With Lucky back, Kaira's old room is once again inhabited.
Lu likes the room well enough, he's just unhappy about the smelly laundry.
He also thinks this place is too...blue.
Fixed?
His favourite colour is some shade of grey. Bleh.
He would also like to use the car... but as Tatum points out, they don't own a car and it's better for the environment, Lu!
If he just had the money to buy his own vehicle...
He's annoyed to find the consignment store closed again, but has fun chatting up Nadine over here. Unfortunately for Lucky, she's not at all interested in fish or potions. She wants to know if this skirt makes her butt look big.
"...you'd need a microscope to see it," he mumbles.
He wonders if she'll get mad for implying she has no ass, but she crushes him with a hug instead.
"You're my new bestie!" she declares.
Lu can only feel a sense of dread.
After being released from Nadine's clutches, Lucky almost runs straight into the Drudge-Bayless family.
Oh boy...
He quickly finds himself toe-to-toe with Elias.
"Fine. I'll bite. What do you want with me?" Lucky bravely confronts his friend's ex.
Lu can only be bemused when Elias looks away, grumbles something about "just being here to look around" followed by, "I'll look something up on the internet so...bye..." and him pulling out a computer and shuffling away.
Joni here would like to sell this old guitar. She hates the cheetah print on it- so artsy. Now that she can afford better instruments, she wants this thing out of her sight.
Lu promptly just gets the hell outta there and goes fishing.
This poor fish looks like it's being impaled by a skylight.
It's the first time Lu's caught a trout. Soon enough, this will be a common experience, not worth noting. For now, he's impressed, and decides to keep it in the fish tank at home.
Tatum's called a sitter to go out scrap collecting. She stops by the bookstore to get an inventor's handbook when she runs into Elias. The man is just running into everyone today!
They are both drawn into an uncomfortable conversation out of politeness.
"How's the book coming along?" is the only thing Tatum can think of to ask.
"Ugh, let's not...let's not talk about that. That book is like my entire life. Underwhelming...ha ha."
His attempt at self-deprecating humor just makes everything 10 times more uncomfortable.
Tatum coughs. "Well...nice seeing you... I'm going inside. Maybe I'll see you at the party later on?" Tatum would've much rather not invited him, but at her mother's urging, extended a reluctant invitation. Dot doesn't want it to seem like Tatum is shutting off Azuma's access to his father. Tatum wishes her mom didn't make so much sense sometimes.
"Sure..."
Later in the day, guests start arriving.
"Why'd you invite that scumbag?" Kaira is unhappy to see Elias here.
Tatum sighs. "Let's not fight. He wants to see Azuma."
Elias scowls. "I'm right here, you know."
They both ignore him.
Elias goes into the nursery to play with his son. Tatum stays outside to talk to her mother.
"What's wrong with uncle Pancho over there?" Tatum asks, concerned.
"I don't know..."
"It's not spooky day, is it?"
Elias is eventually called home to do more chores by his mother, leaving Kaira with her nephew.
"Why, hello..."
"..."
Though she babysits her cousins Carmen and Marcus occasionally, Kaira finds herself at a loss for words around kids. They can't understand or communicate about any of the things she enjoys- travel, extreme sports, haute cuisine... what is she supposed to say?
Naturally, her sassy uncle Aloiso comes in at this moment.
"What? Going to make fun of my ineptitude with babies?"
"No...should I be?"
She glares at him, "You should be doing something about your hair. What the hell? Is that a midlife crisis?"
Azuma's cries for his mother break the stare-down. Aloiso runs off to get Tatum.
Outside, Tatum congratulates Jeremie Hong-Sykes on his recent engagement. It's a bit awkward, since it's to her brother's ex-wife, Marcie, but mehhhh. In a small town, you either move on from the tangled relationships or drown in the gossip and resentment. Dot would like to think she does the former.
"A wedding in Champs Les Sims? That's so romantic."
Jeremie excitedly shares all the details with Dot. He's over the moon about his marriage, and it shows.
Dot can only nod along to endless minutiae for so long. The flavour of the cake, the colour of the flower arrangements, the wedding dress Marcie picked out... Dot herself eloped with Erich, then had a honeymoon on a cruise from Twinbrook to Sunset Valley and back.
"I'm glad you're happy."
"I'm so excited, I haven't been able to eat or sleep in days!" That would explain why he looks like he's on the verge of passing out.
Dot forces the man to eat some macaroni.
"Kaira! Hey, how's it going?"
Kaira looks down at her nephew. "The little snot tried to eat my hair!"
"So things are going well, I take it," Lu cannot hide his amusement and snickers.
Instead of a barb like he expected, Kaira's expression turns distant.
"Things are..."
Her mind goes back to earlier that afternoon. She was on what she thought would be a nice date to the beach with her new boyfriend, Felipe Bayless. Instead, he went on a tirade about how "high maintenance and bitchy" she is.
She yelling was so loud that her uncle Quartz passed by and tried to break it up.
By break it up, she means insulting his fashion sense.
"Your hair makes you look like a wanna be Jetson. Leave my niece alone!"
Felipe was not happy about this insult, and then called Quartz "a shadow of his famous singer parents", and one thing led to another and now Quartz wants a restraining order against the young man.
"Things could be better," she manages.
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AN: Wow. By chapter 9 in generation 1, Dot was nearly a young adult. Chapter 10 in generation 3- Azuma's still a toddler. I'm almost caught up to where I'm at in-game! Azuma in my save is almost a child.
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