Sydney Littlewood

**Sydney Littlewood** is a Minie living on All Boro trying to put herself back together after being dealt a rough hand in life. While her parents weren't neglectful or abusive, the complete opposite, they were quite blind to the abuse Sydney was facing. Her issue stemmed from her "loving" big sister, Audrey, who was the daughter their parents were dying for. A fact she took a little too seriously.

As a toddler, Sydney loved her brothers and her sister, thinking that she was so lucky to have people as amazing as them be related to her. She would be so excited when Audrey would come home from school with her friends, and Sydney had the chance to impress her and her group... which always seemed to fail as Audrey would make her cry.

The emotional abuse started when she was 4. She was being put to bed by her dad, giving him a loving hug beforehand. As he left, Audrey stepped in and revealed that Sydney was an accident. Their parents only wanted 3 kids, and Sydney ruined it all. Sydney, trusting her sister, believed her, and felt horrible. Audrey made her promise to never tell their mom and dad that she said something, and Sydney didn't. Not for many years, long after the mental damage had set in.

Sydney distrusted everyone, believing that they are all liars. The physical abuse started when Sydney was 7, when Audrey broke her arm intentionally. Sophie thought Sydney had fallen, but she never told her mom what exactly happened. Audrey would continuously harm Sydney, making her believe that she deserves it for ruining their family. That her parents and brothers were lying to her, laughing at her behind her back, and she deserves every bruise because she's the reason their family was having financial issues and stress.

It screwed with Sydney's head, messing up her original bubbly and lovable personality, replacing it with an emotionless shell of a person. Somehow, she managed to attract Matt, who adored her when they began dating. Sydney found out that he also faced abuse, though from an ex, and the fact that he attempting at asking out Audrey was hilarious to her.

Matt is the one who talked Sydney into speaking with her parents again, telling them what happened and why she didn't say anything earlier. The two of them felt horrible, Luke even bursting into tears. This was shortly after Matt proposed. Sydney, not sure what to feel anymore, offers to have her mother come with her dress shopping. Sophie offered to pay, but Sydney declined. Sydney also admitted that it was most likely just going to be Matt, her, and a few official witnesses. Nobody else. Small and quiet. This made Luke feel even worse, as he never got the chance to have the "father-daughter" dance with Audrey, who did the same thing at her wedding.

It took a few weeks, but Sydney visited her parents, holding a notebook. She handed it to Luke and told him to pick out a song to dance to. She's never seen her dad so happy.

After their wedding, the tears shed, and Sydney even speaking to her parents and basically turning down any offers on making up the years lost... Sydney was on her way home from work one night and Audrey caught her, beginning to berate her as she usually does. Audrey then made fun of Matt and the abuse he suffered. Sydney snapped and began beating her sister, having to be pried off by Hudson. She was sentenced to 3 months house arrest... the best Hudson could do without being looked at suspiciously. Sydney didn't care, losing any progress she gained in fixing herself from Audrey's torment years prior. During those three months, Sydney and Matt found out that they were having a baby, which terrified Sydney, who didn't feel ready. Regardless, they were keeping her and, as Matt put it, "were going to be the best parents in the world!!"

During her visits to the doctor, Sydney found out of some complications, resulting in infections and high blood pressure in which the doctor attempting at fixing but couldn't for unknown reasons. Sydney felt as if the baby, or her, weren't going to survive childbirth. She prepared herself, afraid to tell Matt... which she kept to herself for years. After Leahlynn was born, Sydney was equally shocked and happy seeing Matt hold her while crying... and with Miku telling her that everything seemed fine. It was confusing, and neither of them knew what was wrong. Sydney and Matt both agreed on just having one kid, who would grow up to adore both of them.

Sydney, while far from being perfect mentally, is improving in her attitude everyday, slowly going back to her bubbly old self, the little girl her parents' remember. Matt is enjoying it, too, happy that both of them seem to be making progress.