Round Six - Bachman/Darwin - Tied Down?

Allyn Bachman and Tom Darwin are cohabiting but have a free and easy relationship with no official commitment. This has been suiting them just fine, but can it carry on forever?

They had thoroughly different schedules but they always ate together, at least one meal every day. It wasn't something they'd discussed, some kind of ground rule to keep them "together", just something that had happened along the way. Kind of like everything else with them. But Tom was getting the feeling Allyn was getting antsy. She was mostly his kind of girl but he knew she had a few neuroses under it all that sometimes made her clingy. She started up again with talk of "being serious" and thinking they should "show their commitment" over an average evening meal, and Tom rolled his eyes.


"I don't see why things should change. I mean, we're good with the casual dating, right? I haven't even been seeing anyone else." He sighed as another thought rushed through his hea. "Plus, look at my parents. Commitment doesn't mean a thing."

"Trust me to get involved with a guy with daddy issues," giggled Allyn.


Of course, she was one to talk. Her father had been dead for a long, long time and Tom knew that had to affect her somehow. It wasn't like he didn't care about her and didn't worry about what that did to her underneath it all. In fact, he did truly love her. She was often asleep when he headed off to nightshifts and he couldn't resist the urge to look at her, all pretty and peaceful, even though he knew it was a bit creepy.



He often ended up having a few drinks once he got back, thinking things over. Life was a bit weird for him now his parents were divorcing. He wouldn't leave Allyn but if she was going to get like this sometimes he figured he deserved indulgence.


Note: I lost a whole bunch of pictures for this update which is why it's so short. It doesn't really matter because not much happened - Allyn and Tom just asked each other out on dates all the time and occasionally went to work, and then had talks where Allyn would be all "MARRIAGE! BABIES!" and Tom was all "DATES! PUBLIC WOO-HOO!". She's a Pleasure sim but she rolled Family as a secondary so I suppose it's to be expected sometimes.