Living Without a Mom ~ Chapter 13: Journeys

This chapter would've originally been out at the start of the week. But then my crappy laptop broke last weekend and had to be wiped entirely. I lost everything. But on the plus side, I reinstalled all my Sims 3 games! After two years, I can play it again! I've played it every night since Wednesday. I've made loads of Tumblr posts with what I've been up to so far, and I'll no doubt be making a Simblr soon. I also shot a couple of extra scenes that weren't in my Bella story, if you wanna check those out.

The next morning

Leighton awoke with a start before remembering the events of the night before. His ex-girlfriend, mother to his son, was probably still fast asleep on the sofa. Unless she'd ran off again.

In the next room along, Sam was just staring at the old picture of his mother. He still couldn't believe that she was here, she wasn't dead.

In the isolated building across the deck, Yumi lay awake. She couldn't believe that she'd actually let that Opal stay the night at her house. What was she thinking?! What gave the girl the right nerve to show up after all those years?

Leighton was the first one to leave their room and enter the living room. To his surprise, Opal was sat on the sofa, wide awake. She gave a small smile to Leighton, who found himself doing the same back.

'Did you have a nice sleep?' she asked. Leighton paused before answering.

'Yes. Yes I did. What about you?'

'Not bad, thanks for asking.'

'Opal?'

'Yes?'

'I'm sorry for losing my temper last night. I was just in shock. Look, if you really want to keep seeing Sam, then I'll let you.'

'Thanks.'

Sam then walked into the room and smiled at his parents.

'Morning.' he chirped.

'Morning, son. What are you going to do today?' asked Leighton.

'Would I be able to spend some time with mom?'

For a brief moment, Opal and Leighton made eye contact before he looked away.

'I suppose you can. Opal, you can take him out now if you want, and I'll explain to my mother everything that you said last night.'

'Okay. Thank you.'

Sam and Opal left the house ten minutes later. Opal hadn't brought any form of transport with her, so the pair made their way to the bus stop. Almost everyone in the street was staring at them.

'So mom, where are we going?' asked Sam.

'Well, where do you want to go?' replied Opal.

'Can we go to your house? I wanna see what it's like.'

'It's an apartment. And maybe another time, it's not exactly the best place to go to right now.'

'But mom! Pleeease?' pleaded Sam.

'I'll think about it.'

'Can we go to Bridgeport anyway?'

'Alright.'

As they were waiting for the bus, Blair Wainwright, Leighton's girlfriend, approached them.

'Hello Sam! Who's this?' she asked, faking a smile. She never really liked Sam; he was always in the way whenever she visited Leighton. Along with Yumi. She was the absolute worst.

'Oh, hi Blair. This is my mom!' beamed Sam. Blair stared at Opal in disbelief, before remembering her face.

'Hey there.' she muttered through gritted teeth.

'Blair. It's been a while.' replied Opal, rolling her eyes.

'Excuse me Sam, can your mother and I have a chat for just one moment?' Sam nodded and moved a few feet away.

'What the hell are you playing at?! Showing up after nine years? Huh?' spat Blair. Opal glared at the blonde-haired girl.

'And don't even think that Leighton would ever love you again! You broke his heart! Does he even know that you're taking Sam somewhere on the bus or are you running off with him too?' she added. Opal's glare became angrier and she almost slapped Blair, before remembering that her son who she had only just met was just a few feet away. She had to keep her cool.

'Shut up. Did I even mention Leighton? No. All I'm doing is bringing Sam to Bridgeport with me for the day, with his permission. Problem with that?'

'I was just saying...'

'Sure you were, Blair. Now stay away from me.'

Blair stormed off in the direction of Leighton's house and Opal turned to face Sam, just as the bus arrived. They bought their tickets and off they went into Bridgeport.

Sam gasped as they entered the city. He'd never been here before. His best friend Scott always gloated on about it; he went all the time with his dad.

Bridgeport was full of skyscrapers and flashing lights. He swore that he saw Lola Belle, famous actress, driving past.

'Woah! This place is AWESOME!' he exclaimed.

'Do you want me to show you where all the celebrities live?' smiled Opal.

'YES!'

'Alright. Name a celebrity who lives in Bridgeport and I'll show you their house.'

'Richie Striker! I wanna be just like him when I grow up!'

Richie Striker was a famous athlete who lived with his wife and young son. He had really made it big and was even good friends with Matthew Hamming.

As Opal and Sam stepped off the bus, the pair made their way across Bridgeport, Sam still marveling at the sights.

They finally stopped outside of a massive two-storey house with electric gates at the front. Sam actually started jumping around in shock as he stared through the house windows from afar.

'Mom! Look! Richie Striker! I can see him in his house!' he squealed. Opal smiled. She'd seen him plenty of times.

'MATTHEW HAMMING'S THERE TOO! MOM, CAN YOU SEE HIM?!'

Opal eventually had to usher Sam away from the house so that they didn't get seen.

'Want to watch a movie?' she asked. Sam nodded.

They watched the latest Lola Belle film. It was really good.

Whilst eating lunch in the diner, Sam spotted his best friend and his dad ordering food.

'Scott! Over here!' he called. Scott grinned and made his way over.

'Hey Sam, what are you doing here?!' he exclaimed, before looking over at Opal. He gave a very small smile to her.

'Scott, this is my mom.'

'But I thought your mom had died?'

'I thought that too. But she showed up at mine yesterday, turns out that Grandma Yumi had been lying to my for my entire life.'

'Wow. Well, nice to meet you, Sam's mom.'

'Nice to meet you too.' replied Opal. Scott then ran back to his dad.

'Mom?'

'Yes, Sam?'

'Can we go to your apartment now?'

And, there we go. I've started planning for my Bella sequel. I've noted down the characters but I can't decide on a title name. There's like five different ones that I've written down. Well, if I still haven't decided by next chapter then can you guys help me out a little? Thanks.