Of course, what Alice used to do as a child after visiting the playground was to move on down the road to the Joy household. They always invited her in, and didn’t mind too much when she slept in their bed. They never once lost their patience with her or asked her to leave.
So that’s where Alice went. She found the family in their garden, and asked to be let in. They refused.
She was rejected by the only adults that had never said a bad word to her. The only people she thought accepted her.
She had nowhere else to go, and no energy left to go wandering. So she curled up in the Joy family’s back garden and went to sleep.
Next: Confidence is key
Alice and Kev 
I bet the Joys like kids, and now that Alice is a teenager she’s no longer cute or lovable to them. People can be really hard on teenagers, thinking they’re almost adults while forgetting they were recently children. I feel sad for Alice, and even more sad for the many non-fictional teens that face the same problems.
Wow, well said.
Seconded, that is one of the best descriptions of teens I’ve read in my life. This and the one from the Animorphs series, which I guess I’ll post now that I’ve mentioned it, to save anyone curious the trouble of looking it up:
Jake’s Mum: You know, when I was your age and feeling upset, my mother, your gram, would always just say ‘You don’t know what unhappy is, your just a kid’ like anything a kid would feel is less difficult then what an adult would feel.
Jake: That’s probably true.
Jake’s Mum: No, it isn’t. In a lot of ways being a kid is worse then being an adult. You have the same things to deal with: friends, temptation, love and hate, stress, and all that. Only you don’t have the two great weapons that adults have to help them
Jake: what two great weapons?
Jake’s Mum: Well, the first is experience. Experience maybe doesn’t make you smarter, but it means you can think, ‘Hey, I had something like this happen once before, and I survived’
Jake: Okay I’ll ask: What’s the second great weapon?
Jake’s Mum: You are, Jake. Because as your mom, I can look at you and think ‘oh man, as bad as I feel right now, as bad as things may be, at least it isn’t as bad as being a teenager.
very nice comment, i am literally almost crying here, this is one of the saddest stories ive heard, even if it is from a computer game!
That little boy is checking Alice out
haha!
Heh, his thoughts are recursively about himself though. :p
Since they have kids, they may be afraid of her influence on them.
Oh dear … :O(( Stupid Joys! Can’t they see that she NEEDS someone?! And they go an reject her. *shakes fist*
Actually, the reason they rejected her is probably because of her low hygiene, as can be seen bu the stank clouds around her. NPCs generally don’t like that.
Oh man… *fans my face* Here come the waterworks! I’m close to crying with her. Great job on the story!
I have a question though… If I so happened to kick a sim out (I had the max 8 Sims four kids are too young, and I like to stick to my tradition of eldest gets the house, so the second child kind of lucked out), and he only runs one block away before stopping and standing there.. soes that mean that he is now homeless?
Forget my last question. He wouldn’t move anywhere because my computer was in the process of rebooting.
So I loaded it back up and kicked him out again, and now he lives inthe swamp house. 😀 I thought that was neat.
wow.. this is like a soap opera.
She just gains more woobie points by the moment.
You are amazing at this. They way you write the story, and the way they are is truly incredible. I seriously want to cry for Alice.
on the plus side… looks like a nice bench..?
I really have a lot of animosity for people who, in the “real world”, blame real people like Alice and Kev for their problems. Obviously Ken has behavioural/psychiatric problems that prevent him from functioning. And Alice is a victim of a country that thinks it’s her fault that she’s so tired and stressed that she can’t study. The radio commentators would say that ‘if she wasn’t lazy and immoral, she’d be able to work for a better future. And if we give her handouts, she’ll never be motivated to help herself. She’s better off if we leave her to get ahead or fail by her own efforts.” Which to me, translates as “I enjoy seeing people suffer”.
Poor girl, she needs a friend. Somebody who’ll love her no matter how different she is, no matter how horrid her dad is. =-(
Awww…I really feel bad for Alice. I’m practically tearing up here.
I love this:)
This is great! And a bit sad too for the little girl. I found myself actually laughing out loud because of Kev and his craziness lol!!!!