@Nikkei_Simmer That it does. Should be at least a couple hundred dollars more for my second November check.
Then the Income Relocation Specialists come in and try to take it in April. It's the same thing with our Compensation Robbery Association (also known as the Canadian Revenue Agency)
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~
Told y'all that I always need water on my lots. Made myself a nice little "stream" with GrandeLama's Water effects...they can be layered on top of each other... and they're awesome. This is the pond at Haruo and River's new house... Yes...they're gonna be stinkin' rich.
Update:
The Chikamori House as it stands now:
Post edited by Nikkei_Simmer on
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~
Haven't been playing much, as I still have several art requests, some art to finish off and Animal Crossing and Miitopia have taken some free time, plus I have been dealing with an art request/art trade scammer recently. My team is second in the League, as they are playing today and Manchester City won yesterday, however, a point separates the two, so if we win we'll go top.
Great you have a little bit time to play now and then at least
I had a cold with some nasty coughing only the past 5 weeks so have not really played my game.
I'm fine now though.
So it's Halloween again. My sim kids Susanne and Jessica love Halloween, but irl I have the door locked and as few lights as possible on. I don't open the door for the trick or treating kids. I only have peanuts and chocolates, and they are for me!
Homeless in Sunset Valley (Chapter One; Part Seven)
"The Worm Turns"
Friday wasn’t much better. Even though they woke up in better moods, the fact that they hadn’t done their homework due to their mutual snits had consequences. Their GPA plummeted which made the possibility of even getting to university be marred in jeopardy. So they went to school and suffered the wrath of their teachers who after yesterday’s exercise in obnoxiousness were not bound to let an indignity go unpunished and the lack of schoolwork being done promptly resulted in the hammer being brought down on both River’s and Haruo’s collective heads.
The end of Friday couldn’t come sooner for Haruo and River and they quickly escaped. River headed to the park to do her homework in the downpour and Haruo, not caring in the least, decided that he wouldn’t bother doing his homework, because since he was aging up to young adult; he wouldn’t be returning to school on Monday. So much for his GPA; besides he was going to try his hand at being a farmer. He decided to go fishing; everything’s better when you go fishing.
Saturday dawned just as pouring rain as the previous day had half-way through. Haruo did some conjuring in the morning and headed up to Aleister’s to drop off a few rainbow gems cuts. Then they went out to lunch. Since Haruo’s birthday party was supposed to start off at 5PM, they needed to get freshened up so they did over at the gym. The gym was undoubtedly the most convenient spot to go to in order to stay clean and have a place to do their “business” since it was right next door.
“River, sweetie, I have something I need to show you.” Haruo said as he held the door of the gym open, after they had their showers, so that they could head back to their little squat of a lot. “Let’s take a cab. We’re headed up to 15 Summerhill Court. Meet me there…”
River was blindsided, 15 Summerhill Court was a rich neighbourhood and they weren’t anywhere near that amount of money in net worth. According to Haruo’s last calculations; they were still wondering if they had enough to get their next meal. “Wait...what?” Meet you there… you mean I’m supposed to take a cab by myself? River thought flabbergasted at the audacity. Well it wasn’t a deal-breaker on marrying him and curiosity won out.
He’d already hopped a cab and it was moving away rapidly. River rolled her eyes in irritation as she flagged down another cab. The driver nodded as she read him out the address of her destination.
As they were coming up the hill she could see a house tall and ornate in the background where an empty lot used to stand. Her jaw dropped open as the driver came to a stop. “There has to be some mistake. This is 15 Summerhill Court.”
“No mistake, young ma’am… we are at 15 Summerhill Court.” I am absolutely… there were no words to describe how she felt; there was shock and amazement. And she could see Haruo unlocking the ornate gate to the property. How… words failed her at the moment. “Thank you…” Her mind still reeling, she regained enough faculty of her senses to acknowledge the driver as she stepped out the vehicle and crossed the street to the other side. She held her breath as she took in the view. The Altos and the Landgraabs were their neighbours now. In an irritating repetition; her question of how... kept running through her head.
