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Now that Matthew was out of the picture, however temporarily, Malik resumed his flirtation with Laila. She, despite now being engaged, seemed open to the idea and reciprocated, with the pair soon falling in love.

She sighed as she looked at him. "I should not be doing this."

Malik grinned broadly. "But you want to, don't you?"

Laila nodded. "I just don't want to think about what Matthew would say."

"Well, let's not think about him right now..." replied Malik, pulling her in for another kiss.

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The next semester wasn't without incident - the dorm cook wasn't the best - but thankfully, no one was seriously injured!

Otherwise, everyone made it through to their Senior year. Malik and Elliott, as Knowledge Sims, were now both gunning for Honours degrees, although only getting C pluses in their Junior year meant that neither of them could get Summa Cum Laude now.

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Matthew almost couldn't believe he'd managed to graduate and he knew it was all down to Laila. He was so grateful and more in love with her than ever so he thought it was high time he addressed the want he'd had locked in for over a year.

He got down on one knee right there in the dorms and proposed to her. Laila agreed straight away, placing the ring on her finger and admiring it.

Laila waved him off as he climbed into the taxi which would take him off to his new life in Wildflats Peninsula. Now it was time for her to focus on getting through her last year and a half!

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Laila was clearly a good influence on Matthew. Being with her inspired him to do better. He managed to pull himself out of probation and, with her help, scraped a reasonable pass in the first semester of his Senior year.

She would force him to sit with her while she learned skills so that he would pick up those skills too. She even wrote a term paper for him, so determined was she to see her boyfriend pass.

By the time his final ever Senior exams rolled around, Matthew felt the most prepared he had ever been and, despite his two bouts of probation, he managed to graduate with a 2.0 GPA!

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Elliott got through his second year with another 4.0 GPA and, after two years being undeclared, he finally decided to focus on Mathematics as his major.

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Love was clearly in the air at the dorms, as Laila and Matthew soon found themselves deeply in love with each other. Laila autonomously asked Matthew to go steady with her and, to his surprise, he said yes. He even rolled some very surprising wants for a Romance Sim, as he realised he actually wanted to marry Laila.

The pair went to the lounge to dance the night away for the first time as boyfriend and girlfriend, before sneaking into the photobooth for some alone time.

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It had been a long year and Elliott really missed his girlfriend Estelle. He invited her to visit him on campus so that she could see where he lived and they could flirt a little.

Suddenly, he found himself autonomously going down on one knee to propose to her.

"Estelle, I know this isn't the most romantic of proposals but I just can't see my life without you in it. Will you marry me?"

Estelle, of course, said yes!

Unfortunately, there was nowhere for them to Woohoo in the dorms so they couldn't exactly celebrate the way they wanted to. They made do with snuggling up on the common room sofa in front of the TV.

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At the end of the year, while everyone else passed their finals with flying colours, Matthew (who'd casually rocked up to his exam in his PJs) failed and got put on Academic Probation. It was the second time in his academic career that it had happened to him as he'd also been on probation once in his Sophomore year.

He sighed. Maybe university wasn't the best place for a Romance Sim like him?

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Meanwhile, Malik and Matthew both seemed to be competing for Laila's affections. While Knowledge/Popularity Sim Malik tried to seduce her with kisses up her arm and sweet words...

Romance Sim Matthew was more straightforward, kissing her full on the lips right in front of competitor Malik. Luckily, Malik didn't seem to notice or mind!

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Round 11 - Summer 3 - Wildflats Uni Dorms

When Elliott first arrived at uni, he moved into the dorms and found that he already had a few roommates in Laila Ebadi (left), Malik Washington (middle) and Matthew Wheeler (right).

He was a pretty friendly guy, but for the first year he pretty much kept himself to himself. He focused on his studies and skill-building like the Knowledge Sim he was!

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Tara turned to Nova. "I know we told her we'd carry on attracting new members, but I honestly have no idea how to do that. This is a small university! There are only so many women that can join!"

Nova smiled. "Don't worry, I have an idea about that..."

And that's where we'll leave the Sorority! I decided to only play them for two years instead of four because (even before I decided to put Wildflats on hiatus) I realised I didn't want the town being constantly flooded with new people.

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"Well, ladies, I'm off. I leave the fate of the sorority in your hands!" said Ashley, hearing her taxi honking outside.

"Don't worry, Ash. We're both charismatic enough to attract plenty of new members. There will be Annya-Fruhm-Vars for decades to come!" Nova reassured her.

"Have fun in Wildflats Peninsula!" wished Tara.

And so Ashley climbed into her taxi and got whisked away to start her new life back in town.

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The year flew by and soon Ashley was graduating! They got a keg in and threw a graduation party for her where all of the graduating Senior class turned up at the Sorority in their robes and mortarboards.

At the end of the party, everyone celebrated by throwing their caps in the air and Ashley was officially an adult, ready to start her life in Wildflats Peninsula.

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Tara, meanwhile, decided that Professor Amal had had a point when he reasoned that he was no longer actually her professor, so she decided to ask him out. They very quickly progressed to making out and Woohooing in the same hot tub where he'd previously flashed her!

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Round 11 - Summer 3 - Annya-Fruhm-Var Sorority (Cont.)

So, to pick up where we left off, Ashley is now a Senior, Nova is a Junior and Tara is a Sophomore!

Nova continued to date dormie Manuel, whom she'd briefly romanced the previous year despite their lack of obvious chemistry, and they ended up falling in love and even autonomously going steady - so I guess that actually is going somewhere after all!

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*Sidles back in awkwardly after yet another unexpectedly long absence*

Long text post incoming so I've put it under a cut!

Yeah... sorry about that! I was looking back at Round 11 of Wildflats Peninsula a couple of months ago and I realised that it had taken me over a year to get through it and it still wasn't finished, so I just sort of lost interest.

I'm still feeling pretty burned out on it, to be honest, so I've been playing Pleasantview and Early Strangetown just for fun without taking any pictures of them and it's been really refreshing. I've also spent the last couple of months making spreadsheets of all of my defaults, which of course led to an overhaul of my defaults folders because that's just how my brain works!

I managed to push through the other day and completely finished Round 11 - it was only the uni houses left to go - so I'll post those pics over the next few days, and then I think Wildflats will have to go on official hiatus for a while because I'm still not keen on properly returning to it right now.

I've revamped my BACC rules and I'll probably start another neighbourhood from the beginning just to scratch that BACC itch. I may or may not post pics of that here but, if I do, I think I'll try and update my writing style a bit because I tend to want to chronicle every single event in my Sims' lives, and write dialogue for them, but it gets quite overwhelming at times!

In the meantime, I've played a couple of rounds of my ISBI challenge so I'll queue up some updates of that!

TL;DR - I'm still alive, Wildflats is going on hiatus for a while, and I'll post some other stuff in the meantime!

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At the end of the semester, Nova and Ashley both managed to pass their exams again with good enough grades to earn grants and progress to the next year, making Ashley a Senior and Nova a Junior.

"Congratulations!" cried Nova, hugging her sorority sister.

Ashley, who had to admit that she was warming up to Nova a little bit, hugged her back. "You too."

Tara, whose exam was slightly later, also passed with excellent grades and made it onto the Dean's List!