Disgruntled, she grabs the first attractive person available and goes straight for a date, but it just feels… off.

This was her first shot at this carefree one-night-stand lifestyle she always thought she wanted, and turns out she’s not all that excited about the prospect. Cute or not, she doesn’t know the guy, and the idea of inviting him home that night is just… nope. She’d much rather call up Puck than chase that new experience just yet.

Guess she’s just more of a friends-with-benefits kinda gal.

Miranda has had it with all that studying (which she hasn’t been doing and is thus on probation) and hit up Downtown. And lo and behold, a hot older two bolter! And not a choice I cannot stomach, either! 

But for some reason, as soon as Miranda dropped her last name, the dance floor went ice cold.

Nina: *audible needle scratch*

Miranda: …hey, you know most of the gossip is just gossip, right? And anyway, I’m just a cousin to the heiress, we aren’t even rich.

Nina: No, hon, that’s okay, I just… remembered that I left the uhhhh laundry in the oven. It was fun meeting you, but I really have to go now.

Miranda has no way of knowing what had Nina so rattled, so she takes offense, and is probably just going to avoid giving out her last name willy-nilly. Nina, on the other hand, looks like she just now realized that she had given birth to a mob baby and this whole thing is going to be a huge drag, isn’t it. 

Nina: Hahaha those are literally crimelords huh

Puck’s doing okay academically, but there’s only one book he’s hitting with all his might. He still has a lot to leanr about magic, but at least mastered the sparkly doormat powers.

He’s also enjoying his thing with Miranda a lot – it’s funny how it took leaving Veronaville for them to notice how much they have in common. But try as he might to gracefully remove himself from competition, he still misses Tybalt. Neither of them talked to the other in ages, both too afraid of how that conversation may turn out. Puck suspects that the likeliest outcome is that they’d both carry on like they never had hopes for anything more than a temporary fling on their way to finding serious partners, and be very happy for each other, and some part of him would find that more hurtful than slamming doors would be.

Here’s how the relationship situation is looking in the Nerds + Miranda dorm:

Poor Dirk’s only friends are his dad and his girlfriend, whom I probably won’t let him marry in the name of trying new stuff. I WAS going to keep him straight but his chemistry panel is looking so bad, and Dustin did apparently decide against coding that he likes dudes, so hey. Straight sims are becoming a scarce commodity in PSVV.

I’m surprised Marla has as many as two, when did she befriend Mercutio? Anyway, since I’m most definitely getting her and Antonio together, it’s sweet of Mercutio to swoop in and make sure she feels welcome and isn’t going to run to the hills during the first family gathering. He has her and Antonio’s back!

Johnny is doing pretty well for himself, and Ihave no idea how Dustin and him became friends. I pay so little attention. I’m also not sure if Ophelia and him are endgame (I’;m really tempted to try to get her with Hermia), but I have no replacement paramour for him yet. For now he’s occupied with his infuriatingly effortless perfect GPA.

And Miranda’s romantic prospects are dry as ever (her only two-bolter is Nathan FUCKING Gavigan and I was going to go for it, but no, I am not going to do this to her!!!) so I guess she’s still banging Puck. On the other hand, look at that friends panel! There is only some dormie scum on the second page so it doesn’t count. Popularity secondary it is.

Oh good this wedding is already a disaster. 

Titania: Not on my watch it’s not. Attention all attending assholes, would you step forward? Yes, Mercutio, I am including you! 

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Perhaps magically altering your wedding guests’ personality isn’t the best hostess move possible, but honestly, we all know the families are full of tactless drama queens who’d gladly wear white to a wedding who can only blame themselves.

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