Jamie Ryan
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Post by Jamie Ryan on Jun 11, 2007 19:21:39 GMT -5
"I'm done with them. You can have 'em if you want..."
Jamie looked at the girl with short blonde hair, and glanced at the magazines. Generally, she wouldn't have been interested in some rather girly, normal fashion magazines; but this girl had a point about being bored.
"Thanks," Jamie replied, looking up again.
Jamie knew she should say something to have a conversation with this girl. She quickly racked her brain for anything she had observed the girl doing; people she'd been hanging out with, things she'd been doing, conversations she'd had. She remembered a guy with dark hair and piercing eyes who always seemed to be helping always around her.
"Is he your boyfriend, that guy with the dark hair?" Jamie asked, knowing she wasn't specific enough.
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Post by Gwen Havers on Jun 11, 2007 19:43:31 GMT -5
SHANNON
"Is he your boyfriend, that guy with the dark hair?"
"Boone?" she clarified, accustomed to the question. "No, that's my stepbrother. God's friggin' gift to humanity. He's off saving the whales or something," she said with a dismissive wave of her hand. She hadn't seen Boone since she returned from her talk with Charlie, but it was a pretty safe bet he was trying to help someone somewhere.
"I'm Shannon, by the way."
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Post by Jamie Ryan on Jun 11, 2007 19:50:14 GMT -5
"I'm Shannon, by the way."
"Jamie," she introduced herself, then moving on to apologize for the confusion, "I'm sorry about that."
She really couldn't believe that she was having a conversation with someone she really didn't know, but she knew that Shane or Seth would be proud of her attempt. Jamie admitted to herself that Shannon was very pretty; she had her perfect tan and blonde hair.
"So..." Jamie mentally kicked herself. She may have tried to talk to someone, but she still sucked at it.
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Post by Gwen Havers on Jun 11, 2007 20:01:36 GMT -5
SHANNON
"I'm sorry about that."
"It's okay. He likes to act like he's my boyfriend--telling me what to do, who to talk to," Shannon rattled on. "He's the reason I was on that plane, because he knows what's best for me. Yeah, like being stranded on Craphole Island is what's best for me..."
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Jamie Ryan
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Post by Jamie Ryan on Jun 11, 2007 20:28:04 GMT -5
"It's okay. He likes to act like he's my boyfriend--telling me what to do, who to talk to," Shannon rattled on. "He's the reason I was on that plane, because he knows what's best for me. Yeah, like being stranded on Craphole Island is what's best for me..."
Jamie smirked a little. Shannon seemed to always speak the truth, no matter what people's reactions were.
"Yeah, brothers seem to have a way of doing that," Jamie agreed, being somewhat a voice of reason.
There had been many times when Shane had been like that with Jamie; but she never resented it. Shane had always been her shelter and comfort...she wondered if Boone was like that for Shannon.
"Do you think they're looking for us?" Jamie asked the eminent question.
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Post by Gwen Havers on Jun 11, 2007 20:36:58 GMT -5
SHANNON
"Do you think they're looking for us?"
"Sure, yeah," she answered automatically, forcing a smile and omitting all that stuff about a French transmission and something on the island that was going to kill them all.
"I mean, maybe not us. But there's probably someone famous or rich on the plane; that Charlie guy said he was in a band, and Billy's an actor or model or something. Anyway, they'll have their people out looking for them. It just takes a while," she assured Jamie.
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Post by Jamie Ryan on Jun 11, 2007 20:43:05 GMT -5
"I mean, maybe not us. But there's probably someone famous or rich on the plane; that Charlie guy said he was in a band, and Billy's an actor or model or something. Anyway, they'll have their people out looking for them. It just takes a while,"
Jamie nodded, even though she really didn't know who Charlie or Billy was. It made her think of Seth. Would he try to find her? Would Shane? Jamie missed them the most. What was Seth doing right now? Was he with another girl? Did his family find out that he didn't follow their directions? Was he thinking about her? What was Shane doing? He was probably working...or was he desperately trying to find his only sister? Jamie's eyes glazed over and got that far off look in them as she wondered about them.
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Post by Gwen Havers on Jun 11, 2007 21:02:37 GMT -5
SHANNON
Sensing the girl's attention was drifting away from the present, and from her, Shannon felt compelled to speak again. "So what were you doing in Australia? Studying?" she asked, guessing the girl to be college-aged.
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Post by Jamie Ryan on Jun 11, 2007 21:07:20 GMT -5
"So what were you doing in Australia? Studying?"
"I was on vacation," Jamie replied, snapping out of her day dream.
She felt that she didn't need to include the details leading up to her little trip from reality to one of her most wanted to visit places. Jamie knew that would just lead into a rather lengthy discussion about her history.
