Post by GOPI 1609 on Mar 12, 2009 21:39:28 GMT -5
settle for a draw
TORRENCE ALLENDALE x ALICIA VAN BUREN
[/SUP][/size][/blockquote][/blockquote]RELATED. YES-VERY MUCH SO RELATED. ALICIA'S MOM MARRIED TORY'S DAD AND RECENTLY HAD LILIAN TOGETHER...MUCH LIKE THE MOVIE STEP-BROTHERS, ALICIA AND TORY DESPISED EACH OTHER. SICNE THEY WERE IN JUNIOR HIGH THEY WOULD SQUABBLE. ALICIA HATED HOW SHE HAD TO LEAVE HER HOMETOWN OF SPOKANE, WASHINGTON SO HER MOTHER COULD MOVE IN WITH MR. ALLENDALE AND HIS SON IN SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI. THIS WAS OBVIOUSLY NOT YOUR TYPICAL SIBLING RIVALRY...THIS WAS PURE HATRED...
HATRED TO THE POINT WHERE TORY, UPON GRADUATING HIGHSCHOOL TWO YEARS BEFORE ALICIA, MOVED TO LOS ANGELES TO GO TO COLLEGE AND START HIS LIFE. FROM THEN ON, THEY DID NOT SPEAK, WRITE, OR HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH EACH OTHER. WHEN ALICIA GRADUATED, SHE MOVED TO VENICE BEACH, SINCE SHE GOT A MODELING GIG DOWN THERE. ONLY TWO SHORT YEARS AGO, THE TWO RAN INTO EACH OTHER ON THE BOARDWALK. THE TWO SEEMED FINE AT FIRST, TORY WAS ACTUALLY ALONE BUT ALICIA WAS WITH ANOTHER MAN, WHO CLAIMED TO BE HER BOYFRIEND OF A YEAR. THE ARTIFICIAL SWEET SIBLING ACT ENDED UP DIMINISHING WHEN THE OTHER MAN, NAMED ANTHONY, BEAT TORY AT A GAME ON THE BOARDWALK.
PRIDE HURT, TORY ENDED UP CLAIMING THE GAME WAS FIXED AND THE TWO SIBLINGS WERE SUDDENLY, ONCE AGAIN, AT EACH OTHER'S THROATS. ONLY A MONTH LATER, ANTHONY BROKE IT OFF WITH ALICIA, SAYING HE DID NOT KNOW HER AT ALL LIKE HE THOUGHT HE DID, THAT HE WAS ALREADY SHOCKED TO SEE HER BEHAVE AS SHE DID IN PUBLIC. ALICIA WAS DOWN TORY'S THROAT, BLAMING HIM THE SECOND ANTHONY LEFT HER.
ARGUEMENT AFTER ARGUEMENT AND ONE YEAR LATER, THEY STOPPED TALKING AGAIN. THIS TIME WHEN THEY MET UP AGAIN, THEY WERE ON THEIR WAY TO ALICIA'S MOTHER'S FUNERAL. ALICIA SEEMED TO CHANGE AFTER THAT. SHE WAS STILL FRIENDLY, BUT HER SMILES WERE NEVER REACHING HER EYES. THOUGH TORY NEVER REALLY WAS THE BEST STEP SON, HE STILL RESPECTED ALICIA'S MOTHER AS IF SHE WERE HIS OWN-THOUGH HE NEVER SEEMED TO ACCEPT ALICIA...
AND FROM THEN ON, AFTER RETURNING TO VENICE BEACH, TORY STARTED GOING TO CHECK UP ON ALICIA MORE OFTEN, BASICALLY, FINALLY, PLAYING THE BIG BROTHER ROLE SHE NEEDED FORM HIM YEARS AGO. EVENTUALLY THE CLOSENESS, THE FRIENDLINESS....SLOWLY STARTED TO BECOME MORE THAN THAT...
IS ALICIA FALLING FOR TORY? WOULD TORY EVEN FEEL THE SAME...? EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE NEVER BLOOD RELATED...WOULD IT BE WRONG TO EVEN TELL THE OTHER THEIR FEELINGS...? ONLY TIME WILL TELL....