Board Thread:Creation Box/@comment-3058106-20141214174310

Gender: Male

Birthday: September 23, 1987

Faceclaim: Sam Claflin

Address: 37/F Gilders Road, Barfield

About:

Eric Abbey was born in Blackwood Mountain to two parents who absolutely loved him. He was the youngest of four children, the other three also being boys. His mother swore that having four sons were going to drive her mad, but somehow she survived all the long, long years. Her husband was ecstatic about being able to have four sons that he could teach different games and sports. His mind was always set on his four boys growing up to be star athletes in their school, just like he had been back in like, the 70's. He expected great things from the four of them, even when they were still only in their diapers.

As Eric grew up, he was always forced by his father to play football and baseball. He didn't really see the point in all of it, but he agreed and kept playing on the little leagues. Although he never really tried or wanted to play, Eric was surprisingly good at both sports, always able to get praise from coaches and the parents of other kids. His own father ever really praised him for his skills though, since he always claimed that Eric could do better than that. Eric simply agreed with his father, and continued trying to play harder, knowing that he couldn't disappoint his father.

Once Eric started high school, he continued playing on the 7th & 8th grade team for football. He decided in the spring to quit baseball, much to the disapproval of his father. Eric hated baseball with a passion though, so he tried to convince his father that it was all for the better good. Instead, he took up track & field in the spring. In 9th grade, Eric got onto the JV Football team and was one of the star players. In the 10th grade, instead of continuing to play on JV, he was moved up to the Varsity team. Unsurprisingly, that was one of the moments his father was most proud of him. He continued playing all through high school until the third game of the season, when he was injured badly and broke his ankle. He was out for the rest of the season and unable to get that scholarship his father had been planning on him obtaining. His father seemed to blame Eric for him getting injured, and started ignoring his son for no apparent reason. His father also told Eric's mother that he was the biggest disappointment in the family and could never live up to the expectations set by his older brothers. In the spring, Eric decided to quit track & field too, deciding that it was too much for him.

After graduation, Eric started attending Lebeaux University after receiving a small scholarship from them. His first year he had no idea what he wanted to major in, but continued doing classes there. His sophomore year, he made a complete surprise to everyone that knew him - he began majoring in French. In high school, he had always been at the top of his Spanish and French classes since he thought foreign languages came easily to him. He also began taking teaching classes, deciding that he might as well become a French teacher. After graduation, Eric began looking for teaching positions for French teachers in the area. He wanted to work at his old school, Barfield High, but they currently had two French teachers already and weren't searching for a third. He found a job in a small town called Creedence. He taught there for two years until he heard of an opening at Barfield High. He immediately applied for the job there and was accepted. He packed his bags and left Creedence and moved to Barfield.

Eric loved being able to work at Barfield High School, remembering all the memories he had of the school. At one point though, he began seeing another teacher at the school who was in the math department. It was a short-lived fling, and after the few months together, they stopped talking entirely. Whenever they see each other in the halls, they try to avoid the other at all costs, finding even the slightest bit of contact to be awkward. In 2013, he started helping with tutoring for the foreign languages department since he was a French teacher and was also excellent at Spanish. He couldn't really help with the Latin or German tutoring, but he was in charge of the other two.

During his time tutoring and teaching, he recommended tutoring for French to one student in his class. From then on, Sofia Reyes began attending tutoring sessions every Monday and Wednesday before school, since she couldn't do it after school because of her sport. When field hockey ended in the spring, she began attending after school sessions. Eric never thought anything of her until one day she came to tutoring looking like a complete and total emotional wreck, due to the recent death of her grandfather. He tried to comfort her, but didn't realize what his kind words would make her think. Soon enough, she was the only person showing up for tutoring and after each lesson, they would stay after and just talk and laugh about anything under the sun. The more they talked, the more he tried to repress any feelings he was beginning to have for her. However, one evening he forgot all about that when she kissed him, and he kissed her back. In February, they began dating in secret, swearing not to tell anyone. They're still dating and so far no one has found out about them.

Currently, Eric is taking online classes at UMB to study Spanish so he can also teach Spanish in a few years. He's hoping that maybe teaching extra classes will help him get a bit of a raise. He's also been offered to coach the 7th & 8th grade football teams at Barfield, but he's declined the offer multiple times, but they keep trying in the spring of each year to get him to coach the sport since they all remember his skills at the sport. For Eric, he wants to forget all about the sport and focus on more important things in his life.  