"Why were you there?" she asked, wanting to divert the attention from herself.
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Post by Gwen Havers on Jun 11, 2007 21:23:40 GMT -5
SHANNON
"Why were you there?"
"A guy," she said with a strained smile. "Isn't it always?" Leaving out the minor detail that said guy was trying to help her con her stepbrother out of a considerable amount of money.
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Post by Jamie Ryan on Jun 11, 2007 21:38:48 GMT -5
"A guy," she said with a strained smile. "Isn't it always?"
Jamie smirked a little. Isn't that the truth? Everything girls around their age always seemed to revolve around guys. When it came to Shannon and her Australian guy, Jamie and everything she and Seth did; no one could avoid it: this was really why they did everything.
"It always seems to be," Jamie answered. "It always does."
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Post by Gwen Havers on Jun 12, 2007 18:23:13 GMT -5
SHANNON
"It always seems to be," Jamie answered. "It always does."
"So were you on your way back to California?" she asked.
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Post by Jamie Ryan on Jun 12, 2007 18:43:02 GMT -5
"So were you on your way back to California?" she asked.
"Yeah," Jamie replied, "Going home. What about you?"
Jamie shifted her far hand slightly, on to her back pocket, making sure her picture was still there.
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Post by Gwen Havers on Jun 12, 2007 18:56:45 GMT -5
SHANNON
"Going home. What about you?"
"Sort of," she shrugged, not really having thought about what would happen after their plane landed. "My dad died, and I don't really get along with my stepmom. I was supposed to be doing an internship in New York, but...that didn't really work out."
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Post by Jamie Ryan on Jun 12, 2007 19:00:40 GMT -5
"Sort of," she shrugged, not really having thought about what would happen after their plane landed. "My dad died, and I don't really get along with my stepmom. I was supposed to be doing an internship in New York, but...that didn't really work out."
Jamie nodded. "I'm sorry. I've never been to New York, but I've hear that it's great there...really busy."
She wasn't going to say it, but Jamie knew what it was like to have mother issues...well, really, family issues instead.
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Post by Gwen Havers on Jun 12, 2007 19:19:32 GMT -5
SHANNON
"Well, it would have been great," she sighed, glancing sadly out at the waves. "It was the one thing I wanted in life, to study dance in New York. But I guess that wasn't meant to be," she added with bitterness, still confused about why her stepmother had felt the need to sabotage her future plans.
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Post by Jamie Ryan on Jun 12, 2007 20:26:03 GMT -5
"It was the one thing I wanted in life, to study dance in New York. But I guess that wasn't meant to be,"
Jamie nodded, keeping her hand over her pocket. She really didn't know what to say; she didn't want to bring up things about her whole "adoption never worked out either" thing. That would just make her seem like a hopeless, attention seeker; that wasn't Jamie.
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Post by Gwen Havers on Jun 13, 2007 22:19:55 GMT -5
SHANNON
She was about to grasp for another topic of conversation when the tightness in her chest started. It probably wasn't an attack; after all, she hadn't even been doing anything strenuous that day. But the twinge was creeping into her chest, and her airways were starting to constrict ever so slightly. She had to be elsewhere.
"Hey, I gotta' go," she managed to eke out while her breathing was still normal. "Enjoy the magazines." She hastily got to her feet and walked off through the wreckage, digging desperately through her bag for her inhaler.
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Post by Jamie Ryan on Jun 14, 2007 9:46:49 GMT -5
"Hey, I gotta' go. Enjoy the magazines."
Jamie looked to Shannon. "Thanks again." However, she wasn't positive that Shannon had heard hear, since she seemed in quite a hurry to get to her luggage. Jamie shrugged it off and decided to see what she'd been missing out on for the past...forever by not even cracking one of these magazines open. Amazingly, it wasn't as bad, and horrifically girly as she thought they would be...maybe it was the boredom talking. She continued to flip through the magazines.
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Post by Jamie Ryan on Jun 16, 2007 21:17:09 GMT -5
After reading the magazines for a while, Jamie took the magazines in hand, and, for one of the few times since the crash, Jamie got up. She went to where there was a pile of luggage, sat the magazines down, and began to dig through the pile, looking for her messenger bag that was her carry on and her black suitcase. Upon finding a black suitcase that looked like hers, she looked at its tags, saying whose it was and what path it was taking.
“Sydney to LAX,” Jamie muttered as she looked through the information, and then paused, not reading the name aloud, but not taking the bag. Jamie went back to going through the luggage.
Nearly half an hour late, Jamie had searched through at least a quarter of the pile of luggage, but not finding her bag; however, her messenger bag had stood out against the rest. She was frustrated; her bag hadn’t even showed signs of being in that pile. Jamie continued to look through the pile.
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