On this night Meadow called Aiden to come over to watch tv at her apartment. The relationship between developing quite slowly over time. Meadow realized that Aiden was just as shy as she was and neither one wanted to go too fast. Meadow thought that he might still feel uncomfortable considering that she did used to be his student.

Meadow loved her new apartment, she wanted to bring her friends over as soon as possible so they can check the place out too. She rented the community room next to the pool and they watched some tv and talked most of the night. Apparently Tori loves that fact that she’s graduated so much that she wore her cap and gown to the party.

Everybody retired to the hot tub before the evening was over.

“Tori, I can’t believe that you’ll be moving to France! That is so exciting!” Meadow was proud of her friend. After graduation Tori got into a program to study in France. She wants to teach French and she knew it would be the perfect opportunity for her.

“Well, we’ll miss you, that’s for sure.” Kimberly hoped that she could do something cool like that with her life but she suspects that she’ll end up in Monroeville just like everybody else.

After the party was over, Aiden stuck around and made himself some dinner. Meadow wasn’t hungry and she was busy cleaning up the community room. Meadow walked into the apartment just as Aiden was finishing his meal.

“Aiden, I have something to ask you.” Meadow hoped that her question wouldn’t scare him right out the door, “I was wondering if you wanted to stay the night with me tonight?”

Aiden was a little bit nervous about this, the two of them hadn’t slept together yet but he really wanted to.

“Well, I don’t see why not, I mean I don’t have a morning class tomorrow or anything.” Aiden’s hands were sweating, great, he thought, I’m sweating like a pig, there’s no way she’s going to want be with me now.

Meadow saw that he was nervous so she said, “well, if you don’t want to then you can just stay over another time then.”

“Meadow wait! I do want to stay, I’m just so nervous about this, I’m just no good with women and I really like you.”

Meadow smiled, “well there’s nothing to be nervous about.”

Meadow guided him to the bedroom and pushed him down on the bed.

“See what I told you! Nothing to worry about.” Aiden couldn’t believe how lucky he was to be dating such a beautiful woman.

Meadow had to leave early the next morning for work, she invited Aiden to help himself to breakfast before he left, she had already eaten.

“Or if you want you can just stay until I get home later. I gotta go though.” Meadow gave him a kiss and walked out the door. Aiden spent the rest of the morning daydreaming about his wonderful evening with Meadow.

“Wow Jason, I’m so happy we’ll be living together now!”

After a few days of living together things were going well, however he was useless when it came to fixing things. Kimberly attempted to fix the computer on her own but ended up electrocuted in the process.

Kim walked downstairs to clean up and Jason, who was sitting on the couch watching the Sport Channel started laughing hysterically at her.

“Ha ha ha!!! What happened to you?” Kim shot him an evil look, “I was fixing the computer, which I told you two days ago to fix.”

Jason just turned back to the basketball game and muttered, “whatever.” Jason flipped through several channels and yelled into the bathroom where Kimberly was cleaning up, “I’m having a few people over for the game this weekend.” Kim just looked into the mirror and muttered, inaudibly to herself, “whatever.”

Kim almost forgot about the party that Jason was planning until the doorbell rang on Saturday. A slew of people walked into the house with beer and chips, most of whom Kim has never seen before. Their tiny house was hardly equipped for all of these people, some spilled over into the backyard. Kim doesn’t like sports much so she started working on her painting in the living room while Jason entertained his guests.

After about 45 minutes the noise was driving her crazy so she went to the kitchen area to grab some food, she sat down at the table to eat some chips when she looked up to see that she was not alone.

Where does Jason find these people, she thought to herself.

“Hey man, you’re kinda cute, you want to make out?” Kimberly had to fight every urge to smack this kid, instead she got up from the table and went up to her room to do some homework. When she got up there though she was in for another surprise, two other party guests were making out on their bed. Kim turned on the light and they didn’t flinch.

“OUT!” She yelled so loud the whole neighborhood could hear her. The couple got off the bed and the guy said to her, “sorry dude, we’re just having a little fun you know.” The woman just giggled, “yeah, lighten up a little.”

