Welcome, Brianna!

t - totemiccast - lauren houldsworth

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Brianna Paige Hale packed her bags the day after graduating Summit High School where she lead the class of 2006 in singing their alma matter. In the year book, under Senior Superlatives ; she had signed her name time and again with curling letters under the distinction ; " Most Likely to Be Famous ". With a one way ticket on American Airlines, a single packed bag and, a small fortune in cash stashed away, an idealistic Bree had set course to hit Hollywood by force. A triple threat, she'd been sure of herself ; that she would snapped up and tucked under the wing by the biggest names in the movie business. Turning away the opportunity to become a werewolf part of her pack; Brianna had been a young woman with a plan, and a head full of dreams that included everything that glittered. Her name, would be in lights as the next Tinseltown darling.

Fast-forward, the only notoriety Bree managed to gain for herself was a page on a popular alternative girls site. Where colored hair and a few tattoos made her a Tumblr search darling with busty curves, and an Internet stalker following that kept the young woman off social media and far away from the #hashtag culture of abusive rants and slut shaming. It wasn't an easy thing to read that a young woman should be raped or was asking for such things by posing without a top, or wearing a cosplay design that depicted the exact image of a comic book heroine ; loved and admired. It was soul crushing , heart-breaking, and possibly the dumbest mistake that Brianna ever made. Despite canceling her accounts, the images were forever in cyber-space.

Turning down the steps of speeding downward spiral, when Bree returned home to the small touristy town of Breckenridge, Colorado she'd been beaten by the Hollywood dream, without a plan to fall back on. A job was picked up to keep herself busy at a local bar, that hit a full tilt swing during the height of ski season. Low self-esteem and loss of her dreams made it easy for Brianna to sink herself into the drink ; and the blissful surrender that came with it. Buzzes, became Black-Outs ; without explanations of the nights or days before until rock bottom hit with an unwanted pregnancy and a consequent abortion. She tried sobriety on her own, living under the roof of her parents house with the support of their local pack ; her sister Tessa a shining light of support during Bree's darkest hours and torrential mood swings. She did alright, for awhile living in a dry world, until there was one slip up with a local discovering her alt. girl past ; and a thwarted suitor turned into the woman's worst nightmare. Over night almost, there were print outs of her poses all over the small-town venue; in one week Brianna had gone from recovery ... into the back of an ambulance, rushed away under spotlights. Suicide, failed.

A last ditch effort was pulled by the family that loved her and Bree was sent to nearby Utah for a six month stay at the Sherwood Hills Recovery Resort. During that time, she missed her sister's struggles and the feeling of failing Tessa drove the woman to apply herself in therapy and the walk down recovery road. Soon after release from the facility, came another tribulation - the death of their grandfather Harker Sterling. Leaving behind a diner legacy in Denver, an old traditional eatery that had been willed to the sisters. They could have sold it, but together Brianna and Tessa decided to take the challenge and start a new life for themselves as restaurant owners and entrepreneurs.

Settled in a U-Haul, with a box of recipes between the girls and a forwarding phone call to their cousin Jason Hale, and the associated Road Wolves to make sure they were expected, affiliated, and protected. The girls arrived in Denver, and settled in. Their only direction to look is forward, with the hopes that the road ahead is far less rocky than the pavement behind them.

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