Re: Under The Tartosan Sun
Thank you @rosemow❤️
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I've fought the urge to make edits or fix typos. I'm posting these here just like they appeared on the other forum.🙂
Chapter Three
Danielle tried to talk Summer into staying in Tartosa to showcase her culinary skills as a caterer. Summer loved the idea, but not as much as she does Travis. Danielle finally gave up and enjoyed the rest of their time together before Summer flew home. She knows how this is going to end for Summer, but Summer is determined to find out the hard way. As the days and weeks pass Summer tries unsuccessfully to win over Travis, but it's just one endless string of brush offs, one after another.
One of those brush offs resulted in stare that could kill, if in fact looks could kill.
At least once a week Danielle would call to check up on her best friend. And on one call she couldn't help bringing up her own failed romance with Travis back in high school...
Danielle: Why are you still wasting your time chasing after Travis? You know what he's like.
Summer: I'm not wasting my time. I love him and I know deep down he loves me too. He's just playing hard to get.
Danielle: Travis? Our Travis? Playing hard to get? The man will chase after any woman with a pulse if there's something there he wants. You haven't forgotten about what happened when I dated him back in senior year did you?
Summer: No. But he's different now.
Danielle: He hasn't changed, other than to be a few years older. He's still Travis. Yes, he is fun to hang around with, but he's a disaster to date. He's a charmer, and he's great company, but he has three great loves in his life, and neither you nor I were or are one of them. He's obsessed with his computers, his video games, and himself. Girl if you don't come to your senses. and let it be, he's going to break your heart in a million pieces. I know you and your crushes, they rarely end well. And this time I'm not there in person to pick you up. I am a phone call away, anytime, but please stop this silly game before you get hurt.
Summer: I'll think about it.
Danielle: I know you better than that Summer Holiday. I guess I better keep my phone handy and plane tickets ready.
Later that week, Danielle got the phone call she'd been waiting for. No not that one, the one from the publishers. It seems they want her to come to San Myshuno to discuss the details of her brand new book deal!
She called up Summer to see if she could join her in San Myshuno to celebrate, but it was short notice so Danielle was stuck celebrating solo. That didn't stop her though.
Well, that about does it for this week. Oh before we go, why don't we have a little peek at what's going on back in Willow Creek shall we?
Ohhhhhh girl, things are about to get a bit bumpy....
Chapter Four
This time around we will spend our time in Willow Creek. Danielle is fine and enjoying the sun and surf in Tartosa, and checking out the available range of boy toys in town. She's hard at work on her first novel but she doesn't yet have a title for it. With that all said, on with the show.
When we were last with the BFF trio Travis was flirting outrageously with Liberty. He thought things were going great, but secretly Liberty was having second thoughts. She got swept up in the rush of having a very attractive man showing interest in her, something that sadly she doesn't get enough of. That was why she momentarily fell for Travis' flirting, but she knew how Summer felt about Travis, and Liberty would not do anything intentional to hurt her feelings. Liberty knew she had to get out of that room fast. As she started for the door, Travis was thinking he had the go ahead to make the next move, but Liberty made it clear that this was definitely a no!
Liberty hurried out of the room and made her way to her bedroom where she sat alone as she wondered and worried about what had just happened. What had she done? She hadn't done anything wrong. Travis made the first move, and totally uninvited too. She hadn't sent any signals, she knew that for a fact. But she had fallen for it, for just a moment all the same. Liberty couldn't stop herself wrongly thinking she had been at least partly to blame.
For that matter what was on Travis' mind when he tried to kiss her as she was leaving? Just what did he plan to do? How far did he think he was entitled to go?
What is she going to do about Summer? But Summer wasn't home, and if Travis kept his mouth shut Summer would never know.
Still the guilt, which was churning in Liberty's mind, would not go away.
The next couple of weeks passed uneventfully as life continued as it always had in the BFF household. But, where dirty little secrets lie, somebody will accidentally uncover them. And so it goes here too, as Summer is about to get the shock of her life when she inadvertently stumbles across Travis on the phone with his buddy Marcus Flex.