“How are we able to afford this?” were the first words out of her mouth when she was able to speak again. They were on the bridge leading over to the front door of what she could see was a large mansion, it looked even bigger than the Altos, even bigger than the Landgraab mansion and a three car garage. “Aren’t the owners going to come back and boot us off the lot? What will we do then? We don’t have any place to go and this is illegal…” Haruo was looking at her with a look of amusement as she rambled on, half-panicked. “We can’t afford this…” she said finally.
“Shhhhh…”
“Don’t shush me…” she snapped irritated. “You bring me here to this place...you expect me to believe that we have enough to buy this place…”
Haruo just finally stuck the bank-book in front of her face… “Honey...read this…” he said. River looked at the digits on the page of the bank-book as her jaw dropped open. There were 6 numbers before the first decimal point. She barely heard him say “I just got a call from the bank saying that our current balance is now §729,595.00. The rainbow gems that I cut this morning? All of them sold.” he paused looking out at the flowing stream into the fountain… “My greatest fear with all the sh** my mother put me through was to lose the roof over my head; to have nowhere to turn, nowhere to call home. With you beside me, that fear grew to include you; us losing the roof over our head.” He turned to look at her, “Do you understand? Now with what we have...we no longer have to fear…my mother can no longer touch us.” This was why he’d worked. School didn’t teach entrepreneurship; it came from oneself.
"Now...come on inside and let me show you exactly what we own now..."
River's jaw dropped open when he opened the door and ushered her inside.
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~
Going to try and play sometime on Thursday to finish up an update for Lily Goth and family. The game crashed during Melonie’s young adult makeover so I got to redo that, and play the rest of the day. That’ll probably be the last I can play for a couple weeks, due to Walmart increasing my hours. I should be able to do comments tomorrow though, unless something comes up. If I find time, I might mess around in a quick save, just to get some play time in. I won’t share it though because I’ll probably delete it. 😂
My sims name is Jadae and she’s been looking for love since a Young Adult. EVERY sim I encounter would show interest in her, then after I edit them and make them look good suddenly they’re uninterested AND they all have wives! So my sim gained a ‘keeping my options open’ reputation. But now she’s found the one and I can’t get rid of the reputation so they can become girlfriend and boyfriend!
To save myself from madness, I think I’m going to assign ages to my Sims for the new story rather than do complicated math. It might not reflect what others think but it’s the easiest way. I am messing around in SV now, and for an example, I’m going to say Holly Alto is 17. She normally only has 4 days until she’s a young adult out of 14 days, so I believe that fits. For someone like her, I’d cheat her a license or pretend she had to wait. Adults with kids will have their ages assigned based on their life stage and the ages of their oldest kid. With the Bunch’s, Ethan’s oldest and if he’s in his teens, his parents should be at least 18 years older than him unless one of his parents was a teenager. I’m sticking with the 18 or older than their eldest child for parents, though. I’m going to figure up ages tonight, then will go from there based on my work schedule and real life events.
The main activity in this video is babies and toddlers. Lots of babies and toddlers. Carla has quads first, then Cindy (the heir) had twins and Donna produced 2 baby fairies. All of the babies/toddlers are grandchildren of Olivia and Don who are the Founder couple of this challenge.
The world in which they are living is Mountain Lake which was made by Rflong7. Music is from the YouTube Audio Library.
Not doing much in Sims 3 today: I'm still trying to work out in my head the next section of the story. That and I'm getting pulled into SWTOR in a big way. I just unlocked Sith Pureblood and Chiss with Cartel Coins and we have conquest weekly so have to put in my share of points for the guild.
...so River's going to be standing there with her mouth hanging open for a long while.
Right now, Miria and Meiara have got me busy.
Miria'situ'tadec - a Chiss Jedi Consular Sage
Meiara Glozaris - a Sith Pureblood Jedi Knight Shadow
now that we can "mix" classes.
