Kara Jakins
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17 years of age
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Spends her free time either reading a book or searching the online forums. Loves making new friends.
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Strong, caring, smart, dramatic, understanding, and a good friend. Tends to accidentally let her guard down for some people and vent easily on forums.
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Loves talking nonstop, lives with her older sister, parents died in a car crash three years ago, aunt is nowhere to be known, and grandparents died of old age.

Note: art is not mine, just borrowing for reference.

Name: Sonya Rees
Age: 17
She tends to be a shy person, but comes alive online where she sees herself as anonymous.
She lives with her parents, grandmother, two younger sisters and an older brother.

Kara sat at her lunch table with her already-eaten tray before her, pushed aside for her now opened notebook. Her pen rested on her lips as she swayed her free foot that balanced on her knee to the music coming from her large headphones at her ears and iPod sitting next to her notebook. She was waiting for the inspiration to come to her, but nothing.

She sighed and rested her pen down and sat back in her chair. She sat alone at her table during lunch. She didn't have many friends and was rather pleased to keep it that way. She closed her notebook, put her pen away in her purse, took of her headphones, wrapped the headphone's wires around the iPod, and got up to toss her tray away, going to adjust her makeup with the remaining ten minutes of lunch in the girl's bathroom.

Sonya had a half full tray of food that was rapidly disappearing. Now that she was eating much of it. Her brother sat across from her not even trying to hide the fact that he was stealing her lunch. She ate a few more fries before they were all gone and Niko gave her a dirty look. "It's my food, you ate yours already." She bushed a few crumbs from her shirt and left the rest of the food to her brother.

The plastic chairs of the cafeteria were terribly uncomfortable, so Sonya got up and wandered around the halls until the bell rang. The weather was chilly and overcast. Sonya usually walked around outside or sat on the grass, but not today. She pulled her birthday present from her bag, it was one of the new ipods with the touch screen. It even had wifi built in which was wonderful. With so many siblings and one computer between them it was hard to find time to get online. She logged onto the school's internet and checked her mail. Nothing yet.

The school day passed by in a blur for Kara. And that was normal for her. All she did was wake up, check her email, go to school, come home, check email, do homework, check email, eat, and go to bed. She always looked forward to her free period. She took that time to either get as much homework as she could out of her way, and if she didn't have any homework, she'd check her email or the only website she's ever on, in search of a pen pal. Finally, she found someone. Her eyes lit up and a smile curled at her lips.

MuSiC_iS_lIfE 1:32 PM

Hullo, I'm Kara (but you can just call me MuSiC). I'm seventeen years old and in search of a pen pal. I love talking about pretty much anything and I check my emails frequently.

Please and thank you,
MuSiC

Kara sighed, feeling a bit silly at how childish and over-friendly her post had seemed, but nonetheless, she pressed send and logged off, looking forward to her French class and then ending the day with Art III.

When the last bell rang Sonya packed her books and pulled out her ipod. She had an email waiting for her. She read it while walking down the hall. It was sweet and it made her smile after the long day. She immediately hit reply.

Dae_Dreamer 2:18pm

Hello Music. I'm also seventeen. I actually just had my birthday two weeks ago. It was alot of fun. All my sibling pitched in for my birthday present. They are so sweet. I'd love to talk to you some more but I've got to catch my ride home.

Dae.

Sonya pocketed her gadget in trotted down the hall to the parking lot where her brother was waiting in their car.

After school on days when she had no homework, Kara hanged at the mall in FYE where her brother and his friends worked. She always had fun hanging with them and when she had the money, she'd take her time and look for something to buy.

Kara sighed as she got on the bus that stopped near the mall. She sat down in her usual seat in the back that was always empty as she took out her iPod, using the wifi she almost never used. But she was just curious as to if her email got a reply or not.

When she saw that she did, she smiled and read the reply.

MuSiC_iS_lIfE 2:30pm

Yay! You actually replied! Which is a first for anything in my case. I hardly ever get replies as to pen pals. Ha haha. Your family sounds so nice. That was so sweet of them. I just turned seventeen back in January. For my birthday, my father (who is always working and hardly ever home) took me out to this really nice dinner. He took the day off just to spend time with me. I wish he did it more often though.

MuSiC.