#mysimstories

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Frederick POV: It was Valentine’s Day. My wife Charlize and I were sitting on the living room sofa, enjoying each other’s company while talking about our day. Soft music was coming from the piano at the corner of the room where Anna was playing a lullaby I had created for her shortly after she was born, to her boyfriend Edward. In front of them, Lyra was helping her little friend Asher take his backpack off as he had just arrived at our house for a play date with Lyra. “It’s crazy how much they have grown,” Charlize said with a smile on her face. “It is. They remind me so much of us,” I said while looking at Anna and Edward, the memory of playing the piano in front of Charlize for the first time almost twenty-two years ago, suddenly coming to my mind and I couldn’t help but compare the memory to what my eyes were seeing at that moment. The look on Edward’s face was the same one Charlize had all those years ago, a look full of love and devotion. “And they remind me of Anna and Edward when they were five,” Charlize said. I looked away from my oldest daughter to looked at my youngest one. She was looking at Asher with curiosity in her eyes as the little boy took a little box out of his backpack. “This is for you Lyra,” I heard him said. After asking Asher if the present was really for her, my daughter took the box in her hands and slowly opened it. I could see the look of delight on her face before I could see what was in the box. “It’s a cupcake, look daddy is a cupcake,” Lyra said, showing me the sweet in her hands. “Can we eat it? Please mummy?” She asked with a pleading look on her eyes that she knew we couldn’t resist. “Of course you can,” Charlize said. “But you need to thank Asher first.” “Thank you, Asher,” Lyra said, blushing and smiling at him. To my horror, Asher responded by giving Lyra a kiss on her cheek. I had to admit that it was a cute scene but at the same time, I couldn’t help the feeling of déjà vu as a particular memory of Edward kissing Anna’s cheek at a funfair when he thought I was not looking played on my mind.

“You have to admit that he knows exactly how to win Lyra’s heart, she loves sweets more than anything,” Charlize said, a playful smile on her face. She knew what I was thinking and how much the idea of my little girls growing up upset me, but Charlize always found the way to make me smile and enjoy the moment that I was spending with them. The sound of footsteps coming from the kitchen distracted us for a moment. I looked behind me to find Thomas entering the living room with a glass of milk in his hands. He took a moment to look at the scene in front of him before making a face of disgust. “Too much love here, I’m just going to play video games in my room,” he said with a smile before turning around “Call me when dinner is ready,” he yelled as he made his way upstairs. I looked back towards Lyra while laughing at my son's behaviour. Lyra and Asher were already sitting on the blanket eating the cupcake while holding hands. Next to them, Edward was whispering something on Anna’s ear that made her smile and blush. “These little boys are going to kill me,” I said. “You love that they are in their lives though,” my wife said before resting her head on my shoulder. It was too soon to tell what might happen with Lyra and her little friend, but I was convinced that they had a strong friendship that would prove hard to break. Edward's placed in our lives was more certain, as I couldn't imagine him walking away from my daughter. I looked at Anna and Edward once more, they were laughing while Anna tried to teach him how to play her lullaby and I knew at that moment that Charlize was right. My daughters' happiness meant the world to me and if their happiness was based on having these two young men at their sides then I wouldn’t have it any other way.

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[lusimmerlife]

Anna Pov: Winters were overwhelming at the bookstore I worked at. Everyone seemed to prefer staying indoors during the cold days with a book to keep them company. When Edward and I first moved to Oxford, we had both made the decision of working a part-time job to pay our own expenses. While our parents still helped us with paying rent and our education, we didn’t feel it was right to ask them for more than they were already giving us. Edward had found a job quite easily at the local hospital as an administrative, plus he also teaches basketball to children once a week. On the other hand, I had struggled to find a job I liked. I was determined to work in something related to what I was studying and even though no one was pressuring me to work I started to get frustrated after a couple of months. Edward had told me plenty of times that the money he was earning was for both of us and I didn’t have to ask for his permission each time I wanted to buy something but, nevertheless, it didn’t feel right to simply take it. Almost a year after we moved I was walking back home when I saw the sign at my favourite bookstore in town, stating they were hiring. During the year I had gotten to know the owners of the store as they usually run the place, a lovely elderly couple who treated each client like their own family. Fast forward a year and here I was, working with them and I absolutely love it. There was something special about helping people find a book that would make them happy, that warmed my heart. The bell on the door alerted me of someone entering. The bookstore was a mess, as new books have recently arrived and I had decided to take advantage of the unusual quiet day to organize them. “Hello, how may I... what are you doing here?” My greeting turned into a question as I saw Edward smiling at me from the door. “I decided to come and say hello but I think I came at the wrong moment,” he said looking at the piles of books next to me. “It’s never a wrong moment, hi,” I said wrapping my arms around him as he chuckled. “Hi love, I did come to ask you something though,” he said as he hugged me back. “Have you made any plans for this weekend?”

