Book I. 5
With Homer away, Hilda was able to receive all of the attention. Dardanus helped her with her soccer-athletic while Helen gardened. This time she wore sneakers.
Their house and yard were coming along. Stairs were built going down to a basement at the end of the carport, next to a hopscotch, which were semi-circled by a short hedge. The basement was for extra car space and a nectar maker.
Another, taller hedge was installed to line the intersecting street, and partially between the little park, sheltering the pergola-spa-sauna (the pergola is the One With Earth Garden Gazebo in the Bohemian Garden set and the sauna-bath is the Steam-it-up-Sauna from the Sunlit Tides world), the Swift-Gro garden and soccer.
They grew, rather quickly … a bunch of trees to obscure the fire-pit, miner, time-machine and Into the Future portal. They kept the fake hedge gift someone gave them on the porch. The roof was too difficult to neaten up yet.
When Hilda had her ballet recital, Helen and Dardanus attended. There were a lot of sim children lined up. It took a long time to get through it. Story Progression had been allowed to roll at a default speed for too long. Its nice to populate the town, but it causes bottleneck problems.
Dardanus didn’t end up with a Mad Scientist hairdo for his top Scientist career level, which is normally like the singed hairdo but more swept back. Being an elder seemed to affect that. Maybe that hairdo hasn’t got an elder version. His uniform seems the same as the Surgeon uniform.
Luckily he has nice hair for his formalwear, which he was going to wear for a party. Hilda was going to grow up into a teen.
She stood at her cake while her friends Terrence Alto, Toby Frio and Pete Jolina cheered for her, and teens Mortimer Goth and his younger brother Jeb found other things interesting. Terrence had already grown into a teen ahead of her.
Not all of her friends were boys though, some of the girls were in the other half of the living room, and others were still arriving. A couple of the parents were also invited, Yumi Sekemoto and Jamie Jolina to help with extending the time they’re allowed to stay.
Everyone cheered as she made a wish, blew out her candles, and swung her arms to whizz around in the sparkles.
The limited framerate of the laptop affected the growing up animation again, so Hilda stretched up tall like Homer did.
Everyone sighed relief when she settled into her teen self, with a nice enough formal outfit.
Closer-up she looks mostly like Dardanus, but with different, more bulgy and heavily-lidded eyes. Who could her mother have been?
Dardanus won’t tell.
The prom was scheduled very soon, so she tried to sum up possible partners straight away. Jeb was not interested.
Terrence Alto seemed nice, and interested.
While she tried to also squeeze in chatting to Chauncey Landgraab, Dardanus questioned Terrence himself, about what he was planning on doing for a career.
Terrence said it was time to go home. And Hilda forgot that she had coffee breath. Chauncey revealed that he was already with Janna Ursine anyway.
A few days later Hilda got dressed up to go to prom without a partner. She was very excited.
The game matched her up with Kane Langerak at the dance. I didn’t like him. The name didn’t help.
Shortly after, Homer graduated from boarding school high school, Dribbledine Sports Academy. And he had grown up into a young adult. He did so at the world arrival point near the end of the road at Stoney Falls park.
He drove home because he had been taught to drive as a teen, and walked in the door in his green and gold cap and gown. He wasn’t sure what he was expecting. The house had changed.
“I’m home” he sung.
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