Chapter 1 - Birth

 

Song: Madrugada - What's on your mind?

You were at my door
I heard you knocking but I didn't care at all
I had been in all night just staring at the wall
I didn't really want to see you anymore

Coming from the road
You took your coat off and you threw it on the floor
You said "I can't believe you wanna hurt me so"
I said "I'm not supposed to be like this, you know"
Well, I just had to let you go

What's on your mind?
When you're lost in time
What's on your mind?
Tell me why
Why does it have to be this way?

You were in that dream that I was dreaming
I was dreaming in a dream
Your nylon dress and I was floating back downstream
I wanted love to come and swallow everything

Everything gets real
Sooner or later, doesn't matter how you feel
You slammed that door shut on the night of glass and steel
I cannot blame you for believing what you believe

Well, I just had to let you go
What's on your mind?
When you're lost in time
What's on your mind?
Tell me why
Why does it have to be this way?

This story begins with a burglar outside the small Goth-Asli family's house. The family at this point consisted only of the mother, Natalie Goth-Asli and her son, Isaac Goth-Pammy. She had recently split with her partner and father of Isaac, Ragnar Pammy-Vasquez after both of them ended up in a heated debate on the sidewalk outside the convenience store, with the result that neither party were left amused...

And that was only what could be seen with the eyes of the outside world. Who knows what happened behind the walls of their home. So one night, she had decided enough was enough, took the kid and left.

Anyway, back to the burglar situation.



Emergency Operator: 311 operator. What is your emergency?

Natalie: There is someone else in the house. There is a burglar. I'm alone with my baby. Please come, quickly!

Emergency Operator: What's your address?

Natalie: Purgamentum road 9. Please hurry!

Emergency Operator: Ok, we'll send an officer over. Just stay with me. Where are you at right now?

Natalie: I'm in the bed room..

A clanking noise is heard through the door.



Natalie: Oh God!

Emergency Operator: Just stay with me. Officer should be there shortly.

Natalie: He's getting away!

Emergency Operator: Ma'am, just stay wi...

*click*



Emergency Operator: Hello?



Natalie ran out into the hallway, but was to late. A few minutes later the sound of a police siren can be heard from outside.



Natalie: I was just ready to fight him! But he got away!



Police officer: You got unlucky, it looks like the burglar stole your bath tub. Unfortunately he managed to escape, but we will catch him next time!



Natalie: "We will catch him next time!" Bah, useless good-for-nothing police officer!



The next morning it was off to work as usual. Natalie works at the Dreamland Parliament Assembly building at the bottom rank of the political career.



Natalies home is located on the east side off the Corbo Gleb river that divides the town into two parts (view facing north), next to one of the poorer areas of town where only humans live. (Purgamentum road 9.)



She had wanted to take a course to improve her skills in charisma, but figured that now after the burglary she would instead need to spend her money on buying a new shower to replace the stolen bath tub.

(Only in the sim world will a burglar steal a bath tub...)



The following morning she woke up feeling nauseous from the burglary that happened just last night, or maybe some other unknown reason.



When she came home from work that day, she wanted to invite Friederich, her grandfather, over for a visit.

Then she had to throw up again..



They understand each other perfectly, since they both share the childish trait. Yes, that's grandpa over there playing with the doll house...



While he was still there, she found the cause of her nausea as she became aware that she was pregnant. Though it was not something she had planned for, she was still happy about the pregnancy. Since she already had a son, she was wishing it would be a girl this time.



But sometimes her grandfathers childish behaviour could be an annoyance, so she had learned to counter and deflect his shivering teeth trick...



Natalie: Ha! You didn't get me this time!



Friederich wasn't to happy about that, though..



..and he's actually stupid enough to try the same trick again!



And a third time, and then it actually worked.. and they were both amused.


And then they went for a pillow fight.



And while she was busy playing around with her grandfather, she had completely ignored Isaac upstairs crying because he was hungry.
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"Here you go nooboo! Here is your food!"



And after she has fed him, she does what every good mother would do, of course.. neglects her kid by leaving him in the chair to go to bed.. Looks like grandpa is there still as well.... maybe he will wake up and take care of the kid..



Nah, grandpa doesn't care, he just leaves... time to go, see you later!



Isaac was literally left in his chair alone all night while mother was sleeping..



Next morning she spent a little time playing with him, before she wanted to head to the spa to get a massage.


Picture: Outside the spa.



And then she spent the rest of the day at home, playing with Isaac's toys and ignoring him until he fell asleep on the floor.



She found that to be very enjoyable, of course.



The following day she went to the bookstore, to buy a book about pregnancy, which she read inside the spa's reception and waiting room.


Picture: Inside the spa reception. Eva Goth-Asli, her grandmother, sitting in the sofa to the left. I don't know where the receptionist went off to...

And so the days went, and approximately 9 months later during the fullmoons phase...



Late one night, she went into labor. The baby was finally coming, and it was time to head to the hospital.


Picture: Natalie entering the hospital. I wish this could have been a daytime shot, but I can't decide the hour at which babies are born...



The freshly baked mother holding her newborn son at the hospital the morning after. She got a baby boy and not the girl she had hoped for. Nonetheless, she decided to name him Aaron, as she felt it was a name with great strength to it.



As they both proved to be of good health, she was released from the hospital with Aaron later the same evening.

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