Wallflower

Round 37: March 2046 (Autumn)

Matthew and Simon Lane are 21, Aurora and Bianca Moretti are 20 and Gabriel Nott is 19. 
(Brendan is 23, Sylvia and Ruby are 19)

Narrated by Bianca Moretti

I don’t know how Gabriel manages to do so much writing and still maintain a 4.0 GPA, but here we are.

And he’s doing so well with his writing too! He’s had several short stories published in our university newspaper and he’s looking into submitting something to a traditional publisher soon.

I’m a bit jealous of how he’s breezing through his studies with a side job that takes up so much of his time but I’m super proud of him as well.

I’m just about halfway through my degree now and the workload and expectations have increased by a lot.

It’s really hard but I’m also kind of enjoying it. This is the first year we’re getting to do anything practical - last year, it was all theory and any design I was doing was just for my own benefit. Now I have to actually submit a final project each semester.

This semester, it’s men’s wear. I don’t have much experience with that but I’m doing my best. 

It’s fun making Gabriel model for me, at least.

I don’t think he enjoys it as much as I do but he’s very tolerant!

Ruby is a year behind me, so she’s still taking all the theory classes and is pretty jealous that I’m done with them and getting to do actual design.

She already has all these ideas for her first submission next year. I don’t have the heart to tell her that she’ll probably be tired of those ideas by the time she needs to submit something. 

Ruby and I did hang out a bit in high school, always with Aurora and Ramona there too but we’ve never really hung out one on one before.

It’s nice to have someone to talk about design with, without worrying that I’m boring them.

We’re very different though and outside of design, we don’t have all that much in common!

I don’t have much to add when Ruby starts talking about trying to pick up guys at the uni bar. That’s never been something I’ve tried to do.

Equally though, she can’t believe I’ve been with Gabriel for so long and have no desire to look elsewhere. 

Now that Aurora is with Brendan, Gabriel and I have gone out on a couple of double dates with them.

Aurora and I always wanted to do a double date but Matthew never really wanted to. Then she was single for a good while, so it hasn’t been until now that we’ve been able to. 

Aurora really dodged a bullet with Matthew. Brendan is a much better match for her anyway.

Matthew is in the same dorm as us and Aurora just avoids him, which isn’t too difficult. He’s either picking a fight with someone in the dorm or hanging out with his new girlfriend, Lexie. 

Although she was the one he was cheating on Alice with, so I guess she’s not that new. 

I’m not sure how long that will last, as I’ve seen him flirting with a different girl in our dorm as well. 

Aurora avoids both the Lane twins on principle but I’m still friendly with Simon. Gabriel was a little jealous last year but he knows that there’s really nothing more than friendship between us now. 

It probably helps that Gabriel has actually buddied up with Simon this year too.

Gabriel’s unusually concerned about Simon’s grades, which I find pretty funny.

Simon is a solid C student and totally fine with it, which Gabriel doesn’t get. Simon’s just more interested in his guitar and his girlfriend, basically. 

Simon is in his final year now and his attitude seems to be working for him, so I don’t think we’ll see any changes now.

Notes:

• Title is from Wallflower by Woolworthy.
• I am so excited to finally get this out! I know it's been forever and some of you probably assumed I'd abandoned Sullivan. I still love it as much as I ever did but over the past few months, there weren't many opportunities where I had both the time and the motivation to devote to the blog. Hopefully, I can turn that around now and the next update will be out with a slightly smaller gap in between!
• Matthew actually has four girls on the go in this dorm, two of whom I don't remember him interacting with before. So that's interesting. He's a Family sim...but Family sims go absolutely insane with ACR when they're single, so I'm guessing that contributes to it a lot. 
• Simon, on the other hand, just makes friends with everyone, in contradiction with his one whole nice point!
• Grades: Matthew, Gabriel and Bianca all have 4.0s, Aurora raised her GPA to 3.6, while Simon's is a measly 3.1. Troy Clarke remains my worst student to still graduate, with his 2.9 GPA!