Conversations from The Sims

"I thought you said it was going to be a small apartment. This is not a small apartment!" Caroline was throwing some kind of fit. This was normal of course. Erik and Chris were more or less ignoring her in favor of moving their bags in. The apartment was fully furnished of course with all the amenities, but it was not what Caroline had expected when Erik had said 'one bed one bath'.

"I know it's not super tiny like you thought it was going to be," Erik responded sarcastically as he carried in a heavy box without seeming to break a sweat. Behind him Chris was pushing an equally heavy box and had broken a sweat. "But I wanted something we'd be able to convert. There's an extra room upstairs we can get a bed for."

Caroline was examining a wall near the entrance hall. She reached out and pushed on the wall. There was a click and it gave easily against the gentle pressure of her hand.

"There's another room here," she said, her voice cautious but curious. Chris abandoned his box and moved to the door.

Within the room was pitch black. The light of the hallway only barely penetrated the darkness. Erik rushed to the kitchen and returned with a flashlight as Caroline reached a hand in and fumbled around the dark for a switch. None of them seemed to want to go in for some reason. Erik shone the light into the room. There was a large stone slab in the middle of it. The three gave each other quizzical looks. Erik moved the flashlight around the room a little.

"There!" said Caroline, pointing. There was a light fixture hanging in the ceiling but no bulb.

"I'll get one!" Chris exclaimed. He sounded excited for the mystery unfolding before them. He rushed away to the kitchen and returned moments later with a bulb in hand. He stopped at the doorway. The three stood there for a long moment.

"Oh come on!" Erik suddenly exclaimed and snatched the bulb away from Chris. He looked into the darkness and steeled himself before stepping in. Nothing happened. Erik breathed a quiet sigh of relief and, filled with courage, moved further in. He climbed up onto the stone slab and reached up to stick the flashlight in his mouth as he screwed in the lightblub. It flashed on and Erik let out a startled sound and shielded his eyes.

Caroline's nose wrinkled as the room flooded with light, "Well it's a nice room. We just need some wallpaper….and a rug….or something."

Erik blinked the spots out of his eyes and looked around. It was bare stone and cement, not unlike the slab he stood on.

"Definitely," agreed the second eldest housemate.

Erik kicked at the slab beneath him as Chris and Caroline edged forward into the room, "What the hell is this?" he asked rhetorically. He jumped off, motioning to Chris at the same time to come to him, "C'mon help me push it. Maybe we can move it out of here."

Chris positioned himself at the end of the slab opposite Erik and together they pushed. By the doorway Caroline clapped her hands and cheered, "Woo! You guys can do it!"

There was a sound of stone scraping against stone, but the slab itself didn't move only the top did. Chris and Erik looked down.

"Holy crap!" They shouted and scrambled back away from the thing. Caroline moved forward.

"Holy Llama it's a coffin!"

"So bed room's upstairs right?"

Chris and Caroline shot out of the room. Erik scampered after them, "No! I do not get the vampire room! Guys! GUYS!"