7.15 Forgotten

Brooke knew tomorrow was going to be a great day. It was her birthday and her last day at school. She had plans to go to the movies with Jodi and celebrate at PURE afterward. She might regret it the next day, but her coming of age birthday party was going to be epic!

In the distance she heard the sounding of alarms. She wasn't sure why, but she knew she had to take cover. Brooke stopped running and looked around. She could see her room. She knew she had been dreaming but the alarm seemed so real. And she could still hear it.


She threw her blankets off her and raced towards the alarm, toward the living room.


From the foyer she heard loud yelling and entered to see her father cornering a burglar. Brooke was slightly relieved. It wasn't the end of the world, but a new fear set in. The fear of being unsafe.
"Police," Brooke heard a familiar voice shout from outside the door. SGT Harder. He'd only picked her up from the junk yard at least a hundred times. And although all he did was bring her home, Brooke couldn't help but wonder how he was the only officer that found her.


There was a short fight, in which he won. Addison panicked, feeling the same fears as her sister. Luckily nothing was taken.

Brooke knew she wasn't going to go back to bed, but she knew she had to try. It was a rough sleep. Complete with her running from something unknown. Finally her alarm sounded, a signal it was time to get up. A sign that it was her birthday!

She joined her father and sister in their morning discussion about last nights Brothers episode. Brooke felt empty. Her father hadn't wished her a happy birthday as he rushed to change for work.

But her day wouldn't get better, as Jodi texted her before school to tell her something came up. That she couldn't make the movies tonight. "Keep your head up," Addison told her before rushing off to her first class.
Later that day, at home, Noah gracefully grew into an elder and retired as a Star News Anchor.
He was excited to spend time with his aging wife.


Instead of going home, Brooke took a detour to the family graveyard, where Gavin's body had been moved after a few nasty hauntings. She wanted to spend time with him, to talk to him about her father forgetting her birthday. Grandpa Gavin never did.

Brooke's obnoxious ringtone broke the silence of the graveyard. "Brooke are you coming home? Dad's worried." Addison said over the other line. "Yeah, I'm on my way." Brooke replied, hanging up the phone before Addison could get another word out.

Beep Beep, Addison heard the sound of Brooke's car locking. "SHHHH, she's here!" Addison exclaimed. The party around her quieted as Addison yelled up front, "Brooke help me, this damn picture is falling." Brooke rolled her eyes, her sister was clumsy, and this wasn't the first time a painting had fallen from the easel onto her.

Instead of making her way to the front door, Brooke walked around back. Immediately seeing SGT Harder, her mother, and Dean, her sister's secret boyfriend. "Surprise!" they yelled as Addison rushed her to the cake.


(((Both girls have completed the perfect childhood requirement. And even though I don't think I have blogged about each party each week, I have recorded them and they are complete (it was mostly birthdays). Consider Gen 7 finished.

I rolled 1 so Brooke is heir. I was excited about that at first until I realized I rolled childless. But I'm a stickler for keeping the genes in the family so Addison will the be mother. Brooke's job will be in the architect career and I am excited to FINALLY get to play a ambitions career. Second career is Busker. Proper Mongoul and No strangers. Neither of which provide a challenge to me but I think I am going to put all focus into her career.

Gavin has since been sent to the family grave yard for annoying me. If he would just go to his grave during the day, he could have stayed. ))

7.14 Loose ends

Noah held a funeral mass in Gavin's honor. He invited his brothers, even though there was a little bad blood. Everyone handled Gavin's death in their own way.

Noah knew how hard the death impacted his daughters. He tried to remain the strong one, always being there for his daughters.

When he was alone though, he let his true feelings show.

Gavin's death motivated the girls to work hard at the bookstore. They worked hard and were both quickly promoted to Book Club Moderators.

Being the work-a-holic she was, Addison decided to stay at work and continue categorizing books.
Brooke decided that this wasn't for her. She wanted to spend time sketching new designs.

A few days later it was time to throw another birthday for the twins. This time, they were growing into adults.

7.13 Farewell

The twins were self starters, so it did not surprise Noah when they both came home with jobs at the bookstore. The only thing Noah did like about it was their mother worked there also. Their jobs filled most of their day, so many days they would do homework together.

Once the girls became teens, Noah felt increasing protective of his baby girls. He felt he had raised two very productive, mature daughters. Anastasia told him to trust them.


Noah found it hard to trust them with Dean coming around. Yes, he has went to school with them, but he had long since graduated an moved to pushing paper in Noah's office building.

When Addison wasn't stressing her father out by running around with Dean, Brooke was busy hanging out in the junk yard after curfew. At least she said she was hanging out in the junk yard. However, Noah found it suspicious that the same officer brought her home every night.
Gavin spent hours alone during the day. After all, there comes a time when everyone you knew growing up was gone. The house was quiet with the family gone. He used this time to catch up on his new favorite cartoons or to play video games. Even though he was alone, he never really felt alone.

