1.2 - Adult lessons

Nicole flew around on a little bubble of happiness for the next couple of days. Who would know that it would be so easy to find someone nice in this town.

She spend a lot of time next door, really getting to know Darleen and Darren. She found Darleen to be friendly and with a nice sense of humor - a little emptyheaded though. It was not particulary hard to get to know what there was to know about her. She is simple, enjoys her life with Darren, has a good job and a kid.
Coming from Sunset Valley where everybody has a juicy secret, Nicole tried to get some gossip about the inhabitants of Legacy Island. Even though she used to be the subject of this, and felt horrible about that, she still felt like she had to know who everybody was. The most juicy thing Darleen could think of was that Bella Goth divorced Mortimer Goth a couple of months ago. Darleen is not the gossiping type.
She ends up staying for dinner where Darren gets home. Dirk, their teen son, whom Nicole has yet to meet, were nowhere to be seen - but the parents ensured her that that was normal for him - and as long he is home for curfew, he's allowed to go where he wants.

 After dinner, Nicole did chat with Darren while Darlene went upstairs to work a little.
And here she got the kind of gossip she was looking for, but not wanted to know.
Darren looked at her in disbelief when he realises that she doesn't know that Daniel, the pleasant guy, actually has a Pleasant wife, and two perfectly Pleasant teen-girls (or almost perfectly pleasant...) - and the worst part. A new little Pleasant baby on the way.

She excused herself shortly after that. As stupid as she always has been - she actually had started to hope to be able to date this guy at some point - but apparently Daniel Pleasant, was apparently not only pleasant, but married, a father - and looking to be unfaithful to his pregnant wife, from the amount of flirting with her the evening before.

So when he called her - she acted. She smalltalked, she laughed... But she cut the conversation short - because she didn't want to let let him on. She wasn't about to be pleasant to him

Instead - She went out. 

She ended up drinking something they called a Broken Cheerleader - and poured out her heart to the mixiologist about what she knew - and looking from his face - he either knew or didn't care. 

But nothing happened. Since she didn't know the city, she obvioulsy didn't know where to go - and the bar was empty. So she went home. And created a online dating profile. 

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