Not everyone can say theyâve been to the Big Apple, but  [ BLAKE ANYA MADDEN ], a [ 29 ] year-old [ CIS FEMALE ] has lived in [ ASTORIA, QUEENS ] for [ 7 YEARS ]. This is the city of dreams and [ SHE ] knows it, because they came to NYC to be an [ BAKER ].. Living in the city means they meet all kinds of people, but everyone always seems to think they look like [ LILY COLLINS ]. They even got away with free cab fare once because of it!  [indi, 26, GMT, n/a]
(pregnancy tw, death tw, heart attack tw, cheating tw)
Born in Los Angeles, California twenty nine years ago, Blake had a fairly normal upbringing. Living with her mother and father The Valley she showed a low of art and cooking from a young age which her parents were more than happy to encourage. Her mother worked at a bank and her father managed a car dealership, so neither of them were particularly creative but they loved to see it from their daughter. Even if they had no idea where it had originated from. When she was six Blakeâs father walked out on his family, leaving her mother and Blake alone to fend for themselves. To the little girl it had come out of nowhere, although behind the scenes the fractures in the relationship were constant. The little girl never saw the man again. Left with no one but her mother to cling to the two become increadly close, Blake considering the woman her best friend, and although things were tough they managed to carry on in a relatively normal manner. She was a bright little girl even if school was never really her favourite thing her grades remained steadily good.
It wasnât until she was seventeen when her mother had an unexpected heart attack on a routine hike with her daughter that everything really changed. She had been set to head to collage to study nutrition on a scholarship, something her mother was incredibly proud of her for. Yet her motherâs death was the jolt the girl needed to realise she didnât want to spend her life where she had been born. She wanted to see the world in some way and found a pastry two year course in Florence that would teach her European baking, the kind she had grown up seeing on tv but never really experiencing herself - an exciting prospect to say the least.
Still grieving the loss of her mother she spent every spare moment she had working two different jobs so she could save enough money for her schooling in Italy. The foreign country was a breath of fresh air for her almost as soon as the plane touched down on the tarmac, things were starting to look up for her and she was determined to make the most of the opportunity. It was a magical two years that opened her eyes to a plethora of things, but was sadly over too soon, forcing her back to the city of her birth. She worked odd jobs to keep her head above water including nannying, freelance cake baking and decorating, temping as a secretary, you name it Blake had turned her hand at it. But she missed being in a kitchen, she missed getting to be creative everyday, and longed to get back to that.
The offer of a position on the Upper East Side in New York was too good to turn down, she just couldnât refuse, and maybe getting out of LA again would be something that was good for her. That was seven years ago now and she had made New York firmly her home since then. Working at the restaurant for five of those years until she had saved enough money to set up her own business baking and decorating elaborate event cakes. Birthdays, weddings, christenings, quinceaneras, hell she will even make a funeral cake if thatâs what you really wanted. It gave her a chance to combine her creative and technical baking skills - it was a dream come true. All through this she never really had any kind of solid relationships - preferring to focus on her work. Especially when she was at the restaurant, working for hours on end at night was not exactly conducive to dating. Her love life consisted more of casual flings or short term relationships, but nothing stuck.
When she met Leo, Blake had no idea he was married. Getting involved with a married man wasnât really something she would ever want to do, but somehow the two ended up entangled in the sheets on more than one occasion and it resulted in an unexpected pregnancy. Their fling ending before she told the man seven months has now past and the only person who knows the identity of the father is her best friend Cami. The two have been close since Blake went on a holiday to Cartagena at the age of twelve with her mother and she met the other girl - they justâŠmatched. Their friendship came easily even when they were separated by extreme distance and now they live in the same city it has only gotten stronger. Excited to become a mother soon she is still full of fear that is hard to sedate sometimes. Using the creativity of her job to escape when things start getting too much she will thrust cake on friends for any occasion just to see them smile. A people pleaser in some ways. Her concerns about becoming a mother are also heavily financial, although she gets paid well for the cakes she makes they are so elaborate she canât churn them out at speed which means her money flow isnât as consistent as it might be in another job. Not shy to scour craigslist for things she might need for her new baby or her apartment.
Admittedly she has a terror of being alone can mean the woman is known to settle in various areas of her life. A true weakness of hers. She is overprotective of her friends, a little bit dramatic in a lot of ways thanks to this fear, things that arenât so bad can seem huge to her because sheâs seen things blow up so quickly in her life. Itâs the anticipatory anxiety that can hurt her. When she is frosting cakes thoughâŠwell she can be almost trance like, getting herself wound up about making sure everything is perfect on it because her baking and decorating is how she shows her love. She will try and buy friends by making them cakes, itâs her love language entirely. Birthday? She will frost you a cake. Wedding? Cake. Half birthday? Cake. Lost your job? Cake. New job? Cake. Itâs her go to for everything and everyone. In general she is an open, sweet girl who just wants to make other people smile when they are down, find her Prince Charming, and have more children so she can give her baby siblings. Ever since her mother died, breaking the only family she had and always loved so much, the girl has been determined to build another of her own.



















