Melody Wines came to the village of Northcliff in order to start a new life. All she could recall of her former life was kissing “Mystery Sim”, whoever that was. She had no sordid history, no murky past, no childhood trauma. She was a clean slate. “Well,” she said, “it’s time to muddy up that slate.”
She fell in love with the first house she saw and moved right in. (It’s a good thing, too, because it was the only house in town.)
After a few hours, Melody realized something was wrong.
The brochure for Northcliff had sounded so promising. “A tranquil valley surrounded by majestic mountains…the most peaceful place in SimNation!”
It finally dawned on her that it was so incredibly peaceful because…no one lived there. No one, that is, but her.
This made playing chess a rather one-sided affair. Although it was easier to anticipate her opponent’s moves.
Melody was just about to check her king when she heard footsteps outside the window. Had someone finally come to rescue her from her mind-numbing solitude?
She jumped up from the chess table and bounded out of the house just in time to witness a young man in yellow drop a newspaper onto her sidewalk.
“Helloo! Helloooo!” she called out. “Oh thank goodness you’re here! I thought I was the only living soul in town! I was about to start talking to my own hand. Hello, hand, how are you today?”
“I…see. Well, I’m Horatio Palmfeather.” The young man smiled hesitantly. “I don’t live here, though. I live Downtown.”
Melody’s eyes widened. “Downtown? There’s a downtown? Where? What’s there? Sorry to jump on you, but as you can see, I’m going a bit wacko.”
Horatio started to explain, then realized it was going to take too long and decided to get comfortable. Melody became so engrossed in his tales of the city that she didn’t even notice the other townies who had come to greet her.
It didn’t matter, though. Before Horatio left, he promised to hook her up with some of his cool Downtownie friends very soon.
While Melody waited for Horatio to make good on that promise, she searched through her cookbooks for a good grilled cheese recipe. She couldn’t say why, but she suddenly had a craving for gooey melted cheddar on fried bread! Unfortunately she had never cooked anything in her life and wasn’t sure how to go about it.
Hours later, Melody’s stomach started growling. She decided she might as well make spaghetti, since she had the ingredients and a recipe to follow. “At least those books are good for something,” she muttered.
Just as she was about to sit down to her boring plate of spaghetti, the phone rang.
“Horatio!” Melody leaped for the phone. “Oh, Horatio, I’m so glad you called! I’ve just made dinner but I can ditch it and go anywhere you’d like. Anywhere at all! Just get me out of Northcliff!”
“This isn’t Horatio,” said an older, manly voice. “I’m his friend, Trevor. A few of us are going to Londoste for dinner and thought you might like to join us.” He had a sweet, slightly southern drawl. Melody was instantly charmed.
“Oh, I’d love to. Do they serve grilled cheese?”
Fifteen minutes later, a taxi pulled up to the house. Melody left the lukewarm spaghetti behind and raced off into the unknown.
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Good stuff! Ha ha Trevor falling in asleep in the sandwich, maybe he prefers sandwiches as pillows.
So great to see you posting again! I’m looking forward to the next installment of Melody’s story.
Melody should definitely pick Raiden. He may not be as cute as Trevor, but he’s way funnier and way more talkative!
Wow, I loved this update!! I am eagerly awaiting the next, I really want to see what Raiden looks like! I think Melody should definitely go with him.
Thanks for the update finally!
Leslie
*works on setting up own website account and stuff* :D
Oh hey, Jen, have you been having problems with spam bots -> comments awaiting moderation and stuff? My previous one did. :o
Loving this story! Of course, I love everything you write. She is so beautiful! And Trevor, what a hunk. Though he might take chess a LITTLE to seriously. First update and already a love triangle? Or…something like that…Anyway, amazing writing as usual, and I look forward to more! And congratulations on getting out of your slump! I haven’t been writing as much because of the start of school. Actually, I haven’t been playing either. : (
I’m so glad you’re updating again, I missed reading your stories! I loved reading about Melody so far. I can’t wait to find out which guy she’ll choose. :)
Cool start, Jen! Although, Melody reminds me a little of Cher, from ‘Clueless’!
I love this already! It’s halarious how she’s so obsessed with grilled cheese. :)
*quietly points at link in name with a big grin* :D
Actually, I know a recipe for the best grilled cheese sandwiches ever. I made some, just the other day! They were perfect– almost enough to make one want to stick one’s head into the aspiration-changing machine.
I can post it, if you like. *nod*
I like that picture on the last page, where Melody asks Trevor if he’s hungry. It looks lovely. :D
Man, though. Accursed Trevor, with his eat and run tendencies! *shakes fist at him* Good riddance to bad rubbish, I say.
And, hey, with Melody’s hairstyle, I can see you, too, have caught SunAir Fever, eh? :D I don’t have a TSR subscription, so I’m just sitting and pouncing on them whenever they enter the free rotation. (So far, three or four of them have. *dance*)
Glad to see you back! …I can’t say the same for CellieSims, though. I took it down– bandwidth issues. *shrug*
I’ve been doing a group uglification challenge over at Livejournal. The Ishkabibbles! So far, my Kajibble Ishkabibble lives in Bibblebrook. He has a daughter named Bibblianna, and a son named Ivan.
So far, it’s been great. Well, decent, anyway– Bibblianna is too cute… *sigh*
Well, even if it’s hard to accomplish her lifetime want, at least there’s the “call to meal” option. That thing is a lifesaver with ISBI challenges. It and influencing. I had such trouble running an ISBI challenge before I got Nightlife, I ended up just ditching the ISBI thing out of pity. They had adorable twins– I couldn’t let them suffer!
How on earth did she get Grilled Cheese wants, anyway? Do you have the Lifetime Wants hack from More Awesome Than You? With that hack, if she’s interested in food, I could see it happening…
BLU! :D *waves frantically* Long time no .. uh.. readcomment? And you updated your site too!
Your sim is beautiful. How do you get them to look so real, Is there a site with a really good tutorial that you use? My sims always look like cartoon characters.
Oh this is fun! Yes. I can feel the peace and quiet. Eerie. I LOVE ‘talking to her hand’ Is there really a sim named Horatio Palmfeather??? Restaurants don’t serve grilled cheese? Thanks for the warning! A party with a radio and a bookshelf? And I wasn’t invited?? LOL. Love the picture of Melody making grilled cheese and Trevor on the couch. Wow. Oh I love this Jen. I can’t thank you enough for writing again. I can tell you’re having fun. Can’t wait for more!
It had a bit of a rough start but it got a lot better. I could really tell she was desperate to get out of the house, and desperate to get with that guy. Poor thing, he only wanted her for her grill cheese. Hopefully things will get better. The pitures were great.
Wow, nice story! Can’t wait to read more.
For some reason, Melody reminds me of a Final Fantasy character…
hey Jen! is so nice to see you still active and with a lot of energy posting about your sims! as always great work now to browse other blogs^^ take care!
Just to let you know, I have 37 pictures awaiting the first entry about Harvey, but I’ve got a guest this weekend so it’ll likely have to wait until tomorrow evening. Until then, here’s a picture of Harvey to tie you over.
Harvey: Look! I’m totally eating real dorm food! TOO AWESOME.
http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/3899/0009wwevj9.jpg
Hey, thanks for the comments, everyone! I’m still very rusty as you can see but I’m getting back into the swing of things, slowly…
lorna, wow! I haven’t seen you in forever! I’ve missed you! :-) Are you blogging?
Kay, that picture is hilarious!!! I love Harvey already!
^^ yea, just started yesterday and now i took over again on the sims blog webring. so you will see me around now a lot :P