Disclaimer- I don't own The OC, or the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, or Bass Ackwards and Belly Up.
Chapter One: What Keeps Us Together
It's not like we're crazy. Really. I mean of course when Kaitlyn suggested this we all thought she was crazy, but she did have a point. The four of us were splitting up for the summer; even the Cooper sisters were leaving Newport Beach for separate destinations.
So when Kaitlyn, MiniCoop as Summer has called her since the day she was born, even though we were only two, suggested that we try to keep each other together even though we're splitting up and going to different parts of the US.
We were doing our usual Saturday morning, hanging at the Coopers house, ritual, where Marissa had already started packing. She wasn't going as far as Summer but she was going farther than me. Marissa's mom had decided that now that she was over her anorexia (Completely fictional anorexia invented by Julie Cooper) that she should build some muscle and enrolled her in soccer camp. Which confused the hell out of all of us, cause Marissa age 16 and 5'6, is the clumsiest person we ever knew. And living in Newport Beach, you meet alot of tourists, not one of them has tripped over the dock and fallen into the water like Marissa does at least once a summer, except not this one of course.
Summer was a different story. Following the almost something that her stepmother caught her doing with Harper Klein, Anthony Jonson, and then a few days later with Jason Hughes, her step monster and her father decided that she was to spend the summer visiting family in New York. It's not that Summer's a slut. She is still a virgin, it's just... well she's kinda boy crazy. When she starts kissing one, she pretty much loses herself, which is very dangerous, especially considering that she'll be all alone in a state known for it's hot guys, without me, Marissa, and Kaitlyn to make sure she doesn't get in to far over her head.
Now Kaitlyn is another different story. Now while Julie Cooper was watching Marissa like a hawk (fake anorexia) Kaitlyn had decided to spend the summer with a parent who wanted her around. Jimmy Cooper had been banished from Newport since we were all 13 (well Kaitlyn was 11). He stole money from alot of his clients and Julie kicked him out. He got a job on a cruise boat thingy (I'm still fuzzy on the details) and he works as like a chef. Anyway Kailtyn scored a spot on his boat for the summer.
As for me, well my mother is making me visit my father and his new family cause she wasn't going to be in Newport this summer. Not much to it. My parents divorced when I was 9, my dad used to visit on my birthdays and Christmas, but then he remarried when I was 12, I have yet to meet my new family. Of course that will change. As far as I know they live in a huge house, she has three kids, and they're expecting another.
So as we were dreading our first summer away from one other ever, not counting those two years that Kaitlyn was non-existent, Kaitlyn had decide we needed to do something. It was when she came back with four different colored scrunchies that we got worried.
"What are you doing?" Marissa asked her younger sister as she folded her shirts.
"It's what we're gonna use." Kaitlyn stated matter of factly.
"Okay, my hair looks horrible in a scrunchie." Taylor said looking warily at the hair ties.
"You don't need to wear it in your hair." Kaitlyn said putting the red one around Taylor's wrist.
"Okay and why do we need these little one?" Summer teased as Kaitlyn put a blue one on her wrist.
"To keep us connected." Kaitlyn glared.
"And how exactly will these keep us connected?" Marissa asked now sporting a dark green one.
Kaitlyn put a black one on her wrist and sat on Marissa's bed, "Okay, guys we're gonna go three whole months without seeing each other. This is the only thing I could think of on short notice. I mean Ris you're leaving the day after tomorrow. Just hear me out."
The three girls exchanged glances and went to sit on the bed with Kaitlyn. The four teens sat in a circle.
"Okay, we'll always be together this way." Kaitlyn said.
"What way?" Taylor asked, confused. She was a little weirded out at Kaitlyn being sentimental. That was her job in this winsome foursome.
"The scrunchies. Okay heres the rules. You must always wear them someplace on your person. Each color has a meaning, like a thing you have to do. But more importantly you have to remember your friends always." she explained.
"Wow, that actually sounds like a cool idea." Summer said touching the hair band around her wrist.
"What kind of things?" Taylor asked uneasily.
"Well let's say the red one for example," Kaitlyn started, "um it means you have to do something you wouldn't ordinarily do."
"Like what?" Taylor asked again.
"Well since you have it, you'd have to do something like actually talk to a guy you don't know." Marissa teased one of her best friends.
"Or if it was Summer, she'd have to not talk to a random guy." Kaitlyn said with a grin, Summer stuck her tongue out.
"Okay well what about green?" Taylor asked holding up Marissa's wrist.
"What about doing something for the environment with green?" Summer asked.
"Okay and blue?" Kaitlyn asked.
"Blue equals water..." Marissa said in thought.
"Water equals swimming..." Taylor added.
"Swimming equals skinny dipping." Kaitlyn grinned.
"Seriously?" Marissa asked laughing while Summer shrugged.
"Why not?"
"And last but not least." Taylor said turning to Kaitlyn.
"Black." Kaitlyn said holding up her wrist.
"Kiss a boy." Marissa said.
"Good, now we should come up with a schedule." Kaitlyn grinned.
"Schedule?" Taylor repeated.
"Well, yeah. I say we each keep a scrunchie for a week, then send it on to the next person." Kaitlyn said writing down the rules and scrunchie meanings.
"So you mean we each have to do something you wouldn't normally do, do something for the environment, go... skinny dipping, and kiss a boy?" Taylor asked.
"When am I gonna have time to work on my tan?" Summer asked.
"What's more important your best friends in the entire world or your tan?" Marissa asked jokingly, Summer pretended to think about it.
"I'm serious!" Taylor said.
"Taylor we're going to be juniors this year, it's time for you to have some adventure." Marissa said.
"Kiss a guy, skinny dip, make our planet safer... This is our first summer apart since we were born, this scrunchie thing of Kaitlyn's is gonna keep us together even when we're apart." Summer said.
"All for one..." Kaitlyn started putting her hand in the middle of us, Summer put her hand on Kaitlyn's, Marissa followed, Taylor looked at there hands and placed her own on top.
"And one for all." they all said in unison.
Okay I know it's kinda short but it's just the first chapter, the prologue if you will. Please tell me what you think. Should I continue?
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-Em