October 23rd- Aurora Ophelia Larson is born to Katherine Anne Larson and Gustav Martin Larson Sr in McLaren Greater Lansing Hospital in Lansing, Michigan. She is born four years after her older brother Gustav Martin Larson Jr and two years after her sister Anne Katherine Larson.
August- Gustav hires a tutor to start to teach Aurora Spanish, how to play the recorder, read to Aurora, and to teach Aurora how read. Aurora picks up very little of what the tutor teaches- because she is a toddler.
August 17th- Bengt Martin Larson is welcomed to the family.
October- After some timely donations, Katherine manages to get Aurora enrolled early into pre-ballet classes.
May- Aurora’s family is taken to Italy where they live until early August. They do this every summer. (Four: Italy, Five: Brunei, Six: Switzerland, Seven: Antigua and Barbuda, Eight: Ghana, Nine: Moldova, Ten: Argentina, Eleven: United Arab Emirates, Twelve: Indonesia, Thirteen: Costa Rica, Fourteen: Kazakhstan, Fifteen: India, Sixteen: China, Seventeen: Russia, Eighteen: Sweden.)
August- Aurora starts a Montessori preschool.
August- Aurora starts at Cranbrook Schools.
October- Katherine starts Aurora in formal ballet training.
January- Gustav announces suddenly that the family is going to be moving to San Diego when the school year ends. He informs Aurora and her siblings that he thinks it’s a good thing for them to start to go to public schools. Gustav Jr. threatens to run away after this, but he does not follow through.
August- Aurora starts Meadowbrook Middle School. There she meets Natalie Wallace who also is interested in science and history. They quickly become best friends. As the months pass, Aurora starts to notice that Natalie is neglected like her parents not doing the paperwork for Natalie to get subsidized school lunches. Katherine drives Natalie home and embarrasses Natalie’s parents into doing the paperwork, but when summer comes around, the Larsons lose faith that the Wallaces will step up to the plate. The entire two months that Natalie was with them the Wallaces don’t call a single time. The Larsons clear out one of their guests rooms, and they make it into Natalie’s room. She is allowed to stay whenever she can, and the Larson’s start treating her like their daughter.
November- Bengt realizes that Aurora has an eating disorder, and he confronts her about it. Aurora admits that she has been eating less and working out a lot to keep up with other dancers in ballet for about a year. She promises to start eating again. Bengt tells her that if she doesn’t get better soon he’s going to tell their parents.
January- Bengt gets tired of waiting on Aurora to get better, and he tells his parents that Aurora has been hiding starving herself for about a year. Katherine pulls Aurora out of ballet immediately. Her parents request a week out of school, and they start her immediately on intensive therapy. While in therapy, she is diagnosed with Anorexia Athletica and Anorexia Nervosa.
May- Gustav Jr. moves out, and he starts going to college at Furman University.
August- Aurora and Natalie start Westview High School.
May- Anne starts Florida State College.
September- The Larsons find out that Anne eloped with a boy after she calls them from Turkey. They only hear from Anne every couple of years for money after this.
October: Tim Wallace is declared dead. The Wallace’s receive a large insurance payout.
May- Gustav Jr. drops out of college, and he enrolls in the military.
May- Aurora and Natalie all graduate from Westview High School. Aurora graduates as valedictorian with Natalie as the salutatorian. Natalie and Aurora graduate Summa Cum Laude. Immediately after they graduate, the girls all leave to Sweden where they all rent an apartment together and enjoy life away from their parents.
August- Aurora and Natalie start at Stanford. Natalie starts her Biology Degree, and Aurora starts dual degrees of Bachelors of Science in Chemistry and Bachelors of Science in Biology. While she’s doing this, Aurora works on getting her Pharmacy Technician Certification.
August- Aurora gets her Pharmacy Technician Certification.
February: Danielle proposes to Natalie with a 3k Princess Cut Moissanite ring on Valentine's Day. Nat accepts the proposal, though she tells Aurora she isn't sure if she wants to get married.
May- Aurora and Natalie receive their Bachelors. Natalie gets a 520 on her MCAT, and she starts at the Sanford Medical School to get her M.D. Aurora starts working on a dual degree in both pharmacology and physiology.
November: Danielle disappears from Natalie’s apartment after years of fighting.
December- The Larsons find out that Gustav Jr. died in combat.
March: Natalie begins dating Alec Watson, an aspiring Musician, and Stanford Alum with an Undergraduate in Music. Aurora questions how quickly Nat moves on.
