As she was getting all singled out, Gardenia began to feel lonely. She looked for a blind date on the Simda dating app.
Ohh. Why Vlad!?
Gardenia didn't approve of this blind date and well...
Since she got possessed again, there wasn't much she could do with Vlad. She went out to the street to meet the local weird sims instead.
She talked nonsense with them for a little bit.
But once she got over this thing, Vlad was still around and... Gardenia didn't have her proudest moment.
She didn't let him in properly so there'd be no chance of pregnancy.
She was satisfied though from this vampiric night and thought the date was nice.

This darn holiday came up and teased Gardenia. She had wanted to live in a nice desert town with hot weather and water fun. And she got Strangerville and this:
Purple sky, green tinted air and steaming and vibrating sims.
She threw the vaccine she had made into this dude's face and he was cured!
This lady was cured too. Leslie Holland. Gardenia recruited her to help her fight the mother plant too.
Oh she was so happy! Beautiful summer days were on their way! She wanted to cure the lady at the back too but she had run out of vaccine.
But Gardenia got her to come down to the lab with her and got her to stay there long enough to get the vaccine done and got her cured. She was recruited too! Her name was Jess Sigworth.

After she had cured and recruited two sims, she decided to take a break.
And celebrate the holiday!
She got her childhood friend Mateo Fitzpatrick and went to the pool house in Windenburg. Just as she had moved away from there, Windenburg was super hot and sunny.
Oh the summer and normalcy felt so good!
And Mateo was such a great person to meet up with after all the weird sims. She asked him to move in with her. She did.
He was a young adult too. Lovable, naturally smelly and glutton. His aspiration was a city native though, meaning he wanted to actually live in San Myshuno.
And as he moved in Gardenia found out how he feels about the holiday happening. The same as Gardenia.