Post by RORY GRACE HOPKINS on May 27, 2013 21:29:59 GMT -8
RORY G. HOPKINS
21 | HETEROSEXUAL | WAITRESS | LOCAL | ANNASOPHIA ROBB
THE INTERVIEW
HELLO. THANKS FOR COMING IN TODAY. SHALL WE START WITH YOUR NAME?
"Oh it's problem, I wasn't busy today. Well I'm Rory Grace Hopkins, but call me Rory it would be weird if you called me by my full name."
THAT'S A NICE NAME. WHAT DO YOU DO FOR A LIVING?
"Oh thank you, I've actually liked my name growing up. Well I am fairly new here. I have only actually been here for about a month and right now I am a Waitress at a nearby restaurant. I hope to eventually go to college and get a better job but for right now I can support myself so it's fine."
INTERESTING. WHAT DO YOU DO FOR FUN?
"Well I really enjoy running, it was always something I did as a little kid when I would get in fights with my family. It was the one way I could clear my head. It made me feel like nothing was caging me in anymore. I also enjoy swimming, I used to a lot when I was younger too. Of course though as you grow older you just don't have time for those things anymore. Maybe now that I'm here I will find time for those things, but you never know."
WOULD YOU SAY THOSE ACTIVITIES REFLECT WHO YOU ARE?
"Well those things would reflect the past me, probably the "me" I was before my parents passed away but I don't want to talk about that. Growing up I was outgoing, bubbly, and had a lot of energy which would explain the whole exercising thing. Those things I don't do anymore so they wouldn't reflect me now. Now I stay at home, maybe read. I am a pretty boring person to be honest. Yes I do drink every once in a while and party and have fun, but being new there isn't a lot for me to do at the moment. Maybe that will change soon? I don't know. It wouldn't be hard for me to meet people or make friends, I love talking. I just haven't had a chance to with the whole finding a place to live, finding a job big deal. Now that I am settled down maybe I can find who I am again, maybe I can find myself. I guess you could say I have been lost really. I'm sorry I am rambling, I tend to do that. I get that from my mother."
COOL BEANS. THEY SAY YOUR FAMILY SHAPES WHO YOU ARE. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOURS?
"Well to start off I should just get it right out there. When I was about 14 my parents passed away. There was a car accident, we got hit head on by a drunk driver. I was the only one to survive. I loved being an only child growing up, but after that I had wished I had a sibling so I wasn't so god damn lonely all the time. My family was never rich so I didn't go stay with a rich relative or anything, I had to go stay with my Uncle who was not a pleasant person. He was a constant drunk and would constantly bring all these women into the house all day. I was 14 so I knew what was going on, I wasn't stupid like he thought I was. He was never physically abusive which some people assumed because of how much he drank, he just didn't like children. Or better yet, me. I could tell you this story about how things got better and now me and him are closer than ever, but that isn't true. I moved here to get away with him, I will leave those reasons out though. I am happier than I have ever been. Really, I am."
AND YOUR LIFE? TELL ME ABOUT YOUR PAST. I'M EAGER TO HEAR.
"Well I grew up in California, not in one of those ritzy super fancy places, but a simple home. I never hated not being rich, I didn't care. I loved my parents and they loved me which was all I ever wanted, a happy family. I swam and ran all the time, partially because it made my parents proud and the other part was because I loved it. My parents did fight every once in a while and I fought with them too but I never hated them. I loved them and I still miss them to this very day. I wish that the car crash had never happened and I wish I didn't have to stay with my Uncle for as long as I did. I think part of the reason I don't like teenagers is because of how ungrateful they can be, they should love and appreciate their parents while they can. But they don't.
So then after the car crash when I was 14 I moved in with my Uncle. At first it was weird, like really weird. Her tried hiding the alcohol and drugs from me, oh and the girls. I think once he realized he was stuck with me, as he liked to say, he just gave up hiding it from me. That was only about two months into me living there. Once I turned 16 that was when things changed. My Uncle was poor, like dirt poor. He barely could make the months rent, which honestly scared me. So then he made me start helping with the money and everything. It changed me, it really did. It made me grow up fast, faster than I should have and I realize that now. I never enjoyed it, I hated it and I still do. I don't like talking about my past though. I just try to keep it to myself and forget about it."
So then after the car crash when I was 14 I moved in with my Uncle. At first it was weird, like really weird. Her tried hiding the alcohol and drugs from me, oh and the girls. I think once he realized he was stuck with me, as he liked to say, he just gave up hiding it from me. That was only about two months into me living there. Once I turned 16 that was when things changed. My Uncle was poor, like dirt poor. He barely could make the months rent, which honestly scared me. So then he made me start helping with the money and everything. It changed me, it really did. It made me grow up fast, faster than I should have and I realize that now. I never enjoyed it, I hated it and I still do. I don't like talking about my past though. I just try to keep it to myself and forget about it."
What about a secret? Everyone has a secret.
"I don't know, I don't like talking about it. If people found out they would judge me and look at me so different. Okay well I guess I can tell you. That job I had to get when I was 16 to help my Uncle pay the bills was me being a prostitute. He forced me to and when I moved out when I was 18 he came after me because he still wanted me making money for him so I just moved around California for three years. Finally I had enough of it and moved here, I needed away from him. I needed a new start."
ALRIGHT. TIME'S ALMOST UP. TELL ME ABOUT YOUR DREAMS. QUICK!
"I really want to go back to school, get a good job. I would love to become a Social Worker so I could help kids in horrible family conditions like I was in."
AND THAT'S A WRAP. IT WAS NICE GETTING TO KNOW YOU.
"It was very nice to meet you too."
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