My Stories using The Sims 3
Tuesday 18 September 2018
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Wednesday 8 August 2018
Ugly Heart: Chapter Ten
Chapter Ten: Dead Calm!
Leo Hardy stood at the airport gate waiting for his best friend to return from his honeymoon. It had been two weeks, it had been hell! Makayla had started stalking him again and he'd limited his time with Izzy, only going round to hers and refusing to let her stay over at his place in case Makayla tried anything. Leo was relieved that his best friend was back, he needed his support at a time like this! As Charlie and Amanda came bounding through the gate, the relief washed over Leo like a wave and he began to calm a little. A tiny hand clasped his own and he looked at Izzy who stood next to him and smiled, "It's going to be okay now!" he reassured her as she nodded and grinned at the sight of her big sister.
"Leo!!! You look pasty as ever!!!" Charlie chuckled and pulled him in for a hug while slapping his back roughly, almost knocking the wind out of him. Amanda and Izzy reunited too as Leo could have sworn he saw Makayla hovering around the Costa Coffee kiosk.
The drive home was tiring, lots of chatter and catching up as Leo and Izzy dropped Charlie and his bride off at their new flat. All Leo wanted was to get Izzy home safely but she wanted to see the new place and the furniture and Amanda's kitchen! Leo shoved his hands in his pockets nervously as the girls giggled and walked around the kitchen. Charlie handed him a bottle of lager and then pulled it away, remembering he was driving. "Nice wheels by the way!" he nodded. "Finally took the plunge eh?"
"Well, it's safer for Izzy than walking!" Leo mumbled and looked down at the linoleum.
"Right you! What's up?" Charlie nudged him roughly.
"Makayla!" Leo replied bluntly. Charlie stood silent for a moment before sitting down on the nearest stool and sighed.
"What the fuck Leo? You're not still..."
"WHAT??? NO!!!" Leo looked disgusted at his friend's line of questioning. "No, she's back! She's stalking me and worse than that she's after Izzy and I don't know what to do!"
"Call the police???" Charlie raised an eyebrow at him and took a large swig from his bottle.
"I can't I already wasted their time, false alarm! Now they'll never take me seriously! Honestly Chaz I...I'm lost!"
Charlie and Amanda had been back a couple of days and when Leo wasn't around, they picked Izzy up from work and made sure she was safe. Leo was on his way to meet Izzy that evening when he saw Makayla perched on a wall a few houses down from his. All he could feel was utter rage and he marched straight towards her, she stood up and smiled at him as he grabbed her by the arm and pulled her down the little side lane between two houses slamming her roughly against the wall. "Ouch, Leo!!! I like it rough but come on..."
"SHUT UP!!" he spat as she let out an evil, spine chilling cackle.
"Baby, wow! You've really missed me haven't you?" she leaned in to kiss him but he shoved her harder against the wall, her head cracked against it with a sickening crunch of bone connecting with brick. "Leo, that hurt!" she squeaked and felt the back of her head, her hand came back down covered in blood. He'd hit her a little too hard and now she was bleeding, badly. "I feel sick!" she muttered and slumped down onto the ground with her back still against the wall. Leo could see where her head had been, a spatter of blood marking the place. And yet he didn't care, he wanted her dead!
"I want you to stay away from me Makayla, but more importantly I want you to stay the hell away from Izzy!!!" Makayla looked up at him with watery eyes and a twisted expression.
"NO! You're MINE!!!" Leo dragged her up onto her feet by her jacket and slammed her into the wall once again, this time the crack reverberated up and down the lane and her head dangled lifelessly as her body fell onto his. He pushed her head back, her eyes were open but they looked different...hollow and dark...like the light had gone out! He tried to find a pulse in her neck, to check if she was breathing, and he couldn't feel a thing...
"And so I told her that I would like to do a bit of songwriting and she laughed, can you believe it? Leo? Are you even listening to me???" Izzy elbowed him as they lay on her bed, wrapped in each other's arms.
