Mandy Booth

*"I'm worried you're taking this far too seriously." - Mandy Booth*

**Mandy Booth** is a native of Ashford Falls, New York and a former classmate of Megan Bates. She is also the grand-daughter of George Oliver Booth, a local real estate magnate.

Born sometime around 1995, Mandy is the daughter of Michael and Tracee Booth. Her grandfather is George Olver Booth, who as a contractor for Lincoln Hedison in the 1940s, subsequently raised a fortune building homes in Ashford Falls, Winchester and Peytonville. The family also owned a lakeside restaurant called "The Lakeside Cafe" in Peytonville and a number of yogurt and ice cream sandwich huts under the name, "Snack Shack" in locations around Warren and Essex County. On the side, the Booth Corporation also owned car dealerships, supermarkets and the Peytonville Movie Theater. By the 70s and 80s, spurred by competition with the Hedison Family of Ashford Falls, members of the family became eccentric and self-involved. The exception was Michael Booth, Mandy's father, who having worked in both the shacks and restaurants growing up, had developed a strong idealistic work ethic and later became president of the company after his father was arrested for insider trading.

Having lost her mother when she was seven years old, Mandy was very close to her father and extremely intelligent, parlaying her talents into cons and grifts in order to make extra money outside her job at the local "Snack Shack" with her cousin, Jared. In her middle school years, she created an alter ego named Serena Funge, a wheelchair bound girl suffering from a fictional disease called DDS, which she used to get money through donations for her fictional cure. She also used this identity to secretly enter a school pageant which she had publicly mocked.

Although she loved her father, her aunt, Laura Booth-Furst, was the closest thing to a mother figure in her life beside her grandmother, Louise Booth. Laura, however, was incredibly vain and very involved in charity events in the county. To keep her from getting aware of her cons, Mandy often set up distractions and subterfuge to distract her. One such con was to invent a fake girlfriend for her cousin Jared under the identity of "Marcia Bundy," who was so obnoxious that Laura would go to great odds to keep her son and "Marcia" apart. Although the stunt worked, Jared figured out her identity and was romantically attracted to Mandy for years.

Affected by the internal rivalry and conflict in her family, Mandy tried getting her father to break away and start anew in Ashford Falls. During a school field trip to the WTEN-TV news station, Mandy had conned her way into a job as a juinor news reporter at the station in town and was holding down a job while starting high school in Peytonville. By this point, she had become fully self-sufficient in her daily life and had started posing as a student at Ashford Falls High School to finish her schooling than make the long drives back home. Creating a sufficient home inside the school, she became friends with local girls, Megan Bates and Rhiannon Taylor. Making random trips home kept up the illusion she was still living in Peytonville, but with Jared helping her, and the family being too distracted to notice her absences, she kept her dual life a secret for over two years.

As she was nearing graduation and getting close to a promotion to becoming an on-air talent at the studio, Michael started questioning her long absences and becoming aware of his family seeing Mandy in Ashford Falls on their trips out of town. By this point, he was getting frustrated with his parents blocking his access to funds to start new building projects and was falling on to Mandy's wishes to live in Ashford Falls. While looking at property near the local school, he noticed Mandy on three different occaisions; on the fourth occasion, he encountered her at the Sidewalk Restaurant in town. The discovery stunned him on how she was able to perpetuate the commute for so long. She lost her job at the studio and was sent to a boarding school so he would know where she was without doubt. Her current activities are unrevealed.