Today we're visiting Jonathan and Demi Greaves. Jonathan is a former townie with six children: Evan Broke (who we met yesterday), twins Isabelle and Sydney, Lauren, Kylie, and Emily. Evan is the product of a long ago relationship with Jade Broke (who is now deceased), the three older girls (who we met at Uni) are from his first marriage to Ivy Copur (who died shortly after Lauren was born), and the two younger girls are from his second and current marriage to Demi (a former hobby lot director). Jonathan also has four grandchildren via Evan, but he hasn't had much contact with them since he and Evan are not close. To say Jonathan's life has been a struggle would be an understatement. After a nasty breakup with Jade in which she cheated on him and then cut him out of his son's life, Jonathan was so happy to find Ivy. I thought they'd be together long term, but the game had other plans. When the twins were toddlers and Ivy was pregnant with Lauren she invited some friends over for an outing (usually I have them go out, but she was super pregnant and couldn't leave the lot) while Jonathan was at work. Unfortunately the outing did not go well at all due to Ivy giving birth in the middle of it. On top of that, the negative mood hit at the end of the outing was enough to send Ivy into hunger failure and she died. No one in the house was old enough to plead for her, but I was able to save and grab a Servo from the bin before the girls got taken by the Social Worker. Poor Jonathan returned home to find he had a third daughter and no wife. He was a single dad for a while after before finally meeting and marrying Demi. They had two daughters of their own and are both now elders. Jonathan is Chief of Staff now, but Demi has consistently struggled in her Culinary career and consequently, doesn't make much money, which means they still struggle financially, especially with five daughters still needing college money. Though they managed to make the college fund payments this round, they're ending the round with just $740 in their pockets.
Next up are Hailey Cox and Evan Dreamer. Hailey is the daughter of Marion and Kennedy Cox. She has one brother, but also two biological half-sisters (Rhonda and Nadine) on Marion's side who were taken by the Social Worker before she was born. She has four children: Kimberli (who we met at boarding school, adopted), Hunter (adopted), Noah (the product of an affair with Alvin Broke, who we met earlier), and Brendan (her son with Evan, who was born this round). Evan (adopted son of Drake Dreamer and coincidentally the brother of Rhonda after she was also adopted by Drake) used to be married to plant sim Myra (who we met earlier) and they have two daughters together: Claire and Caryl. (They also had four plant sons while married, but they are not technically related to Evan.) Claire is at Uni and Caryl lives with Myra. If you made it through all that, what it boils down to is that only the three boys live with them. Hunter is a child, Noah a toddler, and Brendan an infant, but they will all grow up next round. Hailey has never had a traditional job; she's working on her sports hobby, so that she can start a home business in which she instructs others in sports. However, she's not there yet and has burned through all the inheritance left by her parents. Evan didn't bring much money in with him when he moved in (he and Myra were pretty broke), but he does have a good job in Oceanography. One income, however, may not be enough to support three kids, plus provide college money to three more.
Next up is Megan Broke. Megan is the daughter of David and Alicia Ottomas; she has three living siblings and twin sons (Jason and Travis) with her former husband Evan Broke, who we met yesterday. She's also a vampire, which made it pretty tough to raise twins on her own initially, but now that they're teens she's able to delegate some responsibility to them. Megan hasn't been particularly lucky in love. Her marriage didn't work out and then she got involved with Mason Tellerman just prior to his arrest and conviction. She's still carrying a torch for him and hasn't really dated since he got locked up. This round she took the boys out for dinner and I had hoped she'd meet someone nice, but despite there being a few eligible men to choose from, she refused to even talk to anyone other than her sons. Jason briefly rolled the want to attend private school, which I think is more about the cute girl he met who goes to Briarwood than a desire for quality education, however since he and his brother are only one day away from graduating I didn't really entertain the idea.
Happy Simming!
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