NATALIA SANCHEZ â seventeen » female » bisexual » Naya Rivera.
The thing about living with drug addicts - you never know when theyâre going to just leave and never come back. This harsh truth haunted Natalia Sanchez every night after she first caught her mother shooting up. She was forced to grow up much faster than intended in order to tend to her little brother, Marcus. Nat finally realized why her parents stopped coming home every night, and opted for rather only every other night. She understood why they never had enough money for new clothes or toys or even food. Her parents were always spending what little money they had on any drugs they could find. Even though Natalia was the mere age of eleven, she had to understand it all. She was /forced/ to understand it all. Nat had to be the grown up in her little brotherâs life or she really didnât know how theyâd get through. But even so, she was still eleven, with the childish naivety still brewing inside of her. She didnât understand the mistake she made about telling a teacher at school about how her mommy and daddy put needles into their arms or put white powder up their nose until the police were taking her parents away in handcuffs and Natalia and Marcus were being thrown into an orphanage four hours away from their old apartment.
The orphanage was horrible, but not worse than their old living conditions. In here, they didnât get thrown abusive slurs or forced to fend for themselves. Natalia thought that maybe, just maybe, things would get better. Maybe she didnât have to blame herself for telling the teacher about what her parents do and why she never has money for field trips or textbooks or lunch. They got into the routine of hiding their valuables - though they already knew to do that, so it was more like instinct - and running around with other kids their age who didnât have parents, either. But Nat knew that she and Marcus had parents. And they would come back for them once they got better. Thatâs what the nice policemen told them on the way to the orphanage anyways. Two years passed, and somebody wanted to adopt Marcus. Just Marcus, not Natalia. Natalia screamed that she was going with her little brother no matter what, but the family only wanted one child and that was that. The next day, Natalia and Marcus were two towns over, finding an apartment when she was just thirteen years old. Thatâs not legal, right? Right. But when youâre as smart as Natalia had to be at thirteen, and the landlord was a blind old man, it was surprisingly easy.
They lived on their own for two years. Natalia had three jobs in order to pay the rent, and she never went to school. They barely got by, and Natalia was really, really careful about who she spoke to and what kind of information she gave out. This made her into an extremely closed off and defensive person. But one day, she slipped up. She couldnât pay the rent and get food for her little brother, so she tried stealing something. It was her first time ever, and she got caught. The police wanted to speak to her parents, and that was the end of the life Natalia was desperately trying to give her brother. They were sent back to the orphanage and kept a close watch on. A couple months after being back at the orphanage, a couple came and wanted to adopt Natalia. It was the opposite of what had happened a couple years ago, and Natalia was kept under watch until she was put into the car with her new parents - her brother being left behind. She swore that sheâd come back for him when she had the money, and so began Nataliaâs new life in a crappy apartment that was in California, two states away from the orphanage that resided in Texas and held the most important person in the world to her.
The next year and a half was spent with Natalia working two jobs and saving up every single penny she got in order to fly back to see her brother. Her foster parents werenât much of anything. She resented them when they had first taken her away from her brother, and she hated them even more when she realized that they were just like her real parents - they were drug addicts. They had Natalia living in a shitty room in a shitty apartment. They never bought her new stuff, so Natalia got into shoplifting. Thatâs how she has all of the stuff she does now. People think sheâs rich, but she just steals the stuff she has now and never letâs people come to her house because she doesnât want anybody to know sheâs poor, or adopted, or that her foster parents are drug addicts. Her worst fear is that she wonât be accepted by people. So, she acts like sheâs better than everybody else so people will actually believe it. Sheâs bitchy and closed off and god forbid anybody asks her about her life when she was little or anything before she came to Waxler. She doesnât get close to people, so those people donât dig into her life and find out thatâs sheâs a fake.
Natalia works two jobs when sheâs not at school. Literally, sheâs constantly either at work, doing homework, or at school. She never has any relaxing time or really any time at home. Which is how she likes it. She hates being cooped up in that shit room because her foster parents were doing whatever drugs they managed to get. Theyâre constantly asking for money, too. But Natalia has gotten so closed off and defensive of herself that she straight up tells them no, and hides whatever she manages to get. Itâs definitely taking a toll on her, because sheâs usually running on little to no sleep and has to somehow keep her grades up and go to work. A year after she had been adopted, Natalia had saved up enough money to go back and visit her brother; to tell him itâd be okay, to remind him that sheâd be back for him, to see him and hug him. Her foster parents didnât give a shit. They hadnât even noticed she left until she came back. Natalia had thought that maybe her brother would have been adopted, but no. To her horror, the orphanage had burned down just two months after she had gotten adopted. A horrific fire that took the life of seventeen of the orphans that lived there. Whether Marcus was one of them or not - she has no idea.
Natalia hates that she doesnât know if her brother is alive or not. And she especially hates that thereâs even a possibility that he could be dead. It breaks her heart and has made her into the cold bitch she is today. If anybody even mentions her past or asks about it, sheâll snap at them and most likely make them wish they were never born. Nobody knows where she lives, or how many jobs she works, or that she steals everything she owns. She has gotten caught for it a couple of times, so itâs only a matter of time that itâs kept a secret, and Natalia has to build up her reputation now so it canât be completely torn down later. When she turns eighteen, the girl is planning on going back to Texas to look for her little brother and find out what happened to him. Sheâll stay for as long as she can with the amount of money she has.
As for the meantime, living in California and going to some crappy high school in a bad neighborhood was really getting to Natalia. She was decent at school, despite only getting about four hours of sleep a night, sometimes less. But she didnât know what she wanted to do. Nataliaâs always been interested in dancing and any type of art, and sheâs quite amazing at both. However, she didnât want to pursue a career that wouldnât get her anywhere in life. After all, when she found her brother, sheâd need to provide for him. Being a business major would get her somewhere, but that shit bored her to tears. Finding out about Waxler was the best thing to ever happen to her. It was an accepting school, and Natalia kind of needed that type of thing considering sheâs struggling with her sexuality at the moment. She thinks sheâs bisexual, but the girl really doesnât have any time to figure it out in her hectic life. And itâs not like she knows how it feels to be with a girl, or a guy, even. Sheâs only been in one relationship and that was when she was over a year ago. It wasnât serious, but Natalia decided that relationships werenât for her; it made it harder to keep up the facade that her life revolves around. Though she has had sex with both genders, both while sober. Truthfully, Natalia liked both encounters. Being at Waxler would help her figure that out and not have to worry about being judged or teased.
Natalia will be attending the school, focusing on art and dance - both not very productive in Nataliaâs mind, but she figured she deserved at least something in her life that she liked to do. Sheâll be attending Waxler starting the new term in 2013, and sheâs excited to go and see how their programs are. Making friends isnât on her list of things to do, because she knows that sheâll be bitchy and closed off just as sheâs always been. But Natalia needs some type of distraction from worrying about whether her brother is alive or not.
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The role of Natalia Sanchez is unavailable.
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