time of our lives [julie]

[kory kagasoff]

despite being off the clock, kyle was too lazy to go home to change and get out of uniform. he lived all the way across town, and in his area there was pitifully little to do unless you wanted to party the night away. but it was four pm, a far time away from the peak of the nightlife, and kyle wasn't feeling sitting around doing nothing or wasting fuel to go home and then back to this side of town. so, still completely in uniform straight from the policestation, kyle took a stop at the local park for a bit of time to relax and unwind after a long, though relatively unstressful, day. there were occasional days of high action on staff on the police force at myrtle beach, but the constant gunshots and running ideas that the media planted in the public's head of being on the police force were pretty untrue. being a cop was mainly desk work, filing out papers after nabbing some fool for speeding or being called to a noise complaint... paperwork. there was always paperwork. forms to fill out to make things official, to keep things in order... hardly the glamorous life of csi.

he wouldn't complain though, of course not. this was what he had wanted to do with his life, after failed attempts in other areas. his heart hadn't been in university when he'd gone the first time, that had been clear to everyone around them. he firmly believed that you should enjoy life, no matter what you do, whether you were a garbageman or a doctor. if being a cop made him happy, even if it was a bit boring at times, then in the long run he shouldn't complain. he would never be one of those people that preached, to family or friends, that they should go for whatever job gave them the most money. wealth wasn't everything in the world. after all, money couldn't buy happiness, could it?

living in myrtle beach was definitely a good turn in his life. before now he had always been around family, and family could be... well, extremely smothering. his mother didn't mean to be, he knew that, but her constant hovering over his shoulder, asking for every single detail of his life... it had certainly gotten on his nerves a lot. that didn't happen here, though. two states away he could choose when to speak to family or not, when to pick up the phone and say 'hi mom! sure i can talk!' or when to go 'sorry, i don't have the time, i'll call you back later'. it was likely sad that a twenty-four year old didn't have much experience with freedom like that until now, but his family had always been close and his mother was just instinctively a worrier, someone who needed to know what was going on with the people he cared about. he loved that about her, it just meant that sometimes she didn't understand the meaning of space. his father was better about privacy, and his brother never asked for information on kory's life. he just took it if it came. they weren't the stereotypical 'attached at the hip' twins, after all. it had been a bit weird, at first, not being able to drive to his parent's place five minutes away whenever he wanted, but now he wouldn't go back to florida for the world.

there was no particular reason why kory chose to go to the park. he'd always been an active guy and preferred being outdoors to cooped up behind a desk (though he put up with that unfortunate necessity to be a cop), but why the park as opposed to the beach or docks he couldn't answer. a ten minute walk, that was all he intended on getting, and then back in his car, maybe stop by starbucks for some coffee for a bit, and then he would head back home until he figured out what he would do in the evening. he parked his car, on the street near the park, one with enough activity that someone trying to mess around with it would be quickly noticed, and wandered off into one of few true nature-seeming areas left in a growing city. one of the few things he missed about his old home was that it had just been a town. there had been plenty of trees, giant oaks that stretched over roadways and gave illusions of being in a forest if you were lucky enough to live on one of those streets... the amount of vegetation in some areas of myrtle beach was truly sad.

he was wandering through a wooded area along a path when he noticed a flash of color lying along the edge of it, beside the trunk of a giant pine tree that towered up to the sky. trash, most likely, left here by some teenager who couldn't be bothered to find a trash can for the bag their chips came from, but still he paused and turned around to see the source of the unusual color around grass, which turned out to be a purse. kory looked left, then right, down the path, but there were only a few boys skateboarding far down the path, not a single woman that the object might belong to in sight for them to have just left it here while they went elsewhere for a short moment. he crouched down along the path, bringing the purse with him as he straightened up, hoping to find some sort of identification inside that would tell him whose it was.

[JULIE ARCHIBALD]

julie waved her coworkers goodbye for the day with the promise of returning the next day. while most people dreaded going to work and would rather shoot themselves than to drag themselves out of bed, the red head rather loved her job. she got to work with animals and people. how amazing was that? and not only that, her job allowed her to be away from her parents and her nannies. while she loved her parents, sometimes even she thought they were just too much. which was ironic because they were rarely home. her father was the owner of a chain of hotel resorts all over the world and barely had enough time as it is, let alone have a second to spend on his children. and her mother was a highly sought after interior designer. she was too busy designing things to come sit at the dinner table. the thing you needed to know about the archibald parents were that they were either not there at all or if they were there, then they sure as hell hovered. and this seventeen year old knew that they sure as hell didn't treat her the same as liam. to them, she was just a joke. the kid that was messed up. there was something wrong with her and they stayed the hell away as much as possible. it would explain why she was always left in the care of nannies and babysitters. they loved her, but they would never think that she was capable of taking over the family business of running hotels and resorts. they didn't expect much of her anymore. still, they constantly stuck her to an adult to make sure she never did anything out of line.

