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17th Jun 2018 at 6:44 AM
17th Jun 2018 at 6:44 AM
Time for another update 
Been busy lately so not much time for Sims-things. Have a few more updates to go, then we are caught up with where my game is right now so sadly updates may get more infrequent depending on how much time I have to play 
But hopefully you guys manage to keep interest in the story even if it takes a longer between updates
Chapter 9 - Stoffe & Vanessa Van Derbirth
When we last saw them, Stoffe and Vanessa had gotten married. They moved to a luxury apartment in bluewater village, while Stoffe worked on earning enough money to buy a big fancy house in the rich end of Evergreen. They are both still in college. Vanessa isn't all that motivated, she's more focused on her social life and living the life of a pampered wife of a rich man. Stoffe on the other hand made sure to keep his straight As while also holding down a job and running his car businesses. Workoholic to the bone! Didn't take long to earn enough to buy a house, and when we left them Stoffe had just shared the news with Vanessa.
The house Stoffe purchased is this luxurious contemporary home by TheDeadSims here on MTS: If you'd like to see pictures of the house you can look at the thread The only room I changed is one of the bedrooms on the second floor, which got turned into an office for Stoffe. There's a man cave in the basement with pool table and a bar for when Stoffe has important business people over, and an exercise room for the both of them. On the entrance floor there's a music and arts room for Vanessa, and it's filled with expensive items sure to impress any visitors. The backyard is spacious, and of course features a swimming pool, and a hot tub. The many bushes and the sloped landscape does present rather a challenge in keeping it all neat and tidy, but such nonsense is the problem of hired staff 
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Been busy lately so not much time for Sims-things. Have a few more updates to go, then we are caught up with where my game is right now so sadly updates may get more infrequent depending on how much time I have to play 
But hopefully you guys manage to keep interest in the story even if it takes a longer between updates Chapter 9 - Stoffe & Vanessa Van Derbirth
When we last saw them, Stoffe and Vanessa had gotten married. They moved to a luxury apartment in bluewater village, while Stoffe worked on earning enough money to buy a big fancy house in the rich end of Evergreen. They are both still in college. Vanessa isn't all that motivated, she's more focused on her social life and living the life of a pampered wife of a rich man. Stoffe on the other hand made sure to keep his straight As while also holding down a job and running his car businesses. Workoholic to the bone! Didn't take long to earn enough to buy a house, and when we left them Stoffe had just shared the news with Vanessa.
The house Stoffe purchased is this luxurious contemporary home by TheDeadSims here on MTS: If you'd like to see pictures of the house you can look at the thread
The only room I changed is one of the bedrooms on the second floor, which got turned into an office for Stoffe. There's a man cave in the basement with pool table and a bar for when Stoffe has important business people over, and an exercise room for the both of them. On the entrance floor there's a music and arts room for Vanessa, and it's filled with expensive items sure to impress any visitors. The backyard is spacious, and of course features a swimming pool, and a hot tub. The many bushes and the sloped landscape does present rather a challenge in keeping it all neat and tidy, but such nonsense is the problem of hired staff 
When we return to the story we find the two of them standing outside of their new home, Vanessa oddly enough jumps straight to talks about a nursery. I didn't think she'd be the have-kids kind of person, but I guess I was wrong!
Things are much the same in the new house. Each one doing their own thing. Stoffe watching the news, and Vanessa talking to one of her friends on the phone.
No more take-out diet though. Big house equals butler
Turns out the nursery -talk wasn't just random. Looks like that woohoo the night before to celebrate had some consequences
Certainly not something I wanted at this point in the story, and I rather doubt either one of them was up for babies at this point. Vanessa is only a sophomore after all, and Stoffe in the home stretch of university. But there's no mistaking the dry heaving!
Or the uh-oh-got-to-vomit-runs
Better hurry up and wear the outfits that won't fit one the bump hits!
No stopping the morning sickness though. Turns out Vanessa, as so many of my Sims-ladies, doesn't handle pregnancy all too well. Stoffe doesn't seem to catch on what's going on though.
Good thing they now have a butler so Vanessa gets proper home cooked meals. She seems quite eager, often hangs around in the kitchen waiting for breakfast.
Hard to keep food down though, just finished breakfast and it's already trying to come back up.
