Hello! Welcome to my Creation To Future challenge! This challenge was created by joandsarah77 over at Desirable Discourses, and you can see the full rules there.

This story is in the format of a cheesy 80’s-style sitcom. No attempt has been made to create a separate ‘hood, and just like with real sitcoms in the 80’s, Plot and Character Development are somewhere between stupid and non-existent.

As a reminder, last time Bella earned a Gold Gardening Badge, which means that the family can now use wooden, unpainted objects as well as stone. Also, baby Clarence was born, which means that the family can now have a shelter.

BRYAN: I like your idea about having somewhere to go when the Big Waterfall in the Sky decided to come out of the sky.

BELLA: Thank you.

BRYAN: I know the Big Waterfall in the Sky brings water to the plants so we don’t have to, but I don’t like being wet. And neither does Clarence. (to Clarence) Do you?

CLARENCE: Waffle!

BRYAN: I also like your idea about using wood and animal skins to sleep in. It’s really warm and not prickly at all.

BELLA (tenderly): I’m glad you approve.

BRYAN: And I really like this thing you made for Clarence with the holes in it. It’s fun! (to Clarence) That goes in here.

CLARENCE: No.

BRYAN: Yes it does, it goes right here. (points) Put it in.

CLARENCE: No. (puts the peg in a different hole; it falls right through)

BRYAN (greatly impressed): Woooooah. How did you figure that out?

BRYAN: Clarence, I think you might be as smart as Mommy!

CLARENCE: Mensa!

BRYAN: “Mommy.” I said “Mommy.”

CLARENCE: Redundant!

BRYAN: Aw, it’s so cute when he babbles like that.

BRYAN: This is not so cute. Why does he have to do this indoors? We have a perfectly good bush outdoors.

BELLA: Because he doesn’t know about bushes yet, or about how to use them. We have to teach him.

BRYAN: But teaching him is so boring! And it’s really smelly too. …Aw, nuts!

BELLA: I agree. And you know the rules.

BRYAN (resignedly): “The one who complains about the smell is the one who cleans it up.”

BRYAN: What are you doing?

BELLA: I’m going to attach a sharp thing to a long thin whippy thing and drop it into the water to see if I can catch some flappy things to eat.

BRYAN: You’ve never done that before.

BELLA, No, I haven’t.

BRYAN (proudly): I have.

BELLA: That’s quite true.

BRYAN: It’s pretty hard. You probably won’t manage it at first. It took me a long time to figure out how to –

BELLA: I caught one.

BRYAN: Sometimes you catch a little one at first, but the big ones are harder.

BELLA: Is this a big flappy thing or a little one?

BRYAN: Okay, but the really hard part is when you move your arm and you go in the air and make a circle and you land on your –

BELLA: Ow!

BRYAN: You are amazing!

BRYAN: You are so good at everything! And you’re really really smart. You can take care of everything and everybody all by yourself. You don’t need me.

BELLA: That’s not true. I do need you.

BRYAN: You do? I can’t think what for.

BELLA: Can’t you, though?

BRYAN: I know! You need me to do things when you don’t feel good.

BELLA: That’s helpful, yes. urp Gottagobye. (runs off)

BRYAN (calls after her anxiously): Use the bush, not the pot! I don’t want to have to clean it again and it smells terrible when you don’t feel good.

Note from esmeiolanthe: The cellar-type fridge that I have doesn’t allow sims to get bottles, but Clarence has to have a bottle because the high chair I have is too painted to be challenge-legal. My solution was to buy another fridge but to keep it turned to the wall unless a bottle was actually being removed from it. I hope this solution is okay.

Until next time, Happy Simming!