Blue jeans

Round 15: September 2023

Zach Whitfield is 19, Josh Cooper and Lilly Fielding are 18.

Narrated by Josh Cooper

I've been trying to be patient ever since Lilly told me that she was ready to have sex. I wanted to make the move last semester but I didn't want to make her feel like I was pressuring her. I did enough of that when we were still in high school. She was waiting for me outside when I came home from class one night and said that we're going to Exmoor.

We went to this little motel and had dinner. It was a tiny place and we couldn't even sit together but our other option would've been having our first time on the sofa in Lilly's dorm room. A motel might not be the most romantic place but at least we had some privacy and a bed!

After all it wasn't the surroundings that mattered. Now I understand what my brothers were talking about when they said you should have your first time with someone you really care about. I'm glad Lilly was my first and I'm pretty sure she's happy that I was hers.

I don't know if we'll be together for the rest of our lives but for now I'm happy. I know there's a lot of fish in the sea and I would be lying if I said I wasn't tempted sometimes.

Especially those days when Lilly buries herself in her books. She can read for hours.

I find myself talking with the other students that live in the dorm. The girls are all really cute but having a conversation is as far as it goes. I admit I have a wandering eye but that's the only part of my anatomy that I'm willing to let stray! I could never hurt Lilly by cheating on her.

Lilly's pretty cool about letting me borrow her computer. She even helps me with my term papers. I'm terrible at writing essays and that sort of stuff but Lilly seems to enjoy doing them.

Somehow she also finds time to spy on Zach and then report to Dawn if he's still with that photographer girl he spent time with in the spring. We barely see him nowadays though. He's really taking his studies seriously so he spends a lot of time at his faculty. He also helps Dawn and Finn by babysitting Shea sometimes so I don't think he has a lot of time to date.

Lilly may be a bit bookish sometimes but she knows how to have fun too. We often go to the pub after classes to meet friends and play pool.

We're not big drinkers but sometimes it's nice to have a beer and just unwind after listening to boring lectures all day.

We usually end up alienating other students from our table by making out. I just can't seem to keep my hands off of her for a long time.

We've been together for 5 years which at our age is a lifetime but it feels like every day there's something new.

Even if not it's not meant to be forever, it feels great right now. I honestly couldn't imagine being with someone else.

Grades, autumn 2023:
- Zach, premedicine (physics), A+, GPA 3.6
- Josh, photography (art), A+, GPA 3.6
- Lilly, literature/education, A+, GPA 4.0

Notes:

• Title reference: Blue jeans by Lana Del Rey.
• All the students rolled the want to write term papers this semester so A+ for everyone. It's nice to see that secondary Knowledge aspiration kicking in with Josh and Zach.
• Josh is a Romance sim so he gets the occasional Make out with 3 sims etc. wants but they usually roll away pretty quickly. I'm interpret it the way that he notices all the pretty ladies but isn't going to act on it. He's very affectionate with Lilly and has never attempted to even flirt with another woman.
• I've been talking about setting up a proper faculty system for BU on twitter for some time now. I've pretty much written down the basics and I plan to do a proper post about it at some point.