"Yeah, course!" Leo's heart was still pounding in his chest as he tried to block out what had transpired before he arrived at Izzy's house. As she continued to moan about Tina in the coffee shop, his mind was on Makayla and where she was at that moment in time. He had no idea what he was going to do, no idea whatsoever!
"LEO!!!" Izzy shouted and pulled away from his embrace. "Will you tell me what's wrong please? Is it Makayla?" her name sent shivers down his spine and he sat up to face Izzy.
"Isobel, I've...I've done something terrible!"
"What?" she gulped nervously and scanned his face, was telling her the right thing to do?
"I...got angry with her tonight and I...hit her head off of a wall!" Start slowly...
"Well she deserved it! Not that I condone violence against women in any way but she's no ordinary woman! Leo forget it! If she goes to the police I'll lie and say you've been with me all night okay? No harm done! Look it's time we stopped letting her rule our lives, I mean..." as Izzy babbled on, Leo squeezed his eyes shut, picturing Makayla's body curled up in the boot of his car, when she fell against him after that fatal last blow he had dragged her back to his car in the dark and thrown her in there. He had checked to see if there was anyone around, but it was after 10pm on a Sunday night, the street was quiet. He wanted to tell Izzy, he really did, but to all intents and purposes he was a murderer! Makayla was dead! He had killed Makayla!!! "...and it would suit me fine if she had got brain damage because then maybe she'll forget you exist and we can have some peace and quiet!!!" Izzy finished as Leo lunged forward and kissed her hungrily. She pushed him gently away and blinked at him in surprise. "Leo! What was that all about?" Leo frowned and stroked her cheek, then whispered,
"You don't half go on sometimes, I just wanted you to be quiet!"
He ended up staying the night at Izzy's, he wanted to lose himself in her, and lose himself he did. Usually they refrained from any sexual acts while her parents were under the same roof, but Izzy couldn't seem to calm Leo any other way. He didn't want to go home anyway, knowing what waited for him inside his car! As he lay wide awake in the dark, listening to Izzy breathing, he remembered the way Makayla's body just flopped around, like a rag doll, she was not breathing at all! He wanted to tell Charlie, get some help! Maybe he would go to the police, no that was stupid! When morning finally arrived, Izzy made him pancakes but he just shuffled them around his plate absent-mindedly. "Leo, for God's sake are you not hungry or..." Leo shook his head and pushed his chair back loudly.
"Sorry Iz, I have to be somewhere!" He stood up and kissed her cheek, put his jacket on and left her feeling confused and extremely annoyed. Leo walked home slowly, head down, trying to think of a logical thing to do with Makayla. Calling Charlie was an option but could he keep quiet to Amanda? No way! So he was on his own! He turned the corner onto his street, seeing his car parked outside his house made his stomach lurch and his heart race. a long and agonising walk later, he was looking down at the boot, key in hand, gathering the strength to do something. He couldn't open it here, not in broad daylight and with the threat of his neighbours passing by. He jumped in the car and drove down the street, heading for the woods.
Deja-vu, standing over the boot of his car this time in the secluded woods, key in hand. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath as he pressed the button on his car key to open the boot. It opened with a pop and he gripped the lid with both hands ready to hoist it up and take a good look at Makayla, he just held it there for a long time until he had the outrageous thought that she might grab his hand and pull him in, so he threw the lid open with all of his strength. He closed his eyes again, scared to see her body, but when he did look down...the boot was empty! No Makayla! "Fuck!!!" he muttered as he stared at the space where he could have sworn he'd thrown her body into the night before! Did it really happen? Had he just imagined the whole thing? He drove home in a blur and as he arrived at his house, his mother was sitting on the steps at his door.
"You changed the locks!" He approached her warily, still angry with her over her comments a few weeks before. "Was that really necessary?" she laughed softly but his glare made her stop. "I guess it was!"
"What do you want mum? I've got a lot on my mind right now..."
"Yes I'm sure you have, Makayla can be quite a handful!" Leo stopped dead with his back to her, He felt numb.
"What did you say?" He heard his mother approach him and felt her hand on his shoulder.
