#the twins didn't even take their gcses

[zot3-flopped]

Same anon about jay/louis i honestly always felt like jay wanted the fame more, because like you said she was always making her kids audition and be in things. She let Lottie drop out and travel with 1D

I read Lottie's book and she had no choice but to drop out of school after her GCSEs because she didn't get the grades needed to go into the sixth form with her friends!

[katy-books]

Poll results.

I posted this poll because I wanted to know if I was the only 'misery guts'.

It was both sad and interesting to read the reblogs by others like me who'd rather skip the day altogether. So, here's mine if anyone's interested.

I hate my birthday. I've always hated parties and, thankfully, my mum knows me well enough to have never thrown me a surprise party (I used to be genuinely afraid that she would). That being said, if I liked parties I feel like my birthdays would have been easier to celebrate. It started for me when my birthday went from being in the summer holidays to being on a work day, at a job I hated and at which I was bullied to near suicide. Part of it was that the person whose birthday it was had to bring in cake for everyone else. I always took my birthday off after that first time but I still had to bring cake for everyone and the mess I always came back to (I was in charge of the filing system) meant it was probably more stress than it was worth to take a couple of days off. The several years I was there pretty much killed birthdays for me. But I could enjoy birthdays again after I was made redundant though right? Nope. A couple weeks before I left, our jack russell died. He would always help us (I'm a twin) unwrap our presents and then cover the floor in shreds of wrapping paper. Without him there, unwrapping things felt too quiet. That was 7 years ago and I still get that empty feeling when I unwrap presents. It's worth mentioning here that I can't drive due to epilepsy. This year I finally convinced my mum to not wrap me any presents. I wanted a day out in Scarborough to see an event at the castle with her and my little cousin (which also meant her mum who I have a toxic relationship with but my mum would probably distract her anyway) and that's it. But our shih tzu was ill so we had to cancel, and then uncancel, but in the span of a few hours my little cousin's mum had decided it was a waste of time. There were a lot of reasons this got complicated but her attitude was dog shit. I ended up going just with my mum to the Scarborough Castle event last minute because my twin brother insisted we go even though I said I didn't want to anymore. It was good but I didn't enjoy it as much as I should have. I saw the little cousin (she's not little anymore she's 17 😅) a couple of days later - turns out she was travelling on the train to Scarborough by herself a couple of days after my birthday and then going on to meet her parents in Whitby. I went on the train with her to keep her company and we spent a few hours walking around Scarborough together. It was lovely to see her but nothing about any of it went to plan. This wasn't the first time her mum had a dog shit attitude towards my birthday. Last time it was when I wanted to see a movie and go to a pizza restaurant. Her mum cancelled because she was angry that her daughter had called me about her GCSE results before calling her. When we eventually met up on the beach she wouldn't speak to me or even look at me. My presents from her that year were a rock she drew on with sharpie and a battered box of paper napkins (it's not a poverty thing before anyone thinks that). The most tragic thing about it is that we were very close when I was a kid. We drifted apart a little when I grew up but she seemed eager for me to spend time with her daughter, until she wasn't. I don't know when that changed or why but nevertheless I'm fairly certain she hates me now. For the sake of her daughter, who I'm still close with, I try to be delightful. Another birthday day out was ruined by my aforementioned twin brother. I delayed my birthday trip until October because I wanted to go to a nature reserve in autumn. My brother and I have periods of difficulty and I specifically wanted it to just be me and my mum. Nope, he decided he had to come with us but he wouldn't come for the walk. Then he decided he was coming for a bit of the walk. Then when he went back to the car and called every half an hour to ask how long we'd be. It was several miles and I was taking photos. It was going to be a while. The final reason I don't like my birthday is that I'm 31. Each birthday represents another wasted year with zero accomplishments and a ticking clock on my ability to have a child.

Basically, I miss our jack russell, my birthday is never about me, I don't want to celebrate getting older and I hate the social pressure to do so. The existential dread probably isn't helped by years of depression either.

For the record, I don't hate all birthdays. I really enjoy buying presents for the people I love. I just hate my birthday and, when I meet new people in future, I'll probably refuse to tell them when my birthday is.

[growingupsandy]

Today I step into my 30s.

I thought so much more would have happened by now but I also didn't imagine so much could have happened.

There's still so much pressure on having your shot together at 30. Being married, having a kid, being on a solid career path, owning a house.

None of it matters.

Honestly.

There is no right way to do things, there's no timeline, no hard stop. You're allowed to change jobs, switch careers, go back to school, study online, go traveling, break up with that person, ask out that other person, make new friends, leave old relationships behind, move to a new country, take that chance, have a baby, don't have a baby, get married, don't get married, move in together, get a cat, get a dog, get a ferret.