So what do you do when you are feeling a bit rotten and unsure what to do? You invite your friends over of course, for some girl time. I suspect Vanessa is struggling a little. This wasn't part of her plan, and she's not used to things not going her way. So a nice afternoon with her girl friends would probably do her some good. Here you see Rakel Ivarsson arriving. Official lady-who-lunches, a widow of independent means living in a huge mansion and preying on anything that moves that is good looking enough for her. Owns and runs the luxurious gym in the richer side of town, because what better way to find all the ripped gorgeous men in town than to run a gym. Some of you may remember her from Sally-Mae's story. She was the woman Billy-Bob woohoo'd with in the hot tub at the gym.
And Elsie Högström, a townie of good background. Here she is being greeted by the butler, even though Vanessa is right there. RIch people and their silly ways
Baseball isn't a topic I'd expect these three to talk about, but perhaps Rakel is talking about all the muscle-y men and not the sport What do you guys think of the sitting room? Vanessa is very fond of it. It's light and airy and has lots of pretty things to look at. As so many rich people she is quite interested in art, and enjoys having beautiful things to look at.
Vanessa looks to be enjoying herself
Gotta love that the butler seems to know the dietary needs of Ladies who Lunch, serving a nice salad for lunch.
While Vanessa was having a nice day with her girl friends, Stoffe was out networking as he often does. At the local pool club, he bumped into Sigrid who told him the tragic news. Stoffe gave her a comforting hug, even though they barely know each other.
That night Vanessa woke up in the middle of the night
Because baby bump time! Stoffe being an easy sleeper woke up too. Must be rather strange, wake up in the middle of the night to find your wife suddenly sprouted a baby bump.
I wasn't sure how I was going to handle the unexpected unplanned pregnancy. It wasn't part of my story plan for them to have children this early, or really at all, and I don't think it was part of their plan either. After all they are both still in college. Stoffe is a workoholic so I doubt any thoughts of family had popped up in his head. And Vanessa doesn't seem the mother-type to me. And even though she's married I don't think she really fancies the idea of showing up at her college classes sporting a baby bump. I think she'd feel that makes her look bad, given her upbringing. I debated aborting the pregnancy. But considering Stoffe struggled with feelings of being unwanted, would he really agree to abort a child of his? I don't think so. I toyed with the idea of Vanessa aborting it without even telling him, but although she's certainly not the most loving considerate Sim she's not mean and that kind of behavior seemed out of character for her. She's shallow, and certainly capable of using money to control people, but I don't see her going behind her husbands back like that. And for some reason she doesn't strike me as someone that would be pro-abortion, so abortion was not an option Please note that I am 300% pro abortion and think every woman has a right to choose. But I like to explore different kinds of views and personalities in my Sims, so sometimes they do things/have views that don't reflect my own.
I then debated sending the baby to the orphanage. I could see Vanessa being fine with giving her kid away, and I also think it's entirely possible she could manage to convince Stoffe that is the right choice. After all, Stoffe grew up there and he still loves matron, and he's a workoholic with low self-esteem still determined to prove his worth to society and that would be difficult with a baby to take care of. I suspect Vanessa could find the words to make him think the baby would be better off with a family that has more time to dote on it than they'd have, and that until a family could be found matron would take good care of the baby. But would matron agree? I don't think so. Even though she does the best she can for the kids I think she knows growing up there is no replacement for a family that loves you, and that it should only be used as the very last resort. Plus, considering she probably noticed how Stoffe struggled with having been left, I don't think she'd agree to be part of him leaving his own child there. I think she would be able to counter anything Vanessa said, so there goes that option.
That left me with keep it, or private adoption. I've had a couple of cases in my game where adoption was handled privately without involving social worker or orphanage, But neither option really felt like the right one, so I decided to let things be for now and hope the game showed me the right way. I knew they wouldn't abort, so I had until the baby was born to make a final decision.
Stoffe seemed quite fascinated by the baby bump.
Appearances are very important to Vanessa though, so she's not above using a girdle to keep the bump under control when she wants to look her usual slender self.
Then again pregnancy does give a nice boost in the boob-department, gotta rock the cleavage look too!
Seems she missed the lesson about not drinking while pregnant. Had to make quite a few pregnant-not-allowed mods to keep her in line.
