The End

Arcturus’s alien friend, Ahilac Vajjevoo, came running through the front door and simply stated the facts: “Arcturus, I’m dying.” The visit from space was both unexpected, unnecessary and largely unwelcomed but Arcturus accepted this truth all the same. He hugged her and asked, "Don't you have a phone?"

Arcturus had been thinking a lot about dying too lately but Betty had convinced him to at least spin around and get white hair first. Arcturus agreed that he had put in a lot of work recently to resurrect his corpse so the least he could do was enter the “old age” phase of a Sim’s life. This could only mean one thing: IT WAS PARTY TIME!

With only a few hours until he turned into an old man, Arcturus skipped the email invite and went straight to the telephone calls. The phone calls brought Arcturus a lot of sad news though. Most of his friends couldn’t make it because he was inviting them two hours before the event. Fair enough. (Thankfully, Ahilac was already there so she didn’t have to come from the other side of the galaxy.) But the even sadder news was that a few of his friends couldn’t make it because they were dead. Adaeze Min (his friend from the China vacation) and Akiko Hauler (Joshua Hauler’s wife) were both worm food. R.I.P. I was under the impression that these women were pretty young. Maybe they had health issues or something. If he ever got a chance, maybe Arcturus could pass Joshua Hauler some of his leftover magic “life juice” to bring his wife back.

The cake was bought, the friends were invited and now all that was left was blowing out the candles as everyone got uncomfortably excited.

Reliable party-attendee, Gordon Leavitt, galloped up to the house on all fours a few minutes after Arcturus called him. Very excited. He was followed by some other classics: Joshua Hauler (I guess he needed to get out of the house after his wife died) and Federico Walker (Shouldn't he be running the store?) The Mengsk family maid, Stefan Sledge, was there too only because he wouldn’t leave after “cleaning the house” earlier. He had taken one piece of trash to the trashcan and declared “I’m all done here. That’ll be $125” (that message literally popped up). But, despite saying he was done there, he didn’t actually go home. Maybe he had already seen the cake.

Gordon sees Ahilac for the first time and thinks about marriage. Oooooo!

Joshua is here with a creepy cane. He's old now.

Federico came in the side door. Odd approach for an odd man.

Stefan. Go home.

People were having a lot of fun at this party. Joshua got on Arcturus's computer for hours. Gordon ran around on all fours like a moron. Arcturus went to wake Emily up for the party but Stefan came in and they got into a pillow fight.

Running laps around the living room.

"...Dad? ...What are you doing in here?"

 And then, all of a sudden, as promised, Ahilac died. Right at the party. She could not wait any longer. Federico's insanity was too much for her to handle.

"Check out this silly face!"
"No. Absolutely not. I'm gonna die now."

Way to ruin the birthday boy's party, Ahilac.

The Reaper was also invited to the party but only attended for business purposes.

The Reaper took Ahilac's spirit into the Underworld and that was the end of it. Arcturus started to have a mental breakdown and everyone else just made sad faces for a bit. It was a short mourning because nobody really knew that alien and Arcturus was so goddamn excited about the party.

"NOOOOOO!"

 Arcturus made one mystery call about Ahilac's death. "SHE'S DEAD!" We'll never know who he called but my guess is that it was to tell her family in space. Nobody else on Earth even knew her.

Look at what everyone else is thinking about. Stefan is in love with someone?
Can't see what Federico is thinking about but it's probably sandwiches.

Seconds later,... the party is back on! Wooo! Blow out those candles!

It was the main event. The anticipation was killing everyone. "What is Arcturus gonna look like when he's old," Gordon whispered to himself. "I can't believe blowing out candles will make his hair go instantly white and his posture go to hell," Stefan told Emily. 

OH...

...MY...

...GOD!!!!! *heads explode*

Blow them out, sir!

And with a little turn on his heels, Arcturus enters the final phase of his life.
(Ha. Remember when he literally died?)

"No big deal."

And there it is.

Time keeps moving on.

Emily grew up too.

And graduated from college with a degree in Chemistry.

Betty also got old eventually.

Emily started dating Clyde, or "Meatball" as Betty likes to call him.
(Emily still works on making her doll into a real boy.
But she can't marry him when she does. It's just TOO weird.)

Arcturus continued to profit off of Aleister's Elixers and Sundries shop.
Federico passed away and, once again, a new store manager was hired.

And Arcturus and Betty will love each other forever.
Until one of them dies permanently with no take-backs.

Beautiful family. What a weird Sims 3 life, Arcturus. Good job.