As long as you can do it, as long as you are able, you can do what ever you want, when you want.

I didn't do what I was supposed to. I nearly failed me A levels, I dropped out of university, I hadn't kept a job for more than a year until I was 23 and even then it was 13.5 months. I was a teacher, a librarian, an editor, a photographer and videographer, a copywriter, a social media manager and a digital campaign manager before I got to where I was going.

When I left school I had no idea what I wanted to do. When they made us choose our GCSEs in year 9 we were told they'd determine the rest of our lives. What we chose would effect the A levels we could pick which would define what university course we could do which would set us on a career path for the rest of our lives.

I was 15 and being told that I had a week to define my whole life.

Unless you want to be something like a doctor, lawyer or architect, what you study doesn't determine shit. Choose things you love, that way you'll end up in a job you love - and if you don't you can change it.

Please don't spend your teens and your 20s panicking about the future. Just trust your gut and go for what you feel is right. You cannot know where you're going to be in 10 years.

This time in 2011 I had moved back to Dubai after dropping out of uni. I was depressed, riddled with anxiety and struggling with suicidal thoughts. I knew no one, almost all my friends were at university starting their second year but I reconnected with old friends. I met my OH on a crazy night out (more on that another time).

I moved to Bangkok. I moved home. I worked in a school. I worked with my old PE teacher. I got a dog. My mum got sick, she almost died. I started a food blog. I moved into writing. I met Michelin starred chefs.

I met my twin flame. I found myself a family in an amazing group of friends. I went camping. I got a new job. I transformed a brand. I worked with amazing people. I travelled to Georgia.

I moved to England. I got a new job. I met amazing people and I'm not done yet. I'm not even close to being done, not even close to where 15 year old me thought I'd be.

There's nothing you're supposed to do in life except not be a dick.

[aquilasmoon]

The Knight Family

Patrick Knight

Full Name - Patrick Neil Knight

Birthday - 10th November 1971

Sexuality - Straight

Role in Family - Father

Age at beginning of story - 48

Juliet Knight (nee Evergreen)

Full Name - Juliet Lily Knight (nee Evergreen)

Birthday - 13th April 1972

Sexuality - Straight

Role in family - Mother

Age at beginning of story - 47

Francis Knight

Full Name - Francis "Fran" Serina Knight

Birthday - 6th December 1993

Sexuality - Bisexual

Role in family - Oldest child

Age at the beginning of story - 26

Alice Knight

Full Name - Alice Rose Knight

Birthday - 6th December 1993

Sexuality - Strsight

Role in family - Second oldest child

Age at beginning of story - 26

Samantha Knight

Full Name - Samantha "Sam" Rachel Knight

Birthday - 19th February 1995

Sexuality - Bisexual

Role in family - Middle child

Age at beginning of story - 24

Hope Knight

Full Name - Hope Olivia Knight

Birthday - 13th October 2000

Sexuality - Asexual

Role in family - Second youngest child

Age at beginning of story - 19

Chase Knight

Full Name - Chase Roman Knight

Birthday - 15th December 2003

Sexuality - Gay

Role in Family - Youngest child

Age at beginning of story - 16

Information

Patrick Knight and Juliet Evergreen were high school sweethearts. They were your typical teenage love story. Most popular in school, and prom king and queen. They got married at 19 and at 21 they had their first birth. Two twin daughters named Francis and Alice.

A year later they had their second daughter Samantha and decided that three girls was enough for them.

They brought the girls up close and throughout their childhood they were irrespirable. Fran and Alice were parically close. The two girls loved each other, they were each other's best friend and this often left Sam feeling left out. This led Sam into misbehaving to get her family's attention. She became angry whenever the twins would do something without her, even if it was something neither of them could control like joining school a year before her. Because of her anger, Alice and Fran tended to keep away from her and wouldn't want to play with her by the time she was able to join school, making Sam even more mad and lonely.

Sam was over the moon when her parents told them that they were pregnant again and hoped that her new brother or sister could be her new friend.

Unfortunately, her parents didn't let her be with Hope much when she was first born. They didn't want her to act up and scare the baby. Francis and Alice spent most of their time playing with baby Hope and trying to get her to laugh, once again leaving Sam out.

By the time Hope had been born, Patrick and Juliet felt bored. They didn't want another kid and were tired enough by having to deal with the other three. They became even more infuriated when Juliet fell pregnant again five years later. Still, despite their desire to have no more kids they still tried to raise all five of them as best as they could.

The Family lived in a 5 bedroom house in Wales by the beaches. In this house the majority of the ground floor was taken up by the kitchen, with the only other room there being a bedroom which belonged to Sam. On the first floor was the main bathroom, the twins room and the living room. The second floor had Juliet and Patrick's shared room along with Hopes right next to their and Chase with the box room.