"It's alright my darling, I got rid of her for you!" he turned around slowly to face her, fighting the urge to vomit. "Putting her in the boot? Sloppy!" she wagged a finger at him, "Not closing it properly? Very sloppy! But not making sure she was really dead...well that's just plain careless!!!"
"Mum..."
"Now, this can be our little secret! Izzy will never know, we will never speak of this ever again!"
"Mum..."
"She put up a fight for such a little girl, now I know why you had so much trouble with her!" his mother frowned and tilted her head to the side, staring into space. Leo's mouth was dry and his stomach was doing somersaults.
"How..." he mumbled.
"Oh, she followed you and so did I. I needed to make sure my boy was looking after himself, I missed you! Lucky thing I was because when I saw you two go up the lane, you were so angry! I've never seen you like that Leo, and I certainly didn't raise you that way, to assault a woman no matter who she was! But I understand, you were at the end of your rope so to speak eh?" she chuckled sadly. "I watched you take her to the car, and when you left and the boot was lying half open...I took a peek and she was whimpering in there. When she saw me she went for me, well what was I to do? I slammed the lid of the boot on her head and it seemed to do the trick." Leo sat down on the steps and struggled to breathe as his mother joined him and stroked his hair, he couldn't believe how calm she was. "You don't need to know any more, just that she won't be bothering you again! Now, as I said, we will never speak of this again, understood???"
FIVE YEARS LATER...
Isobel Hardy sat next to her husband, snuggling in, as they watched their son playing with his new toy in the garden. "I wonder what ever happened to that Makayla!" she said out of the blue as she rubbed his arm and a shiver ran down his spine.
"Who knows eh!" he muttered. It was true that they had never heard from her for over five years, she just disappeared. Tara, Leo's mother came outside from the kitchen with a tray of drinks.
"He loves that digger doesn't he? You love granny's present don't you Adam???" Leo stood up and went to join his two year old son as Tara sat on the porch step with her daughter-in-law.
"I was just saying to Leo, I wonder what happened to Makayla!" Tara chuckled and replied,
"Oh well after Leo murdered her we buried her in the woods!" Izzy stared into Tara's eyes with disbelief...then she laughed.
"Oh Tara! Really you have a warped sense of humour sometimes!" Izzy continued to giggle and joined Leo and Adam who were using his digger to bring up soil from the rose bed. Tara took a sip of her tea and sighed, Izzy was a sweet girl and she had given her a lovely little grandson who was the image of his father, a second chance for Tara to do things differently with this boy. Also Izzy made her son happy, Leo had come on leaps and bounds since he met her and he no longer hid away in the shadows. His scars were now part of him and he embraced them confidently. It was true that her relationship with Leo was strained, it was never the same after she got rid of Makayla's body five years before. Izzy would have questioned him if he'd stopped Tara from seeing Adam, so Leo was stuck with her in his life. She knew she was a constant reminder of what they did...although he hadn't ended Makayla Lorde's life, he was an accessory and Tara made sure he remembered that. She laughed to herself quietly at the thought of how much more strained their relationship would be if he knew that the rose bed his son was so obsessed with digging, was actually where she had buried Makayla!!! But she had Adam now, her bond with Leo may have been broken but that child was still untouched by her mistakes and it was going to be perfect this time!
Leo looked over at his mother while his wife and son continued to play with his prized possession. She was smiling, he didn't trust that smile, it always had a hidden meaning...an indication that she was up to no good! Izzy distracted him from Tara's impish grin as she gasped and exclaimed,
"Leo, there's something under here!"
The End!
Sunday 5 August 2018
Saturday 28 July 2018
Tuesday 24 July 2018
Sunday 22 July 2018
Tuesday 17 July 2018
Saturday 14 July 2018
Sunday 8 July 2018
Wednesday 4 July 2018
Sunday 1 July 2018
The Smallwood Family Legacy Generation Two: A Sims 4 Story
Chapter Nineteen: Happy Little Accidents!Tuesday 26 June 2018
Monday 18 June 2018
The Smallwood Family Legacy Generation Two: A Sims 4 Story
The Smallwood Family Legacy: A Sims 4 Story
Chapter Seventeen: Fantasy Vs RealityWednesday 23 May 2018
The Smallwood Family Legacy Generation Two: A Sims 4 Story
The Smallwood Family Legacy: A Sims 4 Story
Chapter Sixteen: Lord Landon Smallwood, heir of Lady Beatrix!
