Generation III—Part Three

Rebeca is alone with Zaiden, whom I consider moving back in with his brothers and just leaving as her boyfriend, since it’d shrink the household and they don’t have much chemistry. 

She wants to plant something, and finds a packet of starter flowers in the mail—I have her put the two daisies in her mom’s carved, homemade planter. 

She and Zaiden make out on their bed and snuggle, but…I don’t know, it just doesn’t feel like the right time to have a baby. 

On the other hand, Rebeca’s wanted one since she was a teenager, so…YEP. 

Part of Zaiden worries about a potential pregnancy, but he’s too excited after his first time having sex to care. 

He’s relieved she isn’t pregnant.

I’m disappointed that she isn’t upset enough about that for him to be able to console her. 

After that, I join Zaiden at the hospital.

Apparently his co-worker—Ben Rawls, Cadence’s father—has died. It’s okay, Ben, everybody will understand if you retire; let someone else have the j—

Ben: “Screw you, I’m still paying off student loans.” 

Zaiden’s promoted to Medical Assistant. ( :3 ) 

Rebeca sends Cadence a Happy Text, and the latter invites her to a park. (Earlier, another of Zaiden’s co-workers invited him to a nightclub to celebrate his promotion, but he’s beat, so…Darn it.) She stumbles across Olive there, and I try to play Space Monster, but Olive gets off the jungle gym before she can. 

That man on the bench is Cole Snyder, a YA pizza delivery guy. He passed by Trent’s birthday party, but I didn’t have a reason to say hello. Now I think, He’s not half bad-looking. There’s a chance he and Rebeca could start an affair and hit it off. 

Rebeca does a Polite Introduction (which gives them a huge automatic relationship boost; that greeting-literally-everyone thing she did as a teenager really paid off), and I wasn’t sure what she could compliment Cole on, given that he bears more than a passing resemblance to a hobo…But leave it to her to find something: She says he has a nice smile. 

He’s tired and sleeps on a bench, so Rebeca goes back to chatting with Cadence until she has a chance to play Space Monster with her niece, probably wanting a baby more than ever. 

LOL, Cadence joins in, too. (I guess because she’s Childish.) I knew I liked her for a reason. 

Rebeca teaches Olive about responsibility, kisses her on the cheek (which Olive doesn’t particularly care for), and says it was good to see her. 

Then she joins Cadence’s chess game, and learns her BFF is Unflirty and a Secret Agent, which I suspected when the career icon appeared above her head earlier.

Cole joins Liberty Lee’s game at the next table over, and Rebeca finds out he’s Insane. So much for that affair idea. 

She ends up stuck in the public restroom (as if we need more reasons to avoid them), so I send her home. She wants a promotion and has work in four hours—she takes a sleep replacement potion, and eats leftover mac and cheese whilst fulfilling whims with Zaiden. She’s ready, and Zaiden needs to treat three patients, so I have to follow him. 

He has to scan a patient in one of the two X-ray machines.

He’s successful in calibrating the second machine….Yet he uses the first. So clearly the ‘calibrate’ option doesn’t actually do anything. Why is it there, again? 

Is there a reason he’s getting a massive radiation dose without a lead apron? 

Zaiden: “…Shit.” 

Seriously, every time he does this to someone, I cringe. 

[After the X-Ray Scan is Done] Um…Why didn’t that count for ‘Scan a Patient’s Body’? *reads task instructions* Because it has nothing to do with X-rays, that’s why. Silly me, where ever could I have gotten that idea? 

Welp. That’s several hours of shift time down the drain. 

….Oh, NOW I’m supposed to scan a patient in the X-ray machine. Greeeeeat. Fuck this job.

He only ends up treating that patient, and I don’t know if he completes all his work tasks, although he stays two hours late. He’s close, at least!

Rebeca is promoted to Advice Columnist. ( 😀 ) And…somehow that didn’t fulfill her ‘get a promotion’ whim. WHAT THE FUCK!!! Do I have to actually be on the home lot when she gets the promotion?! *groan* 

In other news:

• The house is paid off.
• Rebeca is at Level 4 Writing skill (where she needs to be), and if I can get her to go to work Inspired, she might have high-enough performance for a promotion. If not, probably the day after. Just in case whims are glitched right now, though, I’ll unpin it so as to allow her to potentially roll one to get engaged to Zaiden. 
• Zaiden chooses to sleep in the nice bed now that it’s free.

