#fallbrookintro

Quick Facts:

She has a ten year old son named Bentley with her ex-husband, he’s very into sports and model cars.

She was born in Fallbrook and lived there until she was about 11, returned to Fallbrook during her pregnancy (2011-12).

She got married fresh out of college and the marriage lasted until she was 27, they ended their marriage due to her assuming infidelity, whether it was true or not is up for debate. (wc)

She’s very close to her family and often lets Bentley stay with his aunts, uncles and grands whenever he asks.

Cordelia is fluent in French, German, English and conversational in Italian.

She studied abroad during her junior year in Paris.

She opened Aero Cocktail Bar just before her divorce after buying the previous bar that was there off of the original owners.

She’s incredibly sensitive and insecure, but she projects a bright and friendly energy at all times.

Life in the south started off for Cordelia and she was known to be the vibrant one of the pack. She loved playing house with her friends, pretending she was cooking in her play kitchen and already loving the idea of becoming a mother. With her little sisters, she was always helping out around the house, bottle feeding Astrid and brushing her hair for her. When the family decided to move to California, she was initially so upset. At this point, she’d already made so many friends, her life had structure and purpose and now everything was being turned upside down. It wasn’t fair to her, it wasn’t fair at all and she let her parents know that. California was full of movie stars, beauty she couldn’t compete with. Why would a pre-teen already be worried about something like that? Pop culture was to blame. All of the Disney stars she’d seen around her age were drop dead beautiful and she was this awkward girl coming into teenhood.

Her awkwardness paid off because she felt she had no chance with the boys, she was so focused on school. Not only was she consistently at the top of her class, but she was studying foreign languages intensely because she had this dream of starting her own diamond business out of Russia. Despite this, Russian was one of the language she hadn’t studied so intensely. French came first, German was eased in soon after and Italian was the last. She never got too deep with her Italian studies, but whenever she would vacation there, she was able to get by enough to enjoy her time there. Her parents were proud, she was studying hard to ensure her place in one of the top colleges in the country. This put her at an awkward place with her siblings, though, seeing as how she barely spent time with them and focused so deeply on her studies. Life would change before she knew it though... drastically.

During her senior year, she realized that she was garnering a lot of male attention. What could possibly be the reason? Well, she was beautiful and everyone could tell. At this point, she started wearing her hair down, opting for lenses as opposed to her glasses and her braces were off. While that shouldn’t have been the reason everyone started paying attention to her, that was exactly what happened. This was the first summer she’d spent entirely back at Fallbrook, a mini vacation before college. She’d fall in love for the first time, a summer romance even. When it came time for her to go off to college, she reluctantly ended things with this boy so she could focus on her studies.

In college, she studied Economics in order to put her business plans in motion. A clear order of events would occur, she had her life on track. The opportunity to study in Paris came up and she did just that, which was where she met her now ex-husband and Bentley’s father. Whirlwind romance, the two fell madly in love and stayed together even after she returned to the states to finish school. She went back to Paris after senior year, where she got engaged and soon after, married. It was a grand wedding, her entire family was present and her sisters were apart of the bridesmaids crew. They were incredibly happy for her, it was the first time she’d smiled and cried so much in years.

The return to California came soon after where she became the general manager of a nightclub but it wouldn’t be very long-lasting. The truth was that she wand her husband wanted to have a child and they’d been trying. Her first pregnancy failed and it nearly ate her alive. Amelia Britney was born stillborn and she never thought she could go through something so tough again. The couple had initially stopped trying and that was when Bentley finally came into their lives. She was so incredibly sick, she could barely move during the pregnancy and she was somehow losing weight everywhere besides her belly. This called for a change of life and they relocated to Fallbrook.

Baby Bentley was finally here and he would be the light of their lives, but she couldn’t help but have a sneaky suspicion that her once very loving husband was cheating on her. He was working late nights more often, she could’ve sworn she smelled others women’s perfumes on him and it was driving her up the wall. The game plan she had was to open a bar in town, which she did, and then leave. At the celebration dinner of her grand opening of Aero Cocktail Bar, she served her husband with divorce papers and went to stay with her family until she could figure her life out. After about a month, she moved into a brand new home in Rosewood Hills, the divorce was finalized and they shared joint custody of their child.

