Chapter 46

Takemizu Village is beautiful and Stella gets to satisfy all desires for travelling and new places that she has been holding back for so long.



Everyday Ingmar takes her somewhere new. She gets to see the usual tourist spots ...



... as well as truly amazing places.



And she also gets to experience new customs.



Time flies when you are having fun and their stay in Takemizu Village is soon over.



But Stella’s life back home is not bad either and contains so much more now than during the years before she met Ingmar. They often invite friends over for dinner.



Stella has also picked up some new habits. She has started practicing yoga ...



... and she has fulfilled an old dream and is now taking painting lessons.



Winter is over now. It is spring in Riverblossom Hills and Bluewater.



Patricia has finished her second book some time ago and is eagerly awaiting the reaction from her publisher.



But she has already started writing on her third book.



Faith has grown a lot and recently started school.



She is taking piano lessons from Christian in Riverblossom Hills, where Patricia takes her every Wednesday, and there she has met Daisy’s youngest sibling – Summer Greenman – who also has Christian as her piano teacher. They soon became best friends and talk on the phone and chat online almost every day, but for some time now it has become a habit for them to spend Saturdays together. Jason puts Summer on the bus to Bluewater after breakfast and Alex and Faith picks her up. Usually Alex then drives Summer home sometime in the late afternoon. Alex is very fond of Faith and happy that she has found such a loyal friend (Summer is a very likable girl – a lot like her sister Daisy) and Patricia is happy to see Alex so devoted to Faith. They are a real family now.



But they are all still very happy when they discover, that Faith soon will get a little sibling.



These days Xander is spending most of his time at the home of Irene in Bluewater.



She lives in a big, modern villa at the lakeshore ...



... together with her father and stepmom. Irene’s mother passed away a long time ago when Irene was just a child and her father remarried just recently. The red hair is the only thing Irene’s stepmother has in common with the new wife of Xander’s father though. She is very nice and Irene really likes her. In fact she is hoping for a little half sister or brother, even if the age difference will be rather large.



They are quite wealthy, and even have a butler.





Irene’s father owns the largest car dealership in Bluewater, and Irene is planning to start working with him and some day take over the business when he retires.



This car dealership is by Corrie at MTS and can be found here: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=327205

But not before she has acquired a college degree in business. Xander and Irene spend a lot of time studying together. Irene has high ambitions and is willing to work hard for them. In fact she reminds Xander a great deal of his sister.



Just like Sandra Irene loves to shop, so Xander spends a lot of time following her around different boutiques and beauty shops.



Which can be rather boring ... There really are other things he could be doing instead ...



But when Irene decides to get a new haircut, Xander must agree with her that it makes her look very sophisticated and grown up - and even more beautiful.



Besides studying and shopping, Irene likes to dance and hang out in cool places, so most weekends they go out both Friday and Saturday. This is a whole new life for Xander. But he is adjusting real fast. He is surprised but happy to discover, that he has a real talent for dancing. Among other things ...



So he is cool now. Hip and groovy. And he has this beautiful, smart and outgoing girlfriend that anyone would envy him. But as much fun as he is having, Xander is starting to miss his old hobbies and habits. It is spring now, he would very much like to go fishing again, spend some time outdoors. But hiking is not in Irene’s taste, she is quite content with her life in Bluewater and is not at all interested in changing habits. She is a city girl.