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* ◞ 𝐁𝐈𝐎𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐏𝐇𝐘 .
gentry barton’s conception had been a 𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝒉𝒂𝒛𝒆 of judgement clouded by lust mistaken for love , and a bottle of dom perignon emptied between two strangers staring up at starlit , rose tinged skies . with all that misplaced romance surrounding her impending birth it made perfect sense that the consequence of their arduous affair would follow in suit : all too in love with making it to the end that punctuated the final pages of her beloved fairytales , attaining that everlasting sense of belonging to someone , and they to you . and so their story goes , hedge fund trader , well - off and in love with all things platinum , and plastic , and overpriced , falls hard for flighty , fanatical , and french model . and in return , she takes his hand and falls head - first down the heart - shaped rabbit hole alongside him . it truly was a whirlwind romance meant for the silver screen , at least until the illusion was shattered by a few bouts of morning sickness and eight positive pregnancy tests — the actuality of beginning a life together akin to the dampness of tear - stained fingertips extinguishing a flame that once burned bright .
and so their story ends … again . after the happily ever after — after her mother had booked herself a oneway ticket to georgia , and they’d married alongside thousands of hydrangeas , hundreds of father’s uppity acquaintances , and a harpist , after they’d had her brother , and she’d so foolishly found herself believing they were the perfect family — when the workaholic and the wild thing realize their unexpected union is only possible on the silver screen , and that untamable , unknowable heart leaves all her belongings and memories behind to slink through the corridors and out the door , like a black cat in the night . she’d left no note , only her wedding ring on the kitchen countertop , sparkling amidst all the fruit left out to rot as all unwanted things eventually do .
it was then that gentry had convinced herself the one thing worse than a childhood that had been spoiled from the start , was a charmed childhood spoiling with years passed — or maybe it was just the shock of the realization that she’d been sipping on all that curdled milk and fooling herself into believing it wasn’t , that perhaps she’d made her entire adolescence up inside her head . all those prettily spun stories of stolen champagne shared between friends in the overgrown and ivy riddled rosarium out back , grand , formal dinners a prelude to strawberry ice cream and hot fudge in the center of her parents king - sized bed , curled up like a pleased cat , while something timeless played in the background , jane austen read aloud in flowery and flowing voices as she laid her head in her mother’s lap until the words slurred and her eyes began to droop , they had to have been embellished in some way — expertly recounted without the dark slash of unhappiness running right through the middle , as all girls cut from pink tulle and embellished in heirloom pearls do .
ignorance , it really had been bliss , hadn’t it ? all fourteen years of it .
if her life had been the film she thought it to be , the montage of blurred features and intermingling phrases from wanna - be step mommies aplenty would’ve commenced . she remembers nothing more than the evenings spent slayed out of her own king - sized bed with her romantic comedies to drown out the noise , another girl’s ( they were barely twenty , barely women ) shrill voice vocalizing something along the lines of “ just call me … ” , but she wouldn’t bother to remember — she’d be gone in the next month , or three if she really loved the money , anyway , and the next pair of stilettoed feet would step into their threshold soon after . just like clockwork . and as the relationships began to dwindle one by one into slamming doors rattling all those ridiculously expensive abstract paintings right off the walls and biting insults hurled alongside red wine glasses in every which direction … gentry would simply smile that practiced , perfected barbie - doll beam , turn the television playing romance on repeat up several notches , and pretend to ignore the flash of discomfort , or rather pity , that distorted her company’s features . love , no , lust gone terribly awry stifled by the picturesque . perhaps that’s where it had come from , her skewed love for skewed love … her optimism and the thick , sweet sap and honey of her manufactured warmth might have seemed so out of place when she had been reared in an environment so frosty it should’ve left a block of ice in place of her heart — but many failed to notice that like the actresses , gentry had always been putting on a show … only ever coming alive in front of an audience . loud pleas for attention steeped in misguided perception of affection .
