PARALLEL UNIVERSE
Sausalito, San Francisco California
SUMMER 2021
BELLE: DE JAVU. For the past five years, Belle keeps coming back to her Aunt Lauren, whom she only calls “Lauren.” Lauren is her father’s half-sister. Nana Delia, her father’s mother, remarried a year after his grandfather passed away. His father was already in Hawaii at that time. After three years of living in the United States. Her father, Dencio, became an American citizen and petitioned her grandmother to be reunited.
Lauren, Lauren Schneider Montfort, was forced to marry Simone Montfort. Lauren was only eighteen years when she married Simone.
At sixteen, Belle moved with her Aunt Lauren to San Francisco after she graduated high school. Belle was only eleven when Lauren got married. Since then, she has never se
