Elizabeth Jones
Try as I might to keep it together
Why is recovery taking forever?
Fool the whole world, just until I get better
I'm terrified I'll be faking forever
On and on, I wonder what went wrong inside my head
I don't have to have the answers, but tonight I wish I did
All the pain I can't explain away won't fade
All the secrets silenced by the shame
~ Hope of Morning by Icon For Hire
▾ Name:
Elizabeth Courtney "Lizzy" Jones
▾ Age:
16
▾ Gender:
Female
▾ Sexuality:
Heterosexual
▾ Piercings, Tattoos, Scars:
If applicable
▾ Caring ▾ Quick to point out other's faults ▾ Sweet▾ Broken & private about it▾
▾ Personality:
Sixteen and the voice of reason and peacekeeper among most of her friends, just people in general at times. Elizabeth is wise beyond her years and very mature and level-headed. She is often offering advice to her friends in need. She's a very kind and sweet young girl but she's not afraid to raise her voice if she doesn't agree with something. She's often asking if her friends if they are in need of anything and is always willing to drop everything to rush to a friend's side. She's a shoulder to cry on and is happy to sit and listen as someone throws all their worries and problems on her to be returned with loving words or advice. Seemingly fun-loving and good-natured Lizzy isn't particularly shy or timid, however, she's not a fan of being under the limelight and prefers to watch her loved ones shine and guide them from the sidelines. She deeply believes there's good in all people, almost to a fault, she'll be quick to point on her concerns and one's faults. She's very trusting which can leave her open for betrayal or to be used. She can come across quite clingy at times when she considers someone in need of love. Her mother-like ways can make her come across annoying at times, not that she means it.
Underneath it all, however, Elizabeth's life is a messy. Her parents recently divorced and are constantly at each other's throats for custody over Elizabeth and her younger brother. She's watched her grades, once straight As fall to Bs and Cs. She has no idea what to do with her life, or even if she would have one waiting for her. One of the reasons she's always there for others, despite it being natural to her nature, is it's one of the few things that make her feel relevent in the world. She has no idea what to do and often feels worthless. She keeps this part of her life locked away from others, quite successfully, even from her closest friends leaving it to build up in her until she finally loses it in the privacy of her room or silently in the bathroom. The last thing she want is someone finding out. She doesn't want to "burden people with her crap" so she pastes on a smile and pretend everything's ok. She laughs, she jokes around and sometimes, occasionally, she believes it though it's not long before she remembers the true wreck that's her life.
▾ Hobbies & Interests:
~ Listening to/writing/playing music
~ Spending time with her friends and brother
~ Scrapbooking. She's not amazing at it but she enjoys it nonetheless
~ Puzzles, of any form
~ reading
~ Archery, one again, she's not that good at it but she enjoys it nonetgeless
▾ Likes & Dislikes:
Likes:- Cuddles
- Rainy days
- Tea
- Music of most styles, no poppy boy band please
- Those rare times she forgets how in shambles her life is
- Joshua, her brother
- Her friends
- Singing, Lizzy sings a lot in privacy but tries to not in public as she considers her voice to be terrible, however, she usually fails and ends up singing softly to herself.
- Playing music- Lizzy can play the piano/keyboard quite well which she claims surprising as she cannot coordinate her hands to do different things at once in any other circumstance.
Dislikes:- Her parent's constant bickering over her and her brother
- Wet socks
- Fake tan, both the product itself and the look of it on people.
- Lack of food
- Sleeping in. Odd, yes but she hates it.
- Drunk people
- Being in the limelight
▾ Other:
Anything else you'd like to add
▾ Biography:
Elizabeth was born into this world an accident. Hannah, her mother, was only approaching her 16th year when she fell pregnant with the son of James, her then boyfriend, now ex-husband. Hannah's parents were extremely disappointed with their daughter and at the beginning of her pregnancy they couldn't so much as look at her without expressing shame. Luckily, they came through in the end. Being heavily against abortion they left Hannah with no choice but to continue the pregnancy and put the child up for adoption, which was their plan throughout the whole pregnancy. It was at 3am on a rainy April morning that Elizabeth graced the world with her presence 5 weeks early. For Hannah it was a long at painful birth but as much as her and James attempted to force the idea to stick in their minds neither could give up their tiny, very tiny for that matter, bundle of joy.
Under the watchful eyes of two sets of grandparents and her parents, who continued their studies, from quite a young age Elizabeth had no choice but to learn to adjust to different schedules and routines easily. She never posed to be a problem and would only throw the occasional temper tantrum when didn't get her way, she grew out of that though. From a very young age she proved to be a sweet and loving little girl and never got over her love for hugs.
Elizabeth was 5, not far off 6, when her parents married. Even now she can recall the day to almost precise detail and claims it to be one of her fondest memories. It was only weeks after Hannah and James returned from their honeymoon they discovered Hannah was once again pregnant and on the September of that year she gave birth to a healthy young boy they called Joshua. From there was all happy families for quite a few years. Hannah and James were deep in love and loved their children even more. Elizabeth adored Josh and the pair got along really well. It all just worked, alas, that happiness was not made to last.
It was drunkenness that first led to Elizabeth's parents' fighting. She was 13 when it all started. There would be screaming, the slamming of doors, insults and breaking bottles, sometimes even yelps in pain. As the drunken pair fought into the night. Elizabeth would crawl into her brother's bed, hold him close, tell him everything was going to be okay (even though she didn't believe it herself) and would sing him to sleep. It was that first night Elizabeth vowed to never get drunk in fear of coming to the state of her parents. As time went on the couple no longer need the aid of alcohol to fuel their anger but the tiniest disagreements snowballed into huge fights. I wasn't until only months before the murder that they finally divorced but now they continuously fight over custody of Lizzy and Josh and she hates it.
