never mind the degree. part one
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Never Mind The Degree-Part One
In which Admes, Brian, Benjamin,
Bellatrix and Beatrix start and complete
their first year at university. Exciting
stuff.
Admes Havar. The eldest of the Havar
children, Admes is a popularity sim
(eww!) who likes to learn and hates
having to act like a kid, even if he did
spend his entire childhood trying to
get me to let him play on the swings.
Alexander Goth. The infamous
younger child of the Goth family,
Alexander was always forgotten,
until he became friends with and
eventually started dating Admes Havar. He is a
family sim and is very easy going and
easy to live with.
Brian Havar. The eldest of the
quadtuplets, Brian is a family sim with a mean streak. While he loves his family greatly and would
do anything to protect them, like his mother he has
trouble with allowing himself to
seem nice.
Benjamin Havar. Known as Bennie,
Benjamin is a popularity sim who
seems more like knowledge. He's
always been a little recluce, prefering to be alone and study. As a child his only real friend was his
sister, Beetroot. However, he is a total
sweetie when he comes out of his
shell.
Beatrix Havar. While is was her sisters Trixie and
Carrie who received 10 nice points, it
was Beetroot who acted as though she
had them. A sweetly artistic knowledge sim, Beetroot got
along with everyone, even her
cold mother and reclusive brother
Bennie.
Bellatrix Havar. A knowledge sim like
her mother, Trixie also inherited an
inabilty to show her nice points from
Regina. All to oftern did she put her foot in
her mouth when she doesn't think about
what she's saying or how others might
recieve her opinion.
And now, on with the story...
'Hey everyone! Bellatrix Havar
here, but you can call me Trixie! If
you've been following the
chronicles of my family then you will
know that me and my siblings (Admes, Benjamin, Brian and
Beatrix) recently moved to college to
give our parents (Regina and Klaus) more room for their
26 pregnancy challenge. With us gone it is only the two youngest kids
(Carrie, who is a child, and Donna,
who is a baby) left at home...well, until
Mum and Dad get back...doing what
they do that used to make me sleep with
a pillow over my head.'
'Okay, Alice has agreed to let me
narrate this portion of our college life.'
Because you refused to shut up about having no future
after this challenge.
'Yeah, whatever. So, Mum has the LTW
to graduate three kids from college, and Alice couldn't
choose just three, so we're all doing it.'
'Here's Admes with his back to us...'
'Get lost Trixie! I'm studying!'
'Geek! And that shock of hair over
there is Bennie.'
'Put that camera away Trix before I shove it up your-'
'Okay then. Shall we see the rest of the
house?'
'This is the living area! Alice just took one of the Mansion
and Garden Stuff Pack mansions and
put us here. She's rather lazy.'
Oi! You promised to not slag me off too
much if I let you narrate.
'Sorry Alice.'
'This is the skilling/pool room.
That's Admes's boyfriend Alexander
Goth arranging flowers and Beatrix (or Beetroot as she
prefers to be known) making robots.'
'Why don't you have to do this Trix?'
'Because I'm the greatest.'
'Sure thing sis. It's nothing to do with
the fact that you're a jealous monster because I get to
have 60 kids when we're done here and you're going to sink
into obscurity.'
'I'll let you know now readers that she
will be finding a swarm of frogs in
her bed.'
'Here's Brian. Hey Brian!'
'Oh, hey Trixie. I still cannot believe that Alice
let you loose with the camera.'
'Yeah...wait! Why?'
'You may have 10 nice points, but you're a bit of
a bitch. Hells, you even make me look nice, and I have all of 2 nice points!'
'Shut up or I'll noogie you!'
'I'd like to see you try, little sister!'
'I'm younger than you by three seconds! Just
beccause you're the oldest quad doesn't make you
the best!'
'Tell your face, because you're clearly in love with
me.'
'GROSS! Brian, you're my brother!'
'Then stop falling in love with me! I'm way out of
your league.'
GUYS! You're ruining my story!
'Sorry Alice! I'll be moving on now.'
'This is the kitchen, or a place to keep
pizza. And through there is the computer
station, or Bennie's domain. He's such a
little nerd!'
'This from the Knowledge sim?'
'Shut up Bennie!'
'I'll tell Alice if you keep being horrible
to everyone.'
'Whatever!'
'You're just jealous that no one likes
you.'
'And people like you?'
'Duh! More than one person has said how
cute I am.'
