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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2014 13:43:30 GMT -5
Lucy had been in town for a few weeks, and she had been so busy getting transferred and situated with her brother that she hadn't been able to explore the sites yet. Her first stop, was the Museum of Natural History. It wasn't only because she wanted to see fossils or ancient artifacts, it was because she was intrigued by history. She wished that somehow she could go back in time.. and the museum was the closest she could get to doing that. For awhile, she could be several worlds, in several different times, that she didn't exist in. If only things had gone differently..
They couldn't be different though, and she knew that. She followed a group of tourists for a little while, listening to the guide talk about the structures they were seeing, but she got bored and walked away from the group as fast as she could. She sat on a bench, not really wanting to look at anything in particular at the moment. She just wanted to be surrounded by things from the past. She was beginning to have an obsession with it. She pulled the earbuds of her ipod out of her pocket, and she put them in her ears.
She leaned back, staring up at a gigantic dinosaur fossil that looked as though it were judging her somehow. Everything judged her, in her mind. She huffed, becoming used to her imagination playing tricks on her by now, and she closed her eyes letting the soothing sound of Alanis Morrisette lull her in to a state of meditation.
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Post by Madison Abigail Coltrain on Apr 12, 2014 17:57:12 GMT -5
Madison loved the museum. Just being in the building was like a new adventure and Maddie adored that. She knew how lucky she was that she’d managed to snag a job there, even if it was in the gift shop. She got to meet new people, help them pick out things to remind them of the memories they’d made and she was able to wander around the building during her breaks. It was a dream for the young archaeologist to be. The only thing she wished for was access to the storage areas where all the secrets were kept in dark corners. She would have given anything to get in the stacks and have a gander around. But her ID badge only gave her access to the gift shop storage areas and the employee lounge.
It was still nice to get away from the little shop she looked over and see all that the museum had to offer. They got new exhibits so often that it was always a different experience when she went wandering. But she always found herself in the Dinosaur exhibit. She loved the fact that these bones were once creatures that roamed the Earth and that people thousands of years later found them below the surface, just a bit of dirt overtop of them. All that someone needed to do was brush it aside really and there they were. Maddie didn’t think she’d be too fond of digging up dinosaurs for the rest of her life but other things, people and mummies and whatever they were buried with. It was more important to Madison to enrich the lives of others with her future finds than the celebrity it would bring her in the industry. She didn’t care if at the end of her career people knew her name or not, she only wanted the world to know more about the past.
At her break, she told Cash she would be back in twenty minutes, grabbed the last piece of biscotti she’d picked up on her way into work that morning and took a bite as she made her way through the building, passing the security desk and sending the boys there a wave. No matter where she started out in the museum, Maddie always found herself in the Dinosaur section. And this walk was no different than the others. “Sorry, do you mind if I sit?” She asked a girl with her eyes closed. She was on a bench to herself and Maddie didn’t want to intrude if she was waiting on someone or just wanted to be alone. Plus, Maddie worked there and had the badge to prove it so she had to be on her best behaviour.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2014 21:15:37 GMT -5
Lucy hadn't thought that she would have been approached here of all places. Usually people were all about the displays. Too busy to socialize. She pulled the ear buds from her ear, and she gave the girl a small smile. "Hey," she shook her head. "I don't mind." She paused the music on her iPod and noticed the girl was wearing a badge. "Do you work here?" She asked with a small incline of her head.
"I'm actually pretty new in town. Everyone told me I should check this place out. I mean.. it's really cool and all but isn't it unhealthy to live in the past?" It was an ironic question. She lived in the past all the time.. she lived in the more recent past that she'd like to forget, and she lived in the distant past, which she wanted to relive and do all over again.
"...that's a stupid question." She laughed and rolled her eyes. "I'm Lucy. Lucy Lawrence." She held out a hand for the girl who looked to be near the same age as her. Which made her wonder if she really actually worked there? Or if she was a student as well.
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Post by Madison Abigail Coltrain on Apr 14, 2014 9:27:01 GMT -5
Maddie loved sitting around the museum and often found herself in the building even on her days off. She found the whole place had a calming presence for her and after the life she’d had so far, she needed a calm place to run to. It was the museum or the library and the old tomes usually ended up giving Madison a bit of a headache and a sneezing fit. More often than not, she habitually ordered her books just so she didn’t have to spend hours in the library, even though she loved how peaceful it was. Maddie smiled, taking a seat on the other end of the bench. “Thanks!” She said, happily. She didn’t have much time before she had to start making her way back to the gift shop but she had a few minutes to let her mind wander.
“Hm?” Maddie asked, automatically looking down at where she usually kept her ID tag. But on that shirt, she had to clip it to the hem. She probably could have clipped it to the pretty bow belt attached to the shirt but she didn’t want to stretch the material there and thought attaching the badge might do just that. “Oh, yeah.” She said chuckling. “I work in the gift shop. I’m on break.” She offered as if this girl gave a damn which department she worked. Maddie hadn’t planned on interrupting this girl more than once; just to find out if she could take a seat. But she wasn’t about to ignore the girl either. Madison was a friendly enough sort, she could take up a conversation with just about anyone. But she tended to stay away from the people milling about the museum since they were there to take in all the secrets these walls held.