“ARGH!” She couldn’t stand it anymore, she had to get out of the house while all of these people were here. Kim went downstairs, Jason was still on the couch, “I’m going to the gym for awhile.” Jason hardly looked up from the screen, “yeah ok.”

At the gym Kim worked out until she had no more energy. She had hoped when she got home that everybody would be gone. Although living with Jason this past week has been stressful for her she thought about how sweet he can also be. That’s when she tripped and fell on the treadmill.

When Kim got home most of Jason’s friends have left, she sat down on the couch with him and put her arm around him.

“Hey cutie, did you have fun at the gym?”

Kim smiled at him, “yeah it was nice.”

“Thanks for letting me have a party, I can’t wait to do it again next weekend.” Kim pushed him down on the couch, jumped on top of him, and kissed him.

“Tell you what, next weekend it’s my turn to plan the party.” Then Kim started making out with him on the couch.

“Fine by me” It wasn’t long before Jason had her clothes off and they two were WooHooing on the couch.

Early the next morning, when Jason was getting ready for school he looked out the window and saw a girl outside dumping over his trash can. Jason ran downstairs and saw this girl named Monica that he thought was in his Biology class.

“Hey, are you drunk or something, get the hell out of here!” Monica just gave him a look and walked away. Jason picked up the trash can and thought about how he got talked into letting Kim have a party next weekend. Wow, her friends are so boring, this party is going to be so boring. Jason liked Kim alright but her friends never want to stay out late, never want to do anything fun, and the certainly never like to get crazy like he does.

The week came and went and Jason stood in his living room witnessing the “party” that he agreed to have with Kim’s friends. The only exciting thing that happened the whole evening was he caught Meadow and one of his old teachers making out in the backyard. Holy crap! Meadow is getting it on with a teacher! Other than that the crowd bored the living daylights out of him. He couldn’t leave though, he had to stay and make an effort for Kim.

“…and then I got my paper back and the professor gave me a B! I can’t believe I actually got a B, my parents said that they wouldn’t buy me a new MP3 player this summer and I’m soooo bummed…”

Jason rolled his eyes, sat down on the couch and turned on the Sports Channel, he perked up a little when he saw that they were showing girls volleyball, “now we’re talking!”

Once everybody left the party and Kim was done cleaning up, she walked up to Jason, who was still watching girls volleyball on tv and said, “thanks so much for letting me do this.” He didn’t flinch, “uh huh.”

“You know Jason, I was thinking that maybe we could go upstairs and get comfortable.” Jason flipped off the tv and ran upstairs and jumped up on the bed.

Kim joined him a few seconds later and the couple had WooHoo the rest of the evening.

The next morning Kim got up to do her morning yoga outside. She was having a lot of fun with Jason, even though he is quite dense. Oh well, she thought, at least the WooHoo is great!

College was going great for Meadow Thayer, she was well on her way to graduating at the top of her class and she was enjoying herself too. Meadow has two best friends, Tori and Kimberly, both live in her dorm. Tonight she asked Tori to a game of chess in the lounge.

“Ha! Check and Mate!” Nobody can really beat Meadow at chess but they humor her with a game every once in awhile.

“Hey Meadow, how is your novel going?” Meadow just kinda shrugged her shoulders.

“Harder than I thought, I just assumed the ideas would come free flowing, but once I get in front of the computer screen I go blank. I just don’t get it”. Meadow loved writing, despite her parents objections, she majored in Literature and wants to write for a living.

After her chess game, Meadow went into her dorm room to work on her novel.

“Rats! Why is this so hard, I always have good short story topics.” Meadow thought about what her favorite professor said to her one time, “Meadow, you need more life experience before you can really write a great novel, just don’t push yourself”.

Meadow felt like the book was defeating her, but may Professor Aiden was right, maybe she needed to give this a little time. He did tell her that her first novel probably wouldn’t even do well, the thought of this angers Meadow, “What does he know anyway?!” Meadow turned off the computer and headed out to the gym to work off all of her energy.

