Chris was helping around the house very well. He was a brilliant child. He even started helping me in the garden and wants to learn more gardening skills. The money is coming in steadily and it won’t be much longer before we can take our trip.

Columbus is doing well in school and is meeting lots of friends. He has one friend that he is calling his girlfriend. I am trying to get him to slow down with that. Her name is Chandra Bigelow and she is a snob. She is always telling him she is the best friend he can have and that he has got to marry her one day. He likes the attention and likes to rub it in his single teenage brother’s face. I’m glad Chris is still single; he doesn’t need a girl yet. I just can’t stand seeing my babies growing up.

One Saturday I decide to take the boys on a family outing. We hit up the pool all day and finally by evening we are all starving and decide to fill up at the Bistro. We make it home in time for the boys to have their friends over and I invite over a new friend of my own.

Chris’ friend Candice has grown up into a young adult now, but they are still hitting it off well. I may have to have a talk with that girl if she starts messing with my son too much. She’s 20 years old and he is still only 17. She better watch out messing with a minor.

I had been opening up to Ian a lot lately. I tell him how sad I feel all the time. I miss Ramsi terribly and every time Chris or Columbus tries to visit or call him he has some reason not to speak with them. Its devastating for all of us and I have no one to talk to. Ian tells me that the man’s crazy for not seeing how special I am. It takes me off guard. I never knew that Ian would think that I’m special. I tell him not to get too attached, that I have a history of not sticking around.

Ian calls one night and asks me to meet him behind the theatre. When I arrive he pulls me in and kisses me. I kiss back for a minute, but then I realize it’s not right and I pull away. He asks what is wrong. I try to explain to him that I don’t need this type of relationship right now. I love Ian dearly as a friend, but he’s not someone I want to spend my life and time with all the time. He is just a best friend like Sunny. The real reason he wants me to meet him is not to make out behind a building, but he needs a place to stay for awhile. I tell him he can stay with us, but we will have to share a room. I tell him we are leaving for France the next morning and that if he has the money he can go with us. He offers to pay for the whole trip and we take 8,000 simoleons to France with us.

On arrival to France, I look intently at the board trying to find my name. I knew I had signed up for an adventure in the Felix Burial Grounds, but I had to find the man that set me up with the job. After finding it I headed off to the find the man and let him know I was ready to do his bidding. He tells me he lost a baseball in the burial grounds, but is too afraid to go back. I set off to find a lost baseball.

It takes a lot of searching and rock turning but I eventually found the entrance to the tomb and I walk down the stairs with butterflies in my tummy. These were butterflies of excitement not nervousness. Tombs never scare me. While I’m entering a tomb my boys visit an art museum. I made sure before I left that Ian or Chris keeps Columbus with them at all times. They love their “uncle” Ian.

I tore down walls, moved statues, and deactivate locks. While inspecting a lock I got bugs all over my hands, but I recovered. I also got soaked from a dive well, and I also recovered from that. The thing that caught me off guard was a random man being in the tomb sitting on a chair alone. I screamed and he jumped up and took my hands and told me I was ok. When I met his eyes I fell in love with them instantly. I completely forgot about my adventure and melted into him and our conversation. His name was Ayman Diab.

We talked for hours and finally exhausted over came me and I told him I needed to sleep, but invited him into my tent. He refuses the gracious offer and grabbed me kissing me hard before running from the tomb leaving me completely star struck and deeply in love… again with a foreigner.

After finding the baseball in a hole, I rushed back to claim my prize of 1,082 simoleons. I then start looking for my boys and Ian. It’s time to go home.

Work and school start back over as soon as they arrive home. Ian decides to become a writer and joins the journalism career path and starts learning to write. When I finally was alone with Chris I told him about Ayman. I promised him a long time ago that I wouldn’t hide things from him so I had to tell him of this mystery man in the tomb. He tells me that while I was gone adventuring that Ian had told him that he was in love with me. Chris said that if I met another man, Ian would be devastated. I felt horrible about this. Why had I let Ian move in with us? I didn’t want to break his heart.

Columbus has another friend now. His name is Sebastian. They spend a few hours watching TV before Sebastian’s mom makes them do their homework. Columbus begs us to buy a TV and we have to explain to him that TVs cost money and that we don’t have money for a TV because we are remodeling our home.

We started the remodeling process by adding walls for a second floor and then moved the bedrooms upstairs. They love their new bigger bedrooms. Columbus’ favorite color is Iliac and Chris’ is maroon.

The lower level is completely gutted and Ian and I’s room is moved upstairs. The lower level will consist of an extra bathroom, living area, study, kitchen, and dining room.

I’m really hoping he finds a place of his own soon. He’s becoming a pest because he’s in love with me so much and now it’s obvious. I’ve tried explaining that I am not dating anyone anytime soon even if I did fall in love. He has even started trying to sleep with me lately. Blah!!

Walking to my car one morning I hear someone call my name in a deep French accent. I turn my head and find Ayman standing by my mailbox. I rush to him and kiss him on the lips. He says he misses me. I missed him too, but last time I tried a relationship with a man from abroad it didn’t work. I was very weary of letting him get close to me, but at the same time I wanted him, mostly I needed him. I needed to feel loved and safe.

We made out all day and my desire for him increased to an insane level. He still wouldn’t come to bed with me and I was about to explode with desire. The making out made us lose track of time and before I knew it Ian was standing in the door way heartbroken and betrayed. I was so ashamed at the choices I had made.

I lashed out at Ian. I had told him not to love me; I had told him I didn’t love him. He had no right to feel this way. I made him leave. I was mad, hurt, and just confused. I didn’t know what I was going to do. Life was just hard right now.

I baked cookies and sat down the kids and introduced them to Ayman. I told them what happened between Ian and I and why he had to leave. Columbus was beginning to understand things now that he was 12.

Later that night I invited Ayman to stay the night with me and I did something with him that I hadn’t done with a man in 10 years. It was an amazing night. He made everything very special. My only mistake was not being on birth control. I really didn’t need another child at this point in my life. I was 42 years old. It was way past time for child bearing. I just prayed this wonderful night wouldn’t end in a pregnancy.

Soon after Columbus’ birthday he finds Chandra Bigelow. They have been best friends since grade school and now they are in love. He asks her to be his girlfriend and she happily agrees.

Late one night while snuggling with Ayman something moves in my tummy. Ayman’s hand was on my tummy and he felt it too. I am pregnant again. I’m hoping for a girl this time. Only time will tell.

It’s time to tell the boys about their new sibling. I wonder how they will take it. Will the brothers be happy, or ashamed of their mom’s choices. How will my life be affected. Will Ayman ask me to marry him?

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