Teenage riot, August 2035

Round 32: August 2035 (Winter)

Principal: Kendal Draper
Teachers: Joanna Draper, Julia Gray
Students: Noah Gottlieb and Adelaide Sitko are both 17, Mitchell Carmody is 16, Tim Lane, Jessica Royce-Nihill, Emma Gottlieb and Eddie and Louisa Gentry are all 15, Declan Romilly, Austin and Lauren Carmody and Justin and Xavier Moretti are all 14 and Caitlin Romilly and Brendan Lachance are both 12.

Along with the end of August comes the first Sullivan High School winter formal, held at Starry Nights function hall.

All current SHS students are in attendance and the small staff of the school are also present, just to ensure things don't get too crazy.

They'll be keeping a particularly close eye on Sebastian Gentry, former student and boyfriend of Adelaide Sitko.

Adelaide seemed to be looking just a tiny bit guilty when Kendal spotted her and Sebastian out in the courtyard.

And with a good reason! Seeing all the students of Sullivan High School are still under 18, this is an alcohol-free event. Fortunately for both Adelaide and Sebastian, Kendal doesn't spot the beer bottle behind Sebastian's back.

Then again, Adelaide has just a few months of school left and has (somewhat miraculously) been admitted into Suffolk University. What's the worst her principal could do to her now?

The younger girls are, thankfully, staying inside and right in their teachers' line of sight.

The beginning of the night is spent mostly comparing dresses and catching up on what's happened in the three or four hours since they saw each other at school.

The winter formal is also the first time Emma has officially introduced Laurel to her friends.

Emma and Laurel have been dating for a couple of months now and things are still going well for them.

For the most part, Laurel is fitting in well with Emma's friends as well. Jessica and Louisa both really like Laurel and can see her hanging out with the group a lot.

Lauren is not quite so enthusiastic. Laurel didn't exhibit much interest in anything Lauren wanted to talk about and was rather rude about expressing it.

Fortunately for Laurel, Lauren is too sweet to say anything to Emma about it. She's planning on avoiding interacting with Laurel too much and enjoying the company of her friends instead.

Laurel is somewhat hard to ignore for Lauren though.

Like Emma, Laurel can be somewhat abrasive when talking to people.

Lauren is glad to have Eddie as an excuse to take a break from Laurel every now and then.

Lauren still feels a little bit guilty for breaking up with Xavier so she could date Eddie but she really is happy with him.

A month on from their break-up though, it still stings a little for Xavier to see them together.

Despite his worst fears though, Xavier actually isn't having the most terrible time ever.

Just like Declan said, most of the boys came alone, so Xavier is far from the only one without a date.

The boys spend most of the night at the bar, enjoying the free beverages on offer.

They're all non-alcoholic, of course, but it still feels very cool and grown-up to drink them at the bar.

The youngest girl at the formal, Caitlin, is without a date but not without confidence. She's been chatting to just about every boy in the room.

Her older brother's friend Austin is less than impressed by Caitlin...

...much to her disappointment.

But Caitlin is not to be deterred. There are other boys around.

For example, Austin's older brother Mitchell.

Mitchell is actually friendly to her and listens to what she has to say.

And in her opinion, Mitchell is much, much better looking than Austin. But as nice as Mitchell is to Caitlin, it is also very apparent that he sees her as a little kid.

She heads over to her friend Brendan, to see if he has any advice for her.

He doesn't but Brendan is not particularly surprised Mitchell isn't interested in Caitlin. Mitchell is 16 and in about a year and a half, he'll be away at college.

Not quite what Caitlin wanted to hear but she kind of knows Brendan is right as well.

Seeing the boys aren't interested anyway, maybe Caitlin will just revel in being a kid for a little while longer.

She'll just have to be content to admire cute boys from afar from the time being.

Notes:

• I've used this lot once before, for my N99 Reunion Contest entry and I think I like it. It seems very playable. I had a ton of Sims here (even more for the contest entry) and it was all running very smoothly.
• Sebastian and his beer was something that actually happened at my RL formal. The drinking age is 18 here, so several girls were already of age when the formal rolled around and alcohol was actually served. You needed a wristband for that though and one still-underage guy (obviously) didn't have one and brought his own booze, hidden in the inside pocket of his jacket. Everyone knew he had it, except every single teacher in attendance!
• Lauren has 10 nice points, so I'm going to blame the altercation with Laurel on Laurel. Some time after I saw them arguing, I saw Laurel had an action to annoy Lauren lined up in her queue. She didn't get to her in time though, so they managed to avoid each other for the rest of the night.
• Caitlin is not rolling romantic wants yet but she was flitting from boy to boy all night. I don't think I saw her talking to any of the girls even once! And she did do a lot of heart-farting in Mitchell's direction and was all starry-eyed over Noah as well. She would have to pick the two oldest teens in the hood, wouldn't she?