Hello there. :) Thank you for being here for my first ever Sims 3 story! 😃 (Circa 2015) ****PLEASE NOTE THAT I HAVE MOVED THIS STORY OVER TO MY BLOG WITH REVISIONS AND HAVE MADE IT TONS BETTER! �...
A couple of days went by and Michael still didn't feel ready to tell the kids the news. It seemed they couldn't sense anything suspicious was going on and he hoped he could keep it that way until he was ready.
On this morning he decided to pay a visit to the Hospital to clear his mind and see some of his old co-workers and friends. It was a joyous time and oh how Michael longed to be a doctor again. Someday, was all he could say to himself. Things had gotten MUCH better financially for him and that he was grateful for.
Meanwhile:
After school, Bailey and Derrick went to the park to do their homework for a change.
"So I haven't seen Jenni around with dad in a few days," Bailey said to Derrick while texting Shark. "Really?" Derrick asked while buried in his homework, "I haven't been paying much attention to them anyway." "I mean, don't get me wrong," Bailey said shifting her weight on the park bench, "Jenni is a really nice lady but...she's not Mom." "No one will ever be as good as mom," Derrick said, "she raised us all the while dealing with her own issues. That takes a great deal of strength. I just wish I would've told her that, and many other ways I appreciated her, before she died." "Yeah," Bailey said staring off in the distance. "I wish I did too." It was silent for a few minutes and during that time Bailey just couldn't get herself to do her homework. She got a text from Shark saying he and his buddies were going to see a movie and asked if she wanted to join. Sure, she texted back, I'll meet you there. Taking a deep breath she said to her brother, "Well, I'm gonna go meet Shark at the movies. See you back at home." "Whatever," Derrick said while rolling his eyes.
Once he finished his homework, Derrick stood up and stretched. Then he noticed a girl he had run into on a few occasions at school, reading a book by the water fountain. Her name was Jade Greenwood. He thought she was pretty cute, but never thought a guy like him would have a chance with someone as popular as her. While lost in his thoughts, Jade looked up to see him staring at her. Derrick didn't notice her gaze.
"You ok?" he heard a voice ask. It was Jade. Oh! "Is that you Derrick?" she asked, closing her book and coming toward him. "Uhhh," Derrick mumbled, "Yes! It is. Sorry about that." Now Jade's eyes were just a couple of feet away from his. "How are you doing?" she asked. "I haven't seen you in a while." I can't believe she actually remembered my NAME!!!
"Pretty good," Derrick answered with a sigh and stuffing his hands in his pocket. Geez, why am I so nervous? "That's good," Jade said. "Your dad is Doctor Holland right? I heard my mom talking about running into him at the store the other day and how happy she was to see him happy." "Yeah, uh, well," Derrick said scratching his head, "he and us have been doing much better since mom died. He seems to be handling it better than me and my sister thought he would..." "How so?" Jade asked, slightly cocking her head. "Well," he said, "It has only been a year since mom died and he already has a girlfriend." "Ohhh," Jade said pausing. She didn't really know what to say about that. However she did want to say,"I don't know if I ever told you how sorry I was to hear about your Mom. You guys sure were the talk of the town for a while." "I bet," Derrick said. Jade inched in a little closer to him and said, "Would you like to hang out for a bit?" Now THAT got Derrick's attention! Really? She wants to hang out with ME!? "Sure!" He said happily. Then they took a stroll around the park talking about whatever.
Back at home, Molly and Andrea were playing tag. Michael watched them outside the kitchen window with a smile, just as he had put Tristan in the high chair for his mid afternoon meal. Oh to be a child again, he thought. When the girls ran back inside, they leaned forward catching their breaths.
"Hey, you two should take it easy," Michael said. "What do you think we are doing dad?" Molly said. Michael chuckled. True. "Why aren't you hanging out with Jenni dad?" Andrea asked. There was a pause. He wasn't expecting that question. "Oh," Michael began, "she hasn't been feeling well." "Oh," the girls said together. Then there was a longer pause, along with the huffs and heaves from the girls and Tristan making noises while playing with his food. "Hey girls," Michael said breaking the silence. They looked up at him. "You two...LIKE Jenni, don't you?" "Sure dad," Andrea answered. It took Molly a second though. "Yeah. She's real nice to us dad." Michael smiled with a little sense of relief. "I'm glad," he said. "I know it might seem weird for you to see me with another woman but," he paused studying their faces, "but she's really helped me to feel happy and being happy has helped me better take care of all of you." Molly and Andrea nodded, understanding. "I love you guys," Michael said from the bottom of his heart. "We love you two dad," the girls said together. Michael went over and gave each a hug and a kiss and then they darted off to the next room. "Ok Tristan," Michael said with a sigh, "Let's get you cleaned up.