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~
I haven't popped into this thread for a looong time, but recently I've started a save playing with Horses for the first time despite having had the pets expansion for like 6 years. And I've been having a really good time with it, so far they've competed in 3 races and won 1 of them.
I'm evil, I'm making a new household but I'm making a young adult man (his personality is evil mean spirited inappropriate flirty and athletic) and a child girl (athletic friendly and good) and I have a very dark plot in mind.
> @Hotboy420 said: > I'm evil, I'm making a new household but I'm making a young adult man (his personality is evil mean spirited inappropriate flirty and athletic) and a child girl (athletic friendly and good) and I have a very dark plot in mind.
She's actually coward instead of athletic and he is hot headed instead of athletic
Homeless in Sunset Valley (A Rags to Riches Story) (Chapter Two; Part One)
"Fresh Start"
“I can’t believe this…” River’s jaw dropped open as she surveyed the entrance way...There was a wide staircase leading to the upstairs and hallways heading towards other rooms in the house. She had seen from the outside that the house was three stories; with a brick facade and trim. When she came inside she saw that the walls were rock surrounded by grout. “That’s the dining room, right?” she said pointing to the right with walnut flooring and wall panels. Her fiancé nodded. They walked through the rest of the rooms in silence. River gazing around her. There was no furniture. It had just recently been completed and they really had no furniture to speak of, coming from the street.
“The walls are still mostly undone since I figured we can decide on a finish together as we go along.” he said softly as he looked at her.
“Tell me we’re sleeping in a finished bedroom tonight.” River asked
“You’ll be sleeping in a finished bedroom tonight.” Haruo informed her.
“What do you mean?” River was confused.
Haruo looked at his watch, “We need to go if we don’t want to miss the party down at the park. It’d be rude for the guest of honour to be late to his own birthday party” he said as he ushered her down the stairs, out the door, locking it behind them and heading across the bridge to the taxi. He kept a silence a clam would be proud of. When they got to the park the music was loud and they figured that they should start dancing though no-one was on the dance floor yet. Guests were streaming in – friends and relatives who decided to take advantage of the spring-time activities in the park.
“Well, at least we got the buffet table – we have a choice of food” Haruo remarked.
“That was a good idea.” River looked over at the guests lined up by the buffet table, “They must be hungry.”
“Yeah...then we got this dance floor, they can work it all off too.”
River shook her head, a wide grin on her face.
The guests lined up at the buffet table had their selection of vegetarian, turkey and for the terminally glucose-needy, there was also the enjoyment of having platefuls of cookies handy.
The dancing ensued as others joined in the boisterous cavalcade on the dance floor. And most were quite enthralled with the celebratory atmosphere being generated for the main celebrant of honour at the party. Eventually, however, it was time to blow out the candles and Haruo took the time to stand there and gaze upon those who were with him on this special occasion.
“Thanks, all, for coming. I guess I’m taking the next step into what comes in life after high-school.” There were a few smatterings of polite coughs and a few comments of it gets harder from here that pervaded the audience. “I’d like to thank my dad who raised me to this point. Arigato, Otosan.” Yasunobu grinned at that. “...although I might have been quite the handful…”
He looked over at River’s mother, “Ms. McIrish, thank you…” he said meaningfully while looking towards River who smiled at him. “...for raising a compassionate daughter who I love very much.”
The cake was blown out and Haruo became a young adult. All River could think of was that there were two long days and even longer nights for her where she wasn’t going to be beside her fiancé, all because of societal optics. He was considered an “young adult” and she was yet a teen and that didn’t go over well for being in the same house, even less in the same bedroom and certainly not in the same bed.
Thus the aging up festivities were dampened for her since she really wanted to celebrate Haruo’s birthday privately after the public celebration with her fiancé and that was being denied her by law at least for two days hence. By then she’d be so frustrated. River looked over at her fiancé, and sighed deeply as she saw him talk with his father and her mother.
