A: I think we are. I know we have a lot of problems, but I really do think we could work this out. I’ve made an appointment with a therapist for us and everything so we can talk things out with a mediator.

G: Wow. You’re really serious about us working this out. Quite honestly, I thought you were just going to divorce me, get full custody of Bethany, and collect alimony until the day I died.

A: …Well aren’t you morbid. Come on, let’s go upstairs.

G: You mean I don’t have to sleep on the couch?

A: Not tonight, we’ll see about in the future. 

A: …And they all lived happily ever after. The end.

B: Me no need a pwince.

A: No you don’t. Because you are a smart, independent little girl who doesn’t need someone else to save her. Now time to sleep, baby girl.

B: Night night, momma.

A: Goodnight princess.

They continued to enjoy their meal while Bella said just about every nasty thing about Gavin and Zoe she could think of, ranging from mild insults of their dress sense, to calling Gavin’s affair a ‘crime against sim kind.’ 

Athena sat back and let Bella do it. After all, if Bella was this upset about her friend’s marriage, then certainly what she was planning couldn’t be that bad.

Eventually, Bella needed to get home to tuck Alexander in and make sure Cassie wasn’t staying up all night watching SimFlix. They paid their tab and parted ways.

B: If Mortimer ever did that to me I would murder him!

A: Bella! You’re too much. Besides, I got back at him a different way.

B: And how, pray tell, do you get back at a lying, cheating, backstabbing husband?

A: Cheat on him with the first guy you meet at the exact same bar!

B: …And you say I’m too much.

B: Thanks for inviting me out Athena. I am so sorry for what Cassandra said last week. I know she didn’t mean it. 

A: That’s okay, Bella. Besides, turns out high school gossip was right. 

B: What?! He’s really seeing Zoe Patel? I really can’t believe that Athena. Are you sure?

A: Well, considering I followed Gavin to that bar in Oasis Springs, and he met her there, and they kissed out front in plain view of everyone, and then I confronted that trollop about it and we then had a full-blown cat-fight, yes I’m sure.

B: Oh. My. God.