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Despite the Odds: Pt 3

Part 3 Continued...

Sean became a lot more active, started learning to cook, keeping the house clean, helping me with my homework and by the time he was sixteen he got his first job to help pay the bills.

His grades started to improve too. I helped out around the house too as much as I could but he’d always encourage me to just keep reading, keep studying and learning what I wanted to.

He bought me a doctor and chemist play set with the money he had earned. It meant so much that he believed in me. He told me when he got accepted into college we were getting out of there. 

Sean and my dad were always at each other’s throats whether it be about money or my dad’s laziness, it was always the same. It was the only time I ever saw my brother angry. He seemed to have so much hope for our future he didn’t mind practically raising me as a kid himself. 

For my thirteenth birthday Sean decorated, baked me a cake and got me gifts all on his own. It was already so great but he had a surprise for me that day too…

He was accepted into a Distinguished Engineering Program at Foxbrite University! He had saved up enough money to rent a small apartment in the city and he wanted to take me with him!

My dad gave up his legal guardianship of me to my brother and we finally moved away to start our new chapter. 

Continued in Pt 4...

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Despite the Odds: Pt 2

Part 2 Continued...

My mom was at her breaking point and everyone could tell. My parents were fighting constantly and my mom just seemed to slip farther and farther into her addiction.

I might have been too young at the time to really understand what was happening but I knew things weren’t right. 

The sudden death of our mother shook our already broken family.

The only good thing that came out of that time was the bond my brother and I were able to form. I confined to him my fears for our future without our mom…he promised me from that young age that we’d always look out for each other. 

I had all the hope in the world in my big brother from that day forward. What I didn’t recognize at the time was his own fears he had for our future and the promise that he had made himself as well: He would be nothing like our father.

Continued in Pt 3...

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Despite the Odds: Sims 4 Story & Introduction!

hello! My name is Hayden, I am a long time simmer, first time sims story blogger. I’ve wanted to try my hand at storytelling using the sims for a long time so bare with me while I learn the ropes! 

This short story is more of just a play through I did based on the moodlet achievement sims get when they play with a doctor kit as a child and then become a doctor as an adult. 

TW: Drug & Alcohol Abuse

Despite the Odds:

Part One:

My name is Sophie Bullard, at the age of ten I lived with my family in a small trailer on the edge of Oasis Springs. Most girls my age might spend their days playing with their friends, maybe riding their bike, or going to the local pool but for me those all seemed so far from my reach.

I spent most of my days at home, playing by myself, journaling, reading whatever I could get my hands on but mostly just trying to avoid my parents.

My dad was an angry man. He spent most of his days asleep in his recliner with a drink in his hand. There was a price to pay if you were to accidentally wake him. He hardly left the house, he didn’t work- only my mom did.

My mom worked long hours as a nurse. She was always coming home exhausted. My dad left all the cleaning, cooking, and house maintenance up to her. I know the stress must have taken a heavy toll on her. I didn’t see her much but when I did it was nice… most of the time. Her mental health seemed to slip over time.

She would snap at seemingly the smallest things, go on long rants and sometimes talk to voices only she could hear.

I know now that at some point she started stealing meds from the hospital and that only seemed to worsen her problems.

My older brother was just as lost as I was at that time. He was fourteen and spent most of his days playing video games in our shared room. He didn’t pay much attention to me but avoided our parents just as much as I did. I know he was miserable because there was no other way to be in a situation like ours. He didn’t have any friends, his grades were bad and his self confidence seemed to be non-existent.

I feel like things really took a turn for the worst the summer of that year. My dad started leaving the house for long periods of time with no explanation. There were rumors around town that he was seeing another woman behind my mom’s back.

My mom was at her breaking point and everyone could tell. My parents were fighting constantly and my mom just seemed to slip farther and farther into her addiction. I might have been too young at the time to really understand what was happening but I knew things weren’t right. 

Continued in Part 2...