• Elise’s ghost makes its debut. 
• Rebeca also wants to sleep in the nice bed. 

When Zaiden wakes, he wants to WooHoo with Rebeca, and repair an object. The downstairs stereo happens to be broken. 

( o: )

OMG REBECA WANTS TO MARRY ZAIDEN. NOT GET ENGAGED. MARRY. 

( O: )

…But she has work in three hours, and needs Fun. Hm. I’m pretty sure WooHoo counts as fun. ( O-O ) 

Pictured: Fun. 

I send Zaiden to work alone today, partially because he’s tense after trying for a baby, and partially because I just can’t stand the suspense. 

SHE’S PREGNANT!

….What are those—her work clothes? Yep, time for her to go to work. ( 🙂 ) Unfortunately, she isn’t Inspired. Oh well. 

She comes home sans promotion and blows a kiss at Zaiden, and he expresses his fondness toward her. ❤

They get engaged. I’ll wait ’til they’re in a better mood and have more money before I throw them a wedding, though; the event costs $1,000 before altars, cake, catering, seating, etc. 

What’s this—a Hates Children Sim reacting realistically to the prospect of being forced to deal with a small, annoying child soon?! 

Sims 4: “PSYCH!”

Rebeca’s feeling Confident. Everything is looking up: She’s pregnant, she has a good job and husband, and the house is paid off so they can start to accumulate money…. She plays the violin for fun, raises her skill to Level 6, and becomes Inspired. ( 🙂 ) 

Ulysses’ ghost is out tonight. He and Elise may not have completed their Aspirations, but they came closer than any of my previous TS4 Sims (except maybe one, but that’s because Soulmate is Easy Mode). He comes inside to watch Rebeca play. 

After she tells him of her pregnancy, she goes to bed and he prunes the bonsai. 

Zaiden WooHoos with Rebeca as per his whim. Then she goes back to sleep, and he eats scrambled eggs and bacon. So does Ulysses. 

Zaiden: “You realize you can’t starve to death, right?” 

All that about wanting a promotion because you’re Responsible…You just want a more flattering uniform, don’t you? 

Rebeca: “Please.” 

Zaiden finishes a Handiness book—in order to both upgrade objects and satisfy his Aspiration requirement for reading more books—and repairs one of the upstairs toilets. Now he has the spare parts to upgrade said toilet.

And he wants to gain Logic skill, which—what a coincidence!—is something he happens to need for Aspiration progress. 

That day, Rebeca is promoted to Regular Contributor. 

She has morning sickness in her second-going-on-third trimester. (The violin pic is just because I think she looks gorgeous while she’s pregnant.) 

Now ready to give birth any time, she invites Elise to feel her stomach. 

Mary takes Rebeca to the hospital, since I don’t think she’d want to bother Zaiden with it. She invites Mary to feel the baby.

Then Mary leaves. ( 😦 )

Gee, thanks, big sis. 

Hannah Robinson—a.k.a. the world’s cutest baby—is born at 10:56 a.m. 

Rebeca cuddles the crying baby and smothers her with kisses, both at the hospital and home. I move Hannah’s bassinet out next to the founding graves, so Rebeca can show her off to Zaiden. Then she breastfeeds her, cooing softly and chuckling. 

She leaves her there to go and make out and WooHoo with Zaiden for whim purposes—A LOT (meanwhile I’m watching Hannah at 1x speed, marveling at how I’ve never thought a sleeping Sim infant could be so adorable)—then she changes Hannah and gives her attention. 

After that, Rebeca tries to feed herself, only to be interrupted by Ulysses asking her something. Now she has to pee. Hannah is crying again; Ulysses bottlefeeds her while Rebeca takes care of business. 

Rebeca Hannah grows up at 12:43 p.m. the following day, with the Inquisitive trait. She plays with her cat toy (I can’t wait for the Robinsons to have an Actual Cat!) and investigates the office toilet. 

Rebeca asks her to please not splash around in it, which regains some of the Responsibility that Hannah lost. And then Mommy and Baby spend quality time together. She is a joy to follow around right now, with only one toddler in the house and no other children. 

