Post by tobias matthew jackson on Apr 3, 2011 12:41:45 GMT -5
TOBIAS matthew JACKSON .
this biography is ( a work in progress !)
[/justify]- - tell us, who wears the pants around here?Your Name: Larkie Loo!
Other Characters? Coming Soon...
How Did You Find Us? Pfft, I made this place.- - give us some basics, what do we need to know?
Full Name: Tobias Matthew Jackson
Nick Names: Toby (used exclusively), Tobe (Sadie)
Age: Twenty-three
Birthday: April 17th
Birth Place: Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Grade: ---
Gender: Male
Orientation: Straight
Face Claim: Chace Crawford
- - so how did you end up here at Deer Creek?
"Well the story is pretty simple. After Sadie and I got married we started talking about having our own place like Brinley, the reform center where we worked at the time. Not that we didn't love Brinley and wouldn't have happily stayed there forever, but especially once we were married it was tough. Part of the counselors' jobs there was to sleep in the cabin with all the students so you didn't have a lot of privacy and obviously we couldn't sleep int the same bed like most married couples. It was doable, we found some alone time during the day, but it was still kind of tough. Neither of us were ready to leave when we did get married, though, so we just kept saving our money up and working. Toward the end of the second year we had been married, though, I think we both just started getting sick of it. We were ready to move on, you know?
"So from there we started looking at different pieces of property, preferably something we could fix up since we didn't quite have the money to go from scratch. We didn't really care where we went all the much and this place here in Montana just kind of fell into our laps. It had a good price tag and a seller willing to work with us on the sell after we told him our intentions with the property. He happily held it for us until Brinley could find replacements for us and then we loaded up my old truck with what few things we had and drove up here. We'd only seen the place online, but it was exactly what we'd hoped for. We spent the next year working on the property since it was pretty run down. All the electrical wiring in the house we live in now was messed up and we didn't have a single piece of furniture. When we first moved in we slept on the floor in the living room in a pair of sleeping bags we zipped together with candles for light after sunset. Believe me, it was a happy day when the furniture guys came with our new bed. We started first fixing our house, which had been functioning as a guest cottage for some time, before we started working on the barn. We were looking for our first couple horses when we found Adelle online and hired her pretty quick. She helped with all the horse buying and whatnot and helped a lot with training the horses. Sadie and I are both horse people, but we don't really know a whole lot about training horses so she was invaluable.
"After the barn was running pretty smoothly, we turned to the big house where the students would live. The big house is, well, big, so that was probably the longest of our projects. It's pretty old, but now that we've restored it it's more than nice enough. There are sixteen bedrooms in total on the second floor and we had to furnish and paint all of them, twelve for students and another four for counselors. The house has a huge finished attic that is basically a third floor we'll probably expand into one of these days, too. Oh, and did I mention the air hockey table in the main room downstairs? I think I like that thing far more than any of the students. But anyway, that's how Deercreek came into being and how I ended up here, too. We went through the certification process to make this a legally recognized reform and therapy center and now we've opened the doors to students. I'm pretty psyched."
"So from there we started looking at different pieces of property, preferably something we could fix up since we didn't quite have the money to go from scratch. We didn't really care where we went all the much and this place here in Montana just kind of fell into our laps. It had a good price tag and a seller willing to work with us on the sell after we told him our intentions with the property. He happily held it for us until Brinley could find replacements for us and then we loaded up my old truck with what few things we had and drove up here. We'd only seen the place online, but it was exactly what we'd hoped for. We spent the next year working on the property since it was pretty run down. All the electrical wiring in the house we live in now was messed up and we didn't have a single piece of furniture. When we first moved in we slept on the floor in the living room in a pair of sleeping bags we zipped together with candles for light after sunset. Believe me, it was a happy day when the furniture guys came with our new bed. We started first fixing our house, which had been functioning as a guest cottage for some time, before we started working on the barn. We were looking for our first couple horses when we found Adelle online and hired her pretty quick. She helped with all the horse buying and whatnot and helped a lot with training the horses. Sadie and I are both horse people, but we don't really know a whole lot about training horses so she was invaluable.