PERSONALITY

Positive Traits: Creative, Adaptable, Talented

Negative Traits: Stubborn, Messy, Defensive

HISTORY

Harper Ivy Phillips was born in a small town Utah. After her mother gave birth to her she was left at the hospital with a note explaining that she wanted her daughter to have a better life. She was then put up for adoption where she was adopted by the Phillips and eventually became their middle child. Even though she and her siblings were not related by blood they did get along decently well. Harper knew that she was lucky that she got to be part of such an amazing family and she was thankful. 

Although ever since she was a kid Harper has struggled with her identity. It wasn’t that she wasn’t happy with the Phillips, because she was, the young girl just couldn’t help but be curious about who she was. This is something that she continued to struggle with as she got older. Due to this she constantly found herself trying to find out more about who her birth mother might be, but unfortunately she wasn’t able to find many leads for a long time. After a while she just had to face the reality that she may never know who she is.

In middle school Harper found her passion for art. It started off with doodles and then soon enough had developed into full on sketches. It was something that she seemed to have a natural talent for. By the time she was in high school she had decided this was exactly what she was meant to be doing for the rest of her life. She spent nearly all of her free time creating some sort of art and nobody close to her was surprised when she got accepted into art school. 

Deep down Harper was still scared that she was going to fail though. Many of her teachers told her there was no work for an artist. Harper was determined to prove them wrong though she moved away to pursue her dreams. Thankfully for her she was pretty successful in college and even managed to sell a few of the pieces that she had created. Once she graduated from college she started to work a variety of different art related jobs.  Harper moved to Fallbrook about a year ago mostly because she wanted a fresh start. Although she had also received a lead that her birth mother was born here. Which made it the perfect place for her to go. Once she got to Fallbrook she got a job at the Art Museum so she could continue to support herself while she took time to create her own art pieces. 

CONNECTIONS

Best Friend [Open]: Someone Harper has been really close to since moving to town.

Recently Discovered Family Member [Open]:  Harper’s birth mother is from here and she could have recently discovered your chara and her are somehow related.

BACKGROUND

BIRTH PLACE: Indianapolis, Indiana 

HOMETOWN: Indianapolis, Indiana

SOCIAL CLASS: Upper Middle Class

EDUCATION LEVEL: Bachelor’s in Criminal Justice 

FATHER: TBD

MOTHER: TBD

SIBLING(S): Celine Ediz 

BIRTH ORDER: Eldest

CHILDREN: None

PET(S): None

CURRENT RELATIONSHIP:  Single

PREVIOUS RELATIONSHIPS: Josie Montgomery ; deceased 

OCCUPATION & INCOME

PRIMARY SOURCE OF INCOME: Private Investigator - Freelance 

CONTENT WITH THEIR JOB (OR LACK THERE OF)?: Yes

SPENDING HABITS: His spending habits are conservative, buying what he needs, though has a habit of splurging on eating out 

SKILLS & ABILITIES

PHYSICAL STRENGTH: Average

INTELLIGENCE: Above Average

AGILITY: Above Average

STAMINA: Above Average

TEAMWORK: Could be better.

LANGUAGE(S) SPOKEN: English, Turkish

DRIVE?: Yes

JUMP-STAR A CAR?: Yes

CHANGE A FLAT TIRE?: Yes

RIDE A BICYCLE?: Yes

SWIM?: Yes

PLAY AN INSTRUMENT?: No

PLAY CHESS?: Yes

BRAID HAIR?: No

TIE A TIE?: Yes

PICK A LOCK?: Yes

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE & CHARACTERISTICS

FACE CLAIM: Serkan Çayoğlu

EYE COLOR: Brown

HAIR COLOR: Brown

HAIR TYPE/STYLE: Shortened hair, sports facial hair always in a clean cut, sometimes grows out his mustache to annoy his sister

