[ WP ] You find a copy of The Sims 5 at a used video game store . You decide to buy it and try it out . Slowly , unscripted and non programmed events start to happen . You realize that you 're actually controlling a real family .

Oh man this was going to be great! 
 
 I put in the disc Father had gotten for me. I'd been waiting for this for *years, * Father always thought I was too young for games and control like this, but for my birthday He finally gave in and bought me the game. 
 
 I put in the disc and the game loaded and prompted me to choose my character. I could n't customize him though, only put in preferences. Fine. I would start with a family, one man one woman and two young children, your average family. 
 
 The screen showed the globe spinning and then stopped and zoomed into a family in some suburb in America I think it's called. Father always chastised me for not knowing geography, said it was important to know these things but it just did n't settle in, so many names, so many divisions. 
 
 Anyways, I was looking down at a house from the top, the family was having dinner together. They were talking and joking and laughing. It was wonderful. I did n't even do anything then, just listened to them talk, joke. Father and I had fun yes, but I had no one else, all the people who worked for Father were really serious and not very fun. I wondered what it would be like to have my own brother or sister. 
 
 All the time I marveled at the care that must have gone into making a game like this, it all seemed so *real. * Once everyone went to bed I fast forwarded to the morning, still not doing anything. The kids went to the bus and off to learn, and the father kissed his wife and went to work. The mother stayed home and I watched her cooking and cleaning... normal things. But then there was knock on the door. 
 
 The mother went to open it and a man came in. It was n't the father. They kissed and went to the bedroom. I knew what that meant, Father never told me, but I found out, overheard things. I was angry. Why would she do this? She has such a happy family! I tried to tell her to stop, told the guy to go away... it did n't work. Was this game broken? 
 
 Resolved, I went to the father to tell him to come home. I shifted the screen to the office to find him driving back already, he looked really angry. He must've found out without me! I watched as the father drove homewards, so angry. I knew it was a game, but again, it felt really real. 
 
 I saw what was about to happen a moment before it did. He was n't going to stop at the light. I knew about traffic lights see, I was really interested in human electronics. I knew he had to stop, that it was dangerous not to. I tried to control him, but again, the character did n't obey, and he drove past the light... into a truck. 
 
 Dead on impact. 
 
 No... no. Why was this happening? I closed the computer angrily, I did n't want to see the kids come home, find out what had happened, find out what the mother would go through. 
 
 I went to Father. 
 
 He was sitting at his chair as usual, looking at the globe. But he looked up when I came in in tears. 
 
 `` You tricked me!'' I accused. He always did this, put me through tests, to make me ready he said. To take over his job. 
 
 He smiled at me, he always smiled, and I hated it. Because whenever he smiled my anger melted away. `` I'm sorry, son,'' he said in a booming voice, `` but I had to... you have to learn.'' 
 
 `` Learn what?'' I protested, `` learn to watch tragedy, to watch the worst in people?'' 
 
 `` Exactly,'' Father said, `` but a bit more.'' 
 
 I started to say something but Father held up a hand. `` You must learn to give free will. It is not our job to interfere, to make everything better, our job is to give choice, to let the normal flow of things happen. You must learn not to take away free will whatever the consequences. It is the only rule we have.'' 
 
 `` But what if it makes them sad?'' I protested. 
 
 Father smiled again, `` In the end, son, when they come to us, they'll all be happy.'' 
 
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 ( Author's note: if you did n't get it ( or simply because it was n't clear ), the Father ( denoted by the capital letter ) is supposed to be a God of some sort, with the son one day to replace him. ) 
 
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