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[13 Jun 2008|11:50am] |
OWEN DAWSON PAYNE.
Only ten years earlier, Margaret reminisced as she obeyed her commands to "push harder," she could be found treating herself with gumdrops while listening to her grandmother tell stories of her late husband's feats overseas. From an early age she romanticized romance, twirling strands of soft blonde hair between innocent stubs of fingers. Ten years later, she thought she knew better. Born on a sunny afternoon in the middle of a picturesque New York summer, she found her child virtually fatherless, despite her fortunate snag on wealthy businessman Benjamin Addison's sleeve. Shortly after Owen's birth, the two married, though no action was taken to make the boy an Addison, as it would be for the remainder of his life. Instead, he kept the name of his true father, Payne, a man he would never meet but would always imagine, albeit secretly, could blow Benjamin out of the park. A mere few months later, the newest edition to the family was already on the way, and after baby Matt's arrival the four quickly settled in a pricey loft downtown New York.
It wasn't until Owen reached the grand age of schooling that he began to act up, taking a different approach at the traditional way of making friends. His teachers labeled him as a misfit with a bad mouth and a sharp tongue at as young as six years old. Not long after, he began taking his attitude home as well. This went unnoticed, he seems to recall, due to the fact that when his mother and Benjamin weren't finding the "oholic" at the end of "work" they were fawning over Matt in one way or another, a problem that only grew once the two became older and their personalities began to shape out. To be perfectly honest, they were complete opposites, Matt's dimpled smile gaining him every young woman's heart and Owen being simply one big cry for help after another. Surprisingly so the two got along fairly well, or rather as well as any brothers do, and found that they had actually become friends by the time Owen left for college.
Failing to admit that his days of troublemaking and partying had come to an end after high school, Owen tried to make the best he could out of being forced into Hampton by his pristine mother, who wanted nothing more than to rid of her sons; one was the spitting image of Benjamin, who had left her for another woman to move to California, another most likely the reason he left in the first place. He made sure he made contacts quick and could shove his way into any big event - that is, any that was worth his time - the second semester he'd arrived; the first he spent trying his best to get kicked out, but gave up once he'd realized exactly how much more there was to the school than was let on. "A whole side of itself it had yet to discover," he called it. Now dragging his feet through his junior year, Owen tries his hardest to unveil that side of Hampton University, Hamden, Connecticut.
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