Last week at the spin-off Cooper household, Sharlene was complaining that she and Terrence never spent any quality time together. If you know what I mean. Well, she was right, as I discovered to my shame when I did find them a couple hours. Terrence didn't even have the option to woohoo with his wife, that's how far I'd let their relationship slide! I'm a bad simmer.



But a little bit if this, and a little bit of that, and soon things were back on track.



Did I mention that Sharlene is a career criminal? Yep, she's yet another one of the many sims in Strawberry Fields who want to be evil Masterminds. Terrence has no moral objections, but he does worry.



"What if you get caught? What will Shayelle and I do without you?"



"I'm not going to get caught, silly. I'm too good for that. The Captain Heroes in this town are useless. Your brother Joel was the smartest of the bunch - which is saying something - and he gave it up when his wife died."



"And besides, even if they did manage to catch me, they'd never convict me."



Sharlene was right - nothing stood in her way to the top, and she reached that coveted permaplatness, even if she did have to work herself almost into the ground to get there.



Terrence keeps working on his own LTW of maxing all his skills. He's on his second career, medicine, and the career reward really helps. He'd probably be a lot closer if I didn't keep him stargazing every night, but hey, I have my priorities. He can still skill when he's too old to get impregnated by aliens.



But just like he made time for his wife, he manages to spend some time with his daughter.



And he's the parent who's there for her birthday.



Hey, she's cute. Not bad at all.

Shayelle rolled family, and her LTW is to be a Captain Hero. Let's hope Sharlene has left her life of crime before that happens, okay? Imagine having to arrest your own mother. Anyway, she's a Scorpio, 9/8/8/3/3, who likes blond or custom hair, but is turned off by fullface makeup.



Go away, Orlando.

"But there's a teenage family girl in this house! I always date the teenage family girls!"

Well, you don't get to date this one. You've had more than your share of girlfriends. Now go away!



Instead it's Alvin Futa who gets the honor of being Shay's first kiss. I wonder if she knows about his little fling with Lily Forsythe? Oh well, it's not like he's likely to come to college with them.



Shay gets along really well with Headmaster Vince. So well it's almost creepy. Future spouse? We'll see... There's something icky about the concept of a headmaster marrying a former student who he met when she was a teen, but I'm not ruling anything out at this point. If nothing else, she can introduce him to her friends, and maybe he'll hit it off with one of them.



Soon she has all her skill scholarships, as well as the one for her grades and one for reaching the top of the teen military career. It's college time! Meanwhile, Terrence and Sharlene will be looking for a new, bigger home, since this one is a bit on the cramped side, and Shay will be wanting babies once she graduates, family sim that she is.


Points this round: 1 or 2, career-related. Sharlene became a criminal mastermind, and Terrence a mad scientist (unless that was last week).