Dinah really wanted some of the cake slice that I left on the counter the night before, but Cheshire made sure she couldn’t get to it. Cheshire is so responsible that way. I’m sure he didn’t eat any himself.

The day dawned dark and rainy. That’s Hetal’s favorite kind of day, you know. I hope she was thinking of me when she looked at the rain. I didn’t used to like rainy days at all. Sunny days are so much more cheerful and friendly. But now that I know how much my true love likes them, I’m going to see if I can figure out what might be good about them.

Running out to catch my carpool is definitely NOT one of those good things.

I’m getting to know my coworkers better, though, and that makes work a lot of fun.

Today, we got a call from Serena Durwood, who set fire to her kitchen. Her house was pretty nice. Rick Lugosi doesn’t seem to be down anymore. He said his ex-girlfriend was “taken care of.” There are some things it’s better not to ask about, especially from a vampire.

Serena didn’t really look like the kind of person who did her own cooking. Maybe she shouldn’t get near the stove anymore.

The kitchen fire was the biggest fire I’ve ever put out, and I did it all by myself. It was such a pretty fire. Moonlight Falls Fire Department was so impressed that I got another promotion!

I have this job aced.

When I got outside after the fire was long out, Serena was still freaking out in the back yard.

I told her not to worry. This is my job. People pay me to put out fires. Everything was under control.

Once Serena started to calm down, she really wanted to talk. She followed me back to the truck to talk.

And talk.

And talk some more. She sure didn’t seem to mind the rain. I didn’t really enjoy getting soaked, but she was having such a good time, I thought it would be impolite to say so.

Serena turns out to be a witch too! I’m just a witch magnet. That part’s not too bad.

When I finally dragged back to the firehouse and changed clothes, it was almost quitting time. I quickly got in a bit of maintenance on the fire alarm. I really wanted to see Hetal again. I didn’t have any money left to go out to dinner, but I wonder if she’d go for some kind of intellectual date. Maybe the art museum?

Just before I grabbed my phone, it rang on its own! It was Hetal! She wanted to invite me out on a date. It’s like we were cosmically connected.

She gave me the address of the place where she wanted to meet. I was out the door and on my bike faster than you could say, “Lickety split!”

I have to say that Hetal’s choice of romantic locations surprised me. The address she gave me turned out to be the local junkyard.

When Hetal arrived, she was dressed in a cap and gown. She’d come straight from her high school graduation ceremony. How sweet!

She said she’d just gotten a job as a Podium Polisher at the courthouse. My girl was a future Leader of the Free World! I was so proud.

Hetal really appreciated my hard day at work, and she wanted to help me relax. She truly has magic fingers.

I got lost just looking in her eyes.

I knew what I wanted to do, so I just stopped worrying and rolled with it.

Hetal said yes!

I figured she’d want a big wedding, but she didn’t want to wait at all. She said she couldn’t think of a better place to become my wife.

I’m not sure I exactly get the romance of a junkyard. I guess the bits of scrap did sparkle in the sunset. And the only other people there with us were also clearly in love, so maybe it’s just me who thought it was weird.

I guess there are a lot of things about Hetal I’m going to spend my life figuring out. I can’t wait to start.

Hetal Anjali became Hetal Wonderland that night, and we started our life together.

As I held her close, she whispered in my ear, “Do you think your house is big enough for all of us?”

“All of us?” I asked.

“You, me, and my mom,” she said. “Of course Mom is going to live with us.”

Oh.

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I could not have come up with something funnier if I tried. I don’t know which expansion added the ability of townies to call you for dates, but it’s fabulous. Hetal really did call right as I was clicking Allison’s phone to ask her out on a date. Only a Sims townie would invite someone out on a date to the junk yard. But apparently it’s a pretty popular spot for lovers in Moonlight Falls.

The junkyard isn’t the one that came with the town. I don’t have anything against Grady’s Junkstop, but I already played it in Sunset Valley. I downloaded the Meteor Aftermath Junkyard from Mod The Sims. If I’d realized such an important event would happen there after dark, I’d’ve added lights.

