Oarlee Reyes is a 17-year-old Filipino American female, who is heterosexual and cisgender, living in the McKinley Park neighborhood in Chicago. She is single and no children. She lives with her mother and her stepfather and has a younger brother. Her father is no longer in the picture since she was a toddler, and she doesn’t remember the last time she saw him. She graduated high school a year early as since she was expected to be on top of her class, to the point where her mother pushed her daughter to enroll in school during the summer to be ahead of her peers. Oarlee felt trapped and all she wanted is to have fun and have a normal teenage experience, which caused constant arguments with her mother and stepfather. The situation was more tensed when she dated a boyfriend that everyone called him trouble, her friends even asked her to stop seeing him as he doesn't give her respect. Oarlee doesn't mind because he takes her out anywhere with him.…show more content… Months after this horrifying event, Oarlee was unable to keep the memories of the murder out of her mind, especially when she faces her former boyfriend at court. At night, she would have terrible dreams of her friend dying repeatedly and would wake up screaming. She had difficulty walking back from school because the route that she would take was next to the site of the murder, so she had to take a longer route to go home. She felt as though she doesn't deserve a real future, and she ignores her closest friends as she believes they have every right to hate her and even fear her for the connection to her old boyfriend. She feels as though she deserves to be alone and rather be alone than hear constant reminders of how this is her fault that her friend is
