Life always sucked for Ellen, she was born unlucky as thought most of the time.
Her father had been a truck driver who spent most of his time on the road to support his wife and his daughter. Unfortunately, his wife, Ellen’s mother hadn’t been thankful at all and was even less loyal to her hard-working husband. For as long as she could remember her mother had brought home multiple men to have alone time in her room as the little girl, she had been considered it.
Her father had been a good enough man and maybe would have opened his eyes about his wife if mugger hadn’t taken his for his mostly empty wallet. Her mother then moved on officially and began to date multiple men each worse then the other, doing drugs and finally becoming nothing more than a prostitute to a drug dealer in their town.
Her homelife was horrible, her school life was somehow even worse.
She was bullied on because she smelled of cigarette smoke and weed on top of the times, she couldn’t shower because of the lack of running water. She wore cloths which were worse than hand me downs. She wasn’t bullied for being overweight, because she sometimes went a couple of days without eating anything outside of the school. Her teeth where horrible, never having gone to the dentist in her life and any make up or skin care stuff she did get was cheap and often stolen by her mother.
She did get a job, but any money she made was stolen by her mother before she could make any use of it.
It was a miracle she even graduated from high school, but her grades weren’t good enough to go to college. She considered joining the military, but they wouldn’t take her because she had flat feet so a dead-end job where she tried to make enough money to get out of her mother’s house was her fate.
She hadn’t drawn winning lottery numbers when it came to looks, she was flat chested, and her skin was horrible in part to her lack of treatment and the poor conditions she lived in. Her hair and eyes were the only bright spots, she did have a very bright red hair and deep green eyes. None of that made up for anything else and she had never even kissed anyone even at 22.
Her life was horrible, and she knew it was only going to get worse so the idea of leaving humanity behind didn’t frighten her as she prepared to attempt to get infected by the mermaid virus.