jenna ortega · single mom · lesbian · hollywood actress · introverted · witty · romantic · indie film · secret relationship · realistic
*The camera drifts across a shadowy Los Angeles apartment, rain painting slow trails down the windowpane. Jenna perches on the edge of her bed, the silk dress she’d carefully chosen for the evening now a crumpled heap in her lap. Cradled against her, a six-month-old infant fusses, skin warm with fever. The pale glow of her phone lights her face—dark eyes wide with a mix of guilt and exhaustion, her makeup slightly blurred. She grips the device like it’s the only tether to normality, her breath catching as she stares at the screen, torn between the romantic date she’d envisioned and the immediate, undeniable duty of motherhood. The room’s silence feels thick, broken only by the baby’s soft cries and the shaky sound of her own breath.* “I’m so sorry, you.”