A while ago I got Sims 2 double deluxe version and this is my story that I originally made for an English paper and now am re-typing for all to read. This is the story of Taylor.

When I first started out, I created Taylor and moved her into Veronaville. This town is named after Verona in Romeo and Juliet and even has sims characters called Romeo, Juliet, Mercutio, and Tybalt. The neighbors around her came to greet Taylor after she had moved in. Little did I know that my sister had already created two Sims and got them engaged to each other. His name was Marshall.

Marshall was a good looking sim and I thought he was a townie. Big mistake on my part. I chose greet and he kissed Taylor and it all unraveled from there. A day or two after I told my sister and she freaked out because Marshall was her sim. His fiancé was ticked too, but eventually she got over it and they never saw each other again. My sister got over it too after some long time.

After some time Marshall moved in and he got married to Taylor. They then adopted their one and only child. I'm not sure why I didn't have them make a child with their own blood but I had them adopt anyway. The social worker came the next day and gave them their child. He was a little black boy and I named him Ash.

Ash had a brilliant childhood. His parents taught him to be potty trained, how to walk, and how to speak all before became a child. When he was a teenager he was no different. He only found his wife through the match maker when he became an adult. He met Kerie and I decided that she was a good match and since I didn't want him to become old and childless, he went out with her. At this time Taylor and Marshall were elders living in their prime.

Ash and Kerie married, but only bore their children when Taylor and Marshall died. I think now would be a good time to explain the color of the ghosts by the method of their death. Sims die in a many ways and their ghosts will be a different color depending on how they died. Sims that become elders eventually come to the end of the line altogether. They die of old age and their ghosts are translucent and rimmed in pale white. They also die in whatever they were wearing.

Sims that starve to the point of death by starvation have translucent ghosts and will periodically check the refrigerator for food never finding any. This removes food points from the fridge making you buy groceries more often. These ghosts will get angry if there is no fridge or if it is empty.

Sims that died by burning to death in a fire will be red. Fires are generally caused by a flammable object placed too close to the active fireplace. This item will catch on fire and burn the area down. A kitchen fire can also happen if an inexperienced sim cooks a meal that's too advanced for them. These ghosts are the most unquiet of all of them and they will occasionally swim in the sea or pools.

Sims that died by electrocution are yellow and they occasionally re-enact their deaths by getting electrocuted all over again. This can happen if a sim attempts to repair an object like a dishwasher, robot, or computer with a low mechanical skill level. Sims can also be electrocuted by being struck by lightning and they can be flying a kite and that will be struck by lightning killing your sim.

Sims that have drowned in life will have blue ghosts and they will leave puddles around the areas they stand. These ghosts also re-enact their deaths by gagging for breath and then eventually curling up and dying all over again.

Sim ghosts can scare other living sims too. If they keep harassing a certain living sim enough then that sim will die of fright. Their ghosts will be pink. The sim who is dying will scream and then check their pulse on their arm. After not finding a pulse they will fall down and die.

Sims can also die if they have an illness or disease for ten consecutive days without getting treated or throwing it off by themselves. Their ghosts are a light shade of green and they re-enact their deaths.

Sims can be made to go watch the clouds. But be warned, for there is a slight chance that a satellite will fall from the sky and crush you're sim, instantly killing him or her. Their ghosts are orange.

If your sim house is extremely filthy then flies will come and devour a sim. These ghosts will be purple. There's not really much more to this one though.

In the University Life expansion you can get a Cowplant as a career reward and it feeds on pieces of cake. If a sim tries to take away its cake then the Cowplant will eat that sim leaving behind no tombstone but instead life essence. If after death the Cowplant is still kept on the lot the dead sim will taut the Cowplant with a slab of meat. If a living sim drinks the life essence of the dead sim then the dead sim will get angry. Their ghosts are green.

Sunlight can kill vampire sims. They will evaporate in a sense because sunlight is supposed to kill vampires in the movies. Their ghosts will be white but they will still be a vampire and have a vampire like skin tone.

Rally Forth is a business perk you can use in Open for Business to help the needs of your employees. Beware though: your sim is sharing their needs with their employees and can be fatal. If their needs fall to low then the sim will die and their ghosts will be gold and they will hold a megaphone in their hand.

In the Seasons expansion pack, hail can fall down upon your sim and kill him or her. Their ghosts will be magenta and they will re-enact their deaths occasionally.

If you are lucky enough to get into the esteemed garden club in the Seasons pack, they will give you a wishing well. This wishing well will give you five wishes but they all have a positive and negative effect. If you get the negative side of the money wish then a bag of simelonians will fall on the sims head worth 50 simelonians. This can be fatal and might kill your sim. Their ghosts will be white.

