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Round 31: February 2033 (Summer)

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Kit Royce is 73, Max Nihill is 46, Zaria Royce-Nihill is 45 and Jessica is 13.
(Josh is 19, Anthony is 16, Noah is 15, Tim, Emma, Louisa and Eddie are all 13 and Lauren is 12)

Narrated by Jessica Royce-Nihill

Josh is living on campus now but sometimes, it feels like he still lives here at home.

He seems to be sitting on our couch as much now as he did when he was still in high school.

I like my brother and everything but he's in such a foul mood all the time lately. He snaps at the littlest thing.

He almost bit my head off just for asking him how come he's hanging around here so much at the moment. Geez.

Mum said he told Dad that he's having problems with Lila and that it's probably why he's so testy.

Apparently, we just have to be patient. He starts his sophomore classes in a couple of weeks and if it's not all sorted out by then, he won't have as much time to spend here anyway. Or at least, that's what I'm hoping.

I guess I've grown used to living like an only child over the past year. It's always just me, Mum, Dad and Grandma these days.

We still do a ton of stuff together. The other week, Grandma and I made pizza for dinner while Dad was at work. And it was pretty great pizza, if I do say so myself!

Dad is teaching me how to cook. I think Grandma is just as good a cook as he is but Dad insists that he's better and that I need to learn from him.

So we're doing all our lessons at home. Dad doesn't really have much opportunity to teach me at the restaurant. It's way too busy there.

There's not much in the way of restaurants in Sullivan - they're mostly in Exeter - so Dad does really good business now.

It's even more popular at the moment. The weather is still really warm in the evenings, so people like the outdoor eating areas.

There's a break room at Front Page but I hardly ever see anyone in there for longer than 5 minutes. Emma, Lauren, Louisa and I use it more often than Dad and his employees do.

It's sort of become our new hangout. If we want to talk, without our parents or other people at school overhearing, the break room is actually a pretty good place to do it. We're rarely interrupted.

It's usually Louisa talking, about her undying love for Tim Lane.

Emma is kind of sick of hearing about it. Louisa has liked Tim for about a year now and he's about all Louisa talks about.

Louisa was waiting for him to make a move but he just wasn't going to. Everyone knows Tim is pretty shy.

So she got over her shyness from last year and decided to actually talk with him.

It was going okay but Tim was kind of freaked out when Louisa tried to flirt with him.

But she was strangely not deterred by that at all. She just kind of shook herself off and got back up again.

Maybe confidence runs in the family. Louisa's twin brother Eddie has a huge crush on Lauren and he's pretty obvious about it.

Lauren does actually like him a lot too. But Eddie's not the only boy Lauren likes.

She can't really make her mind up, because she's also got a thing for Emma's older brother, Noah.

He's 15, so he's kind of old for her. At least now, at 12.

She says it's fine, because her parents are really relaxed about that kind of thing.

I don't know about that. My parents are pretty cool as well but I know Dad especially would freak out if I brought home some guy three years older than me.

Which is why my crush on Anthony Moretti will be staying just that, at least for the foreseeable future.

He's so cute but he's also 16. Definitely off limits and probably not even interested in me if he wasn't.

I'm still so amazed he even talks to me at all.

Not that's stopped Emma from talking about setting us up. She keeps saying she's got an "in", seeing Anthony is her cousin and all.

Maybe so but I know for a fact that my parents aren't going to let me go on a date with a boy who can drive! I'm just going to try and forget about Anthony and check out some boys my own age.

Extras:

Totally spammy, as always. ;) I teleported Felix to the Royce-Nihill house, so Kit could meet her youngest (and final!) grandchild.



Squee! Look at his nose! Adorable. I can't remember if I figured out who he inherited that from (not Kit, obviously, lol!) but I love it.


Jessica got to redecorate her room, seeing she's now a teen. She's doing better than Josh, because I never got around to redoing his!
The quilt doesn't really go any more (Jessica's room used to be pink) but Olivia made it for her when she was a baby, so it's not the kind of thing she'd throw out.

Notes:

• Title is from Low by Cracker.
• Kit is just as good a cook as Max but nowhere near as arrogant. ;)
• Louisa is a confident little thing, apparently. You know how when Sims get rejected after flirt attempts and they just stand there grimacing, like they're really embarrassed? Well, Louisa got positive relationship points from Tim rejecting her and looking at her facial expression, it didn't seem to bother her a whit!
• Did I say in birthdays that I suspected Lauren would be trouble? If I didn't, I'm saying it now! I took control of Lauren and noticed she had romantic wants for Noah. She's Romance, so I let her flirt with him (I sometimes let my Romance Sims get started a little early, if their wants are heading that way). Then she rolls up romantic wants for Eddie. I let her fulfill those and then she's rolling them up for Noah again. Like mother, like daughter, eh?
• Jessica literally has chemistry with every single teenage boy in the hood, except for poor old Austin Carmody! Anthony is her current focus but I'm sure her parents will appreciate it if she keeps her word and moves onto someone younger! ;)