* this couldn't be more unexpected ,

[Riley Turner]

RILEY DELRICK ,
COULD THIS BE OUT OF LINE?
TO SAY YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE
BREAKING ME DOWN LIKE THIS
YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE I WOULD
TAKE A SHOT ON KEEP ME HANGING
ON SO CONTAGIOUSLY
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----THE ELDEST AND SOMEWHAT MORE MATURE TURNER had been keeping a rather low profile lately. besides signing a least and liquor license, riley kept his head down and worked. he'd been volunteering at the community center and helped some kids in the area. he also had his 'real job' down at the library. so, he was staying busy with himself, try to take his mind off of everything that had been bothering him as of late. of course, it had been a couple months since he saw or heard from liz. but, he was beginning to think he didn't want to open up those cans of worms with her. a meeting between them was bound to occur since their paths seemed to cross in the most unlikely places, and above all, unintentionally. riley honestly couldn't remember meeting liz on purpose. aside from liz, riley fucked up bigger than the last time. riley got a girl pregnant. her name was coco lehoux and it was freaking him out. no one really knew about it besides them. he guessed maybe she told someone. riley has told no one yet. one thing they agreed on, but he knew how high school girls could be sometimes. people were bound to find out eventually. but riley, a man to his word, told coco he would be there in support of her. he was always against the abortion thing, but it just came down to what she wanted. she decided to keep it, and riley told her he was helping her. so now, in addition to raising money to pay for school and the rent, he was saving money for a baby.

let's see... he was an accessory, perhaps statutory rape, and now he was going to be a father... now, who was the screw-up in the family again? all the stress was getting to him and he wanted to tell someone. that was why he was at his parents house. it was noon and he was sitting in the kitchen of the house he spent the majority of his teen years. his mother, rachel, sat down next to him pushing a coffee towards her eldest son. he let the cup warm his fingertips. he had been there for no more than twenty minutes and he was getting scolded by his tougher-than-nails father, seamus. "christ, riley. i thought you knew better than giving into your brother's silly dreams." riley came here to get some things off his chest. instead, he was greeted with seamus yelling at him about reed. you see, reed emancipated himself from his parents when he was sixteen. reed never had anything against their mother. it was their father reed never saw eye-to-eye with. as long as riley could remember, reed and seamus constantly fought. reed was the middle child, hung with a bad crowd early on so when he should have been accomplishing things riley did at his age, seamus saw reed as a failure. you'd think reed would resent riley for their dad always comparing the two, but that was never the case. it just got reed hating seamus more. this time, seamus was pissed that riley signed the lease and alcohol license for reed's bar. "dad, he's nineteen. he can do what he wants. he's very serious about this and if this keeps him out of trouble, of course i'm helping." seamus scoffed, and shook his head. running his hand through his black hair. "reed's an alcoholic loose canon. you might as well as given him a loaded gun." rachel sighed next to riley. riley felt bad for his mother. she was always caught in the middle of reed and seamus. riley knew she loved reed, and talked to him on the phone, but she also loved her husband. it was a tough position to be in.

he came here to release his stress, instead he found some more. he sighed and rubbed his eyes with his fingers. "you know what? i got to go. i forgot i had some errands to run." he pushed the chair back and got up. his mom got up too asking, "so soon? but you just got here." riley shook his head and started turning his body towards the front door. "i know. i just got to do some things. i'll call you later." he kissed his mother on the cheek and just gave a measly shrug and wave towards his father who had not gotten up. he got into his car outside and started heading back to his apartment. that visit solved absolutely nothing. well, at least he had something to look forward to tonight. after talking on the phone a few times, riley had officially asked sarai montgomery out on a date. dating was something riley hadn't gotten into since his move back from valkyrie, and god was that a long time ago. well, not too long, but long enough to realize you can't remember the last time you went on a date. but don't be alarmed by the absence in the dating pool. when he was in los angeles, he was dating. high school, he dated.

