c o r i n n e c l a r k e.


Corinne Clarke.
21.
Younger sister to Colton Clarke.
Ward One.
Separation anxiety disorder, borderline personality disorder.

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// TW abuse and death //

Corinne never remembered having a happy childhood. She never got to have friends over, never had tea parties, never got to play with her dolls and be a normal kid just as everyone else got to do, because Corinne was plagued with secrets from the time she was able to know right from wrong. Her father abused her mother right in front of her and her older brother, Colton, for as long as she could remember. Her mother had always begged the two of them to "keep quiet" and to "never tell a soul." They never did. They pinky swore on it.

This went on for years. But everything changed on their mother's 31st birthday, when Corinne was only seven years old. Colton had walked Corinne home from the bus stop that day instead of taking her to the park like they usually did, and when they opened the front door, they found their mother on the floor, dead, by their own father's hands. And that's when he had held a gun to their heads, telling them to "keep quiet" and to "never tell a soul," just as their mother always had.

Their father told the police that their mother ran away, took their money and all of her belongings and had gone somewhere else, when in reality he stashed their cash under the mattress and burned all their mother's clothing. The police didn't question it. They didn't check anything. They didn't question the children. They did nothing. Nothing at all. They simply dropped the case and left it alone.

Their father never abused Corinne, never laid a hand on her after the incident, because he knew she might eventually speak out against him. But she never did. She always feared for her life, and for her brother's. She cared too deeply for the boy to do anything that might harm him.

All the trauma eventually lead to her current diagnoses, heavily relying on her brother for guidance and support, although he's got problems of his own to deal with and burdens of his own to carry.

(Will edit as I see fit.)

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