“Oh, hello. You must be Circe Beaker right?”

“What do you want?”

“Don’t worry, love. I just want to know how my dear son is doing. You know, the one you keep encaptured in your basement!”

“Ma’am, I have no idea what you’re talking about. You might want to visit a psychiatrist. I can actually-”

“Don’t you dare! Listen, Missy: If you don’t release him immediately, you will regret the day you ‘took him in’!”

Nevertheless, the party is a huge success. Kristen and Buzz chat the whole night (she is the last one to leave). Buck pays the bartender before heading to bed. Someone will take care of the remnants in the morning… probably.

Against better judgement, Ripp tries his luck and calls college. And is informed that he actually can join college as part of the military program his dad is part of (well, apparently Sims can get into college with a D-… I won’t question it too much. The prospect of having to synch Ripps aging with the aging of everyone else would have been a nightmare…). He leaves immediately, without looking back.

Poor Buck.