After fixing the sink and mopping the puddle pooling at my feet, I went outside to tend to the money tree and clean up after the dogs. Sometimes they did their business in the yard, but most times they did it on the porch, and I kinda hated it. But what do you do, right? At least they went outside. I kept yawning on my way back inside. It wasn’t even 9 p.m. yet, and I heard my bed calling. I couldn’t turn in that early, but I was so ready to close my eyes. Desiree was such a good baby and slept most of the night, so I didn’t think I was sleep deprived, but maybe I needed to rest, just like Sophia. But she did all of the work, so what reason did I have to be so tired? They say things change when we get older, but surely my body hadn’t changed so drastically mere days after my birthday. I shook all of those thoughts away when I saw Chi Chi climbing the steps to knock on our door.
“You’re not one of those entrepreneurs trying to sell us something, are you?” I asked.
“Ha ha ha! You’re so funny! What are you doing out here?”
“I kinda live here.”
“Okay, funny man!”
“Come on in. I was about to have dinner.”
She joined me at the table and caught me up on her life. She was like a vampire taking off in bat form, telling me about this date she went on. Apparently it was a proper date date, which led me to assume they’d been talking for a little while. They had a good time, and she looked forward to seeing him again. But with Eleanor gone, and Karmine grown and talking about moving out, she’d been kind of lonely lately and thought it was time to consider her own future. It had always been her plan to remarry, but was he the guy? Was it too early to think about it? Clearly, the situation made her very anxious, and I identified with that big time. But she was a strong, confident, gorgeous woman, so I was certain she’d have it all figured out soon. In the meantime, I was happy for her and hoped their one date would blossom into something totally unexpected and beautiful.
I didn’t make a habit of looking back and wondering how my life would have turned out if I chose another woman, but every now and then, the thought ran across my mind. Whenever I thought about a potential life with Chi Chi, I always ended up being glad we were never anything more than friends. Apart from not knowing how I’d fare with a ready-made family, I don’t know how I would survive her mouth. I could imagine myself spending a lot of time away from home just to escape all the talking.
Sophia finally came downstairs and saved me from all the words flying at me at a million miles per hour. She was hiding from Chi Chi under the guise of tending to Desiree, heh.
“Oh my goodness, hiiiiiiiii,” Chi Chi said, jumping up and pouncing on her. “You look sooo good! You don’t even look like you had a baby!”
“Uhh…thanks.”
“Is she asleep? Can I see her??”
“Of course,” Sophia said. “Come on up.”
I followed them and stared longingly at our bedroom door as I trudged by. Would it be rude if I left them alone and disappeared? After all, Chi Chi came to see Desiree, not me. But she was my friend, not Sophia’s, even though they had developed a friendship. Sophia wouldn’t appreciate me doing that, so I joined them in the nursery where Chi Chi squealed and oooh’d and ahhhh’d over Desi’s cuteness and how adorable the nursery was.
Ever since Desi met Maira, I paid attention to how she acted around new sims, and so far she’d only ever acted up with Maira, and that bothered me so much. What was it?? Part of me hoped to never find out and that everything would be peachy when she got older. But the part of me who was very much my mother’s child wanted tea.
