Post by cora west on Jul 13, 2009 22:03:59 GMT -7
PETE TURNER !
pete was, up until about a week ago, a lifelong resident of los angeles. he was born and raised in los angeles, even attended ucla as a comparative literature major. as it turned out, it was the most useless degree in the history of man, but without it, he would’ve never met cora west. they met first when crashing awkwardly into each other as they tried to get un-late to class, then later seeing each other as a bar. he spent much of the early part of their relationship bewildered that he landed such an amazing girl; she laughed at all his stupid jokes, was into the x-files as hardcore as he was (nobody that beautiful was an x-phile! ever!), was a fierce dance dance revolution opponent, and actually agreed to have sex with him on a regular basis. all of those, especially the last one, was something he’d never had in a relationship before. he was in love - but it was that damning degree that helped them meet that would eventually break them apart. or, at least, he that’s part of what he blamed it on.
he graduated about a year and a half into his courtship with cora and found that he couldn’t obtain a job with his degree. or, rather, that he didn’t really want to. pete’s mother, too horrified at the idea of pete living in a standard living appropriate to his lack of employment, funded his lurking around his apartment only in his sweatpants and doing pretty much nothing. cora, seeing the relationship going nowhere now that pete had lost pretty much all ambition to live a fulfilling life, broke up with him. and, cora being the only thing in his life that made it worth anything, pete was absolutely devastated.
so, he attempted to clean up to win her back. he got a job working public relations for a huge top forty radio station in la, was making good money, and finally was actually doing something. then, once he finally got his act together, something had to completely ruin it.
pete won the superlotto. approximately fifty million smackerinos once the great state of california took taxes away. the first thing he did, of course, was ask for cora to call him on national television. then he quit his job. then he bought a swanky apartment downtown. then he bought a billboard asking cora to call him again. he did get a call, but from her mother, kelly.
“you do know she’s in montreal, right?”
okay, so a chunk of cash wasted to find that out, but he had more than enough money to buy a passport, fly first class, and stay in montreal’s most expensive hotel room. should he choose to, he might even be able to afford a really nice apartment there. which, given the ridiculous amount of time and effort he’s exerting to find cora, and then simultaneously make her life miserable and win her back, he might actually need to have a place to stay for a while.
you can find some additional background about pete at cora’s application and if you decide to take pete and have additional questions, don’t hesitate to pm the admin account (miss leading)!
also: thank you lauren for writing this!
