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Now & Forever ABCs (Daren)

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Daren Keith Jones

14 December 1995
Baptist

Daren is a tall, handsome, and thoughtful young man.  He attended a different local elementary school from Lauren and many of her friends, but he met Sarah during fourth grade and became fast friends with her and during fifth grade he met and became friends with Lauren.

He has attended Immaculate Conception since sixth grade, and as a result has become friends — if not quite as close — with many of Sarah and Lauren’s other friends.

At IC he joined the baseball team as a pitcher, something he’s fair at, but not good enough to ever start with.  His batting average is atrocious.  His true sport is boxing, he takes lessons at the local Y and competes often, and he’s quite accomplished, bringing home more than a few trophies.  He hopes to get a college scholarship on his boxing, even possibly become pro for a short time.

He’d always had a bit of a crush on Lauren, having seen her even before he’d met her; at the end of seventh grade he finally worked up the nerve to ask her out, and the two seemed a perfect couple from there on.

The perfection was only on the surface, though.  The two grew to be less close friends while dating, until Lauren started to notice their lack of compatibility.  Both were determined to try to make it work out, partially out of a stubborn nature on both their parts, and because neither one had much stomach for casual dating — preferring to take all relationships quite seriously.

Despite his reaction when Lauren tells him she’s met someone else, he does care for her — as a valued friend, and as someone he really did have genuine feelings for — but he’s never been the most expressive young man where his feelings are concerned (something, he realises, might have helped him keep Lauren if he’d been better about) and as such takes a rather long time to renew his friendship with her.

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Now & Forever ABCs (Chris & Sophie)

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Christopher Vincent & Sophia Eleanor Johansson

1 March 1994
Roman Catholic

Chris and Sophie are two years ahead of Lauren & Sally at Immaculate Conception, and in her Theology class.

They’re twins who bear remarkable physical similarities to one another, but almost no personality traits in common.

Both are athletic and fit.  Chris runs track, and Sophie being a tennis player (though not on the school team).  Both are fairly tall and with features classic of their Swedish ancestry.

In personalities though, the two could be no more different.  Sophie is stuck up, proud, snarky, a bit of a gossip, exceedingly fashion conscious, haughty — generally, she is not a nice person and doesn’t much care; she feels that as someone rich and beautiful that the world is laid out before her and that anyone less beautiful and with less affluent parents are lesser beings.  Chris, on the other hand, is thoughtful, kind, intelligent, gentle.  Humility isn’t exactly a trait of either twin, though Chris comes closest to expressing it — both dress in ways that make the wealth of their parents apparent, she drives a brand new BMW convertible and he a new Corvette, but Chris does try to not to use his good looks to advantage versus his sister who is willing to play the succubus to get her way.

Chris is planning to go Brown to study political science, while Sophie intends to go to school in Paris to study … mostly European men … but also classical mythology and Latin.

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Now & Forever ABCs (Bertrice)

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Bertrice Skye Klasson

22 February 1996
Roman Catholic

Bertrice, better known simply by B, is one of Immaculate Conception’s more notorious gossips.  She enjoys having the choicest news first and being the one to tell the dirty little secrets of the school to those who’ll hold still long enough to hear.

She’s a very tiny girl, smaller than Lauren even, and without the musculature with incredibly pale skin due to her insistence on constantly protecting herself from UV rays to somewhat ridiculous extremes.

She’s musically somewhat skilled and fairly talented.  She plays piano very well and is in the school’s Jazz Ensemble class, and is in her church’s choir.  Though her dream is to marry an insanely rich man, or to design Haute couture fashions.

Bertrice’s mother was a huge fan of Bertrice Small‘s novels and named her for the author and her favourite book, Skye O’Malley her parents had actually bet each other over the sex of their child when learning Tasha was pregnant, the prize being naming rights.  Bertrice has actually been known to begrudge her sex because of this, firmly believing she’d rather be named Felix Aragorn.

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