#levi holmes

[stargazersims]

Sam: Yeah, I know.  You have this beautiful fantasy about marriage and your dream home and six or ten kids and loads of responsibility.  I can respect that, but don’t expect me to buy into it.  That’s not the way I roll.

Levi: I know.  And it’s only three kids, not six or ten.

Sam: Whatever.  One kid is one too many, if you ask me.  Babies are screaming drool factories.  Ugh...and think about all those diapers you’ll have to change. No thank you.

Carolina: But think about how cute and cuddly they are, and how nice it would be to hold them in your arms and rock them to sleep, and how your partner looks at you with that proud, happy smile because you made this little person together and--

Sam: And how you’re saddled with this ridiculously huge burden of responsibility you didn’t want.

Levi: We want the responsibility.  It wouldn’t be a burden to us.  I’ll probably be the one with the proud, silly grin on my face, too.  

Carolina:  I can picture it.  I just know you’re going to be wonderful with our future babies. 

Sam: If you guys are going to start making heart eyes at each other, I’m leaving.

Levi: Sorry.  It’s just that this is a really big thing for us.  When we have our first child, I don’t even know if there’ll be a word for how happy we’re going to be.

Sam:  Yeah, okay.  Come back and tell me how happy you are when you have to deal with 2 a.m. feedings and random shrieking for no reason in the middle of the night.  You might think that’s great, but I think it sounds like some kind of torture.

Levi: 2 a.m. feedings shouldn’t even be an issue for you, Sammy.  You’re always up at 2 a.m. anyway.

Sam: Oh, very funny, genius.

Carolina:  You know what children really are?  To me, they’re the greatest expression of how much two people love each other. 

Sam: This sounds like the beginning of a philosophical conversation I’m not prepared to have.  Seriously, not everyone sees it the way you guys do.  Love isn’t this magical fairy tale thing for everybody and kids aren’t the ultimate expression of unity or whatever.  Sometimes woohoo is just woohoo and kids are just accidents that happen, you know?  

Levi: Sammy!  You think of your child as an accident?

Sam: Don’t refer to it as my child, okay?  If I’m not keeping it, it’s not officially mine.

Levi:  Maybe that’s for the best.

[stargazersims]

That evening, Sam, Levi and Carolina built a fire in the back yard.  Sam, who apparently didn’t have the resolve to hold a grudge against his brother, was the one who suggested the ‘campfire’.  He offered Carolina and Levi a genuine apology for calling them home from Granite Falls, and said that even though a fire in their little backyard fire pit wasn’t quite the same thing as a Granite Falls campfire, they could at least pretend.   

Levi didn’t seem particularly difficult to convince.  As long as Sam didn’t bring his guitar out and start singing campfire songs, he said, he was all for the idea.  Carolina wished they still had some marshmallows left, but Sam had already gotten to the remainder of the packet they’d brought back from Granite Falls. She wasn’t really surprised.  He’d probably eaten them for lunch.

Carolina was happy Levi accepted Sam’s apology so readily. She didn’t like it when they fought or were angry with each other, especially if it was over something as inconsequential as a camping trip.  Yes, she’d been disappointed about their trip being cut short too, and she agreed with Levi that Sam could’ve waited to tell them about Jade but, in her mind, none of that had been worth spending so much energy on being mad.   She had to confess that she was still a bit upset about her and Levi’s engagement news being upstaged by Sam and Jade’s baby news, but not enough that she felt compelled to take out her frustration on anyone.  

The three of them had a lot to talk about.  That was another reason she was pleased that the twins were speaking to each other again.  Levi explained to Sam all about the house, and said he was more than welcome to move with them if he wanted to, and that he could have the entire basement all to himself, to build a music studio or whatever he wanted.  

Sam said he liked the idea of converting the basement into a studio, and was interested in the fact that there was a bedroom and bathroom in the basement already.  He said he’d have to think about it, but he was pretty sure he’d move with them.  It made sense for the three of them to keep sharing expenses, too.

Carolina had to agree with that.  Another income, even if it wasn’t substantial, would help them manage the mortgage.

Levi: And what about Jade?

Sam: What about her?

Levi: Should we expect her to be moving with us, too?

Sam: We decided we’re not getting married or even really moving in together, so no.  You don’t need to stress about that, but she did say she wants to stay with us for a while just before the baby comes. Like, for a month, maybe?

Levi: I’m sure that’ll be fine.  What do you think, ‘Lina?

Carolina:  I think I can handle her for a month.  What about after the baby comes, though? What are the two of you going to do then?  Three of you, I mean.

Sam: We haven’t really got that far.  We’re probably not keeping the kid anyway, so I don’t think we have to worry too much about what happens after.

Carolina: What?  What do you mean, you’re not keeping them? 

Sam: Adoption.  What’d you think I meant?   I mean, what am I supposed to do with a kid?  Being a dad at twenty-five isn’t exactly livin’ the dream, is it?

Levi: Maybe not your idea of it, anyway. 

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Look... proof that Levi and Sam are, in fact, twins. ;-) 

I was playing around in CAS, trying to give Sam a different (read: better groomed) haircut, and I tried this one on him just for fun.  I’m amazed at how much difference the long hair makes in his appearance.  He looks good in almost all the hairstyles I tried, though.  He’s pretty cute, really, and he ‘cleans up’ nicely.  He’s not keeping this hairstyle though.   That would just confuse me lol.