Ryan Atwood entered
the Cohen home, he had, had an interesting conversation with the
neighbor girl the night before. She was pretty, but he wasn't staying
and she wasn't interested anyway. As Ryan contemplated this he walked
into what he guessed was their living room. A kid about his age was
playing video games, "Oh hi. You wanna play?"
Ryan shrugged, "Sure."
A while later the boys are comfortably eating breakfast while playing."Oh,
looks like someone's trying to be a hero but you got a little cocky. X
O, X O it's an unbeatable combination. Oh, oh, ... OH! What happened to
your head, dude? Where did it go? I'm sorry did someone die? Oh, hey,
do you want to play Grand Theft Auto? It's pretty cool, you can like,
steal cars ... ," Seth pauses as he realizes what he's said, "Not that
that's cool. Or uncool, I don't know, um..."
"Jeez Seth." A girl with long curly black hair walked into the room, "Breathe."
Seth sighed, "Casey this is Ryan, Ryan this is my twin sister Casey."
Ryan nodded in direction, "What's up?"
"Nothing." she said flopping on the couch behind them, "Why are you guys playing this game? It's soo lame."
"Shut up Casey."
"Make me."
Seth rolled his eyes.
"Oh I see you've all met." Sandy said entering with the groceries.
"Did
you lose a bet with mom?" Casey asked, off Sandy's blank look she
added, "You never go shopping, you hate when the Newpsies corner you in
the aisle and ask questions about work, and us, and mom."
"No, I
didn't lose a bet with your mother." Sandy said, "anyway, what are you
doing inside on this beautiful day? Why don't you show Ryan around?"
"Yeah dad cause there's so much to do around here." Seth said while Casey laughed.
"What do you want to do?" Casey directed at Ryan.
"I don't know what do you guys do?" he asked.
Casey and Seth exchanged glances.
Casey,
Seth, and Ryan are on a catamaran on the water. It has a rainbow
colored sail and the name "Summer Breeze" is on the side. Seth pulls
ropes to adjust the sails with familiarity. Ryan looks somewhat
confused. Sometime later they have the boat stopped, floating in the
water, and are sitting, talking."I have, um, this plan. Well, I don't-I
don't know you'd think but um, next July the trade winds shift west, I
want to sail to Tahiti. I can do it in forty-four days, maybe even
forty-two." Seth said.
"Wow man that sounds cool."
"It better be cool he's been planning his escape from here since he was 5." Casey piped up from where she was sunbathing.
"Yeah.
Just hit the high seas and catch fish right off the side of the boat.
Grill them right there. Just total quiet. Solitude." he said ignoring
his sister.
"You won't get lonely?" Ryan questioned.
"Well, I'll have Summer with me."
"You're going to take this to Tahiti?"
"No, Summer is the girl the boats named after." Seth explained.
"Oh she must be pretty stoked."
"Ha!" Casey said, "He's never even said two words to her, he's been in love with her since what was it? 2nd grade."
Seth nods silently, Casey sympathetically pats his head.
"Yeah you have fun with that." Casey said helping Seth tie the boat up."Come on. It's a whole new school year." Sandy said.
"It's also the same kids, Dad. Why do they even need a fashion show? Everyday's a fashion show for these people." Seth said.
"Yeah well Ryan has to go Marissa invited him."
Casey and Seth stare at him, "I've lived next door to Marissa Cooper my whole life her dad almost married our mom and we've never even been invited to a birthday party." Seth said.
"That is not true. They did not almost get married." Sandy said.
Casey makes a dismissive, "Eh."
"Hey, maybe Summer'll be there." Ryan said.
"That's interesting. She IS Marissa's best friend." he pauses then looks up at his dad, "Seven?"
Sandy nodded.
"Yeah well I'm not going."
"Jake will probably be there." Seth said.
"Jake? You mean Jake Cooper that loser?"
