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Lora stands at 5 foot and five inches with pale skin and a slender body. Unfortunately she doesn't have much "bust" but manages to compensate for that thanks to her skinny body, although she doesn't care much about it anyway. She sports messy blonde hair whose bangs are held in place by hairclips. To the side her hair is cut just above her shoulders, but the very back is long enough to reach her elbows. One feature that catches everybody's attention are her odd colored eyes; one blue and the other green. It's thanks to this that most of the time she covers her blue eye with her bangs and reveals her green eye, which she prefers.

She always wears her black shoulder-less, long-sleeved top with a white ribbon tied around her neck, gracefully falling down. The top also has white fur at the end of the sleeves. Her faded denim skinny jeans are just beginning to rip at the knees, which Lora likes as fashion. As shoe wear goes, she wears black shoes with huge tongues. The bottom part of her skinny jeans disappear under the black shoes, which match with her black top.​

Loraine is a smart, graceful, athletically- talented girl. Cool if not chilly, her posture can even be seen in her personality. She's very independent and prefers to act alone in fear of others judging her reasons for her actions. Despite this, she isn't negative at all, and doesn't mind a chat. She tends to keep her opinions to herself, but when asked, she's brutally honest about it.

Friends are precious to her, but doesn't seem to have or maintain any since nobody really gets to know her. She hides her feelings by acting serious and melancholic, and doesn't spew them unless they're extreme. When by herself, she talks to herself and reveals her emotions. Fortunately she believes in herself and others, and is always confident to do the right thing. People mistake her actions as rude or for her own good, but in reality they're not. Every action she takes is for the sake of someone else. Lora has her own ways of showing affection and protecting others, and if somebody pays close attention to the effects of her actions, they would notice she has nothing to gain from it but the happiness of the other person.

Once somebody manages to be considered a friend, she opens up more and very loyal. She's, in truth very quick to react and quite stubborn. Once she starts something, she'll do her best to finish it. Also she doesn't have much sense of humor, and takes everything very seriously. Grudges to her don't exist, thinking it's worthless and just leaves it go. Even so, to her, she doesn't trust anybody until she gets to know them very well. Lora manages to somehow remember details others would otherwise surpass, and has a very good memory to add to that.​

Loraine was born to a poor family in Wisconsin. As the oldest, she tried her best to take care of her younger brother and sister. However, as the years passed, her parents started to favor one of them in particular. That would be her youngest brother, Allen. Her sister was diagnosed with Cancer at a very young age, 6, causing the family stress. Lora was the only one who seemed to have hope for her recovering, but her parents and brother said there was no hope. Thinking they were cold, she started to raise money via cutting lawns, walking dogs, and doing chores for the neighbors. This kept going for three years until she turned 15, when her sister passed away without warning. This greatly affected her, and demanded an explanation as to why she was never told she was going to die. That's when her brother, Allen has spilled it and said she could have been saved if transferred to a different Hospital a few states away. They had the money, and that's when Loraine's anger snapped. She began to have severe arguments with her parents, and ignored her brother all the time since he was favored for his good looks.

By the time she had turned 16, she had a good friend tell her she was moving to a place called Fromville. Seeing this as an opportunity to run away, she demanded her grandparents to force her parents to let her move in with her friend. After a long conversation, she managed to convince them, and thus they convinced her own parents. What caused her pain was the fact they agreed with no problem. No "buts" or whys," just "ok." With that in mind, she left with her best friend to this new city, where she settled in the downtown area in an Apartment. Inside she managed to learn Spanish, since her friend was a Mexican afterall, and drastically changed her appearance so she wouldn't be reminded of her mother. She cut her hair in an odd fashion, used clips on one side of her hair and let the other cover her blue eye, started wearing dark clothes instead of brighter ones, and began to close off her heart to anybody.

Eversince she had found work at the Postal Office, delivering mail via bike to every house, she began to prefer using bikes than walking around. She wants to be much more in life, but what else could she ask for? Another friend seemed nice, since her friend is studying to be a nurse and barely has time to hang out or anything, causing Lora to be awfully depressed and gloomy the last few months.​

Her hands and legs felt the velvet fabric underneath them, causing her to roll over. Groaning, she refused to wake up. Sure, it was Monday, but who wanted to work in a Monday? Nobody, that's who. Unfortunately she needed the money, and Lora forced herself to sit up. Rubbing her eyes, the sound of the radio caused her to turn. Her friend, Liza, was listening the news.

The teen stood up and changed, brushing her hair while doing so. As she did this, Liza changed the station to see if anything good was on. Unfortunately there was nothing.

"What time is it?" Lora mumbled, putting on her clips and fixing her shoes. Her friend checked the time.

"Noon." The blondie sighed, seeing as how she didn't have time to stop by a restaurant and get a quick meal. In a hurry, she rushed out and didn't bother to say anything to her friend. Jumping on her bike, she was surprised to see people already outside.

"Great," she mumbled. She takes out a piece of gum, throws it into her mouth, fixes her hair, and starts racing down the street. Avoiding every obstacle in sight, she started to think about what she might be doing today. Last time she was handing out yellow phone books, and hasn't finished... so perhaps that would be her task now? Whatever it is, she hopes to meet somebody new. Then again, she's said that for the last few months and nothing good has ever happened. Nobody bothers to leave their house and tell her "hi!" or any of the sort. Of course she may reply back with a simple wave and that's it, but at least she'll remember the person and thank them later on for giving her the attention nobody else ever does.

Ten minutes had passed by the time she had reached work. It was the same routine after that; talk to the workers, get her task of the day from the boss' assistant, and leave the place filled with bags of books or mail. Just as she thought, she had to finish delivering all the yellow phone books. Nobody ever uses them, or so she thinks, but who knows? As long as she's not forced to read them, she can't really hate on them... or can she?

Sitting on her bike, she heard the sound of birds flying around her. Surprised, she looked up and saw two pigeons flying side by side. For the first time in days, she burst into a smile. Watching them fly away, her heart felt a warm surge of happiness sink in. "Made my day, gladly." Filled with joy, she proceeded to rush out of her workplace and go for the first house, delivering packages and phone books.​