Back at the park, it was nearly 5pm and Derrick couldn't believe he had been chatting up a storm with Jade for 2 hours! They talked about life and all sorts of silly teenage stuff. He felt like he was developing a crush. He wished he could know how Jade felt.
"What time is it?" Jade asked him. Derrick glanced at his watch and said, "It's 4:55." "Oh dear," Jade said worriedly, "I gotta get home or my dad is gonna kill me! We usually have dinner right about now." Derrick REALLY didn't want her to go. "C'mon, we can hang for a few minutes longer can't we?" he asked. "This has been really fun." "It has," Jade said with a smile, "but I really do have to go..." A strange sensation came over Derrick. So many rolling emotions. He really felt some chemistry going on between them this afternoon and this feeling was unlike anything he had ever experienced. In fact, he couldn't remember EVER feeling this way about a girl or even if he had a former crush! Heck, she even asked him for a massage!
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FAMILY CHALLENGE STORY!","id":"message:917383","revisionNum":6,"repliesCount":626,"author":{"__ref":"User:user:159415"},"depth":0,"hasGivenKudo":false,"board":{"__ref":"Forum:board:the-sims-3-creative-corner-en"},"conversation":{"__ref":"Conversation:conversation:917383"},"readOnly":false,"editFrozen":false,"moderationData":{"__ref":"ModerationData:moderation_data:917383"},"body@stripHtml({\"truncateLength\":200})":" Hello there. :) Thank you for being here for my first ever Sims 3 story! 😃 (Circa 2015) ****PLEASE NOTE THAT I HAVE MOVED THIS STORY OVER TO MY BLOG WITH REVISIONS AND HAVE MADE IT TONS BETTER! �...","body@stringLength":"8286","rawBody":"
Hello there. :) Thank you for being here for my first ever Sims 3 story! 😃 (Circa 2015)
****PLEASE NOTE THAT I HAVE MOVED THIS STORY OVER TO MY BLOG WITH REVISIONS AND HAVE MADE IT TONS BETTER! 😀**** That's where you'll want to go to enjoy it fully! Read it all here😉
*And since the migration of this thread to the brand new Sims 3 forums (July 2024) all the pictures to the story don't show up. 😢 Sadly I do not have the time to fix all the images as is this is a VERY long story and it's LOTS of pictures to go through... Sigh... All the more reason to read it on my blog linked above. 😊
Of course you can continue reading here on this thread and make comments, but the story won't be as great as it is now on my blog - especially without pictures. Enjoy either way! Thank you for reading! 💗
If you don't feel like following the link (in the previous post), here is the original story (with the challenge details):
The Single Dad With 5 Kids Challenge *First you create a Father (not one with the \"dislikes children\" trait. It's not one of THOSE challenges). And create 5 kids: at least 2 teens, one kid and a toddler. The last one can be whatever you want. For example: I did 2 teens, 2 children and 1 toddler. To make things easier for me, I created a wife and was going to immediately kill her off right at the beginning of the game. Sounds terrible I know, but it would be fun to have her ghost roaming around their home during the story. ;) Second: You then move them into an empty lot or a 4 bedroom home (you CAN use Familyfunds to build them a NEW home or update the one you move them into). After that, use the familyfunds cheat again to have only 2,000 in the family bank account. After the funeral expenses the bank account got pretty dried up... Third: The father has to stay home and raise all 5 kids to adulthood OR until you get your first grandchild.
RULES Your father can only have a part-time job or he can be self employed Kids can be home schooled, but can't attend boarding school Teens can't have jobs! They need to focus on school NO CHEATS! (Except for Familyfunds in the very beginning) This challenge is to be set on the Normal Lifespan
So there's the challenge and the rules. I created my family using my favorite sim of all time to be the Father: Michael Holland. :) Glad I saved him to the Sim Bin. Here is his beginning story: (Which I wrote. 😉 This didn't come with the challenge. It's kind of long but bear with me).
