Cass Jaylen-Noel~ District 2 {DONE}

Name: Cassandra Bree Louise "Cass" "Cassie" Jaylen-Noel
Age: 17
Gender: Female
District/Area: District 2
Appearance:

I sighed as I stared at the mirror. Being blind had it's disadvantages.

It was like a wish. A dream. Everyday I would look into the mirror in my bedroom that I had only been told about. I had felt it, but mirrors could feel like anything else in this world. I looked at the mirror everyday. When I was younger it would be because I though being blind was a dream, and that one day, I would wake up and I would be able to see again. Dream fail. Over the years, it became a habit and I knew that I would never be able to seem myself. I had to trust my family, and as much as I loved them, that was hard to do at first. You get used trusting people over the years. Would you trust the person you could never see?

I am only told how pretty I am. For all I know, they could just be lying to make me feel better. I really doubt that. My parents show me off to their friends not knowingly. Knowing them they wouldn't do that unless I was at least a little bit pretty.

There a somethings I can feel about my looks. Like my hair and skin. My hair is soft and wavy, and my skin is soft. They tell me that my wavy hair is brown. A light brown that shines a golden blonde colour in the sun and that my soft skin is pale. I usually change that with make-up. When I was younger my older sister would do the make-up, but she taught me how to do it and now I don't need Lillibeth.

My eyes. I used to hate my eyes when I was younger. I thought that they were the cause of my blindness, and that they were horrible. As I got older, you learn you have to deal with the facts like that and one day asked what colour my eyes where. They are blue. A beautiful bright blue. If you look closer, you can see that I am blind through my eyes. I got told that by Lillibeth when were younger. I remember when she told me that the left eyes was little off centre than my right.

Personality:

The world through my eyes is a bright future filled with music, family and laughter.

It is a disadvantage with my blindness, but my family is there to support me. If I have them and my white cane, I can do anything any normal teenager can, could and would do. I don't let my blindness get in the way of me and my life.

I love to sing, and I play flute. I don't have to see to enjoy music. I am so grateful that I am not deaf. I have been doing music every since I can remember. Flute was much harder to get into than flute, as the whole learning were my fingers went was a bit of a struggle. Now I am glad that I went through that struggle.

Being blind has probably made me more humble. When I was younger being blind was a curse, not a test in life. I think of life as a obstacle course. Being blind is just one obstacle on the course that will get in my life.

Everyone wants to be that free-spirited chick that everyone loves. Even if I am blind, I would like to think that I am close enough to that free-spirited person. I am a kind of 'social butterfly' too. That is only me thinking though.

They say that someone who has lost a scent gains a sort of advantage at another one. In my case, that sounds about right. I have really good hearing. I love listening too, birds chirping to people talking. I think that is why I love music, because I can listen to it and no sight is required.

I would like to think that I am independent. Well independent for someone who is blind. I mean, anyone who is blind has to have people around to help, but I like to do things by myself mostly.

I think my personality has changed over the years. When I was younger I used to hate myself, my eyes, the people who would try to help me. I don't really know why I was like that, but I know why I changed. Now I am the girl who likes to take things as they come. The girl who is determined and will do anything she has to do right, prefect and with a smile.

History:

Sometimes its hard to trust someone. Especially when you cannot see them. My parents where never there when I was younger. They would do enough for me to live, so that they could have sympathy from family and community because they had a blind daughter. They would show me off, make my beautiful not because they truly loved me but because they loved the popularity. Soon after I turned 11, and started going through what any child my age would go through. Especially being blind I did get teased a little bit. I didn't and still don't know what it was that made them click but I am so glad that they met reality. They changed my life, personality.

I only have a sister. Lillibeth and I are very close and at times she was the only one who could help me. The only one I could turn too. She is the one who drives me into being the 'normal' teenager I am today. She is like my best friend. She is only one year older than me, but she doesn't act like it. It was even better that Lillibeth didn't think of me as her blind sister. She thought of me as her sister who just happened to be blind.

I am so lucky to live in District 2. As a rich district, my parents had enough to fund for me. If we lived in a poorer district, I probably wouldn't stand a chance. Being blind my parents didn't really train me for the Games and I felt like I wasn't good enough so I didn't train myself.

School was kind of hard. Some people teased me and called me names that linked to me being blind. I made friends easily but I swear that was just because they wanted to be the different one with the blind friend. That was at first but most of those friends got over it and became very good friends.

Codeword: odair
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