GLASSES/CONTACTS?: Neither

DOMINANT HAND: Right

HEIGHT: 6′1″

WEIGHT: 176 pounds

BUILD: Muscular but lean

EXERCISE HABITS: Works out in the gym in his basement, when he remembers 

TATTOOS: None

PEIRCINGS: None

MARKS/SCARS: None

PSYCHOLOGY

TEMPERAMENT: Melancholic 

PHOBIA(S): Fear of lack of love

DRUG USE: None

ALCOHOL USE: Social drinker

PRONE TO VIOLENCE?: When needed 

MANNERISMS

HOBBIES: private investigating, puzzling, reading, sleuthing 

NERVOUS TICKS: clicking his fingers

DRIVES/MOTIVATIONS: helping others, his sister, josie

FEARS: never finding out the truth about josie

POSITIVE TRAITS: protective, kind, reserved 

NEGATIVE TRAITS: secretive, cynical, obsessive 

DO THEY CURSE OFTEN?: often

FAVORITES

ACTIVITY: Puzzles

ANIMAL: Dogs 

BEVERAGE: Red Wine

COLOR: Red

FOOD: Hamburger 

FLOWER: Tulip

HOLIDAY: Christmas

SCENERY: Forest from the outside 

SPORT: Lacrosse

WEATHER: Sunshine and sunshine

CONDENSED BIO

tw: death, murder

Born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, Emre was born a few years before his sister, Celine. He has been protective of his younger sister since before she was born. At three years old, he knew that his one expectation early on in life would be making sure Celine was okay. 

He had a good family and a good life. His parents did not divorce like many other kids he knew. They fought, like any family did, but they always came together at the end of the day. Emre felt very lucky to have a family like his. 

Growing up, Emre always hung out with Celine. Despite being three years apart in age, Emre had no problem letting his sister hang out with him and his friends. It was what kept them close in the beginning, forging their close sibling relationship to come. 

While Celine preferred the arts of the world, Emre had more interest in logic. He found puzzles to be a task he enjoyed, whether actual puzzles or reading murder mysteries and trying to figure out the killer before the book told him. The same could be said about watching crime shows and documentaries. Emre had notebooks upon notebooks of trying to figure out who did it first. 

So, it was no surprise that when he went to college, though not something he particularly wanted, he got a degree in Criminal Justice. Emre knew that his skills, particularly his detective skills could help out. He had been working at the local police station after college, having not got in at a super high level position but he was able to learn the ins and the outs. And he enjoyed every second of it. 

Relationships with others had always been few and far between as he tended to get a bit obsessive with his work and it drove people away. When he was in a relationship, it was relatively secretive to those in his life. He knew what people did with information and he didn’t want to be exploited in anyway. However, this relationship ended in tragedy when he showed up to work a case to find that it was his girlfriend that had been murdered. 

After six months of extensive digging, the case ran cold and it was closed. However, Emre continued to work on it, obsessing over every minor detail that could have ever happened. To this day,  two years later, he is still looking for who killed his girlfriend. 

For actual payment, Emre does a variety of skills for people that require his resources and having left the police department, he has been able to have more flexibility. So much so that he followed his sister down to North Carolina after she moved. Her sudden move and quitting of her job was suspicious and it had happened that work had led him in this direction. 

Quick Facts:

Has always worked her ass off as a singer and dancer throughout her life. This was a creative outlet to deal with the stress at home. She was inspired by her father, Stefan VanCamp of the band The Carolina Reapers. 

Her mother is a model from Manchester, United Kingdom and met Stefan on the set of a TCR music video in 1992.

Though she’s vastly improved as a person overall, her looks got to her head in high school and she was a good ol’ Regina George type.

When she was off at college, attending Julliard, she scored a record deal with her father’s label VanCamp Records (cliché, I know) and had a two album deal with the company upon her return to the South. They were based out of Charlotte.

Before she was able to release any music, she was dropped by the label as her father passed and her mother was not in support of her pursuing music.

Instead of taking it as a complete loss, she started teaching dance at Tulip Dance Academy and writing songs for others.

