Chrissy Mentonza

**Education:** | BHS

Chrissy was born, Alicia Julia Hernandez in Spain December 5, 1988, the oldest of six children, five being all quintuplets born June 11, 1995. Their names were, Eloise, Gracia, Enrique, Paul, and Leonardo. She was the daughter of Antonio and Alba Hernandez, who were actually very wealthy in Spain. She remembers her childhood as very happy. She always got what she wanted no she was still the apple of her parents eyes mostly because the babies were all the same age and none of them could talk yet. Her small town entered a financial depression. Antonio started losing money and so did all his friends. Soon, the family of six lost their house and found themselves homeless. Because young Alicia was not in school, she took care of her one year old siblings. She sold oranges and bananas everyday in the street but it wasn't enough money. She was almost kidnapped as well.
However in the summer of 1996, things weren't looking good for the Hernandez's. The Hernandez's decided to travel to the United States but couldn't do it without visas. So they traveled on one of the trains in one of the small carts and desperately prayed that they would survive. In order to get one of the trains they had to pay a smuggler, Alberto Ramirez . The trip took a few days if not weeks without food. Somehow in the train they got all the way to Colorado. When the cart Alicia was in opened up she was found, with an elevated body temperature and could barley breath. Alicia was taken out of the cart away from her family members who she thought were just sleeping. She would soon find out that, that was not the case. Her families members all died from suffocation and heat from being in the train cart for that long.
After that Alicia was put into a foster home. Since she didn't understand what anyone said she only spoke in Spanish. She was happy that some people understood her and could respond back. Since no one knew her name they renamed her Chrissy by picking her name out of a hat that sound somewhat "Hispanic" -(older Chrissy was not impressed). In October 1997, she was adopted by a wealthy Colombian couple, Lola and Carlos Mentonza. At first she was scared that they would beat her or call her names but she realized that they were a lonely young couple who wanted children. They put her in school, but she struggled because she didn't speak English and her accent wasn't English either. After staying after practically almost everyday to improve her English she learned how to speak better.
Early 2005, She met her future boyfriend, Elijah Cooper, at a ski lodge. They became friends in their sophomore year of high school and started dating about a month later. They had on and off relationships which Chrissy's parents did not like. They didn't like to see her coming home in tears or to see her mad. Every attempt to make contact with Elijah stop made it worse. Eventually she ended up going to back to him. They graduated in 2007 from Barfield High School. After that she started attending Barfield Institute of Science and Technology in the fall of 2007. Even though both Elijah and her were far apart they still made their relationship work. Around the spring of 2010 in Chrissy's junior year of college, she heard rumors of Elijah cheating on her with a girl named Chelsea. Elijah eventually confessed to his unfaithfulness but she had had enough.
She never forgot about Elijah though. In 2011, she graduated from Barfield Institute of Science and Technology with the hopes of being an accountant or a manager at her hometown bank. She moved out of her parents house in April 2012 and moved in with Mirabella, a Puerto Rican girl she recently met who was looking for a roommate. She also ran into Elijah whom she was not very happy to see and she found out he also works at the same bank she works at. She pretty much is looking for another job because she'd rather not work near her ex. She's not really looking to be in a relationship but she's very open minded and is actually looking for a real commitment.

Chrissy is actually complicated, she has different sides of her, one where she could be extremely sad, happy, sometimes angry or just not care at all. Generally she'll either show her don't care about anything side or her happy side. To people that she thinks she can connect with or are really close to her she'll show her sweet side. She doesn't like to start arguments or fights but she doesn't like it when people take their anger or annoyed tone out on her. Sometimes when the argument isn't even worth it, she'll just walk away or say "whatever". When she's really happy almost nothing can get her down but when she's really sad she feels likes the world hates her.

* She's severely terrified of video games because she lives in fear about the government watching everyone and stuff.
* The ironic thing is that she was born into a wealthy family and then grew up in a wealthy family as well.
* She has long dark brown hair that she cuts to medium length and she likes wearing soft light colored clothes because they look better on her.
* She loves springtime; She loves it when it's light until like seven or eight at night, it makes her feel safer and reminds her of when she was kid.
* She wears a necklace with heart all the time; It was a necklace give to her by her mother, it was the last thing her mother ever gave her.