I have recently become re-obsessed with The Sims 2. I wanted to do a story, but as I thought of that I was thinking how to expand my horizon. Then I thought of here, the recently abandoned fanfic site. D: Sorry fanfiction, I love you.

So I'm making this. Duh... I don't know what to say now. So I'll just get on with it.

Disclaimer: I do not own The Sims 2. I just own the characters I make. :3

Today was more boring than usual. I was now laying my head on my arm against the table, my hand still on the mouse and my eyes still on the screen. I glanced at the clock. 11 PM.

Okay, make that tonight was more boring than usual.

I instinctively hit the 'P' button to make sure my Sims wouldn't set the house on fire as I thought. I got on the computer around the time I woke up today... around eight...

It's official. A new record. I had been playing The Sims 2 for fifteen hours straight. Various families of course, and I had made about five of them, quickly getting bored with each one. But I was attached to the newest one I made, it had a zombie, two witches, two cat demons (made using werewolf eyes and some CC), an alien, an ex-angel (he didn't look like an angel, more like a blind bisexual. xD), and an inverted tuxedo cat with black stars. Pretty messed up. I called them the Henteko family. Henteko was Japanese for strange, as far as I knew.

Anyway, I loved them.

I yawned as I clicked the exit button. It took me a minute to realize it had asked me if I wanted to save my game. Yup, I was tired. But I clicked 'Yes.'

That night I fell asleep with my light on, passed out in a weird position on my bed. My glasses were also carelessly left on my face and a little bent out of shape when I woke up between the mattress and wall.

I nearly burned my hand turning off the light, but when I checked the time it was 11 AM. I stared blankly at the clock. Was it lying to me? I always woke up before 10. I never wanted a night like that again.

This was all that game's fault.

Even so, I couldn't being myself to stop playing it, and I again had a night like that. And again, and again, and again... until I had gone a week like that.

I declared myself a Sims addict as I once again closed the game and glanced at the clock. This time it was exactly 11:53 PM. Sunday. An official week, too.

I told myself to let someone else use the computer as I passed out that night.

Thankfully, I did. Not technically, though. My first thought waking up was to play the Sims and make that blind bisexual get a job. When I left my room I saw my brother on the computer and silently thanked him for granting me my first day to not use the Sims right when I woke up.

When I was really awake and about I got a call from my friend Alli who seemed really excited. She didn't tell me why but she merely told me to meet her at the park. I asked my mom for a ride and even though it was short notice, she didn't care. She just said to me as I walked up to my friend, 'no sleepovers today.'

The following is fictional. :3

Alli told me that someone had told her that for celebrating the Sims 3 release, they were giving away a free, final Sims 2 expansion pack. Alli didn't have a computer functional enough to run The Sims 2 anyway so each time she came over my house we'd play it. She convinced me to get it even though my decision was final before. Having already collected each and every single one, I had to get the last one. I asked her when and where and such and she said over by the Shed. It wasn't really a shed... but more like a cute little memorial thing for something. I can't describe it. D:

Anyway some dude was there with a table and a few stacks of the same thing: a Sims-style case. The said case was white with a plain label: Sims 2: Real Life. What a lame name. Even so, I got one and Alli came home with me that day.

Get this... we convinced my mom to let her stay over until she was called to go home.

So we installed the expansion and nothing really special happened. Ignoring this, we played the game until about eight when Alli had to leave. Then I was once again up until eleven. But something seemed slightly more addicting. I wasn't tired, either. When I finally looked at the clock it was about midnight. I knew my parents usually woke up around two so I made a note of that and continued playing.

And I played, and played, and played... I came across this one point where I made my dream Sim and her family, I did this a lot. I make a Sim about what I want to be like instead of a SimSelf, and made her a family. Same old, same old...

I decided to make my dream Sim just a bit like me and made her sit down at the computer. I shuffled through the choices and made her do several until I got bored with making her send emails and IM people. I had recently had her family go shopping and bought all the games. I hadn't seen the screens for them yet to I clicked 'Play...' and saw 'The Sims 2: Real Life'

I got ripped off! That expansion pack was just a waste of space on my computer, and it was just an in-game expansion pack? I found that pretty cute that the game had a game within it but the 'expansion pack' had taken up the majority of the space left on my computer... all for a new video game screen!?

With a sigh I was about to click the option when I heard my dad say 'get to bed' like he knew I was up. ...Because I did this often. I saved my game and quickly went to bed. I told myself I'd resume in the morning.

I didn't even sleep that night. I was curious about a bunch of things. I 'got up' around five, the earliest I could get away with without being told to go back to bed, and went on the computer. But first things first of course, I went online for a bit and checked a few things... which strangely took a few hours. But when I finally signed off, my mom had gone to take my sister to summer school, I remembered my brother had gone to sleep over his friend's house and now my dad was at work. I could faintly remember my dad asking me if I would be okay alone... oh yeah. My mom had to go to work at 3am but since my sister was doing summer school she'd have to pull off until nine and go in late, then she'd go to work. So I had the house to myself until about four in the afternoon.

So I simmed. When I started the game I went to my dreamsim's household and clicked the option...

Play... The Sims 2: Real Life.