'Whatever you ginger goose!'
'I'd be careful about making fun of
gingers when half of your family and
your boyfriend are ginger!'
'Whatever.'
'Trix.'
'Yes Admes.'
'I'm the oldest so taking care of you
lot is kinda my responsibility.'
'Sure...'
'So leave your brothers and sister
alone or I'll lock you in the bathroom
until graduation!'
'And everyone says I'm the bitch!'
'Anyway, break from my crazy
family. This is Jerry, my boyfriend. You
might remember him as the townie I made friends with
when I was a toddler. Well, we've
kept up correspondence since then, and
when he found out I was at college, he
asked me out right away. Kinda weird, but sweet too. He'd
been waiting for me for so long; I had to reward that kind of
devotion.'
'My first kiss with Jerry was magic.
Butterflies and fireworks and that fizzy feeling that
made my toes feel all tingly. It was incredible. The world stopped
spinning, just for us, just to make this
moment go on forever. Or that's
how it felt.'
'GET IN THERE TRIXIE!'
'Shut up Brian!'
'*giggle* Trixie's got a boyfriend! I'm
telling Mum!'
'You little rat!'
Some things never change.
'Jerry was very good at distracting me
from Brian. It was so easy for us to slip
into a relationship because we'd been friends for so long.
It felt so natural, like we were made
for each other. And the way he held me
and kissed me made me feel like he felt
the same way.'
'He even let me cut his hair and strip all
the hair dye out of it. Jerry definitely
makes red hair look good.'
'Thanks babe, but who are you talking
to?'
'I'm narrating this chapter in the
chronicles of my family's life.'
'Oooooh...'
'We were in love, that much was
obvious, and I knew that I'd never want
anyone else. Admes and Beetroot and Brian and Bennie
and even Alex tried to talk me out of it,
telling me that I should at least wait
until college was over and I was sure that Jerry was all I wanted, but I was
sure. Jerry was it for me. So I proposed
that night...'
'...and he said yes! I have never felt so
happy ever before. I get to keep him!
Forever! Because we're never going to
die! We'll get married, maybe have a few kids then Alice
will forget about us and we'll live forever,
watching the family grow.
It may not be the life I wanted, but now it
seems pretty perfect.'
'Not everyone was having as much luck
with love as me. Bennie found
himself with an unexpected and
unwanted stalker in the form of the head
cheerleader, Lindsay. For
reasons unknown she seemed to be
more than slightly obsessed with him and followed him
about the house. We couldn't have her removed without
lowering the standing of our
Greek House, and she brought good
friends, but Bennie was not the type to shack it up with a
cheerleader. But she continued to ignore
both his casual hints and his blatant
demands. Where Bennie was
concerned, she was blind to reason.'
'But it was hard to care about Bennie's
problems when I was so blissfully
happy. Neither Jerry or I were the type to wait until marriage,
so celebrated our engagement in the
best possible way.'
'Bennie tried in vain to take his mind off
of his cheerleader issues by fishing.
He was actually pretty good at it, and
Rootie had a lot of fun learning new
fish based recipes. We all felt bad seeing him so
unhappy because of this chick, and Brian
offered to step in and deal with it.'
'Jerry and I weren't the only sickeningly sweet couple in the house. Admes and
Alex were rarely apart, following one
another around. It was rather nasty, but as they weren't prone to public displays of
affection, we tolerated their goo
goo eyes.'
'Thanks for that sis.'
'Sarcasm doesn't suit you Admes.'
'Yeah, hey Carrie. It's been really
weird without you around annoying us
all. Yeah, I miss you too and your weird
way of talking. Well, you'll be here
too soon, won't you? Yeah yeah. I know
Donna's a smelly baby now, but she'll
grow up soon. Ewww! Mum and
Dad are gross! I don't envy you little one. Yeah, Bennie's stalker is right here.
I'll tell her to get lost after I'm done talking to you
sweetie. Yeah, she can hear me. No,
she'd not paying me any attention at all.
No, Carrie. You stay there. I'll deal with
it. No one can understand you
anyway. Later baby. Love you too.'
'Yeah, Lindsay,can I talk to you?'
'Sure future brother-in-law. A brother of
my Bennie is a brother of mine!'
'Yeah, that's what this is about. My brother,
Benjamin.'
'What? Is Bennie hurt?'