She sings a Christmas medley every year at the Fallbrook Christmas tree lighting. 

She still performs but on a more local level. She releases her music mostly on soundcloud and Youtube now. 

She made a one-time appearance on WWE’s Monday Night Raw where she made out with a popular wrestler. This was a marketing ploy by her label, but it fell through after she was dropped and fans were left wondering what happened to her.

Fawn was the girl that everyone wanted to be. From a young age, there was a fixation on her dollish looks and initially she hated it. She hated the numerous people that would come up to her and her mother and compliment her so much, pinch her cheeks and hug her. She wanted to know why the hell they were interacting with her in the first damn place. It was bad enough they spoke to her, but to go on about how cute she was? Either way, she would often respond with a roll of her eyes before hiding behind her mother and praying that the entire ordeal would be over sooner rather than later. Her father on the other hand had a majorly different part in her life. He was the lead singer and guitarist of The Carolina Reapers, a multi-platinum rock band that lead the movement from the early 90s until the mid-2010s, when Stefan would unfortunately meet his demise.

Fawn was that one girl in middle school whose hair seemed to be accompanied by the wind, never disrupted. Her voice echoed through the hallways but almost in a sing-song manner and one bat of her little eyes and she’d gotten anything she ever wanted. This angered a certain group of girls, girls who called themselves bullying her because of her father’s drug addiction going public. They say every villain has their origin story, and this was Fawn VanCamp’s. These little girls who hated her weren’t just the average, run of the mill bullies. Not at all. They took a pair of scissors to Fawn’s once perfect hair when she was just eleven years old. Her reaction? She blacked out, she decided that from that point on, no one would ever cross her again.

High school would see a Fawn whose hair not only grew back, but she was sporting a face full of makeup and outfits that teetered the line of dress code. The things she would say would cut so incredibly deep that those around her wondered if she was battling some sort of disconnect where she had absolutely no feelings when she spoke. Did she not think about how the things she did and said would make those around her react? No, because she was going to come out on top. Always. Dance had always been apart of her life, but this was when she’d taken it incredibly seriously. She had a few dance schools in mind that she wanted to attend, but the only way to know she was truly successful was if she made it into Julliard on her own accord, without the influence of her father. The cheerleading team was really only to keep her in shape and remind everyone where she was on the totem pole. 

New York City. Those bright lights called her name and it was as if the Heavens came down and touched her the day she’d received that acceptance she had been waiting for. Just before her 18th birthday, she was all set to move to the Big Apple and follow her dreams. That summer was probably her wildest. Sleeping around, getting into fights, a last few reminders of why she was that girl.. and then she was gone. Off to meet with her equally as talented peers in dance, seeing what NYC had to offer her. Sadly, this was also the time that her father would overdose for the last time, never to come back from it again. This would send her into a spiral when she arrived in NYC. The spiral only had good outcomes, so she never truly learned from it.

NYC was a wild, wild time. Parties, drugs, more fights but this time on roof tops. She would enter her first serious relationship here, but they were terrible for one another. She was insecure, jealous, worried he would leave her for some botched Barbie and he was manipulative. He had a lot of money and influence, any club she had gotten into was because of him, 5-star hotels, vacations, you name it. She powered through that relationship for four long years, finally ending it after college was over so she could return back home. The small buzz she had for being Stefan VanCamp’s daughter put this relationship as the focal point, her mother hated every second of it. 

Quick Facts:

She is one of five Kennedy siblings (three older brothers and one older sister).

The Fallbrook Country Club has been run by the Kennedy Family since it’s founding.

Christina worked as the Operations Manager after college and made director in 2022.

She’s a very friendly person and sees no one has beneath her. She uses her wealth to help those around her as much as possible.

She quietly underwent surgery during a college summer break. She doesn’t feel the need to talk about it with those she isn’t in a relationship with, however.

Christina lost her fiancé to a motorcycle accident in 2019 not too long after the two of them arrived to Fallbrook. She was broken up about it for a long time, but has recently decided it was time to move on.

