The Conception of Samara Sierra Steward-Ellison Kimberly Steward is the daughter of Telcobuy co-founder and the chairman and founder of World Wide Technology's David Steward and his wife Thelma Steward. David Ellison is the son of Larry Ellison the co-founder, executive chairman, and chief technology officer of Oracle Corporation and his third of four ex-wives Barbara Boothe. The chance meeting of these two was one of happenstance as nothing short of coincidence or possible divination intervention could better explain how these two came together to create the miracle that would be Samara Sierra Steward Ellison. The story begins in March of 2001. Kimberly was nineteen at the time and a full-time student attending the Webster University School of Communications pursuing a degree in broadcast journalism whilst in conjunction being a first-time business owner as she had recently started her own bridal planning service. David, who had just recently turned eighteen years old two months prior was a high school senior primed to attend Pepperdine University in the fall for business and on a first-class flight returning home to California after a weekend spent in NYC. Due to a tornado warning grounding his flight home, David found himself having to buckle down in Missouri of all places. The best hotel he could find capable of accommodating him that he could find on such short notice was situated within walking distance of Webster and while a reasonably-minded person would have stayed cooped up in their hotel for the night—a restless David found himself exploring the university's campus as his own impending future had enflamed his curiosity on what college life looked like in person.
While appearing mostly abandoned at first glance due to most of the university's students confining themselves to their rooms with the approaching tornado sending most sensible people indoors, David had managed to come across a small group of students traveling through the wind and dust on their way to a small dorm party that they gifted him an invite to as David had admittedly been walking about like a lost puppy dog not quite sure where to turn to next. It was at this party that the paths of Kim and David converged and after some good conversation and a little more than a little bit of liquor—the two found themselves entangled in Kimberly's bedsheets. In the morning after with the weather now as clear as could be, David boarded a flight and the two parted ways not even thinking to exchange contact information as they both knew what happened between them was a one-time deal that was never going to be repeated again. David returned to school. Kimberly went back to being the multi-talented boss bitch that she was, and for a time, it seemed like everything had just gone back to normal. Although that normalcy didn't last long as in a matter of weeks Kimberly came to realize that she was . . . late.
Initially, Kim wrote it off as stress, which wasn't exactly an outlandish theory as she was both a full-time college student as well as a businesswoman running her own company. However, it would soon become clear that stress was not the cause of her missing cycle as the weeks passed with no visit from mother nature. With a pit in her stomach, Kimberly inevitably found herself taking a test that did indeed confirm that she was pregnant with her one-night stand's baby. The Stewards as a familial unit were heavily indoctrinated in the Christian faith and having sex before marriage was already considered a sin within itself but having a baby out of wedlock was the epitome of shameful. Kimberly had had a plan for her life and while it included having children down the line, it was intended to be far further down the line. Making a deliberate choice to not think about the predicament she had gotten herself into, Kimberly focused on her studies and business pushing the prospect of motherhood to the deepest-darkest crevice of her mind. Inescapably, time moved forward, and as the end of the school year approached Kim was out of excuses to use to occupy her mind. At this point, she was ten weeks along in her gestation, and with her second trimester on the horizon, it was only a matter of time before she would start to show. Kimberly had been doing everything in her power to put off having to think about her situtation but she was going to be returning home to stay with her parents over the summer and she knew she wouldn't be able to hide her pregnancy forever. Deciding to get it over with as soon as possible, Kimberly found the courage to disclose her secret to her parents and brother, David Steward II, over family dinner her first night back. A shock that had rendered the family speechless had fallen over the room for what felt like hours before David Sr.'s shock turned to rage that bubbled over like an erupting volcano. Her brother David had swiftly ushered Kimberly out of their father's presence as he left their mother Thelma to tend to her husband and his outburst.
