Rebecca Laughlin

**Rebecca Laughlin** is the twin sister of Emily Laughlin and is best friends with Xander Hawthorne.

## Biography

### Early Life

Rebecca, Emily, and their parents used to live in California. The twins would come to visit their mother, Mallory Laughlin's, parents twice a year. Once at Christmas with their parents, and again by themselves for three weeks in the summer. During the summer visit, Emily, Rebecca, Grayson, and Jameson all played together.

Because of Emily's heart condition, Rebecca was expected to make good decisions and be responsible. Her parents often overlooked her, while spoiling and catering to Emily. She spent her whole life living in her sister's shadow. Even after Emily got her heart transplant when the twins were thirteen, Rebecca would always ask Emily, Grayson, and Jameson to be careful. They rarely were.

When Emily and Rebecca turned sixteen, their family moved to Texas permanently. While they didn't live on Hawthorne House's grounds, Tobias Hawthorne did pay for the twins to attend Heights Country Day, the same school as Jameson, Grayson, and Xander. Rebecca and Thea Calligaris, Emily's best friend, developed feelings for each other. However, Rebecca and Thea didn't think Emily would understand because Emily was possessive of people she loved and she wanted Thea and Xander to begin dating. It was incredibly difficult for Rebecca to go against Emily's wishes. But just once, Rebecca wanted something for herself. So, Rebecca and Thea asked Xander to pretend to date Thea while they were actually dating. Xander agreed. They were right to think Emily wouldn't understand. Emily found out about Rebecca and Thea's relationship the night she died. Emily was furious and saw it as a betrayal.

### *The Inheritance Games*

Rebecca continues to grieve the death of her sister. For the last few months, Rebecca hasn't talked to anyone at school.

Rebecca comes across Avery Grambs and Jameson kissing in her bathroom in Wayback Cottage after the assassination attempt on Avery in the Black Wood. According to Thea the next morning, Rebecca spends the night crying.

Rebecca admits to Avery that she covered for Skye Hawthorne's role in attempting to murder Avery. She did it because she felt a kind of sick responsibility to Emily to say nothing about Skye's plot.

## Appearance

Rebecca is described as "painfully beautiful." Avery thinks she looks like a "princess, plucked from a fairy tale." She has red hair the color or rubies and impossibly wide-set, clear, emerald green eyes. She's five foot three inches. "Her coloring is stop-and-stare striking, hair that red and skin that pale." Her voice is soft.

## Personality

Growing up, Rebecca was frequently overlooked by her parents because of Emily's heart condition. She was always the shy and responsible one. Her parents expected her to make good decisions. Her parents used to tell her it was her job to keep her sister happy. Emily was sick and she wasn't, so Rebecca should do what she could to make Emily smile.

Rebecca is very smart. As a student, she is quiet, focused, and able to calculate almost anything in her head. Rebecca is grieving Emily's death, which wrecked her. Rebecca feels conflicted because she feels like she has to say her sister was wonderful, but not admit that she wasn't always good.

## Relationships

### Emily Laughlin

Emily was good to Rebecca, almost all the time. Rebecca says Emily wanted *everything* more than Rebecca wanted anything. Emily's relationship with Rebecca was extremely strained, especially nearing the end. Rebecca felt overshadowed by Emily in almost every aspect of their lives. Emily also lashed out at Rebecca, specifically when told about her and Thea dating. Emily became mad at Rebecca for dating Thea because Emily felt that Thea and Xander should be together.

### Thea Calligaris

Rebecca to Thea, was always be them hanging out with each other until when they started dating, they were happy together until their break-up. They eventually found their way back to each other.

### Xander Hawthorne

Rebecca and Xander are each other's oldest and best friends.