COLLINGWOOD, delilah.

[DELILAH JANE COLLINGWOOD !]

D E L I L A H - J A N E - C O L L I N G W O O D ,

nicknames ,

dee. just dee.

age ,

seventeen

occupation ,

unfortunately roller-skating waitress. yes, yes. she hates it, too.

member group ,

junior

personality ,

sarcastic, tomboy, twisted sense of humor, genuine, self conscious, can be cold - holds grudges, heartfelt, annoyed easily, good in confrontation, not ambitious, procrastinates, tired of being the bigger person, can get angry easily, jokes a lot - can't be taken seriously, can be rude without meaning to, fun, gets along with the guys, sporty, depressed, not as ignorant as you'd think.

family ,

marie (haynes) collingwood
joseph collingwood (father) - dead
william collingwood (brother) - dead

history ,

there’s seriously not all that much to say about the events that led up to delilah’s birth. her mother and father had met in college, developed a liking for on another, started dating, then promptly got married. cut and dry with not much in between at all. so after a couple years, they began pondering their futures... after much debate they decided to try for a child to sate their thirst for parenthood and to please their own parents and after a bit got a baby boy named william. will was a pretty entertaining child all in all. ever since he could talk, he was telling jokes, a very sarcastic and happy kid. he got along with almost anyone and was generally the golden boy of the family...

two years later delilah was born. her mother and father had been trying for a girl and were extremely happy to have one, though they'd soon find out dee wasn't all flowers and unicorns crapping glitter. she was a pretty boyish kid. mostly wearing t-shirts and jeans, she absolutely dispised getting dressed up. and she was just about as sarcastic as her brother, though clearly not as easy going. even when she entered elementary school, she wasn't too keen about hanging out with the little girls and their petty giggles. dee had always been a simple child, so she hung with the simple kids obviously. guys. and they were pretty happy to have her after the shock of a female actually approaching them wore off, that is. school wasn't much... she wasn't crazy popular or hates. kind of drifted through the middle like most people.

years passed and her tomboyish nature enhanced, offering a perfect window for her to try out sports. she grew a liking for soccer and pursued it (though she quit later upon entering highschool). in the meantime, william was about ten when he started having... issues. he was constantly racked with fevers and his loss in weight was obviously not too healthy. he'd often complain about pains in a certain bone. so like good parental figures their mother and father decided to take him to the hospital after he'd suffered a fracture from a minor fall off the porch of their house. there, his blood was tested and he was x-rayed. the doctor promptly referred them to an orthopedic oncologist... their little boy had bone cancer. go figure.

there's generally a five year survival rate for people with bone cancer... that's what dee's mother told her. five years? but it was her brother. he could die in five years or less... that just couldn't happen. but tumors apparently didn't care about the impossible, did they?

a couple years passed, and dee continued to get rougher around the edges - not opening up to anyone really. your big brother going through a billion surgeries combined with chemotherapy is enough to do that to you. she started closing herself away from anyone and everyone and typically only spoke to her best friends and her brother... he made things better somehow. in her life, that is. made her laugh and feel good. but that was going to end soon. william died about six years into his treatment.

obviously it was tragic... and, even after all the warnings and the foreshadowing, dee couldn't have been slammed harder. in some small way, she had wished she was the one who'd had cancer. good for nothing, that's what she was. will would have put her life to better use... it broke all of the family's hearts to know that he was dead, and he couldn't come back. and save dee, of the two parents, it probably hit her mother the worst. her baby boy was gone... and she blamed her husband for it. why? delilah never found out.

no doubt it was a stressful time. son in the hospital with a middle-class father working to try and pay for his family. did that give him any excuse to have an affair with a co-worker? of course not. and his wife found out about it. oh, she found out about it. hell, she walked in on them in his office. accordingly she pitched a fit and wouldn't allow her husband into the house - which royally confused dee who knew nothing about her father cheating. will had died a week later, thus futhering the family's issues.

so, you can imagine delilah was pretty pissed off when suddenly, after her beloved big brother's death, her mother wanted a divorce. of course, she didn't know anything. that's what made it worse. she had absolute confidence in her father, and neither he nor her mother had the heart to tell her why they were breaking up. but dee was a strong-minded teenager and all she could tell was that her mother wanted to ruin any family she had left furthermore than it had already been. which seriously wasn't cool. sooo... when her father left the house to go stay in a motel for a couple nights, she hid away in his car.

people had always told dee it was a miracle that she had survived the car crash. apparently, if she had been sitting any closer to the front... instant death. all she remembered was screeching metal folding in on her back and slashing down on it. and her father... oh god, her father. on his way to the motel with her in the back the car they'd been slammed into by a drunk driver steering his wasted ass down the road in the wrong direction at an insane speed... he was dead. her father was freaking dead. in the front. the car had flipped. he was dead.

dee imerged from the crash with a few ugly gashes along her back which would fade into scars. and her father had lost his life. how was that fair? the tragedy struck her even harder than will's death for she was already vulnerable as it was...

her mother cried. and it was genuine the sorrow she felt for her husband even though she was going to seperate from him. dee never thought so, though. she'd often gotten into fights with her mother afterward, blaming her for her father's death. she was the one who'd kicked him out, right (and be aware that dee had no idea why.)? she'd sent him to that motel. she'd put him on that street. she was to blame...

delilah and her mother's relationship has been strained ever since her brother and father died. ever since, dee's been pretty fragile and self conscious of the mental and physical scars she's gained over them. but, of course, she won't show it... she and her mother often get in fights now, and her mother has threatened to kick her out once or twice... because dee dislikes her mother and wants to show her that she can be independant, she's taken up a job at one of the local restaurants as a skating waitress. stupid as all hell, but it pays better than most. and now she can support herself if she wants to.

(crappy history XD)

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