#trumble

Vivian Dsena prefers doing his work and goes straight back home, one of the reasons why he is considered a recluse. The Sirf Tum actor has no qualms in accepting that he is not a social person and loves being the way he is.

Being about 14 when Jerome and Jeremiah were born, Lila being black-out drunk, and Zachary being too busy with cooking duty, Shelby was the primary care-giver in the twins' early stages. For five years, Shelby managed to shield them from the horrors of Haley's Circus to the best of her ability. That is, until she was hit by an oncoming semi truck by pushing 5 year old Jerome out of the way, breaking her left leg in the process.

That's when the abuse started for Jerome.

Lila claimed it was all Jerome's fault for being so stupid and careless, and nobody seemed to disagree, nobody except Shelby Trumble. She rebuked Lila's statements and asked for Jerome to come visit her in her trailer over the next few months while she recovers. They play games and watch movies together, or sometimes they'd just snuggle under the blankets when Jerome had a tough day or the pain was a bit too much for her. Eventually Shelby heals and continues her work as a medium, of which Jerome was fascinated by (in a six-year-old boy kind of way) peaking behind the curtain of her tent to watch her perform a ritual.

Jeremiah, on the other hand, was wary of Aunt Shelby; He found her creepy, with her rituals to communicate with the dead, her ominous pet Crow ''Sour-Crowt'' making off-putting caws at all hours of the night, as well as how she took a liking to Jerome. To Jeremiah, Shelby Trumble was an ongoing Goose-Bumps mystery.

With Lila outright refusing help and the AA meetings Shelby tried to sign her up for, the relationship between Shelby Trumble and Lila Valeska was strained, to say the least. However, Shelby kept the resolve that if she tried hard enough, Lila would come around. It only took seeing Jerome with a swelling black eye for Shelby to confront Lila about what goes on behind closed doors at Haley's Circus, the likes of which don't go unnoticed by any of it's inhabitants.

The confrontation didn't end on even a remotely good note, and Shelby had to pick glass shards out of her arm afterwards. That night, kneeling in front of the kitchen sink, with the landline in her mouth to bite on as she pulled shards of a gin bottle out of her left arm, that was when Shelby Trumble realized that the Lila Trumble she knew as a child was gone.