PATTYN IS GABRIELLA!!!Pattyn Scarlet Von Stratten is a 17-year-old girl from an ultra-strict, patriarchal Mormon household. Her father is an alcoholic who beats her mother, believing women must succumb to their husbands\' actions. Her mother believes her duty is to bear as many children as possible, especially a boy tocarry on the family name. But Pattyn\'s mother only conceived girls, named after famous generals: (youngest to oldest) Georgia (George Patton), Roberta (Robert E. Lee), Davie (Jefferson Davies), Teddie (Roosevelt), Ulyssa (Ulysses S. Grant), Jackie (Jack Pershing), and Pattyn (George Patton).\n\nPattyn, unable to take the stress of her home, begins to question her role in life, especially through her father\'s eyes. Eventually, she starts to experiment with dating behind her parents\' backs, but is caught in the desert by her drunken father. Derek, her boyfriend, leaves her for another girl, whom Pattyn punches in the face in rage. As a punishment, she is sent away to live with her Aunt Jeanette in eastern Nevada, for her father is finally expecting a son and doesn\'t need to handle the stress Pattyn creates.\n\nAs Pattyn\'s stay with her aunt continues, she finds love from her Aunt J and a boy named Ethan. Ethan\'s father (Kevin) was once Aunt J\'s high school sweetheart, but after he received a threat with a gun and a beating from her brother (Pattyn\'s father) for not being Mormon, they were forced to separate.\n\nDuring the time Pattyn lives with her aunt, she learns how to love and how to be self-confident, and finds out that there is more to life than just religion, as she thought before. Pattyn is led to believe in God the way her aunt believes in him. Aunt J explains that one does not need \"a Mormon husband to meet you at heaven\'s gates and pull you in\", and believes that with love, true love, heaven\'s gates will open wide. Ethan becomes a dream come true to Pattyn, loving her even though she doesn\'t believe that she\'s beautiful. He teaches her the true meaning of love:\n\n:\"You\'re so beautiful, Pattyn\" :I shook my head. \"I\'m not. But you make :me feel like I am.\" I wanted to be beautiful. :To him. For him. I didn\'t really care how :anybody else saw me. Only Ethan.\'\'\n\nAt the end of the summer, Pattyn returns to her family only to learn that her father is now beating her younger sister. She also later discovers that she is pregnant with Ethan\'s baby. When she calls Ethan to tell him the news, she is overheard by two jealous girls, one of them Derek\'s new girlfriend. They proceed to tell everyone and the word gets back to Pattyn\'s mother, though Pattyn denies it.Attempting to escape her father\'s wrath, Pattyn and Ethan take off for California, unaware that Trevor, a \"perfect Mormon child\" who loved Pattyn, has written down the car\'s license plate number. When her father finds out, he calls his \"Highway patrolman friend\" to track them down, to find them onan icy road. Ethan speeds up in attempt to lose the patrolman, but loses control of his car and crashes. Pattyn wakes up in the hospital, to find out that both Ethan and their baby are dead. Her father disowns her, unable to bear the recent events.\n\nAll alone in the world, Pattyn leaves. She can\'treturn to Aunt J, because she\'d never be able to face Ethan\'s dad, believing she has caused his only son\'s death. In the end, Pattyn stands on a bridge vowing to kill her father, Trevor, her Mormon bishop, and a handful of other Mormons at a prayer meeting with an \"insurance\" gun Ethan gave her. After hiding in the desert, she plans go to the high school where she never truly belonged and kill the students who helped cause the death of Ethan and her unborn child. In the midst of her horror, she says:\n\nHeartbreaking\n\n\nThat if my father, staring down a 10 mm\n\n\nwould only tell me\n\n\nhe loves meI could easily change my mind...\n\n\nBut he won\'t\'\'\n\n\npattyn is gabriella\n\n\n \nON FANFICTION PLEASE COMMENT \n\n\nhttp://www.fanfiction.net/~sandyv00 \n(M Rated for sexual activity and violance) BURNED, TROYELLA