not that she would. this girl was the epitome of innocence. she was a seventeen year old girl stuck in the mind of a five year old. she still played with toy trains, colouring books, and the slightest bit of things made her excited. she was curious about anything and everything, and lived in a lala land of sorts. she depended on people like they were her oxygen and often felt alone and scared if she wasn't near someone like her brother. she could be easily bribed with lollipops and thought that everyone in the world was good. that no one could do bad because evil didn't exist. but her parents wouldn't know, now would they? they never stuck around long enough to get to know their younger child. they didn't know she was bullied in school. they didn't know that sometimes she felt so down that suicide seemed like a better solution. they didn't know that sometimes she was so happy that she could jump around all day without getting tired. they didn't pay attention enough to send her to a doctor to properly get diagnosed. julie had an idea of what it was that she had. she wasn't stupid. she knew how to read. she struggled, but she constantly pushed herself harder than anyone to understand the material in school. she tried so hard to be what her parents wanted her to be. she tried so hard to please them, to make them happy. she wanted them to be proud of her too. but she knew that she was also setting her expectations too high. they didn't care about her. they cared about wealth and image.

which was why they had been so invested in liam, forcing him into a loveless marriage. one where she absolutely loathed the girl. and that said a lot considering the fact that this beauty didn't hate a soul. but something about the natalia just made julie want to strangle her. but her opinion didn't matter. liam's choice didn't matter. if her voice had mattered, they wouldn't have dragged her to that wedding, handcuffed to her nanny so she wouldn't run away. and while she was absolutely relieved with the fact that her brother hadn't muttered the dreadful "i do," she couldn't say so for her parents. they were absolutely livid. they had practically dragged her home and yelled like no one else was in the world. they told her it was her fault. that she was the one that made liam run away. that she had too much influence on her brother. if she hadn't expressed how unhappy she was with this agreement, liam would have gone through with it. and that was the nice version of the yelling. and since then, her parents had kept an even tighter leash on her. they made her follow them to every dinner function and wasn't allowed to do anything fun or even draw in her colouring books. all she did was go to school, go to work, and then went to dinner with her parents. and today was no different. she got off work and made her way through the park to get to the car her parents had sent her.

it wasn't until she got to the woodsy part of the park that she realized she was still in her work uniform. and that wasn't an evening charity dinner attire material. she quickly dug through her bag, pulling out her purse and a few other things before she found the crumpled up dress. she glanced around the park, making sure that no one was around to watch her change before she stripped off her work clothes and slipped into the dress and heels her parents would approve of. she quickly stuffed everything back into her bag and rushed towards the car. she knew how displeased her parents got when she wasn't punctual. she huffed tiredly inside the car as it started, rummaging through her back pack for her purse, but it was nowhere to be found. her eyes widened in panic. where was her purse? her phone was in there. not to mention some very important pictures. she racked her brain, trying to think back to where she left it. "dustin, wait!" the car screeched to a stop as she flung the door open, yelling out a "i'll be right back!" as she ran off towards the woodsy area of the park again. now she just had to remember which part of the woods she was at when she was changing. she frowned as she searched and searched, groaning in frustration. not too far from her was an officer. she pursed her lips, wondering if anyone approached him with her purse. she hesitantly walked over to the officer who had his back to her, "ummm excuse me did you happen to find a umm..." her eyes widened as she caught sight of her purse, "oh my gosh, you found it!" she exclaimed with a grin, her whole face lighting up.

[kory kagasoff]

even before becoming a police officer, helping others out had been ingrained into kory's core personality. maybe it came with being the 'lesser' twin, the one who wasn't quite as much in the spotlight and stuck to his core group of friends when he was in high school, and group that was definitely not considered the 'in' crowd. it made him sympathetic to other's troubles... at least, that was what he might argue. or maybe he was just raised right, not to be an asshole. he wouldn't exactly call his brother that, but he was definitely more empathetic than the older twin who had gone for the fame of a football career rather than something that would make a true difference to others in every day life. kory wouldn't say that he was any better than his brother because of it, but he did find it amusing sometimes that the same guy who had lived off of popularity and getting any girl he could in high school had moved on to a career that produced the same effect. screaming fans, glory in victorious games, the attention of media and all of the social tabloids. school jock turns superstar athlete. it was almost comical in how stereotypical it was.