\"When Michael Holland met Bronwyn Innaway as a young adult, he was so struck by her beauty that even though he was usually shy with approaching girls, he just HAD to approach her and introduce himself! Little did he know that Bronwyn thought he was pretty cute too, perhaps a little nerdy looking but nonetheless cute and she was actually wondering if he would approach her first.
The two hit it off quickly...which was such a surprise to them both! They never clicked with anyone else this way before. Soon they began to spend more and more time together and were falling in love. During this time, however, Michael learned that while Bronwyn seemed perfect in every way to him...she had an eating disorder that she had been struggling with since her teenage years. Michael always tried to find ways to help her with it and even encouraged her to get some help, which she did. It really seemed to help and her health was beginning to look good. She couldn't thank Michael enough for helping to encourage her.
In no time at all they were married and moved to Twinbrook into a small trailer where they started to begin their new life together. Because of Bronwyn's health and because it had kind of been a dream of his, Michael went to medical school in hopes of becoming a renowned doctor. Helping others is what he's always enjoyed. It was throughout medical school that they raised their first 3 children: Bailey, Derrick and Molly. Through those 8 years Bronwyn still struggled with her anorexia. It seemed that medications and therapy weren't working the way they used to, but she and Michael refused to give up hope and with a lot of help and support from friends and family they were able to keep moving forward with Bronwyn's health in an ok state. After graduating from Med school and entering into his own practice (and buying his family a new home ;) ) Bronwyn shared the news to Michael that she was pregnant again. While he was excited, he was also nervous how the pregnancy would go with her health. Monitoring her carefully, and Bronwyn doing her best to stay nourished so the baby could grow strong, she delivered Andrea a month early.
4 years later with Bronwyn's health going up and down, she surprisingly got pregnant again...a month before she and Michael decided that maybe it would be best to get her tubes tied because of her poor health and how high risk her last pregnancy was. Abortion was out of the question...so both of them were determined to BEAT her eating disorder for the life of their last child! Bronwyn got on a different pregnancy safe antidepressant, went to group psychotherapy, Nutritional counseling and had her health closely monitored as usual by her husband and her OB. For the first time in a while things were really looking up for her, she gained weight to a healthy weight and the baby was thriving. Her, Michael and the kids were very hopeful of their mom's condition.
Their son, Tristan, was born and life was full of excitement. A month after his birth, Bronwyn realized that her more serious than usual baby blues were not going away. She expressed to Michael that she worried she had postpartum depression. After watching her inability to be able to do things lately, he believed her...and began to start feeling depressed himself. What ELSE could go wrong with the love of his life?? This was not what SHE or the rest of their family needed! Bronwyn equally felt the same way, which made her fall even further into her dark pit of depression. She couldn't eat anymore...this time it was more than just the anorexia. While trying to get help and get on an increased dose of meds....nothing was helping poor Bronwyn anymore...
A month after Tristan's 2nd birthday, Michael woke up to go to work one morning and found that his dear sweet love, Bronwyn, had passed away in her sleep. In an instant, his world was turned upside down and his heart broken....the same thing happened with the children. For a long time Michael couldn't work...he had to see a therapist regularly and the kids were falling back in school. Family members helped when they could and after a year of misery, Michael finally felt he was able to work again. But...the demands of the job would not work with him having to take care of his family alone. With a heavy heart, he quit his practice and stayed home to raise the kids for a time until he found a part time job. Money was SO tight and this part-time job was a HUGE decrease in pay. Michael wondered how their family would survive? But he HAD to do what he could. He had to give it his all. And this is where his new life story begins.
What do you think? 🙂
I'm sure some of you have figured this out, but Bronwyn died of starvation. 😔 (Easiest way to cause a death in your sims story...) I know, it's so sad. 😥 But it helped me come up with a good story for my Father sim and his family. Just sayin'....
Oh and I just want to add that being a depression sufferer myself (after having my child) Mental Illness is a very REAL medical condition and should be treated the same as someone with a chronic physical illness. 👏🏻 I just want to raise awareness to that, not cause an argument.