one thing he didn't like were first dates. there was just too many expectations tied to them. and don't go off calling riley a romantic. no. his cousin paolo giovanni was a romantic. riley couldn't even begin to think the way that kid thinks when it comes to dates. but you know, he wanted it to be nice. riley was taking sarai to the nineteenth hole. it was a mini-golf range. see? he was horrible at these kind of ideas and didn't know if he was breaking some kind of rule by taking her to play a game and not like, out to dinner or something. he was more nervous on what she would think than how he'd act. fast forward to 6 o'clock and riley was on the steps on the montgomery mansion. he was glad they reconnected. mainly because she was someone from high school. which means, pre-pregnancy, pre-liz, pre-almost dying. he picked her up and everything seemed to be going smoothly. they were sitting in the car, small talk as usual and riley was getting closer to the mini-golf place. "so, i was thinking we could go to the nineteenth hole? maybe play a game of mini-golf?" he kept his hands firmly on the steering wheel as he took his eyes of the road for a moment, trying to get her reaction. "unless you don't want to. which is cool. we can go catch a movie... or something."

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LOCATION & TIME, the nineteenth hole, & i have no idea timeline-wise when this is suppose to be, so i'm just going to say it was in august '07 if that's ok with you.
LYRICS, "so contagious" - acceptance
CLOTHES, first date attire
TAGGED, sarai
I SAY, finally! =] i said they had been talking a couple times prior to the date, hope that was ok.
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[Sarai Montgomery]

SARAI JORDANA MONTGOMERY
NINTEENTH HOLE, RILEY'S CAR, SEPTEMBER 2007

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-----there really was no explanation for how things had led up to this point. no rhyme or reason why sarai montgomery ended up in riley turner's car on their way to a first date of sorts. alright well there were some extenuating circumstances that had lead up to this point starting with the first time they'd run into each other in over a number of years. it really had been such a long time since sarai had even seen the nice, popular boy who'd been kind to her in the library. riley turner, she'd certainly never forget him. riley wasn't the type of guy you even could forget. with that goofy, gotta love me smile that had girls falling over him in high school and a sense of humor that didn't consist of fart jokes, all of that on top of a decent, educated human being. who wouldn't like that? sarai had pretty much known all boys in high school to be just that, boys, so immature to the point that they couldn't even be considered men, ever. sarai could safely say that out of the population of males attending valkyrie academy, riley had been one of a select few that were worthwhile. sarai wouldn't say that she had a particular fascination with riley. in high school she'd been so fed up with her mother's antics and her father's constant badgering that the library had been the only place she could think, and think she did. the school library had been sarai's safe haven. it was where she could forget the world and lose herself in another so completely different from her own. she never understood how people couldn't love books. honestly they opened up a completely new world to anyone who was willing to take the time to crack one open. in high school that was all she'd done.

-----no one had really understood her back then. she'd been the weird girl. the one with glasses and a ton of freckles who would sit in the library as often as teachers would let her. she didn't socialize, hell she rarely even smiled. most people would want nothing to do with a girl like that, and in fact most people were just like that. riley on the other hand, riley had been different. though he'd been popular and well liked by everyone, he didn't mind sitting down in the library with someone that everyone else considered strange, to read a book and occasionally chat. so yes, sarai had a little fascination with him way back when, but at the time it had never really been a sense of attraction. riley was just someone she could talk to if she ever felt like it, someone she could trust, even if it was only slightly. even as a strange, book-loving, anti-social teenager, that stuck with her. when she'd run into riley all those many years later, after the bikini's, after the photo shoots, after the years of endless silence and simply studying, it was nice to see a friendly face that sarai could remember trusting. it really, really was refreshing. one thing lead to another that day at the hospital and sarai got to really talking with him. she enjoyed the talks. it made for a nice break seeing as how sarai wasn't really the most social of creatures. she'd lived her life completely in quiet, save some of the most wonderful times she'd had with tony, but other than that she'd been quiet for majority of her life. talking with him was welcomed. she could openly talk about things at work, ainsley coming to live with her within the month, everything. it was even better to know that the person she was speaking to on the other end of the line wasn't as judgmental as most of the californians she'd become accustomed to.