he'd hate to say that he doubted the integrity of many people in myrtle beach, but he had to admit... he did. as a police officer he saw the worst sides of the inhabitants of myrtle beach. gangs, robbers, murderers, rapists, he'd encountered at least one of each over his years as a police officer and they'd made him more than wary of people he would see every day on the street. a lost purse signified money, and there were many in myrtle beach who kory didn't doubt would take off with the purse and everything inside, not caring whose livelihood they might be taking away so that they could get their next fix of drugs or that latest video game console their greed wouldn't let them ignore.

taking the money and running, though, was not even slightly on kory's mind as he reached inside the purse, fishing around for a wallet. everyone had some form of identification in their wallet or purse these days. well, ninety-nine percent of people who carried around such things did. even if they were a high school student and all they had was a student card... and if this purse was the rare situation where there was no identification, he'd just bring it back to the station and wait for someone to come claim it. his hands located the wallet, which he pulled out, hooking the purse around his forearm by the staps so that he could open the wallet and find an id. his eyes were scanning over the name when he heard a sweet voice call out to him, "ummm excuse me did you happen to find a umm...oh my gosh, you found it!"

he slid the id back into its slot and the wallet back into the purse as he held it out to the vibrant haired girl. "miss julie, is it?" he asked with a smile. "i guess today's your lucky day."

(please excuse the failure of kory at the end. mind. totally. blanked. ...<3)

[JULIE ARCHIBALD]

julie had always been the good dutiful daughter. when her parents said left, she would never go right. she never dared to defy them or do anything that would make them remotely upset, but it seems that no matter what, there was just no pleasing them. the only person who made them happy was liam. that was... until recent events where he walked out of the alter and left his ex bride to be standing there like a goof. it was only natural that her parents blamed her. everyone knew that she idolized her brother and that the older archibald would give the red head the world if he could. they had just assumed that it was her fault. she always took the blame anyways because she would never dare to disagree just in case it made her parents even more upset. she was a good girl and good girls always listened to her parents. they never interrupted and never dared to reject anything their parents had to say. good girls didn't make their parents upset. still, it seemed they were never pleased with their only daughter. sometimes jules had to wonder if they even cared about her. but then she would chastise herself for thinking that way. of course they cared about her. she was their daughter, after all. they had to care about her, right? at least, that was what she liked to think. it was what she told herself. she knew that she was easily forgotten. the fact that they always left home and locking her in the house was enough to prove that they had forgotten their daughter was in the house.

but she couldn't blame them. it was her own fault for not voicing out that she was there. it was her fault that she didn't forewarn her parents. how were they to know that she was in the house? how were they to know whether there was food in the house? they ate out on a daily basis. jules couldn't blame her parents for not knowing that they needed to stock their home with food. but that was okay. she would make it work. she always made it work somehow. it couldn't be that hard to survive. she's done so before. her parents came and go all the time. everyone in her life was always in and out. one moment they're here, and the next, they would be gone. she was used to the fact that everybody got their way. that they get to choose when they wanted to be in her life and when they didn't. she just had to learn how to be accustomed to it. to not break down or let it hurt every time they walked out of her life. she would never let anyone know that them walking away hurt her more than she would ever show. she would never show that it always took a big toll on her when she was feeling down. she would not let them see her shatter like a piece of broken glass. she would continue to smile like she did every day as if nothing could penetrate that bubbly heart of her's.

so despite the fact that she knew it was only a matter of time before her parents abandoned her again, she still played the role of a good daughter. not that she had much choice in the matter. even if she did dare to go against their wishes, they would still find a way to make her follow them. much like they had with her brother's wedding. they knew that she would have never gone if it weren't for them, literally, handcuffing her to her nanny. which was why they constantly sent a driver to retrieve her from work. it was so she wouldn't run away. she sighed as she searched aimlessly for her purse. this sucked. to be honest, she would rather have someone shove dirt down her throat than to go to another function her parents were invited to. but it didn't matter. she had no choice. she never had a choice. she grumbled under her breath, thinking the search was useless. at this point, her wallet was most likely taken and someone had run off with it. she wouldn't be too surprised, but her heart nearly stopped whens he saw the officer holding it. she smiled brightly at him, nodding enthusiastically, "thank you so much! you are a life saver! she said, beaming at him brightly. she took it from his hands and hugged it to her chest tightly as if her life depended on it. she turned her head towards where she came from whens he heard dustin call her name. she frowned before turning and looking back at the officer, an idea forming in her head. "sorry.." she muttered quietly before grabbing his hand, "but run." she told him, dragging him along, deeper into the woods. she pulled him along until they were far enough and hiding behind a big oak tree. she panted out of breath before giggling, "sorry, i couldn't risk letting him see you, just in case you decided to tell him you saw me." she told him sheepishly with a slight shrug and a small smile.

[[ this is what she's wearing btw ;D ]]