David Steward was far from a simple man. Born in Chicago but raised in Clinton, Missouri, David faced poverty and discrimination as an African-American during his childhood. He had lived through the times of segregation and prided himself on being a man of great work ethic which he credited to his father and perseverance. An entrepreneur since the mid-‘80s, David had worked relentlessly over the span of decades to provide of life of stability and opportunity for his family and for his only daughter to come to him and tell him that she had gotten herself impregnated by a man who was more or less a stranger to her had been the biggest slap in the face he had ever received to date. For all the sacrifices he had made in the name of providing for his family, he'd felt betrayed by his daughter who seemed to be showing so little regard for both her future and her own personal autonomy. Life in the Steward household was at the pinnacle of tension for weeks after that dinner. David Jr. had supported his sister instantaneously. Thelma after taking a few weeks' time to ingest the news and pray on the matter had come to the conclusion that the life her daughter carried was to be seen as a blessing as opposed to a burden and cautioned her husband to temper his rage. Regardless of his feeling on the matter, a new addition to their family was fast approaching and would be here sooner rather than later and she was not about to abandon the daughter which she had carried or the baby that her baby was carrying.
As September rolled around, Kimberly who was coming to the end of her second trimester and at the point where hiding her pregnancy was no longer an option geared up to return to school. She knew what her father thought her pregnancy meant for her future but she was going to let the next chapter of her life rewrite her whole story. Kimberly had a plan for her life and she wasn't about to let one massive bump in the road derail the outcome she envisioned for herself. Before leaving for college, David came to his daughter and told her that she would have the support of her entire family going forward and while the summer had been rough the future was looking bright for the whole Steward clan. Finding it easier to attend her classes being on campus, Kimberly had lived at Webster until her water broke in the middle of her giving a class presentation. Four days into December, Kimberly gave birth to her daughter who she named Samara Sierra Steward.
Infancy and Toddlerhood (Age 0-2) Returning back to school in time to cram out her finals, Kimberly was thankful that Samara had come when she had as she now had the entirety of the break to adjust to her new role of motherhood before the start of the spring semester. To think she was now a full-time college student, entrepreneur, and single mother to a sweet bundle of joy — oh' how much her life had changed in the span of a year. Throughout her gestation, Kimberly had considered seeking out David on multiple occasions but every time ended up talking herself out of it. On a selfish level, there was a large part of herself that wouldn't admit that she just didn't want to share her daughter with him, and then there was the logical part of herself that tugged at her emotionally that knew that father-and-daughter had the right to get to know one another. Regardless of her feelings, the fact of the matter was that she reasonably wouldn't have even known where to begin when it came to tracking David down as her memory of the man was murky at best and she didn't even have any contact information on the guy. So, she chose not to think about it or him. Turning her sole focus to being the best mother she could to her newborn.
It had been decided whilst she and her family were in the delivery room after Samara was born that Kimberly would move back in with her parents so she could receive their full support while when she went back to school. Thelma would watch baby Samara while Kim attended school and although she wasn't exactly struggling financially due to her own steady stream of business, David made it clear that he would provide all monetary support for both mother and baby for the foreseeable future — or at the very least until his daughter graduated from college. Kimberly while grateful for her parents' willingness to be her shoulder to lean on in her time of need couldn't help feeling like a burden. However, with no father in the picture and her schedule and list of responsibilities being beyond stacked, she was in no position to not accept every speck of help that was being afforded to her. For all of her parents' reservations in regards to their little girl getting knocked up so early in life, they were the best damn grandparents Kimberly could have asked of them to be. Always there for both their daughter and grandchild at a moment's notice whenever Kim found herself being overwhelmed and buried by all the weighted responsibilities she held on her shoulders.
By May of 2003, before Samara was even a year and a half, Kimberly was walking down an aisle receiving her undergraduate degree in broadcast journalism. The wedding company that she had started when she was nineteen had staged more than 200 events in the Midwest and her family couldn't be prouder of her successes. Offered an internship in New York City working for W Magazine, Kimberly sold her company and in the fall of that year, she and her daughter moved to the Big Apple. While her father had offered to continue supporting through their adjustment phase as that got accustomed to the fast-paced life of New York, Kimberly refused feeling it was time for her to officially cut the dependant tether she had to her parents. She herself was a mother and she felt the time had come for her to be one without her parents waiting in the wing to swoop in and coddle her at the first sign of a struggle. That sense of security was the first thing Kimberly instantly missed once the hardships started in. Working an internship at a bustling magazine whilst tiring to be an attentive single-mother to an energizer bunny in pampers was more than the struggling nearing twenty-two-year-old had bargained for it to be.