Wednesday 2 May 2018
The Smallwood Family Legacy Generation One: A Sims 4 Story
The Smallwood Family Legacy: A Sims 4 Story
Chapter Fifteen: Time Flies
The Smallwood Family Legacy Generation One: A Sims 4 Story
Heir Poll
Welcome to the very first Smallwood Family Legacy Heir Poll! Below are your five potential Generation Two Heirs! It is your mission to choose who that will be, so choose carefully! The poll is at the top of the blog, but read this first to get a little feel for the kiddos that are in line to take Trixie's crown:
Vivaana is the daughter of Trixie and Vivaan Gupta who sadly died before she was born. Vivvy has only ever known one dad and that's Caleb Vatore, her father's best friend. Vivvy is now married to Alexander Goth and they have twins, Ezra and Zuri. Sadly though, Vivvy has been trying desperately to conceive another child and it just isn't happening right now, perhaps she needs to let go of Alex's indiscretion with her younger sister Abigail when she was pregnant with the twins. Despite Abi being gay, she and Alex flirted once, it was a very confusing time for all involved, however Alex has never strayed since. Can Vivaana truly trust him again? And will they ever have more children? Most importantly, is she your choice for generation two Smallwood Family Heir?
Abigail & Esme are the second and third born daughters to Trixie, however they are the first and second born children to Caleb Vatore. Abi and Esme are very different despite being identical twins. Abi is very happy with her fiancee Charley Huffman, while Esme is currently seeing Vladislaus Straud. Abi has only ever had eyes for Charley, never really paying attention to any boys or girls when she was a teenager. But as soon as she met Charley, she knew she was the one! But is Abigail the one for you? Is she the next heir?
Esme's love life has been turbulent at best, but Vlad seems to love her unconditionally unlike the others. Vlad even killed for her, and now she knows the truth about where Darick Bludstone is, Esme's feelings for Vlad have not changed. Could this be true love finally for her? Will she and Vlad rule generation two?
Raven is the fourth born child of Trixie and the third of Caleb. Her father wanted a boy, but when Raven was born and Caleb looked into her eyes, he didn't care that she was a girl. Caleb doted on Raven more than the others, possibly through guilt of wishing her to be someone else. Raven had a rocky teenagehood, but now she is grown up she is loving her job in the astronaut career and looking forward to being an adult. Will she be your new heir? Has she got what it takes to run the new generation to come?
And finally we have Landon, the fifth born child and only son of Trixie, Caleb's fourth child and first and only boy! Landon was the love of his father's life as a baby and toddler, and even into childhood he was always playing with his son. Landon had an interesting choice of toy though, favouring his sister Raven's dollhouse over everything else. But Caleb was happy to play dolls with his boy. As a teenager, Landon was very helpful around the house and cheery, while Raven was a worry to their parents. Now a grown man in his own right, Landon has his eye on a pretty redhead he went to high school with. Is Landon your heir? Being the only boy, does he melt your heart?
Choose now, or forever hold your peace! ;)
Tuesday 3 April 2018
The Smallwood Family Legacy Generation One: A Sims 4 Story
The Smallwood Family Legacy: A Sims 4 Story
Chapter Fourteen: Difficult Age
Tuesday 13 March 2018
The Smallwood Family Legacy Generation One: A Sims 4 Story
The Smallwood Family Legacy: A Sims 4 Story
Chapter Thirteen: Interlude, The Life & Unlife Of Lady Beatrix Smallwood.
Tuesday 6 March 2018
Sunshine Blogger Award
The Sunshine Blogger Award
The rules are:
- Thank blogger(s) who nominated you for a blog post and link back to their blog.
- Answer the 11 questions the blogger asked you.
- Nominate up to 11 new blogs to receive the award and write them 11 new questions.
