The House That Ivy Built Encyclopedia

MANDY

[Mandy] Amanda Rivera
Series role: Introduced in Book 2 as one of Ivy’s school friends. Helps teach Ivy about friendship and the importance of honesty.

THE PHYSICAL:

Vitals: Dark brown, slightly wavy short hair (ends in a bob at her chin). Often decorated with barrettes or clips. Average dark brown eyes usually highlighted with makeup. Light brown skin—half Caucasian, half Puerto Rican. In Book 2, age 14, average height and weight.

Other features: Loud but feminine voice. Slightly crooked front teeth. Rolls her eyes when annoyed. Snaps her fingers to get attention and laughs loudly. Wears rather stylish, revealing clothing, usually tight pants and short or low-cut shirts with cutely suggestive messages on them. Almost always wears sandals. Pierced ears and tasteful, stylish jewelry.

THE PERSONAL:

Talents/Abilities: Good at talking to the opposite sex, understanding fashion and makeup, knowing music trivia, and playing some sports (even though she doesn’t play anything regularly).

Weaknesses/Shortcomings: Sometimes she is simply too boy-crazy and flirty. Occasionally makes insensitive comments.

Interests: Shopping, boys, makeup and fashion, celebrity and music trivia, spooky ghost stories and intriguing stories of the unexplained and the concept of tattoos.

Other information: High school student (later gets a job in a mall). Clueless about politics. From a Catholic background. Extremely boy-crazy, but unattached until some news in Book 3 that she has a boyfriend. Lives with nuclear family, little sister Kelly.

THE STORY:

Mandy, Nicky, and Andrea had been friends since elementary school. Andrea often invited new people to join them for lunch or wanted to play with other new kids on the playground, and this is the habit that ended up including Ivy in their fun for a while. When Ivy got invited to join the lunch table, they liked her style enough to tell her to join them for other fun and study dates, and she brought a lot of interesting aspects to their first year of high school. One morning after their first sleepover, Mandy saw Ivy without her headband on and giggled over her ears, but at Ivy’s insistence she promised to not tell others about what she’d seen. Eventually all the different truths about Ivy came out, and she started being honest with them about everything. Mandy was glad to be trusted and feels strangely tickled to have someone like Ivy for a friend.  

 

 

 

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