Looking through all these pictures there's something quite saddening about all of it. They are recently married, and yet I have almost no picture of the two of them in the same shot. When they lived in the apartment it was sort of unavoidable to get some shots of the two at once, it was luxurious but small. Now they live in this big gorgeous house there's a lot more room to spread out and be apart. Stoffe is always working, and when not working he's in his office giving financial advice, or out on the town networking. And having one too many business dinners it looks like... or perhaps he's just not used to having a butler making great food all day long.
Didn't take long to get back in shape though. Nice to have a swimming pool to cool off after a long hard workout session.
Vanessa on the other hand pursues her interests, playing the piano and violin, and painting.
She also spends a lot of time napping in the sitting room. Morning sickness subsided once she reached second trimester, but she struggled with fatigue.
Pretty soon it was time for Stoffe's graduation party. And the guest list was huge!
There's no amount of convincing Vanessa could do to get Stoffe to not invite his orphanage family to this occasion, so this time around they came over. Matron Lena sporting a hideous outdated skirt suit And of course Leah, Olivia and Amy, and Amy's girlfriend Emily. Vanessa invited her girl friends Rakel and Elsie, and the latest addition to the ladies who lunch group, the mayors wife. The rest of the guests are different influencial people, like the principal of private school, minister of education and his wife, and various townies from rich or prestigious families.
While the guests were arriving Vanessa was up in her dressing room getting ready. She opted for a pretty black dress with gold trim, and of course a girdle to keep the baby bump in check. Can't go around looking fat with all these people visiting.
While the butler got dinner ready the guests had a peak around the house. Leah looks quite stunning in her white and pink gown.
While the guest had a look around Stoffe was out on the balcony, making sure there were plenty of refreshments
Olivia and Emily opted for some potato chips in the kitchen. I suspect fancy parties with rich people aren't really their thing, what with their social activism and left-wing political views. Probably hiding out to avoid having to talk to any snobs
Vanessa thought she'd entertain the guests with some piano playing, though with her low creativity skill I suspect they were entertained for different reasons than Vanessa intended.
At dinner Stoffe choose to sit next to matron, which I thought was very sweet.
No surprise though the talk ended up being about money. I imagine Olivia is wishing she'd done like matron and excused herself from the table.
No surprise Rakel skipped dinner altogether and went straight for the fruit punch barrel instead.
The Thompsons (minister of education and his wife) decided to have a romantic dance by the entrance instead. Nicolas is a bit of an eccentric old man, so didn't surprise me to see he never even made it inside the house
The party seemed to attract the attention of a stray poodle. It was so cute and so posh I really couldn't resist having Vanessa go out and greet it. She's not much of an animal person, but this pooch is so cute I figured even she wouldn't be able to resist petting it.
Cake-time! No surprise the only people who bothered to come watch were the orphanage family, and Vanessa.
A quick belly-rub after blowing out the candles!
And a hug with matron. I imagine she was quite touched, seeing one of her charges graduate with highest honors from university.
Stoffe also squeezed in some schmoozing. Can't pass up an opportunity to get acquainted with the mayors wife!
Vanessa had another go at entertaining the guests with music and this time she did get an audience, the little poodle pooch howled along. One wonders what sounded worst, the violin or the dog
No pictures of the party ending, but it was a success. The patio was littered with fruit punch cups and dirty plates all over
That night Vanessa had some interesting dreams. She gets those from time to time, which makes me think that while she won't admit it to herself during the day at night her true feelings show. I think deep down she realizes there's something missing in their marriage, and that even though she finds Stoffe attractive there's something she doesn't like.
During the day though she's much too busy with her leisurely life for such thoughts.
Rakel may be a man-eater, but she is also a good friend. Not sure I'd sit there enduring the clanking
Vanessa continued her many day-naps. Stoffe would often find her asleep on the sofa when he got home from work, and he'd light a fire to make sure she was warm (since Sims can't cover their loved ones in blankets )
Truth is Stoffe was getting rather worried about Vanessa and her fatigue. After graduating he quit his job in the culinary career and got a job in business, intending to work his way up to business tycoon. Through his job he'd recently become acquainted with business tycoon Andreas Nilsson, whose girlfriend Isabelle had almost succumb to pregnancy illness. Their son had to be delivered prematurely for Isabelle's sake. They rarely allow any visitors as their son is still rather frail, but Andreas decided to bring Stoffe home from work one day. Stoffe having started in the career very recently was not at that level yet and I think Andreas was rather amused by Stoffe's reaction to the noise from the helicopter that dropped them off. Isabelle is much too used to it to care
Turns out Stoffe is a great guest to have in a house with a frail little toddler boy. Unlike most other people they'd let come visit Stoffe was very considerate and devoted himself to entertaining little Tore while Andreas got started on dinner and Isabelle finished tending the garden.
