0.04 Disconnected

Meghan feels the stress begin to lift when they get to the seashore and she experiences the salty breeze, like a call towards some daring adventure. Never mind that she's probably catching pneumonia out here, she should be grateful to be outside at all, she reminds herself flippantly.

Somewhere up north, a young man's plans to start a family are interrupted. His wife Liza sighs and slides out of his embrace when his phones rings and she knows he's going to answer right away.  It's probably another opportunity to work from home. He LOVES those.

The interruption actually came by way of his annoying cousin, spouting some nonsense about how he's in real trouble this time and he can't go back home (please don't tell my parents, I'm already dodging the amber alert system, if there were more billboards here we'd be in real trouble).

Wait. Who's 'we'?

Dustin explains a bit, but not as much as he should. He with a friend who's in the kind of trouble he can't tell anyone else about. "We don't have a lot of cash, but I can stretch if we grab a ferry up river, I think we can be there inside the week. Is that okay?"

Eugene's wife is nurturing and an all-around good person, so she takes the news mildly that a couple of kids are going to stay with them for a while. It'll be a great test for them to see if they can handle having a family of their own, one of the reasons they moved out to Aurora Skies to start a new life together (Okay she followed him here after college and eventually won him over but that's neither here nor there).

He tells the kids over speaker phone that they would be welcome at the couple's new home, as long as they agreed to abide by the house rules. The kids agreed without bothering to listen to whatever the rules would be. It was still raining where they were after all, and the ferry had yet to show up. It was getting chilly out.

Still wrapping up a few minor details, Eugene's surprised when the phone is snatched out of his hand and his wife hides it someplace where he can no longer ignore her. He's pretty sure she hung it up in the process, but he doesn't really care.

"Huh. Guess we got disconnected." Dustin quips when the phone starts making sounds that phones don't make.

Thankfully the ferry finally shows up and they find themselves on the shore of a new town, several hours to the north of where they were before. Because of the jet stream here it actually has a semi-tropical ecosystem allowing for much more lovely scenery than back at home, in boring ol' Twinsburg. The stormy weather followed them here, of course.

Spirits undaunted, they celebrate a bit.

Meghan tries not to remember what she's running away from, but it's already difficult when she thinks about the future. The ferry ride made her feel trapped, but at the same time more secure than the open sky does now. She's unsure what to make of this, but hides her concern from her friend.

Eventually Meghan gets up the courage and turns to ask about how she looks right now. She hasn't had new clothes in ever, and that was a long walk out to a short pier earlier, they're both sort of smelly at the moment. 

He tells her that there's nothing wrong with how she looks now, but they both could probably wash up and look around town for new options when they make it that far.

He also chooses this moment to show her that he's packed his swimsuit. Just like old times! They can swim and clean up a bit in the water seeing as how they're right on the beach.

She basically calls him a pervert for this. "I don't have anything else to wear you moron! Put your clothes back on! No way am I gonna get naked in public just to clean up a bit!"

He can't fathom shrugging back into a sweater, now.

"I'm not a pervert, the marine layer evaporated and it's getting hot outside! Calm down!" He chides her. 

"Not that I wouldn't mind if you join me in the water." He can't help but amend. She brought up the idea after all. And you know, hormones or whatever.

Her silent glare is answer enough, but she doesn't say anything else, annoyed that he was right for once and she started all this.

"Uh. I mean, this way you know I'm not some terrifying werewolf, out to get you." He amends again, starting to suck at flirting with her, if that's what he was even trying to do. He's not sure anymore.

The topic he chose distracts her enough that she launches into a diatribe about how he can't be a werewolf because he's never been aggressive and she knows how they behave. She had a crayola color wonder about it when she was three, which is a pretty great authority.

He never knows when she's being serious about this stuff. But it's fun to listen to her rant, so who cares right now? At least he's distracted from thinking about her naked at the moment.

"The only thing this confirms is that you aren't a mummy." She finishes, satisfied with her assessment of the situation. "But I'm definitely not ruling out the possibility that you're a werewolf anyways. I see that hair cropping up, you mutt!" He's not sure if that was supposed to be flattering, but at least she noticed.

He changes the subject, suggests they get off the stupid beach.


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So Dustin randomly decided to play in the water as soon as they arrived in Mayfield Springs. My guess is he wanted to reminisce about the past, until she showed up and it was time to oogle her a bit while she yelled some things angrily. LOL For a genius sim she was pretty easy to get off track and talking about other things. Maybe she's just too used to going from angry to interested back to confused again.

Dustin's not charismatic or anything (obviously). Does anyone else remember the awkwardness that is a teenage boy's hormones?

In case you wanted to know this is currently Gen 0. Dustin is the founder of Gen 1 and wanted to understand him a bit, so I'm playing him as a teen first. So his cousin that he's taking Meghan to is not a founder or anything.

The cousin is Eugene Sparrow and his traits are; Neat, friendly, genius, workahoolic and socially awkward. He's a jock and a journalist.
His wife Lize is a nurse who has the traits Vegetarian, Nurturing, Bookworm, good sense of humor and good.

Eugene and Dustin used to live next to each other, and they probably played sports etc together when Dustin was a kid and Eugene was a Teen (before he went to Uni). They're decent friends, but it's been a while since they've seen each other.

Thanks for reading!
-Frogsnack