Dana Sloane
Had anyone asked a young Dana Sloane where her life would be in 40 years, the answer would’ve been far from her reality now. Its no secret that Dana never wanted children, but it still happened that she had sex with Justin Parker on the night of their senior prom and gotten pregnant and had a daughter nearly 39 years ago now. Dana had never been a nurturing or present mother to Jezebel growing up. She was practically still just a kid herself then, only 18 years old when Jezebel was born. She didn’t know what she was doing, and didn’t want to be a mother in the first place. When she could be away on a travel writing assignment, she often was. There were the better times of course, such as the occasional trip that Dana did bring Jezebel with her on, but overall Dana was far from being a caring mother. All she could really try to do was set Jezebel up for a life where she wouldn’t have to worry about being less than. She set Jezebel on a path to have powerful contacts, possibly a grand career of her own if she won blue royalty, and potentially even a marriage to someone even more powerful at some point. However, in Dana’s eyes, despite everything she did for her, all Jezebel seemed capable of was failure and being a disappointment. What more should she have expected from a mistake that she regretted. From the moment Dana had found out that Jezebel was pregnant, making the same mistake she had, she was done dealing with it. Dana was out of Jezebel’s life, but now years later Jezebel was getting married. Alright, it seemed as though Dana was wrong in her view of the boy she caught with Jezebel that day when they were young. Apparently he wasn’t as worthless and good for nothing as she had thought, as he had fame and money now. Though Dana was making an appearance, lets be clear, she certainly wasn’t there to be a good mother. Dana was a successful travel writer, but good press wouldn’t hurt. Playing the role of the mother of the bride would bring reader numbers up. Perhaps there was a part of her that just wanted to see what came of her daughter’s life, to possibly even be proud of her, but there was the other part that just saw the ways that she felt Jezebel would’ve been better off. However, when Dana showed up at the wedding, a guard was keeping her out, to which she was attempting to convince that she should be let in as the mother of the bride, but then came two other women her daughter’s age. “Yes, that’s me.” Dana said, confirming who she was. “My daughter doesn’t know what she wants, or what’s best, so let me in so I can be here for my daughter’s big day. Its not everyday your only daughter gets married.”
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