"Hey, T-Dawg, it's Marcus, howya doin' big man? Got any hot gossip I can spread down at the gym? How's work?"
"Hey, Marcus! What's up brother? How's things at the gym?"
"Oh things is pumpin' my man, pumpin'! Get it pumping'? I kill me man. How's things at the casa bro? You don't know how much we envy you living with two hot women."
Yeah it is pretty good. But man, Liberty is really messin' with my head. I'm sitting there with her the night while Summer was at work, and she's all revved up and drops me the signal, and I laid on the charm. She's flirting with me.....
Travis finishes his call and heads out before Summer can regain her wits and confront him. But Liberty is still in the house and it's time for a very loud chat..
Summer: You have some nerve! You know how I feel about Travis and you go and try to steal him from me! How could you stab me in the back like that?
Liberty: What in the world are you talking about? What would make you think I'm trying to steal Travis from you? Have you lost your mind?
Summer: Don't play dumb with me! I heard Travis telling someone over the phone that you were flirting with him! Deny it! I dare you!
Liberty: I don't deny it, I did, but he flirted with me first! Yes! I did flirt with him. I got swept up in the moment. But as soon as I answered his flirt with my own I felt horrible and left the room! He started all this, and he's trying to blame me? And you'd believe him without talking to me first!! You're the one with some nerve Summer Holiday! I got caught up in the moment with a very attractive man because I so rarely get attention from good looking men. All I ever get are the losers and creeps.
Summer: That's not true and you know it Liberty!
Liberty: No! That is the truth Summer but you don't know it because every time I went out it was clubbing with you and Danielle and you two latched on to all the good looking guys! You two had all the fun, but what did I get? I got left behind to hold the table for you two and your boy toys and to make sure no one spiked your drinks! You know what else I got? I got left one-on-one with the creeps and losers. Oh yeah that's the truth that you never saw because you were too busy being the life of the party! It's a testament to how much I love you and Danielle that I put myself through that humiliation time after time. Not one time did you two ever stop to think, maybe we should hang with Liberty for awhile or insist that the guys include her too. Oh yeah, that's the truth Summer! Like I said I love you two like sisters but after that don't come up here getting in my face because of one harmless little flirt! Oooo, you have some nerve!
Summer: Oh my god Liberty, I..I..I don't know what to say,
Liberty: "Sorry, and I promise I'll never let that happen again", would be a really good place to start.
Summer: Oh my god yes. Liberty, from the bottom of my heart I promise never to take you for granted, that you will always be an equal with me. And Danielle I'm sure!
Liberty: I'll give her this lecture too someday, you can bet on that.
Liberty: Now let's bury the hatchet. And I would suggest burying it in one Travis Scott!
Later that evening an unsuspecting Travis comes home to a storm of epic proportions.
Summer: You! Are!
Liberty: A! Deadman!
Travis: Eep! This is not going to end well for me is it?
Summer: Take a good look at our faces and ask yourself what you think the answer to that idiotic question is?
Travis: Can I at least ask what this is all about?
LIberty: I suppose, consider it your last request!
Summer: How dare you lie to whoever that was you were on the phone with earlier and tell them Liberty was putting the moves on you, you slimeball! What do you have to say for yourself? Choose your words wisely, because they may be your last!
Travis: Hmmm, At this point, ummm.....sorry.
Summer and Liberty (in unison): Good choice!
Summer: When we're done here, you are making like a banana and splitting. I'm on the phone to Danielle to arrange taking her up on her offer to come to Tartosa and make my name over there. Liberty here gets the house, so go grab what you can carry and get out. Come back tomorrow for the rest. Goodbye and good riddance!
I do need to look up how to include large chunks of text and images under a single spoiler tag. Chapter four is long, but it's a baby compared to some of the chapters to come.🙂
- @DaniRose2143 Secret: I always deleted Travis! Shhh.. don't tell...
@Ellupelluellu Summer and Liberty came very close to deleting him themselves!🤣 Your secret is safe with me sister...
