Walking around the park as the sun came up after my mum left, I decided to do what she had suggested, after all a sim can only go on for so long before starve to death.. But that would be the same for anyone right? I walked over to a nice man, he just looked kind, and I asked him if he could please consider sharing his food with me. I tod hime the lie my mom said I should say, I had forgotten my lunch box at home. 

His name was Bob, Bob Panncake, I thought it was a funny name, but it suited him! He was polite and said he had more than enough to share. I was so relieved that I had a hard time containing myself and not just throwing the food right into my mouth! But I ended up eating two huge hamburgers! Bob and I had a nice conversaton while we ate, and I found myself talking a little to freely with him, telling him I was waiting for my mum since she was dong the last arrangement before we could move into our plot of land. Before I left him, I thanked him so much for the food, he almost looked embarrased, but I was just to happy to care, he had done a wonderful thing for me!




I felt very good anf energised the rest of the day, and decided to walk around in the park and collect as much stuff as I could, after all just because we got a place to call ours, did not mean we actually had a house to live in yet, I knew it would take a lot of work before we could get a roofe over our heads.

I planned making a garden, so all the fruit and vegetable I could find was a good start, then I didn't have to spend money on seeds.


I did not have to much luck with fishing, all I caught was tiny fishes.

As the evening came I finally got a phone call from my mum, she sounded happy but very tired. Everything was settled and she came to pick me up so we could walk together to our new home, she told me to wait up front at the park so she did not have to go looking for me.

I decided to sit down and play some chess while waiting, I felt really happy about this, one major thing was settled, we now had an adress and I could go back to school! Hopefully I would not have missed to much from this year. I wanted to do good in school, I knew we would need me to get a part time job too. I also would have to wake up very early to try to use the local gym's shower so I would be clean before going to school.

When my mum fianlly arrived she looked very tired, and pale, she looked sick actually, but she did not want to listen to me, only told me to get going, she wanted to get home before it got to dark.

It was a long walk

But we got there eventually! It was a pretty neighbourhood, and I loved the view!

Even though I was tired I was bursting with energy! We had done it! I gave my mum a hug, and told her that we could do the rest, I promised her to get a job the next day.

My mum told me that everything was settled for me to start school, she had arranged everything that day, I tried to ask her if we should consider going to the doctor, because she really looked pale, but she laughed it away and told me it was nothing food and rest could not fix.

I felt a little unsure, but accepted it for now, tomorrow I would go out and get more collectibles to sell I thought, after school, and get a job, and when my mum told me to go to slepp on the bench I did, we sat together in our new home, and everything would be just fine, after a lot of work!

I did not know that my mum only slept a short while before she got up and went around the neighbourhood in seach of things to collect, I was completly out the whole night.

I never knew that she knew she was sick, or that she had done everything she could to protect me. 

She should have stayed home and gotten some sleep, not walk around the whole night just so that we had enough money to buy a toilet, and later on that day people would come by and build us a small house.

I was really happy when I saw the toilet the next morning, don't get me wrong, don't we all have to pee after a long night's sleep? I felt so happy I even said hi to a woman walking by, but i left my mum sleep, she had dark cirkles under her eyes. So I went to school for the first time, excited, and hungry, but happy! 

But I had no idea, no idea at all of what was happening back home..

Chapter two - The hobo beginning

My mum was right, it was though, never would I have imagined that I would go looking for frogs to earn money..

 I was worried to, my mum was working herself to hard, right now she tried her luck at fishing in hopes to get some money.

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We had been traveling a few weeks now, and yesterday we finally arriwed in Willow Creek, I must admith it looks very nice here, even though we so far only had stayed at the park. My mum had an appointment to meet a solocitor tomorrow, she had told me that I owned some land here, and it was time to claim it so we had somewhere to settle down.
We had taked about it and since Hans did not know about this property it seemed like the safest place to settle down. 

 I did not mind to much being outdoors, since I loved it, but I could tell my mum wasn't comfortable with it. She always looked worried is a poor sim came to lay down at a park bench near us. I never saw what was the big deal, after all we where in the exactly the same position as them right now

She made me move every single time...