“No, should I?” “No, in fact, I’m taking you away for the weekend,” he said, his lips turning into a smile I knew too well. He was hiding something from me. “I see, and where are you taking me?” I said. “That’s for me to know and you to find out.” I simply smiled at him even though my curiosity was growing with each second as his smile never left his face. “What else are you hiding from me?” I asked and I saw his expression changed to one of surprise. He was definitely hiding something. “You make the same facial expressions each time you want to surprise me with something.” “I can’t help it if you know me too well, but it wouldn’t be a surprise if I told you now,” he said before giving me a quick kiss on my lips. “What am I going to do with you?” I said as I smiled at him. “Love me for the rest of your life,” he said. As I watched him leave after promising to come back to pick me up once my shift was over, I thought about how lucky I was and how truthful his response had been. I truly was going to love that man for the rest of my life and fortunately for me, that was an easy thing to do.

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Anna’s pov: Today was the day I will either be accepted or not into my dream university. I would be lying if I didn’t say I was not nervous. I had barely gotten any sleep last night as my mind couldn’t seem to stop thinking about today’s results. Edward had called me an hour ago to ask me how I was doing, as his nerves hadn’t let him sleep either. We were hoping to attend the same university so that we wouldn’t have to deal with a long-distance relationship. It was going to be hard enough to leave home and I didn’t want to have to leave Edward behind as well. As my family and I enjoyed breakfast, I kept taking quick glances towards my computer, hoping for the application results to appear. “Anna relax and eat, please. The results will...” “Omg results are in,” I suddenly said, cutting my dad mid-sentence. “What does it say?” Thomas asked. “I’m scared to open it. What if I got rejected?” I said. “You won’t get rejected, I know you won’t. Open it, sweetheart,” my dad said, giving me an encouraging smile. “Okay, I’m going to check Oxford first.” I clicked on the icon and the site appeared to make fun of me. The seconds the page took to load seemed to be minutes as the loading bar slowly filled itself. Once the page was open I couldn’t help the tears that started to come out, wetting my cheeks while leaving a trail after them. My hands flew to my mouth as I tried to make sense of what I was seeing in front of me. “Anni? What’s wrong?” My dad asked. My cloudy vision didn’t help me to see him correctly, but I could see the worry in his eyes. “I got in,” I said through my tears. “You got in?” My mum said. All I could do was nodded before the excited screams of my family filled the room. My dad got up to hug me with my mum close behind him. “We are so proud of you Anna,” my mum said cleaning the tears from her face. “Come on, family hug!” Thomas said As we all hugged, almost crashing Lyra in the process, more tears fell and more congratulations were heard. Slowly I started to come to terms with what had just happened. I have actually done it, I have gotten into my dream university. A university that also would allow me to be not too far away from home. Life was truly amazing. 

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Edward pov: Living with Anna for these last two years had been absolutely amazing. I couldn’t deny that things had been awkward at first. Even though we had been dating for 4 years before moving in together, we had never actually had an experience of living ... or sleeping together, but once we had created a routine of our own, it seemed like we had been living in the same house for our entire lives. University was tough and travelling every day to get to university was even more tiring for me, but coming back home to Anna every day was worth it. To no one’s surprise, Anna had decided to study English literature at university, her love for books, writing and creating had won over her love for science, even though I’ve found her reading my medical books more than once and yes, medical books. To everyone’s surprise, I had decided to go to medical school in the hopes of becoming a psychiatrist with a specialty in treating children. When I was younger I had wanted to find someone to talk to more than once but I hadn’t found someone that made me feel comfortable until I found my physiologist at the age of 15. I wanted to help kids like me, to help them forgive, move on and feel comfortable with themselves. That weekend Anna had stayed in Oxford studying for an upcoming exam and I had decided to come back home for the weekend with the “excuse” of seeing my mother. The truth was that seeing my mother was only part of the reason why I decided to come back home, the other reason was my need to speak to Frederick about my relationship with Anna. When I arrived at the Windsor’s house, Frederick was not home and Charlize was getting ready to leave the house because of an emergency call from the hospital she worked at. Knowing that Lyra had no one else to stay with as all the family was currently away from the city, I offered to look after her while I waited for Frederick to come back home. Lyra was the first one to say yes. Having me around was normal to her, after all, Anna and I had started dating shortly after Lyra turned one. As Charlize agreed to let her stayed home with me, Lyra quickly took my hand and lead me towards her room as she told me that her reading had gotten a lot better from the last time I had seen her. She grabbed the book on her bedside table and sat next to me on her bed. She started reading in a more fluent way than I was expected, and while she still needed help with certain words, she had indeed improved a lot. Taking care of Lyra had reminded me about why I was there in the first place. The Windsor’s were my family at heart and I would always be grateful for what they have done for me and my family. I was just praying that everything would go alright today so that hopefully soon, I’ll become an official member of their family. 

