Summer's scare of being pregnant. How her friends help her out. Seth and Summer can't handel this. How can she tell her father? (Can't summarize this, just read please. PG-13 just to be safe, but nothing bad. Yet. I think.)
Tell me if you think I should keep going. Be honest.
This takes place after episode 26, minus the last scene. Ryan and marissa are doing good. s/s just came back from their cute Vegas scene. No theresa here! ok, ill shut up and you guys can start reading.
"Come on in, I told you guys, the water is perfect!" Seth said, waiting to jump into the pool.
It had been a few days after Seth and Ryan and the rest of the boys got back from Las Vegas. (The whole Theresa thing never happened) Seth, Ryan, Marissa and Summer were at the Cohen's for their first day of summer vacation.
"Seth, I can't. It's a girl thing. You wouldn't understand." Marissa said, without looking up from her magazine.
"Having a mom like mine, I understand. We still have the books from the whole puberty stage. I think my mom thought I was a girl or something" Seth said, as Ryan walked off into the kitchen. He didn't say anything, but they all knew that this wasn't a comfortable conversation for Ryan to be in. In Chino, Ryan's mom never taught him about "girl stuff" and he didn't have many girls who were open about that stuff.
"Okay, Summer, I know you must be dying in that get-up you got going there. Let's see some bikini action. In fact, you haven't been wearing your normal wardrobe lately." Seth questioned.
"Suck it Cohen." She said a little too angry then she meant.
"Whoa...calm down stallion..."
"Hey! Leave Summer alone. She is on her period too. We always get it at the same time. Ever since 7th grade, it is sort of weird. " Marissa warned.
Seth looked confused... his face showed he really didn't need to know that. Moments later, he responded.
"No she's not, she is on the pill." Seth stated as if it were nothing.
"What!?!?" Marissa and Summer said, putting down their magazines, at the same time as Seth dove in the pool.
"Summer, you're on the pill? Since when?" Marissa demanded.
"No, I'm not. Seth, where the hell did you get that from?" Summer shouted.
Seth was now worried. He tried to calm Summer down before another rage-blackout.
"You said so. A few weeks ago, when...whispered...when the Nana left. At my house. You said 'don't worry about it'. I thought that meant...wait...you aren't?"
Summer almost started to cry at this. Before she could find the strength to yell and explain to Seth that when she said, "don't worry about it" she meant, don't worry about the sex they were about to have in Seth's room with his parents downstairs, Ryan came in.
"...So I thought sushi would be okay, I mean, I'm not a fan, but ..." Ryan sat the plate in front of Summer. Immediately, her stomach jumped as she ran for the bathroom.
"Oh God..." Marissa said, running after Summer to help her out, Seth following behind, not caring that he was dripping water all over the floors. Ryan just stood there confused.
"So, guess that's a no for the sushi." He said to himself picking up the plate.
Seth came into the bathroom with a cup of water. Marissa was holding her friend's hair. Summer looked like she was in so much pain. Seth knew the tears weren't from the vomiting. He could see how scared she was. The look on his face wasn't any calmer, but he tried to stay sane to comfort her. He was now rubbing her back as she finished up.
Summer pulled her head out of the toilet bowl and grabbed the glass of water from Seth. Then she just leaned against the wall of the silent bathroom and stared into Seth's eyes. He stared back. Marissa knew someone had to say something, so she broke the silence.
"How long has it been, sweetie?" Marissa asked, rubbing her shoulder.
Seconds later Summer responded with a simple. "6"
Marissa knew that meant 6 weeks.
"Maybe it is just stress. You know, with exams and stuff. How about Ryan and I go to the store and get a pregnancy test. Unless you already took one?"
Summer, who hadn't blinked and looked like she was staring into space, shook her head no. She finally shook her head out of her dazed state responded. "Yeah, stress. I mean, I have been really stressed because of you Cohen. You're a real ass, you know? Making me all worried with my dad. Then killing me when you were fu(king whores in Las Vegas, I don't know why I wouldn't be stressed! No one has made me as stressed as you, you, you stresser! !!!" she broke down. Finishing in a fit of rage, not even knowing what she was saying. Seth pulled her into a comforting hug as she sobbed on his shoulder. He knew she meant none of it.
Trying to take control of the situation, Seth instructed Marissa "Go get Ryan. You guys go to the store. There should be some money on the coffee table."
