Riverview Updated - Part 9 - Babies, Old Women, and Casanovas

 As indicated, Jessie and Tory got serious about their relationship. Tory moved from his house to hers. 

As promised, I went to make sure Sabrina took care of herself. It was a good thing too; she was glitched and working at her job way beyond her assigned shift. I sent her home to take a bath.

Despite the earlier posting that she and her husband Rhett enemies, they are going strong. Maybe the argument after the wedding was just a spat after all. 

Rhett was wanting to acquire an elixir, but we didn't have an elixir store, so I put one on an upper floor of one of the Riverwalk shops.

The cheapest elixir they had at the time was the Lean & Mean elixir, so that's what he bought. Then he went to the dojo to work on his martial arts skills. 

Aleksey Nair is kind of portly, so Rhett decided to use the elixir on him.

He seemed to appreciated the help losing weight.

Sabrina wanted to reconnect with some of her girlfriends, and invited Aimee Williams out for some karaoke and appetizers. 

I swear it feels like the full moon is occurring every other day! Poor Aimee. It looks like she had a guilty secret.

Meanwhile, Rhett decided to stop off for a drink on the way home, and encountered another new girl to town (whose name I didn't catch), who mistook him for a drug dealer and was hoping to score some pills.

He advised her to get some medical attention for her addiction.

Then he proceeded to brag about his grandchildren. He has two grandkids so far: Marcel Lu (son of Spencer Funke and Melissa Lu) and Eugenia Stockton (daughter of Carol Funke Stockton and her husband Malik.) 

Here's Malik playing with baby Eugenia. 

At this time, Crazy Irene Funke and her husband Lawrence Lum have not produced any offspring. 

It looks like Sabrina is no longer among us.

RIP. I wonder if the Funkes might sell the bakery. Hmmm.

On the Stockton side, we have Malik and his wife Carol and baby Eugenia, but also Malik's brother Eric and his wife Ada Lu who are living with the parents, Hunter and Justine Stockton, and saving up for a house. They had better hurry it up! It looks like Justine didn't want to be an empty-nester and produced another child.

Here's baby Rae's first outing, I assume. I spotted them while I was with another household. 

I looks like Ada helps out with the baby. And Justine must have moved on from the guitar to the drums. 

I really don't think the journalists appreciate all that racket at their workplace, but whatever. On my to-do list: Check to see if Eric and Ada have enough money to move out yet - the baby will be needing their room, I think. 

The Stocktons elected not to be empty-nesters, but I was wondering about the Lu's. They had another child at home. Jeremy Lu, I swear was just a bald child last time I saw him, and I had to give him hair. Now he's a bald teen, so I have to give him hair again. 

I guess I don't have a very good picture of Jeremy. He's a teenage sleuth with a mullet. He's staking out the athletic center, but only seeing old women working out and Crazy Irene attempting to do ballet in a ball gown. Nothing suspicious. He was hired by Hunter Stockton to hack Becky Wonzy's computer and was paid 500 simoleons. 

He also tried his hand at glass-making, but failed miserably.

And he worked on his fishing skill while I was with him.

I think at some point he was just minding his own business when he was attacked out of the blue by a paparazzi who whooped him. It really wasn't his fault. However, Cory wasn't too happy with him. He's got some chores to do I guess, but he says he'll do them later. He's got to get to prom. 

Kids grow up so fast! Soon Cory and Bree will be empty-nesters too. 

Other youngsters are pairing up.

Ellis and Kathy are taking the plunge, I guess.

Even little Lyndsey Grubb and Leif Wonzy are growing up. They were just children a few days ago! I keep checking my settings because I think everyone is aging too fast, but I have it set on long. Maybe I need to turn it off for a bit and let things settle. Or maybe I just need to move it to epic. Epic always seems too long to me though. 

I stopped by the McHughs to see how they were getting on with their cats. I learned a few things. Poppy, the light colored one, is the mother of the rest of them. Their father is Georgie Levin, who lives across the street from them. I think Boo is my favorite (below)

He (or she) is the only one without a mate. Evil Genius is mated with Coal Wonzy (who is a yellow cat, despite the name.) Tigger is mated with Jake Landry, and Turbo is mated with Dinah Wonzy. 

