The Old Mill Chapter 9

Chapter 9
A renovacy made by Jessabeans as a gift to SamelaRita for the Sims 3Amayzing gift exchange.
Link to the renovacy here: https://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=9309941
And a link to the renovacy rules in case anyone else wants to play it!
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/920867/the-renovacy-challenge-a-new-and-short-challenge/p1 It’s well into autumn now, and the plants in the garden are dying off. But strength and hope are happy. They have harvested plenty of food, preserved plenty and sold plenty.
I love you, says strength to hope. Without you, I couldn’t have done all this.
He and hope stand close to each other. The children have finished their homework and eaten their meal.They are together in the smaller, warmer sitting room. The wanted child is learning about fish – he wants to be better at catching them. The daybreak child has just sold another painting and is starting a large one. And the joy child has bought herself a guitar. She plays well and sometimes she earns money doing it. She hopes to earn more as she gets better yet. Strength and hope join them and they light the fire and sit together. The joy child fills me with music. I remember her sending music up into me when she was tiny and I was empty, bare and alone. They talk about what to do next. The wanted child would like to change his bedroom a bit. I’ve sort of grown out of all that ship and pirate stuff now he says, a bit apologetically. Me too, says the daybreak child. Not the ship and pirate stuff, but can we redo my room as well? I have some money saved from my paintings. And my bed is getting really uncomfortable. Yes to both of you, says hope. We have some money saved up too and I think it’s time for another big change.
Oh my. Something is going to happen to me! I am so different again! Now they all sleep on the same floor and they don’t have to fight for the bathroom in the morning. They can’t afford new beds yet though. The wanted child still has to put up with his ships. But he has a new rug. He is very fond of sport now – whatever that is. And fishing. I understand fishing. This floor is empty now. I wonder what they will do with me here? The joy child has come home from school late from school today – very late. But strength and hope are not worried, so it is alright. Someone else has come home with her. Someone new. He is hugging her! What is all this about? He had better be a nice person, that is all I can say. She seems to like being hugged. She looks like hope looks when strength hugs her. The hugging boy is beaming at her and he looks a bit like strength sometimes does when he looks at hope. I will wait and see if this hugging boy is a kind boy. If he is not, I will splash him with my water! The daybreak child has painted a daybreak picture. She is going to sell it. She wants a new bed. Strength has filled the kitchen with pumpkins. Okay guys, he says, we don’t need to sell these this year. Or preserve them. Let’s see what we can do with them.
What does he mean? The only thing left to do is cook them and eat them now. That is a lot of pumpkin to eat all at once. They are cutting them up. But they don’t normally prepare food on the floor. And the daybreak child has gone off to do hers in secret. But how will she cook it outside? They have cut them up to look like faces! The daybreak child has lit hers up. Strength did the one with the scary face. I am glad he is not really like that himself. They put them outside. Some by one door… …and some by the other. I wonder why they are doing this? And now the children have all changed their clothes. The joy child looks lovely. I think she is hoping to see the hugging boy. The wanted child looks…strange. The daybreak child says she wants to drop her painting off to sell and then she will catch up with them. They are going out to do something with their friends. I think it is called trickle treating. This makes no sense to me at all! It’s dark and they have lit up the pumpkins. I still don’t know why they are doing this. They look quite good though. I think the cat is my favourite one. The daybreak child is very artistic. The day ends with the joy child making music for everyone.
I’d like to learn to play the drums says the wanted child.
You could start learning at school, says the joy child. I did. Why not join the music club?
I think it will get very noisy if he plays the drums. But I might like it.