"After the barn was running pretty smoothly, we turned to the big house where the students would live. The big house is, well, big, so that was probably the longest of our projects. It's pretty old, but now that we've restored it it's more than nice enough. There are sixteen bedrooms in total on the second floor and we had to furnish and paint all of them, twelve for students and another four for counselors. The house has a huge finished attic that is basically a third floor we'll probably expand into one of these days, too. Oh, and did I mention the air hockey table in the main room downstairs? I think I like that thing far more than any of the students. But anyway, that's how Deercreek came into being and how I ended up here, too. We went through the certification process to make this a legally recognized reform and therapy center and now we've opened the doors to students. I'm pretty psyched."
- - well, give us the full run down, your whole life story
"Well, my name's Toby, as we've already covered. I'm named for a character in the play Twelfth Night by Shakespeare because the first time I kicked my mom when she was pregnant with me was while she was sitting in class reading the play. I later found out the character Toby is a drunken party boy who sleeps with whores. Not really me, but whatever. Thought that counts I guess. I grew up in a town called Windsor, which happens to be the southernmost Canadian city. It's right on the border with the US, across Lake St. Clair from Detroit. If you caught that I said my mom was in class when she decided to name me Toby, that would be because she had me when she was eighteen. She managed to graduate early and all, but the situation wasn't ideal. We've always had it tough as a result and it's always been just her and me and my sister and brother. See, my grandparents wrote her out of their life when they found out she was pregnant out of wedlock (I think my mom said they were really religious or something) and as a result I've never even met them. My dad could be any number of people. My mom doesn't remember who all she had been with during that time. Kind of embarrassing, but I don't let it get to me. I didn't even know it was weird not to have a dad until middle school, anyway.
"When I was little, we moved around a lot. Always someplace small and cramped, be that a one bedroom apartment or a hotel room. My little sister Eve was born when I was four. Some little fling between my mom and one of her co-workers but the guy was a coward and ran off and won't talk to Mom or Eve. My little brother Noah was born a couple years after that when we finally just moved into a bigger apartment on the bad side of town. I pretty much raised my sister and brother, honestly, so I'm close to both of them, especially Eve. I still e-mail and text Eve a lot since she lives in Toledo, Ohio these days with her boyfriend. To be honest, I kind of worry he abuses her, but I don't want to be too paranoid about the whole thing. Eve, though, is like a genius. Actually, she is a genius, so it's kinda a shame she's just working as a waitress instead of doing something intelligent. But fact is, my mom just doesn't have the money. At least she's only nineteen so she has a chance. Noah's probably not going to college, either, next year, but I think that's perfectly fine by him. He's not on the best track, really, kind of into drugs and stuff like that.
"Anyway, I don't really try to hide my criminal record, so I guess we should just get that story out in the air. I don't entirely remember what had happened, but one day I just stormed out of the house, angry at my mom over something to do with that situation. By then, I was thirteen. I'm pretty sure that's when my mother told us she was pregnant again, but she never had the baby and she didn't tell us why. I still don't know if she lost it, or had an abortion, but I don't think it was the latter. If she weren't against abortion I wouldn't be here, or at least Eve and Noah wouldn't be. By this point for the past year I'd been taking care of my brother and sister pretty much on my own since she worked three jobs and we almost never saw her. That was the night I turned to shoplifting for the first time. I had a big warm coat they'd given me at school, knowing my situation, and that's what I would use it for. I always picked stores without security stuff so it was harder to get caught. Obviously I couldn't take a lot and ends still weren't meeting, so I started pick pocketing. I told my mom and Eve and Noah all sorts of lies in hopes they'd never catch on. In my head, what I was doing was ok because I was just trying to take care of them. There was no other way, at least not the way I saw it.
"I was arrested when I was fourteen for shoplifting and held in jail for a day before my mom was able to get a bail bond. I don't want to know what she did to get it because we sure as heck didn't have anything for collateral. My mom hated me for what I'd done after she got me out. When we got home she beat me, but I've forgiven her for that. I deserved it, honestly. I pleaded guilty at court and they went easier on me. They ordered four years in an appropriate reform center. Hence, how I came to live at Brinley. The first two and a half years there, I hated it. I took my first sips of alcohol from people who'd smuggled it in one way or another; that made me much too aware of what kids are capable of trying to sneak in. My "friends" got me to steal stuff from counselors and whatnot. It just plain wasn't good, until the day I tried to steal from my new counselor, Miles. He caught me red-handed and we started talking and it was the start of an awesome friendship, even though he's older than me. We're still best friends and talk all the time. He claims he'll move up here someday, but I'll believe it when I see it. Miles is from Miami for goodness sake, he'd freeze to death.