She let out an impatient sigh as she took in her surroundings. As lively as the park was, she wanted her guy to herself. But she also didn’t want to seem ungrateful to the guests who came to celebrate her fiancé’s aging up day. After all, it’d been planned in advance and lots of people had shown up to the festive occasion. But it couldn’t be helped what the heart desired and she quelled her impatience for the festivities to be over.
But it had been noticed by her fiancé and well, she had to be honest with him about it.
“It sucks that I have two more days before aging up.” She said to him. “It means we can’t be together in the same room and…”
Haruo raised an eyebrow.
“…and it’s so unfair! It’s not like you’re twenty six and I’m fifteen!” She huffed waving her hand with the engagement ring on her finger. “We’re engaged for crying out loud. We’re both turning eighteen. You, just two days ahead of me.”
Haruo only had one word. “Optics.” was all he said. He’d ended up broad-shouldered and muscular and he looked every inch a man. Whereas River still looked like a teenager. He was right about the possibility of people’s tongues wagging, the legality of a teen and a young adult living together in the same house alone together and it annoyed the living daylights out of her. He told her that he was stretching the limit by letting her sleep in the same house, he wasn’t going to have them wag their tongues about the possibility of them sleeping together in the same bedroom. “It just doesn’t look good from the outside looking in.”
Already Jamie Jolina was hovering about her man cooing that “my, oh, my, Haruo, you filled out nicely…”
...and frankly, that 🐸🐸🐸🐸 River off immensely.
River had muttered something cutting, rather audibly about avoiding cougars, whilst stepping out during the next two days and it was certain the infamous Jamie Jolina got the message about latching onto men who were already spoken for. If that wasn’t clear enough, the fact that River flashed her diamond ring and a bold caress of her man’s arm sent a clear message to Jamie to back the eff off; that Haruo was River’s and Jamie should stop trying to put her grubby mitts on every man in a relationship.
It didn’t stop Jamie though from making an equally cutting remark about River trying to look older than her true age by utilizing make-up. “I guess they’re letting children play with warpaint now…”. She’d snidely commented risking a slashing verbal attack from River.
At least I don’t look like a reject from clown school…River thought acidly as she calmed herself from that blatant violation of her boundaries. Jamie did have a tendency to overstate her looks with garish makeup, utilizing red lipstick, blue eye shadow and eyeliner as well as using a purple hue of blush which combined for a sort Tammy Faye Bakker’ish appearance.
“Maybe you could get your husband to stop trying to sell condos in swampland!” River snapped as Jamie Jolina recoiled in surprise, “Oh, I’m sorry, wrong person…it’s just, I guess the makeup..,made me think of someone else. My bad.” She finished flippantly.
All of this repartée had contributed to her down mood as she stood contemplating the fountain (and perhaps the multitude of ways she could drown Jamie Jolina in it). On top of that, Morgana Wolffe was a friend even though she was ten or so years older than her and Jamie Jolina was trying to tryst with Morgana’s husband so she was not even in River’s good books to begin with. The only reason why River tolerated her being invited was because Jamie Jolina had been Haruo’s baby-sitter when he was a toddler and she was still in high-school.
By this time, the sun had gone down and River was starting to feel fatigue coming on. The dance floor was going still but Haruo and River weren’t on there. Haruo was also showing signs that he was about ready to pack it in.
(to be continued)
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~
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Then the Income Relocation Specialists come in and try to take it in April. It's the same thing with our Compensation Robbery Association (also known as the Canadian Revenue Agency)
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~
Update:
The Chikamori House as it stands now:
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~
@jillbg
Great you have a little bit time to play now and then at least
I had a cold with some nasty coughing only the past 5 weeks so have not really played my game.
I'm fine now though.
@Nikkei_Simmer Filthy rich indeed!
