Chapter One

 Meet Lolita and Bernard Webb, they're an odd couple due to the fact that Lolita waltzes around with neon green and purple hair and Bern is an annoying artistic hipster douchebag. Okay, so that sounds pretty normal, only problem is that they live in an tiny tiny island town called Cloverfield. And in Cloverfield, they don't take kindly to odd folks like Lolita, which she really could care less about.

See, Lolita is pretty sure she's been on buses with more people on it than the combined populous of Cloverfield. So why stay? What could make an aspiring rock star straight outta of Bridgeport willingly move to some podunk fishing town off the coast of nowhere?

Oh love and all that other crap. Stuff she always said she'd never fall for, well, she was lying. Cause after meeting Bern at college (he was an exchange student) she ended up moving back to his home town and setting down roots.

Side note; their house is blue and slant-y.

 Allow Lolita to show off her face.

 Bernard too, he's often told he looks like a man called Conner Frio from Sunset Valley after Mr. Frio had undergone some extensive plastic surgery. Bernard of course has no idea what these people are talking about.

First thing to do inside is of course to tell a ghost story, it's the best way to break in a new house.

Lolita wants to be a rock star, and no crappy little town is going to keep her down. She writes songs about it, they're quite popular on SimTube. The kids are all singing her current hit; I hate this shitty little town, but at least my boyfriend's hot.

Bernard just wants to make art, any kind of art really. His current obsession is oil paintings, but he hopes to one day be able to bring his artistic ideas to life in the form of scrap metal art. He knows there's just heaps of rich fucks out there just waiting to buy hunks of melted together metal to put in their offices, in the hopes of being considered 'edgy' and 'with the times'.

So Bernard heads into town, and registers at city hall as an professional artist.

Lolita calls to let Bern know that she's heading to the theater to get a job, so Bernard uses the time to check out the library in hopes of borrowing a book on gardening. When he gets there he finds that there's no skill books of any kind, just a bunch of people loitering around the front door, making it hard to exit. He declines to tell them that what they're doing is a fire hazard, instead just leaved through the back.

With nothing to do until Lolita gets back, Bern goes to the park to practice his golf swing.

Lolita does eventually show up, but forgoes golf in favor of the swing set. She's extremely childish, so she's happy to bump into a neighbor who shares that particular trait.

As the sun sets, Bernard decides to BBQ at the park instead of going home to use their perfectly good kitchen.

Lolita joins him for a dinner of hotdogs, but they sit at separate tables.

The duo do eventually go home, but soon enough the morning is once again upon them. Bernard decides he's going to attempt to do some laundry.

It's not easy, but he's sure he'll prevail.....

He doesn't. At this point in his life Bernard is still idealistic, he doesn't realize that the washer always wins. 'Well' He thinks. 'At least Loli is having an easier time than I am cooking breakfast.'

Wrong. For hours afterwards Lolita will swear that it was the sudden distracting phone call that caused her to burn breakfast, but we all know the truth, she just can't cook.

"Eat it or starve." She warns. Bern's not suicidal enough to complain, so he eats the burnt waffles with no complaint.

Lolita works in the late afternoon, leaving Bernard alone a lot. Most of the time he paints, but occasionally he just has to get out of the house. He often goes to the library to see if there's been any new books stocked, there never is. He hears whispers of the town council's plans of building a new library, since the current one is so very lacking in so many ways. None the less, he does spend a lot of time there, shitty or not.

One evening Bern breaks the bank to buy a sculpting wheel, he has a feeling Loli will kill him for it later, but it's a price he was willing to pay in the name of art.

He tries to soften the news of him blowing 1000 simoleons by staying up late to have dinner with her after work, unfortunately for him, Lolita's not blind and sees his purchase the second she walked in the door. She gives him the silent treatment the entire meal, leaving Bernard to pick up the dinner conversation slack.

But Lolita doesn't stay mad for long, she's too busy to hold a grudge. She spends a lot of time on the phone with her co-workers and agents, planning the future of her career. She knows she's going to be huge, so why not spend what they have, it's not like she won't get it back soon enough. Loli might be a little vain, but she manages to back it up with genuine talent, so no one minds her vanity.

Still, Bernard paints her an apology picture. It's green, Lolita's favorite color is green.

Fame sneaks up on Bernard very suddenly, he had expected it with Lolita. But when he finds that he's making a name for himself in the art world faster than ever planned, Bern decides to celebrate with a tattoo.

A very large tattoo.

Later that evening, Bernard finally decides he's going to take a whack at metal work. So he heads to the junk yard to find scraps, while there he notices a busted garbage disposal. 'I bet I can fix that.' He thinks, so he takes it home.

By the time Lolita gets home, Bernard has fixed the disposal and installed it in their kitchen. Loli's extremely thankful, apparently garbage disposals gets her motor going. Which is weird...

But, Bernard thinks better than to question it.

Notes:

Okay, so anyone who's read my last RLC will notice a very different flow to the way this one is written. Since I have so many issues with my speech and writing, I'm going to try to not delve into the 3rd person narrative very much. That's not to say there won't be plot occasionally, because there will be, just this time I won't be worrying so much about it. That way if my brain stops working and nothing plot worthy comes from a chapter, then no harm done.

My current roll can be seen on the side bar, but in case you scrolled past it (you did, didn't you?), generation one's stats are; Couple - 2 Kids - Primary/Rock Star - Secondary/Artist - Expansionist - Tattoo Addict.

The town they're living in I designed myself, I downloaded Cloverfield, which is an empty small world and then set up the town, housing and placed all the sims. It took about two days to do, but I really like how it turned out. Although I know somewhere down the line the family will have to move, when the forty or so sim families has bred into one another so much there's no other viable spouse candidates.

Lolita's stats are - Flirty, Virtuoso, Heavy Sleeper, Childish and Ambitious.

Bernard's are - Clumsy - Daredevil - Savvy Sculptor - Artistic and Green Thumb.

Oh, and Bern really is a clone of an extremely edited Connor Frio from a Sunset Valley make-over game of mine ;)