A note from the Simmer: the results of the Gen 2 heir poll are in. If you’re curious, you may view them here (or on the side of the blog). If not, keep reading!)

Why is Goopy so darned happy?!? He’s dead!

It seems that death really agrees with Goopy Gilscarbo.

He gets to eat all the food in the house (much to my annoyance and the rising cost of the Legecci grocery bill!) and check up on his family anytime he wants to.

He spends a lot of time standing in the bedroom and outside near the hot tub (his two favorite nookie spots), cheering his transparent little pixellated head off.

That, and scaring his daughters. Good thing Belinda is a knowledge sim and had rolled a want to see her father’s ghost, huh?

Speaking of knowledge Sims… look at Belinda. She’s a regular studying fool, isn’t she? Too bad there’s no scholarships to shoot for. she’s have a gazillion of them by now! Ah well… we’ll just aim for the impossible want of maxing out all her skills instead.

Time passes …

Anna Maria misses her estranged husband even more in death. Secretly, she pines for him and mourns all the missed opportunities to try and ake things right between them. She begins to see that while his cheating was wrong, he had been right about one thing… in all their life together, she had been more focused on her career and her children and had not given any time or energy into ‘them” to notice when his eyes (and hands and lips and… man parts) strayed to other women.

Bianca becomes an adult…

Here she is decked out as a pirate for Talk Like A Pirate Day.

Now that she’s an adult, she’s free to pursue the pleasures of life.

Namely, men. Like this winner — Joe Carr — who insulted Belinda ten seconds after Bianca introduced them.

‘Quit whining about your daddy, little girl!” Joe told Bianca’s little sister.

Bianca couldn’t agree more. Sure, no one missed Goopy more than she did, but he would have wanted them all to move on with their lives and not mourn him so dang much.

It is with this in mind that Bianca hatches a plan to ‘get Mom back in the saddle.’

Dating, that is. Anna Maria has been single long enough, her daughter decides, and calls up an old family friend… to set them up on a date.

The friend is none other than Vince Walter, the head master at the girls’ private school.

Bianca invites him over for dinner, and tells him that her mother has been lonely since dad’s death. He is, as you can see, very sympathetic to his former pupil and her family.

Dinner, however, does not go at all well. Anna Maria is too wrapped up in working for a promotion, Belinda is busy trying to learn how to cook Pork Chops and Salmon, so Bianca and the headmaster have to kitchen all to themselves.

The more they talk, the more Bianca comes to realize that she’s having fun with him.

She flirts a little. He acts surprised and excuses himself, but two days later, he calls her up and asks her out on a date.

Things move pretty fast after that for Bianca and Vince. They spend every chance they get together… making out in the hot tub, meeting in secret locations in town.

He’s married… but to Bianca that’s all part of the fun. The risk of getting caught by his wife… or her mother.

One day, they cross the line… and woo-hoo in her mother’s bed. (The only double bedi n the house… gimme a break, this is a poor legacy barely out of Gen 1 yet!)

Uhoh? Could Bianca be coming down with the flu? A bad case of food poison? Or could there soon be the pitter-patter of little pixellated feet in the house once again?