"Whose Jake Cooper?" Ryan asked, after Sandy scolded Casey for calling him a loser.
"Marissa's cousin. He lives with them and is like always hanging out with Marissa and Summer. He's a total ass-hat." Casey said.
"That may be but you totally like him." Seth said.
"Eww! Seth! That's gross!" Casey said swatting him.
"Look we're all going and that's final."
As Marissa Cooper watched
the three Cohens and their cousin(?) walk up the driveway, her cousin
snuck up on her causing her to jump."Jake." she breathed.
"You ready yet? Summer and Luke will be here any minute." he said.
"Yeah."
"Why are you Cohen watching?"
"I'm not."
"Right." he said not convinced.
"Please
you are the one who watches when little miss I'm too good to have a
normal conversation with other people a.k.a Casey Cohen goes for a dip
in her pool." Marissa accused.
"Sht up." Jake said quickly leaving.
Marissa smiled then looked out the window again.
Casey walked into the pool house in time to see Ryan pull his suit jacket on.
"Tie?" she asked.
"I'm not gonna wear one. You know open collar is a good look for me." he said.
She smirked and picked up his tie, "Dad couldn't tie a tie till he was 35."
As
they entered a waiter offered Ryan some sort of food he had no idea
what animal it came from, let alone what part so he declined, "Welcome
to the dark side." Seth grinned.
Casey leads them away to a corner where no Newpsies have invaded and they can just watch without being seen.
"Look theres Summer right over there." Seth points excitedly. "No don't look. Look but don't look like your looking."
"Stop pointing then maybe we won't draw attention to ourselves." Casey muttered sarcastically.
She also notes that Jake is with Marissa and Summer.
"Whose that?" Summer asked.
"I don't know, the cousin, the pool boy…" Marissa trailed off.
"Well, I'm going to find out." she said getting up.
Sandy walked up to them and pointed rather obviously, "Is that Summer?"
Seth got embarrassed and nervous so he mumbled, "You know, I'm, going to go, uh, sit."
"Way to salt his game Mr. Cohen." Ryan said following Seth. Casey giggled and followed the boys.
Marissa
walked up to the microphone, "Thank you, thank you. Thank you all so
much for coming. Every year we put on a fashion show to raise money for
the battered woman's shelter. It's such a good cause, you guys and we
couldn't do any of it without your support and the support of Fashion
Island and all their great stores. All right, enjoy the show!" The
first model out is Summer.
"She has Tahiti written all over her, bro." Casey said patting his shoulder.
Marissa
walked down the runway. Luke clapped for her but she looked only at
Ryan who looked back at her. Luke noticed that and turns to someone
sitting beside and said something to them looking angry.
"Dude she totally undressed you with her eyes!" Casey said laughing.
As
Ryan exited the bathroom Summer grabbed his arm, and said giggly "Hey.
Where you going? My friend Holly, no, well her parents, are letting us
use their beach house, as a gift. You know, cause of all our hard work
we did for charity. If you need a ride... or... anything, I'm Summer."
Summer ran over to a jeep that's packed with girls, and hopped in.
"Hey you ready?" Casey asked as she and Seth walked up.
"We should, uh, go to that party, at that girl Holly's place." Ryan said.
"Uh, yeah, no, it's all right." Casey said.
"Summer invited me."
"Really? She did? " Seth asked excitedly then his expression fell.
"Us, uh, she asked for you actually." Ryan covered.
"Really? She did?"Casey asked not convinced.
They looked over and the girls, standing out the top of the packed, topless jeep whoop.
"Come on!" Summer called.
"That
makes absolutely no sense but yes, we should go," Casey looked like she
was gonna protest but Seth added, "If it's lame we can bail."
As the three climb into the jeep Casey groaned noticing the only free seat was next to Jake Cooper.
Please
review. Should I continue or what? I know it follows close to the pilot
but I needed to structure it before I branch out to my own little
storylines.
-Em