In which Nate and Noelle are hidden behind masks.
OR
Noelle Bellerose is a serial heartbreaker. She can't help it. It's just natural. She doesn't have relationships. She has flings that always end in heartbreak. Just not hers.
Nate Sawyer is a lone...
I swear I've seen those eyes before, just in a different way.
"Happy Christmas, Nathaniel." My older sister, Bridget, smiles at me from the couch. Resisting the urge to roll my eyes, I smile back politely.
Bridget and her husband, Richard, are sitting on the white leather couch in the white living room in the whitest house in Connecticut; or as I call it, home.
My family is impossibly stuffy, and it bugs the hell out of me. Even our names are "white family in Connecticut": my parents, Eleanor and George, Bridget, Richard and their son, Carl. Then there's me, Nathaniel, my younger sister, Kimberly and youngest sister, Jacqueline.
Speak of the devil and she shall appear, wielding a plate of non-fat, dairy-free, sugarless and tasteless soy cookies.
"Merry Christmas, Jackie." I greet her pleasantly. Well, not so pleasantly, my eighteen year-old sister hates being called Jackie.
"Nathaniel, dear, please." Mother interrupts, sweeping into the living room. As always, she's dressed to impress, even though the only people she's seeing this morning are her children and sons-in-law. Pastel pink cardigan, white khakis and bobbed blond hair that's secured with a canister of hairspray.
"How is Hollywood, Nathaniel? I've heard about the movie you've been working on." Kimberly asks. She's like our mother's mini-me, with the same attitude, way of speaking and life. She's only twenty-five, but already married to a stuffy older man who's exactly like our father, and pregnant.
"I like it quite a bit. The movie is quite anticipated, I believe." I adopt my character, Victor's, voice when he's speaking to his superior. Thankfully, my family doesn't notice.
"I've heard it's rather dark." Richard chimes in. My brother-in-law and I aren't each other's biggest fans, but Bridget has insisted I'm to tolerate him.
"Yes, but I'm sure you'll be fine." Another reason Richard doesn't like me is because I was using his computer once and stumbled on files of hardcore S&M porn disguised as business documents. I told him about it, obviously, and he made me swear not to tell Bridget. But he knows I know, and could tell her, so he despises me.
"I'm sure." Richard gives me a look with enough hatred to kill, and I look away. He, Bridget, my parents and Kimberly start a conversation about golf, or boats, or old white people with country club memberships.
I stand up and leave the room, trudging upstairs to my own bedroom. I still have my own room, from when I lived her for nineteen years of my life, and it hasn't changed from 2008.
Flopping down on my bed, I unplug my phone from the charger and read a message from my best friend, Ben.
From Ben: happy christmas, old chum
To Ben: same to you, buddy man
I open BuzzFeed now and a headline catches my eye.
Noelle Bellerose and Sara Sampaio are officially friendship goals at Christmas.
Today, our hearts were blessed by posts from Victoria's Secret Angels Sara Sampaio and Noelle Bellerose, now known as Your Friendship Goals For All Eternity.
Earlier, Bellerose shared this sweet snap of a new puppy, gifted as a Christmas present from Sampaio.
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Following that, Sampaio posted a pic of a beautiful necklace that Bellerose had given her.
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The necklace happens to be 18K gold from Tiffany and Co., valued at around $800.
Eight hundred dollars? Jesus. The most I got my family was a set of earrings for my mum, and even those were only a hundred dollars.
Who the hell even is Noelle Bellerose, if she's spending eight hundred on a friend?
Google will know. Google knows everything.
Noelle Bellerose is a French model, known best for her work for Calvin Klein and Victoria's Secret.
Modelling Statistics: Height: 1.8m (6 feet 0 inches) Eye Colour: Brown Hair Colour: Brown
Early life: Noelle Marie Thérèse Bellerose-Paxton was born on December 3rd, 1991, in Paris, France, to businessman Pierre Bellerose and Nadia Paxton, a secretary. She has five half-siblings by her father. Her parents divorced when she was ten and Bellerose lived with her mother until she was eighteen.
I skip the career bit, being a VS Angel and working for Calvin Klein is enough for me, and open the tab on personal life.
Bellerose is dyslexic. As a result, she has to memorize lines by having someone read to her for all commercials and ad campaigns.
Bellerose is close friends with actress Charlotte Winter and director Andrew Petrova, she frequents the Petrova Galas.
Bellerose dated actor Kyle Harding from March 2010 to January 2011. She started dating male model Mark Neil in April 2011 and they got engaged in February 2013. On July 8th, 2014, it was reported the couple had separated.
Bellerose is also close friends with fellow Victoria's Secret Angels Sara Sampaio, Elsa Hosk, Jasmine Tookes, Josephine Skriver and Taylor Hill.
The picture in the Wikipedia article seems familiar, an image from what I assume is a Victoria's Secret catalogue, of a stunning young woman in athletic wear. She's tall and statuesque, with warm brown eyes and matching hair. Tan skin and long eyelashes set off the look and, somehow, I feel like I've seen her before.