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Edward Pov: I ended up taking care of Lyra for longer than I thought I would. By the time Frederick got home and had greeted Lyra, Charlize was parking her own car in the garage and I couldn't have been more relieved. While I was taking care of Lyra, I realized that I couldn't talk just to Frederick, I needed to speak to both of Anna's parents if I truly wanted their support. Once Lyra had gone back upstairs, I asked Charlize and Frederick if I could talk to them. Together we went into the dining room before Charlize stated that we couldn't have a proper conversation without a cup of tea. “What is it you wanted to talk to us about Edward?” Frederick asked a few minutes after we sat down. “I actually want to ask you something,” I said before taking a sip of my tea and a big breath in a failed attempt to calm my nerves. “You know that Anna and I have been together for the past six years. Living with her for the last two years has been amazing and I think... I know we are ready to take the next step," I said. As I looked at them I realized that both of them were smiling at me and tears were already coming out of Charlize's eyes. "I know we are still young but I honestly can’t imagine my life without Anna. Your daughter is the most incredible girl I have ever met. When the whole thing with my dad happened, I remember I thought that I would never do anything like that to a person I love, but when I started dating Anna... I started to doubt myself. Most people around me would always say “like father, like son” and I truly hated that. I don’t want to be like my father and Anna, she makes me feel like I can be my own person. She made me realise that my fate is not the same as my father's and I can have the life that I want to have. And that life includes Anna by my side," I said as I felt my own tears running down my face. Frederick passed me a napkin to clean up my tears but I was too overwhelmed with memories and feelings at that moment to really cared about crying in front of them. I was opening my heart to them in a way I never thought I would, but I knew just by looking at them that I had taken the right decision.

"I can’t promise you that I will be the perfect husband for her, but I can promise to love her, take care of her and be faithful to her, every day, for the rest of my life. So what I want to ask you is... would you give me your blessing to ask Anna to marry me?" I asked, my hands sweating as I take another big breath to prepare myself for their answer. They looked at each other, probably to see if they both were going to give the same answer. Both of them had tears coming out of their eyes as they smiled at each other before turning to look at me again. "I still can't believe that you both are no longer the five years old kids that ran around the house pretending to be superheroes," Fred said and I smiled at the memory as I thought about how much we have been through together. "We have watched you grow during these years and each day you showed us how much you love and care for Anna, and that's why I truly believe what she tells you, you are not your father. I know she's safe with you. You have our blessing Edward, just make her happy," he said as he got up to hug me. "I will," I said as I hugged him back. "Thank you for asking us Edward," Charlize said while cleaning the tears on my cheeks. "So, do you have everything planned already?" Frederick asked. "Not really," I said while I sat back down. "I have a few ideas but I haven't decided yet." "Tell us what you have in mind, maybe we can help you," Charlize said, not being able to hide the excitement in her voice. We spent the following two hours discussing how I could propose to Anna and by the time I went back home I had a solid plan in mind. The only thing left to do was asking her and hoped she would said yes.

[lusimmerlife]

“No, love. I don’t want you to give up on your dreams. An hour drive it’s not much for me, I do that almost every day already to go to basketball practice. So what do you say? Would you like to live with me and my messy self?” “I would love to live with you,” Anna said, happy tears coming out of her eyes with and a huge smile that I was sure mirrored mine. I hugged her one more time, thinking about how lucky I was. We were starting a new chapter in our lives together and I couldn’t wait to see, kiss and wake up next to her, every day for the rest of our lives. Edward Pov: While I was going upstairs to get to Anna’s room I couldn’t help shaking from nervousness as I thought about what I was going to do. I had been thinking about this since we first applied to university, but until yesterday I was not sure if we were going to be able to stay together. Now I was almost certain that we would remain together even if we didn’t go to the same university. I knocked on Anna’s door and I instantly hear a soft “come in,” coming from the other side. Anna was sitting in front of the window reading a new book that she had bought last week. “Hi beautiful,” I said. “Edward!” She said as she runs towards me. As she hugged me, I noticed how happy she was and I knew she had made it. “Did you get in?” I asked. “Yes,” she said with my favourite smile on her face. “Yes, I knew you could do it! Congrats love!” I said between kisses to her head as I hugged her. “Did you get in?” She asked. “No, I didn’t,” I said and I saw the smile on her face dropped. I knew she wanted to stay with me, but there was no way I was letting her miss this opportunity. “But I got into Warwick university.” “That’s great, I’m so proud of you Ed,” Anna said and I knew she really was, even if her eyes showed how scared she was by the thought of us not attending the same university. “I actually wanted to ask you something,” I said as I grabbed her hand to guide her towards the window seat in front of us. We sat down and with one of her hands in mine I asked her what I had been thinking about for the last couple of months. “Would you like to move in with me?” I asked, my hands trembling. “You want me to live with you?” “Yes,” I said, my lips curving into a smile as I thought about how amazing it would be to see her every day. “But to which university are we going to go?” “You are going to Oxford, I’m going to Warwick. I have done some research and Warwick it’s just one hour away. I can drive there every day and we can rent something at Oxford.” I explained. “Ed I can’t ask you to do that, maybe we should just go to the same...” 

“No, love. I don’t want you to give up on your dreams. An hour drive it’s not much for me, I do that almost every day already to go to basketball practice. So what do you say? Would you like to live with me and my messy self?” “I would love to live with you,” Anna said, happy tears coming out of her eyes with and a huge smile that I was sure mirrored mine. I hugged her one more time, thinking about how lucky I was. We were starting a new chapter in our lives together and I couldn’t wait to see, kiss and wake up next to her, every day for the rest of our lives.