Frankie could now afford an easel without breaking the bank, so he started painting.
He also got himself his fourth and final boyfriend, Tank! Making out with him at a house party turned the party score around somehow. They actually went steady, too, since they seem to make a cute couple.
The party was a success, but the house was totally wrecked.
Frankie, still doing his homework to no avail.
Things were beginning to improve and Frankie got promoted, reaching the top of the Athletics career track!
Another Sunday, another party. This time, everyone decided to do the Smustle on the sidewalk. I have no idea why it looks like Frankie is hitting Tank, they were playing something or other.
Unfortunately, Tank and Johnny kept getting into fights. Sims apparently do not live for drama, because the party was considered bad.
Frankie became BFFs with Ophelia!
Unfortunately, he ended up losing his job.
He immediately got a new one... as a Fish Chummer.
His next party went better, probably because Johnny was not invited.
Ophelia slept over a lot and actually managed to fix the TV when Frankie asked her to! This is fortunate, because Frankie wanted to throw a Sports party.
Which he did, and it was a success.
Frankie had switched jobs to the Medical career, starting out as Nursing Home attendant. He stuck with it long enough to be very quickly promoted and reach the top of yet another career! That week, he threw *another* great party.
Emboldened by his recent successes and by the fact that the house was now decorated with his pricey paintings (I went the "500+ simoleons route since TS2 doesn't label the painting quality), he invited over the Headmaster. Maybe attending private school would make his grades go up and make homework less pointless.
They hit it off well, and Frankie got in!
Because of the bugged grade, I stopped having him do his homework. This was a mistake, because Frankie now had a huge pile to catch up on.
EXCEPT. I previously had a similar bug where a Sim's grades did not go up, ever, and I ended up using a mod to home school her. I have no idea if sending Frankie to private school will somehow get it unstuck, but I was afraid his old homework might be buggy. I was going to have him do it for the challenge, but after he'd made a lot of progress I ended up deleting it, just in case. This means a lot of time went down the drain.
Frankie threw a bad party, but then had some time left to throw a good one and fix the situation.