The soap opera that is the Kents
What I love about this game is the way the characters tend to take on a life of their own - they'll prefer to do something you hadn't planned and before you know it you let them take on a whole new direction (such as Nigel Random ending up with definite gay tendencies).
So the four "Kents" - Rob, Mike, Cara and Sinead were living in one house - Rob and Cara as a couple and Mike and Sinead as a couple. But it was soon evident that each of them also lusted after the other partner - Sinead and Rob, and Mike and Cara. I thought they seemed better suited anyway. I just had to be careful that they weren't caught out. So while Mike and Cara cuddled downstairs:
Rob and Sinead cuddled upstairs:
No-one cottoned on to each other for a couple of days. But, the inevitable happened. Rob and Cara, the "official" couple, were about to 'woohoo' when Mike, Cara's new love, caught them at it. He was not happy! Hypocrite!
So, while Mike was at work one day, Rob and Sinead thought it better to move out and live next door in the empty house.
I can't recall if Rob knew at the time, but by then Cara was pregnant with his child.
So there was Cara, pregnant and loveless, because Mike was still angry with her as well as Rob and he didn't even know about Sinead and Rob being together. It took a few days for Mike to calm down - enough to start accepting Cara's affections again.
Cara had the baby - a boy, who she called Robert (probably so she'd remember who the father was).
A little unrelated break here as I tell you that Giles Huntingdon from the flash house up the road, took to visiting the girls quite often (while Sinead was still living there and before the pregnancy). He once stayed the whole night, jamming with them on the balcony. I wonder what his wife would have thought had she known.
Anyway, back to the abandoned baby Robert...
Mike reluctantly helped out with the baby but his anger was receding. Robert quickly grew into a toddler.
He has his father's angular features.
Cara was out working and Mike found himself babysitting when he was at home.
Pretty soon they would be accepting each other as father/son. They even played music together...
sort of.
Rob still hadn't visited his son, perhaps afraid of Mike's wrath. His friend, Steve, the doting dad of Teri, must have given him a talking to because he eventually visited and met his son for the first time.
He even put the child to bed.
A bond had formed...
We'll see where all this goes. Very interesting situation.
Will Cara get pregant to Mike?
Will Sinead get pregnant to Rob?
Will they all keep seeing each other?
I'm as curious as anyone...