Hello there. :) Thank you for being here for my first ever Sims 3 story! 😃 (Circa 2015)
****PLEASE NOTE THAT I HAVE MOVED THIS STORY OVER TO MY BLOG WITH REVISIONS AND HAVE MADE IT TONS BETTER! 😀**** That's where you'll want to go to enjoy it fully! Read it all here😉
*And since the migration of this thread to the brand new Sims 3 forums (July 2024) all the pictures to the story don't show up. 😢 Sadly I do not have the time to fix all the images as is this is a VERY long story and it's LOTS of pictures to go through... Sigh... All the more reason to read it on my blog linked above. 😊
Of course you can continue reading here on this thread and make comments, but the story won't be as great as it is now on my blog - especially without pictures. Enjoy either way! Thank you for reading! 💗
If you don't feel like following the link (in the previous post), here is the original story (with the challenge details):
The Single Dad With 5 Kids Challenge *First you create a Father (not one with the \"dislikes children\" trait. It's not one of THOSE challenges). And create 5 kids: at least 2 teens, one kid and a toddler. The last one can be whatever you want. For example: I did 2 teens, 2 children and 1 toddler. To make things easier for me, I created a wife and was going to immediately kill her off right at the beginning of the game. Sounds terrible I know, but it would be fun to have her ghost roaming around their home during the story. ;) Second: You then move them into an empty lot or a 4 bedroom home (you CAN use Familyfunds to build them a NEW home or update the one you move them into). After that, use the familyfunds cheat again to have only 2,000 in the family bank account. After the funeral expenses the bank account got pretty dried up... Third: The father has to stay home and raise all 5 kids to adulthood OR until you get your first grandchild.
RULES Your father can only have a part-time job or he can be self employed Kids can be home schooled, but can't attend boarding school Teens can't have jobs! They need to focus on school NO CHEATS! (Except for Familyfunds in the very beginning) This challenge is to be set on the Normal Lifespan
So there's the challenge and the rules. I created my family using my favorite sim of all time to be the Father: Michael Holland. :) Glad I saved him to the Sim Bin. Here is his beginning story: (Which I wrote. 😉 This didn't come with the challenge. It's kind of long but bear with me).
\"When Michael Holland met Bronwyn Innaway as a young adult, he was so struck by her beauty that even though he was usually shy with approaching girls, he just HAD to approach her and introduce himself! Little did he know that Bronwyn thought he was pretty cute too, perhaps a little nerdy looking but nonetheless cute and she was actually wondering if he would approach her first.
The two hit it off quickly...which was such a surprise to them both! They never clicked with anyone else this way before. Soon they began to spend more and more time together and were falling in love. During this time, however, Michael learned that while Bronwyn seemed perfect in every way to him...she had an eating disorder that she had been struggling with since her teenage years. Michael always tried to find ways to help her with it and even encouraged her to get some help, which she did. It really seemed to help and her health was beginning to look good. She couldn't thank Michael enough for helping to encourage her.
In no time at all they were married and moved to Twinbrook into a small trailer where they started to begin their new life together. Because of Bronwyn's health and because it had kind of been a dream of his, Michael went to medical school in hopes of becoming a renowned doctor. Helping others is what he's always enjoyed. It was throughout medical school that they raised their first 3 children: Bailey, Derrick and Molly. Through those 8 years Bronwyn still struggled with her anorexia. It seemed that medications and therapy weren't working the way they used to, but she and Michael refused to give up hope and with a lot of help and support from friends and family they were able to keep moving forward with Bronwyn's health in an ok state. After graduating from Med school and entering into his own practice (and buying his family a new home ;) ) Bronwyn shared the news to Michael that she was pregnant again. While he was excited, he was also nervous how the pregnancy would go with her health. Monitoring her carefully, and Bronwyn doing her best to stay nourished so the baby could grow strong, she delivered Andrea a month early.
4 years later with Bronwyn's health going up and down, she surprisingly got pregnant again...a month before she and Michael decided that maybe it would be best to get her tubes tied because of her poor health and how high risk her last pregnancy was. Abortion was out of the question...so both of them were determined to BEAT her eating disorder for the life of their last child! Bronwyn got on a different pregnancy safe antidepressant, went to group psychotherapy, Nutritional counseling and had her health closely monitored as usual by her husband and her OB. For the first time in a while things were really looking up for her, she gained weight to a healthy weight and the baby was thriving. Her, Michael and the kids were very hopeful of their mom's condition.
Their son, Tristan, was born and life was full of excitement. A month after his birth, Bronwyn realized that her more serious than usual baby blues were not going away. She expressed to Michael that she worried she had postpartum depression. After watching her inability to be able to do things lately, he believed her...and began to start feeling depressed himself. What ELSE could go wrong with the love of his life?? This was not what SHE or the rest of their family needed! Bronwyn equally felt the same way, which made her fall even further into her dark pit of depression. She couldn't eat anymore...this time it was more than just the anorexia. While trying to get help and get on an increased dose of meds....nothing was helping poor Bronwyn anymore...
