MsBloom
Moonchild
- Joined
- Jul 24, 2020
- Location
- Northern Europe
Her eye were pitch black when they dragged her screaming away from the lifeless girl. Calliope Williams, generally called Callie, was not a big girl. She stood 5'2 on her bare feet and weighed in at 99 pounds but it still took three fully grown men to separate her from her victim, a girl her own age whom she had attacked for no apparent reason. And she would give none either during the interrogations at the police station. She just sat there quietly looking off into the distance beyond the one way mirror.
"You're lucky the girl survived," the middle-aged female detective interviewing her had said.
"Or you'd be looking at manslaughter, at least, perhaps even murder."
Callie had barely even looked at her.
The staff at the juvenile detention center where the attack had happened had equally little idea as to the motives behind the seemingly unprovoked attack.
"Sure, she can be quite a handful with her attitude and cause her fair share of trouble," Ms Jordan Jones, the therapist at Cedarville Juvenile Correctional Facility, had explained.
"But she is also our best student, grades ahead of the other girls and boys here."
She had then further explained that the psychological tests had shown Calliope to be of a genius level IQ and that much of the trouble she got into, combined with her background, was because of nothing more dramatic than boredom and under-stimulation.
This of course might serve as an explanation of the multitude of crimes that had landed Calliope at Cedarville JCF, petty theft, car theft, drunk and disorderly, possession of drugs (both for personal use and with intent to distribute), solicitation ... but was it enough to explain why she had jumped Miranda Blakely, of the same age, one morning during breakfast, in front of the entire cafeteria and beaten her severely enough to break three ribs, her nose and three fingers on the right hand. No, it probably wasn't Dr Jones had agreed, nor could it explain the other violent outbursts Calliope had had over the year she had been there.
"Unless of course you consider the fact that she feels like a wrongfully caged animal who has been deprived of many of her human rights," she had added.
Before being sentenced Calliope was sent to the a psychiatric facility for a forensic psychiatric evaluation to determine whether she was legally sane and could be held responsible for her actions or not, but as she had not turned 18 the doctors there hesitated to diagnose her as a sociopath or even us the term Anti-Social Personality Disorder. All they said was that she was showing such tendencies and confirmed she had an IQ of 127 which for her age was considered superiour.
Five years later
Calliope had avoided the ivy league universities when she was released from Cedarville JCF. At first she had decided to not even apply to any university but had gotten a rather menial job as a waitress at various truck stop diners around New York State, keeping to herself, mostly living out of small motels. Eventually one of her supervisors had convinced her that she was wasting her potential working as a waitress, making little more than minimum wage.
She had still avoided the ivy league universities, convinced they would find out one way or another find out about her background and retract any scholarship they might initially grant her. Instead she had opted for Buffalo State and was quite happy there. Almost no one knew her background. She had made a few friends, among which was Sarah Louise Parker whom Callie (as she now preferred to be called) considered her BFF. Callie had also met James Whitman with whom she had initiated a steady relationship. She majored in psychology with a variety of minors in everything from art, sociology, mathematics to medicine and drama.
There was one though she knew from her time at Cedarville. Aiden. She had seen him skulking about campus, mostly on his own, given him a subtle nod of recognition which he had returned but the two had barely even talked to one another before they met at Camp Silica Pond where they were both apparently going to work as youth councillors. Aiden had been one of the few at Cedarville she had confided in. She had even considered him a friend but they had lost touch when she was released a few months before him.
Callie had not really been interested in going when Sarah had brought it up but after having found out that James ha cheated on her with some, as yet, unknown whore, she had agreed that perhaps some time away from school would be good for her and so she had arrived at the camp with Sarah and three other friends.
Seeing Aiden already there she had once again given him a nod of recognition which he had returned but then she had approached him while her friends unpacked.
"Look. No one knows me here," she had said without any introductions.
"And I want it to stay that way, so ... You don't know me and I don't know you. OK?"
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