-----but if you asked sarai how many dates she'd been on, the girl would go mute. she didn't really like to tell people that she'd never officially been out on a date. well in twenty years you'd figure that she would have gone on at least one, which was why she didn't enjoy telling people something so personal that they would be so shocked about. you see for the longest time sarai had the deepest, most sincere feelings for her best friend, tony giovanni. they'd been closer than she'd ever gotten to any other living soul on the planet and even at a young age sarai figured that she loved him. when he'd up and disappeared from her life that one day...her world had completely changed. he'd been gone without so much as a word, not even a letter, which sarai later learned he'd written but her father had kept it from her. she'd known nothing about why he'd gone, what his motive had been, or even if he'd ever be back. losing someone that close to you, at least for sarai, had changed her. without a friend in the world she'd stuck to staying home and reading books. studying, it had been her outlet. when something would go wrong she'd coop herself up in her room in read, same goes for if she had a rough day at school or her parents were fighting. not long after that lucille, sarai's spiteful, manipulative mother, had gotten pregnant with ainsley and used her daughter to buy a divorce and enough money to start her own fashion line. within the month after her sister was born, lucille had whisked sarai away to pose for photographers, banking on her natural innocence and halfway decent body to skyrocket her into success. for two years sarai had no control over what lucille could do to her. by her eighteenth birthday sarai had stood up to her mother, told her where she could shove it, and had gone home. but the sarai that walked through those front doors after that long trip back...you wouldn't have even recognized her.

-----fast forward two years later and sarai had regained a bit of the person she'd been before the hurricane that had been lucille. there was a serious lack of self confidence left in the wake, but sarai was finally beginning to feel like herself. with tony back, ainsley about to stay with her, and the knowledge that her father was a lying bastard, sarai was ready to put everything behind her and move on with her life. that started with this date with riley. this whole situation was interesting to her. she'd never before seen riley in an attractive sense, she'd always just known that she could trust him and talk to him, but now that she'd gotten the opportunity to see him again and speak to him again, all of that was changing. she wanted to go out with him, wanted to see what there was to riley. he intrigued her. for the first time in however long she'd known him, riley intrigued her. she'd been surprisingly anvious all day long. who wouldn't? it was sarai's first date, ever. sad as it may be it was true, and sarai was excited about it. she smiled as she opened up the door, saying her hellos as she grabbed her things and headed out to his car. it wasn't until she was inside that she even knew where they were going. "the mini-golf place? cool! i've, uh, actually never been there. afraid to admit you'd be playing with a first timer." she shrugged a bit but the smile didn't leave her face. "that is, if you don't mind." she listened to him retract his idea and quickly put his hand up. "no, no, no. as long as you don't have a problem with it i'd love to go to the nineteenth hole."

-----once there, sarai slid out of the car, walking beside riley as they approached the booth to pay. "you...um...dont' mind showing me how to play do you? i understand i'm supposed to hit a ball into a hole, but everything else escapes me." she asked as she grabbed a brightly colored pink ball and a club. she approached the first hole hesitantly. "would you like to go first?" she asked, looking up at riley as she nervously chewed on her bottom lip.

