One Life: Episode 7 IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT (last page)
Ninja:
Awesome updates! Great story!
rachel631:
These mini stories have to be some of my favourites... I like the variety within the tale, and the contrast between the two stories. I also check to see if you've updated all the time!
Just wanted to ask where you got the custom content for Tomi's house, however. I'm trying to make a Japanese themed house, and getting nowhere. I think I've got most of it, but I especially need a traditional table (you know, the one where you sit down on cushions), or else some cushion seats. I've seen a pay one at TSR, but it doesn't look as nice as yours. Besides... paysites... grrrr...
Anyway, thanks a lot, and keep up the good work!
babyblue1387:
Hi Rachel! Welcome to InSim, and, I can't say this enough, thank you for enjoying my stories! It took quite a while to find good, quality japanese stuff. Do a search at different places like ModTheSims for japan, japanese, asia. You should get a lot of good stuff there. Take a look here at SailorJune's themed downloads. There's a lot of good stuff there.
babyblue1387:
For all those looking for custom content to furnish your japanese houses...FEAR NO MORE! EAxis has finally come through for us! I was looking for updates on the new expansion pack (yes, it is vacation) and I saw the best news for our asian sims...don't worry about the table anymore because there's one in vacation with PROPER SITTING ANIMATIONS!! They'll sit on their legs and everything!!!!!!!! I know this is slightly off topic for my thread, but I wanted to share my joy with you wonderful people. Head on over there to check out the screenshots for the Far East!:love4:
To make this on topic, there will be an update today.
babyblue1387:
Oh my. I didn't realize that I was so close to the end. This is the last installment before we get into the part where Kokoro is an elder. Unfortunately for you guys, there's a cliff hanger! HAHAH!!! Ok, not so funny. This entry contains mild usage of the "b" word. It's used all of two times.
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Ayato and I decided to watch the kids while Kimora and Takeshi went on a little vacation. The kids weren't hard to manage, and took care of themselves for the most part. We had them for two weeks, which pretty much just flew by.
When I went back to threapy, I had a major breakthrough: I learned my daughter's names: Grace (with the longer hair), and Helen (with short hair). Grace and Helen Kamina. I was surprised when Ayato and my girls, then 14 months, showed up to therapy. I won't deny that I was happy. I felt like I was at some award show. Onoe showed up, too. That kind of clued me in that something big was going to happen. Onoe looking nervous didn't help me either.
"Well, Kokoro..."
I closed my eyes. Nope. Not the way I wanted this session to start out. Little did I know that the breakthrough wasn't learning my girls' names. The ball was about to hit me hard.
"Onoe, do you want to start things off?"
"Um, Kokoro, I love you. You know that, right?"
I nodded then, a million things going through my mind. There could have been so many things wrong.
"Dad had another family. He, um...well, he didn't leave us any money. It all went to his other family. We were left with all of mom's medical bills."
I looked around the room. Ok. That wasn't so bad. I realized I'd been holding my breath. This wasn't so bad.
"Um. Yeah, but here's the kicker. Well, you and I aren't dad's kids. He's not our father. Except for Tomihatsu. Oh, she did get some of dad's money, though."
Now that was it. I tried to restrain myself, but I couldn't. Maybe not the most damaging secret; something I could definitely live with. But to know that Tomihatsu was the only legitimate one...
"That bitch!"
Ayato didn't have time to try and cover the girls' ears, and they cried loudly. I started to rethink everything. That's why she'd been so bitchy toward me. She ws the only legitimate cild. Even if I wanted to be a Geisha, I couldn't because my heritage was in question.
"Apparently," the therapist began, "many of the Geisha knew. Though they would have accepted you because you were Kuniko's daughter, they would have looked at you differently. They would have talked about and to you differently."
I didn't care. Tomihatsu had rubbed it in my face. Maybe she had poisoned me and made people think that it was an infection.
"I still want you to see her, Kokoro."
"I have no desire to see that beast of a woman. I have no intention of ever putting up with her attitude again."
"Well...I guess we don't have to do that soon."
We sat in silence.
"Um, Kokoro, do you remember when we were kids? How we used to play hide and seek?"
I nodded suspiciously. I also knew what he was implying.
"I'm not suppressing any memories, Onoe. I remember what I was hiding from."
"And you don't feel traumatized by that, Kokoro?"
The therapist fixed me with a stare.
"No. Not anymore." I couldn't help rubbing my shoulder. I still had a burn there. Ayato forced me to confess when he saw the mark on my shoulder. He'd wanted me to immediately turn my mother into the police.
"Why don't you tell me what happnened, Kokoro?"
"You already know."
"Please, cooperate. You know that's not the purpose of the exercise. If you don't want to tell me then, that's fine. I'm getting paid top bucks for this either way."
I rolled my eyes. "She burned me. Not on purpose--"
"I don't think it was an accident."
"In my Geisha training. I hated getting my hair done up. She was using this metal iron and it fell. I was moving too much."
"It wasn't your fault, Kokoro."
"She told me to be still, but I wouldn't. But that was the worst."
"What else did she do, Kokoro?"
"She hit me with the obi [a/n: an obi is the really heavy fabric they use to make the knot or bow at the back of the kimono]. She stuffed snow down my kimono. But that was only to make me stand up straight. I took baths in scalding hot water, but that was the best way to remove some of the makeup and to make my skin softer."
The therapist shook her head.
"You can't make excuses forever. What she did was wrong. No matter what the customs, she shouldn't have done it. Did she do the same to Tomihatsu?"
Onoe slowly shook his head.
"She always treated Tomihatsu better, and I wasn't surprised when I finally found out why."
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So until next time, beautiful people, that is the end of Kokoro's story. If you'll kindly tune in again, we'll visit Kokoro as an elder and see what she's been doing.
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