2.1. I Hate Jim 
Louise: Welcome back to the magical Hollander legacy, which is only magical because Kristy is a magician and currently slightly better at not ballsing up her tricks.
Kristy: Tadaaa! I’m throwing cards everywhere!
Kristy: Tadaaa! Flowers!
Louise: And she can even do that flower trick without them wilting as well.
Louise: Other exciting news from Riverview include the first look at Rachyl’s house. Yes, that is her house. Yes, she moved into a pink house. Yes, I think StoryProgression knows her too well.
Louise: And, because you didn’t know you wanted it, here’s Leslie playing golf in her schmexy nighties.
Leslie: *Serious golfer*
Louise: But, let’s try and keep this at least slightly coherent. I sent Kristy off do some more magix and she stopped halfway there and started patting her belly.
Kristy: Don’t worry, breakfast, you’re safe and sound in me.
Louise: Aaaw, breakfast love.
Rachyl:
You fool, she is with child.Louise: Oh, Kristy stopped right outside of Rachyl’s house.
Rachyl:
Welcome to my humble abode, sister. Nice of you to stop by.Kristy: I really only stopped to pat my belly.
Rachyl:
We’ve all been there.Louise: I don’t know what’s going on with Rachyl’s face. Look at her. Dork face.
Louise: And then she made this face.
Kristy: See, sister, it actually turns out I patted my belly because I’m pregnant.
Rachyl:
That’s so exciting! 
Louise: Yeah, so we’ve given up on coherency. At least we can still make it interesting…
Sherman: Rakey, rakey leaves…
Louise: … Never mind. This is officially the worst chapter ever.
Leslie: Sherman Forest made a pile of leaves for me! Wee!
Louise: True love. Also, if you were thinking you wanted no more pictures of Leslie in her nightie that’s just too bad. Leslie only ever wears the nightie and nothing else.
Louise: Well, we’ve given up on being coherent and interesting, so how about Jim acts like the biggest freaking jerkface in the world and flirts with Flo.
Jim: Hello, sugar cube, you want some of the Jim-boy?
Flo: Teehee!
Louise: I hate Jim.
Jim: Oh, eh, sorry, I forgot I’m not supposed to…
Jim: … So therefore I’ll just go for you, you delicious little-
Leslie: Eeeew! You’re not my one true love! You’re my daughter’s psychopath husband!
Jim: A-actually we’re not-
Leslie: Be gone! You foul and terrible villain! My poor daughter’s heart will break and then when she dies of a broken heart you’ll be sorry! You’ll see my love for my husband is true and no amount of love forced upon me will sway me from his side!!
Jim: …
Leslie: I hate Jim.
Louise: Me, too, Leslie. Me, too.
Louise: No time to think of hating Jim, though. We’re going to have a costume party in time for
Spooky Creepy Day! Yay! Leslie, show us your costume.
Leslie: I’m dressed as a cheerleader. I’m sure it will please Sherman Forest.
Louise: It pleases him when you’re in the same room as him, dear. But well, let’s see all the costumes.
Louise: First there’s George and Ruby Dean. Remember Ruby? Flo's daughter who wants to jump Sherman’s bones? She’s here dressed up as a rabbit. Well, a serial killer’s idea of what a rabbit looks like. George is her husband and he’s super attracted to every female in the house. Like everyone else he spent the entire party yawning and because I’m sensitive to that kind of thing I *yaaaawn* … you get the picture.
Louise: Then there’s Sherman’s costume which- what.
Sherman: *munch munch*
Louise: …
Sherman: *munch munch*
Louise: … I’ve got nothing to say to Sherman’s costume. I’m trying to make a joke and I’m pulling a blank. The other guy there’s Jim. He’s dressed like a big idiot.
Jim: Very funny. I haven’t done anything wrong at the party, have I?
Louise: No, but I know you, Jim. Everything will go wrong and it’ll be your fault.
Louise: Rachyl showed up, too :3 She’s dressed as a fireman. I don’t know what to say.
Rachyl:
My clever disguise will fool everyone into thinking that I put out fires. I don’t.Louise: Right. I’ve missed your flawless logic, Rachyl. Kristy is dressed as… a pregnant lady.
Kristy: Oh, no, I am a pregnant lady. I couldn’t fit in my costume. I was going to dress up as a magician.
Louise: … but you are a magician, too.
Kristy: You always let logic get in the way of things, don’t you?
Louise: Then there’s Flo’s costume. I think I’ll just leave this picture here. No comment needed.
Louise: Then this happened.
Sherman: I hate Jim.
Jim: You, too, man?!
Louise: Yes, they suddenly hate each other. I do not know what happened.
Sherman: He hit me with a pillow.
Louise: … As in a pillow fight?
Sherman: It hurt
Louise: Fair enough. That seems a legit reason to hate Jim.
Jim: Seriously?!
Louise: Then it was time to repair the relationships that Jim wreck by merely existing. Wow, I hate Jim.
Sherman: I hate Jim.
Leslie: Oh, me too! Thank you my one, true love for hating the same person that I do with heartfelt fervour!
Sherman: I’m hugging Leslie. Becoolbecoolbecool.
Louise: Some things never change, however hard Jim might try to wreck the Hollander home.
Louise: Another thing that never changes is Sherman screaming and being useless during a birth.
Sherman: Aaaargh! I still remember what the pregnancy book said! Aaaargh!
Kristy: Um, Dad, you’re not helping.
Sherman: BUT LESLIE’S BABY, YOU’RE HAVING A BABY!
Kristy: Yeah, I noticed.
Louise: Then Kristy started screaming as well.
Louise: While other people in the house are busy screaming, Jim is checking himself out in the mirror. Man I h-
Jim: Hate Jim, yeah, yeah, I get it. But I look good.
Louise: I hate you even more now.
Jim: Okay, I’ll just scream and be useless now. Sherman did that and nobody hates him.
Kristy: You’re a bit late, honey. I just stopped screaming.
Louise: We don’t hate Sherman because you can’t hate Sherman. That’d be like hating a half-witted puppy.
Jim: Aaaaaargh! *Is useless*
Louise: Oh, give it up.
Leslie: OH WAIT! I’M SUPPOSED TO SCREAM AND BE USELESS! Aaargh!
Kristy: You’re way late for that, Mum, we’re going to the hospital now.
Leslie: Huh? Oh, okay. I’ll just play some more computer games, then.
Louise: And with that we leave the Hollanders. Next time, predictably, a birth happens. Prepare for trouble… and make it double!
… Did I really just quote Pokémon? Oh well, see you next time, guys!
Author's note: Jim is a huge, stinking pain in my face. I hate flirty Sims. It's probably coloured my experience with gen 2 so far, because his flirting is ruining friendships and lowering relationship scores. I'm keeping him around because Kristy doesn't hate him (yet) and because it's interesting, but it's driving me up the wall. Kristy and Flo had finally gotten to friendship status again and then freaking Jim comes along. Freaking. Jim. And yes, he and Sherman suddenly started disliking each other after a pillow fight.
