sidda newbell Full Name: Sidda Lynn Newbell Nicknames: Sid, Lynn Journal: ~siddalynn AIM: sidda sprees Age: 23 Birthday: January 3, 1987 Siblings: younger sister ( 4 ) Marital Status: Legally married to Adam Newbell Occupation: Unemployed Tattoos: star on her right foot and a swallow on her left wrist Likes: Sprees candy, thunderstorms, music, dancing, books, Sweet Tea, French Fries from McDonald's, spaghetti, tattoos, guitars, thrift stores Dislikes liars, cheaters, over priced clothes, overly cocky men, spiders, Valentine's Day, blind dates facts • When Grace Nuvelle accepted a position as back-up vocals for one of the top singers of the moment, she had no idea just how vastly her life would change. It was during the year-long tour through the continental United States that she met and fell in love with roadie Andrew Mercer. At first, the relationship was rocky and often riddled with fights that led to eventual break-ups. Romance on the road was just not something that people in the business tended to smile upon. It was forbidden in a lot of ways, too much of a distraction in others. When the tour eventually wrapped in St. Louis, Missouri; Grace and Andrew went their separate ways. Not only was she booked for another tour, but he was off to his father's contracting business as per an agreement set before the tour. Daniel Mercer did not like the idea of his son galavanting off to parts unknown and made his opinion abundantly clear. Families stayed together as far as the eldest Mercer was concerned and that meant staying in Boston, Massachusetts. Andrew's life was basically run for him during the first three months he was home from touring, until a surprise call from Grace changed everthing. On January 3, 1987 Andrew and Grace became parents to a beautiful baby girl they named Sidda Lynn. • When Daniel found out, he demanded the couple marry. It was the right thing to do, according to the strict religious upbringing he'd endured and then forced on his children. But Andrew and Grace bucked, not wanting to get married simply because they had a child together. Sidda had her father's surname and that was all that mattered to Grace. Through his defiance, Andrew ended up gaining the one thing he'd been searching for from the moment he'd turned eighteen; freedom. But supporting a family proved to be tougher than he'd originally thought. Grace wanted to go back out on the road, still singing backing vocals to whoever would accept her. Even though she had a young child to care for, the petite blonde still dreamed of stardom and someday seeing her own name in lights. • Somehow, they made it work. Sidda grew up in the most unconventional of ways, but had the most fun a little girl could ever dream of. When it came time to start school, her classroom was the back of a tour bus with buzzing activity all around. Her school books were walking around various landmarks and historical sites that her peers only read about in books. Her friends were all older than her, usually made up of fellow backing singers, hair/makeup professionals, and road crew since no one else had children to raise. The road was no place for small children, but Andrew and Grace didn't quite see things that way. • It wasn't until Sidda hit her teenage years that she began to see just what she was missing with her nomadic way of life. By the time she turned fifteen, her parents had split up. Andrew was tired of the road and found himself wanting a legitimate family. He dreamed of someday having more children and giving Sidda roots. While he didn't quite want to give her the upbringing he had, he still wanted to give her a more traditional sense of family and normalcy. Too bad at the age of fifteen was not the right time to do so. It was a weird adjustment for Sidda to suddenly have to attend school and be on a regular schedule. While she made friends fast and easily, she still kept up some barriers where the other kids at school were concerned. It wasn't because of anything they did or said, she was just too used to picking up and leaving after a short stint in Boston. She was also too used to being able to do whatever she wanted. Grace had learned the hard way just how much freedom children recieved on the road when adults had to work nearly twenty-four hours a day. Living with her father and his new girlfriend, since her mother was still chasing her dreams after years of rejection and criticism, was the toughest part of her new life and she soon began to look for ways to rebel. Her grandfather had also been introduced into her life when everyone suddenly decided she needed roots and his always-watchful eye made it difficult for her to push boundaries that were truly dangerous. At most, the only things she got away with were staying out late with her friends and coloring her hair every single hue under the rainbow. But deep down, she knew that she needed the structure and stability her family was trying to provide for her. She just didn't understand why her mother couldn't be apart of it. • Graduation from high school was the biggest accomplishment of Sidda's young life. Not only had she excelled in her classes and caught up after years of homeschooling, but there was part of her that always believed she would never truly know what high school was like. But she'd been able to have it all; friends, prom, and graduation. She'd even dated pretty regularly, every once in a while attempting a serious relationship. But by the time she graduated and prepared for the next phase of her life; Sidda was still lacking a little in the area of romantic attachments. She was much more used to seeing boys as friends than as anything more. Secretly, Andrew had been thrilled by this since it meant that his daughter graduated high school as a virgin. Something he thought to be a rarity thanks to how sexualized society had become. • College was in the plans for Sidda after high school, but only because of Daniel's deepseeded desire to see at least one of his family members attend school beyond the requirements. He'd lost the battle with his son and hoped that his granddaughter would fulfill the hopes he'd once laid on his child's shoulders. Those dreams spawned only as far as community college before Sidda decided that she no longer wanted to sit in a classroom and be lectured to about the ways of the world. Growing up the way she had, while it didn't make her feel superior in any way, just made it more difficult for her to look to books for answers. She knew dropping out would disappoint her family, but after two years of doing what they wanted her to do sparked the rebellious streak she'd only peeked at during her teenage years. Even though he wanted everything for his daughter that he'd never had, Andrew couldn't stand to see his daughter upset or unhappy. With news of his own changing life, he agreed to let Sidda walk away from college with no