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Round 37: March 2046 (Autumn)

Alice Jacobson and Sylvia Draper are 20 and Ramona Nihill and Ruby Lane are 19.
(Simon is 21 and Jon is 19)

Narrated by Sylvia Draper

People were surprised when I got together with Simon. He’s not the kind of guy anyone imagined me getting together with.

Honestly though, I didn’t expect it either! But expected or not, we’ve been really happy together. 

He hasn’t had the greatest effect on my grades though, I have to admit. 

I thought I’d be getting straight As at uni without really trying, like I did in high school. Turns out uni is harder, especially when you’re so tempted to spend your time not studying.

Simon basically never studies, so it’s not like we can study together to try to keep each other on track.

We’ve been together a year now though and I’ve decided it’s really time to buckle down and get my GPA up where it should be. 

Simon has more of a "C is a degree" kind of mindset. He doesn’t quite get my desire for perfect grades but he’s trying to be supportive.

He usually goes back to his dorm and practises guitar when I tell him I need to get some work done. 

This is Simon’s final year. He’ll graduate but he’s not going to be getting honours any time soon.

Alice is dating someone again. She was a bit cautious after Matthew and I was feeling a bit protective of her but Adrian seems decent.

I’d never met him before but Simon told me his ex’s twin sister dated him for a couple of years. He didn’t know him that well but he came across as a pretty nice guy.

It’s only been a few months but Alice is ecstatic and things are going well for them.

The only catch is that he works full time and Alice has a few evening classes this semester, so it can be hard for them to see each other during the week. 

But they get by. Simon and I will be in the same position next year, once he graduates.

Although I have no idea what kinds of hours Simon will be working. He wants to get into the music industry and he’s not sure yet where he’s going to start.

His uncle is pretty successful but Simon wants to make it on his own, without too much help from him.

Simon’s cousin Ruby is his exact opposite in that respect. She’s already planning on using her dad’s connections to further her fashion career.

She’s not sure exactly how but she just knows it’ll help in some way.

Ruby is semi-dating this guy named Ian, who lives here on campus.

She doesn’t look like she’s that into him, really. I think he’s mostly just convenient. 

She hasn’t been as impressed as she thought she would be with the guys here at uni.

We did have a new guy start here on campus this year but unfortunately for Ruby, he’s very much spoken for.

His name is Jonathan or Jon, as he prefers to be called, and he’s dating Ruby’s best friend, Ramona.

They used to date in high school, broke up and then got back into contact last year.

They eventually decided breaking up was a mistake and Jon started getting all his ducks in a row to transfer here so they could be together.

You’d have to be really hoping the relationship worked out after all that effort! 

Notes:

• Title is from No Sunlight by Death Cab For Cutie.
• Alice's GPA is 4.0, Ramona's is 3.8, Ruby's is still 3.3 (and probably will never go up, seeing she never rolls wants to do anything class-related ever - she earns her entire grade just by automatically going to class) and Sylvia did indeed raise her GPA to a very respectable 3.6, up from 3.4. 
• I have never seen a sim as uninterested in the sim they're dating as Ruby. She rolls no wants for this poor guy, who has the want to get ENGAGED to her! So they're not going to last long, lol!
• Jon (who is now Jon instead of Jonathan so I don't get him confused with Connor and Lila's son Jonathan, for tagging purposes) and Ramona on the other hand are very into each other! I really was just going to give him a complete makeover and leave him as a teen but Ramona was very insistent! They roll wants for each other all the time and basically can't keep their hands off each other. 
• Jon is currently living in this dorm, just to make things easy for me but that may be rearranged by the next time we pop into the uni kids. I'm sick of both of my dorms and I'm still deciding whether I just want to redecorate, whether I want to overhaul an EA dorm or download a new one. Technically, this one should be a single-sex dorm, as there's only one bathroom. 
• Not promising anything but I am going to attempt to get some kind of a queue going for Sullivan. I'm pretty unhappy with how sparse my updates have been for the past several months. :\ Next update is April birthdays, so I can hopefully get that one prepared pretty fast, queue it and then maybe start on the next story update and get some momentum going that way. Fingers crossed!