Noah was usually the first home. He walked in at 2:09 promptly, four days a week. A glance at his watch and Gavin knew Noah was about to walk in the door. Gavin stood up to meet his son at the door. As soon as his feet touched the ground, Gavin knew it was time.


Gavin knew he was blessed. So far he had lived longer than anyone in his family. He had saw his granddaughters grow into beautiful young ladies. It was time to go. Besides, he missed his wife terribly. He walked over to the grim, and instead of begging for his life, he welcomed the transition.

((Gavin lived to be 109 days old. He is the oldest sim I've ever had, and the only one that shook the grims hand instead of begging for his life. I'm not sure if I'll move him to the graveyard... I'll see how annoying his ghost is. ))

7.12 Growing up a Brandon

Even through the current tough time, Noah still pushed the girls to be the best. Although he was rough on them, he took time out to let them be kids.

Brooke became close to Joni. The two girls could be found everywhere together. Anastasia was upset though. Even though Noah didn't know the truth about the skin condition, Anastasia did. She had already lost her older children to vampirism. She didn't want her youngest daughters mixed up in it also.

Addison became friends with a boy named Dean. He was also a regular at the house.

Gavin also enjoyed distracting the girls from their work for his favorite pasttime, video games. The competition was good and taught the girls life long skills not found in books, good sportsmanship and team work.

The girls were soon ready for their next birthday, and Gavin was relieved to see yet another birthday party.

7.11 Family Memories

Everyone handled their grief separately. The girls really bonded during this trying time.

Gavin wanted to spend his time grieving alone. Because of his, he didn't want to have a funeral mass. Gavin wanted to keep Angel in the old plot behind the house. It was more convenient for him.However, Angel's ghost wasn't content with hanging in the backyard. She wanted video games. This disturbed Anastasia heavily, as she was already a coward. She would often fall out at the sight of Angel.

With the decision to move Angel to the family graveyard finally made, the family took a trip together to put her at peace.

Brooke decided that the graveyard needed something a bit more. It didn't need to be fancy, Just something that displayed her family's rich artistic heritage. It would be something she would tackle when she was older.

7.10 Let this get away

The girl's birthday was quickly approaching. Gavin wanted to surprise them with a pool themed birthday party. He invited some extended family members, and made sure the party was scheduled for a time when both parents would be home.

It went off without a hitch. Both girls aged up well and started to show new traits.

Noah now felt the pressures of adulthood. He had spent the whole day celebrating his daughters birthday; he had forgotten his own.

But his parents were there to remind him.

Noah continued to push the girls to excel academically. Addison really took to home economics. Noah smiled, she'd make a great wife one day.

It was apparent when Brooke picked up the paintbrush why she was so bad at the peg game. She was too artistic to think that logical. Many nights he'd sneak down stairs to the basement to find Brooke painting away. He'd always loved watching his grandmother paint. He was glad to find her taking an interest in the family pasttimes.

But while the girls were busying growing into themselves, Angel was trying to connect with her sons. They had all grown up and became busy with their lives and their children. Anthony came around frequently. It was during one of their chats that Angel decided it was time to move on.
Although she didn't feel ready to go, Gage hadn't given her a son yet, the Grim was ready.

And he turned a blind eye to her humanly pleas.

7.9 Try to do it right this time around

Noah informed his family over breakfast that he wanted to quit his job. He wanted to spend his time with his baby girls. Gavin resisted this idea, he knew his days were numbered. Noah had finally got promoted to Professional Blogger, and he was really close to his next promotion. Gavin reasoned, there were three adults at home at any given moment. The girls were well taken care of.

Even though Noah didn't quit his job, he still pushed both the girls hard in academics. He wanted his girls to be top of the class, and it was never to early to start. As soon as the girls grew into two beautiful toddlers, Noah knew it was time.


Although Brooke shared many characteristics with her father, like never wearing a shirt, she had her mother's long blond hair.

Addison had the most in common with mom. She had the slender body and the natural curls. However, although the mystery of Gavin's purple eyes was solved, both girls had shockingly blue eyes.
At first, Grandpa would read to the girls, but before long, they were reading all on their own.

The peg game turned out to be extremely difficult for Brooke. Something about cylinder object, triangle hole just didn't register.

Addison, on the other hand, loved music, and she was a pro from the moment she picked up mallets.
As Addison and Brooke got older, they relied on their parents less and less. Although occasionally Anastasia would play with the girls, she found a new free time she hadn't had when the girls were younger. She picked up gardening, a past time of her mother-in-law.