FULL NAME: Bailey Gilcrest
DATE OF BIRTH: August 15th, 1981
BIRTHPLACE: Chicago, Illinois
OCCUPATION: Executive Chef/Restaurant Owner
PLACE OF RESIDENCE: Old Port
TRIGGER WARNINGS: spousal death, childbirth complications, depression, alcoholism, drug abuse
Matthew Gilcrest was born and raised in the heart of Chicago, but resided in the suburbs and was the only child of Thomas and Rebecca Gilcrest. They were two hardworking, young parents who had no business having a child and starting a family. So as a teenager in high school, William made a promise to himself that as soon as he found the one, he would tell her how much he wanted a big family so his kids would never feel the loneliness he felt.
Matthew went onto bigger and better things after high school, he went to New York University to study business and medicine, getting his doctorate degree but had changed his mind one day when volunteering at a local fire station, and decided to become a firefighter instead of a doctor. It was a tough decision, but the young man knew that becoming a firefighter was what he wanted to do and accomplish in life. During a call one night, Matthew met the love of his life while dropping off a victim at the nearest hospital. She was beautiful and Matthew knew from the moment he looked at her, he knew that she was the one. Victoria Anderson was the doctor on call when he dropped off his vic, and the moment the two started talking she knew as well that Matthew was the one for her. It was a while before Matthew finally got up the courage to ask her out, when he did they dated for a few years. It was on their second anniversary that Matthew realized Victoria was the one he wanted to spend the rest of his life with and create that big family with he’s always wanted. Thankfully she had felt the same, and when he proposed Matthew was beyond happy that she said yes to both of those things.
After a year of marriage together, William and Victoria had welcomed their first son into the World, they decided to name him Charles William Gilcrest but call him Charlie for short. He was their most prized possession, their perfect thing. The first two years with their son was great, and it was no surprise that Victoria had announced one Thanksgiving that she was pregnant with her second and as it was another boy, they named him Bailey. After their second son had arrived, they announced to their families again that Victoria was pregnant with her third, but this time a girl and named her Taylor Elizabeth Gilcrest and finally when they were done, well they thought they were done, William and Victoria had welcomed her fourth and final child. Another beautiful baby girl, whom they decided to name Gracie Danielle Gilcrest. They were now done and they were happy.
Bailey Lukas Gilcrest was brought into this World on a hot August afternoon, the 15th to be exact bak in 1981. The moment Bailey opened up his big beautiful eyes, and gave his parents a small smile, Victoria and William knew that he was going to be their golden boy. For some reason, Victoria and William knew that Bailey was going to be the most successful one. He grew up loving basketball and baseball, and he got along well with his siblings. They were his best friends, though he’s very close with Gracie. Bailey did good in school, getting straight A’s and never missing a day. School was one of the most important things to him, unlike his siblings but being a Gilcrest he had to follow in his older brothers footsteps, and he was quite popular. It wasn’t his favorite thing as Bailey was more of an introvert, but he did have two best friends and fell in love his freshman year.
He met the love of his life in the middle of freshman year of high school, her name was Noora Watson. She was beautiful, she was a cheerleader and he was the lead basketball player. They were young, but Bailey and Noora knew that they wanted to spend the rest of their life with one another. Throughout high school, they were known as the “it” couple, the “romcom” couple and the two were fine with it. His studies was still the most important thing to Bailey and he stayed on top of his game. It wasn’t until his Junior year when he broke his foot after a snowboarding accident, and had some time off from the game. Bailey spent some time with his mom and realized how much he loved to cook and bake. More so on the cooking side, and then it wasn’t until his Senior Year when he got accepted into Johnson & Whales University in Rhode Island and wanted to study Culinary.
Still dating Noora, and still falling in love with her they stuck to it through their entire time throughout college. Sticking mainly to his studies and being super focused on his culinary classes, it was in his Senior year that Bailey decided after the two graduated and were living together, he was going to propose. She had brought it up once on a date and Bailey was happy she had mentioned it first, even though he wanted to propose since their senior prom. However that’s exactly what he did, after Bailey and Noora’s senior year of college, he proposed to her and thankfully she said yes. Being engaged for a year, they finally got married, and being married for two years, Noora surprised Bailey by telling him she was pregnant. He was so excited to become a father, and she was so excited to become a mother. Everything was perfect, Noora was healthy and the baby was heathy. However, when 9 months hit and she was ready to give birth to their beautiful baby girl, no one saw it coming. Sadly, the baby didn’t make it and neither did Noora.
He wasn’t sure why this would happen if they were both healthy, but unfortunately the Doctor said this does happen quite often. Bailey was devastated, he was devastated and angry. He lost the love of his life and his beautiful newborn daughter, and Bailey fell into a deep depression. At the time he drove himself into work and stopped talking to his friends and family. He became the youngest executive chef at a restaurant after running away to London, trying to get a fresh start. He was the first at 26 to receive five stars for his cooking, and most people would say he was like the Luke Skywalker of Culinary. However, his depression snuck up on him every once in a while. He would get wasted throughout the day, spend a few hours at work and then leave and get into bar fights purposely, while buying drugs to get high to forget about the pain he felt after loosing the love of his life and his newborn daughter. When Bailey got fired after going into his job wasted one night and stealing alcohol, he decided that this wasn’t the life Noora and his family wanted him to live. So he realized he had to start fresh, and realized he had to make amends with the people he hurt. It took him a couple of years, but he finally started over and settled down in a new place. Finding Fordbay, Canada was the best thing for him, he started from scratch and opened up his own Restaurant, an Italian cuisine over looking the city. It was peaceful and Bailey was proud of it.
WRITTEN BY: Brooke, 24, She/Her, EST