Sam had always liked her room. With where it was in the house it meant that she didn't have to interact with her family much. She had the kitchen right at her doorstep and never really would ever need to go upstairs if it wasn't for the bathroom. Having her room on the ground floor and her parents on the top also made it easier for her to sneak out of the house without anyone noticing. The family could go a week with only seeing Sam during family meals which Juliet and Patrick insisted they had every evening.

Both twins grew up with big ambitions in their life. With Samantha acting like she was they were determined to prove to their parents thag they were better and that Sam wasn't a reflection on any bad parenting. They both tried hard in school and got amazing grades. Francis planned to become a writer while Alice wanted to be an actress, they knew thag they were hard industries to get into but both truly believed that they could do it together.

On top of thag they also helped with looking after Hope and Chase. They would babysit without question and with their parents obviously growing tired of the whole parenting thing they made sure that both of them got the same opportunity's they did like taking them to after school clubs. But when they went off to university their parents didn't bother carrying on sending them to the clubs anymore. Luckily for Hope, she had just joined High school and had her own bus pass to get herself around.

With the twins gone it felt as if Juliet and Patrick had given up in their other three kids. Family dinners were no more and they didn't even bother picking Chase up from school anymore, Samantha started picking him up and dropping him off herself as she had the free time by skipping her lessons at college.

During the time that the twins are away, Patrick and Juliet do the minimum of amount of work they have to. Hope had started to follow in Sams footsteps and misbehaves during school but doesn't seem to care considering she knows her parents won't. She also goes out with her friends a lot leaving Chase alone in the house a lot while he's only eight.

When the twins come back after their first year and see what has become of their family Fran suggests that they spend their next year at home so they can look after their family. Alice disagrees and says that it's not her problem and it won't do her any good not going back to uni. Alice believes that they have done their bit and shouldn't have to look after everyone when they can become successful.

When September comes around, Alice is the only one out of the two to go back to uni. Patrick and Juliet are furious at Fran for dropping out and call her ungrateful. They told her that if she wanted to play the parent so much then she should and refused to do anything for their kids. This made it easier for Sam and Hope who became close by Sam teaching Hope how to do make up and roll a cigarette and buying her booze. Meanwhile Chase became incredibly clingy from being left alone too many times. He wouldn't want to go into school because he was scared thag nobody would be there to pick him up and he rarely left Frans side and even spent a lot of nights sleeping on Alices old bed because he felt rejected by everyone else.

Fran takes up a few side jobs to try to pay for essentials. Luckily for her, their parents still live with them so they still payed the rent, water bill and electict but every thing else was up for Fran to buy. Hope and Sam didn't have jobs so whenever they wanted money they would go to Fran, and if Fran didn't have any money to give then they would steal off their parents. Fran knew about this but didn't bother telling them off or not to do it. She knew it would go nowhere and if she was honest she would rather them steal from them than her.

When Alice graduated none of her siblings were there. Patrick and Juliet had banned them all from attending but told Alice that they didn't want to go. Alice felt betrayed by her siblings and got into an argument with Fran about it that night. She didn't belive thag her parents would live to her.

The next morning on June 16th 2014, Fran woke up to a note stuck on her bedroom door with an envelop full of money and different bills. The note said that her parents and Alice had gone off for a two week trip to America and would be back soon.

Fran didn't think anything of it at the time.

Two weeks passed and they still hadn't come back. They wouldn't for another six years.

During those six years Fran had managed to get through to Hope and Sam pretty early on. Sam agreed to get a job and they both started to help out more. Hope started working on her school and ended up doing reallt well in her GCSEs. Their main motivation was proving to their parents that they're not failures.

Chase has started high school and was doing average. He wasn't as bad as Hope and Sam but wasn't as good as Fran and Alice.

After a year they began to run out of money and were evicted from their home. They brought a one bedroom flat not far away so Hope and Chase could continue with school. They had to sell a lot of their things and all ended up sharing one room while sleeping on matresses on the floor.

When Hope left school she got a job straight away and went into a science course for college. Fran bad ended up giving up on her dream of becoming a writer and Sam knew that she wouldn't bet a career with her grades. Hope doesn't go to uni because they can't afford it.

On January 1st 2020, Alice comes knocking on their door. Fran is ready to kick her out before she tells her that their parents had been wrongfully accused of several murders and she needed their help to clear their name.

I am fully aware that the actors don't really look that much like siblings but i did the best i could.

Also Emília is three years older then Alicia and Lily but we're just going to ignore that.

The Knight family are the main character in a book i've decided to write called The Knight Trial. So here's some info on them and their backstory.

Also now after writing all of this I low-key wanna start writing one shots about their life before the murders.