Hello, I'm Afton Stokes. I'm a Sal Salis at Salem. My house is considered the crazy house but I am perfectly sane. However, people do consider me a bit strange, just because I happen to be really into crime. Not that I'm a criminal, I just like reading about serial killers a lot. My favorite book is Helter Skelter. That's also my favorite movie. (The 1976 version, not the 2003 version.) I also like frogs and have a pet frog named Arabella. Oh, and I love being magical and going to a magical school, except the part where T.V doesn't work.

I live in Rhode Island, the smallest state and the home of the show Family Guy, with my parents, Josh and Denise, my older brother Craig and my adopted younger sister Molly. My dad is an electrical engineer and I have no idea exactly what he does. He explained it to me by saying he designed what is essentially toxic waste. Dad lacks most social skills. My mother is a probation officer. She meets all sorts of interesting people, whom she really won't let me talk to. My brother is fairly ordinary and annoying, like most brothers. He likes robots a lot. Molly is also very normal, compared to the rest of my family. This is why she's clearly adopted.

My mother's family is weird too. My grandpa is awesome and taught my mother, who in turn taught me, about politics. It can be summed up in one sentence "Democrats good, Republicans bad." He didn't used to belive in magic but now has to acknowledge it exists. He's really tolerant of it though. My grandma is less cool. She has a short temper and thinks I'm creepy, first because of the crime thing and then because of the magic thing. She won't let my mom and me talk about serial killers at the table. In turn, my mother insists that my Uncle Larry takes a shower. We call him "Dirty Larry" because he rarely does so. He's incredibly strange and seems to enjoy being so.

My friends at school are Grendle Rosethorn, Lucy Harrison, Kane Sato, Vittoria Tolland and Wyatt Witteck. Lucy and Grendle are my fellow Gremlins. We inherited the title from Derry Pierce and his friends who graduated last year. Rosalind Rabindra would be a friend but I'm not sure she likes me very much.

My dislikes include writing essays and research papers. Unless maybe about crime or serial killers. I could write a really cool paper on Charles Manson but since I'm at Salem, that's unlikely to happen. I did write a report on BTK once when I was in elementary and we had to write reports on a famous person. I got sent to guidance for that.When I get older, I want to work as a lawyer because I love debating stuff that I feel is unjust.