Meadow dived into the cool water at the campus athletic center and just let her muscles soak away all of the tension she was feeling. Being an overachiever has always caused her stress, she can’t help it much though, her parents are constantly pushing her in different directions. She could almost hear her mother now, “Why can’t you major in Pre-Med or Law or something…some other than Literature! Meadow you’re so much more talented than that.” Meadow just chuckled, If only she realized just how hard writing a book really is. She did want to be a writer to go against her parents, but she also loved it and she knew she would stick with it.

The next day was Saturday and she got a call from her friend Tasha early in the morning. Meadow grabbed the phone on her nightstand and grumbled. She had hoped it wasn’t her parents waking her up early this morning.

“Hello”, Meadow muttered. The voice on the other end was familiar and talking 3 miles a minute.

“Meadow, it’s Tasha, Jan and I are going to come over and watch the game with you today.” Meadow was still half asleep. “Game?”

“Yes game! The llamas are playing today silly, we’ll be right over!” With that Tasha hung up the phone.

“Jeez, that girl needs to lay off the caffeine.” Meadow slipped out of bed and headed to the shower. Tasha Go and Jan Tellerman were both friends of hers in high school, as a matter of fact they are still in high school. Tasha is high strung, Jan is mostly quiet, the three of them make an interesting trio, nobody could ever understand how they ever have anything in common. Meadow loved Tasha’s energy though, and Jan is just a total sweetheart.

Tasha and Jan were over just in time for kick off. Meadow had never been much of a sports fan, but she loves the camaraderie of a good party.

However, it didn’t take long for things to get out of hand with Tasha. Everybody who hangs out with her knows that she can be extremely unpredictable. This is a trait that Meadow adored in high school, but now that she’s in college, it drives her nuts.

“Tasha! What are you doing?!” It was too late, Tasha had already set off the sprinkler, the entire lounge was flooded. “What the hell is wrong with you?!”

“Oh c’mon Meadow, lighten up a little, it’s just a little prank.” Meadow knew she couldn’t stay mad at Tasha, however she was pretty sure she wasn’t going to let her come over to her dorm again anytime soon.”

“I have to live here though, clean it up please. I don’t come into your house and drench your belongings with water do I?” Meadow felt bad for yelling at Tasha, she realized she was starting to sound like her mother. “I’m sorry, I guess you’re right, I should lighten up some.” Meadow grabbed a couple of mops from the closet and helped Tasha clean up the mess.

Meadow’s freshman year went well, she ended with a high GPA and her relationships were going very well. Although, she had no boyfriend yet, she was alright with that, she had her fair share of boyfriends in high school and she was ready for adult relationships now. She wanted somebody more sophisticated, older maybe. Most of the men she has met at school however have been just as bad as her high school romances.

Meadow didn’t feel like moving home for the summer, instead she found a house to rent near campus at school. She certainly did not want to deal with her parents this summer.

Meadow couldn’t afford rent by herself though, she asked Kimberly Monif if she would like to be her roomie. Meadow’s dad cut off any money they were giving her last year because they decided if she was not going to choose a major that they approved of, they were also not going to pay for college. Lucky for Meadow she got a lot of scholarships, but she missed the spending cash.

The girls had to work to pay rent though, Meadow’s never had a job in her life. Both Meadow and Kimberly got a job at the campus coffee shop, they drive over together and while one is working their shift the other sits and does their homework. The situation has worked out well for them, they were able to earn enough money to pay their bills after only a few months and live comfortably off of scholarships for the rest of the year.

One evening Kimberly invited Professor Aiden over, he wanted to talk to her about her paper in American Literature. Aiden was surprised to see that Kimberly was living with Meadow though, he had not talked to her since the previous year when he had been her First Year Adviser.

“Meadow, how nice to see you again, how have you been?” Meadow liked Professor Aiden, she had thought that she should really stop by and see him now and again, but had been too busy to do so.

“I’m doing great, I think I’m going to ace my Shakespeare class this semester.” Aiden was quite proud to hear this, he had always liked how ambitious Meadow was.

“I have to meet with Kimberly here tonight, but let’s get together some other night, I would love to hear how you’re doing.”

