SUMMER JUNIPER EVANS
AGE: 32
BIRTHDAY: August 9th, 1992
RELATION: Full sibling
TYPE: Solo
GENDER: Cisfemale
PRONOUNS: she/her
ORIENTATION(S): Bisexual
FACE CLAIM: Emily VanCamp
JOB/SCHOOL
GRADE: First Year Masters
MAJOR: Nursing
JOB: Nurse at PSU
ABOUT
(tw: physical assault) For as long as Summer Evans could remember, she wanted to be a doctor. She was obsessed with helping people, would often force her siblings to play doctor with her as she wrapped them in bandages and stuck bandaids on every surface of skin she could, was the one always taking care of people when they were sick or hurt. That was who she was, Summer loved caring for the people around her, loved to be the one that people could turn to no matter what problem they had, she liked to feel useful to her people.
She knew she was the apple of her fatherâs eye, and while she loved both her parentâs equally, Summer was a daddyâs girl at heart. She would sit and watch him play the guitar, listen to him sing, in awe of his voice and his talent and over the moon when he agreed to teach her how to play guitar herself. Summerâs aspirations lay outside the world of fame and fortune but that didnât mean she didnât enjoy music as a hobby, and while her dad was a country star, her heart lay in classic rock.
That was why she started a band in high school, just something to do that kept her connected to her fatherâs great love and talents while maintaining her perfect GPA and pursuing her own dreams of medical brilliance. All she ever wanted was to be someone her parents could be proud of, to show them that all the hard work they put into raising her was worth it, so when at sixteen she found herself pregnant after losing her virginity to her bandmate and high school boyfriend, Summer was terrified. Every dream sheâd ever had was suddenly in jeopardy, all the grades that sheâd worked so hard for were suddenly slipping, and she was completely lost, no idea what to do or what her options were, no idea if she even wanted to keep it.
But thankfully her family rallied around her as they always did, helped her figure everything out, helped her figure out what she wanted to do, and while Summer knew it would be hard, that there was a good chance that her plans for the future would have to be changed, she also knew that she wanted her daughter, even if her now ex-boyfriend didnât. Born almost a month premature, Sawyer Evans quickly became the apple of her motherâs eye, and while those initial months in the NICU were incredibly stressful, Summer took to being a mom like a fish to water. Being the teen mom in high school didnât exactly make her life easy, but even though she graduated a year later than intended, Summer still managed to maintain a high GPA.
Med school was off the table, at least for now, not because Summer didnât still want to be a doctor or because she thought she wouldnât be good at, wouldnât be able to keep up, it was because Sawyer came first and medical school plus her residency would take up her daughterâs entire childhood and that was the last thing she wanted. Her parents offered to babysit, to help raise and take care of Sawyer while she went to school like sheâd always planned, her siblings too, but Summer had affectionately turned them down. She loved them for offering, but this was something that she wanted to do for her daughter so that meant putting her own wants on the shelf for a little while.
She remained in Tennessee once she graduated from high school and spent the next year spending as much time as possible with Sawyer before she started kindergarten, but once she did Summer was restless at home. She still wanted to help people, still wanted to take care of people, and after doing some research found that she could do nursing school part time at night and finish it in half the time it would take to become a doctor, so that was what she did.
Summer had the perfect life over the next few years, raising her beautiful spitfire of a daughter, becoming an RN, balancing her work schedule with Sawyerâs extracurriculars like dance and piano, creating the best and most perfect life for her daughter that she could manage. It was all going wonderfully until her parents suddenly split up. It rocked Summerâs world, seeing them suddenly apart after all this time, rocked her more when her father suddenly was dating a girl younger than any of her siblings, closer to his granddaughters age than to his own. Her perception of her father shifted dramatically in the months following the split, watching the way he dragged her mom over the coals with his lawyers and in the press. This wasnât the man that she had adored her whole life, this was a stranger and Summer didnât want someone like that around her daughter quite frankly.
Her parentâs split wasnât the only thing that was starting to cause ripples in her life; Sawyer was having problems at school thanks to their family being splashed over the tabloids and it was causing her to become sullen, withdraw, causing her to act out and her grades to slip. It worried Summer because while her daughter was a tour de force she was never a bad kid, but right now she was getting into fights and getting suspended and skipping classes. Something had to be done before Sawyer made a mistake that ended up changing her whole life for the worse, but it didnât help that she was also now a teenager and didnât want to listen to any of the advice her âlame ass momâ had to give.
The push to move to LA ended up being nothing to do with either her parentâs divorce or her daughterâs problems at school though, it was because of an incident at work. It was no secret that doctors didnât think that nurses knew half as much as they did, so when the attending on call had dismissed her concerns over the patient that had been brought into the ER that afternoon and the need for a psych consult it was nothing new to Summer. She paged Psych anyway and while she was waiting went about her job as normal, but what she hadnât expected was him to lash out at her while she was doing so.
Thankfully, the commotion was heard by her colleagues and they were quick to her aid, but not before the patient had broken a couple of her ribs and her cheekbone, giving her a black eye and a split lip to boot. It had been a close call, way too close honestly, sheer luck that her colleagues had been able to get to her so fast honestly, and it terrified Summer to the core. For a couple of weeks, Summer sent Sawyer to stay with her mom, just until the bruises healed enough so that her daughter wouldnât worry and she could move without wincing so heavily, and in that time she started to make plans. Doctors rarely listened to nurses but they listened to Nurse Practitioners more than RNs, and a fresh start would be the best thing for both her and Sawyer, and with the school year at an end, now was the best time to transfer her to a new school.
Sawyer wasnât happy about the move and they had a huge argument over it, but eventually Summer convinced her that it would be the best thing for her, for both of them. She enrolled at PSU for nursing masters, took a job as the on-campus nurse to keep her skills sharp, and made sure that Sawyerâs new school was the best fit for her. It was, Sawyerâs new group of friends a far better influence for her than her old ones, her grades back on track and her daughter out of trouble for the foreseeable. Summer felt terrible about leaving her mom by herself in Tennessee, especially at the news that her father was marrying the barely legal woman he had hooked up with, but she had insisted she would be fine, that she was a big girl.
That, added to the fact that all her siblings were now living in LA too, meant that this was the best decision Summer had made in a long time. Her biggest concern now was ensuring that Sawyer and her new boyfriend didnât end up going down the same path she had, for no other reason than she wanted her daughter to be able to follow all her dreams without restraint; that was the only thing she had ever wanted for her.
