Post by harper aldridge. on Aug 20, 2009 19:04:22 GMT -5
HARPER NATHALIE ALDRIDGE
seventeen , high school , eccentric
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yo, yo, yo! the name is bree and i'm living life as a female. i haven't really been on this planet for far too long since i'm only a million. for fiveish years of that time i've spent it doing this. i've totally read the rules, too. or else i wouldn't know that keep spinning circles
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[/size]HELLO! LET'S START OUT WITH SOMETHING EASY. WHAT WAS THE NAME GIVEN TO YOUR PRETTY FACE?
So my name is Harper Nathalie Aldridge. So my parents never really told me the whole story behind my name, I just put bits and pieces together. I was named after my mother’s twin who died when they were just little girls. Her name was Harper and I guess I look just like her and my mother just thought it was right to name me after her, I’m not totally sure how I feel about being named after my dead aunt but I like my name. My middle name, my father chose. He chose the name Nathalie because it’s my grandmother’s name. It was a tradition in the family to have their parents a middle name in their child name, so since I was a girl I got my grandmothers name as my middle name. And of course my last name is my father’s last name, simple as that.
WHEN AND WHERE WERE YOU BORN? DO YOU HAPPEN TO KNOW ANYTHING INTERESTING ABOUT IT?
[/size][/right]So I was born in Australia seventeen long years ago. The date was February fourteenth. My mother was at her baby shower when she went into labor. I came a little earlier than expected but after twelve hours of labor she had me. So as of last February I turned seventeen years old. Which meant my eighteenth is coming up in just a few months. So that sort of makes me feel a little old but not that old. i guess i really just don't want to grow up, which is sort of why i hate my birthday.
YOU KNOW I HAVE TO ASK THIS.. WHICH WAY DO YOU SWING? MEN, WOMEN?... MAYBE BOTH?
[/size][/right]So I’m totally straight, I don’t think it’s wrong just wrong for me. That pretty much it, straight forward I don’t get romantically involved with the same sex.
MOVING ON TO SOMETHING MORE COMFORTABLE.. WHAT WOULD I HAVE TO DO TO SEE YOU SMILE?
[/size][/right]Bright colors, reading, facts, baking, cooking, writing, piano, listening to music, animals, traveling, meeting people, sarcastic remarks, in dependency, bubbles, candy, locks, hats, fall, Halloween, little kids, fans, candles, cars, tea, pillows, apples, kittens, big words, haunted houses, notes, different languages, plushies, sewing, coloring, buttons, strawberries, night time, moonlight, dancing, elevators, fresh cookies, clothes, boys, girls, hugs, black and white films, popcorn, the computer, driving, decorating, ornaments, fashion shows, modeling, bows, wood, engravings, make up, doing her hair, cold showers, long sleeve shirts, stripes, polka dots, cleaning, ties, leather, water, swimming, running, sky diving, calendars, cartoons, knitting, talking on the phone, long distant relationships, earrings, coffee, dressing up, chalk, different religions, experimenting, television, freckles, sleeping, loud noises, video games, competitions, frames, wreathes, special occasions, looking young, heat, key chains, toothpaste, lip chap, scarecrows, batman, babysitting, rainbows, funny faces, clowns, records, dresses.
NOW, WHAT EXACTLY WOULD I HAVE TO DO TO GET YOU PISSED AND UPSET? NOT THAT I PLAN ON IT.
[/size][/right]meat!, hate letters, jealousy, doing something wrong, vomit, weird smells, new food, pop, sun, green, patterns, kettles, cell phones, being normal, big noses, being teased, arguments, harsh words, swearing, chips, tight spaces, not understanding, regrets, wrong doing, weights, peanut butter, sandwiches, bright lights, sun glasses, diamonds, suit cases, not being able to get close to people, having trust issues, things not working, speaking, babbling, tight spaces, fortune tellers, malls, lip stick, depression, being independent, loosing others, death, crying, depression, dentists, peer pressure, nightmares, coughing, getting sick, short hair, bathing suits, hot tubs, heights, trains, fire, pennies, downgrading, rip offs, funerals, churches, hospitals, pain, pumpkins, easter, pasta, dares, sleep overs, taking pictures, snow, boots, being over heated, facebook, strings, dvds, cds, forgetting things, chairs, sleeping bags, tents, camping, bugs, snakes, feeling ugly, tight clothing, magazines, half moons, flowers, chicken, farms, ghosts, being scared, Indian food..
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO WITH YOURSELF? YOU KNOW, THOSE THINGS CALLED 'GOALS'?
[/size][/right]So as for long term and short term goals go I really don’t have many, I mean sure I want to finish high school but I’ve sort of learned to live for the moment. I mean if something came up to help me get into the music industry before I finished high school I’d take it. Then again I may never get into the music industry, so that goal would change to. I guess losing both of my parents made me realize that you need to live for the moment because you could be dead anytime. So I try to do just that and not focus on goals or what I want my life to be.
HOW IS YOUR LOVE-LIFE RUNNING? I'M ALWAYS DOWN FOR SPICING IT UP....
