tw: homophobia; weed use
[name_f]Sherine[/name_f] ’ [name_f]Sherri[/name_f] ’ [name_f]Alicia[/name_f] [name_m]Holton[/name_m] (17) is the one person associated with La Petite [name_m]Mort[/name_m] who isn’t a musician…well not in the sense that she performs in the band. [name_f]Sherri[/name_f] is the producer for the group, who does the majority of the sound mixing and ensures everything has polish when going into the various tapes they’ve been experimenting with creating for a while. This arrangement came about thanks to [name_f]Sherri[/name_f] being friends with the group’s bassist, who’s been pretty much a rock in her world thanks to recent issues she’s faced.
After coming out as pansexual, Sherri’s lost someone she was once close friends with, a girl named [name_f]Leah[/name_f]. Thanks to bigotry from Leah’s family, the dissolving of the friendship was ugly on several levels, with [name_f]Sherri[/name_f] being called a number of slurs, as well as Leah’s parents framing her as a substance abuser to their daughter. The drugs that have caused further ruckus in the eyes of the Maynards’ is weed, something [name_f]Sherri[/name_f] isn’t addicted to by any means, and she’s only smoked casually with friends.
Her parents aren’t delighted by this turn of events - she’s their only child and they have high hopes for her, which they’re transparent about - but the behaviour of the Maynards’ has overcome anything else. It’s why [name_f]Sherri[/name_f] is so determined to make something of her producing talents and also hopefully put positivity into the world somehow. When [name_f]Leah[/name_f] turned on her, it wasn’t just a betrayal, but crushing in how she’d hoped for more understanding and a chance at someone she trusted breaking away from the intolerance they’d been raised around.
It’s also why Sherri’s told [name_f]Anne[/name_f] to have some more perspective when it comes to her brothers’ girlfriends - not in a mean or condescending way, but how ideals of love and the normalisation of toxicity run deeper than what seems apparent. [name_f]Sherri[/name_f] doesn’t know what she’d do if [name_f]Leah[/name_f] reached out again, but she’s blotted it from her mind given the sheer unlikeliness of that happening in her eyes.
Leah belongs to @olivelovesnames