Chapter 1.1

Hello... Marie here...

It's been a week since I left my hometown and came here to start a brand new life. Work has been fun, although I must admit the training part is very painstaking. I met couple of friends at work, they all seem fun and very easygoing, too. Everyday after work, I come home to tend my garden. I have been starting to plant. Well it kinda reminds me of the little cactus garden which I used to have in Mama's house.

I bought lettuce from the groceryshop the other day and started planting it. So happy that I could get back to gardening again. It's just wonderful I can easily form a life out of the soil and a small thing called seed. Anyway...

Albeit the fun job and hobby fulfilled, I still feel a bit lonely living alone here... I certainly need someone to accompany me, through all the good and bad times. But I'm too young to search for a spouse for now. I am barely twenty years old. I've just started my career. I just can't bear the thought of spending life with someone else, and eventually carry his baby and stuffs like that.

But I guess no harm to go search for a pool of candidates first ya? :D

No, no, don't get me wrong. This is of course not my type. I accidentally ran into him while reading book about Gardening. (I can't even remember his name anymore). He picked up some topics to talk about with me, though. He's smart, which explains the super thick book he carried. But na-ah, he turned me off when he started to boast about his Politics career.


Neither is he good enough for me. Simis comes from a well-off family. Told me his father owned 10 goldmines across Sunset Valley. But who cares really when he is actually filing a divorce with his current wife just because he took a liking on his French maid? Too much drama!


This is Gabriel. I took a bit of fancy on him when we started to chat. He loves the outdoor. He is also a very good looking guy. He's been showering me lots of attention as we get closer. But I told myself that I wouldn't want to jump into decision this fast. I still need to concentrate on my career. I don't want to ruin what I've already built. He text me frequently just asking if I would fancy go out to dine or watch movie with him. He's just sweet.

However there's a little of dark side that I don't know about him. Our topic is always about me, my family, my job, my new house, etc. It's never about him. Well at first I kinda liked that, because that showed how not self-centered he is. He could surely make good father and husband. But still still still... I was very curious. He seemed to be hiding something...

How shall I figure it out? I want things to move on. But I can't if my instinct keeps telling me that he has something on his back.

Chapter 1

Marie's parents got divorced since she was really young. However, she still grew up happily as how a normal child should. She spent the week alternatively with both parents' new families. So, in total she had 4 parents, instead of two. And of course as such, she had double the happiness a child could get.

However...

One day...

Marie's double parents decided that it was time for her to earn her own happiness as she stepped on her young adulthood. She had been fed on silver plate and spoon for close to 20 years. The parents were just afraid that she wouldn't be able to adapt to the community after they passed on. And so they sent her off to Sunset Valley to start her own life, bestowed with only little sum of money to survive.

"That's life. Full of salt and vinegar. Take care, Marie", her biological father told her.
"I'm gonna miss you so much, my baby darling. I promise I will take care of your mother more than anything else on earth", her step father said to her.

Both her biological and step mothers couldn't stop holding back the tears. They hugged her as a finale and didn't manage to say a single word.

She knew she was ready. She just knew she was. She is blessed with the genius brain her biological mom has, and paired up with the love for outdoors that she inherits from her father. She sure can figure out something out of anything under the sky, right?

"If it's a roofless house is what it takes, here I am... I couldn't have felt any more blessed to be able to sleep under the sky. Perhaps someday with my future husband too..."



"With only 1,300 simoleons, how am I supposed to start a life of my own?", she thought to herself.

Well as a kid, she had always been trained the tough side of life. And that really enticed her to take up Military as a career. So she registered herself as one of the applicants and smoothly got approved.

"This is it. C'est la vie" - Marie.

the real Marie Chopin...

(I decided to recreate my character as I've been no longer playing it on the PC belonged to my housemate. I've switched to the Macbook Pro! *happy dance* Rather than wasting my time testing the character whether it worked out on a different platform, I decided to just recreate a whole new character with a whole new more exciting story. So... representing the new Marie Chopin!!)

Chapter 1.4: It's positive!

I know it's been a bit early, but I've always love children and wished to have one on my own. I'm preggo :)

I knew it when I found myself fell sick more and more often. I always have to stay near the toilet because I might throw up at anytime. It's totally not easy being preggo. Suspecting that I'm with a little one inside me now, I quickly rushed to the nearest GP to have it checked. Without telling Russell of course, cause I wanted to make it as a surprise. I went through lots and lots of check just to make sure.

