Post by ALEXANDRA MAE WOODS on Sept 11, 2011 20:43:55 GMT -5
MISS ALEXANDRA MAE WOODS
seventeen | carmel high | demi lovato
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" um...hi? well....my name is alexandra woods, but i go by alex. i'm seventeen, and i've been to so many schools in the last little while it's kinda crazy. i think i've been to most of the school's in new york, but when i moved in with my aunt in lima, i ended up going to carmel because it was the school closest to where she lived. i was born in the big apple on the thirteenth of march and now live in akron with my aunt, where i'm forced to be part of their glee club, vocal adrenaline. oh, and...i'm heterosexual. is that really important for something?"
" my....my personality?! w-well, there isn't really much to it i'm afraid. i might bore you with trying to come up with something, but i guess if you insist...um, i'm really shy. i hate physical contact with people because of something that happened in my past, and it's not something i really want to talk about. i wear clothes that are way too big for me because i'm ashamed of my body, and in gym class i'm always wearing track pants and long sleeves. i don't like when people can see my skin, because i'm afraid they can see...well, things. but i like to read and write, listen to some music...i'm not really much of a singer anymore. i used to be, when i was a kid. apparently i was good too, or so people told me. but that was something else i couldn't take any joy in anymore after what happened. i'm afraid of almost anything now. i hate the dark, and i hate being in crowds of people. i'm not social, so i don't have many friends at all, and the idea of having to meet new people scares the hell out of me. why my aunt made me join vocal adrenaline i don't know, because every single one of them is intense...and they make me glad i gave up on my dream of being a performer. i wouldn't be any good at it anyway."
" do i have to talk about my family? really? i have no desire to think about them at all. alright....fine....my parents met in highschool, sophia and darren. they were lucky enough that their love survived the odds that were against them i guess, because after they graduated and went to seperate colleges, they still made it work and were married within a year of graduating from college. they say that my dad proposed on christmas eve, outside with the snow falling around them. yeah, it sounds all romantic and stuff, especially since she said yes, but things didn't stay that way for long.
for the next two years, they tried to have kids. the doctor said that mom was unable to conceive, which put her in a bit of a depression for a while because she wanted a family of her own. why they didn't adopt is beyond me. it would have spared the entire nightmare for us all. anyway, shortly after she was told that she couldn't have kids, mom was pregnant with twins. she and my dad were aware of the fact that there could be complications, so they set up for the best doctor and midwife to be there when she delivered, with a hospital room ready and waiting for her. everything was supposed to go like clockwork, and sadly, it didn't. my twin sister was born before me, about three minutes or so they say. i don't know what happened, obviously i was too young to remember. but apparently the doctor told dad that my sister had died and mom was losing too much blood. they weren't going to be able to save her. she lived long enough to name me before she died, leaving me with a father who was too upset to really know what to do with a squabbling newborn.
he and i never really got along. i wasn't the apple of his eye like most daughters were. things were relatively cool between us for as long as i could remember. he didn't know how to raise me and i didn't know how to act around him. but it was fine, our arrangement worked for the both of us. until, when i was thirteen, he came home drunk one night on my birthday, the anniversary of his wife's death. he....he beat me. and he raped me. he said it was my fault they were gone, that i was a murderer and didn't deserve to live after what i had done to destroy his life. but what could i do? i was thirteen, i didn't know how to handle this, and now with the violation against my body i was even more afraid of people then normal. this went on for almost four years before my aunt found out by accident. she saw some of the marks on my back where he had beat me with a leather belt and she took me into protective custody. apparently she's in court now fighting to keep me away from him, because i can't legally live on my own until i'm twenty-one or something stupid like that.
so, in her ultimate wisdom, she moved me from my old school in new york to this little town called akron, ohio. she thinks that keeping me here will make it harder for my dad to find me, and i hope she's right. she practically begged for dustin to give me a spot in vocal adrenaline because she remembered the singing i used to do as a kid, but the damage is already done. i want nothing to do with these people....or music really. i just want to be left alone so i can curl up in a ball and now be hurt anymore."
" hello my fellow gleeks! i'm adelle, nineteen years of age and a full time college student studying the performing arts in the hopes of one day becoming a part of the business. i've been roleplaying for more then five years, but i don't remember how long exactly, and you can reach me via pm.
"
" once she was sure that she was safely concealed from the prying eyes of the castle did arianna stop where she was, in the midst of the trees and rocks that made up only part of the forbidden forest. yes, she was more than aware that this place was off limits to students, which is why she was so careful when she had come out there no to be seen by anyone else. the last thing she needed was to be caught and given detention, especially when her parents and brother would be notified of her sudden disregard for the rules. but she had to come out there. there was no other place in the school where she felt safe enough to practise the magic that had bothered her for many years of her life, to play with the very essence that had marred her otherwise perfect skin and forced the girl to be so self conscious of her image when around the other students.
fire.
that single word had shattered her entire world when she had been only six years old, dancing happily before her mother in the living room of their home. but when katie had left the room for only a moment, her daughter had lost her balance and fallen into the fireplace that burned so merrily in the hearth, the edge of her skirt being set ablaze before her very eyes as the flames slowly began to lick and burn her flesh. it had taken katie only a moment to register arianna's panicked screams, but by the time she had put out the flames, the damage had been done. arianna would forever be afraid of fire, so much so that she often took the long way around the common room table to get upstairs to her dormitory in the winter and curling up at the head of the bed to be as far from the heater as possible. but perhaps the biggest blow had been to her image of herself, for she now thought of herself as ugly and deformed, especially now that she was forced to associate with the girls of beauxbatons academy of magic. standing beside them, there was not one feature of her own that arianna liked.
the soft hoot of an owl from behind her startled the girl from her thoughts, causing her to shake her head of dark curls that had been pulled back away from her face as a safety precaution and slowly try to prepare herself for what she was about to do. the slender fingers flexed and tightened repeatedly over the wand she held in her hand, desperately trying to squash the voice in the back of her mind that told of its disliking in this idea. but she had to, she told herself. she had lived in fear for far too long.
taking a deep breath, arianna looked up into the darkness and slowly lifted her wand. "incendio." the flames burst from the end of her wand in a small spurt, moving with the slightest motion to create a small circle before her and light the air. it required all of her concentration to remain rooted to the spot and watch the flames move, willing them to stand in that tiny clearing and not lose control completely. but then again there was the hoot of that owl, now so close that it startled arianna. in an instant she lost all of the control that she had, and the fire that had been moving in that tiny circle before her spread out around her, creating the circle around her very body was that was far too close for her comfort. panic immediately set into her body, causing her to fall to the ground, absolutely petrified as she watched the redness move around her and slowly begin to heat her skin.
if ever there was a time when she wished jacob would come save her, it would be now.
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