Crystal is The daughter of the widowed multimillionaire, Christopher Samuel Wessmuller. He owns Wessmuller Industries, in which she is never allowed to ask about. In fact, what goes on there is very secret. They live in London, but originally lived in southern California. Their ancestors are African and before her grandfather died, he told old stories of how African witch children were stolen by European slave masters. Many were killed when found too powerful, some were abused, and some escaped. Crystal's ancestors escaped and traveled to Mexico. There, they learned the Spanish language and they claimed to be darker Mexicans. Contrary to that fact, she knows very little spanish.Crystal believes that they would have never had to move from California if she did not ask her mother to go to the local witches meeting 4 years ago.
On a warm moon-lit night, they set out for the meeting. Crystal wrapped her arms around her mother's waist and rode on the rear of their broom. She glanced up and saw a dark cloud approaching. Before she could utter a sound, the cloud revealed itself to be an airplane. In a blur, they were hit and Crystal flew off the broom into a tree far below, knocked unconscious. A week later she awoke in a hospital bed and found out of her mother's ill fate. Sometimes, she dreams of falling from the sky...from her mother.
The government covered up the accident and stated, on record, that Elizabeth drowned in the local river. However, Elizabeth was not a big fan of water. So no one truely believed she died in the river. Her body was not even allowed to be burried in the family plot; she was creamated. Crystal and her father was threatened into secrecy and their phones were tapped for an entire year. The American Government of Magic tried to intervene, but the relationship between the two governing forces had not changed much since the Salem Witch Trials. When the government began to dig deeper into the Wessmuller Industries and into the rumors of his connections with the American Dark Lords, Crystal's father quickly closed the California site. They moved to an old mansion outside of London, under the protection of the Ministry.
The mansion seemed to be filled with a thick fog of confusion and tears, while the world went on. Even the "Industries" managed to go on without the "Wessmuller". Crystal watched as her father went from rage to depression to rage again, over and over. He eventually locked himself into the north wing of their mansion, only allowing the servants to come through. Crystal didn't see him for six months, although she heard screams and objects breaking.
When Crtstal's father finally emerged, he seemed stiff and cold. She hugged him, but he only looked at her. In his eyes, she saw the same cruel stare that he gave to muggles. He had blamed every muggle for his wife's abscence. Did he now blame her? She had look away, though she still held on tight. But soon, it was obvious that he felt differently about her. He made audible remarkes about rathering a son, or wishing she did not look like her mother. Once he told his collegue at the dinner table that he wished he had no children.
At school, a boy taunted, "your mother must have been a brick because it's like talking to a wall with you!", and she was suspended for giving him a bloody nose, two black eyes, and a swolen head. Her father finally reacted, sending her to live with her half-brother, Ethan, for an indefinite amount of time. Eathan is 13 years older than her, and is from her mother's previous marriage to a muggle named Troy. They barely had a relationship at all, nearly strangers. Ethan is a real estate agent for a company called Magical Livings. He is 6"3' and clean cut. When she arrived, he was in the middle of wedding planning. In order to get her mind off of her problems, he had her help plan the wedding. His fianc�, Sarah, was a sincerely sweet muggle and Crystal loved her. Sarah was similar to her mother in all of the good ways. Soon Ethan married Sarah and Crystal was the maid of honor.