"A year and a half later I graduated from Brinley High and in theory should have moved back to Canada, but I didn't. Two counselors had decided to quit and I applied for one of the positions, a young blond a couple years older than me for the other. We met at training with Miles and the other girl counselor before Delilah, and she was nice, but really quiet and shy and just not my type. I didn't take a lot of interest in her as more than a friend until the annual Brinley bonfire when she did a bunch of sweet stuff and started to seem like she was something special. I walked her back to her cabin after dark and we got into this deep discussion on dating and all that. It wasn't long after that we knew that we were in a relationship, even if we'd never said anything, and both of us had our first kisses, a little late, but better late than never. You guessed it, the blond was Sadie.
"We'd been dating, secretly to where the students at Brinley didn't know, for around two years when I decided to propose. I did it on the dock there, which, by the way, was also where we had our first kiss and tied the knot, so it's basically the most important place ever for us. It was after dark on a night with a nearly full moon. She said yes, I picked her up and gave her a kiss... and then we couldn't stop for a while, which was actually pretty funny. Our engagement was short because Sadie was rather impatient and we got married four months later on September the fifth, on the dock like I already mentioned. It was a small affair, mostly just friends from Brinley and we finally got to make our relationship known. It's kind of hard to hide a wedding, you know? So we just had a really little affair on the beach (I freaking love the beach) with some dancing and food from Brinley's cafeteria (which was actually delicious). Sadie and I actually had our first dance to "Waiting for a Girl Like You" mainly because I really love 80s music and that's one of my favorites. We spent a week in St. Martin in my friend's family's condo and by the end of the week we had the whole honeymooning thing down pretty well, if you know what I mean. But seriously, I really do love our relationship; there's a certain innocence to it. I mean, she was the first woman I was ever with in any sense and I just adore her. She's not a bad girl, and, well, I like that about her. And we just get each other, you know? Like, we both had these awful home lives as kids and now we work to keep our home life now calm. I mean, the reason you never see us fighting is because neither of us can stand that kind of contention; we're definitely not perfect. But anyway, after the wedding, we finished out that year and then another, the whole while saving up money for Deercreek.
"When we finally got together the right kind of money, this property just sort of fell right into our laps. I was actually excited to move somewhere colder since I'm not so big on hot weather. I'm just really happy things are settling down a little for me and Sadie. No more waking up in the middle of the night to chase down teenagers, no more being apart, none of those sucky things. I like stability, you know? We're kind of like a couple of newlyweds these days now that we're living together and all. We've been together five years and I'm still beyond crazy about her. I have a lot of dreams for this place, now that it's finally opening. I just hope it works out..."
[/blockquote][/blockquote][/blockquote]"When I was little, we moved around a lot. Always someplace small and cramped, be that a one bedroom apartment or a hotel room. My little sister Eve was born when I was four. Some little fling between my mom and one of her co-workers but the guy was a coward and ran off and won't talk to Mom or Eve. My little brother Noah was born a couple years after that when we finally just moved into a bigger apartment on the bad side of town. I pretty much raised my sister and brother, honestly, so I'm close to both of them, especially Eve. I still e-mail and text Eve a lot since she lives in Toledo, Ohio these days with her boyfriend. To be honest, I kind of worry he abuses her, but I don't want to be too paranoid about the whole thing. Eve, though, is like a genius. Actually, she is a genius, so it's kinda a shame she's just working as a waitress instead of doing something intelligent. But fact is, my mom just doesn't have the money. At least she's only nineteen so she has a chance. Noah's probably not going to college, either, next year, but I think that's perfectly fine by him. He's not on the best track, really, kind of into drugs and stuff like that.
