The Wrongway Legacy: Interlude

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So, for those of you who don't know, I lost absolutely everything sim-related last week, other than the sims I'd stored on my mediafire account. Luckily for me, Maddie was one of them. Unluckily for me, if I wanted to continue from where I'd left off, then it involved a massive rebuild, which I wanted to avoid. So I thought I wasn't coming back to the Wrongways.

Until last week, on my walk to work, I realised that not only did I want to continue, I knew how I wanted to do it. And hence this little interlude to get me started on the path back to the plot. 

I will warn you that this is rather text-heavy and picture-light, but this isn't something that is sticking. I hope to be back to updating normally soon.



Romeo Wrongway, the poor kid. 
 
I've always hated it when I've heard that when I heard it whispered behind me, at funerals, or in the school corridors. Desiderata Valley was not the same place to me anymore. A month has almost passed, and nothing has changed. Time, however, is running out. I need to get the car finished.

I've always had a thing for cars, since Dad taught me a thing or two in our driveway, when I was just a kid. I'm pretty sure my life goal back then was to be a race car driver. You know, typical kid stuff. I feel like a different person to how I was then.



Some people tell me I've got my mother's temper. I'm kind of insulted when I hear that, but only a little bit. Part of me believes the reason my mother is dead is her temper. 

Her death is the reason everything is changing.



Dad had gone over to one of our neighbours, or that's what I was told, and all hell broke loose. Until that point, I'd thought the Ralph and Ariel stories were just that, spooky stories. But Ariel had a hatred towards Natasha Una, and had gone in there with a gun that night.

Once upon a time, Dad was a bodyguard. He was trained how to take a bullet.

I wish I could tell him it was a waste of time taking that bullet for Natasha - Ariel shot her too once Dad was down. 



I don't like to reflect on it too much. I was close to my father, I'd give anything to be half the man he was. One day I'll do him proud. Until then, I need to get away from the Valley. 

The Valley Police found the bodies, Ariel had disappeared, and Mum found out and went to get revenge. She would find Ariel, and she would avenge her husband. I can't imagine how distraught she must have been - I've never been in love, how would I know? I mean, I've dated, but I haven't had anything quite like the relationship my parents had...

...love and loss drove Mum to anger.



I was told Mum was had quite the temper when she was younger, my age ish, but she'd grown out of it. Again, these are just stories, vague ramblings traded at the funeral, and the wake that followed. Mum had been known to be blind with rage.



Which I think is part of the reason her car ended up bent round a tree. But I also think Ariel might have had something to do with it - green sparkles where seen by an eye witness, but the police dismissed them. I haven't spent too much time thinking about it. 

Mum and Dad died the same day, just over twelve hours apart. And they left me, my brother Oscar, and our new baby sister, Sierra, to fend for ourselves.

Well, I say that. We're actually being packed off to some weird dude in the desert, someone named Hex.



I have no intentions of going. 

I got an acceptance at a university near where my family originates from, and I will be there in time for freshers. I refuse to try and rebuild my life with some stranger in the middle of nowhere.

So that's why I fixed up the car.



And that's why I'm leaving today.

Rubix University, here I come.

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A couple of things:

• It was always my intention to kill off John and Maddie. John's death was actually going to happen in the next chapter before the big computer boom, I'd already started shooting it when the laptop died.
• The other important sims, Hex, Fiona, Cyrus and so on, will all hopefully be touched on in future chapters. I don't, however, intend to keep everyone's storyline going. Some sims I no longer have - Lee, Fiona's children, Lance, Leda, their children, etc. etc. - so some parts of the plot will have to be edited.

I am very excited to be back, and I can't wait to get back to updating again! 

I hope this interlude isn't too...awful? I don't know.

See you next time!