Yay for school holidays! I had time to finish playing this update this morning, as well as the start of the next (hint: generation five has been born 😉). Enjoy!

Last time: Julian died. Arnold was a colossal meanie-mo, but managed to convince Billie to be his girlfriend and then fiancée anyway. Josh tried to also get a girlfriend, but his family kept running interference. We continue…

Josh and Elsa went on a date to the Ancient Ruins!

Unfortunately, Elsa spent a large chunk of the date trying to run away from Josh.

Once Josh finally caught up with her, she kept cancelling their conversation to check her phone. Luckily Josh is a Serial Romantic with a one-track mind, so he basically didn’t even notice.

Josh eventually did convince Elsa to accept his advances.

Elsa: Welp! Time to update my Simsta again!!

Josh: You know what… I am going to log onto Simstagram and personally check what you’ve been saying about me.

Then Josh decided to “Complain about Unfair Life” to Elsa.

As you can see, Elsa was thrilled.

Nonetheless, Elsa excitedly agreed to be Josh’s girlfriend! Despite the looks of things they had a gold-level date.

Obviously it was necessary to take yet another selfie before heading home with Josh. (You can really see Josh wondering why he chose this girl…)

At home, things get a bit frisky.

I had no idea Sims could overhear WooHoo happening in closets in adjacent rooms!! Britta was just standing in the corridor with this look on her face.

Arnold, meanwhile, thinks his baby brother getting it on is THE FUNNIEST SHIT EVER. And Billie seems suspiciously turned on.

So turned on, in fact, that she pushes Arnold to the closet doors and tells him to show the youngins how it’s done. (Aurally, not visually, obviously.)

Britta had gone to sleep by this point and was woken up by her eldest son and his fiancée’s ultra-loud sex. I am starting to think she’s regretting her choice to have kids.

Josh and Elsa went for round two in Josh’s BRAND-NEW double bed. They had to because Elsa kept trying to jump into bed with Arnold. This was the only way to draw her into bed with Josh instead :|

omg! That little romp in the wardrobe made Billie PREGNANT!!! Despite being a giant meanie-pants, Arnold takes this news better than any other prospective father in my game.

Claire: Don’t you know anything?! Of COURSE WooHoo can lead to pregnancy!!

Arnold: I know nan we did it deliberately

Claire: In my day we knew how to use protection until we were ready for a child! You whippersnappers with your risky—

Arnold: I said WE DID IT DELIBERATELY

Some hours later I found this scene in the bathroom. wtf are you telling him, Billie?

Arnold seems to have magically turned a new leaf, and would rather “Hug Lovingly” his brother than insult his fashion choices these days.

Elsa, meanwhile, is sad because she hasn’t figured out where the shower is.

I’m not sure that Josh has forgiven everything though, given his decision to “Share Embarrassing Childhood Moment”. Billie laughs and shakes her head in dismay; Arnold just laughs it off.

Then it’s off to Magnolia Blossom Park for a wedding!

Here are our glamorous attendees. You might think that Morgan’s being all soppy about her baby boy growing up, but actually she is crying because she thinks Elsa stinks really bad.

Billie didn’t seem too keen on the specific ring that Arnold slipped onto her finger…

…but Arnold was able to seal the deal regardless.

Congratulations, newlyweds!

Immediately after the nuptials, Ella started screaming and yelling and Josh. I was all ???? but apparently she currently has a Mean childhood phase that I’d forgotten about. Fantastic.

Loved these two tossing their tiny bunches of confetti as their new daughter-in-law takes a slice of cake. Just. Why.

Cutieeeeeees!

Morgan is super judgemental of her younger son’s stinky girlfriend. Here you can witness him trying to use telepathy to tell her to piss off.

The excitement was all a bit much for Claire, who took a nap on this bench.

Josh decided to autonomously do some homework at his brother’s wedding. Britta judged him HARD.

btw, the wedding got a gold medal! The miracles I can achieve when this game doesn’t give me dumb success criteria…

Back at home, these three ladies autonomously decided to work off some cake-related weight gain.

Did I mention that Billie has the Jealous trait? No? Well, she does. Her other traits are Vegetarian and Goofball.

Morgan really loved Lost Dog’s Journey Home .

Josh started cancelling everything in his queue and crying all over the place because he entered a Picky Eater phase… *eye-roll*

Billie tries to cheer him up a little bit.

Britta needs two more Video Game skill points for another promotion. She also learnt that streaming her gaming sessions gains her tons of new social media followers (which she also needs for that promotion), so… yay?