'No, but he would appreciate you
leaving him alone. Lindsay, none of us understand why you
won't leave Benjamin alone, but all of us
want you to. He's not interested in a
mentally incapacitated
cheerleader. Okay? So please just go away,
don't come back, and leave my brother
alone before I call my mentally
incapacitated mother to come and kick your
ass!'
'I will get my man, Brian Havar, mark my
words. You haven't seen the last of me.'
'So, Brian had finally gotten rid of
the evil cheerleader,but
Bennie's problems just kept on coming. With Lindsay gone, the mascots moved in on her territory.'
'Trix? I'd appreciate you putting down
the camera and using your obvious emotional issues to kill this llama and
dispose of his body in the pond.'
'I think all this stress its taking its toll on
him.'
'Greek Houses don't fund themselves, and
so Rootie, Admes, Alex and Brian started a small
workshop in the attic, sewing various bits
and bobs for private clients. It's earning us
quite a bit of money,and we are all powering through our
badges.'
'Another way that we're saving money
is through Bennie. Not only does he
catch us fish, he has a small orchard and a greenhouse where
he grows various fruits and
vegetables. With the energizers out there,
Bennie rarely ever comes indoors anymore. He's
almost happy out there. We're all
starting to get really worried about Bennie. When
Lindsay left, we had hoped that he would be back to normal, a
happy little geek. But he's just so sad all the time, never
just chilling out with the rest of us. He
won't even talk to Rootie, and she was his bestfriend when
we were kids.'
'Again, it is Jerry who distracts me. We enjoy a very
physical relationship.
We woo hoo everywhere.'
'Really. Everywhere.'
'Honest. If there is a spot in the house or
in the garden that we haven't touched, I'll
eat Carrie's hat.'
'Don't get me wrong! Jerry and I do talk
and share our feelings. It's just
that...well, I tend to put my foot in my
mouth when I talk. I don't think too much and don't really tend
to give too much thought to other
people. Kinda like Mum and Brian.
Jerry understands that it's easier for me to
show him how I feel through actions than
words.'
'Oh my gosh! Well, we've all be waiting for this day forever,
but it was still a shock! Admes
finally proposed to Alex! It had taken
so long that we were worried he'd never do it. They've been
together since...ever! We had
all assumed that when Admes took
Alex home to meet Mum and Dad
before Brian, Bennie, Rootie and I
left for college that he would propose then. I dunno why he waited so long,
but I'm glad they're finally officially
together.'
'It's so cute! Alex is already good friends
with the rest of the family and it will be
great having him as a brother. Not that I don't already have
enough brothers. But Alex is cooler than my actual brothers,
and he's nicer to me! Brian says it's
because he doesn't know me properly
yet. Brian's a jerk!'
'Ahem....well, we returned from our
exams to find the two of them
celebrating...erm...yeah. It was kinda
sickening really, seeing my brother in
the buff! While Brian and I rushed off to
run steel wool on our eyes, Bennie went back to gardening
and the little flowerchild Rootie
just smiled and drifted off to study.
She's just as weird as the rest of them.'
'I may be a Knowledge sim, but I hate studying. I'm a party girl, and it's due to me that our
House, Alpha Beta Detonator, is as high
standing as it is. Almost everyday
I'm throwing a party of some description.
It's great fun! And, though I'd never tell
them, it's a great way to search for
partners for Brian, Bennie and Rootie.'
'One down. A young girl from one of the
dorms drops by. Faydra Nettle Rose Verte. One hell of a
name. Apparently she's a clone of a sim that Alice founded a
joint legacy with. Whatever. She is
totally Brian's type. Quirky, pretty and
tough enough to deal with his crap.'
'I don't even have to pretend to casually introduce them. As soon as Brian sets
eyes on her he's hooked.'
'Hello thar. The Gods must be pissed
that you're here talking to me as
opposed to singing sweetly to them, you siren angel.'
'To me, that was way too much, even
from Brian. Fay, however, gobbles it
up. Love really is blind, deaf and a
mute.'
'Mum always comes to these parties, even if Dad refuses. She is
always there when you least want her to
be. While it's gross when she walks in on
Jerry and me, it's amusing when she's embarrassing other people. Brian is her
favourite target, especially when he's
trying to chat up Fay.'
'Did you know that Brian has the cutest
little mole on his little w-'
'MUM!'
'Don't worry about it Brian. And yes, Mrs
Havar, I did know that!'
'Mum loves Fay. She always did respect a
woman with backbone.'
