NAME ●●● Diamond Theodore Johnson III
FROM ●●● Cotton Plant, Arkansas
SEXUALITY ●●● Heterosexual/Heteroromantic
FULL TIME JOB ●●● Math Teacher at Cotton Plant School
Sarah and Teddy were born, bread and married in the tiny town of Cotton Plant, Arkansas. Both were incredibly hard workers, who were smart, kind and selfless. After they got married Sarah was accepted into college in California so they moved to San Diego.Everything was as picture perfect as it could get for two poor kids from Arkansas, then tragedy struck and Teddy Johnson, a heroic firefighter, passed away in the line of duty. Sarah never thought she’d be okay after that, didn’t know how she was going to make it from one day to the next, then she found out she was pregnant and found her hope again.
After she found out she was pregnant she sold their house, and Sarah moved back home to cotton plant and worked as a high school biology teacher and with the help of her and Teddy’s family’s was able to provide a stable and loving home for her kids.
Somehow despite the love and support of his family, Hawk still couldn’t manage to do something right. In school he didn’t try all that hard to actually achieve anything. Never made anywhere near top grades, even though he probably could have. Couldn’t be bothered with sports even though he had always been one of the fastest kids. And he never understood the point of trying so hard to do the right thing, when so often the right thing left one defeated, depressed or even dead. It was morbid, but apathy and dark and/or crude humor was how he coped.
Unfortunately, after high school, which he barely graduated, he continued hanging around the wrong kind of people, making all of the worst decisions and continuing to throw his potential away. Eventually drinking became a much larger problem and the reason he couldn’t stop drinking was because it helped him feel normal. Somehow he felt more in control of who he was and how he felt when he was drunk then he ever did when he was sober, and by twenty-four he was a functional alcoholic that had been in and out of rehab for four years.
It wasn’t until his mother kicked him out, cut him off and stopped talking to him, that he chose to get himself help and take it seriously. It took a while and it was pretty terrifying but somehow he made it through rehab, went to community college and by twenty-eight had a bachelor’s in Mathematics. After that he was back at home with his mom, who for the first time in a very long time was proud of him. She helped him get a job at the school in town as a math teacher, and it’s been two years since his last taste of alcohol. Finally, it seems he is getting his life together, he just hopes he actually does.