A Deal, 2021

Patar, summer, 2021
Benjamin Endeavor is 35, Ming Wu is 35; Xiang Hua Wu is 5, Joachim is 2

Ming was tired. Whenever one kid whined, the other wasn't very far behind. Xiang Hua just wanted attention all day long. 

Writing's on the wall, 2019

Lovar, spring, 2019
Benjamin Endeavor is 33, Ming Wu is 33; Xiang Hua Wu is 3
Optional Soundtrack: Writing's on the wall-Sam Smith

Benjamin's career was peaking and he felt it. He knew that he wouldn't be able to stay at the top forever, no one does. He was a superstar. He had interviews almost daily, endorsements galore and his body graced the cover of everything from the top sports magazines, men's fitness magazines and even lifestyle magazines. He had been asked to appear nude several times, he declined them all since they didn't fit his family friendly image. He was chosen to be a part of the Olympic basketball team which was a honor.

Erosion, 2017

Peacar, winter, 2017
Benjamin Endeavor is 31, Ming Wu is 31; Xiang Hua Wu is 1

It was gradual

Angry at First, 2017

Hapar, spring, 2017
mini-update

Most days, Ming was the picture of organized tranquility. She could calm Xiang Hua down with a few whispered lullabies,

Same Underwear, 2015

Resar, fall, 2015
Benjamin Endeavor is 29, Rojo Herendez is 23, Erricson Frankson is 24

It had to happen someday. Someday Benjamin would get tired of living in apartments and would purchase his own home. Maybe it had something to do with Ming buying her own place that made him want to spend some of his endorsement money on a house.

Press Charges, 2013

Remar, summer, 2013
Benjamin Endeavor and Rashid Cunningham are 27, Rojo Herendez is 21

Benjamin's summer started off great. He was promoted on the basketball team and the newspapers referred to him as a superstar, he was the face of Man Smell Deodorant and his pay increase and endorsements meant that he could afford a bigger and better place. 

Half Naked, 2011

Hapar, spring, 2011
Benjamin Endeavor and Rashid Cunningham are 25, Verde Herendez is 24

It was one of Benjamin’s rare days off and he was determined to enjoy it before the evening arrived.

It Kills Me, 2009

Givar, winter, 2009

Benjamin Endeavor and Rashid Cunningham are 23, Verde Herendez is 22 (Ming Wuu is 23 , Lainey Lorde and S'Ahmisa Warwick are 22)


Optional Soundtrack: It Kills Me-Melanie Fiona

"You look amazing," Verde gushed after they placed their orders.

I'm Not Loving You, 2009

Givar, winter, 2009
Benjamin Endeavor and Rashid Cunningham are 23, Verde Herendez is 22 (Ming Wuu is 23 , Lainey Lorde and S'Ahmisa Warwick are 22)
 
Optional Soundtrack: Robin Thicke - I'm Not Loving You
 

It's been about four simlonic months since graduation and since Verde joined Benjamin and Rashid in their apartment. The young men had to move to another larger place with an extra bedroom to accommodate their new roommate

Small News, 2008

Resar, fall, 2008

Lainey Lorde, S'Ahmisa Warwick and Verde Herendez are seniors. Benjamin Endeavor is 22, Ming Wuu is 22 and Rashid Cunningham is 22, Krissy Thorn is 24, Alphonso Pentragnani is 26

A Different Story, 2008

Lovar, spring, 2008

Ming Wuu and Benjamin Endeavor are seniors, Lainey Lorde, S'Ahmisa Warwick and Verde Herendez are juniors.

Benjamin figured that his senior year was meant to be a pretty important one. He made sure that he didn't keep his nose stuck in the books and instead enjoyed his young life, the last hurrah before the real world rudely slapped him in the face and kicked him in the balls.

Gets Scandalous, Part 2, 2007

Resar, fall, 2007
Ming Wuu and Benjamin Endeavor are seniors, Lainey Lorde, S'Ahmisa Warwick and Verde Herendez are juniors.

S'Ahmisa stared at the computer screen, Ming's email on one side and her unfinished term paper on the other side. She was distracted and couldn't focus. She shut down the computer and wandered outside to the rock garden.

Gets Scandalous, Part 1, 2007

Resar, fall, 2007

Ming Wuu and Benjamin Endeavor are seniors, Lainey Lorde, S'Ahmisa Warwick and Verde Herendez are juniors.