'Mum is always a riot. It's nice having
her around again. After she stopped
complaining that we didn't move into the house she and Dad
shared at college, Mum really got into the spirit of college
again. I guess she appreciates being away from Carrie
and Donna. Rootie likes having her around a lot too.
Bennie and Brian less so, and Admes
tends to just keep out of it.'
'Back in the skilling room, Brian is
making progress with Fay. For all his zeal and cockiness, he's
actually really shy. It took much prodding
from Mum and me before he actually
even asked Fay out.'
'Uhhh....Fay?'
'Yeah?'
'There's a streaker behind you.'
'Is she pretty?'
'Not as pretty as you.'
'Then you can look.'
'Thanks sweetie.'
'Okay, naked chick-'
'I have a name!'
'Whatever. So, I have this brother,
Bennie. He has some bad luck with
a stalker cheerleader and you look like a free spirited girl, so how about you and
him...you know.'
'Uh, thanks, but no thanks. I know
Bennie, he's in some of my classes and
he's already said no. Bennie's...well,
every girl wants him, but he doesn't want any of them. Get over it, Brian. He's a big boy...or
so the rumours go.'
'Gross!'
'After temporarily taking a brake from
sorting out his brother's love life,
Brian swooped in to romance his lady
some more. Brian and Fay were fast
catching up on Admes and Alex
and Jerry and I in the list of the most
sickening couples.'
'Do you have to shove that camera in
my face ALL day? Can't you go and
annoy someone else?'
'Trying to escape from me and my camera, they flee
upstairs to Admes and Alex's room.'
'Bellatrix Havar. Leave now or I'll kill
you myself!'
'Fine! Whatever! I'm just doing my job!'
'Time went past quickly, and we were now fast approaching
the end of our first year at college. All of
us had top grades in our various subjects
and our work is always up to date. When you have a
bizarrely persistent Goddess like Alice forcing you to max all your skills as a child, you tend to
have a lot of spare time later on in life.'
'I took up painting as a hobby, and
made quite a lot of money selling them
on. We were extremely well off
by the end of our first year, which was great. We never had
to covet anything, because we could have whatever we wanted, and Alice made sure that we
got it all. She made good on her promise
to make us all happy.'
'Alex wanted a bird, so Admes got him
this pretty little parrot. Everyone
knew that Alice had wanted Admes to be a girl that she could
have named after herself, so, in a kind
of tribute thing, he named the bird
Alice. She let us all know that she was
pleased by blessing us with a few days
of gorgeous sunshine.'
'The old contest between Brian &
Fay, Admes & Alex and Jerry & me still
rages. While Jerry and I are more prone to physical displays in public, Brian and
Fay had to be commended for persistence. Fay
rarely left the House anymore. Admes
and Alex are more about the lingering doe eyed looks and
the oozing feeling of contentment that
they expel....'
'...however, they can get grossly physical.'
'Give the camera a rest, Trix!'
'But, Alice-'
'NOW!!'
'Things began to look for Rootie when a
rather good looking guy came walking
alone the street.'
'Hey, I'm Beatix, but my family calls me
Beetroot...or Rootie.'
'I'm Cubone. I'm watching over Fay
for Alice and I heard that she's been
spending a lot of time here.'
'Yeah, she's dating my brother, Brian.'
'And Alice is okay with this?'
'Yeah.'
'Good.'
'Rootie felt something, but it was not to be. Fay told us
all that Cubone was indeed her
"babysitter", assigned to her by Alice. She
also told us that Alice and Cubone were
kind of an item, and had been for years.
Poor Rootie.'
'While I watched in horror as Rootie set
herself up for a broken heart, one of
my secret cameras caught another
vulgar display from Brian and Fay. I
cannot remember the last time she went back to her
dorm.'
'It happened. Rootie went in for the kill
and he shot her down. I wanted to warn her, but whenever I tried
she told me to get lost. So much for her
benevolence!
However, she didn't die. Apparently
Rootie is made of sterner stuff than
assumed. She just brushed it off and
went back to gardening with
Bennie.
If only Bennie were as resilient. He's
starting to become a problem.'
'The next day Rootie decided to take
action. Alice gave her the number of a
gypsy who specialised in all things to do with
love. She had lovepotions and spells, and also
arranged blind dates.'
'Her first try was a disaster, as it turned out to be our butler from home. Jeeves
looks as shocked as Rootie, probably
worrying that Mum and Dad would fire him for dating their
daughter.'
