[Bush acquired!]
The bush smelled like piss sadly because it was.
With nowhere else to relieve themselves privately the twins were stuck. So they pooled their assets together to buy a bush from WWG.
– That day the twins immediately got to work. Lapis searching for crystals and Lazuli collecting frogs and fishes.
On the second day they earned enough to buy a tarp shower.
So began their desert hustle.
With a bush, a tarp shower and a tent their essential needs were met. The girls could finally breathe a little easier.
Or at least so Lazuli thought.
With their registry with the WWG they could start attending a school again. It was more like school outside and in tents.
The additional workload combined with the commute to school, back and having to live with the natural elements, it all began to take a toll on Lapis who became utterly miserable.
Even homework became a chore for her.
Lazuli was unaffected, although she was a city girl, she had always spent more time outside tending to the garden with her Aunt and glamping. An indoor kitten like her sister who never camped a day in her life was bound to get uncomfortable.
There was a cute and simple radio being sold for $50 at the cupcake(WWG) stand, when Lazuli saw it she bought it right away.
Her sister didn’t care for it at first but eventually she found herself chilling outside listening to the music that made her remember the beauty of the great outdoors.
Lapis decided then, she would grind the hardest she could to build themselves a home. She took up many new hobbies, flower selling, photography but it was painting that raked in the dough. A talent she never thought she had, her artworks compared to her Mother’s was always ridiculed and criticized but to the world it was something.
Lazuli quit fishing and eventually resorted to growing and selling flowers.
DISCLAIMER: So. I played ahead and was planning on writing about the rest of this series, but because of the annoying one drive, the pictures and videos I took while playing weren’t saved. Not only that… my dumb butt accidentally cleaned the cache file that had my progress saved and so the game reset back to the beginning point. All their skills and simoleons they saved up GONE.
Why I’m not starting over:
I was playing this to a survival type where they (teens) start on their lot with nothing but a tent and zero simoleons and they had to find money by interacting with their environment and or getting a job, it actually took me a while to afford enough as I had eventually gotten them a house, it wasn’t fully decorated or painted or anything but it was a house, and they began to live with other homeless kids, also I was about to age up Lapis and Lazuli into young adults, they were both almost done with their aspiration. So… I’m mad. At myself. For wasting my own time.
So yeah, dropping this story for now. If I start again… it’ll probably be a youtube playthrough instead I think, at least what happened will be seen versus on paper will have nothing else to show for it.
You can find me on Youtube as Phoebe’s Convenience… I don’t really have much on my channel at the moment.
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