July: Alec and Nat move in together
October: Alec loses his job, stays unemployed, and focuses on making an album. Unable to cover his expenses, Nat essentially provides for both of them- to Aurora’s great displeasure.
December- Aurora starts teaching kids after school at a Boys and Girls Club about science.
Aurora graduates with her Ph.D in Pharmacology and Medical Degree. She immediately starts working for a local hospital to do research on medications.
November: After providing for Alec long enough, Nat ends her relationship with Alec. The break-up is quite messy, and eventually, the police have to escort Alec off the property, and Natalie is granted a restraining order.
March- While at a bar with Natalie, Aurora meets she meets a nurse named Tatiana Friedmann. They bond over their interest in science. They start talking every day.
April- Tatiana asks Aurora out romantically, and the same day asks Aurora to move in with her. Despite her friends concerns, Aurora agrees.
June- Tatiana and Aurora start getting into weekly fights about Aurora’s job.
September- Aurora steps down from teaching kids due to Tatiana’s complaints. Aurora starts to isolate herself from her friends.
April- Aurora has to take two weeks off of work (despite Tatiana’s complaints) due to what she thinks is a cold. She suffers from a mild fever, nausea, dizziness, vomiting, and stomach pain. Despite still feeling unwell afterwards, she feels guilty for taking off of work due to Tatiana’s complaints and returns back to work.
May- Aurora thinks she gets her first migraine when she continues to suffer from a headache, but starts to become sensitive to other stimuli. Blakeboth begin to question if Aurora is sick with something that is not a cold. Aurora insists the migraine and cold are separate and ignores their concerns.
June- Despite years of being completely stable, Aurora relapses into her anorexia nervosa. Tatiana yells at her for being that selfish, so Aurora doesn’t inform Natalie about this. Late in the month, Aurora seeks out a mental health professional after she starts hearing voices telling her that she should harm herself.
July- Early into the month, Aurora agrees to go with her friends to the bar. However, when Natalie arrives at Aurora’s home to pick her up, she finds her hiding in the kitchen. Aurora begins insisting that ‘they’ are hiding in her attic, and that ‘they’ want to kill her because she didn’t work out the day before. Natalie immediately realizes something is wrong, and they call emergency services. While Natalie is explaining over the phone what is going on with her friend, Aurora slumps into the floor and has a seizure. Aurora is admitted to the local hospital where she quickly gets worse. Throughout the rest of the month, Aurora loses the ability to keep track of conversation, loses the ability to walk normally, and slowly she forgets who her parents are.
August- While in the midst of fighting with a nurse about her ‘pet raccoon’, Aurora starts to become breathless, and her oxygen drops. Aurora has to be put on oxygen. After this, Aurora becomes catatonic.
September- Early in the month, Natalie demands to get Aurora moved to a hospital that Tatiana does not work. After she is moved, Aurora’s fever spikes at 107.1, and she loses consciousness. This causes one of the doctors to get Aurora’s spinal fluid tested. They realize Aurora has Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis. At first Aurora starts to get worse, but slowly starts to get better.
October- Aurora returns to consciousness profoundly deaf. She is sent to a long term recovery facility where she has to learn sign language and learn to walk again.
November- While visiting Aurora at the long term treatment facility, Tatiana cries, because she feels that Aurora’s friends purposefully tried to make her look bad by getting Aurora moved to another hospital. She accuses Aurora of manipulating Natalie into hating her, and she dumps Aurora for being ‘toxic.”
May- One of Aurora’s friends texts a group chat that she can no longer stay silent, and she starts texting about how awful Aurora was for abusing Tatiana. She then blocks Aurora. Slowly, many of Aurora’s friends (other than Blake) start to distance themselves from her.
August- Aurora is able to walk enough with a cane enough that she returns back to her home in Stanford.
November- Aurora can walk on her own- though with pain if she walks too long. This pain never leaves her.
March- After years of ostracization, Aurora takes Natalie advice and she moves back to San Diego to get away from Stanford. She becomes a Professor at the University of San Diego.
September- Natalie, tired of California, begins to look for out-of-state jobs. Finding a location needing a Pediatric Surgeon in Laurel, Maine, Nat decides to apply. Shortly after the interview, she receives a job offer. After convincing Aurora that a fresh start is just what they both need, Aurora also takes a position at Sapphire Lake Hospital as a Plasma Scientist. The two women move to Laurel and rent a townhome.
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