'She sent him home straight away, but not
before a fierce lip lock! While the
gypsy looked away, I couldn't take my eyes
off of it. Wow! Rootie has a naughty
side!'
'She tried again, however, after inviting a few
friends around for a toga party.'
'Well...this time she found who she was
looking for. Barbera...well, you
could see them click the moment the
gypsy summoned her. I guess that with the
Queen Bee challenge she'll be attempting
when this college experience is over, we'd assumed that
she'd end up with a sucsession of hot guys. Well, trust
Rootie to be different.'
'Let this be said about her; Rootie wastes no
time. Within a few minutes she had
dragged her lover up to the double
bedroom and staked her claim fully.'
'I mean fully. No time wasted.'
'How cute!'
'Beatrix, why is your sister taking pictures
of us?'
'Just ignore her and hope that Brian starts
doing something more interesting
soon.'
'They were in luck as Brian also
descended on one knee, finally making
Faydra his.'
'Other way around, Trix. There's no doubt that I'm in
control here.'
'Good point Fay.'
'Much like Alex, Fay got along with the
entire family, especially Admes.
Her brazen confidence and his
tempered easy going nature just gelled. I
know it pleased Brian that she got along
with us all so well. Mum loved her too.
Life really was great. Everything was just
working out...except Bennie.'
'Taking a hint from Rootie, Bennie called
the gypsy and asked her for a date. I guess
by this point his thinking was "what do I have to loose?"
Poor boy.'
'That is the first smile he's cracked in forever. Tamara was
a professor, sure, but it was there. Like Admes &
Alex. Like Brian & Faydra. Like Rootie
& Barbera. Like Jerry & me. They were meant to be. And it made us all
happy to see him so happy! Finally, we were all where we
had to be.'
'Admes, don't look, but Bennie's getting
some loving!'
'If you didn't want me to look,why
point it out?'
'Just so you know!'
'You're just as annoying as my real
sisters.'
'Good!'
'Finally, Bennie was with the rest of us
on cloud nine, with his true love.
Tamara was kind and sweet and
caring...and gorgeous. I offered
to give her a hair cut and do her makeup,
but she refused. And that made me like
her even more. She was interested in
more than her looks. She suited Bennie
so well.'
'LOOK! Admes ,I got another fish!'
'Shut up Fay! I got another boot!'
'Umm...guys? Sparkle behind you!'
'Huh?'
'Grr! Like Rootie, Bennie waited all of
a few hours before placing the ring on
his love's finger. Great! This is just
what he needed. Lindsay was a thing
of the past, and Bennie was his old
self again!'
'Get in there little bro!'
'I was trying to before you
interrupted, big brother!'
'My bad!'
'Trix, I can see you in the tree!'
'Sorry Bennie!'
'Ignore her and let's get back to where
we were...'
'Eww...wait! Guys! I'm stuck up here!'
'We'll get you down later. Serves you
right!'
'I miss depressed Bennie.'
'Eventually I was helped of of my
perch,where I settled down to
watch Admes, Brian and Fay fishing.
Like his to-be-wife, Brian was pretty good at fishing,
giving Admes's ego a bruising.'
'Since everyone else had a gold sewing badge and Bennie
was only silver, he upped his game and made enough quilts
to cover the entire country.
And, as you can see, Alice is still with us,
watching and demanding more
food than any parrot should be able to
eat.'
'Our staple diet was pizza. After almost
every class one of us would bring a deep
pan or two home. Thank god for the
impressive metabolism we
inherited from Dad.'
'As Bennie's mood lifted as he spent
more time with Tamara, his garden also benefited. This
also made our resident chef,
Rootie, happy, which made
everyone else happy when we got to eat
her delicious food.'
'Is it meant to smoke? Alex?
ALEX!!
We had more than our share of
disasters too, especially with the
numerous robots being made!'
'Robots aside, other badge earning was
going well. All of us had numerous gold
badges already. First year was almost over
(I know I've been saying that for ages, but things happened really fast!) and we
were shaping up nicely.'
'When we all arrived home from our end of year exam,it was
like a weight had been lifted that we hand;t known was
there. We'd made it! One year down,
three to go!
Kinda exciting really!'
Okay, thanks for that Trixie. So, that's year one over for the first batch of college
kids. Join us next time for their second
year, where things are likely to get
even more interesting for the
eldest of Klaus and Regina's spawn.
See ya'll then.