rivera, nahla onyx

[nahla rivera]

liz, s. gomez, resident
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FULL NAME nahla onyx rivera.
NICKNAMES n and africa, my cousin calls me lala and it drives me up a wall.
CURRENT AGE twenty.
DATE OF BIRTH january third, nineteen ninety one.
HOMETOWN los angeles, california.
RELATIONSHIP STATUS single.

MOTHER marley rivera (née de paul), forty three, painter.
FATHER carlo rivera, forty five, architect.
SIBLINGS ----- rivera, twenty; vienna rivera, fifteen; declan rivera, fourteen; brooklyn rivera, five.
CHILDREN none.
PETS jack, eight months, siberian husky; bella, eight months, siberian husky.

REASON FOR BEING IN NEW YORK i grew up between LA and new york city, i haven't decided which i liked the best until i started doing theatre. theatre in LA is fun, but it's nothing like doing theatre here, this city.. i don't know it's like magic, i don't have the words to describe it. it lives and breaths art. los angeles is mostly where you go to get famous on v and movies, and i might want that eventually but right now i belong on that stage.

BEST KEPT SECRETS

1. i'm allergic to peaches.
2. i have a tattoo.
3. i slept with with my director a few months back.
4. i used to stutter until i was seven.
5. i'm adopted.

GROCERY LIST

1. nutella.
2. bread.
3. tortillas.
4. red bull.
5. oranges.

MOST RECENT PURCHASES

1. hunger games trilogy.
2. condoms.
3. magazine.
4. hair color.
5. dog food.

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INTERVIEW

"nahla has been living with us since she was three years old. my sister died of an overdose and i took her in, there wasn't even a question. carlo wasn't sure he was ready for kids, especially since nahla had such an unstable life already, but she was only three, i figured another new home wouldn't matter much to her. it was as seamless as anything. it might have helped that her mother and i were twins, but when we explained to her when she could finally comprehend it was nothing to her. she's been a little wild every now and then, she's got a lot of her grandfather's spirit, something that my sister picked up more then i did, but she's a pretty good kid, i'd love her to be a little less off the walls off the time, but she's got somewhat of a level head, she can handle herself."

marley rivera, forty three.

"nahla and i fight a lot, but it's always petty. things like when i use her make up or i just show up at her apartment if i've gotten in a fight with our parents and she gets mad at me for not telling her she was coming or for leaving 'something could've happened to you!!' she can be such a worry wart some time. it's annoying, but i know she cares. don't ever tell her i told you that she's all weird about showing any kind of weakness. she broke her leg and refused to cry, you could see she was in a ridiculous amount of pain but this bitch acts like it didn't hurt at all, yeah, okay nahla. she's crazy as hell but she's a great sister."

vienna rivera, little sister

"nahla and i dated for a couple months, nothing too serious, a lot of chinese food and saturdays spent locked up in her bedroom. she's a cool girl, a little reckless, we just weren't meant to be dating. or at least dating people like each other, we were both too frenetic, you know? plus i guess i'm on of those weird guys who isn't allergic to emotion and she'd just keep it all in. you could see shit bugging her and she'd just shrug it off. got really annoying, she's not a communicator. whatever. i'd fuck her again, for sure, but further then that? nah. see her at a club i say hi, that's about it."

elias turlock, twenty two.

"nahla was a friend of my nipote, i hired them one summer and they mostly did a lot of chatting with the customers, i got irritated with them but they brought more people in, it was a busy summer. i kept both of them on until my nipote's grades started to drop. she was really friendly, easily distracted but i sold a lot of ice cream with her around. maybe a little to flirty when it came to the boys but i send one of the boys out there to work with her and she straightened up."

gaspare d'arco, sixty seven

"this bitch. oh my god, there is just... no words for the times we've had together. it's alway a party around here, even if we aren't actually out getting drunk or anything, it's just fun.you can't be sad around her, it's impossible."

yesenia cruz, twenty one.

"nahla is a fucking whore. she fucked my boyfriend a couple years back, knowing he was dating me, and when i confronted her she acted like it was no big deal, telling me i needed to learn how to keep a better handle on my man, what a cunt, right? she's a fucking mess."

lucille finley, twenty

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PERSONAL

but really, i am...

a little out of my mind. i'm not gonna lie. most of the time i have all these thoughts, just going a million miles a minute bumping around in my head, i can't sit still, and i just want to do something, anything. it's gotten me in trouble a time or do, daring the football team to pick up my neighbors prius and put it up on the sidewalk, skipping a day of class to go to the santa monica pier. i like to have fun and i love, love to laugh. i think the only time i'm ever really focused is when i'm on stage or rehearsing. i love acting, the whole process it's amazing. i love being something new all the time, touching people in some way, it's great.

and i live by...

"a wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe and leaves before she is left"

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