Alyssa Watkins

Alyssa Watkins is a character on the TV Generation drama series, Our Lives and the spin-off series, Denver Bound.

She is the second daughter of Andrea Watkins-Samuels and her first husband, Jason Watkins.

Alyssa currently teaches 9th grade English 1 and 10th grade English 2 at Thomas Wexler School in.

Early Life
Alyssa was born on March 8, 1996 in Oakridge, Illinois at 11:36 a.m. at 39 weeks gestation. She is the second daughter of Andrea and her first husband, Jason. She was conceived around June of 1995. Her older brother, Connor was 3 years old, and her older sister, Karina was 21 months old when she was born.

Alyssa attended Sunnyview Nursery School (later named the Sunnyview Learning Center) and Ridgeway Elementary School.

In August of 2004 (almost a month after Haylie's birth), Jason was killed in a car accident caused by a drunk driver when Alyssa was 8 years old. At Jason's funeral, Andrea reunites with her former boyfriend, Mitch Samuels, who attends the service with his parents. At the time, Mitch was divorced from his wife, Jasmine and living in Mount Larkin, Illinois.

After Jason's funeral, Mitch offers to help Andrea out with her children which rekindles their relationship and they start dating each other during the summer of 2005.

The day before Valentine's Day in 2006, Mitch proposed to Andrea which she accepted. They later moved into a new house together with their children.