Mark Borden

[Luke Turner]

Name: Mark Borden
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Grade: Junior/11th
Clique: Populars
Hometown: New York, USA
Family:

Father – David – 46, brain damaged in an accident, he was run over.
Mother – Susie – 46, stressed because of looking after brain damaged husband
Brother – Henry – 14.
Cousin – Luke Turner – 21 works at Crescent Hill.

Likes:

Girls
Getting away from his family
Sport
His friends

Dislikes:

Fire
Cars
Accident
Toasters
His mother
His father

Personality:

Mark keeps himself to himself most of the time, he doesn’t talk to anyone much, only his cousin when he’s around.
When he does want to come out of his *shell*, he barely talks then, he doesn’t look the person in the eye, afraid of the person saying something, or asking him things.
He doesn’t talk to anyone, kept his cousin about his past, about his father.

Appearance:

Mark has black hair, and brown eyes. He wears t-shirts normally, and jeans.
Mark sometimes wears a brown necklace; he doesn’t have any piecing or tattoos as he doesn’t want to look wield…in his eyes at least.

History:

David met Susie on 23rd May; they were both 34, married a year later.
Mark was the first to be born, then his brother, a couple of years later, both of the boys grew up, happy together until that awful day, that awful night that would ruin their lives, the night when their dad had been drunk and had stepped out into the street, in front of a moving van, and had been run over.

The thing was, he wasn’t dead, the thing was, he was alive…but brain damaged. Susie, Mark’s mother, had to look after him when he came out of hospital, four weeks after the crash. David didn’t know where he was, who he was, who his family where…he had to be nursed back to recovery, slowly.
This affected the whole family, Henry, Mark’s little brother was 11 at the time, he didn’t understand what was going on, why his father was having mad moments, shouting and swearing.
Being older, Mark knew the basis of what had happened to his father, and had to deal with his mother, who was distressed at having to deal with his father, his father who was lost in his own little world, not knowing how to get himself dressed, having to be reminded to eat or drink.

Mark, at the age of 16, decided then and there to follow his cousin to the school called Crescent Hill Academy, he wanted to get away from his family, wanted to go with his only friend, his cousin.

Mark doesn’t know how he will get on here, he will have to wait and meet the people first before he decides if it is a good idea to come here.

Hopes/Goals:

To get away from his family
To start a new life.

[Headmistress Vasquez]

approved.