Nice change of pace for Andreas and Isabelle to be able to sit down together and eat, with Tore safely tucked up in his high chair with a bottle.
Over dinner Andreas and Isabelle told Stoffe about their experiences with pregnancy and premature delivery, and how they'd bought the house to have more space and fresh air for Tore. Previously they lived in a tiny cramped apartment that Andreas rented straight out of college, so the house with a nice big back yard is a pleasant change of pace. Stoffe told them about Vanessa and how tired she is, and asked for their advice. They told him to keep an eye on her, and see how things progressed. Isabelle would pass out all over the apartment, so they figured if Vanessa could manage to make it to a sofa to lie down she was probably managing acceptably.
After dinner Stoffe opted to keep entertaining Tore. He was never really one to interact much with the toddlers at the orphanage, so I was a little surprised. But seeing him be so sweet with Tore, and so keen to hang out with the little dude rather than focus on befriending Andreas, who after all as a business tycoon would be a very good contact to have, made it quite clear to me where he stands on the Vanessa-pregnancy situation. I didn't think he'd be ready for a family, but there's no mistaking it now. Stoffe would most likely quite enjoy being a dad!
I also really enjoyed seeing Stoffe show some of his kiddish nature. Isabelle took Tore up for his evening bath, and Stoffe snuck in some play-time with Tore's toy robot. There hasn't been much of that since he married Vanessa, it was nice seeing him be his old self getting excited about a toy.
Stoffe decided to take Andreas and Isabelle's advice, and try to spend more time with his wife. Next dinner he insisted they sit down together, and he tried to show interest in her interests.
He suggested they have a date night, get out of the house and do something together. Perhaps he thought Vanessa would enjoy an excuse to get dolled up. She wasn't hard to convince once he agreed she could go out and get some new jewelry to go with her outfit.
Vanessa went with a purple dress showing off her pregnancy boobs, and a low back to remind herself one side of her was still slender.
The evening did not start well though. The kitchen lost their order, and when they got up to talk to the host they got re-seated at much worse table! I don't imagine Vanessa approved of being seated at a table where she ends up staring at a blank wall.
It did look at little weird, the two of them staring into a wall rather than at each other.
Stoffe did his best to make it into a nice night, but the mess-up with the table put a bit of a dampener on things, and Vanessa doesn't quite have the stamina for trips downtown and late dinners. So they ate quickly and returned home. In the car Stoffe suggested he sleep in the guest room that night, so that he wouldn't risk disturbing her rest.
When they got back home Vanessa got into bed straight away, but baby tends to push on her bladder and most nights she has to get up and pee. This night was no different. She didn't have time to gain much energy before she had to get up, and as she was making her way back to bed she fainted from exhaustion.
The bang as she hit the floor woke Stoffe up, and he came to check on her.
Finding your wife passed out on the floor would be distressing any day, but after everything Andreas and Isabelle told him over dinner I imagine Stoffe's levels of worrying hit the roof.
Vanessa was out cold, so got her back into bed and settled himself in a chair next to her.
And that's where we're going to leave them for today. Vanessa passed out, and a very worried Stoffe asleep by her side. Stay tuned to see where things go from there :lovestruc
Things are much the same in the new house. Each one doing their own thing. Stoffe watching the news, and Vanessa talking to one of her friends on the phone.
No more take-out diet though. Big house equals butler
Turns out the nursery -talk wasn't just random. Looks like that woohoo the night before to celebrate had some consequences
Certainly not something I wanted at this point in the story, and I rather doubt either one of them was up for babies at this point. Vanessa is only a sophomore after all, and Stoffe in the home stretch of university. But there's no mistaking the dry heaving!Or the uh-oh-got-to-vomit-runs
Better hurry up and wear the outfits that won't fit one the bump hits!