Susanne and Shiba:
Jessica:
Good try, Tox:
"The Worm Turns"
Friday wasn’t much better. Even though they woke up in better moods, the fact that they hadn’t done their homework due to their mutual snits had consequences. Their GPA plummeted which made the possibility of even getting to university be marred in jeopardy. So they went to school and suffered the wrath of their teachers who after yesterday’s exercise in obnoxiousness were not bound to let an indignity go unpunished and the lack of schoolwork being done promptly resulted in the hammer being brought down on both River’s and Haruo’s collective heads.
The end of Friday couldn’t come sooner for Haruo and River and they quickly escaped. River headed to the park to do her homework in the downpour and Haruo, not caring in the least, decided that he wouldn’t bother doing his homework, because since he was aging up to young adult; he wouldn’t be returning to school on Monday. So much for his GPA; besides he was going to try his hand at being a farmer. He decided to go fishing; everything’s better when you go fishing.
Saturday dawned just as pouring rain as the previous day had half-way through. Haruo did some conjuring in the morning and headed up to Aleister’s to drop off a few rainbow gems cuts. Then they went out to lunch. Since Haruo’s birthday party was supposed to start off at 5PM, they needed to get freshened up so they did over at the gym. The gym was undoubtedly the most convenient spot to go to in order to stay clean and have a place to do their “business” since it was right next door.
“River, sweetie, I have something I need to show you.” Haruo said as he held the door of the gym open, after they had their showers, so that they could head back to their little squat of a lot. “Let’s take a cab. We’re headed up to 15 Summerhill Court. Meet me there…”
River was blindsided, 15 Summerhill Court was a rich neighbourhood and they weren’t anywhere near that amount of money in net worth. According to Haruo’s last calculations; they were still wondering if they had enough to get their next meal. “Wait...what?” Meet you there… you mean I’m supposed to take a cab by myself? River thought flabbergasted at the audacity. Well it wasn’t a deal-breaker on marrying him and curiosity won out.
He’d already hopped a cab and it was moving away rapidly. River rolled her eyes in irritation as she flagged down another cab. The driver nodded as she read him out the address of her destination.
As they were coming up the hill she could see a house tall and ornate in the background where an empty lot used to stand. Her jaw dropped open as the driver came to a stop. “There has to be some mistake. This is 15 Summerhill Court.”
“No mistake, young ma’am… we are at 15 Summerhill Court.” I am absolutely… there were no words to describe how she felt; there was shock and amazement. And she could see Haruo unlocking the ornate gate to the property. How… words failed her at the moment. “Thank you…” Her mind still reeling, she regained enough faculty of her senses to acknowledge the driver as she stepped out the vehicle and crossed the street to the other side. She held her breath as she took in the view. The Altos and the Landgraabs were their neighbours now. In an irritating repetition; her question of how... kept running through her head.
“How are we able to afford this?” were the first words out of her mouth when she was able to speak again. They were on the bridge leading over to the front door of what she could see was a large mansion, it looked even bigger than the Altos, even bigger than the Landgraab mansion and a three car garage. “Aren’t the owners going to come back and boot us off the lot? What will we do then? We don’t have any place to go and this is illegal…” Haruo was looking at her with a look of amusement as she rambled on, half-panicked. “We can’t afford this…” she said finally.
“Shhhhh…”
“Don’t shush me…” she snapped irritated. “You bring me here to this place...you expect me to believe that we have enough to buy this place…”
Haruo just finally stuck the bank-book in front of her face… “Honey...read this…” he said. River looked at the digits on the page of the bank-book as her jaw dropped open. There were 6 numbers before the first decimal point. She barely heard him say “I just got a call from the bank saying that our current balance is now §729,595.00. The rainbow gems that I cut this morning? All of them sold.” he paused looking out at the flowing stream into the fountain… “My greatest fear with all the sh** my mother put me through was to lose the roof over my head; to have nowhere to turn, nowhere to call home. With you beside me, that fear grew to include you; us losing the roof over our head.” He turned to look at her, “Do you understand? Now with what we have...we no longer have to fear…my mother can no longer touch us.” This was why he’d worked. School didn’t teach entrepreneurship; it came from oneself.
