Post by kelley on Aug 9, 2010 15:02:48 GMT -5
so, you want to know more about me? all righty, well. for starters, my name's kelley patrick gaston, but you can just call me kelley. i know, great name. oh, so i'm twenty two years old; yeah, my birthday's on september fourth, so i expect a ton of presents, hear me? good. well i'll clear this up now for you guys; i'm just a local; oh, and i'm a motherfucking giant(:. originally i'm from northampton, massachusetts; i know, it's just a really awesome place. i get asked this a lot, so imma clear it up; i am straight. oh, and all right, so for some reason people compare me a lot to john o'callaghan, but psh, we know that i'm better looking, right?
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TWITTER UPDATES
@kelleykatastrophe it's four a.m and i'm awake. what's wrong with this picture?
@kelleykatastrophe you know that your daughter has a problem when you go out for ice cream five times a week.
@kelleykatastrophe dora the explorer has taught me more spanish than senora cruz did in high school. wow.
@kelleykatastrophe day with charlotte.(:
@kelleykatastrophe who's willing to babysit? .. or take my shift at work. either works, hah.
@kelleykatastrophe inception is a fucking awesome movie, i have to admit. confused the fuck out of me though.
KELLEY'S HISTORY
kelley's family wasn't always the best, all right? kelley was actually born on a train, as they didn't have a car at that time. his parnets hadn't been expecting him to be born prematurely at all. but he was all right after a week in the hospital. growing up, kelley was kind of a handful. both his parents weren't really ready for a kid, you know? it was a little challenging, especially since neither of them really had money. both of their families were poor. it also didn't help that a year later they had another kid, molly. they had always been in a money situation, and it really didn't get better throughout the years. his mom, lorraine, worked as an assistant at the animal hospital while his dad hank worked at an autoshop. they made decent money, but just barely enough to make ends meet. growing up, kelley didn't even realize the money situation; all he really knew was that they didn't have much. he didn't mind though; he just cared about playing games and enjoying being a little kid. when he started elementary school, he was having a few problems. it was sort of a bully, simply put; you know, scaring the other kids, being a bit demanding, aggressive whenveer he got angry, you know? his teachers thought he'd grow out of it, but that didn't really happen.
enter middle school. this little boy met garret lee dublin, and the two hit it off, because they were both literally the same person at that time. they were both kind of fucked up, really. well actually for kelley that didn't start till eighth grade when he met a few more guys that offered him his first joint. at that point in time, kelley had never touched drugs. sure, he drank, often sneaking stuff into school and just drinking it there and going through the day slightly buzzed. it didn't get heavy till about ninth grade, when he met a few more people. through that time, the family just wasn't going well. his little sister tried talking to him and getting to cool down, lay off the drinking and such, and he tried for her, you know? he loved her. it wasn't really happening though. around that time was when kelley's father started getting on his case. sure, it had been going on early on, around early middle school, but often it led to fights between the two, to hank always telling kelley that he was fucking his life up and that if he didn't straighten out he wasn't staying in that house. more often than not, kelley would spend the night at garret's place, even if he was sure garret's mom wasn't kelley's biggest fan at all.
kelley got into the harder stuff tenth grade, experimenting with meth, heroin, cocaine, you know. he wasn't really judgemental on any drugs, you know? most often he would come to school slightly buzzed. he had that reputation of being the stoned whore that went around trying to sex girls, even though he hadn't lost his virginity till about the middle of ninth grade at jane fentress' party. honestly, a lot of that changed though, by the time he was about to start his sophomore year. he had his sights set on lauren elizabeth cohen, a girl in his grade that would not give him the time of day, something he wasn't sused to. he was, undeniably, the shit back in high school, look wise. and more often than not girls usually threw themselves at him, not walk away. so it was a challenge, and it actually got him excited. honestly, it had taken kelley a good few months to get the girl talking to him, and in that time, he had softened up. he actually liked her. she'd kept him guessing. she hadn't made it easy for him to figure out what she was thinking, what she wanted. she made him work for it, and he loved it. honestly, the girl had him wrapped around his finger, and he knew it, and he wans't afraid to admit it. around christmas time of their seniro year, however, things took a turn as, for the first time in their year and a half of dating, they had sex.