No stopping the morning sickness though. Turns out Vanessa, as so many of my Sims-ladies, doesn't handle pregnancy all too well. Stoffe doesn't seem to catch on what's going on though.
Good thing they now have a butler so Vanessa gets proper home cooked meals. She seems quite eager, often hangs around in the kitchen waiting for breakfast.
Hard to keep food down though, just finished breakfast and it's already trying to come back up.
So what do you do when you are feeling a bit rotten and unsure what to do? You invite your friends over of course, for some girl time. I suspect Vanessa is struggling a little. This wasn't part of her plan, and she's not used to things not going her way. So a nice afternoon with her girl friends would probably do her some good. Here you see Rakel Ivarsson arriving. Official lady-who-lunches, a widow of independent means living in a huge mansion and preying on anything that moves that is good looking enough for her. Owns and runs the luxurious gym in the richer side of town, because what better way to find all the ripped gorgeous men in town than to run a gym. Some of you may remember her from Sally-Mae's story. She was the woman Billy-Bob woohoo'd with in the hot tub at the gym.
And Elsie Högström, a townie of good background. Here she is being greeted by the butler, even though Vanessa is right there. RIch people and their silly ways
Baseball isn't a topic I'd expect these three to talk about, but perhaps Rakel is talking about all the muscle-y men and not the sport
What do you guys think of the sitting room? Vanessa is very fond of it. It's light and airy and has lots of pretty things to look at. As so many rich people she is quite interested in art, and enjoys having beautiful things to look at.Vanessa looks to be enjoying herself
Gotta love that the butler seems to know the dietary needs of Ladies who Lunch, serving a nice salad for lunch.
While Vanessa was having a nice day with her girl friends, Stoffe was out networking as he often does. At the local pool club, he bumped into Sigrid who told him the tragic news. Stoffe gave her a comforting hug, even though they barely know each other.
That night Vanessa woke up in the middle of the night
Because baby bump time! Stoffe being an easy sleeper woke up too. Must be rather strange, wake up in the middle of the night to find your wife suddenly sprouted a baby bump.
I wasn't sure how I was going to handle the unexpected unplanned pregnancy. It wasn't part of my story plan for them to have children this early, or really at all, and I don't think it was part of their plan either. After all they are both still in college. Stoffe is a workoholic so I doubt any thoughts of family had popped up in his head. And Vanessa doesn't seem the mother-type to me. And even though she's married I don't think she really fancies the idea of showing up at her college classes sporting a baby bump. I think she'd feel that makes her look bad, given her upbringing. I debated aborting the pregnancy. But considering Stoffe struggled with feelings of being unwanted, would he really agree to abort a child of his? I don't think so. I toyed with the idea of Vanessa aborting it without even telling him, but although she's certainly not the most loving considerate Sim she's not mean and that kind of behavior seemed out of character for her. She's shallow, and certainly capable of using money to control people, but I don't see her going behind her husbands back like that. And for some reason she doesn't strike me as someone that would be pro-abortion, so abortion was not an option Please note that I am 300% pro abortion and think every woman has a right to choose. But I like to explore different kinds of views and personalities in my Sims, so sometimes they do things/have views that don't reflect my own.
I then debated sending the baby to the orphanage. I could see Vanessa being fine with giving her kid away, and I also think it's entirely possible she could manage to convince Stoffe that is the right choice. After all, Stoffe grew up there and he still loves matron, and he's a workoholic with low self-esteem still determined to prove his worth to society and that would be difficult with a baby to take care of. I suspect Vanessa could find the words to make him think the baby would be better off with a family that has more time to dote on it than they'd have, and that until a family could be found matron would take good care of the baby. But would matron agree? I don't think so. Even though she does the best she can for the kids I think she knows growing up there is no replacement for a family that loves you, and that it should only be used as the very last resort. Plus, considering she probably noticed how Stoffe struggled with having been left, I don't think she'd agree to be part of him leaving his own child there. I think she would be able to counter anything Vanessa said, so there goes that option.
That left me with keep it, or private adoption. I've had a couple of cases in my game where adoption was handled privately without involving social worker or orphanage, But neither option really felt like the right one, so I decided to let things be for now and hope the game showed me the right way. I knew they wouldn't abort, so I had until the baby was born to make a final decision.
