Authors Note: This is my first fan-fic so please tell me what you think about it. I'm trying to adapt it to the timeline as much as possible but seeing as it's confusing, you know. So enjoy!
DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of The OC, I only own Tanya.
Special Needs
Kirsten Nichol lay down on her bed smoking a cigarette. Beatle's Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was playing softly in the background. Kirsten stared up at her large ceiling and towards the centre of the room where a luxurious light hung. She breathed in deeply and inhaled the tobacco. She exhaled and watched the smoke hang over before the wind coming from her open window blew it away. She thought of her next event coming up. It was her father's charity event held at her very large McMansion and many important people were attending, including business men, Riveria Magazine and Newport's richest and beautiful.
It's just one of my dad's events to buy half of Newport Kirsten thought bitterly.
All her life she'd be branded as 'perfect'. She was a straight-A student, beautiful, rich, daughter of Caleb Nichol and popular. Even her family was classed as perfect. Her father Caleb Nichol was the richest man in Newport, had a beautiful wife, Katherine and two beautiful daughters, Kirsten and Hailey. They were the most influential family in the whole of Newport. They were the perfect happy family. But Kirsten knew they weren't. She knew her parents were having troubles in their relationship though her parents don't know she knows and Kirsten has never felt she fitted in with the Newpsies though she was the most popular girl. Her father had set out her whole life for her. She'd graduate from Harbor High, graduate from Harvard or Yale with a business degree, marry a guy he'd approved of and then work in Newport Group. He'd been talking about a James Cooper, son of his old friend, Dave Cooper, whom she'd be meeting tonight. They apparently had moved from Phoenix and she supposedly was supposed to know him from when she was 5 years old and attended pre-primary. She had heard rumors of him from gossip queen, Taryn. He was supposedly 'hot' probably meaning he was water-polo player built. Kirsten vowed not to get involved with a boy. She needed to get into university. She thought of Harvard and Yale, but too many Newpsies would be attending there. She needed to get away. She decided she'd go somewhere far like Berkeley.
She just needed something or someone special in her life…
A knock on the door interrupted her thoughts.
"Kiki?" her father's voice rang out.
Kirsten groaned quickly putting out her cigarette in her ash tray and stuffing the ash tray in her drawer.
"Can I come in?" her father asked
"Yeah umm hold on. I'm getting changed!" Kirsten called out.
She got out her mouth spray and sprayed it and then got her Tommy Girl perfume and sprayed it around the room. She then opened her door to face her father standing there in a tuxedo.
"Just here to tell you to get ready. People will be arriving soon" Caleb said "Riveria Magazine will want a family photo… And don't wear anything by Calvin Klein, probably wear Dolce & Gabbana tonight"
"Uh-huh" Kirsten said as she held the door behind her as Caleb tried to peer in. He sniffed.
"What's that smell?" he said walking into her room.
She stepped back and realized she hadn't sprayed enough perfume to hide the smoke.
"Kiki" Caleb said "Have you been smoking?"
"No" scoffed Kirsten
Caleb turned around as he searched her room. He then paused as he saw some ashes and on her bedside table. Kirsten paused realizing it.
"Hand me over the smokes" Caleb turned around angrily
"No" Kirsten said
"Fine, you're grounded"
"Great does that mean I don't have to go tonight?" Kirsten said sarcastically
"You're going tonight whether you like it or not" Caleb said
Kirsten rolled her eyes at him
"Hand me over the smokes" Caleb said
"Nope"
"Fine, I'm searching your room" said Caleb
"No!" Kirsten said standing forward. She couldn't let her father find her numerous bottles of alcohol. She walked to her bedside drawer and took out the smokes and threw it in his hands. "You might want to hurry or you won't get the wetlands you always wanted" Kirsten added storming off into the bathroom and closing the door.
