I'm not sure what to write about…so I'll just start and you'll see if you like it. It's a story about The OC in general, I'll try to bring in all the characters and many different topics to keep it interesting, but I think I'll basically concentrate on Summer (and Seth) and her problems.
This is my first FanFiction, so please bear with me, and by the way English is not my native language, so please don't be too strict with me (and my mistakes!).
Enjoy! )
Bad NewsSummer lay on her bed looking at Princess Sparkle, when she heard a slight knocking. She stood up and walked slowly to her door to open it and to look directly into Marissa's eyes. Her best friend appeared like she had slept on the streets and Summer could tell that Marissa had been drinking an awful lot.
"Sweetie, what happened!", Summer asked the skinny figure while helping her over to her bed.
Marissa wiped some tears from her face and opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something, but then shut it again and stared at the floor. She shook her head and started sobbing from one moment to the other. Summer was really horrified. What had happened to her best friend? Was it about Ryan? Or her mother? She didn't know what to do so she just put an arm around Marissa's shoulders.
"You know you can tell me anything, alright?", she said with a soft, reassuring voice, "You know that, don't you?"
Marissa lay her head upon Summer's shoulders and started to talk slowly and very quietly, "My dad…he… oh my God. I still can't believe it. It just can't be!" Tears ran over her cheeks when she started to speak again. "He's in the hospital. He… he had an accident yesterday. And I don't know how he is. I haven't heard from him or the hospital so far. And I…I'm just so worried. I mean… what if he…?" She stopped for a second and you could hear the words "I don't want him to die! He's the only person in my family that understands me. He really does", through her sobbing.
"Sshh." Summer stroke her best friend's back. She wanted to say that this wouldn't happen, that Jimmy wouldn't die, but she just couldn't. She was just too shocked herself to say anything that could possibly help Marissa.
The next morning when Summer woke up she turned around to see if Marissa was still there, but she wasn't. This was no surprise. The two girls had been talking and crying all night through and Marissa wanted to visit her father in the hospital as soon as possible.
Summer slowly got up from her bed and wandered into the kitchen to get herself some coffee. Basically she spent the whole morning sitting on the sofa, watching TV and thinking about Marissa. By lunchtime her cell phone rang – it was Cohen. He asked whether she wanted to go to some concert tonight because someone gave him two tickets and he didn't want to go alone. Summer was even too depressed to shout at him, so she just refused and hung up. She really wasn't in the mood to talk to Cohen right now.
One hour later he stood at the Roberts' house.
"Cohen, I don't wanna see you, I don't wanna talk to you and I most definitely don't wanna go to that concert. You hear me?", she gave him an angry glimpse and wanted to close the door when he suddenly came in.
"I know, … but you know, I believe you haven't really thought this through. I mean, how could you possibly turn me down?", he was just joking, and Summer knew that, but she really wanted to have him out of her house.
"Which part of 'I don't WANT to' is so hard to understand!", she said, shoving him through the doorway. Yet he stepped in once again.
"Fine." Summer closed the door. "You can stay here. But I won't talk to you, I'll ignore you all the time and you can't do ANYTHING to get me to go to the concert." She turned around, walked into the kitchen and took some ice cream out of the freezer.
Some time later, in the bathroom. After endless hours of "Cohen-ization", Summer ended up preparing for a quiet little concert in a local club. Well, "quiet".
The two of them arrived at the club at about 8.50, the concert was to start at 9.30 so they decided to hang out at the bar a little bit. Seth knew something must be wrong, as Summer wasn't really talkative tonight. She didn't even make fun of him or shout at him or do something that would have made him sure that it was Summer he was sitting next to.
"So..", Seth began, "How are you?"
Summer glanced at him angrily. Was he serious? That was just so typically him.
"Good.", Seth nodded and turned to the barkeeper, "She's not herself today. Normally she can't keep her hands off me.", he said pointing at Summer. The barkeeper just looked at Seth like he was an idiot, nodded and leaned to the fridge.
"Okay, something must have happened. I didn't hear a single 'Shut up' today. You didn't react to any kinda stupid stuff I said today and usually you would have freaked out at a comment like this.", he said, looking at Summer again.
"Just…just shut up, Cohen."
"Ahh, you you again?"
"SHUT it."
"Definitely."
Summer stood up and started walking through the crowd towards the exit, Seth following her.
"Hey Sum, what's wrong with you?"
"Nothing. Just leave me alone. PLEASE."
Seth made some quick steps to stand in front of her. She sighed.
"You can't tell me you don't know it."
"I don't know what? Could you please tell me so we don't have to…I don't know what we're doing right know…anymore."
"Look, I just wanna go home. It was a bad idea to come here with you."
"I won't let you go till you've told me what's goin on. I'm worrying about you." He looked her in the eyes and Summer knew he was serious. She gave him a small smile.
"That's so sweet of you. But it's not about me. It's about Coop and… her father. Mainly about her father."
"You wanna go outside?"
Summer shrugged.
They worked themselves through the dancing, drinking and laughing crowd and left the club through a small door. It was beginning to get dark and a bit cold, but that was very comfortable after being in the smoky, crowded club.
They walked towards the port and settled by the water.
"So..?"
"I still can't believe you don't know it. I mean… your family and Marissa's are rather close, so I assumed you'd know.", she splashed around with her toes in the water, "but obviously you don't. And I don't know how to tell. Maybe you should just ask somebody else. Or wait till someone tells you."
Seth nodded. "…right.."
Though it was hard Summer smiled. "But thanks for being there. Seems you're beginning to become a man after all.", she grinned.
So, that was the first chapter. Hope you enjoyed.
Review, please! )