Your pictures of Kimikura are great, it looks like you're really enjoying your time there. Remember not to study too hard.

Very Hard, Part 3, 2006

Havar, fall, 2006
Emma Seavey is a senior, Ming Wuu and Benjamin Endeavor are juniors, Lainey Lorde, S'Ahmisa Warwick and Verde Herendez are sophmores.

"Maybe I'm working too hard," S'Ahmisa tried to explain away the dream.

"Are you working too hard?"

"I don't think so."

"How often have you had the dream?"

"I've had that exact dream three times a simweek for past three simlonic months."

"Whoa...you're a bit of a stubborn sim aren't you?"

"What do you mean?"

"You've had the exact same dream for three simlonic months and you honestly think that it's not trying to tell you something."

"It's a cute dream, but it just won't work."

"You overthink things too much, S'Ahmisa." Ming said rolling her eyes.

"You sound like my parents."

"Really? What do they say about the whole Rashid situation?"

"My mom says that I should fly out there, woohoo him and return back to the hood. My dad agrees with her. He said maybe that's why I've been so cranky and that perhaps I need to think about woohooing any sim if I can't get to Rashid."

"Your parents are wild."

"I know." S'Ahmisa sighed. "It doesn't matter now anyway, I don't think he's interested in me that way anymore. He's dating...a lot of different women actually."

"I would be dating a lot of different sims too, come on, you've been giving him mixed signals. What did you think he would do? Sit at home and wait for you to call?"

"No, but...well. It doesn't matter how I feel, it just won't work. I mean, my future is here and his is there. It just wouldn't...it wouldn't work."

"You guys still talk, right?"

"We chat on the computer every night at seven."

Ming raised her eyebrows. "Wait, you chat every night at seven?"

"Yes."

"Even on the weekends?"

"Yes."

"But he's dating around...a lot, right?"

"Yes."

"But you chat every night at seven, even on the weekends?"

"What are you getting at, Ming?"

"First, seven in the evening is prime date time, especially on the weekends, I doubt that he's doing as much dating around as he claims. Two, this man set asides, what, an hour of his simday, every simday to chat with you, yet you think that he isn't interested in you that way."

"He's not."

"Ugh," Ming groaned getting off the bed. "Sometimes you're so smart that you're dumb as a doorknob."
---

S'Ahmisa nervously waited as the clock changed from 6:59 to 7:00.

PRINCEOFWARFARE06: Hey

CURLYGURL: Hi

PRINCEOFWARFARE06: How was your day?

CURLYGURL: Ok, how was yours.

PRINCEOFWARFARE06: Busy.

CURLYGURL: Too many women taking your time.

PRINCEOFWARFARE06: ...

CURLYGURL: How are your female friends?

PRINCEOFWARFARE06: You ask the same question every night.

CURLYGURL: And every night you don't answer.

PRINCEOFWARFARE06: ...

CURLYGURL: Think they could spare you for the weekend?

PRINCEOFWARFARE06: Why?

CURLYGURL: Check your email.

PRINCEOFWARFARE06: Ok-brb.

CURLYGURL: K

S'Ahmisa would have liked to see his face when he opened the email and found the ticket waiting there for him. She bit her lip, nervous about what she was going to do. However thanks to the rather blunt talks with her parents and Ming, she decided to throw it all out there and hope for the best...or at the very least not to be humliated.

PRINCEOFWARFARE06: You didn't have to buy me a ticket, I could have brought my own.
 
CURLYGURL: Well, I did. Do you think you could come out?
 
PRINCEOFWARFARE06: Idk
 
CURLYGURL: I have to visit Thaindia and talk with the Minister of Foriegn Policy. They're letting me use a house while I'm there.
 
PRINCEOFWARFARE06: That's nice.
 
CURLYGURL: It's one bedroom with this huge bed.
 
PRINCEOFWARFARE06: Sounds nice.
 
CURLYGURL: I would really like to see you. Just tell your female friends that I want to borrow you for the weekend, I'll return you in one piece. A bit tired but one piece ;)
 
PRINCEOFWARFARE06: I don't know what to say
 
CURLYGURL: Just think about it ok? You have the ticket and either I'll spend the weekend in bed with you or I'll spend the weekend in bed alone.
 
PRINCEOFWARFARE06: ...
 
CURLYGURL: r u there?
 
PRINCEOFWARFARE06: yea

 
CURLYGURL: will you think about it?
 
