Evie Zamora

**Evie Zamora** is a main character in the 2003 film *Thirteen*. She is portrayed by Nikki Reed.

Evie Zamora is taken care of by her cousin Brooke LaLaine. However, Brooke isn’t around all too much, which allows Evie to do whatever she wants at anytime. Evie is engaged in boys, drugs, shoplifting, etc. Tracy Freeland soon becomes her close friend after they went shopping at Mel Rose.

### Affiliation

* Tracy Freeland (ex-friend)
* Astrid (friend)
* Medina (friend)
* Melanie Freeland (friend)
* Luke (hookup)
* Javi (possible boyfriend)
* KK (possible boyfriend)

## In-universe information

### Background and before meeting Tracy Freeland

Evie Zamora was born on 9 August 1990. It is possible that she was born somewhere in Los Angeles. Her mother passed away, so her older cousin Brooke became her guardian. However, it has been claimed by some that Brooke is actually Evie’s mother, and Evie is just too embarrassed of her. Her uncle abused her when she was nine years old.

Evie claims that Brooke’s boyfriend was extremely abusive, possibly even sexually, towards her, and claims that he grabbed her throat and threw her into the van. He even pushed her into a fire. Although there may not be a lot of evidence to back this up, Evie has multiple scars, wounds, and bruises on her body; when Tracy was applying sunscreen to her back, she found a large scar, possibly indicating that something did in fact happen.

Evie’s guardian, Brooke, is never around much. Because of this, there is no one around to look after her, so Evie is able to do whatever she wants at any time. Evie does drugs, smokes, has sex, etc. She is fourteen/thirteen years old, and is in the 7th grade at Portola Middle School.

A lot of boys have a crush on her, including Mason Freeland, although he seems to have lost interest in her after he began realize what she did to his sister. At the beginning of the film, Evie appears to be dating KK. But during the end of the film, Evie is seen a lot with Javi, Tracy’s crush.

### Meeting Tracy Freeland

In Portola Middle School is where she meets thirteen-year-old Tracy Freeland. Tracy Freeland is a typical thirteen-year-old girl. She has two main friends: Noel and Yumi. At first, Tracy does not like Evie, but, once Evie’s friends laugh at her because of her socks, Tracy wants to act 'cool' in front of her. The next day at school, Tracy comes up to Evie. Evie invites Evie to go shopping at Mel Rose avenue with her friends, to which Tracy immediately agrees. Evie gives Tracy her phone number and walks off. Tracy is very excited about this, and once she comes back home from school, she rushes to their telephone and dials in the number Evie gave her. It doesn’t work, however. Tracy tried again, but to no avail. She then comes to realize that Evie gave her a fake phone number.

Evie most likely gave her a fake phone number because she wanted to see if Tracy was not just someone 'fake' or 'boring'. She wanted to put Tracy to the test—to see if a friendship would be worth it.

Tracy was angered by this, and makes a mess in her family’s kitchen. She even smokes a cigarette afterwords, but she had to quickly put it out because her mother Melanie "Mel" Freeland arrives home from work. Tracy ends up sneaking out to Mel Rose after she sees her mother’s car pull up in the driveway, because Mel Rose was where Evie said she and her friends would be shopping after school.

Evie is seen at Mel Rose with her friend Astrid. Tracy sees them and comes up to them, but they simply just brush her off. When Tracy says she only brought ten dollars, Evie and Astrid both laugh. Evie puts a yellow thong in her purse and a lighter, and steals them both, possibly showing off to Tracy to steal the items instead. Tracy says she’ll be back and exits the building. Whilst sitting on a bench, a lady that is busy taking a call sits beside her, placing her purse with a wallet inside beside Tracy. Tracy takes this opportunity to carefully take out the lady’s wallet and leave. Tracy runs up to Evie and Astrid, and shows them the wallet she just stole. The pair open up the wallet and find $800 or more money, Evie stating that she’s never seen that much money before in her life. Evie, Tracy and Astrid run off to go shopping with the money in the wallet. Evie, Tracy and Astrid then become close friends.

### Friendship with Tracy Freeland

Later on, with Evie closely connected with Tracy, Tracy allows Evie to meet her mother, Mel. Since Evie sees Tracy’s mother as cool, protective and kind, Evie wishes Mel would adopt her, and soon ends up staying at Tracy’s house for awhile. Because of this, her and Tracy sneak out a lot together and do drugs. Tracy ends up getting a bellybutton ring and a tongue ring. Tracy abandons her other friends, Noel and Yumi. Evie soon begins to bail on her friend Astrid.

Tracy’s mother, Mel, is described as "the hot big sister" by Evie. Evie desires a motherly figure in her life, as her guardian Brooke isn’t around all that often. Although strained because of Tracy’s new ways, Tracy’s mother is ultimately loving. She takes care of Evie and bonds with her. This causes Evie to latch onto Tracy’s household, wanting to move in with them.

Evie and Tracy make up a plan to ask Mel if Evie can live with them. Mel doesn’t outright decline in front of the pair, but instead does so by driving Evie to her own house and declines the offer there. Evie is then told that she will be dropped back at her Tracy’s house in order to quickly pack up her items. Evie, so desperately wanting Mel to be her motherly figure, is saddened, angered and hurt by this, and is seen crying outside.

Since Evie has been declined the offer of living with Tracy, she finds no need to continue her friendship with Tracy. Evie is meant to pick up Tracy after school, but instead leaves in a car with Astrid and Javi.