Stoffe seemed quite fascinated by the baby bump.
Appearances are very important to Vanessa though, so she's not above using a girdle to keep the bump under control when she wants to look her usual slender self.
Then again pregnancy does give a nice boost in the boob-department, gotta rock the cleavage look too!
Seems she missed the lesson about not drinking while pregnant. Had to make quite a few pregnant-not-allowed mods to keep her in line.
Looking through all these pictures there's something quite saddening about all of it. They are recently married, and yet I have almost no picture of the two of them in the same shot. When they lived in the apartment it was sort of unavoidable to get some shots of the two at once, it was luxurious but small. Now they live in this big gorgeous house there's a lot more room to spread out and be apart. Stoffe is always working, and when not working he's in his office giving financial advice, or out on the town networking. And having one too many business dinners it looks like... or perhaps he's just not used to having a butler making great food all day long.
Didn't take long to get back in shape though. Nice to have a swimming pool to cool off after a long hard workout session.
Vanessa on the other hand pursues her interests, playing the piano and violin, and painting.
She also spends a lot of time napping in the sitting room. Morning sickness subsided once she reached second trimester, but she struggled with fatigue.
Pretty soon it was time for Stoffe's graduation party. And the guest list was huge!
There's no amount of convincing Vanessa could do to get Stoffe to not invite his orphanage family to this occasion, so this time around they came over. Matron Lena sporting a hideous outdated skirt suit
And of course Leah, Olivia and Amy, and Amy's girlfriend Emily. Vanessa invited her girl friends Rakel and Elsie, and the latest addition to the ladies who lunch group, the mayors wife. The rest of the guests are different influencial people, like the principal of private school, minister of education and his wife, and various townies from rich or prestigious families. While the guests were arriving Vanessa was up in her dressing room getting ready. She opted for a pretty black dress with gold trim, and of course a girdle to keep the baby bump in check. Can't go around looking fat with all these people visiting.
While the butler got dinner ready the guests had a peak around the house. Leah looks quite stunning in her white and pink gown.
While the guest had a look around Stoffe was out on the balcony, making sure there were plenty of refreshments
Olivia and Emily opted for some potato chips in the kitchen. I suspect fancy parties with rich people aren't really their thing, what with their social activism and left-wing political views. Probably hiding out to avoid having to talk to any snobs
Vanessa thought she'd entertain the guests with some piano playing, though with her low creativity skill I suspect they were entertained for different reasons than Vanessa intended.
At dinner Stoffe choose to sit next to matron, which I thought was very sweet.
No surprise though the talk ended up being about money. I imagine Olivia is wishing she'd done like matron and excused herself from the table.
No surprise Rakel skipped dinner altogether and went straight for the fruit punch barrel instead.
The Thompsons (minister of education and his wife) decided to have a romantic dance by the entrance instead. Nicolas is a bit of an eccentric old man, so didn't surprise me to see he never even made it inside the house
The party seemed to attract the attention of a stray poodle. It was so cute and so posh I really couldn't resist having Vanessa go out and greet it. She's not much of an animal person, but this pooch is so cute I figured even she wouldn't be able to resist petting it.
Cake-time! No surprise the only people who bothered to come watch were the orphanage family, and Vanessa.
A quick belly-rub after blowing out the candles!
And a hug with matron. I imagine she was quite touched, seeing one of her charges graduate with highest honors from university.
Stoffe also squeezed in some schmoozing. Can't pass up an opportunity to get acquainted with the mayors wife!
Vanessa had another go at entertaining the guests with music and this time she did get an audience, the little poodle pooch howled along. One wonders what sounded worst, the violin or the dog
No pictures of the party ending, but it was a success. The patio was littered with fruit punch cups and dirty plates all over
That night Vanessa had some interesting dreams. She gets those from time to time, which makes me think that while she won't admit it to herself during the day at night her true feelings show. I think deep down she realizes there's something missing in their marriage, and that even though she finds Stoffe attractive there's something she doesn't like.
During the day though she's much too busy with her leisurely life for such thoughts.
