JUNE BURNS   ✵   ROMANTIC DRAMA
written by april

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▍JUNE BURNS ✷ AN ORIGINAL   ▍

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What love did then, love does now:
Gnaws me through. ╱ Sylvia Plath,
via Personal Journals

            GRACELAND, GEORGIA. A town where spotted cattle graze and home is always for certain. Where the girl crowned homecoming queen bleeds for the boy with old money veins and wandering eyes. That girl blossoms like she's expected to, bleeding heart and all, just to wither beneath the man oozing green and gold. It's too late to go back, but it's never too late to try again.

            Junia ( June ) Driscoll was homegrown royalty. Her small town notoriety was meant to carve out a pathway to her undoubted success. Her husband—her high school sweetheart, a star athlete, and successful investment banker—had given the girl all she could have imagined. However, the dream had since become a total nightmare.

All that is shadowed is brought to light when she agrees to star in a segment disguised as a Mother's Day tribute on a popular talk program, in which her closest friend confesses to having an affair with her husband.

Heart corrupted, she chooses not to be left alone in spite of herself. With her small daughter, Pearl, in tow, she forges a route back to the place where everything is comforted by love and lillies.

There, she hopes to mend the pieces of her broken heart. Bit by nauseating bit. What she hadn't anticipated was to reconcile with an old friend turned brief flame clad in consolation whose heart had nearly bled him dry.

Their shared gloom soon begins to fade, playing host to luminescence. And in that glimmer of light, of what was then and what is now, and what is to come—that, is where eternity seemed to flow.

JUNE:
Just tell me, Smith.
Do you love me?

SMITH:
Oh, sweetheart. I'm afraid
you're not mine to love.

𝑺𝑻𝑨𝑹𝑹𝑰𝑵𝑮 . . . ⋆.ೃ࿔*:･

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˗ˏˋ  Junia Beckett ❪ nèe Driscoll ❫ 。 ˎˊ˗
Portrayed By ✷ Madelyn Cline

❪ 25 ❫    June. Mother. Homecoming Queen.
Wifehood Rot. Small Town Glory.
Sparkling Water. Laced Hyacinths.
Flowers Crowns & Bare Feet. Patterned
Quilts. Gardenia Skin.

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˗ˏˋ  Smith Sterling 。 ˎˊ˗
Portrayed By ✷ Austin Butler

❪ 27 ❫    SJ. Rancher. Grief Incarnate. The
Smell of Sweet, Summer Rain. Family Ties.
Retired Bull Rider. Irish Pine. Cotton
T-Shirts & Worn, Dusty Boots.
Scruff Burn.

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𝑨𝑫𝑫𝑰𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵𝑨𝑳 𝑪𝑨𝑺𝑻 & 𝑪𝑹𝑬𝑫𝑰𝑻𝑺

Pearl Beckett.                         as Described
Sawyer Driscoll.                      Glen Powell
August Driscoll.                  Drew Starkey
Ruthie Hayes.                            Kiki Layne
Lucy Evans.                   Suki Waterhouse
Miles Beckett.                         as Described
Virginia Driscoll .                       Faith Hill
Jameson Driscoll.    Matt McConaughey
Spencer Beckett.         Chace Crawford
Rosalind.                           Sydney Sweeney

& 𝑽𝑨𝑹𝑰𝑶𝑼𝑺 𝑪𝑯𝑨𝑹𝑨𝑪𝑻𝑬𝑹𝑺
𝗮𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗱
NOTE: You can imagine whomever
you'd like for each character, I'll just
be writing my character's with their
appearances in mind throughout this
story.

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𝑫𝑰𝑺𝑪𝑳𝑨𝑰𝑴𝑬𝑹!
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IT IS TO BE NOTED THAT . . .
16+ mature language & content is ahead
(cheating, profanity, violence, etc.)
PLEASE BE ADVISED!
this is purely a work of fiction.

APRIL SPEAKS!

𓄀 this story is heavily inspired by the
film "hope floats" . . . it's one of my
all time favorites & i wanted to put a
spin on it. i hope y'all enjoy this one!

𓄀 this will be the first installment
in the graceland series. the second
will follow sawyer's love story. the third
will cover august's. & the fourth, my
sweet girl ruth <3

𓄀 i made some key adjustments to the
character attributes & cast. i'm ready to
delve into this story again.

𓄀 🤍 june being the absolute best mom >>>

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𝑻𝑨𝑮𝑺 & 𝑫𝑬𝑫𝑰𝑪𝑨𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵𝑺
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i hope y'all enjoy! 🤍
i seriously love you all so much
(if you didn't request a dts, i
added you anyway because ily.
don't feel obligated to read!)

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