Regan McHugh is working on both his police career and his alchemy skills. Some of the things he needed to do for his job were improve his relationship with his partner and write some reports. He had an invitation to Jessie (Fenton) Anders' party and questioned a couple people there. Jessie seemed thrilled to give information, but Tory seemed suspicious of Regan's motives for questioning Jessie in the middle of a party.

Of course what's a party without a few rude guests?

As for alchemy, Reagan had a flask of potent sleep in his inventory and Gwen seemed to have trouble sleeping, so I had him use it on her. 

In other news, a new guy, Curt Ware, seems to be flirting with the ladies all over town. (He gets a makeover later, after he keeps showing up and offering flowers to every woman he sees.)

I think Lily Lum was upset that Curt was giving flowers to Gwen. 

She was so mad that she refused the flowers that Curt offered to her.

So who is this Casanova, and where does he live? He lives at the stone cottage, the place where Riley Grubb, the magician who married Lynne Talbot and moved to the big house on the hill used to live. 

Oddly enough, Curt has no traits that explain this behavior. He is clumsy, artistic, ambitious, friendly, and has a good sense of humor. He wanted to become a star news anchor, so I sent him to the journalism building to get a job. I also fixed his wardrobe, gave him a beard, and got him a roommate to help with expenses. This is his roommate, Josh Romano. I also gave him a makeover later, He has a job as a test subject with the science lab. I suspect he's a time traveler to the past, and the scientists are experimenting with the space/time continuum and he's the guinea pig.

Curt has started some skills, but writing wasn't one of them, so he practiced on the computer and took a writing class during the weekend before his job started. I also noticed he knew 15 women and only 9 men. 

After he got his job, I sent him over to meet these two ladies hoping he'd find one of them attractive and quit hitting on old married women. The woman in the hat is Irma Snell. She works in law enforcement and is excitable, single, and very young - too young for Curt, I think. Meghan Moses is the lady reading the book.

She's a little older but still not too close in age to Curt, who is 19 days from being an elder. She works at the restaurant. 

Poor Curt was not immune to the crime in the neighborhood. Sara Duffey made off with his coffee machine and some drapes. That coffee machine was brand new, and he had only had once cup of coffee from it!

I learned quickly that Curt is the world's worst party guest. Lily Lum invited him to a party at her house. He started off by heckling every one of her family members except for Kathy, who kept busy playing the drums. 

Ada (Lu) Stockton stepped in and told him off. Then he had the wish to KISS LILY FOR THE FIRST TIME! Sure, why not. She's gonna clean the floor with you, buddy.

First he flirts, but she isn't impressed. So he makes his move with a heat of the moment kiss.

She actually went for it! Oh great! Now I have yet another younger man in love with a gray-haired old woman! 

This issue resolved itself quickly, however, when Curt woke up and learned that old Lily Lum had died in her sleep.

He was heartbroken! Becky Wonzy invited him to her party, but soon regretted it. He spent most the time crying on people's shoulders.

He tried to cry on Lily's son Lawrence's shoulder, but he refused to comfort Curt. 

It seems Lawrence suffers from the same disease as Curt. 

Curt went home and sought solace from his roommate Josh.

I guess someone needs to brush their teeth. 

Curt and Josh are good friends, which is probably the reason Josh wasn't sent packing when Curt came home from his first day of work to this.

It looks like it had been burning for a long time. I was given no warning, no "a fire has broken out on your home lot." Poor Curt was taken aback and could only think of how much replacing and repairing the kitchen was going to cost. 

I finally prompted him to call the fire department because he seemed too overwhelmed to do it. 

Once he made the call, he regained his reason and started extinguishing the fire.

His roommate Josh was nowhere to be found, which made me wonder, what is that pile of ash under the pool table? Did he die in the fire and I wasn't alerted? 

It was a false alarm, Josh showed up later and helped clean up the mess.

At least the fridge still works. 

Here's a bonus picture: Carol and Malik threw a party and someone brought these tasty bunnies. Jessie was more health-conscious that the rest of them, choosing a nice slice of country bread instead.