Silverford Valley

Good Evening Everyone!

Hope you all had a wonderful day and now it's time to meet the latest household to the Silverford Valley world.  

Please welcome the Leaders of Hope  household featuring Giovannia Leavitt who is a vampire and Eugi Mize who is a regular Sim living in her guest house.   I will let Giovannia tell the story of how that over years since they met and became friends, then enemies and now good friends and lovebirds.  This proves that no relationship is beyond repair whether it's in the Sim world or real life.  

JOURNEY FROM ENEMIES TO LOVERS

(Note this household was part of the ‘Surviving the Holidays’ scenario back in 2021 that has since ended )

 Hello, my name is Giovannia Leavitt and I am here to share my story and how I met and became friends Eugi Mize and he went to being  friends at one time to becoming enemies over time and then our journey back to friendship which will hopefully  lead to something more as time goes on.

 As they say, when telling a story, one should start at the very beginning but I won’t go back quite that far except to say that I was born into a prominent Vampire family living on the outskirts of the Forgotten Hollow neighborhood.  My parents were known as Count and Countess Leavitt who were prominent members of the local chapter of vampires and hosted many parties for their vampire neighbors. They were never hostile to living people of the land and even made friends with many of them who allowed them to quench their thirst on them when the normal vampire resources like plasma fruit juice packs and supplies for making vampiric meals ran out. 

 Although I’m a vampire and should love drinking blood from humans, I never could bring myself to do it since the ‘squeamish’ side of me makes me sick at the sight of blood.  My mother would make plasma juice packs for me from plasma fruit, fish and the blood that she and my father saved from Sims who wanted to become vampires like us.  Despite being squeamish, I somehow enjoyed fishing except for taking them off the fishhook but it was for a good cause, my meals.  For that reason, I could only catch one or two fish at a time before getting sick to my stomach fishing helped kept me from having to drink someone’s blood.  Due to a steady diet of plasma packs and the lack of blood in my veins, I am also lactose intolerant.  Despite all that, I haven’t let being squeamish keep me from keeping my home ‘neat’ and tidy despite having to clean many unpleasant messes and find ways to be ‘cheerful’ about it.  Being an insider has gotten me an invitation to join the Spin Masters club and thoroughly enjoyed my first meeting with them dancing and making new friends.

 Now enough about me, let’s get back to how Eugi and I went from being friends to enemies and now back to friends.  While I was still in high school, a mysterious illness swept through various neighborhoods around the Sim world.  At first it seemed like a normal cold virus but when the doctors at the local hospital were seeing many Sims, especially the elderly ones were getting hit the hardest with this virus and initially, it appeared to be a typical cold, but local doctors soon noticed that many Sims—particularly the elderly—were being severely affected when weakened their bodies so much that they did not survive leaving loved ones to mourn. 

One of my classmates in high school, Eugi Mize was left alone when his single mother who was a senior at the time, passed away from complications from having this virus.  Believe it or not we were good friends at the time, so my parents decided to become his guardians since he had no close relatives to take him in since vampires weren’t affected by this illness which was probably because of the lack of blood in our systems and to be safe we did not drink from any of our regular Sim friends during this time. 

Shortly after this, things went haywire in the health care world as the virus began to get worse and spread like wildfire throughout the Sim communities around the world and health officials enforced a lockdown keeping us all inside for many months that turned into well over a year.  This made even the nicest sims go stir crazy, which is what happened to Eugi, and I when we started arguing all the time after being confined to one house for so long and not being able to see our friends.  We said some mean things to each other that caused a huge rift in our relationship to the point that we started to hate each other and over time went from being good friends to enemies.

After the virus had run its course and things slowly return to normal, Eugi moved out on his own after graduating from high school to pursue his dream of learning everything there is to know about the actors who live in the special town of Batuu where these Sims immerse themselves into a lifestyle of the characters they play in the hit TV series based on the Sim version of Star Wars as he searches for Hope and Order.  After Eugi left I was heartbroken but always hoped that one day we would meet again and renew our friendship. 

One day while attending the premiere of the Star Wars movie, we ran into each other and began , talking over our differences.  Since I still considered Eugi a brother, I invited him to move into the little two-story guest house I had built in the backyard of my childhood home that I had inherited from my parents who had decided to buy a motorhome so that they could travel around the Sim world visiting other vampire communities they came across during their travels.  Eugi agreed to move into the guesthouse.  Since he’s human, Eugi decided to get some chickens so that he could have fresh eggs for breakfast each morning.   He has also agreed to do most of the fishing for me so that I can make quality plasma packs for myself.  We have been renewing our friendship since and are now to the point we are more than friends as we are slowly falling in love with each other.  We will keep you updated on any new developments on the romantic side of things as time goes on.

Here are some photos of our first week together during the autumn season in Silverwood Valley's Forgotten Hollow vampire neighborhood.

Meet Eugi who is enjoying his first meal after returning from a trip to  Batuu to continue his Hope and Order aspiration.  When Giovannia first met Eugi in high school and after moving in her family she notice that he loved playing with toys and felt that was awfully 'childish' for someone his age.  Maybe that's when their friendship first began to take a hit but at least playing with toys kept Eugi during the many months they were stuck inside together as Giovannia mentioned above.  One the plus side, Eugi always cleaned up after himself due to his 'perfectionistic' ways.  After high school, Eugi developed a love for romance novels and movies which awakened his 'romantic' side that he didn't know he had. During their years apart, Eugi never forgot Giovannia and hoped they would meet and become friends again.  You can imagine his surprise when she showed up at the premiere of his favorite Star Wars movie at a local movie theatre.  After catching up with each other, Giovannia surprised him by inviting him to live in her guest house while he pursues his Hope and Order dreams.   Since then one thing has led to another in that he has become more outgoing when meeting new friends and after getting to know Giovannia he is slowly falling in love with her and hopes that she is beginning to share the same feelings.  Maybe now they can put the past behind them and move forward in building a life together.  Only time will tell.

Giovannia is having lots of fun at her first club meeting with the Spin Masters which is headed by Dominic Fyres.

With winter just around the corner, Eugi and Giovannia are enjoying the evening air together while he eats his supper on the patio outside the guesthouse.

That's all for now and hope that you've all enjoyed reading about their journey throughout the years in Forgotten Hollow through Giovannia's story