[/size][/right]o basically I don’t believe in love, I mean as much as I want to believe there’s someone out there for everyone and love is this magical thing that’s a fairytale and not reality. I don’t believe in love at all, I believe that there are people who really like each other and think lust is love and marry but love is just nonexistent. Of course I didn’t really have the best role model for love but I guess I want to be proven wrong, I want to find real love but I just don’t think it’s out there. So as far as relationships go I’m sort of the fwb’s, flings, one night stands that kind of person. I’ve had boyfriends before, people I’ve dated for short periods of time and for longer periods of time but I’m still not really the commitment type of person. I like being single and not being with the same guy every night. I’m not the type of clingy girl or the girl who needs a guy in her life, which has helped me out a lot.
NOW TELL ME ABOUT THAT FAMILY OF YOURS. HOW WELL DO THINGS RUN THERE? IS IT JUICY?
[/size][/right]I don’t really have a big family, at least for a long while I only thought it was me and my mother, but when she died I met my father and my brother. My mother and I were always close, she was the only family I had till i was fifteen, she was always the one I would turn to and she was always the one person I looked up to. My mother’s name was Sicily Gauthier. She was a fashion designer, opening her own line right after she left high school. She had me but she made it and she made it to the top very quickly. She was a very successful woman and I looked up to her for it. She was the type of person it was so hard to hate. My mother and I always had a close relationship. She was always there to help me if I needed it, she was never just a mother, she was my best friend. When she took her own life it came as a shock to many, but more of a heartbreak to me. She was sick, I understood that, I knew she would die eventually but the doctor had given her three to five years not a month. When she found out she was sick I think she just didn’t want me to have to deal with her growing tired, losing her life little by little so she did what she thought was the easiest, only she didn’t know I was home. She didn’t know I was there to hear the gun shot and see all the blood. My mother was always the only person in my life she was the only family I really had.
After my mother’s death when i was fifteen they found the will, i was left to the care of my father. I never really knew him, not his name, or his job, or where he lived until she died. He lived here, and so I moved here when my mom died. So when I came and found out that I had a brother and a dad still living in New Jersey I was surprised. But I moved in with them and when my father died a year ago from a heart attack my brother was old enough so he got my fathers house and we live there with our grandmother. My father’s name was Colton Aldridge. He was a lawyer and had his own law firm. when i first moved in we weren't really close but right before he died we became exceptionally close.
so I have one brother. His name is Bryson Elias Aldridge and I didn’t know he was alive until a couple years ago. When my mother had me her and my father were already divorced so my mom got me and my dad got my older brother. so I didn’t have to go into meeting my father and leaving so until I was fifteen I thought I was an only child. He’s twenty three and he lives in mt fathers house with me and is now my legal guardian. Were extremely close. He’s someone whose really important in my life and now that he’s in it I can’t picture my life without him, even though sometimes I want to kill him, he’s still my blood and I’ll love him and be there for him no matter what.
LAST BUT NOT LEAST, ANY SECRETS YOU WANT TO SHARE WITH ME? MY LIPS ARE SEALED.
[/size][/right]secrets secrets secrets. every girl is entitled to her secrets but if i told you them they wouldn't be secret would they. but i guess i can spare one so i guess one secret would be that i lost my virginity to a student teacher, in grade nine.[/blockquote][/blockquote][/blockquote]
some people believe that sleep is a necessity. Sleep is something they need to either concentrate on something or to not be grump or snappy but for sapphire it was something she did to get away from everything. She slept to forget about what she had done with her life, she slept to be someone else, to fall into her dreams of being someone who was loved, not only by her parents but who was loved by someone special. But that was her dreams, reality was what she had to face, she was a girl who the only love she got was love for herself. She took care of herself, she didn’t rely on anyone else and she would never need to because when she began to let someone in everything began to crumble up underneath her. Sapphire lay in her bed, her eyes wide open looking out the window where the sun had disappeared and the night was starting to come upon them. Sapphire sighed and closed her eyes, she wanted everything to go away, she wanted everything bad in her life to just be replaced with something pleasant, but pleasant was only a fairytale to her, something that adults made up to make sure their children slept soundlessly and were covered in sweet dreams. For sapphire growing up she never was one of those children, she was one of the children that were scared to even close her eyes for minutes at a time. She had gone through her year afraid to really live life because the consequences were too much to bear. She lived like afraid and she knew it was time to leave the person she use to be behind.
it was early; she knew that, well at least early for a fledgling. The moon wasn’t up yet, which meant that most people were still sleeping. Sapphire couldn’t sleep anymore though; she needed to get out of her room. She had stayed in her room for the past three days other than leaving for class. Her roommate best friends and sister, well not biological but still, would bring her food and the only time she had to deal with people was in class. But in class it was kind of hard to talk and she was out the door before anyone could even say one word to her. The only class that she hadn’t even gone to was her second, she found excuses to get out of it and that was only because there was one person in that class that she was avoiding and she really hoped she could keep it up. Sapphire sighed and untangled herself from her bed sheets. She looked over at her friend and smiled slightly, she was the only person that was keeping sapphire here, they went through everything together and she knew that if sapphire went out and got herself killed by not coming back cyri would do the same thing and she couldn’t let that happen. Making her way over to her droor she grabbed a pair of skinny jeans and a top with a colorful hoodie then made her way over to the bathroom to grab a quick shower. She glanced at the mirror and stopped in her tracks, her eyes were puffy and red, she looked as pale as a ghost, her hair was all knotty, wow she looked like she had gone to hell and back. She knew she didn’t look fantastic but she never knew she looked this bad, no wonder why cyri had been giving her sympathetic looks.