"Congratulations Mrs. Chopin, you're going to have a baby."

I was ecstatic. I had a little one on my way. She or he will be with me for 9 months... How amazing is that! I then quickly rushed to the grocery store and picked up some ingredients to prepare a romantic surprise dinner for Russell and I. Then after that I spilled the secret. :)

He seemed happy about the good news too. Every morning before he gets to work and evening after he comes home, the first thing he will do is to feel my tummy and talk to the baby. I'm jealous when she/he's born they would have a closer rapport than I do. Hmm!

Such a sweet father he is, isn't he?

Mommy is a handy girl.

9 months is just like a kite passing by. I was given quite a long maternity leave, so right after I stepped on the 38th week I knew that it's just anytime now. I started nesting to prepare to go to the hospital.

She is born :) A happy cheeky little baby girl. We named her Nevada. Nevada Chopin.

Daddy loves her certainly much.

She's a very easy going baby. Doesn't demand that much, but she certainly seems not to like the outdoor. It's a signal that both Russell and I need to work harder to build a roof on top of us. But nonetheless, things have been much more exciting for us now. And Russell and I have been more in love than ever :) I love you Russell I love you Nada.

Chapter 1.3: You had me at hello :)

Few days passed by. I thought I would have forgotten Russell totally. I mean, afterall he's just another visitor to the museum, just like who I was, what's so big deal about it? But it turned out... the other way around. He came to visit me. To my so-called house. We talked it through.

He said Olivia and he was over. Olivia was an obvious snob. She just couldn't stop bragging about her family's wealth to just an average guy like Russell. It's true that they were highschool sweethearts once. But that's that. The relationship for them lasted for 10 years and they had 4 kids together, but due to Olivia's wealthiness, she could have the custody all to herself. Russell seemed pretty okay about their separation, though of course he's still a bit held up about his kids. I paid my utmost sympathy to him. I know how bad it must have been for him. He said he really appreciated about my patience to listen to him because all these whiles he's been under Olivia's roof. She's such a dominator.

For once again, I fell again for him. I kept denying myself that this is way too fast! He's just got over one relationship, a sacred one, with 4 kids borne! What am I thinking! But without further ado, we kissed.

Here.

Our first kiss.

He told me that I had him at hello. I told him the same thing too. My breath was carried away when he kissed me. I could feel like as though the world totally belonged to us with all flowers blooming around. This is truly my first time to ever fall in love. And I really hope he could be the...

"Marie, Veux-tu m'épouser?" (will you marry me?)

"Hell yes!"

Things were pretty easy for us to start with. I asked him to move in with me. And we started from really beginning. We started to buy more stuffs to fill in the house. I also appreciated his effort by quickly finding a job so that we can start to prepare for our future little one earlier.

He got the job in the Politics department.

He's been practising a lot on his skills and I'm so glad to see all those efforts, really.

"So that we can start to have a better life together. Je t'aime, Marie. I really do."

Chapter 1.2: Can't take one to tango

The job for my pay isn't that very high. It could suffice me only a quick meal each time, so there's this one time while I was "patronizing" the Alto's, I saw this signage from afar:

It's like fallen star! I didn't care if I was going to win at all because I was only after: the FOOD. It's bittersweet, living this life all alone like now. There's even this one time I had to crash a sorority nearby my place, just so that I could get a 'free meal'. :( Humiliating and yet fun at the same time.

Hope my neighborhood hasn't put me on blacklist just yet.

Over the weekend, I decided that I need to transfer my job place as the previous one didn't look that very interesting anymore. Check out this new cafe tha

t I've been serving my life to:

There's this guy that I walked past who rather caught my attention. He looked punk, just as how I wish the prince of my life would be; punk, musician, rock band leader or something. So I decided to approach him. His name is DJ something... (gosh I don't inherit the Absent-minded trait do I) and we had the strangest conversation on earth ever! He loved Sushi, when they're boiled? I was like.... o.O;; He also said he would love taking Music as a career but not as a Musician? But that's not the top thing that really took me by surprise, it's his traits that I found rather out of the place for me. He is evil, that's for one. How am I going to have a husband who

is evil?

And secondly, he's a damned sick childish guy. Like I haven't had enough already during my teenage meyham era.

So I decided to block him away from my life. It's sad not to have found anyone to clap my hand together with, but it would be sadder if I were to clap my hand not happily with somebody. Am I right?

So I decided to go back to my beauty sleep and dreamt away for my prince in disguise.