- I am so sorry Mia, I know you dont feel the same was as I do, but having my child sleeping next to homelss people I don't know.. Well then I can't sleep myself because I worry to much about you

By the time we had moved further into the park and there was nobody around I was very tired and hungry, we took each a bench and fell asleep there.

 I woke up after a short while, and being hungry as I was I actually started rumaring for food in the trash.. I found nothing and had to go back to sleep without any food..

My mum woke me up the next day to let me know she had to get going, it was a long walk for her, and she had to stop by a local gym and borrow a shower there, she could not meet up at the solicitor all smelly

I was worried since I knew how little she had had to eat over the last few weeks, she had given mostly everything to me, claiming she had found some fruit og vegetables while harvesting and eaten it then.. But she seemed very tired in my eyes.

- Don't worry Mia, when the sun is up, go around and ask some friendly people to see if they will share their meal with you, usually people will be friendly to a teen who's hungry, just say you forgot your lunch at home.

She gave me a hug and walked away

                    The Brooks Legacy

                           - Intro -





My name is Mia, and this is the story of the Brooks legacy..

I grew up not knowing a different life than the one I had, I had a mum who loved me, she made me feel safe and happy.. Most of the time. My dad, or step dad I should say ( my real dad had passed away when my mum was pregnant with me ) Well, my step dad was not a man I was particulary fond of. He had been ok I remembered when I was younger, I mean he took my mum and me places, playgrounds and stuff. It was only when I was older i realised it was my mum who refused to leave me alone home. 

This was the image I usualla was met with theese days though, it only got worse and worse, he had always been heavy on the juice, but most days he could hardly speak now due to the hangover from the previous night. I usually got yelled at, I never quite understood what I had done wrong.

As the years passed I had a real hard time talking to Hans, that's my step dad's name, he was mostly angry all the time, and I was always afraid of what he would complain about.

But if he yelled at my mum, I would become angry, every single time!

Now that I am older I realised that he must have made her really afraid of him, why I don't know, but if she tried to leave during a fight, he would tell her to sit down, and she always did..

When I grew up to be a teen, I also grew more confident, I was lucky enough to have a good relationship with my mum, and I also had firends I could talk to, I knew enough to realise that Hans had a serious drinking issue, loving that juice could be dangerous. 

Not long after me turning teen, he one day wanted to talk to me in private, I was really suprised about this but he looked fine and was polite when he asked me, so we sat down in the livingroom.     

For once he actually was funny, and we talked a little about my school and how I loved art. I did not see his question come, before he asked  me; 

- Mia, you know I have always considered you my daughter, even though you are not mine by birth, but I would really like to change that. Would you let me adopt you officially?

I can still remeber that happiness I felt by being asked that question, he loved me enough to want to adopt me! As the question was aked and I barely had time to let that thought run through my mind, my mum had come through the door, and I heard her use a voice I have never heard before; 

- Hans.. Get away from my daughter! How dare you ask her that after the way you have been treating her over the years?

Hans actually moved then, but only to the other sofa, he tried to reason with my mother, and we all had a horrible fight. My mum made me leave for school not long after, but before she did she gave me a hug ad told me she would fix this.

Needless to say my day went slow, but after school I swent to a firlfriend and we did our hoe work together, so it was dark by the time I was home, and instead of taking the chance of meeting Hans, I went straight to my rom for the night.

I loved my room, it was my safe place, so imagine the shock and hurt I felt when entering and seeing this

-Why Hans? I asked, why would you breake the only thing you knew my birth dad bought to me when he recieved the news of me being a baby girl? Hans did not even bother to look at me, he just left the room.

That night I cried myself to sleep, I just did not understand.

At night my mum came in, she woke me up and we talked for a long time, it turns out I was to recieve some money after me turning 18, but Hans had over the years been able to get a hold of the money and had been speding them on his expensive journeys and cars.

- I am so sorry about your doll house darling, my mum said, but I must ask you something, and you must think it though before you answer me, ok?

I think Hans is getting dangerous, tonight he was not himself, and by that I mean a lot worse than normal when he gets juiced, I think we have to run away. Start over fresh, but it will be though, really though, it means to live outside for some time, gathering whatever we can to survive. But you will be safe Mia.. That is the only thing that matters for me!

I gave my mum a hug, and told her that this was the best decision we could make.

- Let's get away from here, get away from Hans!