From the time she was born, Alexa has been haunted. When her cries would reach a certain pitch, items in the nursery would begin to float around the crib. Generally, this would calm her and the items would float back to their original places. This proved to be unnerving for her parents, as neither really had a clue what to make of it. Her father appealed to the Catholic church for an exorcism, and was denied.
After Alexa was baptized, things seemed to settle down for a while. There were still odd incidents of toys from across the room winding up in her crib in the middle of the night, but so long as she wasn't wailing or screaming, her parents left well enough alone. For a few years, they even managed a normal life. A happy family, and a happy baby girl.
At six years old, her mother became pregnant again, and she had the stress of starting kindergarten. The incidents started up again, only a lot more hectic and frantic. Kitchen chairs would slide across the room, crashing against the wall. Plates and bowls would fly out of the cupboards. Food would fly out from the fridge. Again the family appealed to have her 'cleansed', and again they failed to get any response.
By the time Alexa was seven, the family was moving to a new home in the area in case the one they were in was haunted by a poltergeist. The problem was, that it wasn't a poltergeist at all, but Alexa subconsciously using telekinesis to make objects move when she was upset or hurt internally.
In the new home, things were again good for a while. The baby was born, a boy whom they named Scott. Alexa helped care for her baby brother, and brought him whatever he needed. She treated him with the utmost care, and since she had something to focus on, there was no 'ghost' in the new home.
Then her parents started fighting.
As the fights became more and more frequent, more incidents would happen. At first it was just small things. Lights flickering on and off when the arguments started. Then they progressed to doors slamming repeatedly. Then again with furniture moving, and plates being thrown about the rooms. When the fights would stop, so would the poltergeist activity.
This time, Alexa was old enough to be frightened of what was happening around her. Her fear just caused the subconscious telekinesis to react even more. Stuffed animals would fly around her room, books would fall from her bookshelves. Her music box would open up on its own and start to play. And these things? Just caused more fear, and more activity.
Forgoing the church, they hired a psychic to tell them what was going on in their house. The psychic, Madame Sylvania, told them that it was indeed an irate poltergeist and that they should move lest the poltergeist try to kill them in their sleep.
This time, the Whyte's packed up the family and left Savannah.
For the next seven years, the family moved across Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Everywhere they went, the poltergeist followed.
The worst incident occurred between Alexa's fourteenth and fifteenth birthdays. They were living in New Orleans at the time, and her parents were talking about getting a divorce. Her father wanted to stay, and not move again, and her mother wanted to get out of New Orleans in favor of a smaller town. The arguments were astronomical, and coupled with Alexa going through puberty at the time? So were the telekinetic outbreaks.
Mirrors crashed off the walls, family photos wound up torn in two, but the worst of it all? The gas range was turned to the highest setting, the gas flames shooting toward the ceiling. The house did not survive this poltergeist activity, and neither did the Whyte's marriage.
Alexa and her mother continued their move, while Scott and their father stayed in New Orleans.
Eventually the women wound up in Texas. The poltergeist activity had died down again, and her mother believed that the activity was just a way of telling her parents to get a divorce. Alexa didn't think so. She was positive that the ghost was just following her. Trying to make her insane. So she was on her best behavior. She did everything her mother asked of her throughout her high school years. She only dated 'good boys' and if they broke her heart, she never let it show.
At least, she never let it show outwardly on her person. The 'poltergeist' let it show though. In her senior year, her long-term boyfriend dumped her in front of the cheerleading squad. Suddenly all the pom-poms went airborne at the same time, pelting down on the poor guy's head. Alexa nearly had a breakdown over it, but it was easily covered up as a bad broken heart, and she just took a week off of school until the student body had something else to laugh and giggle about.
Now, they're in Dallas. Alexa has just finished getting her pharmacological degree, and is working as a Pharmacy Technician at De Soto Pharmacy. She and her mother have both joined the SCA in the Barony of Steppes (Dallas) in the Kingdom of Ansteorra. They work the events as 'apothecaries' and even have the period pieces to go with it.