when lauren told him a month and a half later that she was pregnant, god, kelley was scared shit. for the first time since lauren had agreed to date him, he smoked a whole two packs of cigarettes in a day, spent the day pacing the parking lot out by the in-and-out trying to think. he couldn't have been a goddamn father. it didn't work that way. he was a senior in highschool, he should have been worried about just passing highschool, not about what he would need to take care of a fucking baby. that just wasn't what he had been expecting. he tried, fruitlessly, to get lauren to consider an abortion, adoption if she wanted to keep the baby. but the girl was deadset on keeping the child. and after a while, kelley started to own up to it, you know? he actually got excited for the chance of having a son or daugher. his drinking subsided, his smoking was rare. he refused to go out with garret at times, didn't smoke anything other than cigarettes that whole time, suffering those withdrawls symptoms that were a complete bitch to deal with. he was probably unbearable to deal with in the last few months of the pregnancy. god knows that garret probably wanted to punch the living shit out of him for talking about love like he did. when they'd met, they had both agreed; falling in love was stupid, impossible, just made no sense. now, here was kelley talking about how he might marry lauren one day.
dayna was prematurely born about three weeks, late july, as her due date was sometime in the beginning of august. kelley had driven rather sporadically, getting caught at every red light, cursing out every old/slow/annoying driver that had been in front of him. he had been a wreck, really, calling his mom and telling her the details, smoking about a pack of cigarettes as he paced, talking to himself ( though some of it was directed towards garret ) about how he hoped lauren and the baby were okay. the relationship with his mom and sister had gotten a lot better. they had both been thankful lauren was the time of girl that had won kelley over, as they hadn't seen him so calm, tame since he was a little kid. it was all actually falling in place for the boy. when lauren gave birth to dayna on july twenty seventh, kelley was ecstatic. you know, after having smoked a few dozen cigarettes in the waiting room and all. the few weeks after dayna had been born, lauren and kelley had been inseparable, taking care of dayna. kelley rarely saw anyone, not even garret, though he was constantly texting garret and being a goddamn dotting dad over her. it was actually kind of cute to an outsider. it was odd to think of kelley that way.
it all kind of crashed, however, when lauren out of the blue told him that she didn't want the baby, didn't want dayna, didn't want him. that had been a good slap to the face. it took a while for him to realize that she had been cheating on him ever since she'd given birth. how he hadn't really seen it, he wasn't sure. all he knew was that it kind of killed him, you know? he was the one that would have chated on his girlfriend and left. this time it was the other way around, he wasn't used to it. and especially since he really did love lauren. it was a downward spiral after that. kelley would leave dayna with his mother, or his sister would watch and take care of her, and kelley would spend most days away from his house, either at garret's apartment or just a party or whatever. he hadn't even really known that garret was seeing dayna until one day when he came up to him told him, verbatim, grow the fuck up and take care of your kid. and coming from garret, that was kind of a wake up call, if garret was telling him to grow up. so, he'd got himself cleaned up and went back home, despite his father flipping shit on him, saying he couldn't take care of dayna, he was unfit if he left the kid with his mom while he went off doing god knows what. it was actually kind of a shocker when kelley simply talked to his mom, got dayna, and left.
after that, kelley got an apartment after spending two weeks living off garret. his mom, without really telling his dad, was helping him pay for the apartment, on the promise he would definitely try harder. that had been his one promise, and he had stuck with it, you know? he had stopped drinking that often, drugs. he still smoked bu ton occasion, away from dayna. it got easy though, especially with charlotte. they hadn't talked much in highschool, but as kelley had started maturing a bit, they had talked. hell, he had gone to her for advice too. sure, he could have asked addison but it wasn't the same for some reason. as he went through is relapse, that anti-social, fuck the world i hate you all time, kelley did not talk to her, though he was sure that she'd heard about it. if so, it was never mentioned afterwards. when kelley had taken dayna under his wing officially, it was all right again. charlotte came over often, and upon kelley's begging, helped him out with what to buy, even if she didn't have a kid herself. he had no one else to ask relaly but his mom, and he didn't want to have to depend on her for everything he needed.