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tagged • sariley !
clothes •click.
listening to • -- - --
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[Riley Turner]

RILEY DELRICK ,
COULD THIS BE OUT OF LINE?
TO SAY YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE
BREAKING ME DOWN LIKE THIS
YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE I WOULD
TAKE A SHOT ON KEEP ME HANGING
ON SO CONTAGIOUSLY
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---I GUESS IF YOU WERE TO PLACE RILEY into a specific clique in high school, he'd be in the popular crowd. surprisingly, riley was a football player. he played basketball for the winter season, soccer in the spring, followed by baseball in the summer. he was a very active teenager. it was ironic because he was like mr. all-american at the academy even if he was straight from ireland. he just really liked being involved in something all the time, because sports in america were nothing like they were in ireland. of course, his rising status did nothing with the already broken relationship with his same-grade cousin, finnegan. riley mainly thought he hung with the popular kids because all those kids were his friends through all the sports he went out for. riley was a jock. but a smart jock, because the kid was a very good student. teachers liked how good his citizenship was, and as far as he knew, he peers generally liked him - even if they weren't in the same clique; riley talked to everyone. as many friends as he did have, after graduating, he never really talked to many of them. guess that's what happens when you finally grow up and branch off. a few went to ucla like he did and he kept in touch, but it wasn't the same. since he officially moved back to valkyrie, he ran into a lot of old classmates. it was kind of depressing when they'd get talking and the person didn't do anything of the things they wanted to do after high school.

especially when he ran into lauren. lauren one of the few girls riley would ever consider being a serious girlfriend. he dated her for over a year. end middle of sophomore year, to late into his junior year. she was beautiful, smart, her family came from money and oh yes - she was a cheerleader. they were that typical popular couple. guess she was getting bored with the clean-cut guys. or, she was getting bored with a certain turner because riley walked in on lauren and finnegan getting it on. poor riley, right? he didn't talk to lauren after that and he hadn't heard or seen from her after high school. few weeks ago, he ran into her. or, what was left of her. it was scary what drugs could do to one's face from abusing hardcore drugs for over five years. he almost couldn't stand looking at her because she really fell far from what she could have been. of course the 'softie riley' in him wanted to help her and invite her back to his place to help in anyway. but there was no room for a fourth girl to etch her way into riley's troubled lady situations. so far, sarai was the only person worth running into post-high school. obviously. since he asked her out on a date and all.

"you've never played a game of mini-golf?" riley asked her raising his eyebrows in surprise. "i'm the non-american here." he let out a laugh and shook his head and looked back at the road. "i'm just joking. i love mini-golf. mainly because i suck at the real deal." he half-grinned and gave her a side glance before returning his eyes back towards the road. "i use to play all the time with my brothers." another thing you might have not known about the turner brothers, they actually worked up here at the nineteenth hole. riley was sixteen, reed thirteen, and little regan was ten. the golf course was a little old school several years ago. the brothers would go out into the woods and look for golf balls and riley would drive a cart around, picking up some of the balls on the big field to practice your shot. it was fun, and the owners sometimes let them play mini-golf for free. it was during the summer, and having a lot of free time, they enjoyed it a lot.

once they got there, riley locked the doors to his old car and they went up to the booth to pay. sarai asked him if he'd teach her how to play. "i'd be glad to teach you. i know all the tricks of the trade." he paid for a game and the clerk gave them two clubs, two golf balls, and the scorecard. oh, shit. his mind started racing as the unsettling thoughts of his great mini-golf idea started analyzing itself in his brain. mini-golf was a game. what's the definition of a game? he didn't know the exact one but it went along the lines of 'someone wins, someone loses.' crap. so... what did he do? did he just let her win? or did he give it an honest try? heh, well, maybe he should knock on wood first, but he was sure he would probably win. no offense, of course. since he had basically told her he was a pro at this, having done it so many times with his brothers. they walked out to the first hole. the thing with mini-golf was, there were actually eighteen holes. this place got it's name from the nineteenth hole in it's mini-golf course that was used as a 'freebie hole.' opportunities to win a free game were on that hole, but it was really hard to achieve it.