Marissa quickly rushed out to get Ryan.
While Marissa and Ryan were gone, Seth leaned against the bathroom wall with a balling Summer collapsed on his shoulder.
"You can miss your period for any reason, can't you? And I mean, that sushi must have been at least 3 days old." Seth said, tying to convince himself none of this happened.
Summer picked herself up from Seth and looked him right in the eye.
"I never miss my period, Seth. I have been throwing everything up." She took a moment to think. "Now I know why." She said on the verge of tears. Another moment passed. "So, you didn't use anything? Because "don't worry about it" meant not to worry about having sex at your house." She leans back down. "Guess we had something to worry about"
Seth knew this was serious and they messed up big time. She called him Seth. "I thought you meant... what you said...I just took it the wrong way...because maybe you had talked to you dad, like we were saying, and he would let 't you tell nothing was there?"
"It was dark, and quick. As usual." She muttered the last part. Seth wouldn't go near it. "Oh God." Then she realized it. "My Dad..."
Before she went into another rambling fit, Seth stopped her. "We don't even know yet." But Summer didn't seem convinced. She knew something wasn't right.
Just then, Marissa and Ryan came in, panting. Marissa had explained everything to Ryan in the car. He shot his hand out holding a purple box. Pregnancy test. After she took it, holding it as if it were poison, the other three silently left the room, Seth kissing her forehead on his way out.
After what seemed like forever, the door handle of the bathroom door turned. There stood the Summer none of them had knew- the scared Summer. No confidence, confused, shaking-in-the-knees Summer. She almost looked sick. They all ran up to hug her, but she didn't respond. All she could manage was a simple "three minutes." This would be the longest three minutes of Seth's life. But Summer didn't need the three minutes to know the results.
No one spoke for those 3 minutes. Ryan set his watch, and stared at it with Marissa while Summer stood in the doorway. Seth looked like he was about to faint, with a million things running through his head. His thoughts were interrupted with a beeping noise coming from Ryan's watch, making them all jump.
Just then, the front door swung open. From the hallway, Seth could see his parents laughing while coming through the door. They had come home for lunch. Kirstin put a halt to her her laughter when she saw scene the four teens were in. The beeping continued. The tears, fear, and pale white faces told her something was up.
"What happened?" She asked with fear and worry in her voice.
Immediately Ryan and Marissa got up and left the room as Sandy and Kirstin approached Seth and Summer.
"I'm pregnant." Summer forced out.
"No! No, she is..." Seth ran to the bathroom sink and looked at the blue positive sign on the white skinny stick. "She's pregnant. We're pregnant." He managed with no air left in his lungs. Seth suddenly though, then spat out, "We are pregnant?" He asked Summer. "It wasn't someone else, because if it..."
She cut him off. "Cohen!" She shouted, shocked he would even think something like that.
Somehow, it looked like Sandy was expecting for something like this to happen, like it was just his luck. Cohen's always are prepared for the worst, because the worst always seems to happen. Kirstin on the other hand looked like she had lost her baby, even though she was hugging him like a baby. Sandy put a reassuring hand on Summer's back, "How about we go sit down." He suggested.
Sandy and Kirstin sat on the opposite couch as Seth and Summer.
"How long have you known?"
"I just found out." Seth answered.
"Me too." Summer said, not completely true. She had a feeling.
"Well have you thought about your choices? Adoption? Abortion? High School? What about College? Where are you going to live? Have you talked to Summer's father?" Sandy asked, not completely finished his questioning.
"Dad! We just found out. I don't know. It's not my body. Ultimately, its up to Summer, and I will go along with whatever she decides." That comforts the three a little. "And, no, her father doesn't know yet."
"Well then, Summer, have you made up your mind?" Summer had never had this much responsibility handed to her in one sentence. Her decision will change the lives of so many more people than her own. But she knew, ultimately, it was up to her.
"I...I don't know yet. I am 16! I plan to go college, plan to finish High School, plan to get a job. I can't do that with a baby." She says as Seth rubs her knee, silently saying that he understands. "But I don't know if I can get an abortion." She was on the verge of tears.
"Summer, I will go invite your father over. This is something we all need to discuss together. Will he be at work?" Kirstin tried to get the situation under control.
Summer nods as Kirstin goes in to call Mr. Roberts. Seth grabs a hold of Summer as she begins to sob again.