well, so I had a feeling he and Miles would get along. I was right!

There has been some tension in the past between me and Virginia but I feel like things are improving. I wouldn't say I like her but we're better than we used to be.

At least part of that is due to Alice. Knowing half of her DNA comes from my stepmother makes it harder to hate Virginia as much as I once did.

I do still wish my mum was around to meet Miles though. She would have liked him too.

Everyone seems to like him. Adrienne was really suspicious of him when we first started dating but even she's warmed up to him now.

I knew having a designer for a best friend would pay off eventually! Adrienne made an awesome dress for me. I can't wait to have an excuse to wear it.

Adrienne has been very focused on her career lately. She's finally got her sewing skills up to par, which resulted in a promotion (and a $10,000 bonus)! She's heading up her own design team now, instead working under another designer.

Because she's Adrienne though, she's saving plenty of time for guys too.

Well, recently, it's just been the one guy. She's dating Amar, a photographer she met at work.

Amar has been pretty honest with her about the fact that he's not seeing her exclusively. Which wouldn't be okay with me at all and I don't think Adrienne will be happy with the arrangement for long.

She says she doesn't care, because she'd probably be doing the same thing if she'd never got pregnant.

But since Sylvia, she's much, much more cautious and I can see her wanting Amar to be similarly cautious. I'm trying to butt out of that though!

Her parents want to meet him and Adrienne's attitude about that has changed over the past year. She used to be very reluctant but she actually wants them to meet him now.

Now she's more worried about scaring Amar off or him thinking she's coming on way too strong.

I don't see what the big deal is. She and Amar are together most nights, so how many other girls could there be? He must be pretty fond of her, so would it really be so strange for Adrienne to want him to meet her parents?

Adrienne says she's going to be brave and ask him what he thinks.

If he freaks out about it, well, then maybe she'll want to rethink the relationship. But she won't know until she asks.

Extras:
I was pretty lucky with the chance cards this round.

This would be why Matilda got two promotions this round. She was promoted to Supporting Player, a job she held for about 5 real life minutes. Immediately after coming home from work, she went back to work in her new position and got yet another promotion. I usually don't allow 2 promotions per round but there are some careers where quick advancement makes sense to me. In show business, sometimes people become overnight sensations, so I'm less strict with the promotion restrictions.

Adrienne didn't do too badly either! This group is pretty cashed up for roommates. My roommates are usually quite poor. I moved Ethan out with Maia after I was finished playing and they have $30,000 between them, which is not bad at all.

And Ethan came by it all honestly too, because I suck at the Law Enforcement chance cards. I didn't write this one in but I should have. I've done injury a few times before. Next time!

Notes:

• Title is from Straight Thru You by The Morning After Girls.
• I'm going house hunting for Ethan and Maia today. I'm hoping they'll have enough money left over to decorate their house with more than just the basics.
• Matilda is really cute with her sister. She rolls wants for her all the time. Matilda actually rolled more wants for Alice than she rolled for Miles this round! But she did fall in love with the boy this session, so we'll see how they go in the future.
• Adrienne is very, very keen on Amar! She's not very interested in multiple woohoo/makeouts right now and all of her romantic wants are for him, so she's quite serious about this. I was expecting to at least see a "Fall in Love With Nick" want, seeing my Sims always seem to want to fall in love with their exes. But nope. Adrienne has eyes only for Amar. We'll see what Amar thinks in his update, which is not too far away.