Rakel may be a man-eater, but she is also a good friend. Not sure I'd sit there enduring the clanking
Vanessa continued her many day-naps. Stoffe would often find her asleep on the sofa when he got home from work, and he'd light a fire to make sure she was warm (since Sims can't cover their loved ones in blankets
)Truth is Stoffe was getting rather worried about Vanessa and her fatigue. After graduating he quit his job in the culinary career and got a job in business, intending to work his way up to business tycoon. Through his job he'd recently become acquainted with business tycoon Andreas Nilsson, whose girlfriend Isabelle had almost succumb to pregnancy illness. Their son had to be delivered prematurely for Isabelle's sake. They rarely allow any visitors as their son is still rather frail, but Andreas decided to bring Stoffe home from work one day. Stoffe having started in the career very recently was not at that level yet and I think Andreas was rather amused by Stoffe's reaction to the noise from the helicopter that dropped them off. Isabelle is much too used to it to care
Turns out Stoffe is a great guest to have in a house with a frail little toddler boy. Unlike most other people they'd let come visit Stoffe was very considerate and devoted himself to entertaining little Tore while Andreas got started on dinner and Isabelle finished tending the garden.
Nice change of pace for Andreas and Isabelle to be able to sit down together and eat, with Tore safely tucked up in his high chair with a bottle.
Over dinner Andreas and Isabelle told Stoffe about their experiences with pregnancy and premature delivery, and how they'd bought the house to have more space and fresh air for Tore. Previously they lived in a tiny cramped apartment that Andreas rented straight out of college, so the house with a nice big back yard is a pleasant change of pace. Stoffe told them about Vanessa and how tired she is, and asked for their advice. They told him to keep an eye on her, and see how things progressed. Isabelle would pass out all over the apartment, so they figured if Vanessa could manage to make it to a sofa to lie down she was probably managing acceptably.
After dinner Stoffe opted to keep entertaining Tore. He was never really one to interact much with the toddlers at the orphanage, so I was a little surprised. But seeing him be so sweet with Tore, and so keen to hang out with the little dude rather than focus on befriending Andreas, who after all as a business tycoon would be a very good contact to have, made it quite clear to me where he stands on the Vanessa-pregnancy situation. I didn't think he'd be ready for a family, but there's no mistaking it now. Stoffe would most likely quite enjoy being a dad!
I also really enjoyed seeing Stoffe show some of his kiddish nature. Isabelle took Tore up for his evening bath, and Stoffe snuck in some play-time with Tore's toy robot. There hasn't been much of that since he married Vanessa, it was nice seeing him be his old self getting excited about a toy.
Stoffe decided to take Andreas and Isabelle's advice, and try to spend more time with his wife. Next dinner he insisted they sit down together, and he tried to show interest in her interests.
He suggested they have a date night, get out of the house and do something together. Perhaps he thought Vanessa would enjoy an excuse to get dolled up. She wasn't hard to convince once he agreed she could go out and get some new jewelry to go with her outfit.
Vanessa went with a purple dress showing off her pregnancy boobs, and a low back to remind herself one side of her was still slender.
The evening did not start well though. The kitchen lost their order, and when they got up to talk to the host they got re-seated at much worse table! I don't imagine Vanessa approved of being seated at a table where she ends up staring at a blank wall.
It did look at little weird, the two of them staring into a wall rather than at each other.
Stoffe did his best to make it into a nice night, but the mess-up with the table put a bit of a dampener on things, and Vanessa doesn't quite have the stamina for trips downtown and late dinners. So they ate quickly and returned home. In the car Stoffe suggested he sleep in the guest room that night, so that he wouldn't risk disturbing her rest.
When they got back home Vanessa got into bed straight away, but baby tends to push on her bladder and most nights she has to get up and pee. This night was no different. She didn't have time to gain much energy before she had to get up, and as she was making her way back to bed she fainted from exhaustion.
The bang as she hit the floor woke Stoffe up, and he came to check on her.
Finding your wife passed out on the floor would be distressing any day, but after everything Andreas and Isabelle told him over dinner I imagine Stoffe's levels of worrying hit the roof.
Vanessa was out cold, so got her back into bed and settled himself in a chair next to her.
And that's where we're going to leave them for today. Vanessa passed out, and a very worried Stoffe asleep by her side. Stay tuned to see where things go from there :lovestruc
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