"Now...come on inside and let me show you exactly what we own now..."
River's jaw dropped open when he opened the door and ushered her inside.
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~
The main activity in this video is babies and toddlers. Lots of babies and toddlers. Carla has quads first, then Cindy (the heir) had twins and Donna produced 2 baby fairies. All of the babies/toddlers are grandchildren of Olivia and Don who are the Founder couple of this challenge.
The world in which they are living is Mountain Lake which was made by Rflong7. Music is from the YouTube Audio Library.
I hope you enjoy the video.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuW44b3uCMtCSaq4gwC8EZg
...so River's going to be standing there with her mouth hanging open
Right now, Miria and Meiara have got me busy.
Miria'situ'tadec - a Chiss Jedi Consular Sage
Meiara Glozaris - a Sith Pureblood Jedi Knight Shadow
now that we can "mix" classes.
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~
great updates so far!
Just used Honey Damell to test some skins.
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/1004357/the-becking-legacy#latest
https://graceymanorsims3.tumblr.com/
Have a nice weekend everyone!
> I'm evil, I'm making a new household but I'm making a young adult man (his personality is evil mean spirited inappropriate flirty and athletic) and a child girl (athletic friendly and good) and I have a very dark plot in mind.
She's actually coward instead of athletic and he is hot headed instead of athletic
"Fresh Start"
“I can’t believe this…” River’s jaw dropped open as she surveyed the entrance way...There was a wide staircase leading to the upstairs and hallways heading towards other rooms in the house. She had seen from the outside that the house was three stories; with a brick facade and trim. When she came inside she saw that the walls were rock surrounded by grout. “That’s the dining room, right?” she said pointing to the right with walnut flooring and wall panels. Her fiancé nodded. They walked through the rest of the rooms in silence. River gazing around her. There was no furniture. It had just recently been completed and they really had no furniture to speak of, coming from the street.
“The walls are still mostly undone since I figured we can decide on a finish together as we go along.” he said softly as he looked at her.
“Tell me we’re sleeping in a finished bedroom tonight.” River asked
“You’ll be sleeping in a finished bedroom tonight.” Haruo informed her.
“What do you mean?” River was confused.
Haruo looked at his watch, “We need to go if we don’t want to miss the party down at the park. It’d be rude for the guest of honour to be late to his own birthday party” he said as he ushered her down the stairs, out the door, locking it behind them and heading across the bridge to the taxi. He kept a silence a clam would be proud of. When they got to the park the music was loud and they figured that they should start dancing though no-one was on the dance floor yet. Guests were streaming in – friends and relatives who decided to take advantage of the spring-time activities in the park.
“Well, at least we got the buffet table – we have a choice of food” Haruo remarked.
“That was a good idea.” River looked over at the guests lined up by the buffet table, “They must be hungry.”
“Yeah...then we got this dance floor, they can work it all off too.”
River shook her head, a wide grin on her face.
The guests lined up at the buffet table had their selection of vegetarian, turkey and for the terminally glucose-needy, there was also the enjoyment of having platefuls of cookies handy.
The dancing ensued as others joined in the boisterous cavalcade on the dance floor. And most were quite enthralled with the celebratory atmosphere being generated for the main celebrant of honour at the party. Eventually, however, it was time to blow out the candles and Haruo took the time to stand there and gaze upon those who were with him on this special occasion.
“Thanks, all, for coming. I guess I’m taking the next step into what comes in life after high-school.” There were a few smatterings of polite coughs and a few comments of it gets harder from here that pervaded the audience. “I’d like to thank my dad who raised me to this point. Arigato, Otosan.” Yasunobu grinned at that. “...although I might have been quite the handful…”
He looked over at River’s mother, “Ms. McIrish, thank you…” he said meaningfully while looking towards River who smiled at him. “...for raising a compassionate daughter who I love very much.”