they'd started dating at the age of twenty, when kelley had finally decided that maybe it was time to move on. he liked charlotte, alot. she was down to earth, nice, blunt but in a good way. it worked out perfectly. kelley had often found himself calling her, asking to come over for stupid reasons just so he could hang out iwth her, often using dayna as a front. in fact, he'd used dayna to ask out charlotte. he'd written a small note ( despite garret's consistent mocking of how charlotte would laugh in his face ), and gave it to dayna to give it to charlotte when charlotte had babysat her when kelley had needed to go out and figure out how to apply for college courses. yes, the boy was considering college. he couldn't keep up working at small minimum wage jobs to keep his apartment at all. and he hated getting money off his mom. so he worked out a deal with her; if she helped him pay for college, he'd pay for the apartment and every expense needed for that. sure, it was a bit of a long shot, since it took kelley four weeks to find a job that paid enough to make that, but eventually it worked out. it all actually fell in place for the boy; he finally had someone in his life that, after these two years was certain wasn't going ot leave him ( though there was that doubt in his mind. he's sitll sure he'll screw it up somehow ), he's on his third year, working at a career at music education and music performance, dayna's growing up well... well garret's still a pain in the ass to him but hell, at least he still has the kid as a best friend. it's really worked out for the boy, albeit the fact that he still hasn't spoken to his father in near four years. sure, charlotte's tried, and he's tried to politely tell her that it probably wasn't happening, though a few times he's been close.
VOICEMAIL MESSAGES
mom: kelley, hon, hi. how are you doing? i know it's only been a week or so since i've seen you. you know i miss you. how's dayna? is she still going through her only wanting to eat ice cream phase? you might want to ge ther ou tof that, just saying, ha. your father says hi too... i know you guys are still sort of iffy, but if you could give him a call... you know how he is, kelley, don't hold it against him. just... try? i'll talk to you later, i promise. i love you, bye.
charlotte: Hey, it is, uh, Charlotte. I was just wondering if it would be possible to get Dayna this weekend… We are kind of having a get together at my parents, and everyone really wants to see her. Especially Carter. Ha. He is kind of peeved that he does not get to see her as often….. So um….just….let me know, okay? If not, it is okay. But, everyone would really love to see her? Dad keeps asking about you two. So if you get a chance, do you think you could call him? It would really mean a lot to him…. I guess I will go and stop running up your message space. Just let me know. I lo- um, Bye Kelley
garret: Hey hey Fucker. Answer your damned phone, or else I’m going to think you’re avoiding me. Anyway, You and I need to hit the town man. Its been fucking forever since we’ve went out. And the way your life is going right now, its sounds like you need to go out and drink some. So, find little miss a babysitter and lets go out, yea? No wait. That’s not a question, it’s a demand. Find her a babysitter and we ARE going out to the bar. Got it? I can tell you all about my future girlfriend. Ha. Give me a call back fuckface.
SHORT PERSONALITY DESCRIPTION
to anyone that knows kelley from high school, they'll know that he's matured in the past four years. from being the guy who skipped as many classes as possible, smoked a lot, drank more than anyone, and tried whatever drugs that got into his hands, he's matured into the father of a four year old girl. he rarely goes out anymore, and is actually working. sure, it's not a big job or anything but it is helping pay the bills. he used to be the kid in the back of class that used to cause trouble and crack sex jokes at random intervals. now he's the guy that really doesn't crack jokes that often unless he's teasing his daughter, or charlotte, which doesn't happen that often anyway. he's actually a sweetheart now, which is rather surprising from the boy he was during his teenage years. he's not much of a talker; he's actually really bad at converations. he's not the brightest person out there, and that's probably one of the things that he's most self conscious about. he's protective of a lot of the people in his life, like really protective. it's insane. whenever things get to him, such as drama and whatnot that actually involves him, he's not good with those situations. he's never really had problems like that in his life and the fact that they are showing up now, it makes freak out and whatnot. he handles them really bad.
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