"would you like to go first?" and back to earth he came as he stopped thinking of what the correct etiquette of first date at a golf course would be. "yeah, sure." he took the small pencil and scratched both their names in the spaces provided and slipped it into his pocket. the first hole wasn't very complicated. to get a hole in one, it would be fairly easy except for the giant barn-shaped thing in it's pathway. where the door of the barn would be was a tunnel. leading towards the hole on the other side. he dropped the red ball he had and stopped it from rolling with his foot. "so, many golf holes always are like... difficult but fun." yeah... explain the whole concept of mini-golf. she doesn't know how to play it, not doesn't know what it is. maybe you should give her the entire history of it as well. riley shook his head and started over. "basically you're trying to just navigate the ball to the hole with the least amount of strokes as possible." he pulled the club back and hit the ball. he didn't hit it all-out of course, but enough force to send it rolling along the green tarp. it went through the tunnel and out the other side. no hole in one. but good, riley didn't really want one since know he was freaking over if he should let her win or not. "ok, you want to try?" he walked over to her, watching her put the pink ball down and position herself. "um, here. i can help you." he leaned his club against the 'hole one' sign and put a hand on her arm. yes, riley turner was doing one of those moves. "the thing is, you want to be relaxed and not hit the ball too hard because then you won't have nay control over it. if you hit it lightly, controlled, you'll get better results." riley then stepped behind her and placed his right hand on top of her right and his left hand on top of her left. he helped her guide the club back before hitting the pink ball, which successfully went through the tunnel and out the other side. he backed off her and smiled. "see? simple enough."

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STATUS, complete
CRED, format and graphics to me
LOCATION & TIME, the nineteenth hole, & i have no idea timeline-wise when this is suppose to be, so i'm just going to say it was in august '07 if that's ok with you.
LYRICS, 'so contagious' - acceptance
CLOTHES, first date attire
TAGGED, sarai
I SAY, kinda gm-y at the end. hope that was fine with you.
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[Sarai Montgomery]

SARAI JORDANA MONTGOMERY
NINTEENTH HOLE, FIRST HOLE, SEPTEMBER 2007

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-----it's safe to say that not many people even knew who sarai montgomery was. throughout high school she was sure that people knew her as the quiet, strange girl who's parents were muslim and weird. little did a lot of people know just how smart she was and just how many things she'd done with her life before she'd even turned twenty. it was true, she'd had no friends in high school. high school had been that time for sarai directly after tony had left without a word. she'd been so very close to him as a child that she hadn't needed other friends. why have a whole group when one singular person knew you better than you did yourself? that had been her method of reasoning. how was she supposed to have known that tony would one day up and disappear leaving her with no one that she knew, no friend to turn to. without anyone in her life sarai had turned to books. turning to other bad habits was a little out of the question. she'd been too smart to try something as stupid as drugs. she'd been too scared to do something like going out and partying. she'd been too afraid of disappointing her father to rebel. what else was there for a girl to do? instead of getting lost in an addiction she got lost in a hobby, reading. her room was a librarian's dream, so to speak. a bed, a vanity, and rows upon rows of books. most of the ones that she'd had on her shelves hadn't even been read by her. they were the growing list of what she'd wanted to read as a child. as soon as she finished one, unless it was something she planned on reading again or referencing later, sarai sold it off and bought more books to add to her collection. she read like it was going out of style, all of that knowledge pushing her toward where she was today. one of the youngest in the internship programs at valkyrie hospital, treating patients and helping people. pretty good for a book worm.

-----but you wouldn't have expected to ever find this bookworm within the pages of a magazine, clad only in a bikini with waves crashing at her sides. definitely not. but such pictures existed. back only about two to three years ago, any one person could find sarai montgomery in a magazine, promoting her mother's fashion line. what sarai was grateful for was that hardly anyone would probably recognize her. in those pictures sarai had her hair down, wet or blowing in the breeze, no glasses, tanned, and in a bikini. that was practically the exact opposite of the creature that people had seen in high school. no one would have expected the pale, glasses toting, muslim girl with her hair pulled back into a ponytail to be the girl they saw in those magazines. if it weren't for the lack of resemblance between sarai and the girl in those magazines, her high school experience would have been a whole hell of a lot harder for her to cope with. she didn't even want to imagine what would have happened. after 9/11 things had been hard enough. in middle school children had run in fear because they assumed she had a bomb in her book bag or something ridiculous. all sarai could think about in high school was what would things be like if people found out. that was why she would quickly turn away from people in the hallway if she saw them with a magazine, looking at the ad. it was why she kept her head down in class and did her work without a peep. it was why she spent all of her free time in the library with her head in a book. no one could recognize her if they never saw her face. simple as that. needless to say high school hadn't been the experience most people rave about. it had been just another period of time in sarai's life. one that could have probably been at least enjoyable if it hadn't been for her mother and her schemes.