- List the rules and display the Sunshine Blogger Award logo in your post and/or on your blog
Well I haven't really got 11 people that I can nominate, although I have been around for a long time, I am fairly new to the updated forums and most of the friends and co-bloggers I have known have dwindled sadly. But I do have two particular ones who I have followed since I first signed up to The Sims 3 community and they are:
Not only is she a friendly and kind person, she is also extremely creative. She is a great builder and you will often find her stories are based around renovacy challenges. But my favourite story is The Key of My Heart! It has romance, it has hardship, it has everything! You really should take a look!
Another wonderful friend who is not only supportive, but very talented! The Love Legacy is amazing, I even had the honour of contributing one of my Sims 3 legacy characters to it, which was great fun, I love crossovers! The Loves are such a great family, you will be hooked immediately!
So here are my answers to the questions I was given:
1.) What inspired you to start writing your story?
I'm really a Sims 3 gal at heart and I have been writing using illustrations from it since 2011, so when The Sims 4 came out I wasn't really sold on it and it took me a veeeerrrry long time to warm to it. But lag and crashes on the older game were getting me down and being the sims lover that I am, I thought I'd try my hand at writing a Sims 4 legacy, especially after toddlers were added to the game (I loooove them). So I now have The Smallwoods! Yay!
2.) Describe your process. Do you play and then write a story around that? Or vice versa?
Both really, it depends on whether I am writing a story from my weirdo brain, or writing a legacy. If an idea comes to me for a story I will write it down and take shots around it, and if it is a legacy I take the shots and write around them, I interpret what I think is going on.
3.) Who is your favorite character from your stories? Why?
Well gee that's like choosing a favourite child lol! No, I have two actually and they are from my Sims 3 stories.
The first is Cody Von Strunkle from "The Shylife of...A Legacy of Sorts", when Cody was born, I was kinda meh about him, his older brother Spencer was a looker and he was my fave to take over as generation 7 heir. But then Cody grew up and he had those gorgeous purple eyes he inherited from his great-grandmother Dawn, who was made for me by a really amazing friend, Tru Sims! He won the heir poll and I was smitten! And although his son and heir was named after an object of my affection, Cody was...and will always be...my favourite Von Strunkle!
The second is Master Dexter Maloney of "Love Drunk" & "Love Drunk 2.0" because I created him, I invented him, and my goodness is he a flawed man child pretty boy...but he's my flawed man child pretty boy! He is based on someone special to me, and if he were real I would so marry him and wrap him in bubble wrap feeding him cupcakes all day long! And the way he adores his little "freckles", Lainie the love of his life, is just precious! They are just too cute together.
Oh gosh I am gushing and that was so long winded sorry *blush*! Next question...
4.) You can choose one of your characters to bring to life. Which character and why?
Dexy! Because see above! Flawed so psychology graduate me can try and fix all his broken pieces, cupcakes, facial hair, blue eyes, tattoos, guitar playing weirdo with the voice of an angel...kaching! Pass me the bubble wrap!!!
5.) Sims 4 Townies: Marry, Kill, WooHoo. Which townie would your Simself marry? Who dies? Which would your Simself have a woohoo with?
Marry: Caleb Vatore! Vampire, great hair, hot! Just yum! Plus he makes my Trixie happy so bonus points for that and taking on his deceased friend's child too! He's also very good with his sister Lilith! Mega Brownie points for Mister Fangy of Wolfsbane Manor!
Kill: Demetrius Higa! I encountered him as my simself when I first got the game and holy guacamole was he a grouchy drunk who later came to my marital home and verbally abused my son who was a child at the time! Always had a drink in his hand, nasty nasty lol!
WooHoo: If I can't choose Caleb again, then I shall say Mortimer Goth. There's just something about him that would make any sim go weak at the knees. Perhaps an encounter in a cupboard at the karaoke bar? Bella need never know! ;)
6.) Are there any plotlines that have changed drastically since you first thought of them? What caused the change?
Yes loads! Sometimes I will think of a plot and then rethink so as not to offend or upset anyone, or at least I did at the beginning. I am getting a little more adventurous in my old age, and if I think it is essential to the story I will put it in, no kid gloves this is life!
