Pick'N'Mix Mods for The Sims 2

5 - Girl Power

As they approached the barn, Deano saw two flaws in Sophia-Grace's plan - 1) there wasn't room to drive behind the barn, and 2) there wasn't room to turn around either. They were stuck, a big yellow signpost, easily visible from the main road, telling the authorities exactly where they were.

Deano stopped and released the door. He walked to the back of the bus and gazed down the track. He was sure he wouldn't be able to reverse it without causing significant damage to the rear-end of the bus - which would attract the attention of every patrol car they encountered.

He heard his name shouted from the direction of the barn and ran over. He laughed. Sophia-Grace, Lottie and Ona were pulling strong-men poses - they'd got the huge barn doors open. Sophia-Grace mock curtsied and ushered him inside. Smiling like a prize idiot, he drove slowly into the barn, then helped Sophia-Grace pull the doors to. Lottie and Ona could be heard squealing as they jumped in the hay store on the mezzanine deck. "Girl Power", shouted Sophia-Grace climbing the ladder to join them. 'Baby blue with teddy bears', thought Deano. Then resumed his contemplation of the reversing problem.

A small copse of trees concealed a natural spring that bubbled and babbled through the tree roots and formed a small stream that flowed down a shallow valley behind the barn. There was an old cauldron in the barn. Deano checked it for holes and then dragged it outside, tipped it onto its side and emptied out the twigs, leaves, bits of straw and other detritus. Then he built a small stone wall against the stone foundation of the barn and started to dig a pit in the leeward corner. The midday sun was surprisingly hot, and he removed his shirt. Finishing the pit, he went to collect firewood and water.

Sophia-Grace came around the corner of the barn and stopped to admire the view. Deano, finishing whatever it was he was doing on the ground, grabbed a hand-axe and old kettle he'd found in the barn and headed to the copse, whistling to himself.

Deano, carrying wood and water, stopped when he saw Sophia-Grace bent over the cauldron, scraping at something on the inside with a piece of stone and cleaning the scrapings out with dock leaves. Sophia-Grace stood up, apparently satisfied.

"Hi", he said, sheepishly.

She looked at him, then the cauldron. "It'll do", she said, adding, "let me know when I've got hot water!"

Before he could reply, smiling to herself, she skipped off.

They slept in the hay loft that night. Lottie and Ona made a nest together at the highest point, Sophia-Grace picked a spot close to them lower down. Deano slept almost on top of the ladder, after he'd discovered it couldn't be removed.

As the chattering from the top of the stack trailed off, Deano lay on his back in the straw, unable to sleep, worrying about the reversing problem. Eventually sleep overtook him.

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