she was sixteen when she first realized that temporary adoration could , in fact , be bartered — her body , in exchange for their desire ( she thought it close enough to love in her depravation , her desperation ) . afternoons were spent in front of the floor length mirror , back arched , face twisted into all the prettiest expressions she could imitate from the videos she watched , convinced that if she could achieve the perfection they wanted behind closed doors , they’d love her just as much in the light of day — a want to be needed so great , it occupied everything . she attended her classes less so to learn , more for all the eyes she’d be able to feel as she brushed that hideous private school plaid too high up her thigh , kissed everyone who payed her any mind hot on the mouth in the back aisles of the library , until it seemed as if everyone were passing her around with a note attached : down for anything . and it would’ve been entirely true , because as long as you could pretend to adore her , she’d do anything you asked , no matter who she hurt in the process — be it herself , or her best friend , as she slipped into the bathroom with her boyfriend at their debutante ball and left a mess ( all ripped tulle and embroidery , “ love ” bites marring the skin of her neck that hadn’t boasted mother’s forgotten diamonds , glitter and mascara leaking champagne tears down the raw swell of her cheeks ) . right , wrong , it had all been forgone in attempt to chase that terribly capricious , terribly violent thing she thought to be love , after all , you couldn’t reach the rose without snagging your flesh on a few thorns first ( she repeated this mantra often , in attempt to atone for , to justify her laundry list of wrongdoings ) .
and despite whore , slut , bitch , being used more often than her first name for the remainder of high school , she hadn’t quite learned her lesson : that some hearts were not meant for her to chase . so while daddy dearest continued to pocket money and cycle through women aplenty , she pocketed sweet nothings whispered against the curve of her ear as she was cycled through . it had all begun in spite of his actions , her mother’s perhaps , but really , she hadn’t spited anyone but herself , doling out her frangible heart to anyone with hands because they had hands , trying to press soft kisses against the cheeks of bodies that only ever wanted to see her shoved up against the wall . she loved them mad , bad , and dangerous to know like lord byron , beautiful and damned , needed their affection like she needed air — perhaps she just loved the pain they doled out , loved the feeling of feeling something again after so long even if it was ache .
but like most entitled , unsupervised daughters , gentry had never been chastised for her sin steeped in pink and trimmed in gold , ribboned in the faint traces of unreprimanded guilt . and so like most daughters who hadn’t ever been punished in any way other than a slap on the wrist , she continued to do as she had done — chasing after a love that left her feeling taken care of , that left her feeling needed like she needed . it had led her right into the arms of a man five years her father’s lesser , sporting a wedding band that hadn’t belonged to her , and children that she’d been a few years closer in age to than she was to him . a three year long nanny job to pass all her idle time , a two year long affair that had come of it , and love letters and diamonds aplenty that she fooled herself into believing meant he wanted to spend the rest of his days with her in lieu of his wife . an assumption she was more than willing to try and assist with , leaving traces of herself everywhere , until it all came crashing down around her . the whore , the home wrecker once again . wherever she went , a trail of hide your husbands followed , but none of the criticism had been spilled from the lips of her father — barely even a blip on his radar .
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* ◞ 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐀𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐒 .
𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 : gentry thylane barton . 𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒(𝑠) : goes predominantly by gen , genny on occasion , and gigi begrudgingly in the presence of old family friends and relatives . 𝑎𝑔𝑒 : twenty - three . 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑏𝑖𝑟𝑡ℎ : tbd . 𝑏𝑖𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑡 : libra sun , libra moon , cancer rising . ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑛 : roswell , georgia . 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 : cis woman . 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑠 : she & her . 𝑠𝑒𝑥𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 : bisexual .
* ◞ 𝐏𝐇𝐘𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 .
𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑚 : janae roberts . ℎ𝑎𝑖𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑟 : blonde . 𝑒𝑦𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑟 : green . ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 : 5 ft 7 ' . 𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑠 : a stick and poke heart above her right collar bone , a winking and now faded smiley face above her left elbow , but out of all the girlish and now a bit unfortunate markings , the most unfortunate had to have been a three week long ex’s signature in grandiose cursive above her hip bone . though the fact that she had amassed a collection of thirteen tiny tattoos without ever stepping foot into a tattoo shop could be considered fairly impressive , comical would be a better word , tragic even , considering at least four of them were someone else's faint and fading initials and another three were shaky and smiling faces scattered at random across her skin . the only two with any meaning outside of fleeting infatuation or drunken shenanigans is the 444 on the back of her neck or the divine feminine tattooed in red beneath her left breast . 𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 : three in tight succession on each earlobe . her tolerance for pain is low , and while aesthetically she loved cartilage piercings , they're not quite cute enough to persevere . 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑡𝑦𝑙𝑒 : think , carrie bradshaw . . . or jenna rink with an edge . her sense of style is what most would consider funky eclectic , and rarely ventures outside the realm of 50 shades of pink and bold pieces no matter the occasion .