Love Drunk started as a summary of 40 chapters in a notebook, and a lot of it was altered as I went along but the skeleton of the story always remained; little aspiring chef catches the eye and heart of aspiring musician and artist who lives in the same apartment building, and so the "will they or won't they" begins. Here is an example of how my vision changed, Ashton and Erin were never supposed to get together until the very last chapters, in fact she was not supposed to appear until late on in the story as a main character. She was always a minor one supporting the appearance of batty Selina who was crazy about Ashton's brother Dexter. And Roxy was never supposed to join the band Sweet Cacophony, it was always supposed to be Charlotte's brother Rob until a friend came up with the idea of a girl joining an all male rock band.
I am so sorry I am rambling again, eek!
7.) Are you a builder or a maker? Do you prefer to build houses or make Sims?
I am a TERRIBLE builder! I am most definitely a maker of sims! I have made a celebrity sim in both Sims 3 and 4, I have tweaked him so many times over 6 years, even made his tattoos, and I am still not completely satisfied with him hence the reason I haven't shared him! I'm an extreme perfectionist! I must admit though, last night me and my friend made a cool house and we were rather proud of it so we uploaded it to the gallery, I want to build so badly, I'm just not that great!
8.) What part of the writing process do you enjoy the most?
I love thinking up the plot, imagining the poses for the story, and I love making the characters that are in my head and putting them into the game to see them moving around. It's so satisfying!
9.) What part of the process do you find the most challenging?
Waiting around during a legacy save, there are some things I just don't screenshot because they are kind of boring. And also when I have an idea in my head, it sounds amazing, but then when you put it in writing it's not so much. Back to the drawing board is the worst, as all I ever want is for my stories to be good...perfectionist! *shrug*
10.) What is one thing that you want to see in Sims 4? (Seasons, Occult Types, etc.)
Definitely witches, werewolves and mermaids! I loved the Supernatural expansion, absolutely loved it! Magic, super powers and all that jazz! I would love to have a witch in the Sims 4, one who married a werewolf and they had cute little furry children with lightning bolts coming out of their fingers! :D Oh and a unicorn, I NEED a unicorn! <3
11.) Write something about yourself that readers might not know. (A surprising hobby, favorite food, etc.)
I love to bake cakes and crochet! I'm happy doing the simple things in life, I crochet blankets and hats and I bake and decorate birthday cakes for people and sell them. I'm a stay at home Home Economics teacher! @_@
So here are my 11 questions for my nominated friends:
- When did you first start playing The Sims?
- How many versions have you played, which version is your favourite and why?
- What element of the game do you enjoy the most?
- Where do you get inspiration for your stories?
- Would you be honest if someone asked you how many hours you actually played the game?
- Do you have a special sim that you do not share with the community? (I do lol)
- Are any of your characters based on people that you know personally?
- If you could be any of your characters, who would you be and why?
- Out of all of your sims characters, be it from a legacy or a story, which one hurt the most to say goodbye to?
- If you could re-write any of your stories, what, if anything, would you change?
- Have you ever introduced The Sims to any friends and family, if so did they share your love for the game?
These questions will self-destruct in 3...2...I'm just kidding! I had a blast answering my questions, I hope you do too! xLJx
Sunday 25 February 2018
The Smallwood Family Legacy Generation One: A Sims 4 Story
The Smallwood Family Legacy: A Sims 4 Story
Chapter Twelve: Blast From The Past
Saturday 24 February 2018
The Smallwood Family Legacy Generation One: A Sims 4 Story
The Smallwood Family Legacy: A Sims 4 Story
Chapter Eleven: Looking To The Future
Friday 23 February 2018
The Smallwood Family Legacy Generation One: A Sims 4 Story
The Smallwood Family Legacy: A Sims 4 Story
Chapter Ten: Aftermath
Tuesday 20 February 2018
The Smallwood Family Legacy Generation One: A Sims 4 Story
The Smallwood Family Legacy: A Sims 4 Story
Chapter Nine: A Means To An End
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