Meadow said ok and went to her room where she thought about the whole encounter. He wasn’t just asking me out on a date just now was he? That’s not even allowed! But Meadow could not stop thinking about Aiden, she never noticed how cute he was before, well sort of cute in a geeky professor sort of way. Meadow dropped the whole line of thought, there’s no way a teacher would want to go out with her.

Kimberly had been working on a romance of her very own. She had met Jason Benea one night after a football game. The group she was with at the bar told her to forget about it, all football players were jerks, but she thought there was something different about him.

And besides, he was hot! The two of them were always in the hot tub making out, every time Meadow walked by the window and saw them out there she rolled her eyes.

One night in Meadow’s senior year, Professor Aiden had stopped by to talk to Meadow. The two had gone out for coffee a few times, the talk was always about school though. There were times when she was certain that he was trying to flirt with her though. Meadow always thought that maybe he just had to act like he was talking to her as a student because there were other teachers around.

Tonight Meadow decided this was going to be the night where she finds out Aiden’s true feelings for her after all. Aiden and Meadow had a few moments in the hot tub and a lovely meal together outside and Meadow boldly reached over and stroked Aiden’s hand.

“You know, I was just thinking to myself the other day how much I enjoy your company.”

Aiden gulped, he never thought that Meadow shared his feelings, but he could never act on them though, she being a student and all. “Listen Meadow, you know we can’t do this.” His voice trailed off into almost a whisper. He wondered if anybody could see them sitting out here. Aiden realized that he had to get going, this was going to go too far if he stayed.

Although his voice was saying one thing, his actions were saying another. “Meadow, I should go.” Aiden got up from the table they were sitting at. He turned around and found himself face to face with Meadow. Meadow caressed his face, “It’s still early yet, how about we go inside…” Meadow didn’t have a chance to finish her sentence, Aiden wrapped his arms around her and gave her a long kiss.

“Meadow, I do have to go, I could get into big trouble for this, however, you’re graduating in a couple of months. Please call me after then and we’ll get together.” Aiden walked away, he wondered if she would call him, he wondered if he would ever experience that kiss again. Oh my, that kiss was simply divine, he thought.

Meadow watched Aiden go, still in shock by what had just happened. My teacher just kissed me! Ok so, he wasn’t technically her teacher anymore, she had a class with him the previous year but she realized that he could get fired for that kiss so she told no one about what had happened that night.

Meadow couldn’t wait until graduation. She thought about Aiden’s kiss every night until then too. I wonder if he even thinks of me anymore. She hadn’t tried to get a hold of since that night in her backyard, he hadn’t tried to get a hold of her either. She did send him and invitation to her graduation party though.

A few hours into the party Meadow didn’t see Aiden, I guess he’s already forgot about me. Just then she felt a hand on her shoulder. Meadow turned around and stood facing Aiden.

“You came!” She tried not to sound too excited.

“Well, of course I came, I wouldn’t miss this for the world.” Aiden was looking wonderful, he dressed up for the occasion, Meadow loved how formal he was, but then she remembered that earlier that day was commencement and he had to dress up for the ceremonies.

“I wanted to give you something.” Meadow handed Aiden a piece of paper, “It’s my new address and phone number.”

Aiden smiled and tucked the piece of paper into his coat pocket. “Thank you” Aiden patted his jacket pocket, “I’ll be sure not to lose this.” Aiden winked at Meadow and then thought, Jeez, Aiden, that sounded really stupid, why do you have to be such an idiot around women?! Just then Tori and Kimberly pull Meadow away to play volleyball.

“Call me!” Meadow shouted at Aiden as she was being whisked away.

After graduation Meadow moved back to Monroeville to Pine Forest Apartments. She loved the idea of being on her own, working on her novel, and hopefully to a budding romance with Aiden.

I try to visit the blogs of anybody who comments on my site and that’s how I’ve been adding new links, although if I come across another site I like I’ll add that too, even if they don’t comment here. There’s just so many sims blogs out there now, I like to recognize all of you all though, even if I can’t read your sites everyday. Keep on simming!

