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Round 37: July 2046 (Winter)

Trent Kirby is 76, Megan is 74, Claudia and Jacob are 45, Daphne is 15 and Iris is 12.

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Narrated by Daphne Kirby

This winter, Grandpa came down with the flu. He didn’t get too ill with it but it was still a worry, because he’s pretty old.

Luckily, he’s a good patient. He was quite happy to spend most of his day reading in bed, only leaving for the bathroom or to have something to eat. 

Somehow, none of us caught it from him, which meant we were able to take on all the chores Grandpa usually does. 

Thankfully, it’s winter, so no crops to tend!

Grandma decided that this winter was a great time to start teaching me how to bake.

She taught my cousin Caitlin too but they don’t get to bake together so much any more now that Caitlin is older, with a job and a boyfriend.

I’m really enjoying it! I haven’t made anything especially impressive yet but it’s a lot of fun.

I’m pretty proud of my chocolate chip cookies, if I do say so myself!

Now that Iris is in high school with me and Keira, we hang out a lot together outside of school.

She’s pretty cool for a little kid, though she hates it when she’s referred to as a little kid! 

Iris’s best friend Felicity lives right near Keira in Exeter, so we often all meet up together. 

Neither Iris or Felicity are allowed to wander around Exeter on their own yet, so having me and Keira available to escort them is a plus!

Last time we hung out, we ran into Jude Clarke, who proceeded to talk to Keira and almost ignore the rest of us.

He’s got a little crush on Keira at the moment. 

The whole idea of dating and boyfriends and things like that is fascinating to Iris and Felicity right now. They think Keira and Jude should date, I think mainly for their entertainment.

Keira likes him, but she’s just not so sure about dating him yet. 

They actually hang out a lot because they’re neighbours and Jude lets her into his dad’s recording studio to look at all his equipment and stuff. But nothing has happened romantically. Yet, anyway.

At home, Iris is always wanting to hear about my boyfriend, Joaquin.

I really want to lower her expectations about boyfriends. It’s not that amazing, honestly.

Or maybe Joaquin is just not right for me. 

He’s a decent enough guy but especially lately, he’s been a bit full-on.

His feelings seem to be growing, while mine really aren’t. 

He’s bought me some expensive gifts that have made me a little uncomfortable. 

The worst was an entire piano that he had delivered to our house and left on the porch. 

Dad especially was really not impressed. Not only do I not play piano, no one in the house does, nor do we have any interest in starting. 

He wasn’t mad at me about it but he did say I’d need to have a serious talk with Joaquin. 

I talked about it a lot with Mum and she helped me get my head in order about it. 

She didn’t tell me what to say but I think she was secretly glad with the conclusion I came to. 

I ended up telling Joaquin that I thought it would be better if we stopped seeing each other. 

I still felt quite guilty about that decision, because Joaquin wasn’t happy about it. 

But, I also think it was the right decision. I just need a little bit of time to come to terms with it. 

• Apologies for this very late update! It took me so long to get into a headspace where I could play and write and then I kept getting distracted, interrupted and/or disturbed once I was finally ready. 
• The piano gift actually happened and made me start watching these two very closely, to see what direction they'd go. Daphne is a Family sim, who I find even as teens seem to roll a lot of wants for their romantic interests. Joaquin is a Fortune sim, who I find pretty indifferent to romance, even through to adulthood. Yet Joaquin’s wants panel is all Daphne (apart from a locked “Go to College” want) and Daphne didn’t roll a single want for him for the whole play session, including when she was interacting with him. She did have a fear of him dying, so that was nice, I guess? LOL. Anyway, I don’t think these two were meant to be! But who knows what the future will bring? 
• Trent's flu was a health roll but honestly, he was never in much danger! I still haven't added Realistic Sickness back, so he was pretty much guaranteed to recover. I saw a Pleasant Sims video where she talks about a similar mod called Disease Mod (I think?), so I may have to check that one out instead. It seemed more interesting than RS.