Though quite independent, she still does live in the Kennedy Mansion with her parents.

Fashion is something she genuinely loves, often wearing well put together outfits, especially when she’s working.

Her current interests include but are not limited to: hiking, kayaking, skiing, snowboarding, and learning recipes from the internet so she can become more independent.

Spoiled wouldn’t even begin to describe the upbringing by Christina Amber Kennedy had. She was the baby of a slew of Kennedy children and it was on her to right all the wrongs of her older siblings. Thankfully for her parents, this seemed to be the case as she showed signs of drive, passion and intelligence from a very young age. Early on, there were questions from teachers about things that made her look different. When the other boys in her kindergarten wanted to play sports, she was more focused on how she looked. She was never someone to be overly girly, but she had a natural femininity to her that wasn’t easy to explain for her parents at the time. Thankfully, they were both from rather large cities, being from San Francisco and New York City respectively. Her father, Archie was a tech guy from Silicon Valley and he co-founded a Cyber Security startup with one of his best friends and he met Kristine during their master’s program in Los Angeles. Archie’s father moved from his small town of Fallbrook for college himself and settled in San Francisco where he founded an Investment Management firm, Kennedy Private Wealth Management.

With the blessing of Kristine’s family, they relocated to Fallbrook when they decided to start a family and got to work almost immediately. They had three sons and a daughter before Christina came along. When Christina, originally named Christian came to them with her idea of being Christina, she was just six years old and thankfully, they were both incredibly open and supportive of her. Of course, they took the necessary steps, having had friends who were trans, they wanted to make sure she was well taken care of. Countless therapy sessions later, she finally started hormone therapy  when she was in her pre-teens and she was even more comfortable in her skin. Truth be told, while she did experience dysphoria, she was never completely upset with her body or who she was. She took it one day at a time.

Her parents wanted her to do whatever made her happy and during her formative years, it was a mixture of playing volleyball and participating in pageants. Sometimes she would have to deal with the discriminatory comments from people who felt she shouldn’t be included in female pageantry, but she overcame these obstacles and would finish in the top 3-5 consistently. This would spill into adulthood as she was Miss North Carolina in 2020 but would ultimately be eliminated during the Miss USA competition. But rewinding to just before this, she had a very successful high school career due to her intense studies. Having taken mostly AP classes, it was a long, hard road to the discovery of her getting into Harvard. Surprisingly, not her first choice and after a third rejection, she was fed up and wanted nothing to do with the letters until that acceptance from Harvard came through.

Studying Business Management with the goal of taking over her father’s business eventually. That business being the Fallbrook Country Club, a staple that had been in the Kennedy family since the founding of the Country Club. Though his own father, Christina’s grandfather hadn’t taken on the business, one of his uncles dad, and he would then pass it on to Archie and his family. That was where Christina and her siblings came in. The oldest brother was focused more on eventually becoming the new CEO, while another sibling was focused on Marketing, and Christina focusing on Operations. The other siblings are involved to some facet, but not as heavily as the three mentioned.

Right out of college, she started working as an Operations Manager for Fallbrook Country Club, where she helped reform company culture, raised wages and implemented employee initiatives such as meal credits for office-side employees and provided meals once a week for other employees.  The man she had met in college was someone she dated up until the day he passed away due to a fatal motorcycle accident. She was incredibly broken by this and decided to focus more on her work during this time. The two had just gotten engaged and she pulled him away from his family in Boston, she felt absolutely terrible. His family didn’t blame her though and they would remain close even after his passing.

After four years of focusing so deeply on work, she was promoted in early 2022 to Director of Operations, where she would oversee the entire business from an Operations standpoint. Romance was kind of put on the backburner, she wasn’t sure when it was appropriate to get back into the dating world, so she continued to focus on work for as long as she could.

