Post by PEPPERMINT IVY BROOKS on Apr 21, 2011 10:09:56 GMT -5
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HEY Y'ALL. I'M PRESTIGE AND I HAIL FROM THE EASTERN TIMEZONE. YOU CAN CONTACT ME AT AIM: darling PRESTIGE. OH, BY THE WAY, I'VE BEEN ROLEPLAYING FOR ~5 YEARS.
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COUDERAY-SAWYER MIDDLE SCHOOL - Since Couderay is so small, it shares a middle school with its neighboring (and slightly larger) town. Couderay-Sawter was perfect for Pepper. She made few friends, but the ones she did make didn't ask questions. It was perfect for Pepper. School was her safe haven; no one could bother her here. She reigned supreme.
SAWYER HIGH SCHOOL - Coudery doesn't even have a high school of its own, so Pepper has trucked out to Sawyer High every weekday for the past three years. She's grown comfortable there, hiding her minor injuries with makeup. No one notices another girl wearing a little too much foundation, not even in Wisconsin. [/justify][/ul]
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- Pepper was born to Marsha Brooks on a rainy day in September. She was unplanned child, but both Harrison and Marsha were thrilled when they found out she was pregnant. Though they had only been seeing each other for six months, they planned the wedding for December. Pepper watched her parents exchange vows in a white onesie. She cried when everyone began to clap.
- Marsha never expected her baking to take off like it did. Famous for delicious macaroons, the rotund Georgian woman had less than high hopes for her Marshmellow Maestro business. It began with a shoddy storefront in downtown Atlanta, but soon she was catering big office parties and getting orders to ship her macaroons halfway across the country.
- Harrison started off as an attentive husband, matching Marsha's excitement with each new bakery order that was placed. Beneath the surface, though, he brewed contempt. A tried and true oldfashioned Southerner, Harrison believed that the men of the family were supposed to provide for their women. He came home from the car body shop every night, and with his oil stained fingers he began to reach for the bottle.
- Marsha was offered a cooking show, based out of Madison, Wisconsin. She leaped at the chance to be viewed nationwide as an expert baker. The now wealthy woman wasted no time in purchasing a small apartment in Madison for herself and a sprawling country residence in Couderay for her family. Marsha would, of course, have to spend weekdays in the city filming her show, but she'd spend weekends and vacations with her family.
- As Marsha grew more and more well-known, Harrison turned into more of a drunk. Once they moved to Wisconsin, he didn't bother to find a new job. He simply stayed at home, nursing a beer or two at once while he watched television. It wasn't until Marsha's television show scored an all-time high rating that he began to get... violent.
- Pepper was eight when he began to hit her. It was always without warning, and always during the week when her mother wasn't home. She turned inward, running off to the forest for hours at a time to avoid her father. He would have none of it. Every time she returned home, the punishments were worse. This continued for years until Pepper turned fourteen.
- At fourteen, Pepper had had enough. She began to act out and fight back. She grew volatile and loud, screaming at the top of her lungs every time he laid a hand on her. Pepper kicked and bit and yelled, but to no avail. After all, who was going to hear her on their empty fifty acre property?
- Marsha began to notice the fingerprint-shaped bruises on Pepper's neck and back when she was sixteen. She questioned her daughter, and Pepper finally broke down. Marsha did three things practically simultaneously: she divorced Harrison, filed for sole custody, and placed a restraining order against him. The arduous legal process took about three months, but Marsha had kicked him out of the house long before that.
- Though her cooking show was like her second child, Marsha declined another season in order to stay home with Pepper and help her through the difficult process of emotional recovery. Marsha and Pepper fight like every teenage daughter and mother, but through it all, Pepper knows she can count on her mother to provide and protect her. Her eyes, however, linger on the forest.
- She is safe at home now, but she doesn't feel right. There's an itching under her skin and a longing for the woods. Pepper spends hours and sometimes days under the canopy of the trees, singing with the birds and walking with the deer. It's the only place she has without bad memories.
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