Post by ava rae woodward on Dec 13, 2012 23:21:21 GMT -5
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[style=width:350px; font-family: josefin sans; font-size: 30px; letter-spacing: 0px; text-align:center; color: #000; line-height: 80%; text-transform: uppercase; padding-bottom: 5px;]AVA WOODWARD
CITIZEN. MELON. LINDSAY PERRY. UNEMPLOYED. 23. INTUITIVE. INDEPENDENT. LOST.
| [atrb=border,0,true][atrb=width,386,true][atrb=cellSpacing,0,true][atrb=cellPadding,0,true][atrb=style, width:130px; height: 200px; background-image: url(http://i45.tinypic.com/23kyfwl.jpg);][/style] | [style=height: 180px; overflow: auto; font-size: 9px;]her story isn't one that she wants to remember. she's put a wall over the memories of being held against her will for ten years simply because it's easier. she wasn't treated as badly as many people would love to believe. when ava rae was five years old, she was waiting at the bus stop for the first time ever by herself. her brother wasn't feeling too well, and she convinced everyone in the house that she was big enough to go by herself. that was the biggest mistake of her life, the biggest mistake of the family's life. she disappeared without a trace that day, taken against her will even though she tried to scream like her older brother rhett had told her to do. she tried everything to fight against her kidnappers until they finally ended up knocking her out with the low dose sedative that they carried for emergencies. rhett would have been proud. in her heart, she knows that her older brother never stopped looking for her. she's convinced he's still looking for her today, but she doesn't know the first thing about getting herself out there for him to find. she's also terrified that if she puts her name out, her kidnappers will find her again, and she knows that she wouldn't be able to escape a second time. it had taken all of ten years to do what she did to escape, digging through the dirt wall of the basement that she was trapped in for all of those years. it seems far fetched and ridiculous, but she was never determined to stay locked up. the two people, a husband and a wife, were mentally sick and believed ava to be their daughter. they had watched her walk to the bus stop with her brother every single day and were convinced that she was the baby that they lost in their car accident. so the first change they had, they took her without looking back. they moved to nevada, quite a distance away from georgia, where the little girl was from, and they started calling her rio for good measure. ava doesn't have stockholm syndrome, and she's not confused over her identity. she knows who she is and she kept her big brother in her heart and in her thoughts each and every single day. he was the reason that she escaped, and while she wants nothing more than to find him, she's content with living as far away as she does from nevada. she's just scraping by, picking up odd jobs here and there in order to afford her hole in the wall apartment, but it works for her. she doesn't have a lot to her name, but she gets by with what she has. she's determined to make it on her own in this city. she's been free from her captors for eight years, but she's still as paranoid as ever, so she doesn't stay stationary for very long. ava doesn't let what happened to her control her, but since she's never been able to tell anyone about it, it's hard for her to move on. |
