Oh, look! It’s [Beathe Thompson]! I heard they’re [24], a [Female], use [She/Her] pronouns, have been in town for [1 week] and are actually from [Boston, Massachusetts]. They are currently working as a [Cashier at Much Ado About Books] and living in [Old Lymemouth]. You know, I personally think they look like [Kristine Frøseth], but that’s crazy, right?
BIOGRAPHY
Triggers in Bio: Divorce
Beathe Thompson was born and raised, alongside her older sister Shelby, in Boston, Massachusetts. Growing up, she was always a quiet child, whom from the time she could read had her head buried in a book. She spent a lot of time in the public library reading whenever her mother brought her along for her weekly shopping trip over the weekend it got to a point where Bea was on a first name basis with the librarians working there. She overall remembers having had a happy childhood, despite their parents almost constant fighting. She had a close relationship with her older sister, who always did her best trying to shield her from it whenever it got really bad, by playing board games or watching movies together in their bedroom. As she got older, it came as no surprise the day they finally announced that they were getting a divorce. What she hadn’t expected was for it to get as messy as it did. One day she found herself being pulled into court and asked whom she’d rather be going to live with. Already knowing Shelby had picked their father, she didn’t have the heart to let her mother be on her own, so they eventually packed up their suit cases and moved to New York.
Moving to a big a city as New York came as kind of overwhelming at first. It took a while for the shy girl to settle in and make friends, but once she did things kind of started to fall into place from there, or at least so it seemed. Her mother had just started going out with a guy she had met while attending some kind of event she had managed to get invited to and not long after he moved them to live with him in Manhattan. Her mother, always having dreamt of becoming a socialite and live a life in luxury, was finally able to take on the social scene of New York, meanwhile Bea was once again trying her best to navigate life on the Upper East Side, one that she never really found herself fitting into. Not only was she finding it hard to fit in, but she was also missing her older sister a lot as the two had kind of lost touch over the years since the divorce. She therefore found it easier to focus on her studies and grades instead of the things she lacked or missed. Once Bea graduated from high school, she was accepted to NYU on a scholarship to major in English Literature.
In college, things kind of started to fall back into place again for Bea. She started making friends again within her program and even began socializing more outside of focusing on her studies. She even attended a few parties, but she never let things get out of hand or feeling like she wasn’t ever in control. Her studies remained a priority to her, as she felt like she had too much to loose if she didn’t. When she eventually graduated with a 3.5 GPA, for the first time in her life Bea didn’t have a plan. Her mother was too busy with her new life to pay much attention to her, which she in all fairness had been since they made the move to Manhattan, or even New York in general. Her mind had, however, started to wander a lot to her sister, and eventually she reached out. She found out that she was living in Bridgeport, Maine, and after some consideration, Bea packed up some of her stuff and made the trip up there; uncertain of what the future might have in store for her.