"Anyway, I don't really try to hide my criminal record, so I guess we should just get that story out in the air. I don't entirely remember what had happened, but one day I just stormed out of the house, angry at my mom over something to do with that situation. By then, I was thirteen. I'm pretty sure that's when my mother told us she was pregnant again, but she never had the baby and she didn't tell us why. I still don't know if she lost it, or had an abortion, but I don't think it was the latter. If she weren't against abortion I wouldn't be here, or at least Eve and Noah wouldn't be. By this point for the past year I'd been taking care of my brother and sister pretty much on my own since she worked three jobs and we almost never saw her. That was the night I turned to shoplifting for the first time. I had a big warm coat they'd given me at school, knowing my situation, and that's what I would use it for. I always picked stores without security stuff so it was harder to get caught. Obviously I couldn't take a lot and ends still weren't meeting, so I started pick pocketing. I told my mom and Eve and Noah all sorts of lies in hopes they'd never catch on. In my head, what I was doing was ok because I was just trying to take care of them. There was no other way, at least not the way I saw it.
"I was arrested when I was fourteen for shoplifting and held in jail for a day before my mom was able to get a bail bond. I don't want to know what she did to get it because we sure as heck didn't have anything for collateral. My mom hated me for what I'd done after she got me out. When we got home she beat me, but I've forgiven her for that. I deserved it, honestly. I pleaded guilty at court and they went easier on me. They ordered four years in an appropriate reform center. Hence, how I came to live at Brinley. The first two and a half years there, I hated it. I took my first sips of alcohol from people who'd smuggled it in one way or another; that made me much too aware of what kids are capable of trying to sneak in. My "friends" got me to steal stuff from counselors and whatnot. It just plain wasn't good, until the day I tried to steal from my new counselor, Miles. He caught me red-handed and we started talking and it was the start of an awesome friendship, even though he's older than me. We're still best friends and talk all the time. He claims he'll move up here someday, but I'll believe it when I see it. Miles is from Miami for goodness sake, he'd freeze to death.
"A year and a half later I graduated from Brinley High and in theory should have moved back to Canada, but I didn't. Two counselors had decided to quit and I applied for one of the positions, a young blond a couple years older than me for the other. We met at training with Miles and the other girl counselor before Delilah, and she was nice, but really quiet and shy and just not my type. I didn't take a lot of interest in her as more than a friend until the annual Brinley bonfire when she did a bunch of sweet stuff and started to seem like she was something special. I walked her back to her cabin after dark and we got into this deep discussion on dating and all that. It wasn't long after that we knew that we were in a relationship, even if we'd never said anything, and both of us had our first kisses, a little late, but better late than never. You guessed it, the blond was Sadie.
"We'd been dating, secretly to where the students at Brinley didn't know, for around two years when I decided to propose. I did it on the dock there, which, by the way, was also where we had our first kiss and tied the knot, so it's basically the most important place ever for us. It was after dark on a night with a nearly full moon. She said yes, I picked her up and gave her a kiss... and then we couldn't stop for a while, which was actually pretty funny. Our engagement was short because Sadie was rather impatient and we got married four months later on September the fifth, on the dock like I already mentioned. It was a small affair, mostly just friends from Brinley and we finally got to make our relationship known. It's kind of hard to hide a wedding, you know? So we just had a really little affair on the beach (I freaking love the beach) with some dancing and food from Brinley's cafeteria (which was actually delicious). Sadie and I actually had our first dance to "Waiting for a Girl Like You" mainly because I really love 80s music and that's one of my favorites. We spent a week in St. Martin in my friend's family's condo and by the end of the week we had the whole honeymooning thing down pretty well, if you know what I mean. But seriously, I really do love our relationship; there's a certain innocence to it. I mean, she was the first woman I was ever with in any sense and I just adore her. She's not a bad girl, and, well, I like that about her. And we just get each other, you know? Like, we both had these awful home lives as kids and now we work to keep our home life now calm. I mean, the reason you never see us fighting is because neither of us can stand that kind of contention; we're definitely not perfect. But anyway, after the wedding, we finished out that year and then another, the whole while saving up money for Deercreek.
"When we finally got together the right kind of money, this property just sort of fell right into our laps. I was actually excited to move somewhere colder since I'm not so big on hot weather. I'm just really happy things are settling down a little for me and Sadie. No more waking up in the middle of the night to chase down teenagers, no more being apart, none of those sucky things. I like stability, you know? We're kind of like a couple of newlyweds these days now that we're living together and all. We've been together five years and I'm still beyond crazy about her. I have a lot of dreams for this place, now that it's finally opening. I just hope it works out..."
