Rose 2.67: Relaxing interlude

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     I think the latest chapters of Rose have been pretty intense. I'm not saying that is a bad thing, but it's nice to have a break every once in a while. I have a collection of pictures that would make the story drone on if I used them, but I don't want to leave them out.

      Yes, this is just what Camilla needs, another thing to scar her for life. -.-

     I like posting pictures of Rose's artwork. Cool! Another famous painting to adorn their walls.

     The current location of the 'shrine.' Donovan actually has Tiffany's gravemarker in his inventory. I thought I'd keep it just in case.

     They all go to the fall festival, and I'd hoped to make something of this, but the sunken sims thing is really getting on my nerves. That, and Rose mourning Giacomo every five seconds.

     Yes, Donny, it's about time you asked her to be your girlfriend. hehe.

    She says yes. Duh.
    Instant celebrity. I think 3*.

     Brave, brave girl, Camilla. She wets herself afterwards.

     I admit to teleporting her in there.

    Then, Shauna sits on his lap. Yeah, that's all she's doing, sitting in his lap. >.>
    I love Donovan's eyes in this one.

     Skye shows up, and as usual, when the game aged him up, he got the shaved hairdo. I fixed it to his typical one, but I tried this one on for size while I was at it. Not bad. But he can't have the same hair as Donny.

     Donovan can't have a normal conversation with anyone if he's out in public. People are constantly wanting his autograph or picture, and he will stop everything I've told him to do in order to appease his fans.

    For instance, I have him start chatting it up with Skye because their relationship had gotten too low.

     Then, I zoom over to Lorenzo thinking about the upcoming prom. I plan to zip back over to Donny to get some pics of Skye talking to Donovan, back and forth between them, but...

     This happens. /sigh.

     Shauna starts thinking about her future career. I knew his future 2nd wife would also be an art major, so while he was at uni, I paid attention. Shauna did actually approach him first like what happened in the story. Shauna actually has one more semester to go before graduation. I'm debating actually having her finish or just act like she did. Actually.

    No idea why Camilla has that expression. This boy is Ignacio Costa. I think he's cute.

    So, I go have Camilla uncharacteristically chat it up with him. Then, they play tag.

      Ignacio thinking rather much about himself.

    While Camilla goes to puke glow-in-the-dark vomit. Nice.

Then, I get an error code 12 and lose all the stuff that happened after Donovan asked Shauna to go steady. I plan on locating Ignacio again, but he ages to teen pretty quickly.

    I'd hoped to make some funny dialogue with this set of pictures. Shauna is asking about a ring and...

    Donovan nearly chokes on his food.

     Then, he says something about money. Oh, come on, Donny! You can afford it!

     I get a notification that Link and Chasity's daughter Caryn has aged to child, so I click her portrait on the notification to zoom over to her. But, it's dark and the full moon, so I go into CAS.

     Pedro visits again, and I'm sure to have Shauna get some ghostly pics. Then, my computer crashes.

    Oh, "great" place to teach Arlen to walk, Donovan.

     (in a funny voice) So, how was school?

So, that's pretty much it. Stuff that happens from the time Donny asks Shauna on their little date to Rose's birthday party. Party in the next chapter! See you there :)

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Uncomplicated 3.13: The monster in a children's story

3rd person

     The office door slams behind a man in a grey fedora as Edward Jones sits at his walnut executive desk. Lifting his head, he sees Luke Brasswell looking down at him with a contemptuous expression on his face.

     “Good afternoon, Luke,” Edward says in a guarded tone.

     “You rotten sack of cow manure,” Luke growls back at him.

     “It’s nice to see you too,” Edward replies, raising his eyebrows in facetious seriousness.

     “How could you do that to me?” Luke snarls as he approaches the desk.

     “I’m afraid I do not know to what you refer. What did I do to you?” Edward sits back in his chair, his fingertips spread apart and touching in front of his chest.

     “Cut the crap, Jones. You know exactly what I’m talking about. ‘Be a man,’ you said! ‘Take responsibility and be there for your child,’ you said. ‘Your child needs a solid family, so it’s time you stepped up to the plate,’ you said! So I did! And what do I get for it?”

     Edward stares at his hands, realizing the purpose behind Luke’s visit, and his stomach balls into a knot.

     “Well?!” Luke yells when he feels he’s waited long enough for Edward to reply. When he sees that all the man does is move his gaze from his hands to him, he decides to continue on his own. “I guess I’ll tell you. I get to turn my life upside down! I was scared as hell at first, but eventually, I realized I could do it after all. I was there every day, and you can’t be there every day and NOT fall in love with her! Especially when there were feelings there to start with!”

     Plum, Edward thinks and rubs his hands over his face while taking a deep breath.

     Luke barrels on with his accusations, pacing around the room as he does. “You told me we needed to be a family for the baby’s sake if no one else. You push me to her only to snatch her away from me? I wanted to give her time, to let me earn a better opinion from her.

     "Then, when I finally bring the subject up, she tells me she’s already seeing someone?!” Luke pants, leaning on the desk. “And then I find out it’s the very man that pushed me to her in the first place?!”

     Edward quietly replies, “She told me the two of you were just good friends.”

     “I had to start somewhere!” he stands up, pushing off from the desk. “When Wren asks me one day about why Mommy and Daddy aren’t married, I’ll be sure to tell her whose fault it is.”

     Edward jumps out of his chair, rapidly pushing it back against the wall with a dull thud. “Now that’s going too far!” he yells. “I gave you plenty of time!”

     “A few weeks isn’t what I’d call ‘plenty of time’ to fix an error as big as the one I made,” Luke snaps back.

     “Well, too plumbing bad that you made such a grave mistake! She loves me! You had all that time when the two of you were dating, when you carelessly got her knocked up.”

     “Ah, but then you came waltzing into the picture, didn’t you?” he quips viciously.

     “I helped her because I loved her. I was there when you weren’t, but the entire time, it never left my mind that she was carrying another man’s child! Yes, I pushed you to her, and I’ll bet it would make no sense to you why. Because I loved her! Because I was tired of the way this town treated her. Because I knew that being with the father of her child would be better for her and the baby!”

     “I couldn’t have said it better myself,” he says bitingly, turns, and exits the office.

     Silent tears course down Edward’s cheeks as he slowly sinks back into his chair. His heart feels as though it’s being put through a meat grinder. He puts his head in his hands, wanting to find some way to shield himself from the truth.

     I let my own feelings shatter my best-laid plans. I sabotaged Luke’s chances, Wren’s chance to have a normal life with a mother and father. I am the home wrecker. I am the monster in the children’s story, the one that steals Mommy away for his own selfish wants.

     A quiet, wailing sob escapes him as he realizes what he has to do. There's no other way.

     Lifting his head, he reaches for his phone. His hands shake, making it all the more difficult to dial her number.

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