BACKGROUND

BIRTH PLACE: Fallbrook, North Carolina

HOMETOWN: Fallbrook, North Carolina

SOCIAL CLASS: Upper Middle Class

EDUCATION LEVEL: Bachelor’s in English

FATHER: Sherif Zuhair 

MOTHER: Emon Zuhair 

SIBLING(S): None

BIRTH ORDER: Eldest

CHILDREN: None

PET(S): None

CURRENT RELATIONSHIP:  Single

PREVIOUS RELATIONSHIPS: Isla Ricci ; college girlfriend 

OCCUPATION & INCOME

PRIMARY SOURCE OF INCOME: Publisher at Williamsburg Publisher 

CONTENT WITH THEIR JOB (OR LACK THERE OF)?: Yes

SPENDING HABITS: His spending habits are rather conservative 

SKILLS & ABILITIES

PHYSICAL STRENGTH: Above Average

INTELLIGENCE: Average

AGILITY: Above Average

STAMINA: Above Average

TEAMWORK: Could be better.

LANGUAGE(S) SPOKEN: English, some Arabic 

DRIVE?: Yes

JUMP-STAR A CAR?: No

CHANGE A FLAT TIRE?: No

RIDE A BICYCLE?: Yes

SWIM?: Yes

PLAY AN INSTRUMENT?: No

PLAY CHESS?: Yes

BRAID HAIR?: No

TIE A TIE?: Yes

PICK A LOCK?: No

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE & CHARACTERISTICS

FACE CLAIM: Zeeko Zaki 

EYE COLOR: Brown

HAIR COLOR: Brown

HAIR TYPE/STYLE: Shortened hair, sports facial hair always in a clean cut

GLASSES/CONTACTS?: Glasses, though never around people

DOMINANT HAND: Right

HEIGHT: 6′5″

WEIGHT: 240 pounds

BUILD: Muscular

EXERCISE HABITS: Spends regular hours at the gym at least 5 days a week

TATTOOS: None

PEIRCINGS: None

MARKS/SCARS: None

PSYCHOLOGY

TEMPERAMENT: Choleric 

PHOBIA(S): Fear of imperfection 

DRUG USE: None

ALCOHOL USE: Social drinker

PRONE TO VIOLENCE?: When necessary 

MANNERISMS

HOBBIES: working out, reading, writing, archery

NERVOUS TICKS: avoidance of eye contact

DRIVES/MOTIVATIONS: being better for himself

FEARS: not being good enough

POSITIVE TRAITS: ambitious, 

NEGATIVE TRAITS: short-tempered, reserved, cynical

DO THEY CURSE OFTEN?: regularly

FAVORITES

ACTIVITY: Reading 

ANIMAL: Dogs

BEVERAGE: Whiskey

COLOR: Orange 

FOOD: Steak

FLOWER: N/A

HOLIDAY: Christmas

SCENERY: Mountain Tops

SPORT: Hockey

WEATHER: Partly cloudy and rainy 

CONDENSED BIO

tw: n/a

Born and raised in Fallbrook, North Carolina though his parent’s only moved to Fallbrook a few short years before his birth. His father was an archaeology professor at the university and his mother pursued being a florist after their move to Fallbrook. 

Darius did not grow up to be the best looking of kids. He was reclusive with his readings, preferring the fantasy world to the world. He never had any outright bullies but he knew people didn’t want to talk to him. It wasn’t to say that he wasn’t without friends, though, managing to have a few friends he trusted. 

Avoiding any team sports, Darius took up martial arts when he was a kid and stuck with it until he got to high school. In high school, he didn’t do much of anything. He was a bit of a teacher’s pet all through his school years and always had his nose stuck in a book. 

Darius always wanted to leave Fallbrook, even if he wasn’t super vocal about that. People close to him knew that he didn’t want to stick around and was often someone that would encourage people to leave if they were also considering it. He thought leaving would change him and prove him to be more accepted by others 

When he left for college, he didn’t look back as he headed to the big city. It was rough for him at first. He was constantly lost, locked out of his apartment or brushed aside like he didn’t matter. Instead of quitting, he kept going. He got into going to the gym after he got locked out of his apartment for the hundredth time without a book. It kind of stuck with him, making him like himself the more he saw progress. It wasn’t easy but it was the first time in his life that he looked in the mirror and liked what he saw - at least after a year of consistently going to the gym 

Books never left his life and he went to college to get a degree in English. He started off as an assistant to a publisher, in which he went on to have an affair with but no one knew about that, not ever. It’s something that he couldn’t reveal to anyone because he was ashamed. 