It was great reading the 2 chapters 🙂 I am glad that they told Travis to leave and that Summer is moving to Tartosa.
Haha, I deleted that entire household. 😃 So it's cool to rediscover them here.
Hey everyone👋 I hope you're all doing good.🙂
So I have a couple of problems with transferring Under The Tartosan Sun over from the old forums. The process of converting from BBCode to HTML takes a lot longer than I thought. The four chapters I did over the weekend took anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour each. I'm not far away from getting into the really long chapters which would take hours apiece. I was hoping it get easier and faster as I did more, and it has, but it's still going to be an hours long process I'm afraid.
There's an even bigger problem though. As I found out last night it's likely impossible to put text under spoiler tags. I tried it on another thread and couldn't make it work. Some of the chapters are over 2000 words, even 3000😲, so putting a lot of that under spoiler tags is a must. With the old forums it was a breeze, but it appears that HTML isn't really set up to handle posts as big as mine and that the spoiler tags were only meant for hiding pictures and screenshots, not text.
I have Wednesday's off so I'll have all night tomorrow and all day on Wednesday to try and think of another way to share the story with you if you're still interested. Hopefully I can get something figured out, otherwise I'm sorry if I got everyone's hopes up.
I am sorry that you are having these issues with transferring your story over. It would take a long time and a lot of work for you for each chapter. Your health is the most important thing, so please care about yourself and don’t make yourself tired.
Thank you @rosemow❤️ I didn't expect it to be easy, but I never thought it would be this difficult either. I'm not giving up but I do need to find a Plan B.😁
I hope that your working out of Plan B goes well 🙂
You could always post a brief chapter synopsis, just a few sentences, maybe one or two pics, and then add a link here to that chapter on the current official forum. Would that work?
@simgirl1010 I was thinking about something like that. I know on the old forums you can link directly to the last post in the thread. If I could link directly to exact posts the chapters are in that would perfect. I just don't know if I can link to any post other than first and last.
When you right click the date of the post that you want to link to, you get an option for a “copy link”. This would help you to link directly to that post.
@rosemow that's brilliant!!
Thankyou @simgirl1010 🙂 I have used that option many times when wanting to link to a particular post.
Perfect!!! That's exactly what I was hoping for! Thank you @rosemow😘
Okay, once I eat and do my workout I will post a link to Chapter 5!
You’re welcome @DaniRose2143 🙂 I hope that you will enjoy your meal 🙂
In Chapter Five, Summer settles into her new home. Liberty comes to Tartosa to visit her friends and share how she's doing since the incident with Travis. The winds of change begin to blow ever so gently through her life, hinting at even bigger changes to come.
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/18115619/#Comment_18115619
In Chapter Six we meet Londyn Huntley and my favorite romance is born. The sparks fly from the moment they meet and Danielle has her moment of awakening.
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/18123199/#Comment_18123199
It is a special chapter that starts the relationship between Danielle and Londyn @DaniRose2143 🙂
Both chapters capture the feelings, thoughts, activities, friendships and romances of each of the ladies very well.
Thank you @rosemow I'm getting close to the much longer chapters so I may slow down and post just one each day, and when I get to the really long ones I may wait a day or two between linking the next one.😁
Hi, @DaniRose2143 !! It's wonderful to see you're moving your story here. Now that you and a few others have "broken the ice" in this forum, I think I'll start writing a story here, too. Z and I have a cute "slice of life" save that we're having fun with, featuring a character we're growing fond of. Some of the same characters I wrote about in my previous story will be part of this one, too.
It's fun to catch up with Danielle, Londyn, and the gang again!
Thank you @MoonlightGraham❤️ The story will still continue on the old forums until the move, This thread is to introduce the story to a new group of readers.
Hey Z! I'm very close to finishing up a brand new chapter! When it's done I'll be posting over on the old forums.😊
I love both chapters, it's really nice to read all from the beginning 🙂 I already did that with Wyrd Girls, now this one ❤️
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