A month after Tristan's 2nd birthday, Michael woke up to go to work one morning and found that his dear sweet love, Bronwyn, had passed away in her sleep. In an instant, his world was turned upside down and his heart broken....the same thing happened with the children. For a long time Michael couldn't work...he had to see a therapist regularly and the kids were falling back in school. Family members helped when they could and after a year of misery, Michael finally felt he was able to work again. But...the demands of the job would not work with him having to take care of his family alone. With a heavy heart, he quit his practice and stayed home to raise the kids for a time until he found a part time job. Money was SO tight and this part-time job was a HUGE decrease in pay. Michael wondered how their family would survive? But he HAD to do what he could. He had to give it his all. And this is where his new life story begins.
What do you think? 🙂
I'm sure some of you have figured this out, but Bronwyn died of starvation. 😔 (Easiest way to cause a death in your sims story...) I know, it's so sad. 😥 But it helped me come up with a good story for my Father sim and his family. Just sayin'....
Oh and I just want to add that being a depression sufferer myself (after having my child) Mental Illness is a very REAL medical condition and should be treated the same as someone with a chronic physical illness. 👏🏻 I just want to raise awareness to that, not cause an argument.
Anyway,
Enjoy! And please follow this thread! 😊
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A couple of days went by and Michael still didn't feel ready to tell the kids the news. It seemed they couldn't sense anything suspicious was going on and he hoped he could keep it that way until he was ready.
On this morning he decided to pay a visit to the Hospital to clear his mind and see some of his old co-workers and friends. It was a joyous time and oh how Michael longed to be a doctor again. Someday, was all he could say to himself. Things had gotten MUCH better financially for him and that he was grateful for.
Meanwhile:
After school, Bailey and Derrick went to the park to do their homework for a change.
\"So I haven't seen Jenni around with dad in a few days,\" Bailey said to Derrick while texting Shark. \"Really?\" Derrick asked while buried in his homework, \"I haven't been paying much attention to them anyway.\" \"I mean, don't get me wrong,\" Bailey said shifting her weight on the park bench, \"Jenni is a really nice lady but...she's not Mom.\" \"No one will ever be as good as mom,\" Derrick said, \"she raised us all the while dealing with her own issues. That takes a great deal of strength. I just wish I would've told her that, and many other ways I appreciated her, before she died.\" \"Yeah,\" Bailey said staring off in the distance. \"I wish I did too.\" It was silent for a few minutes and during that time Bailey just couldn't get herself to do her homework. She got a text from Shark saying he and his buddies were going to see a movie and asked if she wanted to join. Sure, she texted back, I'll meet you there. Taking a deep breath she said to her brother, \"Well, I'm gonna go meet Shark at the movies. See you back at home.\" \"Whatever,\" Derrick said while rolling his eyes.
Once he finished his homework, Derrick stood up and stretched. Then he noticed a girl he had run into on a few occasions at school, reading a book by the water fountain. Her name was Jade Greenwood. He thought she was pretty cute, but never thought a guy like him would have a chance with someone as popular as her. While lost in his thoughts, Jade looked up to see him staring at her. Derrick didn't notice her gaze.
\"You ok?\" he heard a voice ask. It was Jade. Oh! \"Is that you Derrick?\" she asked, closing her book and coming toward him. \"Uhhh,\" Derrick mumbled, \"Yes! It is. Sorry about that.\" Now Jade's eyes were just a couple of feet away from his. \"How are you doing?\" she asked. \"I haven't seen you in a while.\" I can't believe she actually remembered my NAME!!!
\"Pretty good,\" Derrick answered with a sigh and stuffing his hands in his pocket. Geez, why am I so nervous? \"That's good,\" Jade said. \"Your dad is Doctor Holland right? I heard my mom talking about running into him at the store the other day and how happy she was to see him happy.\" \"Yeah, uh, well,\" Derrick said scratching his head, \"he and us have been doing much better since mom died. He seems to be handling it better than me and my sister thought he would...\" \"How so?\" Jade asked, slightly cocking her head. \"Well,\" he said, \"It has only been a year since mom died and he already has a girlfriend.\" \"Ohhh,\" Jade said pausing. She didn't really know what to say about that. However she did want to say,\"I don't know if I ever told you how sorry I was to hear about your Mom. You guys sure were the talk of the town for a while.\" \"I bet,\" Derrick said. Jade inched in a little closer to him and said, \"Would you like to hang out for a bit?\" Now THAT got Derrick's attention! Really? She wants to hang out with ME!? \"Sure!\" He said happily. Then they took a stroll around the park talking about whatever.