After one massive meltdown that saw her on the phone crying to her mother about what a failure she felt she was because of how hard it all felt had Thelma boarding a flight to help her daughter get her life in order. Thelma stayed in New York with Kimberly and Samara for over a month until Kim had a full grasp of her bearings. When the time inevitably came for her mother to return home to St.Louis, she convinced Kimberly that hiring a full-time would be in the best interest of both her and her daughter. Kim had admittedly considered the thought before, but the fact that her parents had never needed the assistance of paid help to raise her and her brother had kept her from hiring one. But, Thelma reminded her hardheaded child that unlike herself and her father who had each other along with the support of the church to help them raise their unruly children — Kimberly was a single mother, and her village lived states away in Missouri. Unless she was willing to leave New York and build a life for herself and her daughter closer to home, she would need to buy what support was readily available to her. Craving under the weight of her mother's superior level of sense, Kimberly did hire a nanny to aid her in attending to Mara's needs. It had been a bitter pill to swallow, but it had been a necessary one that she didn't come to regret making.
Early Childhood (Age 2-6) The employment of a full-time nanny made a world of difference for Kimberly as she was better able to split her time between her child and her career. She by no means became an absentee parent but having the added help in the house meant that everything didn't always fall on her to do — at least not where Samara was concerned. As the years passed, life for the mother-daughter pair became more seamless and routine. During the major holidays along with birthdays that rolled around, they would go back to St.Louis to spend them with family. Occasionally, Kim's parents, brother, or all three would visit her and Mara periodically whenever they had the first time to do so. Life was more or less as balanced and streamline as things could be. Kimberly was steadily adding a variety of names to the repertoire of magazines under her belt and had transitioned from the advertising and marketing side of the magazines that she worked on to the editorial side.
In September of 06, although Samara was only two months shy of turning five, the private school that Kimberly had her heart set on enrolling her into would not accept Samara into the school as her December birthday prevented her from making the hitting the required age requirement for enrollment. While Kim could have placed her into a different school for the time being and transferred her the following year for the first grade, because most of the new students that entered the Trinity School did so in kindergarten, spaces for grades one to four were far more limited and harder to get. The Trinity School being one of the top-rated, private, Christian schools in all of New York made it one that Kimberly was deadset on having Samara attend, and to guarantee that she did Kim held off on enrolling Samara into school. While Samara's nanny didn't disagree with Kim's thought process or decision when it came to keeping Mara out of school for another year, the woman did feel that it was important for Samara to get involved in some activities as she felt the four-year-old needed to start socializing with peers in her age group. Adhering to the nanny's discernment, Kimberly enrolled Samara into various recreational classes; swimming, dancing, singing, and a theater company that accepted kids her age.
The Atlantic Acting School is where Samara first discovered her love of theater. Kimberly herself, as well as her mother, were huge film buffs as in her own childhood Thelma had introduced Kimberly to master moviemakers such as Ingmar Bergman, Stanley Kubrick, and Alfred Hitchcock; which imprinted Kimberly with an appreciation for films. Mara was at this age too young to comprehend the works of those men, but what she did understand was that she greatly enjoyed the craft of acting and all that it entailed. Her mentors at the school were blown away by Samara's innate talent and encouraged her mother to consider letting Mara really pursue acting as the child clearly had a gift for the trade. Taking the critiques of these experts seriously, Kimberly broached the subject with Samara a short while after her fifth birthday. Overjoyed by the prospect of getting to be a real-life movie star, Samara pleaded with her mother to let her try. Putting her plans of enrolling Samara into Trinity on the backburner, after New Years, Kimberly moved to California with Samara to allow her child to try her hand at acting.
Middle Childhood (Age 7-11) As the New Year of 09' came and went, a seven-year-old Samara had taken Hollywood by storm and was said to be the best and hottest child star on the scene. In the years that had passed since she and her mother had arrived in California, Samara had played a guest-starring role on four television shows one of which was Barney and Friends which had been a big deal for Samara personally, starred in a series from 07' to 08' that had just recently come to end and been aired on Disney Channel, and got to star in eight separate movies, playing minor roles in two, a supporting role in three, one of which was her first animated movie and time voice acting ever, and lead roles in the other three and had her acting alongside Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson. Things couldn't have been any more idyllic. While Samara had never gotten to go to Trinity or any other school for that matter, her mother had hired a governess to homeschool her as it was more conducive to her Mara's work schedule. While Samara had been prospering in her career as a blossoming starlet, Kimberly was once again in a transitional stage as she was in the process of developing a new creative agency with another former editorial stylist that she had worked with in the past.
