kayleigh83 | Round Eighteen

Last Round - Cameron's aspirations got changed to Pleasure A/Knowledge B. He bought an internet cafe, which became a hookah (bubble blower) lounge, which became an internet cafe again, and then he sold it because I remembered I wanted his cousin Nora to own the internet cafe in town! Dave and Whitney were arguing thanks to ROS.

Who's Who in the Zoo?

Whitney is the eldest child of founders Roxanne and Joshua Lewis, and has two siblings, Xander and Emilia. She married Dave Perry and they had three kids of their own - Sabrina, Jamie and Cameron. Cameron still lives at home with his parents; Sabrina and Jamie have moved out, and Jamie married Hannah Park (now Perry) and they have a son, Nathan Perry - the first generation four kiddo who can trace his ancestry back to founders on both his mom and dad's side. Roxanne and Joshua Lewis, and Kira and Ryan Park were all his great-grandparents.

It gets a little harder as the family trees expand to decide who has to be cut and who stays included! But since the nucleus of this particular household is still Whitney and Dave, I'm focusing on their kids and grandkids, and leaving off their daughter in law Hannah's family. But as time goes on, I guess I'll have to rethink it a little every time! And when I get to Jamie and Hannah's household later in the round, the tree will look a little different centered on that family's perspective.

I swapped out my turn ons/turn offs replacement mod recently, so many of them made no sense once they got all scrambled around. So I'm just changing whichever don't make sense for them with the new ones - so Cameron can use up this potion in his inventory!

He likes intellectual brunette girls who aren't too into animals. I think he had a low animals interest? And I associate animal lovers the most with family Sims, so that turn off would usually not be on the table for them - but Cameron is pleasure A/knowledge B, so for him it is!

Chatting with his parents that morning, before he heads downtown for some important business.

His new business! After all the back and forth last time with internet cafe, hookah lounge, and back and forth again before finally selling it for his cousin Nora to buy - Cameron once again opened.... a hookah lounge! Well, a bubble lounge but you get the idea. This one is downtown, and it's called Haze Lounge.

It's a little sparsely furnished for now, so the loan could be a bit more minimal. He'll have to hustle to have enough money to spruce it up a bit more!

Sister Sabrina was an early supporter, maybe cause she lives so close by too!

Seems like the people love the bubbles!

Gossiping with Sabrina.

You know who is here to inspect the premises!

Pretty good for the first day!

Simone came by the house, looking for Cameron, and friendly Whitney rushed out to greet Cameron's friend in her PJ's and invite her inside!

Dave was teaching Teddy a new trick thanks to ROS, and he must be a little genius dog because he learned super quickly!

Simone joined for lunch.

Then Theo randomly showed up uninvited and they started flirting like mad in the living room T_T

Guess she really couldn't wait for Cameron huh... Fickle...

Working on his fitness as always.

Whitney is making extra money on her financial consulting side hustle.

Cameron gets home and squeezes in a little stargazing before bed.

He's woken up by the ringing phone in the middle of the night though, and it's a prank caller.

Back to the grind - a fortune Sim's work is never really done!

However, a mysterious package brings her outside!

Now this is a much easier way to make money! Unfortunately after this the next bag glitched, she kept getting routing problems which caused it to drop from her queue, and after a few times the game seemed to give up and she never got another bag. At least the first one is the biggest!

I decided to put Cameron's science hobby focus on robotics. Since his aspirations are modest enjoyer pleasure/evil scientist knowledge, I am interpreting that as him using his science interest to work on building robots that will enable him to relax and do less work, and more play. He can be surrounded by various bots to do his bidding, so he can just kick back and enjoy himself.

That's for your son silly!

Tonight they decided to get together with Jamie and Hannah for a family dinner. For some reason Sabrina couldn't make it!

They got the big table at the Italian restaurant. Which is owned by Whitney and Dave's nephew's wife sooo... maybe they got a family discount!

Luca was there to take their order!

Cameron got chatty with the cute waitress Anais, who he had some chemistry with.

When they got home, literally as soon as they got out of the taxi, someone was waiting for Dave....

:( Nooo! I knew the end of his life was close, hence the family dinner, but I didn't think it was gonna be that exact night! RIP Dave!

And then the awful burglar broke in that night too.

Haven't they been through enough!

Pets and hobbies are a comfort.

Cameron's sometime date Daphne was at Haze Lounge when he went to work today.

Rank two! Still practicing alternating the money awards, so for now he's getting the reputation boost.

However, thanks to that genie cash, there was a bit of money to pay off some of the loan and invest a little more in the business!

A little nectar bar, some rugs and dividers, it goes a long way!

Whitney's sister Emily came over for a visit.

Teddy was very interested in their lunch.

Bossing around the big dogs!

Back to work on her consulting!

Clementine was wandering by when Cameron took out the garbage.

They have some history (they dated a little as teenagers) and he hasn't had much going on in his love life this round, so why not! She did just move in with Ewan Menzies and his "Community", but she's also a serial romancer so that doesn't seem like much of an impediment to her!

As Sims love to do, their mind wanders to others once they're on a date - good luck with Sabine though (Clem's cousin by the way) - she has a serial romancer secondary AND commitment issues.

Cameron and Clementine headed straight to bed, naturally.

What I did NOT remember was that Clementine has unmarried try for baby turned on, and uhhh... it worked! She is going to have a baby fathered by Cameron!

Honestly though this is perfect for my headcanon of her. She's serial romancer/huge family aspirations - hence why she is joining a "community" centered cult with a bit of a free love thing developing. She wants a big family, of both children and chosen family, and she doesn't want to be tied down to one partner. So I always kind of hoped she'd have kids from multiple partners, and they'd be raised communally too. Hence why her unmarried TFB setting was on. I'd just assumed she'd have one of Ewan's kids first. But the game had other plans!

It will remain to be seen how involved Cameron is in his kid's life, or what Clementine tells him about them - if anything?

Her wants panel is also hilarious - previously locked in want to get engaged to Ewan, with also a fear of marrying him (just wants the ring??), wants to also get engaged to Cameron, but also afraid to marry him. Oh, and Theo too. Giiiirl....

Anyways, Cameron is blissfully unaware of his impending fatherhood. I might let how much the kid ends up looking him help me decide on whether it's plausible that Clementine tries to keep it a secret from him? We'll see!