PRINCEOFWARFARE06: yea, I'll think about it.
---

 
S'Ahmisa tried to distract herself with the awesome view, but she knew that Rashid's plane should be landing right now. Add in the quick baggage claim and the taxi from the airport would take 15 minutes, gave her just enough time to shower and change into the little something that she spent hours picking out. She hoped that he would like it when she greeted him at the door.
 
Three hours later and several phone calls to the airport confirming that the flight had landed and that all passengers had disembarked, S'Ahmisa finally came to terms with what she didn't want to think about.

 
He wasn't coming.
 
She had tried again and even tried to be blunt-which wasn't like her at all. Even the prospect of no strings attached woohoo wasn't enough to change Rashid's mind about her. She had screwed up.
 
What did you think he would do? Sit at home and wait for you to call?

 
The hot tears fell quickly, ruining her eye makeup and wetting her hair. She was such a fool, so stubborn, Ming was right, somethings she was as dumb as doorknob.

"Why did you think he would come anyway," she fussed at herself, before curling up on the couch. The steady stream of tears and painful thoughts lulled her into a fitful sleep.

"Oh my..."

She turned over towards the sound and saw Rashid standing over her. She quickly jumped up eager to see him.

"You came!"

"Yea, boo. I got bumped off the flight, so they put me on a later flight and my phone was dead so I couldn't call and..."

"What?"

"You're beautiful." he said staring. When he walked into the unlocked door, he never expected to see her asleep on the couch in those thin slips of satin hugging her body so deliciously. Now that she was standing before him, he was treated to an unobscured view of her firm body.

"You like it?"

"Love it." he said struggling to breath.

"I brought it just for you," she admitted shyly.

"Well in that case, turn around for me. Show daddy what you got."

S'Ahmisa slowly turned so that he could see the full view.

"You still like it?" she whispered.

"Very much so," he said pulling her close and covering her neck with kisses. He didn't know what game S'Ahmisa was playing, but if he didn't get lucky tonight, he was officially writing this woman off as the queen of tease.

"That feels nice," she murmered. "Maybe we should take this upstairs."

After Rashid had changed to a pair of pajama pants, the couple found themselves suddenly shy.

S'Ahmisa found that she didn't mind just sitting in the silence with Rashid, their fingers intertwined

and Rashid breathing in the scent of her conditioner.

When he finally turned towards her, she couldn't help but whisper, "It's been a while."

It had been a while, almost two simyears in fact.

"Don't worry, boo, I'll be gentle."

He was.
---

S'Ahmisa tried to enjoy the sunny clear weather, but her thoughts kept returning the Rashid. He had spent most of their waking hours cherishing her, making her breakfast in bed and sharing his dreams.

She didn't know that he felt like he had to prove something to those around him. She could imagine the pressure of being the oldest son of the mayor and your younger brother is already freakishly intelligent.

He was studying physics, which made sense because he was good at math and science, but in all honesty his Momma wants him to be a doctor. Rashid had shared that he really wanted to own a video game store, but his parents and the rest of the hood to be honest, strongly believe that the Mayor's son should be more ambitious in his career pursuits.

She could see where they were coming from, but owning your own business wasn't any less ambitious than being a doctor, it was just different. She honestly felt that Rashid would be a great business owner, especially if he owned a video game store. There wasn't a sim she knew that had more knowledge about the gaming market than Rashid. S'Ahmisa sighed as she recalled the look on his face when she shared that with him.

"I don't think I ever had that before," he whispered looking into her eyes.

"Had what?"

"A sim who accepted me the way I am, but yet...is encouraging me to be a better man."

"Your parents accept you."

"Parents are supposed to accept you, but other sims...I never had that before."

S'Ahmisa also never had a love like this before. There she said it. Love. Her breath caught in her throat and the tears started to flow again. She needed that man in there, but what was she supposed to do now. This weekend was only a casual thing, a booty call. It wouldn't be fair to begin placing demands on Rashid. After all she had listened to him talk about how he was young and he just wanna have some fun. Everybody planning his wedding already. She knew about his breakup with Tyisha and she assumed that he wasn't looking for a committment, especially after how she herself had went back and forth with him that summer.

Knowing that she really needed Rashid in her life only forced her to be more aware of how badly she had screwed things up. If she didn't overthink things as her family said, then she wouldn't be in this mess. She wiped her eyes, it was no use crying over things now. Her tears wouldn't fix a thing, she thought standing up.

