Juvenile Diversion

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Alicia Tracey Barker was born right smack in the middle of summer which explains her ever-sunny personality. She’s the perfect California girl: bubbly, blond, blue-eyed and beach-bound.

Alicia (or Al, as Jason affectionately calls her) was born in Belharght, California from June and Roy Barker. She has one sibling, a younger sister named Tiana who was born in December of 1977.

An avid listener of punk rock for the last ten years or so of her life, her favorite band is the Sex Pistols, but she also enjoys bands such as the Ramones, the Dead Kennedys and the Descendents. Her favorite movies are The Goonies, and anything with Tom Cruise in it. Her favorite food of all time is pizza.

The Sex Pistols inspired her to want to pick up an axe, and when she turned seven years old she received a black 1975 edition Fender Stratocaster, which she still plays to this day. She began her unnamed band with Jason and Kyle when they were in second grade, the year she started playing guitar.

Alicia’s aspirations for the future are to go to Berkeley (so she can stay near home) to study music.

That is, of course, if she can pass math class.

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Jennifer M. Woods is from Sacramento, California and was born on October 26, 1972 from a rich family. Her personality has always been very deadpan for the majority of her life, and has just recently smiled for the first time since she was six.

Her non-smiling life is thought to have been brought upon by the birth of her younger and perhaps evil triplet siblings, Will, Jill and Phil. Jenny’s grandmother is from Japan, and has always tried to get her daughter Yoshiko to lead a traditional Japanese lifestyle, but Yoshiko was always born in America and has always been more comfortable in her present environment, and thus brought up her children as such.

Jenny has never had much interest in school or the cliques involved with it. Even though she’s nowhere near stupid, she would rather indulge herself in the fine arts, mainly art and literature.

Her best friend Alicia convinced her to join Alicia’s band to become the rhythm guitarist. Although Jenny wasn’t too keen on the idea at first, she has grown to enjoy it, and quickly learned to play.

Jenny enjoys her relationship with her boyfriend Kyle to an extent, but wishes he was just a little bit less oblivious to her needs. She seems to have no qualms about his endless collection of pornography. It may be a huge coincidence, but she ended her only-black daily ensemble the day Kyle told her they were dating.

It was also the day she finally smiled again.

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Jason Michael Slattery was born from a single mother when she was barely seventeen on October 1, 1972. Because of this, he’s never had much money, but his huge heart and great looks more than make up for this.

Skateboarding is not only one of his favorite hobbies, but also one of his only forms of transportation. He also enjoys surfing whenever he can. And although he’ll never admit it, he’s kind of a closet nerd – he loves video and computer games, and Star Wars is one of his favorite movies.

Jason met his closer than close best friend Kyle before he could even walk. The two of them have been inseparable since, and their relationship sometimes confuses those who don’t know them into thinking they’re something more.

Since the first time he saw Alicia, the first day of kindergarten, he was in love with her. He hasn’t so much as looked at another girl since, even with Kyle’s constant badgering about him not having a girlfriend.

Jason would love to just continue drumming all his life, but his mom has insisted on him getting a scholarship to get into a good college, on account of their lack of funds.

And maybe one day he’ll grow a spine.

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The oldest of the four friends, Kyle Tyler Timmons was born on February 5, 1972. His relentless love for the opposite sex has gotten him into trouble more times than anyone can imagine. But since he started dating Jenny, she has been able to keep him in line for the most part.

He may be the oldest of his friends, but in his family he’s the second youngest of his five siblings. He spent much of his childhood being picked on by Connor, Ryan and Erin.

Kyle’s far from stupid, but he spends most of his class time leafing through issues of girly magazines. He also excels in math classes. Aside from porn, he also enjoys skateboarding, and the size of his ego can only be matched by the size of his manhood.

Kyle’s basically the glue between Jason and Alicia’s friendship. Not that they need help being friends, but neither of them can work up the courage to tell one another their feelings. This is where Kyle comes in, since he can’t seem to shut up about it. But since he finally lost his virginity to Jenny, he’s let up on the issue a bit.

Kyle has decided that he’s not going to make any plans for the future until he turns eighteen. He figures once he’s legally able to buy porn, he’ll be bored of it.

Yeah, right.