Carter Zigmond

"I've learned a lot of great lessons from a few fucked up people"

## **Personality**:

Carter is the bad girl you wouldn't ever expect. She's absolutely perfect at home, straight A+s, and because of this, her parents trust her with anything. Her family is extremely religious causing her to grow up in an un-accepting home. She however sees life as you love who you love, and it isn't someones business who you sleep next to at night.

But she herself has learned it is better to not fight with someone who refuses to see it your way, its never a winning situation. This might be w she rebels secretly, small things that she knows would anger her parents. Like staying out late, drinking way past what she should, and being not only interested in guys but girls as well. They ignored her when she dyed her hair red and just pretended like it never happened. The only time they ever confronted her is when her grades would drop bellow an A, so as long as she keeps her grades up, they pretty much ignored her existence.

## **History:**

Carter grew up in New York City with her two religious parents. Carter loved the excitement of the city, and how the city would light up at night. She would go out into the city with her older cousin as much as she could. Carter always looked up to her cousin Marybeth growing up. Marybeth was a free spirit, she did everything she wanted and more. When Marybeth turned 18 she moved out of her parents home and into a small studio apartment within the city. Carter continued to spend most of her time with Marybeth, who went by MB more often now.

MB would bring Carter to all of the college parties, despite Carter being only 14 at the time, the summer of her freshman year of High School. Carter was always the party kid, easily giving in to the peer pressure and enjoying it. She'd always make it home, she was always safe and her grades never wavered. Carter had been acting out to gain her parents attention. It wasn't until her mother caught Carter and another girl in bed together, and not in the friendly girls sleep over way. That Carter got the attention from her parents that she had been looking for. There was a few days where her mother and father paid attention to her, making sure that she was home for dinner, family game nights to keep her inside, but that was only till they figured out what they were going to do with her.

Carter's mother and father broke the news to her about a week later. Carter was being shipped off to Oregon, the furthest thing, least like NYC that they could of thought of. figuring Carter would have less freedom, and only have her work to focus on. There would be *no way she could get into trouble*, she was in *Oregon* after all.

Carter packed up her bags the first week of August and flew out to Oregon. She has been a student at Sliver Oaks since freshman year. She didn't make many friends right away, but eventually fell into one of the 'bully' groups. You could find Carter behind the school, or out by the old golf course smoking a blunt after class and was know as the party girl on the weekends. Like her classes, there wasn't one she would ever miss.

## Relationships:

Carter doesn't accept many people into her life, most of Carter's friends tend to be over a matter of convenience. But at the end of the day she protects those who mean something to her, whether they are close or not.

#### Lincoln Elias Turner, Jr.:

As a small baby freshman Carter experienced the life that Silver Oaks gave its students. Many, many bullies, however she was never be much of a target to anyone. Carter kept her head down, just like she did when she was back home. Till the weekends when she would party harder than some of the seniors. Because of this she became familiar with one of the most 'popular' guys at school. For a while Carter tended to avoid Eli, his arrogance left very little interaction to be desired.

One day Carter was walking to her hall when she noticed Eli and another boy getting in a fight, now normally Carter didn't get involved, the fights were on a weekly basis for this kid, but for some reason something looked off with Eli, his face was beat red and he looked genuinely upset. Which was extremely unlike Eli as he seemed to always show now emotion. So what did Carter do? She dropped her books and inserted herself in the middle of the brawl between two rather large high schoolers. Carter used all of her tinny freshman strength to push Eli out of the fight. Once she got him alone, she saw another side of him a side that actually seemed human.

From that point on Carter and Eli were rather close, but you would never guess it by the way the treated each other in school. Carter hated the face that Eli would put on, and constantly gave him crap for it. But outside of school you could catch Eli and Carter having real conversations, hanging out on the freight trains late into the night.

#### Alaska + Raven:

Carter always had fun hanging around Alaska and Raven, if she could count anyone as a girl-friend, it was these two. They were friendly, sometimes a little too friendly with each other, but she supported them and everything they did. Carter was there for them no matter the cost.

#### Tatum:

Carter and Tatum were not very close, but they tended to party together and run relatively in the same circles and may share a few drinks together.