In the bathroom, Kirsten heard her father close the bedroom door as he left. She opened the cupboard and rummaged at the back where a bottle of vodka was hidden by shampoo bottles. She opened it and sculled 1/3 of the bottle. She got in the shower to refresh herself. She walked out in her towel wrapped around her body and her hair wet. She went to her large walk in wardrobe and decided on a black Calvin Klein singlet v-neck knee-length dress to piss of her father. She then put on dark eyeliner and eye-shadow to match her mood. She put on her black heels, tied her hair up in a messy bun and sprayed on Calvin Klein perfume. She applied lip gloss and left downstairs.
She met her mother and younger sister Hailey downstairs, her mother wearing a red dress and Hailey, blue.
"Oh honey you look beautiful" said Katherine tucking a strand of hair behind Kirsten's ear
Kirsten forced a smile though it vanished as her father entered the room.
"Hello honey. You look beautiful" Caleb said admiring his daughter. He may be hard on her, but he loved her in the end. She was his favorite.
Kirsten made a face "I forgot my purse" she said heading upstairs.
She grabbed a black clutch bag and put the vodka in the bag as well as her mobile.
She took the bottle out of her bag and took a sip of it. She smiled. What would I do without you? And she walked downstairs.
Half an hour had passed since the charity event started. Kirsten sat at one of the round tables clad in white as she drank her mountain dew which she had added vodka in. She looked around for her friends. She made them promise they'd come to the event. Where the fuck is you guys?
"So that was Caleb Nichol huh?" said James Cooper as he passed through the Nichol's large house and through to the backyard. Shit, I thought my house was big.
"Yep, wait till you see his daughter. She's hot" said Gavin Fisher, a long time friend of Jimmy. They had known each other since they were five and had kept in touch ever since then, even when Jimmy had moved to Phoenix.
Jimmy snickered as he and Gavin walked towards a table and sat. Jimmy looked around. He didn't remember much of these charity events except that they were formal. He had forgotten how the Newpsies were, beautiful and rich. Something caught his eye. The hottest girl he had ever seen was sitting alone a few tables across looking around as if she was looking for someone. She looked past him and then turned and stared straight ahead of her at the people dancing.
"Hey man, who's that sitting over there" Jimmy indicated to Gavin.
"Oh there she is… that's Kirsten…" he added "Nichol"
"Meaning Caleb's hot daughter?" Jimmy said
"Yeah…" then noticing Jimmy's admiring look "Hey, she's out of your league. She doesn't do the whole dating thing. Gets asked out by a whole bunch of guys and every single of them got rejected"
"Does those bunch of guys happen to include you?" said Jimmy
"Yeah man shut up" Gavin said
"Yeah well I'll get her" said Jimmy. And it wasn't her good looks and classic features that made him want her. She had some sort of aura around her, independence and intelligence to her that set her apart from every other person in Newport.
"James" Caleb said snapping Jimmy out of his daydream "Come, you must meet my daughter"
Jimmy's parents and brother, Dave, Lilian and Ben stood behind Caleb. They had obviously taken the tour around the house.
Jimmy nodded as he followed them towards the table. His heart was beating as he came closer.
"Kirsten" Caleb said
Kirsten looked up expectantly.
"I'd like you to meet an old friend of mine. Dave, Lilian" Caleb gestured as Kirsten stood up and shook hands with them and forced a smile on her face.
"Wow. Have you grown! I remember when you were five and playing with your dolls." Dave chuckled "Should've had more kids Cal, she's a beauty"
Kirsten scoffed at this. She was used to this attention and was tired of it.
"And now their sons, Ben and James" Caleb gestured to the two boys standing behind him. Ben looked around ten and James looked around Kirsten's age.
Kirsten shook Ben's hands out of courtesy and then shook James hands. She gazed into his eyes and had to admit he was kinda cute. He had light brown hair, great deep brown eyes that and his hair was gelled but strands still fell into his eyes. James gazed into her blue eyes as she smiled at him. His hands seemed unable to let go.
"You guys went to kinder-garden together, though I doubt you guys remember" said Dave. "And you're both 15!"
