Emma is a twenty-something blonde who lives in a small town just outside of London with her best friend, Carrie Redman. She works as a finance manager in central London, and graduated from Warwick with a first in Economics.
When in secondary school, Emma was one of the "popular lot"; she was a cheerleader in her school team, and always had the "coolest friends and the hottest guys'. The popularity, however, did not go to her head; Emma was a kind and friendly girl who got on well with everybody. Her intelligence meant that she was in a lot of classes without her usual friends which meant that she was chatty and sociable with almost everybody at school.
Emma is a smart girl with large dreams; she breaks the stereotype of popular, pretty girls by being intellectual, studious and driven by her dreams to be an accountant.
The Stalker (Unnamed)
Unknown to Emma, she has had an admirer since she started secondary school. He has been fascinated by her kind yet popular ways since he first laid eyes on her, and spent all seven years of their secondary school life trying to gain her attention and her friendship, to no avail. Once they reached the ripe old age of eighteen, he followed her to Warwick, where he studied photography at university.
He follows Emma almost everywhere she goes, and his bedroom has been decorated by photographs of her that he has taken, telling himself that it's okay because he is a photographer and is only "practising" his talent on her.
When around Emma, he tries his hardest to make her notice him: dropping things, wearing the same clothes as her boyfriend, and generally making a fool out of himself to gain her attention. He fails every time.
Eventually, his obsession grows too strong and when he discovers that Emma is seeing someone new, his jealousy outweighs any sane part of his mind and he takes Emma hostage, locking and tying her up in her own garden shed. Her housemate and best friend, Carrie, is traveling in Australia, and Emma had taken some time off of work to surprise her family in Wales with a visit, and so nobody notices when she disappears.
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