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- 2. Time marches on,as it does, and James Bailey was about to age up into a toddler. Miranda didn’t want a party, so no one was invited to share the moment with them.
- 3. Tellingly, it wasWarren who looked after James and the house. He was a house husband, so that wasn’t unexpected or unusual. But Miranda worked from home, and she never took any interest in her son. Even in the evenings.
- 4. When Warren wentout for job interviews, or even just to the shops, James would be left ignored in the crib next to her desk.
- 5. In truth, Mirandahad other, weighty matters on her mind. She had had to cut her hair short to hide the fact it was falling out. The headaches were still persisting, and she had no appetite, often vomiting whenever she did eat.
- 6. In the end,she went to the doctors. She suspected having James had messed her body up somehow.
- 7. Warren waited forher to come back, but she didn’t that night. And she didn’t call either. She’d told him she was working late, not going to the hospital. Still, he was worried, thinking she was working too hard, they didn’t need the money that badly.
- 8. The next day,Warren couldn’t understand why she was avoiding his questions. Where had she been, why hadn’t she called? Her evasions just maddened him.
- 9. When she collapsedone day, the story had to finally come out.
- 10. She blurted everythingout to her husband in seconds. She had brain cancer, was undergoing chemo and wasn’t sure if she would live. Talk about a shock.
- 11. Warren did hisall to make his wife comfortable. Nothing was too much trouble as long as she’d only rest. Money wasn’t an object, he did odd jobs for people whenever he could top up their income while she took time off work.
- 12. As the remainsof her hair fell out, she shaved her head. Warren managed to convince her it didn’t matter, he still loved her. He just wanted to keep her morale up. The tumour wasn’t responding, and the spectre of surgery was looming.
- 13. He went withher to her appointments, leaving James with Jen Martinez. They chatted about how things would be after she recovered. She’d get her job back, maybe a promotion.
- 14. Warren and Mirandafound a new closeness. She opened up about her reservations about their son, he confessed he wished he had been able to provide better for everyone.
- 15. James didn’t seemto pick up on any of the undercurrents in the house. He was a fairly easy child to look after, happy on his own playing with his toys.
- 16. Warren was soimpressed with his son, occasionally he’d swear actual tunes would emerge from the random plonking on the xylophone. He understood that Miranda was having trouble with him, but he was sure once she was well again she’d be better able to connect.
- 17. Occasionally though, Warrenwould leave James alone with Miranda to go out and keep in with neighbours. Pablo Martinez was always throwing parties, he felt he had to go to at least some of them. At this one, even the mysterious Ariette Vickers was in attendance – one of the inhabitants of the original house at the end of Deasil Street.
- 18. If Miranda hadattended, she would have picked up on far more than he. Warren was completely ignorant of the strange undertones between Pablo and some blonde bombshell he’d not met before.
- 19. Jen wasn’t completelyoblivious to Pablo’s slightly inappropriate interest in this colleague– but she decided he was flirting with her because she must be a superior he had to keep sweet. So she let it go.
- 20. At the endof the Street, was the last property of the once prosperous Vickers family. Once used as a suburban stopover while they travelled between homes, it was now their only home. And they were feeling the downturn in their fortunes keenly.
- 21. Ariette was nowliving with her elderly father in a house with only one member of staff. There were no more glittering parties with society gossip, no more foreign holidays being wooed by enigmatic members of other cultures…. Just Appaloosa. And latterly, a lot of builders creating the rest of Deasil Street.
- 22. She kept upwith her dwindling number of rich and feted friends as best she could, but the titbits of gossip she could get from them were now few and far between. She was being forgotten.
- 23. That was whyshe’d gone to Pablo’s party. She needed a new network. Why not the one that had literally been dumped on her doorstep?
- 24. Miranda was worsening.The chemo hadn’t been effective and the tumour was inoperable.
- 25. The doctors madeher as comfortable as possible, and it was due in part to them that she slipped away so peacefully. Warren was at her side when her eyes closed for the last time.
- 26. Her ghost emerged,as they do in the final moments of a sims time on earth. Though they could no longer communicate, they shared a final look.
- 27. Then the grimreaper appeared, and Warren went through the grim spectacle of watching his wife leave without him. Normally an experience only endured by elderly sims expecting to lose a spouse, Warren was utterly unprepared.
- 28. Warren filled inthe paperwork and returned home without her.
- 29. He took hisson in his arms, keeping him close in his grief. Miranda never really warmed to her son, but James was all that was left of her now.
- 30. The news ofMiranda’s death soon spread to the other inhabitants to the Street. None of them really knew her, so the news was mostly considered in relation to themselves. Pablo worried how Jen would react to a motherless urchin across the road, and Ariette was just glad she was contacted. She had been accepted.
- 31. Deasil Street No. 1 No. 3 For Sale For Sale No. 2 No. 5 Warren and Miranda Bailey For Sale No. 5 No. 6 Empty Lot Pablo and Jennifer Martinez No. 7 Harry Vickers and his daughter Ariette Next Time… How will Warren cope with his wife’s death? Has Ariette really been accepted by the other residents? Find out next time on Deasil Street!