Addicted to you

Round 16: March 2025

Dawn Whitfield is 21, Finn Harris is 20 and Shea is 5.

Narrated by Dawn.

Shea's been begging us to get a pet. She'd love a dog or a cat but I think at this point she'd settle for any kind of pet. The other day she managed to catch some butterflies into a jar and said they're her pets. She put the jar on the kitchen counter and just stared at it for minutes.

She protested at first when I told her that she would have to release them. She understood though when I explained that the butterflies couldn't live in that little jar because they wanted to fly.

Finn's schedule is much better this year. He works 5 hours early in the morning and then has a few hours free before his classes in the afternoon. He loves spending the evening with Shea and she loves it too. She's not as much into sports as she was last year but she never says no to playing catch with her dad.

It's my senior year and I have less lectures and more practical training. I was able to snatch a training position at one of Wellington's most amazing restaurants, La Joie Délicieuse. The chef is a bit temperamental but he obviously enjoys showing off his skills so I've learned a lot just by watching.

I'm also allowed to cook for customers! I mainly do appetizers and desserts and I love it. I've only been here for two months but it has just made my desire to run my own restaurant even stronger. I have so many ideas for Café Carousel when I take over but obviously I'm going to talk to mom about them because I don't want to turn the restaurant into something that she wouldn't like.

Professor Lew visits every student during training just to see how were doing. Obviously he gets reports from the staff and the owner but he wants to see how we do in the real world. He was pretty impressed by my Chocolate & Vanilla cheesecake.

Shea doesn't have much homework yet but if she does then Finn's the one helping her since I'm at the restaurant until 5 pm and then barely make it in time back to Brixton for my classes. I know Finn doesn't mind but I feel bad because I don't get to spend as much time with them as I'd want.

Some nights Shea is already sleeping when I drag my tired ass home but sometimes I'm able to sneak out of class a little early so I catch them on their nightly routines such as Shea dancing on Finn's toes and giggling like crazy.

The mornings are for us girls though. We have breakfast together and then I wait for the bus with Shea. She's lately taken an interest in cooking so we got her a little toy oven. She loves making huge muffins and forcing us to eat them. She always leaves them in the oven for too long and they get a little burned.

Finn always eats the muffin she left for him when he comes home from work. I tried to tell him once that he could just throw it in the trash bin and she would never know but he just smiled and kept eating it. I could tell it probably tasted pretty awful because he looked like he might choke on it but he finished it anyway.

We finally gave in and bought Shea a parrot and she named it Polly. We don't know yet where we'll live in the future so we figured that a bird cage is something we can fit in just about any apartment or house. Shea's really happy about the bird and is convinced that she can teach it how to talk.

It feels strange to think that I only have one semester left of college. This time next year we'll most likely be living somewhere else. I'm going to miss this little house.

Grades, spring semester 2025
- Dawn: culinary arts (art), A+, GPA 3.9
- Finn: entrepreneurial studies (economics), A+, GPA 3.7

Notes:

• Title reference: Addicted to you by Avicii.
• I haven't decided yet whether Dawn and Finn will move to Wellington or Exmoor and if they'll move once Dawn graduates or wait until Finn graduates too. I love this house and it's so perfect for them at the moment so I might just build them a similar one in which ever hood they choose to live in.
• Dawn will start working at Café Carousel after graduation but I figured that the university would want her to do her training period in some other restaurant so I chose La Joie Délicieuse mostly because it's the only other restaurant owned by a sim. The poor guy's my placeholder sim so this is one of his rare appearances in any updates though.
• I try to build one faculty per semester and I'm planning on doing the Faculty of Consumer Sciences before Dawn's last uni update. My building project lists are never carved on stone though so I might change my mind if I need some other building instead.
• I realized I had forgotten to report the grades for Zach, Josh and Lilly so I've added them into their update.