Welcome back to Space Station Excelsior, Space Rangers! Things have been busy since I last saw you!
While the town was filled with ghosts, there was something a little more important going on. That’s right, Space Rangers, it’s my Young Adult Birthday! My time to shine has finally arrived!
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We threw a party, because no matter how much trouble I’m in, no one in this house can resist a good party. And it was the perfect way to invite Terril over to see that I’m not some awkward teenager anymore!
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I raced upstairs to get my new wardrobe settled, but by the time I was looking just right, Terril and Mom had slipped away and who cared about the party at that point? Might as well get started on my museum pieces if I can’t hang out with him. Not the way I had been hoping to spend my birthday party.
The next day was my Graduation from Space Academy (If only, just High School)! I was Valedictorian, obviously, because I am a genius. None of my classmates are even close to me in terms of grades. I was voted Most Likely to Take Over the World, but I’m sure they meant Explore a New World.
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I just have to solve the slight...haunting problem the town has. After the traditional Graduation breakfast (I had my pancakes with extra everything just to watch Mom freak out about sugars and everything not being alkaline), I figured I would head back to the library and get to work. This was going to be no trouble for someone with my abilities!
Mom apparently decided to hit up the Spring Festival. With Terril, I’m sure you are thinking, Space Rangers, but incorrect! My mother decided that having one perfect, loving, handsome, fascinating man wasn’t enough. No, she went to the Spring Festival, the
Love festival, with
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How dare she! Terril is perfect and she is
cheating on him right out in the open!
When I looked up from my work and I saw them flirting, I admit, I might have gotten a touch...upset.
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I stormed right up to her and her hussy and I told her I couldn’t believe she was cheating and what kind of lesson was she teaching with that! I demanded to know if Terril had any idea this was happening. How could she do this to him!?
It was one of the worst fights we ever had. We never used to fight until recently and now they keep getting worse and worse! Why does she have to keep acting like this!
I wasn’t sure what to do, should I tell Terril or not? Could I betray my mom like that? But I couldn’t stand to betray Terril like this either. He deserved to know, didn’t he? But what if my telling him makes him hate me?
It weighed on me heavily every time I hung out with Terril. Should I tell him? Should I not?
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Mother continued to see Sophie and Terril, no matter how much it upset me. How could she be so selfish!?
And Terril and I grew ever closer. If I wasn’t in the library or Space Station Excelsior working on my inventions, I was with him. He is so smart and handsome and funny. It made my guilt over hiding this from him so much worse.
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Despite my feelings for him, I’m making sure I was still focusing on my goals. I needed to get training for the space program and every day I dawdled around with this ghost stuff meant I was that much less likely to get into the program! Not even my family name and wealth is enough to get me in if I can’t pass the tests! It was during one of these sessions that I had my Eureka! I had figured out a way to suck ghosts up and the ritual to return them to the Path!
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I had to find a ghost first, so I could test it out, so I got to work, searching the skies for that telltale glow.
Blast off, Space Rangers! My first ghost
huntretrieval went well. Messy, but well. I learned if you turn the beam up too high, sometimes a ghost can explode! Lesson learned Space Rangers! I’m sure that ghost will eventually get back together?
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My time was very busy. I needed to figure out how to upgrade my ghost catcher and I needed to capture more ghosts! No matter how many I returned, there always seemed to be more. And the older I got, the harder it would be to make it into Space! While aging won’t be an issue later, right now Time is my enemy!
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But when Terril called, I always made time for him. The touring production of my favorite sci-fi book turned into a movie that was then turned into a musical was in town and he had gotten me tickets! Of course I was free to go with him! A little white hair didn't make him any less handsome to me.
The show was so much fun, the perfect blend of silly and drama and earnestness that had Terril and I whispering and laughing the entire time. It was a perfect
datetime and the conversation was so easy. I was in the middle of showing him my new ghost catcher when the guilt began to overwhelm me.
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I was looking into his beautiful eyes and I just couldn’t stop myself. “She’s cheating on you!” “What?” “My mom. She has been seeing Sophie behind your back! I’m so sorry!”
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Poor Terril. He was just devastated. He really cared about my mom and she had stomped all over his heart. I, of course, comforted him as best I could.
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Emotions were running high and one thing led to another and finally, it was happening! Terril and I were kissing! And it was better than I had ever dreamed of!
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Such bliss couldn’t last forever. Eventually I had to head back home and face my mother. I told her everything and she was
beyond furious, Space Rangers. We had a huge blowout and screamed things at each other I never, ever thought I would hear from someone I loved, let alone say. I won't be repeating them here but I’m sure you can imagine just fine.
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In my hurt and rage, I sought out the one person who understands me. I could hear my mother’s words in my ears, filling me with dark thoughts and I needed to drown them out with happy ones. So I did what anyone would have done and I proposed to Terril and he said yes! We were meant to be together and there was no reason to resist any longer! Mom can't stop me anymore!
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I didn’t want to wait for my mom to get involved and try to get in the way so I brought Terril with me to the Temple. I had never been at night before and it was beautiful and romantic and the soft scent of flowers filled the night air. It was so ideal and right, I just knew we were destined for each other.
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We were married in the moonlight, just the two of us proclaiming our love to each other and binding ourselves together. Everything was going to be perfect, Space Rangers!
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I thought the time travel screenshots were great! And seamless. I think you won't get a time travel child if you already have a full house, but time travel to the past can also change a sim's career and it's game HoF good boy points over if you get switched to the top of a career that another immortal has.
They can
WHAT!? Oh man. Now I am extra glad I didn’t actually mess with it in my real save. I don’t even know what I would have done if I had lost my HoF status over that. I reject that!!! Not today Satan! I mostly figured it would be obvious that I wasn't in my main save because I put all the MF ghosts into the house with Velma to get those shots. Figured they would give me away but I should have just kept my mouth shut!
This has taken a bit because, well, my mental health has been in the toilet for so long and it’s hard. But making my way through this slowly and surely. Finished not perfect has been my mantra through this. All the steps with the pictures are murder on my executive dysfunction. But I am still working on this and it will be finished! I speak this into existence! Hopefully people are still enjoying it and the wonderful, definitely not terrible choices the Blackburns love to make.