Back at home, Molly and Andrea were playing tag. Michael watched them outside the kitchen window with a smile, just as he had put Tristan in the high chair for his mid afternoon meal. Oh to be a child again, he thought. When the girls ran back inside, they leaned forward catching their breaths.
\"Hey, you two should take it easy,\" Michael said. \"What do you think we are doing dad?\" Molly said. Michael chuckled. True. \"Why aren't you hanging out with Jenni dad?\" Andrea asked. There was a pause. He wasn't expecting that question. \"Oh,\" Michael began, \"she hasn't been feeling well.\" \"Oh,\" the girls said together. Then there was a longer pause, along with the huffs and heaves from the girls and Tristan making noises while playing with his food. \"Hey girls,\" Michael said breaking the silence. They looked up at him. \"You two...LIKE Jenni, don't you?\" \"Sure dad,\" Andrea answered. It took Molly a second though. \"Yeah. She's real nice to us dad.\" Michael smiled with a little sense of relief. \"I'm glad,\" he said. \"I know it might seem weird for you to see me with another woman but,\" he paused studying their faces, \"but she's really helped me to feel happy and being happy has helped me better take care of all of you.\" Molly and Andrea nodded, understanding. \"I love you guys,\" Michael said from the bottom of his heart. \"We love you two dad,\" the girls said together. Michael went over and gave each a hug and a kiss and then they darted off to the next room. \"Ok Tristan,\" Michael said with a sigh, \"Let's get you cleaned up.
Back at the park, it was nearly 5pm and Derrick couldn't believe he had been chatting up a storm with Jade for 2 hours! They talked about life and all sorts of silly teenage stuff. He felt like he was developing a crush. He wished he could know how Jade felt.
\"What time is it?\" Jade asked him. Derrick glanced at his watch and said, \"It's 4:55.\" \"Oh dear,\" Jade said worriedly, \"I gotta get home or my dad is gonna kill me! We usually have dinner right about now.\" Derrick REALLY didn't want her to go. \"C'mon, we can hang for a few minutes longer can't we?\" he asked. \"This has been really fun.\" \"It has,\" Jade said with a smile, \"but I really do have to go...\" A strange sensation came over Derrick. So many rolling emotions. He really felt some chemistry going on between them this afternoon and this feeling was unlike anything he had ever experienced. In fact, he couldn't remember EVER feeling this way about a girl or even if he had a former crush! Heck, she even asked him for a massage!
\"I don't know what came over me! I'm so so sorry Jade!! Please...can we just forget it ever happened?\" Even though he didn't want to.
Jade looked away and sighed. \"Fine,\" she said. \"I really need to go now. Goodnight Derrick.\" And with that she walked away.
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A couple of days went by and Michael still didn't feel ready to tell the kids the news. It seemed they couldn't sense anything suspicious was going on and he hoped he could keep it that way until he was ready.
On this morning he decided to pay a visit to the Hospital to clear his mind and see some of his old co-workers and friends. It was a joyous time and oh how Michael longed to be a doctor again. Someday, was all he could say to himself. Things had gotten MUCH better financially for him and that he was grateful for.
Meanwhile:
After school, Bailey and Derrick went to the park to do their homework for a change.
\"So I haven't seen Jenni around with dad in a few days,\" Bailey said to Derrick while texting Shark. \"Really?\" Derrick asked while buried in his homework, \"I haven't been paying much attention to them anyway.\" \"I mean, don't get me wrong,\" Bailey said shifting her weight on the park bench, \"Jenni is a really nice lady but...she's not Mom.\" \"No one will ever be as good as mom,\" Derrick said, \"she raised us all the while dealing with her own issues. That takes a great deal of strength. I just wish I would've told her that, and many other ways I appreciated her, before she died.\" \"Yeah,\" Bailey said staring off in the distance. \"I wish I did too.\" It was silent for a few minutes and during that time Bailey just couldn't get herself to do her homework. She got a text from Shark saying he and his buddies were going to see a movie and asked if she wanted to join. Sure, she texted back, I'll meet you there. Taking a deep breath she said to her brother, \"Well, I'm gonna go meet Shark at the movies. See you back at home.\" \"Whatever,\" Derrick said while rolling his eyes.
