pb: ashley benson. est. 3rd person storybook.
adult or ftb. © rouva with edits by lebel.
bronte lila wray
FULL NAME: bronte delilah wray
NICKNAMES: lila
DOB + AGE: august 29, 1990 + 24
HOMETOWN: huntington beach, california
CURRENT RESIDENCE: huntington beach, california
OCCUPATION: tba
education: bachelors of arts in architectural studies from ucla 2014. currently in the masters program for urban planning
RELATIONSHIP STATUS: single
FAMILY: james wray (father 51) & theresa connors-wray (mother 47)
the story of theresa wray is not all that unique. although she was toted as the next sylvia plath amongst the feminist poetry circuit, her potential eventually fell flat. a girl who grew up in the midwest, feeling trapped by her oppresively christian family, she made a name for herself with her writings that were described as 'poignant' and 'cutting right to the bone'. a young girl with that kind of talent was destined for greatness and she came close. a scholarship to ucla was provided for her, and she moved from her farm town to the big city. her skills were nourished by the faculty at the english department and she soon released her first and only novel. the book was considered a sleeper success, the kind of thing that was a critic darling that developed into a cult following. it was soon after this that theresa met her future husband and her career would take a nose dive.

meeting james was the beginning of the end for theresa. a whirlwind romance followed and soon she was pregnant, something she hadn't planned at that point in her life, but she was so in love with james it didn't seem like such a bad thing. bronte was born in the middle of a heat wave, and theresa and james couldn't be more proud to have a beautiful baby girl in their life. until things started to get a little tricky. for one, james convinced theresa to get married, it was only the right thing to do after all. after theresa had raged against the machine that was marriage, she lost a little bit of her crediability by agreeing after much debate. then, after bronte was born, james insisted that theresa stop working to take care of the baby. again, after wearing her down, she agreed to his conditions and soon found that her talent and passion had fizzled away.

bronte, who preferrred to be called lila from the time she could take, grew up in relative comfort. her father was a hollywood executive, working behind the scenes, taking care of numbers, who made enough money to take care of the family for the rest of their lives. but, falling into the typical spoiled brat trope, lila hated all of it. but most of all she hated her mom for selling out so completely. being a housewife to a man who couldn't keep his pants zipped and couldn't help but make crude jokes in front of their friends during lavish dinner parties at their home didn't impress lila. she hated her mother for being such a joke, a complete and total fake. so she acted out to get back at her, the misplaced anger of a young girl driving a wedge between mother and daughter.

a brat through and through, lila found herself involved in low level criminal activity. she wasn't doing well in school, too much talking back to her teachers even though she always showed herself to be a bright and quick learner. the wasted potential was something all too familiar to theresa who found hard to make lila see the mistakes she was making but she wouldn't listen. eventually the problem got so bad that she arranged a summer away from california. it worked, lila came back with a new resolve to get her life back on track and she enrolled in college. her newfound academic spirit resulted in an almost laser focus on her studies.

• lila's name, picked out by her mother of course, is taken from the bronte sisters after theresa couldn't pick one favourite sister, and delilah after her favourite woman from the bible. lila hates her first name, which isn't even a first name, but begrudgingly likes wuthering heights although she'll never tell anyone that.

• lila has a major sweet tooth and is known to meticulously pick the marshmallows out of a box of lucky charms and leave the cereal for someone else to deal with

• although she's careful to come across to aloof to most people, lila will let her guard down for cats. she owns bones who currently serves as the love of her life and her reason to be

• always a bit of an artsy soul, lila decided on architecture after a summer in europe which her dad had planned for her as kind of rehab once her behaviour got completely out of control. she decided to pursue a masters in urban planning after a brief internship at a developers' office.