The cake was blown out and Haruo became a young adult. All River could think of was that there were two long days and even longer nights for her where she wasn’t going to be beside her fiancé, all because of societal optics. He was considered an “young adult” and she was yet a teen and that didn’t go over well for being in the same house, even less in the same bedroom and certainly not in the same bed.
Thus the aging up festivities were dampened for her since she really wanted to celebrate Haruo’s birthday privately after the public celebration with her fiancé and that was being denied her by law at least for two days hence. By then she’d be so frustrated. River looked over at her fiancé, and sighed deeply as she saw him talk with his father and her mother.
She let out an impatient sigh as she took in her surroundings. As lively as the park was, she wanted her guy to herself. But she also didn’t want to seem ungrateful to the guests who came to celebrate her fiancé’s aging up day. After all, it’d been planned in advance and lots of people had shown up to the festive occasion. But it couldn’t be helped what the heart desired and she quelled her impatience for the festivities to be over.
But it had been noticed by her fiancé and well, she had to be honest with him about it.
“It sucks that I have two more days before aging up.” She said to him. “It means we can’t be together in the same room and…”
Haruo raised an eyebrow.
“…and it’s so unfair! It’s not like you’re twenty six and I’m fifteen!” She huffed waving her hand with the engagement ring on her finger. “We’re engaged for crying out loud. We’re both turning eighteen. You, just two days ahead of me.”
Haruo only had one word. “Optics.” was all he said. He’d ended up broad-shouldered and muscular and he looked every inch a man. Whereas River still looked like a teenager. He was right about the possibility of people’s tongues wagging, the legality of a teen and a young adult living together in the same house alone together and it annoyed the living daylights out of her. He told her that he was stretching the limit by letting her sleep in the same house, he wasn’t going to have them wag their tongues about the possibility of them sleeping together in the same bedroom. “It just doesn’t look good from the outside looking in.”
Already Jamie Jolina was hovering about her man cooing that “my, oh, my, Haruo, you filled out nicely…”
...and frankly, that 🐸🐸🐸🐸 River off immensely.
River had muttered something cutting, rather audibly about avoiding cougars, whilst stepping out during the next two days and it was certain the infamous Jamie Jolina got the message about latching onto men who were already spoken for. If that wasn’t clear enough, the fact that River flashed her diamond ring and a bold caress of her man’s arm sent a clear message to Jamie to back the eff off; that Haruo was River’s and Jamie should stop trying to put her grubby mitts on every man in a relationship.
It didn’t stop Jamie though from making an equally cutting remark about River trying to look older than her true age by utilizing make-up. “I guess they’re letting children play with warpaint now…”. She’d snidely commented risking a slashing verbal attack from River.
At least I don’t look like a reject from clown school…River thought acidly as she calmed herself from that blatant violation of her boundaries. Jamie did have a tendency to overstate her looks with garish makeup, utilizing red lipstick, blue eye shadow and eyeliner as well as using a purple hue of blush which combined for a sort Tammy Faye Bakker’ish appearance.
“Maybe you could get your husband to stop trying to sell condos in swampland!” River snapped as Jamie Jolina recoiled in surprise, “Oh, I’m sorry, wrong person…it’s just, I guess the makeup..,made me think of someone else. My bad.” She finished flippantly.
All of this repartée had contributed to her down mood as she stood contemplating the fountain (and perhaps the multitude of ways she could drown Jamie Jolina in it). On top of that, Morgana Wolffe was a friend even though she was ten or so years older than her and Jamie Jolina was trying to tryst with Morgana’s husband so she was not even in River’s good books to begin with. The only reason why River tolerated her being invited was because Jamie Jolina had been Haruo’s baby-sitter when he was a toddler and she was still in high-school.
By this time, the sun had gone down and River was starting to feel fatigue coming on. The dance floor was going still but Haruo and River weren’t on there. Haruo was also showing signs that he was about ready to pack it in.
(to be continued)
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~