Frehndly



Rose had found in Ray a willing ear to listen to her complaints. She had really loved Arty and catching him with any other woman would have been bad enough. Catching him with her twin sister was a disaster. She and Grainne had always been close, but now living with her was becoming unbearable.

She knew that Arty and Grainne had not met since that time. Not because Grainne was in the least bit ashamed of what she had done. Arty simply had a good amount of self-preservation instinct and decided to avoid a house that contained one angry ex-girlfriend and her two older brothers.



Rose actually had not mentioned the story to Angus and Owen, and Grainne had chosen not to either. Xanthos was left out of the loop as well. Ray was the only one she trusted enough to tell him her story.



That wasn’t the only thing they talked about, of course. After some time had passed, Ray and Rose became a couple.



Madhuri had also convinced Vikram Loner to propose to her.

And this was the last remarkable thing Vikram did until his son was a teenager.


Loste



With most of his love life in pieces and surrounded by happy couples, Arty was starting to doubt his playboy lifestyle. In that mindset he ran into Daisy Simnitch, his kind-of-sort-of-girlfriend. Who he hadn’t spoken to in months. Yeah.

Arty started to make up his usual excuse, but something just didn’t feel right. And suddenly he just started to tell her the whole truth. About all the love affairs. The lies. The whole McGork fiasco. He didn’t even know why he was telling her, he just kept talking and talking and Daisy listened all the while with a strange expression on her face.

And then, when Arty was finally finished, Daisy spoke up in her quiet voice.

“I know.”



“I’ve known it all along, Arty. I’d have to be stupid not to know. I guess I just thought eventually you’d get bored and then I might have a chance. It’s silly, I know. I just really like you. I think you’re a good person, even if you’ve made some mistakes.”

Arty was baffled. This was not what he had expected. Daisy was supposed to cry, to tell him what a horrible person he was, anything but… this.

“I’m sorry.” Daisy smiled. “That probably sounds weird. And kind of stalkerish. I’ll get going then.”



“Wait.” Arty said and pulled Daisy close. “I’m the one who should be sorry. I never really knew how much I loved you, Daisy. Do you think… Do you think you can give me one last chance?”



And Arty knew that from now on, he would never cheat on Daisy Simnitch ever again.


McGork



Really, that Arty was a joke. Getting cold feet after Rose had caught them was bad enough, but the he actually went and got engaged to little Daisy. Grainne couldn’t believe it when she first heard about it.

Oh well, she had other options. Xanthos Salamis was very much in love with her. With both his sisters about to get married to well-off husbands, he remained the sole heir to his family’s fortune.



And that fortune was rather sizable. Xanthos took her out to expensive restaurants, to clubs and bars. Grainne could tell that he was trying to impress her and she certainly was impressed. Helena and Isabella tagged along a lot of the time. They already seemed to consider Grainne as part of the family.

Really, she had always planned to marry Xanthos. Arty just couldn’t hold a candle to him. Xanthos was rich, smart, educated and well-mannered. What else could there be?



So when Xanthos popped the question, Grainne didn’t have to think twice. Her future was looking bright.


Phew, that's the whole love dodecahedron wrapped up in time for graduation, which is fast approaching, and with it the end of Generation 1. Two more chapters until the Strangetown youngsters move back and start their own families.

Thank you all for the nice comments! I'm glad to see that so many people like this and hope you have as much fun reading it as I had playing the story.

Ingame I have started Gen 3, Buck Grunt is the last plot sim that still needs to be born (Lyla is already pregnant, but rotation day came around).


I completely forgot to include those pictures with the last chapter, so here they are:

There's one major University NPC that I didn't cover.



"Do you mind? I'm trying to write my term paper."



"My love for you is so great, Willow! Shall we dance together?"
"Honey, don't look, but there's a naked man in our living room..."
"Crap, I forgot to lock the door. Let's go somewhere else, maybe he'll have left by the time we come back."



"One espresso please."
"I'll take one too!"
"Did you follow us?"


Coming up next: A Battle For The Ages! Michael Simnitch's Big Showdown!