Mason Rivera

Mason Rivera, the bad boy player who has an easier time making enemies than making friends.

Backstory
For Mason, life started off rough when he was born. Around the time of his birth, his mother's husband happened to realize she was cheating, leaving them all to wonder exactly who his dad was. Thanks to this, his birth certificate actually has no father listed, and he was given his mother's maiden name. Around a year old, when his mother was pregnant with Drake, they performed a paternity test to find out Maria's husband wasn't the father.

Angry and betrayed, he walked out on Maria and the two little boys, taking Mason and Drake's older sister with him. Because of this entire debacle, Mason's mother turned to alcohol, and also turned all of her anger on Mason. Life was... difficult, and he often didn't get the help he needed. By time middle school rolled around, he wore glasses, had braces, and had a lisp that he couldn't kick. Thanks to this, he was often bullied and called nicknames such as "Brace-Face," "Macey," and "Four Eyes."

At home, things weren't much better. His mother slipped farther into alcoholism, even losing her job so that the family was barely able to support themselves. Because of this, Mason had to turn to different ways to keep himself and Drake from starving, often stealing food, cash, or anything else he could get his hands on.

By his freshman year, Mason had grown up way too fast and was bullied incessantly. This was where he met Adriane, who took him under her wing -- so to speak -- and paid for him to get braces removed, new clothes that weren't ripped or too big, and other things to help him out. The two soon had a relationship, although it was rocky, to say the least. By sophomore year, Adriane happened to be pregnant. She dropped out of school to hide said pregnancy, and soon gave birth to a daughter named Ariana. As Mason headed into his junior year, Adriane showed up with Ari, dropped her off, and said she couldn't do this anymore. The next morning when Mason went to her house, he found that Adriane had moved away.

Mason tried his best to manage feeding himself, Drake, and Ari, but soon Drake was at a party and overdosed, and Mason was called to the hospital. They ended up sending him to rehab and eventually realized that he was bipolar -- which just meant something else for him to worry about. With his hands tied, Mason gave up custody of Ariana so that he could focus on himself and Drake. His plan now was simple: get help for Drake, and get out of their mother's house.