As much as Samara was enjoying her career and happy with her life in California, she was ready to slow down with her acting as she was starting to miss just being a regular girl. Her acting career had hit the ground running which hadn't allowed a lot of time for adjusting to all the things that came along with overnight notoriety. Now she had an agent that always seemed to be constantly booking her for the next venture. If she wasn't on the set for a movie or show, she was on a press junket being interviewed, hosting a meet and greet to crazed fanfare, or signing autographs for those same fans, or she was at a photoshoot for one teen magazine or another, there was also the carpet walks and annoying paparazzi that stalked her to get whatever photos she didn't take willing for the magazines that already had her picture on it. While she was an actress, she was also still a child, and while there were still definitely enjoyable parts about stardom; she was getting burned out by all the other requirements that came along with it. Over the course of that entire year, the only acting she had done was the voice acting of two characters on two episodes of a children's show called Special Agent Oso. Samara was tired. As she prepared to broach the subject about taking a break from acting to focus on attending an actual school for the first time in her life, a bomb was dropped on her mother just as the year was coming to a close; David Ellison had had her served with custody papers.
The now twenty-six-year-old David Ellison had lived something of an eventful life since last seeing Kimberly all those years ago. While he had ended up going to Pepperdine University as he had intended, he'd quickly transferred from that school to the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Ultimately he ended dropping out of college altogether in favor of launching his own production company called, Skydance Media. The company's first film that they had ever financed had flopped horrendously in 06'. This had sent David down a deep hole of depression that had taken himself some time to pull himself out of. However, David and his company were now on the verge of making quite the ironic Hollywood comeback. His company had just finished signing a five-year co-financing, production, and distribution agreement, with Paramount Pictures and was about to start production on a new movie. He was in a happy relationship with a woman he was planning to build a future with and all of a sudden his world stopped when one of his casting directors mentioned a role he thought could be filled by a child actress by the name of Samara Steward. The last name had seemed familiar enough that David had looked into it to find out that the child's mother was a woman he had slept with nine months before her birthday. When he had dug deeper he had found no information on Samara having a father or her mother ever being married . . . the wheels became to turn in his head as he drew his own conclusions. While he couldn't prove it, the timing was just too coincidental for him to dismiss. He had a daughter.
Neither the Ellisons nor Kimberly wanted to make this private matter a public spectacle as it would have only served to harm all parties involved — specifically and most importantly Samara which no one wanted. The discovery that she had a father who Kimberly knew was out there and was actually fighting to be a part of her life cause a massive rift to be wedged in between the mother and daughter. Samara was irate with angry and Kimberly for all her explaining just kept coming off as the bad guy in Samara's eyes. Kimberly offered to send her to stay with her grandparent in Missouri while she and David worked things out behind the scenes but Samara rejected her proposal. Samara wanted to go to school and she didn't want to do it in California. Samara couldn't remember a time in her life that she had ever been as angry with her mother as she currently was. The prospect of getting the opportunity to know her father had her feeling too many ways to process and she just didn't want to deal with anything anymore. It had been a tricky process as the time of year made things difficult, but Kimberly did end up being able to send Samara away to a boarding school in Switerzland called Le Rosey.
From 2010 to 2013, Samara cut off all communication with her mother safe for whatever limited words were passed through them via her uncle or grandparents' lips. Pushing her mother away had meant she subsequential had always ended up having to push her mother's family away as it was the only way to guarantee full avoidance. But, she kept in contact with them through a phone call, occasionally mailed gifts, and birthday Skype sessions. Due to her age at the time and her being able to vocalize her own thoughts and opinions, Mara had been brought in during her parents' discreet custody battle and told the lawyers involved that she wanted to get to know her father. Taking it a step further she had said that she had wanted to live with him. Whether or not she had said that more out of a genuine desire to what to get to know the man or more so because she just wanted to hurt her mother was hard to say, but in the end, her mother hadn't fought anymore after Samara said that. Samara hadn't actually expected her mother to relinquish her into her father's care but she had. And along with that, David's name had been added to her birth certificate and Samara's last name was legally hyphenated to include the surname of her father, thus Samara became . . . Samara Sierra Steward-Ellison.