Dawn broke on another lovely day in Moonlight Falls.

Birds were chirping. Kitties were frolicking.

And some lady at the park was spontaneously combusting.

Fortunately nobody was seriously hurt.

(The camera directed me to this event. I think I might have gotten a popup about it from Twallan and accidentally clicked it. Heh.)

Today was Leisure Day! And I couldn’t think of anyone I wanted to spend it with more.

Hetal said she couldn’t meet me at the Eerie Festival Park because she today was her birthday! She wanted to throw some sort of a party.

“That’s great!” I said. “I’ll bring a cake and we can have the party at the park!”

“Umm…” she said. “OK. If you buy the cake.”

So I immediately headed out to find the best cake I could and bring it to Eerie Park. It wiped out my savings again, but it was to such a great cause!

Eerie park was nicely decorated for the summer festival.

Hetal arrived right after I did. My, she was nicely decorated, if you know what I mean.

I told her she looked like a shining star, the kind of star who could be someone’s lifetime wish.

She wanted to know where the cake was, so I showed it to her. She seemed pretty happy.

I told her to be quick and blow out the candles.

She brought a couple of her girlfriends from school to cheer for her too.

Didn’t she age up nicely?

Now, I swear I was not obsessing over a highschool girl. My motives toward Hetal while she was a kid were completely pure. But now she’s all grown up, and I have to confess that now my motives are…. not so pure. She’s so smart and lovely!

But I couldn’t get a chance to talk to her with everyone crowding in for free cake.

And then I really had to go pee. Hey! Who put the men’s room here??

When I finally found the bathroom, I had to take a few minutes to freshen up.

I really wanted to look my best!

When I got out of the bathroom, Hetal was taking a spin around the broom arena. The wind was in her hair, and her eyes were alight with the adventure of flying. She couldn’t have been more beautiful.

I so wish I were a witch and could ride on a broom like that!

I gave myself a quick talking to before I lost my nerve. It was now or never! I had to let her know how I felt.

She told me I was awfully nice, but she had to go to the bathroom right now. I couldn’t let her go away, so I followed. That didn’t go so well.

The bathroom was getting to be awfully popular. There was no way I could talk about my feelings here!

I finally managed to get Hetal to come back outside, where I nervously asked her if she was planning to marry anyone in the next, oh, week or too.

She told me that she didn’t have anyone in mind. I was so happy!

So happy I kind of lost control of myself.

She actually didn’t mind! She said she’d kind of been waiting for me to do that.

There, under the stars, Hetal Anjali agreed to be my girl.

The rest of the evening was a blur. I could barely see straight on the ride home.

I settled down with a slice of leftover birthday cake. Since I wiped out my food budget to buy it, I was going to see a lot of that cake.

That night, I dreamed the best kind of dreams.

———-

Hope everyone had a good holiday!

Allison really did roll a high-powered wish to be a witch. I thought about it, but I didn’t lock it in. She’s dirt poor right now, and it doesn’t really match my vision for her.

Hetal jumped right in and met Allison with her own autonomous romantics. They do make a cute couple. I’m pretty happy the poll closed before all those William votes could crowd her out 🙂 :).

I have my memory upgrade installed, the new Windows 7 virtual machine set up, and so far the game is running like a dream. I’ve only played it on the Wonderland save so far, though. I’m still sort of scared to find out if the Samples are crashing for some other reason…. Wish me luck!

When I got up in the morning, I found that the kitchen was starting to smell disgusting! Why doesn’t anyone clean around here?

I had my breakfast in the living room, since the kitchen was so gross.

When I got to work, Rick Lugosi seemed to be really depressed.

My boring mortal coworker whose name I haven’t bothered to learn told me that his girlfriend dumped him.

Vampires like to get all mopey and brooding, so I figured I’d just leave him to it.

I finally got to try out the fireman’s pole!

Which was very important because mortal girl was telling a ghost story.

She tells a good story. Maybe she’s not quite so boring after all. It’s not like she can help being mortal.

Then something awful occurred to me!

