Courtney Nightingale
"You can't control all the crazy stuff that happens to you. All you can control is the way you handle it."
-Amy Lee
▾ Name:
Courtney Veronica Nightingale (née Peters)
▾ Age:
29
▾ Gender:
Female
▾ Sexuality:
Hetreosexual
▾ Piercings, Tattoos, Scars:
2 piercings on each of her ear lobes.
She has a small 'scar' on her lip from where she once had a piercing
▾ Empathic ▾ Doesn't think before she acts ▾ Outgoing▾ Stubborn ▾
▾ Personality:
Courtney is a very outgoing person, she's the kind to pull up tired moms and dads at her son's daycare and offer to take their kids to preschool and back for the next few days or take the weary parents out for coffee. The woman seems to have a rather odd amount of energy but, honestly, she's just good at hiding tiredness. (Her love of coffee's a big help). She's rather open and can be easy to talk to. She's been through quite a bit and finds it easy to relate to particularly teens going through those experiences. She's an empathic person.
Courtney is rather stubborn, once she has a view on something it's almost impossible to change her mind. Sometimes she dives head-first into something without looking further into it or thinking. This results in her getting frustrated and stressed, which she usually accidentally takes out on her friends and family. She then has a lot of trouble finding another way or trying another approach. Courtney doesn't know when to give up.
▾ Hobbies & Interests:
~ Spending time with her family
~ Music- especially singing
~ Ice Skating
~ Cycling
▾ Likes & Dislikes:
Likes
~ Singing
~ Her son and husband
~ Resting
~ NOT cleaning
~ Coffee
~ Pastries (especially savoury ones)
Dislikes
~ When her house is messy
~ Cleaning
~ Drugs
~ Liquorice
~ Judgemental people
▾ Other:
~ Courtney is the counsellor at the local high school
~ She is currently 8 weeks pregnant with her second and third children (twins). She's starting has a slight bump that's not all that not obvious unless she's wearing tighter clothes
▾ Biography:
Courtney grew up with a rather average home life in her younger years. Her mother, Michelle Peters, had a condition that gave her a very slim possibility of conceiving children so Courtney grew up an only child.
Little could be said about Courtney in her early years. She was a 'normal' kid. However, as she got older, this didn't stay the same. As she got into middle school Courtney started hanging out with the wrong crowd. From there her life was very much a 'good girl gone bad' story. She became known in the town for her 'Gothic' look and, particularly, her addiction to drugs. Particularly Ice and Heroin. She would be high extremely often and her home life became shattered because of it.
It was when she was 17 Courtney OD'd on heroin and was found passed out at Lafayette Bayou. Luckily she was found in time and the doctors able to save her. However, with medical proof if illegal drug usage, Courtney was put on trial.
In the end, due to her young age and the fact she didn't harm anyone physically while she was high, Courtney was given a 24 month sentence as long as she attended weekly therapy sessions and drug test (starting at biweekly but becoming further apart if she had no sign of drugs every time) for 3 years proceeding the sentence. Shortly after the sentence Courtney then went through a 'drug court' and successfully changed her prison sentence to time at rehabilitation institute as long as the preceeding therapy and drug checks were maintained afterwards.
In her early months particularly, Courtney found rehab tough, extremely so. She commonly experienced withdrawal symptoms but, in hindsight, Courtney considers it the best thing she's done. When she returned to town she was seen to be completely transformed and complied with the rest of the court's rulings.
Only months after starting therapy she met David Nightingale, the son of her therapist. He was only a year older than her and the pair became fast friends and, eventually, it blossomed into more.
Courtney was 21 when Peter proposed, with Courtney giving a positive response. Knowing his partner's love for music complete a song despite the fact he had no musical ability whatsoever, nor a decent singing voice, but Courtney found it sweet. The pair got married a year later, the day after her sentence was officially complete.
After their honeymoon Courtney, wishing to help others overcome problems she had gone through before it goes too far, decided she wanted to become a school counselor so she went straight on to doing a uni degree through an online course. She finished her master's degree only at the end of the year before and started working as a counsellor at the local high school the year just gone.
When Courtney was 25, and halfway through her bachelor degree, she found herself pregnant with a boy. The couple waited anxiously for his birth, over preparing in every way (only to find they could never really be prepared). Courtney was 26 when she she brought Tyson Jai Nightgale into the world.
Only about a month before the murder Courtney discovered she was once again pregnant. Only a week and a half prior she found put she was expecting twins and the couple soon told their son.
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