She turned towards the house only to see Rashid step out onto the deck with only a towel wrapped around his taut belly.

"Whaa's up, you cool?"

"Yea," she mumbled looking at her hands.

"You sure?" Rashid asked grabbing her hands. He could see that her eyes were red and her skin splotchy. "Your face looks strange."

"Yea..um, I think my allergies might be acting up."

"You got some medicine for that?"

"Yea, I was headed upstairs to take some now," she lied.

When she returned she found Rashid sitting at the table with his laptop on. The towel was replaced with his swimtrunks, but thankfully she still had a view of his chest.

"You playing your game?"

"Naw, I'm chatting with some friends."

"Your female friends?" she asked sitting next to him and tossing her arm over his shoulder.

When he didn't answer she continued. "Do they know that you're here with me?"

"Do they know what we've been doing?" she asked bitterly. "Did you tell them how we've been in bed all weekend?"

She angerly stood up, before Rashid managed to catch her arms.

"What's up with you?"

"Nothing" she lied.

"You know you're not a good liar," he said nibbling her ear as he dipped her towards the floor.

S'Ahmisa tried not to cry as his strong arms wrapped around her, how was she going to live without this man?

---
Did you know sims can sing depending on how good...well, how good certain activities are? I don't know what Rashid did, but S'Ahmisa sounded like she belonged in an opera. ;p

Very Hard, Part 1, 2006

Havar, fall, 2006
Emma Seavey is a senior, Ming Wuu and Benjamin Endeavor are juniors, Lainey Lorde, S'Ahmisa Warwick and Verde Herendez are sophomores.

S'Ahmisa welcomed new roommate this fall. Ming Wuu was from Kimikura and played on the soccer team with S'Ahmisa. Almost instantaneously, S'Ahmisa and Ming were joined at the hip.

When S'Ahmisa wasn't practicing for the team

or attending debate classes,

the two women could be found playing catch nightly,

studying together, practicing on the team together and of course sharing the same room.

S'Ahmisa finally was able to experience having a great girlfriend...that wasn't her sister. Not that there was anything wrong with her friendship with Si'Enya, but sometimes she wished she could chat with a sim closer to her age that wasn't related to her.

Friendship was something that she needed lately as all of a sudden all her former relationships didn't have time for her. Her mother was busy with the new bookstore and enjoying her own group of friends, Verde was wrapped up in Lainey and Rashid...

They didn't speak for about two simweeks before she called him at his dorm just to chat. He was busy of course, about to go out with some female, but they did chat later. In fact, they chat nightly at 7pm. She missed him more than she wanted to think, so she preferred not to think about it.

"How did your ice-cream date go?" she asked leaning over to set up her shot.

"It was very nice, he gave me a tour of the metro afterwards, but of course he didn't know that much in fact-"

Ming's thoughts were cut short as a very enthusiastic student ran through the lounge screaming "Pierce is the best!"

"Do...do students normally run around without clothing?"

S'Ahmisa giggled, "Not normally this early."

---

Benjamin was another student who was benefiting from Ming's arrival. He couldn't help but be distracted by her dark eyes and creamy skin.

He tried to focus on his classes and working with Julio.

Julio had asked him to help with the youth fitness program, apparently the thought of

working out with the star of the university basketball team

was more inticing to some youth than simply taking jogs around the neighborhood.

However after his classes and workout sessions, Benjamin would always find Ming and share the evening with her. It was a bonus that they both shared a passion for sports.

He was more attracted to her than S'Ahmisa. To be honest, he didn't really have anything going on with S'Ahmisa. They kissed a bit last simyear, but nothing more than that. Benjamin was trying to be a bit more careful since he discovered that he was a father, but Ming was making it very hard for him to do.

They were not a couple, but Benjamin enjoyed taking her out on dates and flirting with her.

Yes, did he ever enjoy flirting with her.

He also enjoyed breakfasts in their pajamas, the perfect ending

to a perfect night.

---

Verde was also expanding his friendship circle. This semester, he was hanging out a lot more with Benjamin.

Though he made plenty of time for his girlfriend, Lainey.

Their favorite spot was the pub where they could have a few glasses of juicy sangria after a rough day of training,

chat about school or the results from the game last night.

Lainey had already met the family and

she and Verde made use of his room and double bed.

He wasn't ready to propose yet, but between the hints from his father and Lainey,

Verde knew that he better decide on a ring quickly.