<div class="floatleft">(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B5cDpxkCUAAz0ed.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Cleo Balleta (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=308599.msg15004245#msg15004245)<br/><strong>Age:</strong>22<br/><strong>Sexuality:</strong>Heteroflexible<br/><strong>Hometown:</strong>Manila, Phillipines<br/><strong>Date/Time:</strong>1, July 2019| Evening<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Villa backyard | Smoking Pit<br/><strong>Wearing:</strong>As pictured, Black mini dress with rips in it, black mesh heels  (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BqOVGJACEAETHWm.jpg)<br/><strong>Coupled with:</strong>Devon<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Open | Devon<br/><br/><hr/>Cleo listened as Devon went on to discuss the show, love and relationships from a purely logical perspective. She rolled her eyes<strong>"You're taking all of this way too seriously. Just relax and have fun with it! No need to dissect everything to find a reason why. Sometimes its better just to let things happen and enjoy the moment for what it is and then move on. I don't know if your Cinderella is here or not, but it can't be that bad to maybe see if she is?"</strong>Cleo took another few bites of her food as she had almost finished her plate. Another sip of her drink and Cleo arched her eyebrows a bit when he mentioned not being a prince.<strong>"Just because you don't look like the other guys doesn't mean you don't belong here. Everyone was chosen here for a reason and while yes maybe some are here for more TV ratings purposes, but I don't think you should go into this game with an attitude you aren't good enough. If I didn't think you were good enough I wouldn't have stepped forward for you.." </strong><br/><br/>Devon reminded her of certain people back in high school growing up that seemed to have a bit of a chip on their shoulder and didn't go by the norm. While she did admire their ability to go against the grain, she didn't like how defensive, frustrated and sour they could be towards others. She hoped he would take the effort to get to know the other guys and who knows maybe he would become friendly with one or some of them. Cleo wanted to see him give this thing a chance before giving up and conceding.<br/><br/>Cleo was coming to terms that Devon was definitely going to be a bit of work, but Cleo often found the best things in life came from that which you worked hard for. The question was whether either of them would last long enough on the show for her to see any change in Devon's perspective on everything. "<strong>Well that's very charitable of you to offer to set up someone more worthy, but I don't picture you as a guy that just lays down and lets others move past you. You seem like a bit of a fighter, at least someone willing to put up a good fight and try for things.."</strong>Cleo found herself starting to get into too much of a counseling role and figured it might be better to scale things back and let Devon figure things out on his own. She didn't want to come across as telling him what to do or think.<br/><br/>Cleo looked in the direction of Corey when Devon pointed him out. He was cute and seemed to fit all the nice qualities a guy should have, but Cleo figured nobody was that perfect. "<strong>]Well I'm glad to hear you have a bro-crush on him.. I'm sure you can ask him out a bit later as well.."</strong>she grinned mischievously at Devon. "<strong>Well if you're already picking who should win and find love where do you think I fall on that list? Do you think I'm good enough to go all the way?</strong>" Cleo knew she had plenty of competition with all the other girls looking like models out of a magazine. For just a moment Cleo wondered if maybe this wasn't the place to find love and maybe focusing on the money piece might be more beneficial. Shaking her head slightly she told herself<em> no this was it. She had to meet her forever man here, he had to be here...right</em>?<br/><br/>Cleo finished her plate and margarita. Standing up she tugged at her dress fixing it a little "<strong>I'm going to get another drink and maybe some more nacho chips and salsa.. Did you want another beer?" </strong>she offered and waited to hear his answer. He had given her a lot to think about in such a short period of time. While their discussion so far had been interesting, she looked around at the other couples and they seemed to getting so much more intimate with one another. Cleo wondered if she had maybe taken too much of a gamble picking the one guy that stuck out from the others. Cleo shrugged to herself she had dealt with harder things and she was good at going with the flow.