Chapter 3.46 Long Time

“Oh, hey.”

“It’s been a while, hasn’t it? I know it may not feel that long but I guess it’s been quite a while, huh?”

 

“I bet you probably hate me for how long it’s been. I am sorry for that. I really didn’t mean for this to happen, like I didn’t want this to happen! I just…Things have been manic for me these past few years.”

 

“Not a bad manic! No, no. No, no, no. No, in fact, I think these past few years have been the best few years of my life. I don’t wanna sound all cheesy and crap, leave that to the husband,”

“Hey!”

“Oh come on, we both know you’re cheesy as fuck. Deal with it.”

 

“Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah, it’s been a good few years. Wait, what? You seem surprised at… Oh! That’s right. You don’t know, do you? I guess it really has been a long time, hasn’t it? I guess I better start explaining myself.”

 

“So, yeah. Me and Nick are married. We’ve not been married all too long actually, only about six months now, I think? Yeah, about six months. But, that’s kinda telling you the latest thing, or second latest thing, that’s happened. It’ll make more sense if I go from the start.”

 

“First of all, we finally got a cat together. Her name’s Luna and she’s a rescue. It’s a funny story actually, she ended up being an accidental birthday present. Nick didn’t know what to get me, and he found Luna in a box abandoned by someone when she was only a few weeks old. One of her legs wasn’t in a very good state so she had to have it amputated, but she’s still fine. She’s still a sweet cat. Well, I say sweet but she’s pretty stubborn and bossy, but hey. But yeah, he found her on my birthday and he was at the vet’s with her for quite a while so he was pretty late and we had dinner reservations. I was so ready to yell at him for being late, but then he showed me this tiny, tiny kitten and you know, you can’t stay angry in those circumstances.”

“We’ve got another cat now as well, Jinx. She’s a rescue too, also missing one of her legs. I’ve mentioned often that we should get another cat so the girls don’t get confused and think that cats only have three legs, but I guess for now we’ll stick with our two cats. Well, I’ve tried to convince Nick, but he seems pretty sure on only having two cats. We’ll probably have three sooner or later, I’m very persuasive.”

 

“Anyway, I’m going off topic. We only got Jinx very recently, in the last few months. Soon after getting Luna, I found out that I was pregnant with our daughter, Aisling. She’s about three now and I can already tell she’s going to be a smart one. Probably got that from my mom and dad, skipped a generation or something because she didn’t get it from either me or Nick. It was kind of weird having a baby so soon into our relationship, I mean Nick and I had only been dating for about a year before we found out about her, and so that was kinda tricky but hey. We’re a strong team together.”

 

“Well, I guess we’ve been raising kids together from the start, haven’t we? So, I guess another isn’t…” “Anyway. Aisling. Yeah, she’s great. I love her to pieces. She’s so smart and so curious about everything. It’s fun watching the kids develop and seeing the people they turn out to be. Roisin’s really taken a liking for art. I’ll often catch her drawing, and sometimes Nick’ll help her out if she can’t draw something right. Lainey’s really sporty. She goes ice skating, she’s on a baseball team, she’s on a soccer team, she’s so active and just loves almost every kind of sport.”

 

“I uhm, I see Juniper… Too. Sometimes, not too often. I-I don’t want to intrude, but yeah. I still see her kinda often. She looks a lot like me…”

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“Me and Nick got engaged shortly after Aisling was born, and we’ve moved place too. We’ve got a proper house now, not just my flat. It was a bit cramped, five of us in a three bedroom flat. Roisin and Lainey are still sharing their room. There is another room, and Roisin was in it for a while, but Lainey wanted bunk beds and Roisin mostly sleeps in Lainey’s room with her. It’s sweet how close they are, but I do worry that Aisling’s going to feel somewhat left out. I know they won’t ever do that, but I still worry.”

 

“I still see Sarah, and she comes over sometimes with Joe and her little girl Alice. It’s kinda weird hearing the name Alice on a regular basis, after all, that was Sam’s mom’s name. But yeah, Roisin and Joe are still really close. Me and Sarah often joke about Roisin and Joe getting married one day. I wouldn’t be surprised, I’ve seen things about it.”

 

“And, just to put forward, but about that thing you know, to do with my past life? No development, thankfully. Although I’ve seen rather… Scary things, nothing has come from it.”

 

“So, yeah. We got married about six months ago, and we got Jinx. Everything’s good. Everything’s happy and everything’s fine. For probably the first time in a long time, everything’s been fine. I, uhm, there’s actually something I kinda wanted to mention. I mean, it’s okay now to tell people. It just feels kinda, I dunno. I’m not quite used to telling people still, I’ve only been able to tell people for a short time now.”

 

“So, I’ve been working at a restaurant for a while now, general manager, and the owners bought this new place and I’m taking over that one, and they wanted me to have quite a large say in how it was decorated and stuff, so that’s kind of been like my baby for a while, I’ve been overseeing a lot of the development, but I won’t really be able to spend too much time there unfortunately because of another project, another thing for me to oversea and be in charge of. Another baby for me.”

 

“Or, I should  probably say babies to be more precise. You’ve probably already noticed, I’m showing quite a bit sooner than before, I guess double the usual occupancy. We had been trying for a while, almost for a year, and nothing had really been happening so we kinda stopped for a while. I guess it’s like that phrase, a watched dog never shits, you know?”

“I don’t think that’s the saying.”

“You get the point though, y’know? If you sit and wait for something to happen it won’t happen, so it’s kinda like when we stopped worrying about it, it happened. Twice. Kinda.”

 

“So, yeah. I guess that’s it. All caught up. I don’t think there’s much more to say really, apart from I’m happy to see you again. I have really missed you, but things have just been hectic. Hectic, but amazing. But, I’m going to get better at sharing things with you, being more frequent. I want to tell you my story as it happens.”

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AN: So, I wanted to do a timeskip for two reasons

1.) This generation is getting really long, and I am somewhat concerned about still writing about Juniper when I’m 30, so I figured it’s probably best to speed stuff up slightly

2.) I was feeling kinda unmotivated to write all the stuff that happened above. Mostly because it all felt kinda filler-y and I don’t think it’d be all too exciting to read tbh. Just cheesy and fluffy

So, timeskip!

also 3.) I lost my main CC database so I have next to no clue what’s actually in my game, so I figured it’d be smart to get rid of at least all the furniture and build from the top again, you know? So, that’s what I’m gonna do. Also Melynx also inspired me when she redid up her sims’ house so I just wanna build and decorate and make a really cute house ^-^

I know some people may be disappointed by this time skip, but I wanted to do it, mostly because even though I love Juniper and Nick together, I want to speed this generation up slightly. I mean, I’ll have spent 2 years on it in October, and that’s a hella long time for one generation.