Maddie shook her head, smiling. “I don’t think it was a stupid question. I like history, personally. So I suppose I’m a bit biased.” Maddie joked, laughing. “But whoever told you to check this place out was right. There’s so much to see, it’s just not possible in one visit. I’m still finding new things to see!” She admitted happily. That in itself was pretty impressive since she’d worked there for quite some time now. “Madison Coltrain.” Maddie introduced herself with a genuine smile. “So, where ya from originally, Lucy?” Maddie asked, since she was already in a conversation with the girl, she may as well ask her something in return. For Madison, it was obvious she wasn’t from New York, her Nashville accent was still strong enough that it was blatantly obvious she wasn’t a born and raised Manhattanite.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2014 16:00:20 GMT -5
Usually Lucy wasn't the talkative sort lately, but this was the first real conversation she had with anyone aside from her brother since she moved to New York City and she didn't want to waste the opportunity to speak to someone who knew the area. Even though, obviously by the girl's accent she wasn't a local. "Gift shop huh? Cool," Lucy gave her a small smile. "I just recently got a job at a place called the Java Hut. Nothing exciting, but it gives me something to do. And keeps me out of my brother's hair. I don't really think he minds having me around at all, but I don't want to be a mooch." She laughed.
Lucy could tell by the girl's accent that she was also from the south. "Memphis, Tennessee," She drawled. "A fair bit away from the big city." It was nice though, to be in a city. She felt less closed in, and less nervous. Maybe it was because secretly she thought she belonged in New York City with all of it's murderers and things. But she supposed that was stereotyping a city that she hardly lived in. Part of her wanted to completely withdraw from a conversation with this girl before she got caught up with Lucy. However, the part of her that was still a human begged for some sort of semblance of a friendship since Lucy had secluded herself away from everyone else. "Well, I don't want to ruin your break anymore than I have." She smiled at the girl. "It was nice meeting you, Madison. I better get going." It didn't surprise Lucy that she was so quick to run away from a conversation. If she kept doing it though, surely her brother would find out that she was hiding something, and would continue to badger her until she told him the truth, or at least most of the truth, but she couldn't She didn't want to tell him anything, because she was too young to give her life away. Too young to go to prison. Not to mention she didn't want her older brother looking at her with any sort of disappointment or fear. She turned back to Madison, smiling once more. "I'll probably be back again. Maybe i'll run in to you again sometime."Tagged: Madison! Words: 385! Notes: Outfit: Miss Murder
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Post by Madison Abigail Coltrain on Apr 16, 2014 16:30:58 GMT -5
Maddie didn’t know where she would be if she hadn’t gotten this chance to move to New York. She probably would have fallen right back down that rabbit hole she’d been hiding. All hell would have broken loose in her household. Hell right now she was sharing a bench with a stranger in a New York museum but she could have been sharing a plot with her mamaw Gracie. When she got sober, she realised how stupid she had been and tried to right all the wrongs she’d made. She didn’t want her parents to have to bury a child; it wasn’t right and she knew that now. No parent should have to go through that, no parent should have gone through what she’d already put her parents though. Maddie knew she had been selfish in her actions. But she had been young and stupid. She’d thought she was invincible, that she was bulletproof and nothing would hurt her. When she woke up in hospital after having to have her stomach pumped, she knew how stupid that had been. But by then, her own epiphany was too late, her parents already had her registered in rehab and there was no getting out of it. Her cellphone was taken away as were all her privileges. She was essentially a prisoner but she was okay with that. Oh, not at first. At first she had screamed and yelled and told her parents every day how much she hated them and then the drugs were finally, absolutely free from her body and she was thinking for the first time clearly in a couple years.
But as much as she apologised to her parents and her sister for what she put them through, she knew words meant little. It would be actions that showed them she was telling them the truth. Maddie smiled, bringing herself back into the present and shrugged lightly. “It keeps me busy and out of trouble.” She said easily with a soft laugh. “I know the Hut. I grab coffee there when I’m on campus. That cute guy with the,” She said, gesturing to her own chin because she completely spaced on the word she was looking for. “Oh, whatever that word is. I can’t remember.” Madison admitted with a laugh. She wasn’t interested in the guy but a little bit of eye candy never hurt anyone. “We’re practically neighbours. I’m from Nashville.” Her parents had kept her downward spiral out of the Nashville media, which meant even a simple Google search wouldn’t bring anything up. But she would probably never return to her hometown ever again. She knew if she walked down the street and ran into someone from her past, she would have a lot of explaining to do and even more backtracking to do because these days, she was terrified of falling back into old habits.
Madison liked starting up conversations with the patrons of the museum. They always had so much to share about the exhibits and Maddie, being an employee, knew quite a bit about each of the exhibits so she offered up little tidbits. “It’s perfectly okay.” She said but still nodded her head. “It was nice to meet you as well, Lucy. Enjoy New York.” She said, turning her attention back to the dinosaur they’d been sitting in front of. She only really had a few minutes more before she had to start making her way back to the gift shop and her partner in there. “Maybe so!” She said, turning her attention back to Lucy with a genuine smile. She didn’t watch the other girl go again; instead she looked up at the bleached bones hanging before her and wondered what it would have been like all those years ago, when they were the dominant species.
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