Kirsten let go of his hand.
"Well we'll leave you to talk" Caleb said leaving Jimmy and Kirsten standing.
"Sit" Kirsten gestured as she sat down.
Jimmy sat down awkwardly and wondering what to say.
As he was sitting down, Kirsten couldn't help but notice through his tux that he had a nice built body. No I'm not getting attracted to him… I vowed not to have a boyfriend while in school. They sat in silence trying to think of something to say.
"So you came from Phoenix?" Kirsten said attempting to make a conversation.
"Yeah" said Jimmy "You've been here all your life?" What a stupid question…he thought to himself
Kirsten nodded. An uneasy silence fell between them.
"So what school do you go to?" Jimmy said. School… what a lame conversation starter…
"Harbor High" Kirsten answered "What school do you go to? Or what school are you going to go to?"
"Harbor too" answered Jimmy. She forced a smile. He smiled back. He has such a sweet cheeky smile… Kirsten thought to herself
Kirsten took a drink from her lemonade/vodka.
"There you are!" a voice said behind Kirsten
Kirsten turned around to see her best friend Tanya. "Oh thank god you're here"
"Hey" said Tanya smiling at Jimmy
"Hi" Jimmy replied
"Oh that's James" Kirsten said "Umm this is Tanya… she goes to Harbor too"
"I sure do… so you're the James Cooper" said Tanya smiling
"Ummm yeah just call me Jimmy" said Jimmy
"Jimmy… cute" Tanya said.
Silence fell on them once again and Kirsten took a drink.
"What're you drinking?" said Tanya grabbing the drink from Kirsten
"Tanya, wait" Kirsten said but it was too late, Tanya had taken a drink. She made a face.
"God Kiki you spiked your lemonade!" Tanya exclaimed
"Shh!" Kirsten hushed "And don't call me Kiki"
"Where'd you get the alcohol from?" Tanya said softly
Kirsten held up her clutch bag and Tanya took it from her and peered inside.
"My, my Kiki… you're a sly one" Tanya grinned
Kirsten drank the rest of her drink and made a face at Tanya.
"Fine… Kirsten" said Tanya giving back the bag to Kirsten.
Kirsten looked at Jimmy and saw an amused look on his face.
"Sorry about that… I don't normally drink" Kirsten said
Tanya snickered "She does" she mouthed the words to Jimmy.
"It's okay… really" Jimmy said "I drink too, just not since I've arrived here"
"Really" Tanya said
"Yeah" Jimmy said, sort of glad that Tanya was there to fill their awkward silences
"Well what teenager doesn't drink" Tanya said loudly
"Certainly not one I know of" Gavin said joining them
"Do you smoke?" Tanya asked Jimmy
"Sometimes, not as much as I drink" said Jimmy
"You go dude" Said Gavin giving a hi-5 to Jimmy
"Same! Only because pot's harder to get hold of" Tanya exclaimed
"Shh!" Kirsten nudged her friend. "Come on"
Tanya and Gavin got up.
"Hey man you coming?" Gavin said to Jimmy
"Uhh yeah I guess" Jimmy said wondering where they were going.
They walked inside her large house and walked upstairs. Kirsten opened a door and flicked on the light.
"Holy shit" said Jimmy as he entered "Nice room"
Kirsten smiled "Nothing special"
It was the biggest room Jimmy had ever seen. He thought his room was big but this was bigger and the ceiling was higher.
Kirsten disappeared into her walk in closet and came out with four bottles of vodka.
"It's all I have at the moment guys" said Kirsten handing them out
Jimmy stared in amazement as he drank from his bottle.
"What?" Kirsten said, noticing him staring.
"Nothing…" said Jimmy and then she gave him a look "Well it's just… you know… I thought you were goodie-two-shoes, straight 'A' student and I heard you were ho-"he paused in his sentence. Shit, can't believe I was going to say she was hot to her face.