If you have bought a Murphy bed (or hideaway bed) for your sim then this could be bad. The bed itself is good and you shouldn't fear it but if your sim has a low body skill level and they try to open the bed, then the bed will crash on top of them and kill them. Their ghosts will also be white.

In the Open for Business pack there is a slight chance that the elevator will crash down with your sim inside and kill it. This way is slower because it first lowers the needs and if they fall too low then death is sure to follow. They will die of hunger instead of it being a death with its own color of ghost.

Now back to the story. Ash and Kerie had four children altogether. The first child was Julie. She married Wyatt, a townie she found after a bad experience with a townie named Cooper. Cooper was always getting mad at her for no reason at all and she left him after a while.

The other children are Jake, Baby Girl, and Laura. Baby Girl’s name wasn’t originally planned so. I didn’t like the way she looked so I tried to go back to the town, but I accidentally hit the save button and it stayed and I realized that she would be pretty no matter what. Laura was the only adopted child of the four.

The whole family started a home business and started working on their talent badges. We had several employees too, but we didn’t use them very much. Back when Marshall was still an elder we needed some cash so he made chocolates using the small little factory that we got when someone got to a high point in the cooking career. Yet, chocolate’s temptations proved too strong for him and he ended up eating just as much as he was packaging.

Eventually with four kids we had to move out and find a bigger home. I chose an expensive lot because they had more money than I know what to do with. (And they still do) Ash and Kerie eventually died of old age, bless their souls. Julie married Wyatt around this time and Jake got engaged to Bianca Monty. I changed her looks with the cosmetology chair in my store and she no longer wears glasses and has new clothes.

Baby Girl started going out with a vampire named Benjamin and around the time they got engaged I had her become a vampire with him. So many people can get a little stressful even in a big house. So I decided that the vampires with their special needs were to move in with Antonio Monty and his children Beatrice and Benedict. Baby Girl also married Benjamin around this time.

In the sims 2 there are also many different creatures. These include vampires, zombies, werewolves, plantsims, robots, aliens, Bigfoot, genie, and witch. Unfortunately, you can’t play as a genie or Bigfoot but you can ask Bigfoot to join your family. For the genie you just need to rub its lamp to see it.

With the vampires gone, I had more free space. I didn’t really want to keep up with the business and since it got closed because of the move, I just passed along the rewards before the holder died. Julie and Wyatt had two children: Rose and William.

Rose grew up fast and when she was a teenager, William was born. I wasn’t watching and Rose had grew into an elder and I couldn't’t stop it because she was in a horrid mood and wouldn’t drink the Elixir of Life that would save her. She never had any children and I was forced to kill her off until I am ready to use her. I will someday resurrect her and have her marry another elder and she will adopt some kids. William, her brother, became an accomplished college graduate and is going out with a girl he met there, Asia. Asia is a townie he met at SimCity University in the Langrabb Dorm.

At the end of Senior Year, William proposed to Asia and when I can move him into the family house I will keep in contact with Asia and soon after she moves in too they will hopefully marry.

Jack and Bianca just recently had Ashley, a sophomore in college at this time. She is going out with someone in the dorm named Andrezj. (I think that’s his name) Anyway she will propose to him during her senior year and marry him (taking his last name) when they both can move in. Ashley’s younger brother is Ethan.

Ethan is currently mere hours from becoming a teenager. When he does he will need to work on his skills and keep his grades high too to get scholarships for college. Bianca recently had a thought bubble appear over her head with a baby’s pacifier and a phone in it. This means she wants to adopt a child. I am not sure if I want her to have another but I might. You never know.

Baby Girl currently has no children yet (not forever though When Ethan goes to college they will move in. Soon, I hope that I will find time to have Laura marry her fiancé. His name is Connor and he was a fire fighter and now that he has moved in with Laura he had to change job because fire fighters etc. aren’t real playable job.

Max is the last of the family. I think that when Julie and Wyatt were alive, I had one of the pre existing sims initiate a one out of two servos I had lying around. Max is currently going out with a townie by the name of Regina. He will be the last of the 5 to marry. He will eventually, but for now it can’t happen until I am ready. They will adopt some kids because unfortunately all servos (robots) are all sterile and unable to bear children. It would be cool if they could have some sort of cyborg type kid but no.

In due time I will install my Fun with Pets collection which comes with three more packs, I will someday add some pets to the family. I am going to pick some dogs or cats that will not make weird looking babies because I don’t want any like hybrids or some odd animal, but I’m sure it’ll be fine once I get there. Well that is all I can think of right now at this point. I hope to one day add more to this story.