“Lyra!” Lyra tried to ignore her sister. Since Andromeda found out that she was expecting, she was unbearable, always arguing with Lyra, always blaming her. When she didn’t stop calling her name, she turned around: “What do you want?”

“Listen, I know, I haven’t been fair to you lately, but please, hear me out: I’m sorry. Look, you’re a single mother and I know that it won’t be easy for you raising a child on your own. Percy and I have the capacities to help you.”

“Stop! What are you trying to tell me?”

“You’re too young to raise a child on your own. I just want to help you. We can raise it. You know I’m good with children. Hell, I would’ve been a birth queen, if…”

“Oh, shut up! I don’t need your help, and I’m not alone! Aldric and I can do this!”

“Oh, you can’t be serious! You and that Sim slug! Come one, you know that that won’t work out. Sims are evil, Lyra! You know that!”

“Aldric and his family are not evil, you squid! They are kind and they would never hurt us!”

Andromeda scoffed: “You are barely an adult! You don’t know the real world. You know what? Forget it. But don’t come back when you realise that they are mean spiteful beings! Juliet!”

Life at the Sims’ place is still quaint. Unfortunately, their supplies start to run low, so Alderic tries to establish a trade with the Aliens (who are low on stock themselves). Jasmin either doesn’t notice Zoe’s rather… intimate relationship with a certain alien or doesn’t care, and the parents-to-be are in their own world right now.

“Who’s a cute little Xammie?! You are!”

“I don’t think it can hear you yet. I didn’t knew you had a soft spot for kids!”

Stella looked up with a sheepish smile: “I don’t!”

“Sure.”

“Anyway… Percy sends me. He thinks I should chide you. He’s as mad as a blue slug.”

Lyra smiled: “I’m pretty sure that weren’t his exact words?”

“Let’s just say you should stay out of his face for a while.”

“What do you think? You’re the boss.”

“First of all, what were you thinking?! Hooking up with… Aldric- of all humans-… Second: It’s your life, you’re an adult and I’m not going to play your babysitter. Do whatever you want. Aldric’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but atleast he’s not a romance sim. Just don’t come anywhere near Percy. He’s really mad at you.”

“I know. Andromeda is mad too. She’s either ignoring me or scolding me. You know what: I’m soo sick of her ‘All Sims are evil and must be avoided at all cost.’”

“You made some bad experiences back in Veronaville. You were too young to remember that much, she does remember. It’s understandable that she mistrusts Sims.”

“Whatever. I just want her to shut up.”

Stella nodded hesistantly. She had read the file about the Luna family. As much as she disliked the slender redheaded diva, she could understand Andromeda’s hatred of all things simlish.