InsaneJournal

the basics
NAME: Lola Eden Kelley
AGE: 14
BIRTHDAY: May 26, 1993
YEAR: Freshman
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Identifies as heterosexual, but possibly open to experimentation.
GOD: Eris, Goddess of Discord

history
It was a stormy night in May of 1993 when a sopping-wet teenage girl, heavy with child, stumbled through the emergency room doors of Olympia Heights’ only hospital.

The girl, hardly more than a child herself, was eerily beautiful, mute and clearly about to give birth.

She was quickly wheeled up to the hospital’s maternity ward, where, after several hours of intense labor, a screeching baby girl was brought forth into the world. The young mother took one look at the child’s tiny, scrunched up face and fainted dead away. The infant was taken to the nursery and placed in a bassinet labeled “Baby X.”

Within twenty-four hours, the mother was gone, having stolen away into the night. The hospital lawyers tried in vain to track her down, but the girl had come to the hospital with little more than the clothes on her back. The only identification she’d provided, a name scribbled down on paper, was an alias. Apparently, this Leila Moon – or whoever she was - did not want to be found.

Thus, it came to pass that the maternity ward had a ward.

Baby X, nicknamed Apple by the nurses (an homage to her rosy, impossibly chubby cheeks), appeared to be a very quiet, well-mannered infant. Content to eat, sleep, and watch the nurses with unnervingly sharp eyes, she rarely fussed.

Or so it seemed.

On a number of nights during her two month sojourn in the hospital nursery, Apple would wake from her slumber to let loose an ear-piercing wail – a nasty wake-up call to her sleeping nursery mates. More often than not, the on-duty nurse would bustle into the nursery to find a dozen screaming babies and one pink-swaddled bundle, peacefully asleep (and...smiling?) in the corner bassinet.

Shortly after her two-month birthday, little Apple was adopted by a local couple, Perry and Elaine Kelley. There was little red tape, given the mysterious nature of the infant’s birth and parentage, and Apple was soon given a new home and a new name: Lola Eden Kelley.

Perry and Elaine were in their early forties when they adopted Lola. They already had two older children, Lizbeth and Aidan (14 and 12, respectively), and had been trying to conceive a third child for nearly four years. When Elaine, a member of the hospital’s Board of Directors, heard about the orphaned newborn in the hospital nursery, she had the uncanny feeling that Fate was offering them another chance. The rest, as they say, was history.

Lola was a very precocious child, walking, taking, and reading far earlier than most of her peers. In preschool, and later on in grammar school, this set her apart from her classmates. Lola was the strangely quiet girl in the back row, too smart for her own good and maybe even a little bit creepy with that steady, disconcerting gaze of hers. She had a few friends, but was never one of the popular kids.

Early on, she developed a keen interest in the human psyche. She wanted to know everything about what made people tick and, more importantly, what it was that set them off. Her quiet experimentations started in the home and continued at school: a strategically misplaced item, a seemingly innocent off-hand remark to pit Lizbeth against Aidan, a whispered rumor on the jungle gym…she soon learned what caused conflict and how to set things in motion without actually being a part of the action.

Now that Lola is a freshman at Olympia Heights High School, she’s mastered the art of manipulation. She’s an expert sneak, knows how to blend into a crowd, and leverages her tiny stature and doll-like features to their full advantage. No one – not even the few people she considers a friend - would ever suspect that Lola Kelley, the unobtrusive freshman who plays drums in the marching band, is the school’s most vicious gossip monger.

Her anonymous gossip blog, Verboten Fruit, is about to debut – who knows what kind of drama she’ll rile up?

personality
Lola is a quiet troublemaker. The ultimate drama whore. She lives for excitement, chaos, mischief, and mayhem, and has made it her personal mission to ensure that life in Olympia Heights is never dull.

A true Gemini, she is versatile, articulate and mercurial; a girl who can put on outward appearances like another might put on a coat. Sweet and innocent? Check. Party girl? Check. Dark, mysterious, and brooding? Check. She can – and will – match her temperament to the situation at hand.

Lola isn’t exactly a loner, but she spends most of her time on the outside looking in. She’s acquainted with many, but friends with few. Lately, however, she’s found herself craving friends - real friends. Perhaps even someone who could help her understand herself a bit better. It’s a new year in a new school - maybe it’s time for a change.

Then again, maybe not.

miscellaneous
TALENTS: Writing, photography, sneaking, acting, playing the drums, blending in, people-watching, general mischief and mayhem, manipulation.
PERSONALITY STRENGTHS: Intelligent, witty, strong-willed, self-sufficient, quite friendly...when it suits her.

FLAWS: Has a hard time making real friends (although this is partly by choice), couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket.
PERSONALITY FLAWS: Gets bored easily, schadenfreude.

CLASS SCHEDULE/CLUBS:
A – Band (band room)
B – Algebra II (B109)
C – World Lit I (D123)
D – Earth Science (A103)
E – World History I (E128)
F – Photography (C114)

Band, school newspaper (photographer)

PLAYED BY: Rainie Yang
JOURNAL: prettychaos