This all and all hadn't been too big of a deal on one hand as with Samara enrolled in boarding school she wasn't going to be living with him full-time. However, that within itself didn't make things any less awkward when she did inevitably have to go home to California for the first time. Incredibly uncomfortable all around for Samara, David, and his girlfriend Sandra; things did get progressively better as the days turned to weeks. Samara would hadn't wanted to put his career on the shelf entirely did film a Christmas at this time which gave her a viable excuse to get out of the house whenever things hit that point of uneasy silence. In 2011, David and his girlfriend tied the knot and Samara had gotten to be a bridesmaid in the wedding, which was . . . nice. Eventually, things got easier and Samara found herself getting really attached to her father, stepmom, and the rest of the Ellison clan. If she allowed herself to think about it too much, there was an ache in her heart for the determination of her relationship with her mother. But, like her mother, Samara was stubborn and couldn't bring herself to be the one to mend the wedge between them. So, Mara didn't deal with it. She focused on the new projects that found their way to her, her education at Le Rosey, and bonding with the family that she'd been kept from for the better part of her life due to her mother's selfish decisions.
Adolescence (Age 12-18) In the years that followed, Samara's career didn't slow down even with her attending her boarding school for a good chunk of the year. Every break no matter how big or small she found herself either guest-starring in popular television series or filming movies. She couldn't work on series anymore as her schedule didn't allow her the time, but even so, she was able to keep her name relevant in Hollywood. In Switerzland, she still wasn't on speaking terms with her mother but spoke to her father and grandpa Larry almost every day. Along with frequent chats, they'd constantly send her care packages full of her favorite treats and designer goods that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to the envy of her peers. The thing about Rosey was that the majority of the children that attended came from money, status, or a combination of the two; but none came from the kind of wealth or status that Samara did. This is why, by the time she was a high school sophomore she was officially running things — the crowned Queen of Le Rosey. Far from being a standard occurrence, it didn't matter if the people in her vicinity were in grades below or above her, they all wanted the privileged and esteem of being able to say that not only did they know but that she was someone they could call a friend.
As a Queen, Samara wasn't exactly an outright "mean girl", but she definitely knew how to manipulate people and situations to her will. The fact of the matter was that the student body at Rosey craved her approval, attention, and affection and she knew how to weaponize their need for validation. Letting the power and notoriety go to her head, Mara ruled that school with a silver-tongue and a smile. Which was all fine and well until tragedy struck at the end of the year. A scholarship kid who for whatever reason thought it was wise to let it slipped that he had a crush on Samara ended up on the receiving end of relentless harassment and on most days some level of assault. Did Samara have the power to step in and rectify what was going on in her school? Of course, she did. But, she didn't. This being mainly due to the fact that the main person leading the charge in all the foulness was her boyfriend and she ultimately allowed herself to write it off as "guys being guys". It was her problem.
As the school year came to a close and parents and other family members alike came to collect their children for the summer. Word spread through the campus like wildfire of a suicide that had taken place on campus that turned out was of the boy who had had a crush on her. Rumors that a really cruel "prank" had been played on the boy days earlier and while Samara hadn't been there personally she had gotten the full rundown on what had occurred. Her now, ex-boyfriend had been the main culprit and Samara had felt guilty for having not gotten involved sooner, although if she had known what the end result would have been she'd definitely felt she would have. The whole ordeal was traumatizing to say the less and once she was off that campus she made it clear to her father that she wouldn't be returning to it in the fall. She cut off all communication with her former classmates and peers blocking anyone who attended the school from her social media accounts and contacts. Her family could tell she had been incredibly shaken by the whole experience but no one could get her to open up to them. Her father had offered to get her a therapist but she had shut him down saying she didn't want to discuss it and so he dropped it. David and Samara had never had to endure any real strife before and outside of buying her things and spending time with her just hanging out, he had no real experience being a dad — to Samara, her dad was a friend, not an authority figure.
Over the duration of that summer, Samara began having nightmares and as a way to cope with the stress and guilt, she felt turned to popping pills and alcohol. She was careful when it came to how she explored her vices as she had heard of the share of horror tales revolving around child stars like her who would just end up derailing their lives for one reason or another. During the day she'd go to set and do her work but at night she'd end up drinking until she either got drunk enough that she wouldn't dream or stayed up all night by taking Adderall or caffeine pills. As the fall approached and her father began to bring up new schools in California that she could attend, Samara outright told her father that she was done with school. She didn't need it. Her dad was a college dropout. As was his sister and father and they'd all turned out just fine. Plus, people went to school to get an education so that they could get a career; Samara already had a career. One that she had been working for almost a decade and won several awards for. She didn't need college. She didn't need high school. Fuck it all!
