-- SAMANTHA RILEY --

-- Played by Melissa --

Nicknames: Sam, Sammy - She prefers Samantha

Age: 17

Birthday: May 19th

Grade: Junior

Job: Make-Up counter at Martin's

Neighborhood: Fairburn House #2

Personality: Samantha is very much your typical girly girl.  She HATES to sweat and even when working out for the drill team, she finds it disgusting.  In the end she sticks around because her love for dancing trumps her hate for sweat.  She’s very superficial in that she won’t hang out with someone if they don’t take time to have a presentable appearance.  It’s an issue of respect.  They obviously don’t respect people to take care of themselves and she shouldn’t have to respect them enough to converse with the person.  Around school she pretty much doesn’t take crap from anyone.  She is quick to put someone in their place with her words but thankfully has never come to fighting.  She aces school because she copies from other people.  Sure she could do it on her own but she doesn’t understand that point in wasting her time on it.  In love…well she doesn’t ever fall in love.  If she feels like she is, she bolts.  It stems from her parent’s divorce but she would never actually admit that she’s running from love because she’s scared she’ll end up like them.

Activities: Drill Team

Schedule:

Period	Subject	Room
1st period-	Physics	SC01
2nd period-	Calculus	M05
3rd period-	English Literature	E19
4th period-	Economics	SS10
5th period-	Concert Choir	Choral Room 2
6th period-	LUNCH	--
7th period-	Spanish	WL03
8th period-	Home Economics	HE01

After School Activites: Drill Team - WEEKDAYS: 3.15 - 4.45PM

Social Status: Semi-Popular

Relationship Status: Single

Best Friends: Lexi Crane

Social Circut(Friends):

Family: Her father, Eric and mother Amber split up when she was 7.  It was a very traumatic experience for Samantha and she hasn’t ever really forgiven them, or taken the blame off herself.  They would spend nights fighting and screaming and her mother was drunk more than she was sober.  After the divorce she lived with her mom for two years but she overdosed on a combination of sleeping pills and alcohol.  She quietly feels responsible since she should’ve been able to stop it.  She was only 9 though and she doesn’t realize that was an unrealistic expectation.  After that she moved in with her dad.  He worked a 9-5 job doing computer programming.  They got along great and he always made sure he had money to pay for her dance lessons and gymnastic practices.  Unfortunately for Sam he remarried when she was 14.  Danielle was everything you wouldn’t want in a step mother: gorgeous, sugary sweet and had kids.  Samantha doesn’t get along with her step brother Josh, who’s only 10 at all.  Sure it might be because she is rebelling against her father, but it makes for a tense experience in their household.

Other little facts: She volunteers as a gymnastics coach at the community center.  She loves gymnastics and she wants to give that excitement and fun to the little kids.  She usually goes on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturdays depending on her drill team practices.  She hates seafood and peanut butter.  She has a drinking problem so she actually avoids drinking as much as possible.  The issue is that once she starts drinking, she can’t stop until she blacks out and passes out.