sapphire turned away from the mirror setting her clothes down on the counter and plugging in the curler then slipped off her clothes and made her way over to the shower, instead of curtains like most of the shower in the dorms had they had a glass door so opening the door she got in shut it behind her and turned on the warm water. Sapphire smiled when the water hit her, she knew cyri would be waking up soon so she didn’t want to stay in for too long. The truth was she had been avoiding everyone including her best friend and she knew it was wrong but she just couldn’t bring herself to even think of what she saw so it was just easier to hide. I guess that made sense in her mind but she knew that later on today she had to tell her, she just needed some time alone before she did. So she showered quicker than usual, washing herself and her hair with her favorite strawberry scented shampoo and soap and then shaved before she got out grabbing her towel and drying herself off. She pulled on a black lacy bra and matching undies and then her dark skinny jeans, black tank top, and colorful hoodie. Sapphire looked at herself in the mirror she was still incredibly pale but that was normal, at least the redness surrounding her eyes was gone and her hair wasn’t knotty. Plugging in her hair dryer she started drying her hair so that she could make it out of the dorm before her friend woke up. Her hair didn’t really dry faster, not because of the length but because of the thickness of it and one it was dry she was please that it curled easily. She fixed her hair the way she wanted it and then applied a think layer of make-up covering up her tattoo on her forehead so she could leave the school and then made her way out of the bathroom to grab her purse.
she grabbed her purse quickly and slipped on a pair of ballet flats and was out the door just as her friend was waking up. She glided down the stairs to see a few people give her a shocked look as she made her way to the door quickly until she was stopped by one of her friends. She smiled weakly “hey, what’s up” she asked quietly. Her friend smiled “umm, your boyfriend came by and told me to tell you to go by his dorm when you wake up” sapphires smile slipped from her lips but she instantly put it back “alright thanks, I’ll go now” she said and pushed the door open and walked into the fading light. She didn’t even look towards the guys dorm, she pulled her car keys out of her purse and headed towards the front of the school. She smiled when she found her baby and got in. She sighed and started up the car, pulling out of the parking spot and opening the gates with the button and then drove out. Her first stop was starbucks, the one place she knew she was always welcome. She was of course a regular there, she loved their drinks and usually she has different drinks with her moods and sometimes she could even get a drink for free if she looked like nuts which she did today but she didn’t want a free drink today, she felt like spending money, it distracted her and that was the best thing for her right now, a easy distraction. It didn’t take long to get to starbucks, it was right near the school so she was kind of glad. She parked her car and made her way in, it said closed but they had a night shift for the fledglings and for that she was glad. She smirked slightly as she made her way to the counter and saw the sympathetic look on her friends face “you look like crap, darling” he said already bust making a irish swiss late for her. She grabbed a pill and handed it to him surprised he took it with no question. She shrugged “well I can’t always look like a model” she said and took the drink and taking a sip. She smirked slightly “this is really good” she said to him and headed back out the door not wanting to linger there for too long.
the mall was like a five minute walk from starbucks but she still decided that she would drive instead of walk, maybe because she really didn’t want to leave her car there or maybe because if she needed to make a fast escape her car would be right outside the building but she got back in her car and drove the minute it took her to get to the mall. She parked right beside a familiar car and realized she had taken more time than she wanted to get to her car from the dorms, and her sitting in her car for a bit as well didn’t help. She grabbed her purse after she parked and got out of the car and walked into the mall. The mall was always open so she didn’t have to worry about taking too long. She walked around for a bit by herself until she spotted cyri. She was looking around also so she walked up to her with a real smile on her face and pulled her into a hug “hey my bestest friend” she said with actual enthusiasm. She hadn’t been so happy to see her in a long time, maybe it was because she was finally ready to talk about what she saw or maybe it was because of the look on her friends face, aww crap they both felt like shit. She sighed slightly “I’ve got something to tell you about why I’ve been so blahh lately” she said unwrapping her arms from around cyri. She smiled slightly “and I want you to know you deserve a better father” she said with a smile. Ever since they met they could always tell what was bothering the each other. They finished each others sentences and really cyri was like the twin sapphire always wanted. She was the only family sapphire had and she knew that cyri knew what it was like for her parents to disown her, but of course she had told cyri about her father beating and raping her, so cyri was the only one that knew her very well. She sighed slightly and ran her fingers through her dark hair waiting for her best friend to say something.
THIS APPLICATION WAS MADE BY STEFF. HOLLA!
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