In college, Darius had his first relationship. Oddly enough, it ended up with a woman from Fallbrook. Isla Ricci came into his life and 

By the time he graduated college, Darius was promoted to junior publisher though he had long left the office that he was working at where he had an affair. 

When he was twenty-five, he returned to Fallbrook a new person almost entirely. Darius was only recognizable by those that knew him since he left. And it was his mother’s urgings that he come back home and get a job. As the only son, he obliged, not wanting to see his mother be upset another day. He lived with them for some time, just in case he didn’t end up sticking around.

After about six months, Darius moved into an apartment downtown and lived there for over a year until he was promoted to Publisher and he took his bonus earnings and purchased his home in Rosewood Hills. He is a reserved type of man, though friendly with those that he interacts with. He initially had a hard time when his neighbors welcomed him to the neighborhood but now he feels grateful for them and their companionship. 

Darius is the type of guy that gives women the impression he will take them home at the end of the night but few make it that far. More often than not, Darius politely excuses himself and heads home alone. 

His home in Rosewood Hills has a private and personal library in his basement and fewer people have ever been allowed in there. It is his nearest and dearest collection of books. 

He also spends countless hours at the gym, conversing with few unless he has grown close with them over the last five years since his return. In his other spare time, he hunts down classic books to collect and often restoring books that are not in the best of conditions. 

Diana was born to a very Christian family right in the Bible Belt city of Fallbrook, North Carolina. Her mother was a kind woman who worked as a professor at Cooper University and her father, while he was strict, was a very caring man and he worked as a lawyer for most of his daughter’s life. She was an inquisitive child, everything she witnessed, she always asked ‘why?’. From a very young age, she knew she would want to be an ally for all those who were treated differently for one reason or another. Her uncle Stan was a gay man, as well as mixed race and he faced a lot of criticism. ‘Why’ came to mind a lot when she saw how people treated him, because to her he was a normal person. So what if he kissed other men? It confused her to see all of the nasty words hurled his way. She was sitting with him in church the day he took his life, everything seemed fine. Later that day, she found her uncle passed out with a bottle of pills next to him and she was so innocent, she simply told her parents he was sleeping and wouldn’t wake up. It wouldn’t be until she was old enough to understand that she found out what happened to him.

Most people would think this would turn her into an angry young girl, but she was actually kind to everyone around her. Even those she knew treated her uncle terribly, she killed them with kindness. There was a particular woman she had it out for, but she had to uphold her sweet girl image in the meantime. Her plan was long term though, she didn’t want to react right away. It started by dating this woman’s son in high school. Was it terrible? Of course. They were seen as high school sweethearts to the world, so in love, so young, and so into one another. The truth was, she had always planned to hurt him, but the longer she was with him, the more she was actually starting to fall in love with the boy. But when the root of her interest in him was based on revenge, of course it was hard for her to make any real romantic connection with him. That didn’t stop her from having a child with him when she was going into college.

All along, the true love of her life was there and she didn’t know what to think about herself. She was seen as sugar sweet to the world, but this long term plan she had made her kind of evil, no? Not to mention, she cheated on her than boyfriend multiple times with someone who was supposed to be her friend’s boyfriend. It wasn’t her proudest moment, but when things came to a head, her friendship was ruined. She remained in a relationship with the father of her child, but things were getting rocky. After college, she started working at the high school and lo and behold, she was working with the man she had fallen for in college. The relationship they once ended would return to normal behind closed doors and eventually she’d fall pregnant by him, but she allowed her fiancé to believe the child was his. Of course, as an adult, she felt terrible about what she was doing, all to get revenge on a woman who maybe contributed in some facet to her cousin’s suicide. He had nothing to do with the things his mother said or did, but she had nothing but vengeance in her heart when she was younger.

