What are five facts about you?
- My legal guardian is my brother in law who is the widower of my dead older sister. Confusing, right?
- My little sister, Vicky lives with him too. She’s a spoilt brat. She doesn’t know what we went through to get here.
- I’ve loved horses for as long as I can remember and always wanted to ride. Now I can.
- My mama is a heroin addict and I hope she’s dead.
- All I cause is pain.
Where did you grow up?
Was it when my mama OD’ed? Or when my dad was arrested for GBH? Or when my older sister died? I don’t think I was ever a kid. But that’s more when not where. You asked where. I guess I grew up in youth homes. You had to. I went to enough. I grew up in foster homes too. They were all pretty terrible and they’ve started to blur. There was one though. One that stays with me for all the right reasons. But they’re gone now…
Who are the special people in your life?
Anna, my best friend. She’s a diamond. She keeps me breathing. Dominic…my oldest friend. I dunno where I’d be without him. Tom, of course, my sunshine. Oh god, there are so many people. My little sister, of course. I guess I have to say my brother in law, Joseph but he’s more of a nuisance to be honest. And then there’s Sam – he takes the pain away.
Would you rather…return to a moment in your past or visit a moment in your future?
I’d rather live right here in the present, actually. My past is hell and I don’t have much hope for my future if I carry on the way I am.
Desert Island: Three Items
- Sketchbook
- Pencil that never runs out
- Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings
What’s something you wish you were better at?
Forgetting the past and not letting it control me.
What’s something you’re proud of?
Playing the character of Erika Waterstone – I do it so well, no one even realises.
What’s something you’re ashamed of?
My darkness. I don’t want anyone to ever see that.
What are you looking forward to right now?
A joint and the night. I’m happiest in the night. I can hide.
Pick 3 Dinner Guests, dead or alive
My sister, Enid Waterstone, Stanley Milgram and Virginia Woolf
What brought you to Hillside Academy?
Because if I’d stayed where I was I would have died.
Favourite Word?
Metamorphosis.
Learn more about Erika Waterstone by heading over to her very own wiki. Just click the image below and follow the link!
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