Before eleven

1993-2008

Clare Landresse was born in United-Kingdom October  the second 1997.
Her father, Philip Landresse, is a trader and met her mother, Zoey Hanson, a dressmaker, when they were respectively 27 and 20. Two years later, they gave birth July the first 1995 to their first child : Eloise Landresse. After another two years, Clare completed the family tree.
Well, until the family broke from inside. Philip and Zoey weren't the best married couple, neither the best parents. At least, they never beat their daughters. But they argued a lot because they never had the same thoughts. Save the divorce.
Clare was only six.
Her father kept her guard and once the divorce is finalized, he tripped them to France, because it's his love destination since he's a college student in trading. And except some basic words (bonjour, excusez-moi, merci), they didn't know any French words. But it doesn't matter to Philip, 'cause he met his true love with Estelle Dupont-Seignand, a young and joyful farmer. And didn't people say that love make impossible possible ? Philip learned his French vocabulary very fast. And when I said young, it's really young, like, they have at least sixteen years part, they were respectively 37 and 21.
This time, they took only one year before giving birth to Ian Landresse the seventeenth March 2004. Clare was older sister with seven years part of her baby brother. So she had to learn French to communicate with him and her stepmother, hence making her study in French school.
That was terrible, the schoolmates were noisy, the professor was lost and confused with so much barbarism at such young age and Clare was called Clair Landresse, because the guy who made her passport had bad hearing and hated his job so he makes others hate their name. More than once, she was confused with a boy.
Then, one January day of her ten years old, she got her first period. That was horrid, she was scared and all but didn't want to talk to any of her tutors, dad was too busy and she wasn't very close to Estelle who cares more about her baby. So, she carries herself during two days until she broke down the third day of bleeding awfully a lot.
Once the school end at her fifth year of primary school, she asks to return in U-K and thanks to her teen crisis, the adults accept. So, this is how a special letter was send in the Landresse postbox of Essex.