It had been about a month since David’s regrettable affair with Cindy. Why does that woman get to me so much? David finally decided that he needed to stay away from her and focus on his family now, he hasn’t seen Cindy since that unfortunate day at the spa.

Lauren was doing well in her job, but she felt like she wanted more in her life. Lauren approached David one night, “David, I want to have another baby.”

“Really?! I mean of course, I would love to have another kid around the house.” David kept rattling on, “maybe a girl? Do you think we could have a girl?”

Lauren laughed, “you’re so silly, you know it’s pure chance what we get.”

“We’ll have to get a new house you know.” David loved his little home but he knew it wasn’t big enough for their growing family. “Now I don’t want anything too big, but I really like it here.” David’s mind was running a mile a minute, “Let’s build a house!”

“Do you really think we can afford that David?” Lauren was the type to worry about how they spend money. She’s not miserly but she’s very careful where the money goes in their house.

“Of course we can afford it, we already own this large lot of land don’t we? We can just build something nice here, right here with all of our friends.”

Lauren just smiled, she never considered anybody in this neighborhood her friend. Christy Stratton is her only friend and she lives across town, but Lauren realizes that David values his friendships a lot and she needs to be sensitive to that.

Lauren and David wasted no time trying for their new family member. “David, I love you so much.” David loved it when Lauren whispered in his ear like that. They fell asleep happily in each other’s arms.

David invited Kennedy Cox over for dinner, the two were working on plans to start their own company.

“So how have things been David, we talk about business so much anymore I don’t think I know much about how your personal life is.” Kennedy has always been David’s best friend, the two get along so well together.

“Well, Lauren and I have been trying for a baby, but it hasn’t been so easy this time. I’m starting to get worried that we’re getting too old to have another child.” The test results came back and it’s true, Lauren’s still not pregnant. The best the couple can do is keep trying.

“I saw your friend Cindy the other day. I can’t believe her and Brutus are finally thinking about having a child. I seriously thought Cindy would be one to never have a kid.” It was that moment that Kennedy saw David’s face go completely white. “Hey buddy, did you just see a ghost or something?”

“Uh, no, I just haven’t seen Cindy in awhile, I had no idea she was pregnant. That is surprising.” David sort of faked a laugh, “yeah, I can’t imagine that woman with a child either.” A child. Was it his child? He pushed the thought from his head, if she had been pregnant with his child she would tell him, right? I can’t worry about this now. David changed the conversation back to work and they went on with their evening without another mention of Cindy or babies.

The couple tried again for a baby, but the test results would come back negative again. I can’t believe this. I can spread my seed to other women, but not my own wife. David had to talk to Cindy, he was constantly beating himself up over this and he didn’t even know if the baby was even his. Maybe it was Brutus’ baby, maybe he had nothing to worry about.

William’s birthday came quickly, Lauren and David finally realized that their little boy was growing up so fast. “William, I can’t believe how great you look in your new outfit.” Lauren took William out shopping before their birthday celebration at home.

“Thanks mom, I really like my new threads.” William gave his parents a hug and thanked them for the birthday cake.

Unlike most of the other kids in his neighborhood, William Thompson actually knows what he wants to do with the rest of his life. William has always had an interest in the military since his first G.I. Joe. He’s begged and pleaded to his parents to let him join the Army. Lauren was not sure she wanted him to join the military, she finally agreed to let him go to a military high school and get a few jobs that will help his career.

“I still want you to college, William.” Lauren felt so strongly about this, she had missed college herself and going straight into the police academy and she wishes that she had the experience of college.

“But mom, I don’t really need to go to school, I can go straight to boot camp right out of high school. I can save you and dad the burden of having to put me through school.” It did not matter to William if he went to college or not.

“Don’t argue with me about this, the Army has scholarships, you can still go to school.” Lauren thought her comment sounded harsher than she meant it to, but she was going to stand strong on this issue.

William loved his mom and knew that she only meant the best for him. After their conversation he went upstairs to his room to search the internet for colleges he could attend. He started looking for a place where he could also train for the military and had some good scholarships. He found one possibility and even found out that he may qualify for an Entrepreneur’s Award for already having a job as a high school student. Maybe going to college isn’t such a bad idea after all.

