Full Name: Rosalinda Romero
Nicknames: Rosa
Age: 21
Home Town: Chicago, IL
Occupation: Bartender/Freelance Photographer
Personality:
Rosalinda always had loved secrets. As a child, her and her brother, who although ten years her senior was mentally handicap so he was on the same social level as herself, iwould exchange silly secrets and giggle maniacally. She didn't remember much of a childhood, but what she did remember was nice. Rosa had to grown up at a young age. After her parents and brother died her Tia offered to take care of her, using the girl as a paycheck to buy more booze and pills. While her Tia laid out on the couch wasted, her son would sneak into Rosa's room and make her do horrible things. Eventually Rosa told her sister, who stayed in a foster family one town over and took the bus to see Rosa once a week. Rosa had become more withdrawn and silent, so her sister knew something was going on and eventually drew it out of her sister. Rosa was removed immediately and placed in the same home as her sister, Mackenzie. Once Mackenzie was of age, she got custody of Rosa once Rosa was 11 and herself 19. Although her sister meant well, Rosa didn't do that much better with her sister raising her. Most days she was left starving, and without any supervision. Rosa was conviced her sister had began to do drugs, due to rapid weight loss and a constant glazed expression. However Rosa knew she was only 12 and did not want to end up in a home again. At grade 7, Rosa signed up for a scholarship offered by the City of Chicago for underprivileged kids that sent them to boarding schools across the country. Rosa tested with excellent scores, choosing a school only a couple hours away for middle school. Once she was in high school she transferred to a boarding school in California and finished all four years there.
Although Rosa had slight behavior issues through middle school, back talking and truancy mostly, Rosa was generally a good student. Her teachers called her an over achieving slacker. Her grades were good, but Rosa could do so much more if she applied herself, which she never did. When it came to college she had scholarships lined up but she didn't go. It didn't seem like the right thing at the time. Rosa returned to Chicago, back to the house that her sister stayed in.
Rosa had never found someone that held her fancy for so long. Constantly she had always gotten bored with someone after a few dates/hook ups, but something about him kept him always on her mind. Julian is truly the reason she wakes up in the morning. He is the reason her smile is so uninhibited and the reason she finally feels comfortable being herself.
Commonly when people first meet her, they think she is a sweetheart. All smiles and giggles, Rosa gives off the free spirited and bubbly kind of vibe. A lot of people think they can easily take advantage of the girl, but her bold ways and loud mouth makes sure to let others know they aren't one they'd like to cross. Her father was a Latin King from south side, her mother had been a Nurse at a clinic. Her parents were huge worriers, so after Mackenzie was born they immediately took out life insurance. When Rosa and her family got into an accident that fateful day, Rosa remembers her father yelling about the brakes being cut.
After that, her memory was a haze, living with her Tia she seemed to forget a lot. Therapist say its because the mind reacts in a way to benefit you the best. Once she was living with her sister, atleast she wasn't being beaten or sexually abused.
Rosa doesn't let many people know about her situation, most of the time she tells people that her and Julian rent the townhouse they live in and that they often struggle with money, although that's hardly the case. She has a sweet voice and cute quirks as she speaks. She is prone to come off as girly or prissy, most of the time she gets called 'cute' or 'adorable'. Rosa doesn't really look for approval from anyone, and sometimes her and Julian have problems because she sometimes makes him feel like his opinions and thoughts are pointless. Having been independent for so long, she does struggle having to look at the partnership of them both and how far it stretches into her life.
History:
Rosa doesn't like bringing up her past. She has a fear that people would think she was asking for their pity, making up stories so they'd feel had for her. Rosalinda does go out of her way to keep an upbeat attitude and is often described as free spirited and warm hearted. It often comes as a shock to people when they do get wind of her hardships. Rosa's parents were very loving, but very unprepared to have kids. Although Rosa would of course want her parents back, she has accepted her past as a part of who she is to become. Living with her Aunt wasn't so bad, she forgot most of it. Atleast she would eat there. When she was living with her sister she often went to school with a growling stomach and a sour mood.
When boarding school provided an escape, Rosa regretted her choice shortly after making it. Due to eye catching scores and CHARITY written all over her case file, Rosa was taken into most schools as a pet project. The girl aced most classes, if not she surely got a B- save for a C in Physics. Yet all teachers had the same problem- homework. Rosa would excel in exams and projects and in class work, but half the time never finished her homework. An overachieving slacker, her teachers took a particular interest in her. At a young age, Rosa always felt a weight on her shoulders that she had to BE somebody because everyone else said so. Because she couldn't let all her potential flush down the drain. As she transferred to California, Rosa became overwhelmed with issues back home and the pressure to set her path so soon. Her freshman year she still did well in class, but began to withdraw into her own shell. She began to feel depressed and conflicted, angry at the world around her.
It went on into her junior year, and by her senior year she began seeing a therapist and had stopped cutting- although she still hadn't told a soul. Her upper thighs has a slew of scars, truly ugly as some are scars on top of scars where she hadn't waited long enough for the area to heal before she started again. By the time she was out of high school she began to feel happier in herself. Once she began working, then as a waitress at Buca restaurant, the girl began to walk with a bounce in her step and let her worries melt away.
It was around this time she met Julian. When she first met him, she knew he would be hers eventually. There were too many fireflies in her gut for it not to be true. The second time they met was at a party, where he lectured her about how he should be taking her to jail only to walk out like nothing ever happened.
In a way it scares her how much she loves Julian, she wouldn't know what to do if he left her. Even if he were to cheat on him she could forgive him. This man has become everything to her, the only source of love she truly has.
Equipment:
•White Nikon 300
•IPhone 5 with Hello Kitty case
•Pepper Spray
•Swedish Knife
