sweeter than sugar

her name is delilah but she always goes by lilah

she’s from florida originally where she lived with her parents and she’s an only child

her family is.... intense. lilah grew up in a very small community all members belonging to the same church, a rarely known denomination of christian with very strict rules pulled directly and very literally from the bible, the members all believing that any disobedience leads directly to damnation with no room for forgiveness. her parents followed the rules of this denomination very strictly and expected the same from their daughter.

lilah is by nature a rule follower, she has a kind heart and obedience comes easily to her. she has always been very intentional about obedience and respect toward her parents, even when she doesn’t always agree with them.

while lilah has always believed in God and in her christian faith, she has always felt off about the way she was raised and the strict beliefs of her family and her church. as she grew older and started to raise questions about what she had heard, the results were overall negative for her. the God she read about in her own studies of the bible was supposed to be loving and forgiving, but the one she heard about in sermons on sunday mornings didn’t seem to fit into the image she had come to know him by. 

she started to raise these questions to her parents and sunday school leaders and her church became concerned about her leniency, claiming that she was straying from her faith and that her questions would lead her down a dangerous path away from salvation. 

her parents’ solution to this problem was a sort of forced obedience, or rather punishment for lack thereof. when lilah’s behavior wasn’t up to par, or she raised too many “troubling” questions, she endured a series of punishments to “help get her back on the right track”. this is making me sad so i don’t wanna talk about it but her parents were abusive okay im sad

despite her extremely unfortunate circumstances, lilah remained optimistic and sure in her faith. she still found ways to enjoy her life, and to love everyone she encountered, possibly even more fervently than before. she remained dedicated to her family, as well as to dancing and even to her church. 

lilah’s life finally took a turn for the better when she was sixteen and through a series of events involving lilah’s health, her parents were exposed for their abuse and neglect and the young girl was removed from her family home and made a ward of the state of florida. after a brief stint in foster care, she was instead sent to live with her father’s brother and his family, including her cousins jaxton and jolene. 

the new found freedom lilah experienced in her new home gave her a whole different outlook on life. her strong faith still held fast in her heart and she was sure she couldn’t have survived those hard years without her belief in God, and in fact that it was her God who had saved her from her circumstances. she took her new lease on life to explore her beliefs and how they varied out in the real world and no longer confined by the limited world she had once known. she went through what her parents would have called an out of control rebellious streak, but anyone else would have seen as typical if not extremely mild teenage behavior. 

she dated, she dyed her hair fun colors, she got a tattoo!! she graduated high school and she moved to new york to go to juilliard school of dance. yay lilah. also she started a youtube channel so she has a youtube channel and that’s a thing

idk thats all probably shes cute be her friend. 

no one knows about the stuff with her fam except her cousins and even they don’t know too much bc she’s very private about it and she won’t tell people exactly what happened or what her parents did. in fact, jax and jolene only really know that lilah’s parents were abusive because they were told by their parents with lilah came to live with them. lilah never told anyone beyong her social worker what happened back home.