While Rebeca potty-trains Hannah, and Zaiden upgrades one of the toilets for his Aspiration…Ulysses calls, inviting Rebeca to meet him at a park. I’m thinking, Dude! It’s 5:58 p.m., she can see you at home in a couple hours anyway!

Cadence invites Rebeca to Ladies’ Night, to “take advantage of the cheap drinks.” Being that I’m in such a good mood and this is a matriarchy and I should really stop avoiding the game’s ‘juice’ bars like they have teeth, how can I say no? 

Poor as she still is, Rebeca splurges on a couple drinks—even buying a round for Dawn when she turns up, because that’s what sisters are for—and chats with the girls.

Also Grim. I felt like giving her a positive relationship with him/her/it for some reason, probably the politeness thing. 

I changed my mind about the wedding party.

I’m too damned impatient for my own good. 

Zaiden is promoted to Medical Technologist (Level 4), and Cadence asks Rebeca if she wants to hang out at her house. 

…It turns out the house I moved Cadence into is empty. Heh. I send them to shop at the clothing store in Magnolia Promenade. There’s nothing in their limited selection that the Robinsons can’t get from Buy Mode.

Rebeca does purchase an Uncommon Space Rock at the shop next door, though, from a game-generated employee named Prince Denny. (He’ll be relevant later.) She finds Olive at the park across the street, sad that her ice cream cone fell on the ground or something. 

After that, Olive leaves and Rebeca talks to Melissa (who was also playing on the jungle gym) for a bit. She leaves, and Rebecca goes to the public restroom (!), then catches up with her down the street. Landon—now a teenager—happens to walk up to them. 

Melissa disappears after Rebeca’s almost maxed their friendship bar, so Rebeca goes home. When she gets there, Hannah is waiting on the front walkway to ask her to read her a book. Awww. 

Hannah will grow up in about three Sim days, which means it’s time for Rebeca to be pregnant again. Zaiden is none too pleased, but still finds her attractive, which is what got him into this mess. 

Zaiden does a Fantastic Job two days in a row and is very close to promotion; Rebeca was promoted to the Author branch of her career! When Zaiden comes home, he finds her reading the Handiness Vol. 2 book, no doubt to fix her busted computer. (She surprises me by already having three Handiness skill. There’s no way you’re ready for Vol. 2, Zaiden does all the repairs, what are you doing? …Apparently, I was right.) She repairs the computer without a hassle, though. 

Meanwhile, Hannah is adorable playing with her butterfly. 

Zaiden is promoted to Assistant Nurse (Level 5). 

Hannah’s Attention is at rock-bottom, and she needs a bath, so Zaiden wakes up and gives her one. I take pictures because I can’t stop taking pictures of her. The first step is admitting you have a problem—I have a problem. 

After a disappointing shift—in which his promotion requirement was treating two patients, but he didn’t manage to diagnose a single one because he spent much of his day at a house call…giving medicine to people who didn’t even live at the house in question (Mary and Dawn’s), including the guy he’d been running tests on before he got the call (I’ve ignored house call requests ever since)…and thus wasn’t able to finish his work tasks—Zaiden comes home, ready to face-plant on his bed. Rebeca is shown as being at work, but when I click on Hannah’s icon, knowing she’s back from daycare now, I find her with Rebeca in the bathroom by the master bedroom.

A few Sim minutes later, a bassinet appears and Rebeca starts to give birth. (This is how most of Rebeca’s pregnancies end: With Zaiden coming home to a little surprise.)

Eli Blackburn is born at 6:40 p.m. 

Hannah destroys her dollhouse right after, Because Reasons.

She isn’t upset about having a new sibling. Or about anything else, for that matter…other than the fact that the dollhouse is smashed. 

The next morning while Rebeca is painting, Zaiden rocks Eli to get him to stop crying. He relaxes in his father’s arms and seems ready to fall asleep. 

A couple Sim hours later, Rebeca is pregnant again—

—because I’m really not sure I want Hannah to be heir, given that she’s almost a clone of Rebeca. (At least, it seemed that way when I wrote this. She does have Rebeca’s hair color, eye shape, and lips…but also Zaiden’s eye color, nose, and possibly his chin and smaller cheekbones.)