-----sarai was glad that times like that were behind her. the pictures were now in trash bins or in waiting rooms, but they were a thing of the past. no one would probably even make the connection to her nowadays. she chuckled as riley spoke with surprise, looking over at him. "mini golf wasn't high on my list of things to do as a child. i had more of a love for books." she pointed out the obvious but she didn't care. of course she loved books, riley knew that. in fact the only time he'd probably ever seen her was in the library, reading a book. "sounds like you've adjusted well then. i just never got the chance. my father was usually half way around the country in an operating room and my mother...well let's just say she was too preoccupied for such things as paying attention to her children." golf was probably one of the only sports sarai should have been introduced to. after all when did you run into a doctor who didn't play golf? "right your brothers, i hope they're doing well." she said with a smile. sarai had heard a thing or two about other turners, from riley of course, but it had only been in passing every once in a blue moon. still, at least she'd heard of them.

-----sarai was slightly nervous to play, but as was expected regardless of where riley had taken her. after all...this was her first date, ever. she was glad that it ended up being somewhere like the nineteenth hole. here she felt as though she could relax. it wasn't as uppidy as a restaurant or movie could get. here she could ease into things, find what made her comfortable, and really enjoy herself. "well i'm glad i'm learning from the best then." she said as she walked toward the first hole, club and bright pink golf ball in hand. she was glad to watch riley go first, it gave her a sense of what to do, how to stand, and at least gave her something to work with before she took a stab at it. she nodded as riley explained a bit about mini golf. he really was helping her, something she was glad about. it was probably difficult to bring someone to a mini golf course who'd never played before. sarai was sure she wasn't making this easy. then again there were a lot of things she'd never done or didn't know how to do. at least mini golf was a relatively easy thing to teach. now stick her in an operating room with a scalpel in her hand and she could run on autopilot. "sounds easy enough." she said as she watched riley hit the ball into the tunnel and toward the hole. then it was her turn. oh god. she walked up to where riley had just stood. putting her ball down in one of the little grooves at the starting point. she stood over the ball, club in hand, happy to hear riley offer to help her. "yes please." she said biting down on her lower lip as riley walked over to her and slid his hands over hers.

-----sarai found it particularly hard to concentrate as riley stood there with her, helping her to hit the ball for the first time. "uh huh." good one sarai, how eloquent. keeping her eyes on the ball she watched as they pulled the club back and hit the ball with ease. she watched it roll through the tunnel past riley's ball but stopping before it hit the hole. "yeah i think i got the basics." she said as she looked over at riley, holding on securely to her club as he grabbed his and they walked to the hole to try again. she watched as he positioned himself by the ball, giving a much lesser swing and tapping the ball into the hole. her turn. "alright let's see if i can do this." she said only slightly nervous as she stepped up to her ball, looked at the hole, looked at the ball, and judged the space between the two. it only took her a moment to realize that mathematically she knew round about just how hard to hit the little ball. a little smirk grew on her lips as she eased the club back and tapped the ball, sending it into the hole. "neat." she said with a smile, crouching at the hole to retrieve her ball. "i can see why you like the game," sarai said as she walked beside riley in the direction of the second hole, "i'm having fun already."

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status • finished
words • 1779
tagged • sariley !
clothes •click.
listening to • i'll be - edwin mccain.
notes • so so so cute! these two are such love. don't worry about gm-ing. its kind of hard to move along unless we do a little xD

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