Julian bizarrely congratulates Britta on getting a promotion anyway, even though she hasn’t had one in ages and won’t be getting one until she can get 8,000,000 new social media followers.

Josh (NOT ARNOLD) asked Claire about being old and it enraged her so much that she started swearing her head off at them!

Date day at the park!

There’s basically no one at this park except them and the gardener, so they have a fair bit of privacy for canoodling.

Elsa’s penchant for deleting her queue in favour of taking selfies appears to be contagious :(

Remember that gardener? She’s not really happy about these teens canoodling in her park.

Eventually the gardener got so narked that she thought she’d intrude on their conversation and make it such an “Awkward Encounter” that they’d leave.

The animations were a little screwy, but instead of that, Josh started yelling at her and she left. lol.

Elsa decided to share a secret with Josh… about love rockets. Whatever it is is clearly something that Josh did not want to hear.

Hip hip hooray!

To achieve the next level this is the task he complete… interesting.

Meanwhile, back home… wtf Morgan.

What do you mean, it’s been a long day?? You’ve been slumbering in your grave, Julian.

Tickle wars!!

Ella: Just so you know, my brother is a big dork and very uncool. You should probably not date him.

Elsa: …ok?

Josh jumped out of the shower while Billie was washing her hands, and just hesitated a little moment before changing into his clothes. And nary an embarrassed moodlet was seen! Something is up between these two.

Julian: Well, my wife didn’t want to meet me at the pub… guess I’ll just have to surprise her here at home :)

Claire’s whims changed to this kind of stuff straight away.

Julian: You know honey, you should really join me in the afterlife one of these days… the cupcakes are die for!

Claire: lol, to die for, I get it, nice one

Then the romance began.

Claire: Come here, handsome ;)

Julian: Are you sure we won’t disturb the youngsters?

Claire: just get in

Julian painted us a masterpiece worth §1,634 before returning to his grave. What a champ.

For her part, Claire was so determined not to waste any of this magical night by sleeping that she brewed a pot of coffee and drank all three cups…

…resulting in this moodlet.

Elsa (who stayed the night) woke up in the morning, went straight to the computer, logged into SimSN Messenger, fanned herself flirtatiously, then started sobbing her heart out.

???

Once he had also woken up, Josh went into the living room to try to comfort her in the only way he knew how.

However, on their way to the bedroom… Elsa aged up into a Young Adult.

Josh: So no more “messing around” until I also age up… great, great, this is just brilliant

Luckily for Josh, today is actually his birthday.

Since Josh is due to become a Young Adult and I didn’t want some random to suddenly be the leader of Teen Hangout Club, I had Ella make her case.

I didn’t realise that Josh would start crying about it… omfg

THEY WERE NOT DISPLEASED EVEN THOUGH YOU FAILED TO CALL A SINGLE CLUB GATHERING WHICH IS HONESTLY PRETTY SLACK IT’S JUST THAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO AGE OUT OF THIS CLUB

Ella: Uh dude… calm down… you were a great leader… it’s just that I am still a teen and you will imminently not be one

I love how this interaction instantly dissolves Sad moodlets. Crisis averted.

Billie’s pregnancy is coming along nicely. She’s due to give birth tomorrow morning!

Josh has become a Young Adult! He gained the Goofball trait, to go with his pre-existing Perfectionist and Dance Machine ones.

Josh celebrates his newfound adulthood with a trip to the Pan Europa Discothèque.

There, he meets a certain somebody named Candy Behr.

Josh, texting back: Yeah, uh, actually I heard a rumour that the club is dead this Sunday night. Think I’ll have a quiet one in; you should do the same. See you soon! xoxo

Josh and Candy rapidly build up a flirtatious rapport.

Ultimately, Josh took Candy by surprise and kissed her!

Candy tried to flee to the secret Spin Masters dance floor, but Josh followed in pursuit.

what…

So, now Ella is here too.

That sweet illicit love.

What kind of dancing is this, Ella?

You might notice that there isn’t even a DJ… the DJ went home thinking about how much work he had to do. *chin-scratch emoji*

I think they enjoyed their wardrobe romp.

Party animals.

While Josh napped, Candy went back to her Spin Master buddies and ultimately went home.

So, Josh started chatting up these fine ladies, aiming to see if he could tempt anyone else.

Jade Rosa was receptive.

I love Ella’s blissful ignorance of this whole situation. You just keep dancing, love!

Sleepily, Josh raises some ideas for some intimate fun that he and Jade could have next time they meet. She seems enthusiastic.

And they part with a good night kiss. That other townie wasn’t too impressed. Come on – you snooze, you lose, ok!