Meet Vada Josephine Rizzo, a seventeen year old senior that seems to believe her entire life is already planned out ahead of her. Born and raised in Boston, Vada was always a child that somehow remained unscathed for most of her existence. This isn't to say that she was any better than her peers - in fact, in some ways, she was probably worse. However, Vada had a strong knack for quietly influencing things to go her way. Instead of being loud and attention seeking like most young children are, she was the type of kid to silently wait for her friends to battle things out, and then suggest an alternative in order to seem like a "problem solver" and a "leader". Teachers were grateful for a quiet, seemingly well-behaved and helpful child, but in reality, they were simply blinded by their need for one less student to have to worry about. This appearance that she kept up worked out well for her, as she very rarely got punished, even for the things she had done. As she grew older, she also figured out that her reputation led her to be rather persuasive with adults, which also aided her in her need for life to head in the direction that suited her most. To this day, she is so used to influencing things to her benefit that she refuses to believe that her real dreams and aspirations aren't entirely conceivable, as long as she's able to talk her way through them.

Home life for Vada was a slightly different story from what she was used to at school. This never discouraged her, however, as she figured it was human nature to slip up and be a little more comfortable with the people she interacted with the most. Her mother, Julie Rizzo, was a successful lawyer and the ultimate bread winner in the house, leaving her father, Clifford Rizzo, the "housewife" among the family. At one point, Cliff used to be a champion heavy weight boxer, or at least this is what he claims. The idea of her pops smacking around other dudes never appealed to Vada as much as the fact that he was excellent at making homemade dinners from scratch, as her mother couldn't even properly make macaroni and cheese from a box, and she didn't want to go hungry. Still, the extremely obvious role reversals in the Rizzo household were not the most concerning thing for Vada when she woke up each morning. She was much more concerned with her rather volatile relationship with her identical twin sister, Rubia.

Of course, Vada wasn't always terrified of her sister. When they were itty bitty girls (not that they are very massive now, truth be told) they were actually quite close. It wasn't until they started to grow into their own mindsets and opinions that they really turned out to fight more often than not. Of course, they have moments where they're as close and as nice as can be, but usually it's due to delirium or outside "influences" on one or both of their parts. Most of the time, Rubi is threatening to inflict bodily harm to Vada, while Vada fights back with more subtle pranks and detailed pictures that she draws of ways that she will end her sister. The reasons for their animosity aren't extremely clear, as both girls were spoiled and loved equally by their father at the very least, but it's obvious to everyone that meets the twins that they have their issues. Vada has brought up therapy periodically to bring the two opposites together, but this usually just results in more arguing and needless physical violence. The attitude they have towards each other happens to be the true reason the two girls ended up in West Nottingham Academy their freshman year of high school. Of course, their parents might have escaped the back and forth nature of their daughters, but Vada still shares a room with Rubi and still wakes up to blaring heavy metal music at least once a week. Typical. Still, as angry as she gets, she knows that if anyone else in the world was to mess with her sister, she would make sure that the person would rot. Vada loves Rubi, just in her own special way.

Vada was immediately indifferent to her surroundings when she reached West Nottingham. Of course, she internally valued the academic opportunity that she'd been given, as her mother often raved over the education she received from the same school, and learning was something Vada was fond of. However, she didn't particularly care to have to get to know an entirely new school, let alone an entirely new city. It was a good way to make new friends, though, and she took to the almost instantly. The first task Vada wanted to accomplish was to start a band. She had been lucky enough to take drum lessons for the greater part of her life, so she was aware that her skill was enough to start up something epic. Also, prior to moving, she had filled journal upon journal with lyrics dedicated to a guy she used to spy on from her bedroom window. Her muse remains unknown by most, aside from her sister who had found out Vada's secret when she was forced to switch bedrooms after the neighbor complained of peeping toms. Both of these things did indeed turn out to be positives, as she soon formed a band with her great friends, Kaete, Bree and Alex. The group periodically go back and forth on names, and Vada rarely gets the references unless she thinks of the ideas herself. That isn't what matters, though. She knows that they're amazing enough to one day make it big, and she's been fairly right about these things for most of her life. If TRL still existed, they'd be too cool for it.

Another highlight to Vada's freshman year, aside from her undying affection toward her band, was something she hadn't expected. Aside from letting her curiosity get the best of her when it came to her extremely good looking neighbor, Vada didn't have a whole lot of experience with the opposite sex. However, when she met another Alex, she was suddenly in the middle of something that was even more confusing to her than a restraining order, a room change and a pair of binoculars being taken away. The two immediately clicked and, much to her surprised, they ended up dating for a pretty long time. Of course, nothing usually lasts very long in High School, so the two did drift apart - only to once again be reunited. The pattern continued until it was hard to tell when they were on and when they were off, but the fact that he was ultimately her best guy friend never wavered. Vada often found herself hard to open up to people, perhaps just because of her quiet nature, so she still sometimes blames her emotional range as a cause to why they broke apart so many times. Although she doesn't say it outloud very often (apart from the lyrics she writes that are obviously tied to him somehow), she knows that no other guy will get her the way he does, no matter the status of their relationship. Currently, they're back together, and Vada couldn't see a way that he wouldn't somehow be in her life, no matter what.

To this day, teachers still happen to give Vada the benefit of the doubt. She rarely speaks up or acts out during class, though she mentally can think of a few things to say (or do) to the kid that sits in front of her during her math class, continuously picking his nose. Instead of being quite as outspoken and extroverted as some of her friends are, Vada prefers to take everything in for her own amusement. People and their behavior tend to interest her more than anything, so she usually gets more preoccupied with observing their nature, as opposed to joining in on their rants and raves. Of course, like any other teenager, she has moments when she just feels like going crazy - shouting, screaming and laughing included, and usually just with her closest group of friends. Otherwise, her sense of humor is much more sarcastic and subtle, and some people happen to think she's a little bit weird for it. On certain subjects, she's rather passionate and talkative, like when she has to defend her band or argue other subjects that are usually not very important to her life, like whether or not Nsync or The Backstreet Boys were the better boy band. To her friends, she's extremely loyal and will usually go along with their braindead ideas, unless she happens to prefer something else, in which she will plot to get her way. When she's not making average grades in school, she's usually perfecting her musical abilities, harassing her boyfriend and sister, or playing hopscotch behind of the house she rooms in. One might not call her normal, but she doesn't find herself to be that extremely different. She just is who she is, and if her predictions for the future are correct, she doesn't see that changing anytime soon.

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