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Author's Note: I've said it once - but I'll say it again, thank you so much for all of those who have read, reviewed, fave'd and alerted. I could hug you all...however since this is the internet it will never happen - still thank you! This hasn't been beta'd. Now we have Dan's baby sister...
Michaela Wheeler-Ride
1. When she was eighteen she auditioned for America's Next Top Model and got in. She's not traditionally beautiful (though her Mom says differently) but she soon discovered that modelling is much more than looks since a lot comes down to pictures and the 'walk'. She loved her brief period in the house but she realised modelling wasn't for her. She needed to do something other then pose and wear ridiculous clothes - not that that isn't fun. Occasionally though she still dreams of if she had won - but Johnny Goren says she's always welcome to walk the red carpet with him if she ever wants to get dressed up.
2. She wouldn't say she is a Daddy's girl as such...though she is really close to her dad despite the fact he was always busy with work when she was growing up but when she did spend time with him it was always awesome. Growing up was tough period. Not in the sense of abuse or anything but her parents were busy (though she still loves them), so she spent a lot of her childhood being looked after by her big brother or Grandpa Danny or sometimes Uncle Mike. In fact it was Max Logan who taught her self defence and how to dance (or rather played so much music that she couldn't help but dance) when she was thirteen. She's always been closer to her Mom's 'family' - her Dad's family are kind of uptight.
3. She figures no matter where she goes she will be babied. For example when she joined the NYPD all her squads have treated her as the little sister and it didn't help matters when Max became her squad's new Lieutenant. Actually it really didn't help at all when Maddy Goren and her partner Lola Knight from Major Case ran a joint investigation over on her turf. As much as she loves her 'older siblings' she wants to be the 'older' one once.
Just once.
4. That night made her afraid of the dark. Nothing really bad happened (to her memory) except she can still remember the chill in the air, the creak of the staircase, the leather glove over her mouth, the near blinding pain that had erupted on her head, the ringing of a phone, the smash of wood, the thud of footsteps and her Mom hugging her tightly. Her parents argued a lot after that. She heard them going at it late at night when she couldn't sleep as every shadow seemed to grab her. After that night she moved into her big brother's bedroom for a year before braving her own bedroom again. A week after she moved back into her bedroom they stopped arguing.
She's been sleeping with a night light ever since.
5. The world is painted not in shades of gray or black and white but in many colours. There are too many different people, situations, environments - how can you paint it in two? Or one for the matter? She can't see how that works. The shades don't show passion, anger, love, acceptance, depression or anything. But reds? Pinks? Yellows? Greens? Oranges? Blues? In her opinion that paints a much better picture, a more accurate one.
She imagines her own would be a swirl of yellow, red and green with a splash of blue across it all.
