ATO Chapter 1: Growing Pains

Hello Lovelies! And welcome to the start of a brand spankin' new legacy by yours truly! I saw the idea for this challenge posted on Reddit originally and so I fleshed out the idea, added some rules and decided to play the challenge myself! Rules are posted on my blog and on the forums so feel free to read anywhere and everywhere.....Annnnnnd without further ado, let's get a good look at our founder and her wonderful legacy-startin' life!

This gal right here is the founder of our legacy, Kierra Angel. Her traits are Outgoing, Lazy, and Squeamish and she aspires to be a Freelance Botonist.

The Angel family is well-known in Twinbrook for their money, but Kierra never felt like she fit in with the rest of her family. So with just 20,000 simoleans and a dream to make it on her own, she set out to Newcrest and bought a small house built by yours truly.

As soon as Kierra was settled into her new home, I got to work right away, first having her purchase some seeds so that she could have some sort of income.

And soon the garden was underway, although the packet only gave us holly berries which only seem to grow IN THE WINTER, which happens to be 3 whole seasons away *grumbles*

Seeing as we were out of money and no plants were currently available for picking in the neighborhood, I sent Kierra off to hunt for some frogs to tide over our funds in the meantime.

But immediately after pulling out a single measly frog, she decided to upchuck all over the sidewalk.

Hey, don't yell at me! You're the one who can't handle seeing a SiNgLe frog!!

And well, then she just stood there for a while, complaining about how gross how own puke was. I'm gonna admit, I'm not sure that I've ever played with the Squeamish trait before and it's already becoming a real pain in the plumbob if yanno what I mean.

At least she got some free food out of a nearby barbeque someone had fired up. Good thing too since little miss priss refused to do anymore frog hunting and we couldn't afford dinner.

The next day I sent Kierra out to explore the neighborhood since there wasn't much to do at home currently, and we discovered a roller rink hanging out on the corner!

I'm not sure how much she enjoyed it though...

*sniggers*

After her freakout the day before, I figured that Kierra could use some R&R and so I directed her to the spa next door where she engaged in some steamin'

And of course no spa visit is complete without a visit to the hot tub

Although I'm not quite sure how comfortable I am with the spa's clientele policy after I spotted Vlad getting his stretch on with the yogi's. Just admiring their tasty lookin necks I'm sure.

For the next couple of days, Kierra's life was pretty mundane as most of her time was devoted to her garden and searching the world for new seeds.

Eventually though I managed to drag her out of the house for Geekcon. She didn't seem all too thrilled with everyone in costume though...

..orrrrr really any activity that the festival offered. Kierra's really not one for the geekier things in the simiverse it seems.

So I decided that her time would be better spent socializing and sent her round to chat with these two fine specimens.

She and Marc Antony (epic name I know!) here really hit it off and before she left the festival they had struck up a friendship.

She invited him over the next day for a nice plate of grilled cheese but the stupid git just frickin' yawned at everything she said!

And then he had the audacity to pull this face when she called him on it. Stupid self-absorbed male sims....

Awww, next time honey :(

But luckily, Marc wasn't the only one that she'd befriended at the festival. She'd chatted with these these three briefly before recruiting them into her new club: The Gardening Hoes.
Their activities mainly consisted of playing cards...

...tending to Kierra's budding garden...

...and of course, shimmying the night away at Windenburg's various clubs ;)

It was at one of these shimmying nights that Kierra met a lovely man by the name of Dorian.

Things started out simple enough, they bonded over their shared love of all things grilled cheese.

Then they retreated outside to a star gazing session.

And as the stars watched overhead, Kierra felt something that she'd never felt before.

So she just went for it.

Awwwwwwww

The next day, Kierra invited Dorian round the house, hoping that everything that'd happened last night wasn't simply a nectar-induced hallucination.

She wasted no time in asking him to be her boyfriend, which he graciously accepted.

And as money was tight and we could desperately need another source of income, Kierra went ahead nd asked him to move in.
That's the sims for ya, innit? Meet a guy the night before, kiss him, move him in.

Immediately after moving in, Dorian rushed off to fix the multiple broken pieces of plumbing around the house. Hmmm yes, I could get used to having him around.

He wasn't much help with the laundry though. As Kierra's lazy and squeamish she'd leave piles of dirty laundry all around the house and then stand around and yell at them like a mad cow as if they'd magically clean themselves up. At this point I was laughing out loud at my computer screen.

The next day, it was time for some summer fun in the sun as SummerFest had rolled around! The whole crew rolled down to the "beach" to cool down as temperatures raised.

Ah yes, nothing like a naked romp in the water to cool off on a hot day

Uh...ladies? There are children here....

Kierra and Dorian made sure to spend lots of quality time together.

Although maybe pushing her on the swing was just an excuse for Dorian to look at her bum.

But as day turned to night, Kierra and Dorian swam out to the island to watch the sunset together.

But there was more than a romantic sunset in store for the two ;)

D'awwwww

And now dear readers, I shall leave you with a picture of the Summerfest fireworks show :) See you on the next update of the Angels.