David was understandably at a loss and unsure of how to handle the situation. He had attempted to talk Samara into doing homeschool again but she all but gave him the finger on the matter. The situation was a tricky one for David as he was never the type of parent to chastise his daughter nor did he think she would listen to him if he tried. Samara was two years shy of being eighteen and while her father currently provided for her in all actuality she didn't need him. Having been working in the industry for as long as she had, Samara while not wealthy was rich in her own right. She could walk out of his house on any day of the week and be just fine. With his back against the wall and no other options at his disposal, David called Kimberly as she was the only person he thought could get their daughter back on the right track. Unfortunately for David, Mara found out what he was up to before her mother could arrive in California from where she now lived in Ohio and she took off.
Samara went country-hopping. Just traveling across the globe of her own accord. In the end, her grandfather Larry tracked her down in Bermuda, and while David had qualms about reprimanding his daughter Larry had no such issue. This led to Samara being brought to tears. Larry being the ultimate softy when it came to Samara didn't make her return to California with him as he'd originally been set to do when he boarded his jet to go and find his wayward grandchild. Instead, the two talked, and by the end of their discussion, he was having her flown to his island resort in Hawaii under the agreement that Mara engaged in therapy four times to week to help her get herself back in order. Therapy had been a tremendous help for Samara and it was also what led to her and her mother being brought back together again. As it was her therapist that felt that after almost a decade spent apart it was time for the mother and daughter pair to come together. In July of 2019, for the first time in nine years, the two sat down together to hash out things between them. There was some screaming involved. A lot of apologizing done and said on both sides. And enough tears to flood the whole damn island. But, when everything was said and done, Samara had her mother back and she couldn't have been more relieved to have her back in her life.
Instead of returning back to California, Samara felt that she needed to take time to repair her relationship with her mother and decided to move in her with her in Columbus, Ohio. Kimberly had settled down in Ohio, a year after Samara had decided to go live with father and she'd realized her daughter wouldn't be coming back to her any time soon. While she flew back in forth from Ohio to California for work purposes, she was far happier living far away from the bustling cities of both Manhattan and LA and she felt that a slower pace of life would be as beneficial for Mara as it had been for her. One of the first things that had to be hashed out between mother and daughter once Samara had gotten herself situated in her new home was the topic of her education. Due to the year that she had taken off, she was now behind, and while everyone on her father's side of the family safe for her grandmother were college dropouts, a two-time dropout in the case of her grandpa Larry, the Steward side of her family took education seriously and her not getting a diploma was not going to be an option if she was going to be living under her mother's roof. The first thought was for Samara to take up homeschooling again, she'd done it in her youth and was accustomed to the way that things worked. But, Mara didn't want to go that route. Homeschooling made since when she was acting because of the flexibility it allowed during filming. Now though, she was currently taking a hiatus from her work and if she didn't have a physical school to go to she feared she become a hermit never leaving the house.
Kimberly offered to enroll her into Liberty High, but Samara once again refused. Liberty had a reputation for being a more . . . high caliber kind of school and it gave off Le Rosey vibes for Samara which she was highly against getting involved with again. Doing her own research into schools in the vicinity of her area, Samara found and told her mother she wanted to go to Rosefell. Kimberly was somewhat apprehensive given that the school didn't have the most stellar of reputations as Liberty had had, but she didn't outwardly voice her concerns as she was just happy that Mara was getting back on the right track. Starting her junior year at Rosefell, Samara went into the school year with the mindset of keeping as low of a profile as possible. Of course, having a face as recognizable as hers, by the end of the first day the whole school was well aware of her existence at the school. Hearing all of the whispers of excitement and feeling all the eyes that now seemed fixated on her; Samara got home and almost ended up having an anxiety attack over it all. She didn't want the attention. It just reminded her of boarding school and that poor kid who ended up taking his own life because of her. Fortunately for Mara, her mother as a precaution had reached out to Samara's therapist from Hawaii and had the woman waiting for Samara when she got home that day. After guiding her through her anxiety, they'd talked about Samara's very apparent residual paranoia and PTSD leftover from her time at Rosey. Samara was suddenly reconsidering the idea of homeschool as she felt like turmoil was the only evitable outcome, but her therapist assured her that along as she carried and approached Rosefell differently than she had her time at boarding school history would not end up repeating itself.
