The Goth-Peterson Household: Week 9

In New Maximiliania, the Goth family have long given up the original Goth house and moved to this villa, one of my favourite places in the neighbourhood. It has a much nicer, lighter atmosphere than the original house, and unlike with many other houses, I have spent a lot of time furnishing and decorating it, so that it feels like a real home for my Sims.
Who lives here now, so many years since the game has begun?
       

There is Alexander Goth, now 69 and still missing his wife Tara (nee DeBateau), who died last round at 79. Alexander has two children, the half-Alien twins Gunther...
       

...and Giselle.
       

Last round did not only see Alexander become a widower. It was also the time when he met and fell in love with Jessica Peterson, who is one year younger than he.
The dog, Moody, is the last remaining one from the days when Alexander's sister Cassandra was still alive. She had wanted to raise 20 puppies, and together with her husband Cyd Roseland was doing not too badly but died before she could make her lifetime want come true.
      

Monday morning sees the family at breakfast together. Jessica wants to show her "step children" (she is not engaged to Alexander, let alone married) that she takes an active interest in their lives and asks them about their plans, now that they are teenagers.
The want to go to college does appear with both twins, but I am by no means sure yet I'll send them.
       

In the afternoon, I have Jessica make herself useful and rake and burn the leaves that have been falling all over the extensive garden. Unfortunately, one of the nearby flower shrubs catches fire...
      

...and so does Jessica.
       

Just as she dies in the flames, the school bus arrives. Giselle and Gunther run to the scene along with Sofia Baldwin, who happened to walk by. But it is too late for Jessica.
       

Poor Alexander! Not only is the woman he was hoping to spend his remaining years with dead, his son is in flames, too, and it looks as if his daughter is going to be next.
      

In his effort to rescue his children, Alexander soon gets way too close to the fire himself.
       

The Grim Reaper appears again and again, taking Gunther and Alexander with him.
       

Only Giselle is left behind - saved by the hydrobot who took all this time to get round to the terrible scene! (It was activated all along, but you know that garden - it is full of slopes and angles, and more than once the bot got stuck on its way.)
      

Poor Giselle, poor Moody!

Well... I did not have a fire in New Maximiliania for quite a while. This one certainly more than made up for it!
      

Giselle is devastated.
       

Strangely enough, she only thinks of her twin brother, but never of her father.
       

Again, Gunther is on her mind, not her Dad, as she plays a sad tune on the grand piano.
       

Still Gunther, not Alexander.
       

Eventually, I send her upstairs to do her homework.
       

As soon as she's finished, she bursts into tears again. Can't blame her, can you! The poor rich girl now has more than 720.000 Simoleons to her name, but no brother, no father, no stepmother.
       

Only Moody, the dog. It is Tuesday morning when Giselle wakes up with the wish to wash Moody (never seen any of my Sims show that wish before). He was close to the fire yesterday and is very smelly, but never thought of using the water wiggler on the front lawn.
       

As a teenager, Giselle can live on her own without risking Social Services picking her up. But she can not go to school and take care of the large house and garden all by herself, and so she enlists the help of a gardener, a handyman and a cleaner. She can easily afford it.
       

She is very unwell, which is hardly surprising after all she went through.
       

On Wednesday morning, she gets up, still feeling unwell.
       

Today, one of her many half-siblings comes home with her after school: B'Elanna Beaker.
       

"You and all our other brothers and sisters are now the only family I have... it's a shame our Alien father is not with us," she muses over lunch with B'Elanna.
       

At night, she dreams of several more of her relatives.
       

On Thursday, Glenda Greenman gets off the bus with her.
       

When Giselle takes care of today's mail, she thinks of how one day she wants children of her own. Her lifetime want is to have 6 grandchildren. The Goth family name won't die out - unless somehing happens to Giselle before she is old enough to have a baby.
       

The classmates talk of what they want to do when they are grown up. Most of the time, Giselle already feels quite grown up... she had no choice there, did she.
       

Jill Indie (nee Smith) walks by and is greeted by Giselle.
       

The three "girls" have a game of kicky bag with Moody watching closely.
       

The gardener is back on Friday.
       

Gabriella Newson is Giselle's guest in the afternoon.
       

Saturday starts with Giselle giving Moody a badly needed bath. This dog could really do with a wash every day!
      

Since it is the weekend an no homework needs to be done, Giselle invites all her friends over. Anything but being all on her own in the large house! Stephen Riley sits down for a spot of lunch with his friend. "If I do indeed go to college, I want to make it to the Dean's List every semester," the girl informs him.
She still rolls the want to go to college, but not every day.
       

Later, Stephen and Glenda make music together.
       

Giselle's other friends - Meike Riley, Perseida Powers and B'Elanna Beaker - gather in the gym room.
       

Later, Perseida and Giselle play chess. "I really want to pack up and leave for college soon... but I can't just leave poor old Moody," Giselle tells her half-sister.
       

On Sunday morning, Giselle discovers that it has been snowing for the first time this winter. She has now moved to the bedroom that once belonged to her aunt Cassandra and uncle Cyd, it being more conveniently situated on the second floor of the house instead of the top.
       

Once again, she invites all her friends, plus whoever happens to walk by, such as Jacqueline Jacquet, yet another of her many half-sisters.
       

Today, she serves one of the cakes that were in the inventories of several household members at the beginning of the week.
       

She so enjoys not being on her own, but surrounded by friends and family at the table.

This is how the week at this, my only teenage household, ends.
Will Giselle go to college? Who could be the future father of her children and probably take on the Goth family name?