After twelve years of teaching English, she was promoted to Principal of the high school. She had built such a close bond with her students that the current class at the time as well as alumni came together and petitioned for her to be the new principal. This was probably the happiest moment in her life, second only to the births of her children. Of course, when her boss offered her the position, she happily accepted and was happy to be even more involved in the lives of her students. Her wedding was soon after, but instead of going through with it, she left him at the altar completely alone. Everyone wondered what was going on, but she couldn’t go through with the marriage knowing full well she didn’t love him. Was this the revenge she had been yearning for? Because if she was being honest, it didn’t feel good. And it would take years for her ex to even utter a word to her again, understandably so.

For Aniyah, her family came together as somewhat of a Brady Bunch. Her father had two daughters already and her mother had three sons with her ex husband and high school sweetheart. By the time they met one another and decided to start a family, Phuc was 25 and Viola was 29. Divorce was incredibly unheard of in both of their families, let alone the children that Phuc had out of wedlock. They found solace in one another though, looking forward to building their families. Viola had a hair salon, specializing in styles and haircare for women of color and Phuc was flourishing in his career as a police officer. For the most part, they seemed to have a happy, healthy family life. But things wouldn’t always be easy for them, especially raising a child like Aniyah. She seemed like the perfect child for the first few years, but it quickly became evident that she was going to be a headache the older she got. The change happened around the time she was eleven and they decided to move to her mother’s hometown of Fallbrook from Atlanta. The change was maybe too drastic for her, either way, she hated it.

Teen years were where her parents began having regrets about even having another child together. She was thirteen, getting into fights at school and finding herself in trouble all the time. She had zero reason to, but she was stealing, getting into messes with the law and overall causing headaches for the family. It was when she was only sixteen that she tried to hide three positive pregnancy tests from her parents and they told her to leave their home. At that point, they had absolutely had enough of her shenanigans at that point. It hurt her, but she was going to have her baby. She dropped out of school, moved in with one of her closest friends and their family and quietly gave birth to her baby. Most of her classmates had no idea because she kept to herself after dropping out of school. Knowing she wasn’t ready to be a mother though, she put her baby up for adoption. This was an extremely tough decision at the start, but she and the father weren’t even on speaking terms and all she wanted was for her new baby girl to have a normal upbringing.

After giving birth, she worked a few odd jobs to make ends meet and pull her weight at her friends’ house, but she didn’t feel fulfilled, nor happy. She would go back to get her GED so that she could apply for community college at the least once she was of age to do so. Life was tough on her and her parents had cut her out in such a cold manner, she was really starting to see that maybe she was the problem after all. However, that didn’t push her to make any change in her behavior, instead she wanted to stand proudly in who she was. At the age of eighteen, she figured she would put herself through college and started stripping at the Pink Pussycat. At this point, she was already someone who was confident in her looks so it wasn’t difficult for her to be comfortable with the work she was doing. Garnering the attention of men for money came so easily to her, she was almost shocked by how well she was able to do it. Her life would be forever changed.

Many would think that after getting an Associates in Liberal Arts, she would possibly do something new with her life. But no, she was entirely too pleased with the life she was leading to make changes anytime soon. At this point, she was a proud sugar baby, sporting her extremely lavish lifestyle on social media and hiding nothing about it. Her power came in telling men what she wanted and suddenly, the money for it would be in her account the next day. Despite her lack of change, she finally reconnected with her mother and siblings in her twenties. It wasn’t the most beautiful reunion, especially when her mother saw how she was dressing and acting, but she didn’t truly care what her mother thought. She gave those rights up when she was sixteen.

Her biggest flex was purchasing a home in Rosewood Hills just down the street from her parents. She couldn’t wait to show it off to her family, and they praised her of course, but they knew that she made this money in ways they didn’t necessarily approve of. She didn’t care for their judgement though. Despite all of this, her relationship with her siblings improved in ways she didn’t realize she needed until it happened. They would move mountains to see her happy and even if stripping wouldn’t be the first idea of the job they wanted their baby sister to have, they just wanted to see her happy.