I was born under the name of:
Holly Lucy Bennett
Call me:
Holly
I was born on:
May 29th, 1997
I was born in:
South Bronx, NY
I make a living by:
Doing drug runs with Hailey. Nick gives us drugs and an address to bring them to, and then he gives us some of the profits. Hailey is in charge of our money though, so she usually holds onto all of it until I need something.
Holly could be described as being naive, childish, kind and friendly. She has a cheerful and optimistic demeanor and for the most part, is usually happy. She's not the type of person who would ever intentionally hurt anyone so it's sometimes hard for her to understand why other people fight or hurt each other. She is very inattentive and absentminded, and finds it very hard to focus on one thing for very long. Tying into that, she's active and likes to be moving around all of the time.
However kind she is, she does have a tendency to annoy some of the others, especially Brooklyn. She enjoys talking to people and socializing but tends to overstep boundaries so if she's bored and wants to chat, she's going to, whether it's noon or four in the morning when everyone else is sleeping. She would never go out of her way to insult or be mean to someone but lacks a speech filter and tends to say things that she overheard and weren't intended to be repeated, or ask invasive or personal questions.
One of the most noticeable aspects of Holly is how dependent she is on other people, most specifically Hailey. She struggles with many academic skills and lacks some common sense, mostly due to her naivety, so without her sister, she would easily be taken advantage of. Although her sister is only two minutes older than her, she has been the only maternal figure in Holly's life and even now at almost eighteen years old, she continues to play the part. Her sister is the person who keeps her grounded; prevents her from spending all of their money on candy, makes sure that she doesn't get lost as they navigate through the city and apologizes to others when Holly crosses a social boundary that she never knew existed.
â€Bright colors
â€Socializing
â€Hailey
â€Music
â€New places
â€Little dogs
â€Swimming
âSitting still
âAnything school related
âCold weather
âLarge dogs
âSpicy food
âBeing alone
âNot knowing where her sister is
History:
Holly was born two minutes after her identical twin sister Hailey, to Leanna Bennett. Leanna came to New York as a thirteen-year-old runaway who had left her own abusive home and came to the city in hopes of making it big as a model. She soon learned that this was a unattainable dream and ended up getting involved in a drug ring. Somewhere along the line, she got pregnant and a year later, Hailey and Holly were born. The girls never met their father and don't even know his name, but did end up living with their mother and her boyfriend, Jim. They were running a small meth lab in the kitchen of their tiny apartment and although they sold most of the drugs they produced, it would be hard to tell judging on how much the two of them consumed on their own.
Needless to say, the girls weren't born into the ideal home and their mother never hesitated to let them know that. She made a point to stress how if she wasn't receiving a welfare check for keeping them, they would have been dumped into the foster care system long ago. It probably wouldn't have been a bad alternative anyway. Leanna was nearly always either high or drunk, or a combination of the two, and there were constant fighting between her and Jim. The altercations often turned physical but the twins weren't usually involved. However, when Holly was around seven years old, her mother's boyfriend began to sexually abuse her. It began as quick and infrequent encounters but after a few weeks, it became an almost nightly occurrence that lasted for three years before he was shot and killed by one of his drug customers who claimed he had ripped him off. Although Holly showed signs of having learning disabilities and emotional problems before this began, it was probably the main turning point that halted any chance of progress in those areas, and actually resulted in her regressing. She became attached to Hailey, the only person that she could always count on, and developed a happy-go-lucky but immature persona that she never ended up growing out of.
Her life outside of their home wasn't ideal either. Almost as soon as she started school, she was diagnosed with ADHD and soon after, dyslexia. The school district that they were a part of was severely underfunded and had very little resources to help a child like her, who had no physical signs of a disability but struggled dramatically when it came to school and focusing. She was prescribed medication to help with the ADHD but the pills never reached her because her mother and boyfriend sold them at the end of every month for extra cash when their government checks ran out. Her teachers did all that they could to help her but it proved futile and she ended up being held back four times over the course of her school career. She dropped out after completing the fifth grade (which should have been ninth grade), when she and Hailey ran away from home.
After Jim was murdered, Holly's life took a turn for the better, although not by much. Her mother seemed to acquire a new boyfriend, Chris, overnight and they soon moved into his apartment. He was also deeply involved in the drug game but took little interest in Holly or Hailey and only used them to deliver drugs for him. It was a clever disguise: he would fill one of the girl's backpacks with bags of drugs and the others with their books, and send them on their way to school. They would make a quick stop at an apartment on the way there, where they would deposit the drugs, and then go to school. He gave the girls candy as a reward, which Holly happily accepted.
Although she and Hailey were living in a barren, drug-ridden apartment with two addicts, she preferred this life to the one they had left behind. However, this was once again cut short when Holly was fifteen. This time, their apartment had been searched by police and after it was discovered that the couple were manufacturing and selling drugs, they were charged with a slew of offenses that ended up with them being sentenced to over six years in prison. Hailey and Holly were scheduled to be put into foster care but Hailey overheard social workers speaking about how the girls would be separated, so they ran away instead.