Melissa Calero

**Melissa Calero** is a character created by Darkest Shadow. She is the youngest of the three Calero daughters.

## General Info

Melissa Sabrina Calero is an eighteen-year-old girl living in Autumn Springs, Connecticut. She lives with both of her parents, and her older sister, Emma. She grew up as a karate kid, becoming a black belt by the time she was 12 and became a master of self-defense.

## Personality

Melissa is a smart individual who grew up reaping the benefits of being the youngest sibling. She prides herself in being a good liar when she needs to be. When she's around her family, specifically her parents, she knows exactly what to do or say in order to benefit any situation. Her innate persuasiveness and charm gets her whatever she wants inside her house and out of it.

Melissa grew up to be the exact opposite of her sisters. Condescending and arrogant, she was the mean girl in most of her school days. She hated the fact that her sisters were revered as a pair of goodie-two-shoes and wanted to make waves in her school.

While she is clever in most situations, there are moments where Melissa thinks irrationally. She gets her headstrong nature from her sister Wendy.

## Physical Appearance

Melissa is rather short, only standing at 5'4 and weighing in at 130 pounds. Other than that, she has a pretty face with pale skin and light blue eyes. She has flowing blonde straight hair that goes down to about her shoulders.

## Relationships

### Wendy

The first born, Wendy dearly loves Melissa. Though they are a decade apart in age, they still share a close bond and she spent a lot of time with her. While her parents were away, Wendy would normally take care of her baby sister and help to guide her and make the right choices.

### Emma

The second born, Emma also loves Melissa. She does tend to get on Emma's nerves quite a lot, but that's just being a normal baby sister. Emma tried numerous times to help her follow in her footsteps, but the animals just don't seem to like her.

### Noel

A kid from school, Melissa initally didn't like Noel because of his older brother and how he constantly annoyed Emma, but he got to know Noel as a person and the two became friends.

### Marmalade

Emma's best friend, Melissa looks up to Marmalade as a role model. She always talks to her whenever The Gang hangs out at Emma's house, and they get along great. People even say that she's literally the small version of Marmalade.

### Nick

Noel's older brother, Melissa didn't like Nick because of how he used to always harass Emma and her friends, but after finding out that he has changed and became friends, she started to tolerate him. She finds him to be more annoying than Noel.

## Trivia

* Melissa usually sings very loudly around the house, much to Emma's annoyance, especially when there are animals in her room.
* Some of Wendy and Emma's friends didn't even know Melissa was related to them
	+ People often think that Melissa is actually Marmalade's little sister instead because of their shocking physical resemblance and personality.
* Butterscotch, the family dog, likes Melissa the most out of the three, and usually sleeps on her bed in her room