WESLEY, natalie lennon

When most people think of Natalie they think of the girl that they see around the halls of the school. She’s that one over-achiever with a 4.0 GPA who is constantly checking to be sure that everything is going just so with her classes. More than willing to stand up to a teacher and tell them if she thinks a grade is unfair, most people think that she’s this know-it-all student who probably doesn’t think about anything other than getting ahead in life. The endless list making probably doesn’t help this situation, as she writes down just about everything so that she can remember it later on.

However, most of the students know another side of her that a lot of teachers don’t get throughout the day. Natalie isn’t just a girl who sits at home with her books and studying. She’s at almost every party and perhaps is the center of it. She loves to cut loose and just have fun. She goes to every ball game that the school hosts and is cheering loudly from the stands. She’s friendly and will hold a long conversation with just about anyone, even if they’ve just met. She’s blunt but everyone just says that it’s a part of her charm.

Most importantly, she is always thinking forward. As a senior in high school she’s constantly doing things to improve the way her college applications look and sound. So she volunteers, works and is even a teaching assistant in hopes of looking better to the colleges that she wants to apply to. After all, at the end of the day isn’t doing what you love or want to do in your life the most important thing of all?


Boy meets girl. That’s generally how all romances start. For Benjamin Wesley, it was the first day of his undergraduate career that he met and fell in love with one Christine Lennon. It was freshman orientation and Christine was the upperclassman that had been assigned to his group. A junior, she was already pretty much engaged to another man. A year later, she was dating Benjamin Wesley and the day of her graduation from college he proposed. Although he was still in college, the two married and she continued on to get her master’s degree while her husband finished out his schooling.

Three years after they married they welcomed a little girl, Adrienne Rose, to the family and she became their life. Two years after that, Christine announced that she was pregnant yet again. This is where things got a little complicated. Not long after the family celebrated the fact that they were going to have another girl, Christine went into labor at twenty-five weeks. Natalie Lennon was born at only a little bit over two pounds.

Despite a fairly dramatic start, Natalie as a child didn’t lead what anyone would consider to be a traumatic childhood. Her father went on to get his master’s and later a doctorate. Her mother followed in his footsteps not long after with getting her doctorate. Adrienne became the shining star of a child, both for her grades and excellence in sports. Natalie, much like her sister, also had a pretty easy time becoming one of those students that everyone hated. An artist and a writer, she followed quickly in her sister’s footsteps.

In junior high and high school, Natalie excelled in her classes and got involved in as many extracurriculars. She was close with her sister and actually considered her to be her best friend. When Adrienne went away to college, early acceptance, during Natalie’s sophomore year, it pretty much broke her. Although she'd made many friends over her years at school, she was still closest to her sister. Luckily some of the people she'd become somewhat close to stepped in and Natalie ended up getting really close to them. Ellis, Daniel and Jordan quickly became Natalie's support group in place of Adrienne.

Now in her senior year of high school, she’s top of her class and in the running for valedictorian. She works at the local movie theater in hopes of raising money to help with college payments. Although she was given the chance to graduate a semester early, she has chosen to stay and finish out her senior year by taking a spot as a teaching assistant to one of the English teachers.