* ◞ 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐋𝐔𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒 .
𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑛 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 ( 𝟻𝟶𝟶 ) 𝑑𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟 : a self - proclaimed hopeless romantic who , not unlike summer , has an aversion to love . born the product of an already disintegrating relationship , gentry was granted an innate understanding of the ache that followed in the wake of " love " lost , recognized quickly just how messy relationships could be somewhere in between her father's first and sixth failed fling . but she had been weaned on the hollywood ending , loved love almost as much as she loathed it . . . she knew better than anyone that the end to all her favorite romances could very well become a tragedy — if it happened to her mother and father , who's to say anna scott and william thacker were still living out their happily ever after in notting hill — but that didn't stop her from following in her father’s own love sick ( or was it lust drunk ) footsteps , always falling so quickly , so deeply into an intense like that the lack of love pained her . there has always been a certain disconnect , a complete lack of sureness in relationships ( platonic , romantic , and everything in between ) she feared might never be remedied .
𝑡𝑜𝑚 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑛 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 ( 𝟻𝟶𝟶 ) 𝑑𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟 : gentry doesn't see the best in people nor the worst , instead she aged unfortunately into the same curse that troubled tom — the tendency to see everything as she wanted it to appear . . . she had always been well versed in the art of playing at pretend , her father was more than a few quick texts every other week , her mother more than a memory told from someone else's jaded perspective , and every single person she shared a commonality with , no matter how insubstantial , could very easily be the love of her life . being so out of touch with reality , a side effect of films stepping in in place of a parent , had kept her childish and chasing after all the pretty things that made her feel something akin to what she felt watching one of her romances . but aside from bringing new meaning to the term hopeless romantic , the comparisons between gentry and tom don't stop there . she , like tom , is quick to settle for things that don't necessarily please her ( a friendship , a relationship , her career ) so long as it suited her childish notions of an easy life and an easy love . she , like tom , often reduces people to a few personality traits or hobbies that perfectly align with her own . and she , like tom , handles rejection very poorly .
𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑦𝑛 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑏𝑜𝑗𝑎𝑐𝑘 ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑛 : tbd .
* ◞ 𝐀𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐒 .
from filling a diary chock - full of cotton candy fluff — all those pretty , pink glitter gel penned sweet nothings you yearned to hear from a revolving door of fleeting flames and fascinations — to crossing through them over and over again until the page began to tear the following week . donning thin , rose hued sunglasses and head scarves to ride passenger seat in your vintage convertible : the perfect pink accessory that would have been made even more perfect should you ever learn to drive it . grandmother’s timeless heirloom pearls come unstrung , undone , bouncing and bobbling across grand harlequin tile floors , traded in for a pearl ball gag nestled pretty between the swollen pink - red of your lips . blowing out all twenty - three ( at least the housekeeper in charge of preparations had remembered how old you were turning ) of your candles at an elaborate party for a crowd that would barely remember your first name come sunrise , and wishing for it to not be so on each one . a distinct brand of jaded birthed from your skewed love for skewed love . your at home remedy for everything from heartbreak to the flu an hour long bubble bath , a popped and fizzling bottle of veuve clicquot all to yourself , and a good night's rest in nothing but a matching pink lingerie set . plucking the petals of a rose in a game of i love them , i love them not and convincing yourself it's fated or doomed in conclusion . boasting valentine's day as your absolute favorite holiday . a pale pink birkin bag filled with jasmine and tuberose scented hand creams , a few too many hidden nerf bullets , and a worse for wear and glitter smeared copy of romeo and juliet . a perpetually unmade bed . and using xxx and pink heart emojis in lieu of actual punctuation .
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