The next day I woke up to a beautiful Sunday with birds chirping and my neighbor kids playing on the street. I found that it's a fantastic weather to visit the Museum. I was contemplating if I should bring anyone to go with me but I decided not to in the end. "What if I met my special someone there?", I smiled to my heart.

And I turned out right :) While standing afar to look at this picture mounted on the wall, there's this guy standing behind me. As we opened our mouths, we blabbered the same thing out: "Interesting." Then I turned my head to him, and he smiled at me. Without any further thoughts, I gestured out my hand to him. "Marie". "Russell, nice to meet you Marie". You couldn't have imagined how butterfly-in-the-neck I felt. What such a nice name! And he's rather cute too *flushed* We got to know each other. Much to my surprise, the first thing I knew about him was he's also a Hopeless Romantic person. I am not lonely *yay* and the next thing I knew was... he's flirty ! LOL. But one thing for sure is that he's really such a smart guy. He knew a-to-z about Arts *doh of course* and he boasted to me on how well he knows everything about Politics. Uh huh! I was too carried away with the smile on his face everytime he spoke.

Yet as we proceeded with our conversation, I learned that he actually had a relationship with Olivia, this lady from town. And they apparently had 4 kids together. My heart instantly sank. He caught my heart away and now he's dispatching it back to me.

I was hopeless and I think he knew about that too.

I didn't have anything in mind to say anymore so I excused myself and I took the cab home.

Chapter 1: Marie Who?

Bonjour. Je m'appelle Marie Chopin. I've been an orphan since born. Rumor has it that my parents forgot to bring me home from the hospital right after my mere, my mother, gave birth to me. My pere, my father, had long surrendered to my mother because he couldn't stand her "Hopeless Romantic" trait that totally didn't match up to my father's "Loner" trait. He died couple of seconds before I was even born. My mere is now an old widower somewhere in The Sims world, or so the gossip says. She was swayed away by this most romantic proposal that everyone talked about in the neighborhood right after she gave birth to me. There's where she forgot about me.

Chopin is the family name that I got from the Social Services dept because I had a French father and I could sleep only when I listened to Frederic Chopin's music when I was young (cliche). I don't remember anything from my childhood because the Social Services dept gave me a potion to forsake everything from my past and let me refresh as I entered my Young Adult age. So here I am.


To cut it short:

My traits are:
1. Natural Cook
2. Friendly
3. Hopeless Romantic (OMG.. not again..)
4. Handy
5. Computer Whiz

My fitness level is medium, and I am more towards boney. My favorite food will be Sushi, and my favorite color is Red. My life aspiration is to be a Celebrity Chef.

My day 1 in Riverview was very adventurous. I was left by the Soc Services in front of this land in Riverview. A huge land with only 1,300 left in my pocket. What could I buy with only such amt of money? First, I bought a bed because that's the only thing on The Sims World that can make me happy and comfortable right? I have no friends, no family, no money. :(

What's next? Find a job! I just knew it that every food will become magic when it arrives on my hand. So without further ado, I accepted the job at the Restaurant. It's no big money, but baby steps yea?

Okay. Bed checked. Job checked. Now next, how am I gonna poopoo if I suddenly wake up at night and can't hold it? I need a WC. The cheapest one too. But oh shoot I need to have a wall in order to get it attached to it. So there, I built up this 1 piece of wall, and bought my WC. Voila.

That's how I pretty much lived up my first day.


Happy breezy dandy.. and slowly my tummy was also singing. How did I get food when I don't have a job and no one to depend on? My brain was working perfectly... I strolled over to my neighbor's place (the family name is kept secret for privacy reason...). Went to shake hand, friendly introduction, get to know each other, chat, gossip,... and next stop: the kitchen! Well i didn't just go and hijack the kitchen. I actually offered to serve dinner to them. Though they didn't seem happy with my kindness offered.


But anyway that's almost midnight.. after that I went home and caught my sleep. Til next day...

This is such a long post, pls bear with me. I started work the next day, earned some cash, brought back cash, and bought the cheapest fridge on my own :DDD Now I can have quick meal myself. And, without sitting on the grass, I can sit on my WC too! What a way to save money! I certainly have learnt much more on how to appreciate money... Back in Social Services life... I was too pampered. I had friends, I had bunkbeds to sleep on, I had playground to play at, I had several meals served... without any worry. Now look at me.

But I'm soooo ready to start my new life! Til then!