I’d forgotten to feed the kitties! I sneaked out of the station and rushed home on my bicycle.

Wow, it’s really gotten awful in here! Nobody ever cleans up anything, and the sofa is shredded.

Even Dinah gave herself a nasty cold shower!

Well, I gave them their food. I’m so sorry poor Dinah had to wait and get hungry!

When I got back, it didn’t look like anyone had noticed I was gone.

William dropped by to show off his fangs. They’re such attractive fangs, but I do wonder how one can clean them properly.

I was so tired after the mad dash home and back that I headed upstairs to take a nap. William and Chris seemed to be having a heated conversation. William really loved a book by some guy named Shakespeare, and Chris hated it. Men.

I didn’t let their little spat get in the way of my sleep!

I woke up later to the sound of William yelling at his video game. Apparently he really gets into Grand Theft Auto. But he should watch his language!

I dreamed about Hetal, and I couldn’t wait until I was off duty to try to see her again. I called her from the station to see if she might be interested in dropping by just to hang out.

I was so surprised and happy when she agreed! I came outside to find her swearing at the side of the garage. She seemed to think there was supposed to be a door there.

I found her, and we had a lovely chat about the weather. She really loves dark rainy days.

I prefer sunny days. They just make you feel so cheerful!

We kept chatting until I got off duty. Then I worked up my courage to ask her to go do something after work. That’s it! We could take a tour of the arboretum!

The arboretum glows beautifully at night. We had a great time looking at all the plants.

When we finished, I was really hungry.

I didn’t want our time together to end, so I asked her to go out to the diner with me. My treat!

I didn’t think that through very well. Our meal wiped out the rest of my paycheck. I almost had to do dishes to pay off the bill. It might have been better if Hetal hadn’t ordered the Lobster Thermidore, which was the most expensive thing on the menu, but how could I deny her anything?

Hetal seemed to think the whole thing was a pretty good time. I’m so glad.

She asked me what I thought about living a life of crime. I told her I’d never thought about it, but maybe it would be okay if it involved a lot of fire.

It was getting so late. I finally forced myself to say goodbye. I told Hetal I really hoped to see her again soon. She said she’d be glad to go out with me if I paid for some more meals.

I left her on the sidewalk doing her homework.

And I headed home in the dark, thinking about her.

When I got home, I’d finally had it with the place being a pit. Somebody had to clean things up around here, and since nobody else was doing it, I’d just have to do it myself.

I was lucky to see another kitty drop by!

She was so cute.

Oh, and THIS was why the whole kitchen smelled so bad. I never cleaned up the horrible burned mac’n’cheese from last week. Whoops.

I took care of that.

And I got a bit of quality time in with Cheshire. It was getting really late, but I had missed him all day.

Then I remembered I would be able to sleep in tomorrow because it was Leisure Day! Yay!

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Well, this gets me caught back up. Not having to think of a plot or track more than one character certainly makes posts faster to write! It’s also easy to fall into the one-post-per-day rhythm. I still have a goal of getting through an entire pregnancy in one post. We’ll see how that goes 🙂 :).

You’ll notice that William is suddenly paler. It turns out he wasn’t actually a vampire after all. Now I’m kind of disappointed with his skintone. He was so much sexier before he was a vampire. Hmmmm.

I really had forgotten just how much it costs for two people to eat at the diner when you’re still on starting funds. That meal wiped her out. Whoops. Though the Samples have been so rich for so long that I’m kind of enjoying having to think about money. I think I am going to add a new handicap to my game: I cannot buy No Bills Ever.

And a little cameo from Sim!Mist. That was cute. I wonder if she’ll still be around to breed to Cheshire and Dinah’s heir. Hmmmm. She is pretty interesting looking for a sim cat. I downloaded somebody’s tortoiseshell marking pattern and dialed back the colors to get a dilute tortie, which is what Mist is.

I’m not terribly impressed with Moonlight Falls’ diner rabbithole. I’ve always liked the Bistro better anyway. I downloaded a bistro recolor that I’m going to place someplace in town.