So, when the following day came, Samara, taking her therapist's words to heart, walked back into Rosefell with the mindset of no longer wanting to be invisible but just better than she had been in the past. Learning from her past mistakes, she humbled herself and not carrying herself as if she was bigger or more superior to anyone else. She engaged with and opened herself up to any and everyone who approached her and at times put herself out there to others when she could tell they were interested in getting to know her but were too hesitant to approach. She got involved in the school theater and even joined cheerleading as she was no longer afraid of what being in the social mix would cause as long as she continued to carry herself with modesty. In the end, her junior year had been overall pretty amazing and when school let out for the summer she was looking forward to returning in the fall. That was until she returned to Ohio from summer breaking in California with her dad and the rest of the Ellison brood and her mother informed her the student body of Liberty would be attending Rosefell as for reasons unknown their school had been closed down.
Mara was pissed. She'd consciously gone out of her way last year to avoid going to Liberty because she didn't want to attend a school with the kind of kids that went to a school like Liberty. She admittedly began considering her options. Possibly returning to California and attending a school out there, finding a different school in her current area, or just say the hell with it and do homeschooling. But, in the end, she ultimately knew she didn't want to leave Rosefell. It was senior year, and she wanted to go through it with the friends she had made the year before. So, while she is not happy about the situation at hand; she's decided to stick out and just pray for the best.
○ David Steward Sr. ~ 69 ~ Chairman and Founder of World Wide Technology ○ Thelma Steward ~ 66 ~ Philanthropist ○ Kimberly Steward ~ 39 ~ Film Producer and Founder of K Period Media ○ David Steward Jr. ~ 41 ~ The Founder of The Lion Forge a Transmedia Studio
○ David Ellison ~ 37 ~ Film Producer, Founder and CEO of Skydance Media ○ Sandra Ellison ~ 39 ~ Singer ○ Larry Ellison ~ 76 ~ Co-founder, Executive Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of Oracle Corporation ○ Megan Ellison ~ 34 ~ Film Producer and Founder of Annapurna Pictures ○ Barbara Boothe ~ 69 ~ Philanthropist
○ Samara has two cars in Ohio; a Grey 2020 Aston Martin DB11 (1-2-3-4-5-6) and a 2020 Grey Mercedes-Benz G-Class (1-2-3-4-5-6) as well a 2019 Tesla Model X in California ○ Samara is multilingual speaking English, French and Spanish fluently ○ Samara Love Language is Quality Time, with Acts of Service coming Second, Receiving Gifts Third, Words of Affirmation Fourth, and Phyiscal Touch being Last ○ Loves to Travel ○ At Le Rosey, Samara was participated in a variety of different sports that the school offered; badminton, horse riding, dance, snowboarding, curling, water-skiing, sail, and was also apart of the school theater program ○ Favorite Snack in the World is Berco's Popcorn ○ Favorite Shows of the Moment are This is Us, Good Girls, The Boys, and Rick and Morty ○ Favorite Thing to Drink is Armand de Brignac Champagnes ○ Samara has 4 Kids' Choice Awards, 2 MTV Movie Awards, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy but lost ○ Has an Instragram (3.9mil followers), Twitter (3.2mil followers) and Snapchat (2.2mil followers) under the handle @billioniarebaby ○ Loves Designer Fruits from Japan (Taiyo no Tamago Mangoes, Densuke Watermelon,Ruby Roman Grapes, and Yubari King Melon) ○ Has a Slight Caffine Problem; Has to have at least One Cup of Kopi luwak Coffee Before Noon, Has Tieguanyin Tea After Noon, and Will Drink Starbucks Whenever ○ Lost Her Virginity at 13 ○ Traded in her occasional use of unprescribed Addrell for a More Frequently Indulgant Weed Habit ○ Madison Pettis as Faceclaim ○ Color Hex: Thought: #D4AF37 || Dialogue: #85bb65 ○ Favorite part of Halloween getting free candy and watching the first three Halloweentown movies along with Twitches and Twitches Too
