It was your average day in your everyday Newport McMansion. For the ten adults who resided in this particular home, nothing special was going on, they were all just sitting around the dining room table. It had been ten year since the majority of them had graduated from high school and about four since college, two since they all reunited and decided to all share a home that could surely hold ten more. At first many Newpsies wondered why they all wanted to live together, they just though this way it would be easier to find each other and there was enough space for them to be alone when needed, so why not all live together. So here they were, two years later, still all living under one roof.
"Hey can you pass me another slice I'm starving?" Summer asked Luke who was sitting beside the only pizza box that had any pizza left.
"Sure no problem"
"Sum you've already eaten like a whole pizza on your own don't you like to share"
"Shut up Cohen. I'm hungry I don't care what you think. If other people really want pizza they could ask for one as well."
"Well maybe they don't want to scare you."
"Well maybe I feel—" She was abruptly cut off by Lindsay.
"Maybe nobody else is hungry and you two can stop bickering. Sometimes I wonder how you guys have been dating for so long." Lindsay may have loosened up significantly, but she could often revert to the uptight prudish ways.
Ryan could sense a tirade from Summer so he quickly tried to joke "It's okay you're like an old married couple who's not married and as annoying as it can get it is often the best entertainment I can find."
"Awww...you find us entertaining." Summer practically cooed.
"Ryan I doubt you'd find this funny if you were on the receiving end of the majority of her rage blackouts."
And the friendly banter continued throughout the rest of the night. Eight of the ten residents were dating someone. The other two were often the subject horrible blind dates set up by their housemates. Summer and Seth had been dating for over four years and were perfectly content with just dating, it was a lot better from their high school days of on-again-off-again. They had kept in touch with Lindsay and when they decided to buy live in this giant house, they invited her along. She brought her boy-friend Chad as well and although Ryan-Lindsay moments were awkward at first, they realized they always had a great friendship and romance just wasn't in the cards for them. They now had five of them in the McMansion, as Seth liked to call it, quoting his aunt Hailey. Soon Ryan started dating a new person. He met her while on conference for the Newport Group. Ryan was always into architecture so after his studies Kirsten offered him a job and he'd been working there ever since. Her name was Kiera and she worked in a position similar to Ryan's. Once Sandy and Kirsten learned of their relationship Kirsten offered her a job and she soon moved in with Ryan. Even with the six of them in the house there was still a lot of space. Seth had opted out of joining the family business in favor of pursuing his comic book (or graphic novel as he now takes to calling it) dreams along with Zach and the due became quite successful with their Atomic County series. Seth and Zach had no hard feelings over their high school drama and put it behind them, each moving on in their own way. So when Zach decided to move out of his parent's residence and find a place of his own, he jumped at Seth's offer to move in with them. They were all great friends and figured they could handle living together. Coincidentally, that same weekend Anna returned to Newport for her parents wedding anniversary and ended up running into Ryan and Summer. After many visits to her old pals, she realized nothing was really holding her to Pittsburgh, and made the move back to Newport. And there was still room for another in the home. She started working with Seth and Zach, and help with the developing of ideas as she had a bit of first hand Newport experience unlike some members of their team. It was also due to the fact that Reed thought Seth and Zach needed more of a female influence in their work and it would have to be from someone they would take seriously and shared their love of comics. With eight in the house the gang thought they had no more room, until Luke gave them a call and told them that his father had passed away in a car accident and that he and his girlfriend were coming back to Newport so he could be closer to his mother. They learned that his girlfriend was from California as well and she decided to come back to her roots as well, realizing that she should have more of a relationship with her parents before she lost one too. So when Luke asked if they could crash there for a few days before they found a place and settled (not wanting to impede on his mother, friends were another matter), Ryan told him with ease that they had room for them to stay permanently, so when Luke and his girlfriend showed up on their doorstep too weeks later, they were surprised to see Alex Kelly standing beside him. She hadn't gone home to her parents, and instead opted to make her way around the country getting odd jobs along the way, which led to her meeting and falling in love with Luke. Since then the ten of them lived a pretty happy and harmonious existence except for certain time that couldn't be helped.