Chapter 2-
First Time Ever
Noticing
only that Kristine was not awake to get him ready for school, (his father was
NEVER up this early, he worked too late he said,) William took the opportunity
to have cake for breakfast. Kristine never
let him eat cake. Not even on his birthday. She said it would rot his teeth.
William wondered fleetingly if that would hurt very much.
Also,
without Kristine’s prodding, William was late for school for the first time
ever. He’d been playing video games when he heard the clock in the hall chime
the hour. He hadn’t spared a single thought to just what had happened to his
disapproving matron. All in all, he was having a great morning!
He
hadn’t bothered to dress; his underroos were far more comfortable to him
anyway. Tanya Pink stood looking at him through the glass doors. Suddenly, she
was unsure if she really wanted to go home for lunch after all. Maybe it was
safer in here…
When he got home that day, he still
didn’t see Kristine. So, instead of doing his homework, he presided over his
royal court. Kristine never allowed him to stand on the furniture, and was
forever telling him his imagination was over-active. Usually that meant he
couldn’t play the way he wanted to. Lily Pad was his best friend ever. But when
Kristine was around he wasn’t allowed to play with her. Kristine said Lily Pad
was just a doll. But he knew the truth.
“William?” Lily Pad looked more
fearful than worried. “What if Kristine turns up and catches you standing on
the chair? Won’t she be mad?
“She’s not here now! Who cares
about stuffy old Kristine? I’m having fun!” William looked at Lily Pad’s face
then jumped off the chair. “Let’s play tag!” Punching the doll in her rag arm
and running off.
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William
had finally been told what was going on when his father had emerged from the
nursery looking incredibly tired being that it was only 3 in the afternoon.
William had been quite excited to know that he finally had siblings. Most of
the other kids at school had one, and William saw them as immediate friends.
Most of the kids in school didn’t understand him like Lily Pad did. So a friend
he could have at school was nothing short of awesome in his opinion.
“Three
of them?” Lily Pad was shocked at how many babies were now in the house. “Leave
it to her to see if she could get the very most!”
“I
think they must make a big mess,” William said. “Kristine said she is cleaning
up after them almost constantly.”
“And
you know how messy this house always is,” William was totally oblivious to the
maid standing behind Lily Pad.
“Kristine
is always talking about how it’s never clean. Maybe you should start cleaning
it when I’m at school and can’t help the maid.” William knew that Lily Pad was
worried about earning her keep.
“Especially
with the new babies adding to it,” Lily Pad added thoughtfully. “I’ll try to
help out more. Really, I will.”
The
maid agreed with Kristine. She thought William was off his rocker. As to the
insults to her housekeeping ability, yeah right. She did her best but her hours
were limited. If Kristine would get off her duff and wash a dish now and then
the house would be much neater.
William
sighed. “Let’s go play before she discovers that I haven’t started my
homework.”
The maid was baffled by this one.
“Who is that kid talking to?”
Kristine,
on the other hand, was far too busy to take much notice of William. Since the
triplets had been born she was desperate to get out of the house. The kids
would ensure her a nice chunk of child support, and if she didn’t marry
quickly, which she had no plan to do, she could get a large alimony check too.
She didn’t love Craig, and felt he had robbed her of her teen years. Her
parents had run through all the money he had given them and so she saw nothing
good that had come out of it, except her kids.
“Divorce,
Helen,” Kristine intoned to her daughter. “It’s what is coming as soon as the
three of you are a little more able to take care of yourselves. Divorce.”
“Di-ders!”
Helen burbled back enthusiastically.
“Close
enough,” Kristine mumbled distractedly, seeing William enter the hall. He, too,
was growing up fast and Kristine was anxious that he not hear what she had told
little Helen.
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Sunshyne's note to Shakespeare-
Lily Pad is an imaginary friend, in case you hadn’t figured
it out. When a sim is a newborn they have a chance to be sent a doll from some
ludicrous fictitious long-lost relative. If the sim builds relationship with it
the doll can be made real using a potion. While the owner of the imaginary
friend can see the doll as a walking talking thing, others cannot see it and
just think the sim is talking to thin air. So the maid and Kristine cannot see
who this lonely little boy is talking to. They just think he’s nuts.
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