The Bach girls come home from school with William Thompson, the Bach’s agreed to babysit William while his parents were at work since they live right across the street.

“Well, our parents said they would take us skiing in Vail this winter, where are your parents taking you?” Celeste is enjoying her new family. She remembers how tough it was for her before the Bach’s adopted her, she was in several foster homes because her mother was addicted to heroin and an alcoholic, she doesn’t even know how many times children’s services bounced her around the system. She’s also getting along with her new sisters, Justine and Carley have accepted her as part of their family too.

JoAnn was thinking about her encounter with Robert Merriweather a few months ago and decided to call him to talk.

“Robert! It’s nice to talk to you again. I was just thinking about you as I was looking through some old yearbooks.” JoAnn remembers how annoying it was that their parents were so insistent that Robert and her got married, but she thought about how stale her relationship is with Sebastian anymore and wondered if there was any merit in what their parents had wished for them. “Oh, I’m sorry I didn’t mean to interrupt your dinner. I was wondering if you’d like to get together for lunch sometime.” JoAnn listened as Robert tired to find an excuse not to get together. “Oh no, I need your help with something, I’m looking for a medical expert. They want to pass some piece of legislature about health care and I need some help understanding the pros and cons.” Robert agreed to lunch and JoAnn hung up the phone.

That’s right, it’s just a business lunch with two old friends. JoAnn didn’t know why she was so nervous about getting together with Robert. It’s not like the two of them ever liked each other as much as their parents had wanted them to. Then she thought about Sebastian’s weird hours and how he’s growing increasingly absorbed in his work. It used to be that Sebastian loved staying home with the kids and JoAnn didn’t want to have anything to do with them, but JoAnn’s heart has softened these days, her girls are like her best friends now and she would do anything for them. Now that she’s well established in her political career, her life has been more balanced.

JoAnn even went as far as firing the Nanny, Calista. She had become so dependent on having Calista around that she thought that was the first step to getting to know her children better, especially Celeste, the poor girl has gone through so much with her mother in her life, it’s about time somebody stepped up to become a mother figure for her. Of course JoAnn never thought of herself as a role model either, she’s certainly made it far in her life, but even she will admit that she has a tendency to make bad decisions now and again. All she hopes is that her kids fare better in life.

Sebastian does spend a lot of time thinking about work. When he’s at work he thinks about his scientific pursuits, his fellow co-workers are starting to worry about him. Sebastian actually thinks he’s on the road to bring dead people back to life! When he’s at home he peers through the telescope and wonders if there is life outside of this universe. He goes into the office at strange hours and when he’s home he spends a lot of time working on his new science fiction novel. JoAnn claims that he’s overworking himself but he thinks this is what he needs to do to be the best at everything.

Sebastian still loves his girls, every once in awhile he’ll make the rounds and tuck each one in. As he tucks in Justine he thinks about how how fast these girls are growing up. The twins and Celeste will all be teenagers soon. I just can’t believe it. Have I really missed so much in their lives?

The Bach’s had a birthday party for all of the girls at once. The twins, of course, had their birthday on the same day and Celeste was only a few days after them. Each girl grew into a wonderfully unique individual, Justine is a smart and beautiful teenager now.

Carley’s interests are in fashion. She loves reading the latest gossip in the magazines about celebrities too. Carley envies the sexiness of that kind of lifestyle and hopes to pursue that herself some day.

Celeste wants to pursue more relationships with people in Monroeville, especially with Noah Brown. Celeste’s crush on him has actually turned out to be a great friendship, now that she’s a little bit more mature she wants to explore other relationships like this.

Now that the girls are discovering they type of person they would like to be, the first thing Carley must do is change her hairstyle. The bun was cute when I was a kid, but I’ve never seen Lindsay Lohan with a bun. Carley already convinced her mom to get her hair professionally straightened a long time ago so she wouldn’t look like her sister all the time, she’s happy for this because she loves how her hair looks down now.