reprocussions from the family if she could present a sound and intelligent plan that didn't include scholastics of any kind. Unsure of what she really wanted, other than a stable life having fun and living with her best friend since high school, she depended on the job she'd stumbled upon shortly after enrolling in Bunker Hill. At first everyone protested. Even Grace, who had come home for a brief visit to see how her daughter was doing and make up for missing the last three years of her daughter's life. But she didn't care, Sidda was happy with her life and the job she'd obtained at Stingray Body Art. She'd always been interested in tattoo parlors and how they were run, especially when she was legally able to visit one and see the tattooing process close up. Part of her had entertained the idea of someday becoming an artist herself, but after a few months as the shop's manager, she found herself liking the job title she held so much more than the prospect of joining them as an artist. All the tattooers respected her and commented regularly on how efficent she was at her job. She didn't overstep bounds and knew her place. She was there to make their jobs easier and it helped to have their friendship along with it. For a while she feared that she wouldn't be accepted. She only had three small tattoos compared to the full arm sleeves and clearly visible tattoos of her co-workers, but they liked to see people's reactions to her upon walking into the shop for the first time. Especially when she came in one day with a head full of bright blonde hair, instead of the deep red she'd been sporting since high school. According to her boss and co-workers, it was never a dull day when Sidda was working. • Recently, she's had to adjust to the new changes in her father's life. Being maid of honor in her father's wedding was a challenge, one she vocalized on more than one occasion. She'd never really had any qualms about her father dating once his relationship with Grace ended. Everyone in the family seemed thrilled with the match, but only because the union seemed to be headed toward matrimony. History seemed to repeat itself yet again in the weeks leading up to Andrew's nuptuals to Megan Cofield and the pair soon found themselves expecting. Because marriage was already in the cards, Daniel took the news surprisingly well and remained silent as plans went ahead for the fall wedding. Emersing herself in work so she would have a way to hide from all the craziness, Sidda took a less than active role in her father's new life. But when her younger sister was born on December 15, she was present and very much enamored with the little girl. • The next four years after her father's marriage and sister's birth proved to be uneventful at most. Grace swooped back into town to try and reclaim a relationship with her daughter but the effort only lasted two months. No matter what Grace did, or how hard she tried, things just never worked out. All because she couldn't say no to jobs that took her out of town and away from the child she'd never really gotten to know. At first, Sidda had been upset by it all, but after a while; it all just became second nature. Her mother just didn't seem destined to stay in her life. So when her co-workers came to her and proposed a trip to Las Vegas, Nevada; she readily accepted. At first the guys she worked with were surprised, they'd been trying for years to include her in some of their wilder antics. But it was always to no avail. This time, however, Sidda indulged in a rare side of her personality and just went with things. Going with the flow and letting other people kind of influence how her time was spent was a freeing experience. Of course, her best friend was there to keep her in check and make sure she didn't do anything too out there. But it was no use. Three days in Vegas changed the entire course of Sidda's life. Whether she wanted it to or not. • Waking up on her last day in Vegas was probably the scariest morning of her young life. Most of the weekend had been spent in drunken bliss, talking and making friends with whoever came close enough to catch her attention. It was on her last official night that she ran into a guy who she'd known in Boston. Back then, he'd only been the boss's son and she'd been so scared of losing her first official job that she'd stayed to herself whenever she was on shift. At the time she'd worked at his family's restaurant, she had still been transitioning between nomad and normal teenage girl. Waking up next to him bright and early, with co-workers pounding on her hotel room door sent her into a kind of frenzy that she couldn't explain. It wasn't until she was gone, with the guy still sleeping soundly among twisted sheets detailing their last moments before sleeping, and checking out that she noticed the thin silver band circling her finger. At first she didn't think anything of it, but when the hotel receptionist wished her a good flight home and called her Mrs. Newbell, she was stunned silent. There was no possible way that the ring on her finger meant what everyone was assuming it did and the cowardly part of her had no intentions of checking facts. Too much had happened too soon and a small part of her brain didn't know how to deal with the fact that in the span of a short weekend, she had gotten married, lost her virginity to a man whos name she could barely remember, and seemingly took a page from her mother's book in running away. • Running away didn't sit well with Sidda once she returned to Boston. As much as she didn't want to think about or face what she had done, she found herself stumbling upon her husband while dining with her family. He didn't see her, much to her relief since she didn't tell her family about the marriage. Nor were there any plans to until a decision was reached on the marriage. In the two weeks since coming home, Sidda stopped by the restaurant every single day with the intention of talking to the man she learned now runs the establishment. The man she's terrified to face because of how things were handled in Las Vegas and her subsequent refusal to acknowledge the fact that she was legally married two weeks ago. The ring she'd woken up with on her finger now hanging from a chain around her neck. ooc information I am in eastern standard time. While I generally prefer threading, I will do AIM scenes when time permits. Just please ask me before sending one so I can make sure I have the time to dedicate to the scene. That way I'm not wasting anyone's time. Random IC AIM conversations and comment wars make my heart flutter, I can never turn them down. I will try my best to be online as often as possible, but as a new mom and wife of a deployed serviceman, there will be times when I just can't get to the computer. If you need me in those moments, feel free to hit my contact post here or you can PM me. BACK TO ~SIDDALYNN