Love the Sims? Well you'll love this fanfic! Well…actually you might love it or you might like it or something. I don't know. Anyways, this is based off of events that actually happened in my game ranging from glitches to I don't even know. This ranges from Sims 3 to Sims Freeplay. I don't think My Sims counts. I was inspired by WishingDreamer5 to write this. The A/N at the end will explain what's going on if you're confused or if you just wanna read it.

It was the very first day in the new house that the poor woman, Jennifer Riddle, had just purchased. She was trying to start a new life for her and her children, Tom, Samantha, and Sirius. After her husband had foolishly tried to fix a refrigerator next to a large puddle of water, she needed to get out of that house and soon. After selling all of her things, her children's beloved frog/fish collection (and even her children's homework), forcing her teenage son to work instead of getting a perfect 8 hour sleeping period, and working her butt off, she finally got their dream house.

After all that moving, the Riddles had arrived at their new home with literally nothing except the clothes on their backs and a half of a bowl of salad that were mere minutes from expiring that little Sirius had dug out of the trash because he was so hungry. Thank goodness child services only took kids away if they weren't fed. It didn't matter what they were fed, they just had to be. Now that she thought about it, maybe getting rid of the fridge was a bad idea. She remembered when she had gotten so tired of stealing food from the neighbors' houses and sending her daughter to the park to steal a freshly cooked plate of hotdogs/burger, who would then forget to bring them back because little Phil was at the park and she would rather play with him.

"Mom, I'm hungry!" Sirius said pulling on his mother's arm.

"Me too!" said Samantha rubbing her stomach.

"Why don't you two eat the autumn salad Sirius got out of the trashcan?" Jennifer yawned. "I'm tired."

"Are you kidding?! That stuff expired a few seconds ago!"

"What? Are you sure? I could have sworn it had a few more minutes on it."

"Are you even listening to yourself!?" the hungry kid yelled at his mother. "I DUG THIS SHIT OUT OF THE DAMN TRASH CAN AND YOU'RE TELLING ME TO EAT IT! DO YOU THINK I LIKE DIGGING IN THE TRASH!? I DON'T!"

"Watch your mouth young man!" Jennifer tossed some cherry freeze in her son's face. "I carried you and Samantha for three days straight and let me tell you those were the most painful and miserable days of my life! Swollen feet, barfing all the time, mood swings…"

"NOBODY ASKED ME IF I WANTED TO BE YOUR SON OR NOT!" Sirius snapped after wiping his face.

"I'm too tired to fight with you. I'll deal with you later." she walked off to her bed room.

"That old piece of work is really something!" Sirius crossed his arms shaking his head.

"I'll cook you guys up something." said Tom who had been watching his mother and brother argue.

"Do you even know how to cook?" Sirius raised a brow.

"Sure. Watch and learn."

10 seconds later

"What the heck is this?" Tom looked at the stove as if it had offended him deeply.

"It's a stove."

"This isn't a stove. This is a hunk of junk. I can't cook on this!"

"I'm hungry!" the twins whined. "We're gonna diiiiiiiiieeee!"

"FINE! Hold on!" sighing he turned to the stove and started cooking. Five seconds later, the stove burst into flames.

"FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!" the twins screamed jumping up and down and pointing.

"What are you two yelling about?" Tom, who was one fire himself, had just placed a plate full of macaroni on the countertop.

"FIRE! FIRE!" yelled Samantha pointing at the flaming stove as Sirius got his ass out of there.

"What on earth is going on he…FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!" Jennifer started jumping and panicking as she pointed at the fire caused by the cheap stove and her son's first time cooking.

"What are you three going on about? I don't see anything wrong." Tom said confused as he sat down and started eating his food.

"FIRE!" Jennifer and her daughter were still pointing and shouting as they pointed at the stove.

"PUT THAT SHIT OUT!" Sirius yelled coming back into the kitchen and joining his twin and mother. "FIRE! PUT IT OUT!"

"I don't see one!" he said as he began washing his plate.

"Stand back!" Jennifer began spraying the fire down until it was gone.

"Thank goodness that's over…" began Samantha.

"…but it sure was scary." Her twin finished.

"Man, that'll stay with me for a while. Sorry I caused that."

"What are you talking about, Tom?" his mother and siblings looked at him as if he was crazy. "I don't know why you're so tense since you obviously didn't know that you caused a fire and didn't believe us when we told you."

"What are you talking about, mother? I did notice."

"No you didn't."

"I did so."

"Tom, I know what I'm saying. You…"

"Can we discuss this later? I'm covered in soot."

"And you're on fire too." observed his younger brother.

"Doesn't that hurt?" His mother tried to touch him and quickly pulled away.

"No, not really." Tom walked into the shower and took a long shower while his mother cleaned up the kitchen and replaced the stove after selling her windows.

He took a quick shower only to find out that it hadn't worked. He was clean, but he was still on fire. He took about 12 more baths, but he was still covered in fire. He changed out of his clothes over and over and he was still on fire. He took a dip in the pool AND WAS STILL ON FIRE!

"Well looks like you're going to be on fire for a long time. Possibly forever." Sirius said as he munched on his chips.

"Thanks for the reassurance, Sirius." Tom said sarcastically.

Basically what happened was that when my sims first moved into a house my sim's oldest son, Tom, was cooking something and the stove caught on fire. My teen sim caught on fire and didn't notice there was a fire and that he was on fire while his mother and sister and brother did. Yet after the fire was over, he acted as if he did notice the fire and he was covered in soot after the fire went out. I made him take a bath and he was still on fire. I made him take a few more showers and baths and he was still on fire. I tried getting him wet in the pool and he was still on fire. He did his daily things and he was on fire until I reloaded the game after it updated. Maybe it was because of a glitch or maybe it was because of the game not being updated. I don't know. Whatever it was, I'm glad its gone.

There was also a bug/glitch were my sim could throw some of that cherry stuff in children's faces and kids could dig inside of trash cans. I think throwing something in my kids' faces was caused by a mod. The stove catching fire isn't a glitch or anything. Its if your sim has a low level cooking skill and a cheap stove. The Riddle family is the first family where this has happened to me (aka both the stove on fire and the sim catching on fire...well the catching on fire thing did happen to me in Sims 3 but it was on purpose).