Poppy Appleton

The fourth Appleton. The black sheep. The family headache. Currently studying Philosophy and disappointing The Perfect Trio since forever. 🖤

[Poppy Appleton @NotSoAppleton]

The youngest Appleton sister. The family disappointment, the resident troublemaker and the one who never quite got the memo on being part of The Perfect Trio. Studying Philosophy, making questionable choices and trying to figure life out one mistake at a time. 🖤

[Poppy Appleton @NotSoAppleton]

@VicJust_RP Let's say you can have up to three that feels fair!?!

[Poppy Appleton @NotSoAppleton]

This seems like my kind of game. Dm me with your selection and a number and I'll respond with my reaction!!

Beware, my sarcasm is on point today!

Obviously stolen.

[Poppy Appleton @NotSoAppleton]

@VicJust_RP Sorry... disagree here. Sydney gets my vote.

[Poppy Appleton @NotSoAppleton]

@VicJust_RP You got my vote sweetie. Good luck 🫶🏻

[Poppy Appleton @NotSoAppleton]

@LittleTease_ ... and again!?! Thank you so much!! 🖤

[Poppy Appleton @NotSoAppleton]

@LittleTease_ Thank you so much cutie. Really appreciate this. 🖤

[Poppy Appleton @NotSoAppleton]

@Nerina_More ... and again, thank you cutie for sharing. Very sweet of you 🖤

[Poppy Appleton @NotSoAppleton]

@Nerina_More Awwww... thank you sweetie 🖤

[Stacy @CupOSunshine_RP]

I am what you get when you mix sunshine with a tequila sunrise.

☀️Not new to RP
☀️Not hiding-in your sights
☀️Love me or hate me
☀️ Hope you enjoy the ride
☀️RT and ❤️ appreciated

[Poppy Appleton @NotSoAppleton]

loving.

But because, at thirteen, she lost the people who made love feel safe... and she had not yet learned that losing someone was never proof that she should stop letting herself be loved.

[Poppy Appleton @NotSoAppleton]

doesn't make the people you've lost any less important. It doesn't erase the love or make the memories smaller.

And it certainly doesn't mean that the child you were stops wishing for one more ordinary day.

One more argument.

One more laugh.

One more chance to tell them --

[Poppy Appleton @NotSoAppleton]

didn't need saving, when all she had ever really wanted was to feel safe again.

Because the day her parents died wasn't the day Poppy stopped being the little girl they loved.

It was the day she began to believe she couldn't afford to be her anymore.

Not because she stopped --

[Poppy Appleton @NotSoAppleton]

stopped.

She would remember that, before she became the girl who pushed people away, she had been a little girl who believed her parents would always be there.

And she would miss them.

God, she would miss them.

Because time might teach you how to live with loss, but it --

[Poppy Appleton @NotSoAppleton]

different person.

It happened in smaller ways.

In the things she stopped saying.

In the apologies she swallowed.

In the affection she covered with teasing, and the tears she refused to let anyone see.

Somewhere along the way, the cheeky little girl who had once been so --

[Poppy Appleton @NotSoAppleton]

then, when the house was quiet and there was nobody around to perform for, the armour would feel impossibly heavy.

And Poppy would be thirteen again.

She would remember the day everything changed. The disbelief, the silence, the way the world had carried on when hers had --

[Poppy Appleton @NotSoAppleton]

refusal to be told what to do.

A reputation that made people think twice before asking questions she wasn't ready to answer.

She would wear it so convincingly that, eventually, even the people who loved her most would struggle to tell when she was hurting.

But every now and --

[Poppy Appleton @NotSoAppleton]

was bigger than anything a thirteen-year-old girl should ever have to carry.

She didn't stop needing people.

She simply became frightened of what needing them might cost her.

So she built herself a different kind of armour.

Sharp words.

A wicked sense of humour.

A --

[Poppy Appleton @NotSoAppleton]

beneath the things Poppy had learned to do to protect herself.

Poppy didn't become difficult because she stopped loving her family.

She became difficult because she loved them, because she had lost so much, and because she had absolutely no idea what to do with a grief that --