"Oh well you were right about her being a straight A student and being hot but she isn't no goodie-two-shoes. I know she looks it but she's probably the most rebellious child in Newport" said Tanya
Kirsten gave her a look.
"What it's true!" said Tanya "So you gonna play water polo?" she asked changing the subject
"Yeah probably… I mean I want to try out for football as well so if I get in the team then yeah" said Jimmy
"Nice" said Tanya
A knock on the door came.
"Kirsten? Are you in there?" Katherine's voice called.
Kirsten flashed them a glance and they all hid their bottles behind her TV.
"Yeah mum" Kirsten called out as everyone sat on her bed innocently.
Katherine came in and smiled at them. "Riveria magazine wants a family photo-shoot"
"Fucken hell" Kirsten said under her breath
"Kirsten" her mother warned.
"Well you don't need me" said Kirsten
"Please Kirsten… Can't you just do this for me? I know you and your father don't get along well but please, for me?" Katherine said
There was nothing Kirsten wouldn't do for her mother. She only rebelled against her father and not her mother.
"Fine" Kirsten got up "Hey guys just hang out"
As the charity event ended and all the Newpsies had gone home, Kirsten, Jimmy, Tanya and Gavin were in her room drinking and smoking.
Tanya giggled "So what time is it?"
"Its 11:30" said Gavin
"Shit… that's my curfew" said Tanya giggling
"Is she drunk?" Jimmy asked
"Nah, she's just tipsy" said Kirsten "Trust me, I've seen her drunk" Kirsten added
"I gotta go home" Said Tanya getting up "I have no lift! I walked here"
"I have no car, yet." Said Jimmy
"I'll take her home. I gotta go anyways, parents will be back from anniversary dinner soon" Gavin said getting up "See ya man"
"Bye" Kirsten and Jimmy said
"Thanks for having me!" exclaimed Tanya
As their footsteps faded, silence fell upon them once again.
"So do you need a lift home?" Kirsten asked
"Yeah… Gavin forgot about me and I told my parents I have a midnight curfew"
"Right, ok, well I'll give you a lift just after I clear these bottles out"
"Are you sure you can drive?"
"I only had one bottle" When Jimmy still looked worried she added "I'm walking in a straight line right?"
Jimmy smiled and Kirsten smiled back. There was something about that smile that would make her day… and Jimmy was thinking the same thing.
Kirsten walked outside two bottles in her hand and two in Jimmy's hands. She looked downstairs from the staircase.
"Ok go!" Kirsten whispered as she ran out the door and threw the bottles into the bin.
They laughed.
"So you do that often?" Jimmy asked
"Yeah" said Kirsten
She got into her car, a BMW small 4WD.
"Nice car" commented Jimmy as he got in
"Thanks" she backed her car down the driveway and sped off. She turned on the radio and U2 came on
"I love this song" said Kirsten
"You like U2?"
"Yeah, do you?"
"They're alright" said Jimmy
Kirsten nodded and silence came between them once again.
"You're actually quite a good driver" said Jimmy
"What makes you say that?" said Kirsten looking at him as they stopped at an intersection
"Well most girls aren't that great drivers and your probably better than some of the guys"
Kirsten sniggered. "Thanks"
"House is here" said Jimmy
Kirsten turned into the driveway.
"Umm… thanks for the ride" said Jimmy
"That's ok"
Silence fell.
"Erm… I was wondering whether you could show me around Newport or something…" Jimmy said speaking to his shoes "I mean Gavin has showed me around but he's not that great tourist guide"
Kirsten smiled. Silence fell upon them once again.
"So umm what's your number?" asked Kirsten. They exchanged numbers.
"Bye" said Jimmy getting out of the car
"Bye" said Kirsten and she drove back home feeling happy.
Ok, so this chapter was a bit slow but I was trying to get the characters to know each other etc. So tell me what you thought of it R&R.
Next chapter, does Jimmy make the move? Or does Kirsten? What happens… hmm…