Once he finished his homework, Derrick stood up and stretched. Then he noticed a girl he had run into on a few occasions at school, reading a book by the water fountain. Her name was Jade Greenwood. He thought she was pretty cute, but never thought a guy like him would have a chance with someone as popular as her. While lost in his thoughts, Jade looked up to see him staring at her. Derrick didn't notice her gaze.
\"You ok?\" he heard a voice ask. It was Jade. Oh! \"Is that you Derrick?\" she asked, closing her book and coming toward him. \"Uhhh,\" Derrick mumbled, \"Yes! It is. Sorry about that.\" Now Jade's eyes were just a couple of feet away from his. \"How are you doing?\" she asked. \"I haven't seen you in a while.\" I can't believe she actually remembered my NAME!!!
\"Pretty good,\" Derrick answered with a sigh and stuffing his hands in his pocket. Geez, why am I so nervous? \"That's good,\" Jade said. \"Your dad is Doctor Holland right? I heard my mom talking about running into him at the store the other day and how happy she was to see him happy.\" \"Yeah, uh, well,\" Derrick said scratching his head, \"he and us have been doing much better since mom died. He seems to be handling it better than me and my sister thought he would...\" \"How so?\" Jade asked, slightly cocking her head. \"Well,\" he said, \"It has only been a year since mom died and he already has a girlfriend.\" \"Ohhh,\" Jade said pausing. She didn't really know what to say about that. However she did want to say,\"I don't know if I ever told you how sorry I was to hear about your Mom. You guys sure were the talk of the town for a while.\" \"I bet,\" Derrick said. Jade inched in a little closer to him and said, \"Would you like to hang out for a bit?\" Now THAT got Derrick's attention! Really? She wants to hang out with ME!? \"Sure!\" He said happily. Then they took a stroll around the park talking about whatever.
Back at home, Molly and Andrea were playing tag. Michael watched them outside the kitchen window with a smile, just as he had put Tristan in the high chair for his mid afternoon meal. Oh to be a child again, he thought. When the girls ran back inside, they leaned forward catching their breaths.
\"Hey, you two should take it easy,\" Michael said. \"What do you think we are doing dad?\" Molly said. Michael chuckled. True. \"Why aren't you hanging out with Jenni dad?\" Andrea asked. There was a pause. He wasn't expecting that question. \"Oh,\" Michael began, \"she hasn't been feeling well.\" \"Oh,\" the girls said together. Then there was a longer pause, along with the huffs and heaves from the girls and Tristan making noises while playing with his food. \"Hey girls,\" Michael said breaking the silence. They looked up at him. \"You two...LIKE Jenni, don't you?\" \"Sure dad,\" Andrea answered. It took Molly a second though. \"Yeah. She's real nice to us dad.\" Michael smiled with a little sense of relief. \"I'm glad,\" he said. \"I know it might seem weird for you to see me with another woman but,\" he paused studying their faces, \"but she's really helped me to feel happy and being happy has helped me better take care of all of you.\" Molly and Andrea nodded, understanding. \"I love you guys,\" Michael said from the bottom of his heart. \"We love you two dad,\" the girls said together. Michael went over and gave each a hug and a kiss and then they darted off to the next room. \"Ok Tristan,\" Michael said with a sigh, \"Let's get you cleaned up.
Back at the park, it was nearly 5pm and Derrick couldn't believe he had been chatting up a storm with Jade for 2 hours! They talked about life and all sorts of silly teenage stuff. He felt like he was developing a crush. He wished he could know how Jade felt.
\"What time is it?\" Jade asked him. Derrick glanced at his watch and said, \"It's 4:55.\" \"Oh dear,\" Jade said worriedly, \"I gotta get home or my dad is gonna kill me! We usually have dinner right about now.\" Derrick REALLY didn't want her to go. \"C'mon, we can hang for a few minutes longer can't we?\" he asked. \"This has been really fun.\" \"It has,\" Jade said with a smile, \"but I really do have to go...\" A strange sensation came over Derrick. So many rolling emotions. He really felt some chemistry going on between them this afternoon and this feeling was unlike anything he had ever experienced. In fact, he couldn't remember EVER feeling this way about a girl or even if he had a former crush! Heck, she even asked him for a massage!
