"This bites." she mumbled leaning on the bed.
"Last night was the best night of my life." Seth said.
"my night didn't suck to bad either." Casey admitted, allowing herself to remember Jake for a minute.
"Yeah? What did you do?"
"Um...oh you know...hung out with Jake Cooper." she said passively.
"You what?" Seth asked sitting up facing her.
"What? It's not that big of a deal. We are neighbors and neither one of us really wanted to be at that party so, we talked for a few." she explained.
"Okay so I made out with Summer Robert's, you and Jake Cooper undress each other with your eyes, ow!" he said as she slapped his head, "Ryan flirts with Marissa Cooper, last night ruled!"
"Yeah and it will never be repeated again. We don't get invited to those things, remember genus boy?"
Seth hung his head dejectedly.
"Wanna play a game?" she asked. He shrugged, as they got up heading for the living room.
Neither one of them was particularly into the game. When lunch arrived Kirsten brought it into the living room, expecting to have to break up a fight. But to her shock they were both just sitting there pressing random buttons like it didn't even matter. Of course she was thankful for the silence but she Was still a bit worried about them.
"Guys why don't you go out?" she suggested.
"Where?" Casey asked.
"Well I'm sure you met some people at the party last night?"
"Yeah we did, cause of Ryan. He's gone and so is our fifteen minutes of fame." Seth said.
"Actually it was more like ten minutes of popularity." Casey corrected.
Kirsten gave up and left the room.
Around 3 in the afternoon the two had somehow ended up in the pool house again. "Remember in fifth grade when we had that one friend?" Seth asked., "Arnold Spelter."
"Hey I had friends in fifth it was 7th that I joined the drama club and lost Tina, Tracy, and Teri." Casey defended laughing.
"Yeah you and the terrible T's." Seth said.
"Besides you had friends in Second grade."
"Everyone has friends in second grade."
"Not me, remember mom made me tag along with you to all your play dates."
"That's because you had poor socialization skills."
Like you didn't." she accused.
"Of course I did. Still do. Difference is, I've got comedy on my side. All you have is your drama stuff. No one wants a drama head, your far too, dramatic."
Case threw a pillow at him.
Just then Sandy walked in, "Hey guys.
"Hey dad, Ryan ok?" Seth asked.
"Yeah I think so." Sandy said with a smile, "You guys really liked him didn't you?
They both nodded.
"Good, cause I like you guys too." Ryan said with a slight grin.
"Did Ryan Atwood just grin?" Casey asked as she got up to hug him.
"What happened?" Seth asked.
"Mom split." he said.
"Oh"
"Her loss, our gain." Casey said excitedly.
"That is until Monday when I bring him into child services." Sandy remarked sadly.
"Dad!" Casey exclaimed, "That sucks, let him stay with us"
"Case, we can't, he isn't a relative of ours and"
Ryan interrupted him, "Casey its cool, besides we get to hang till Monday right"
Casey looked at Seth who wore the same slightly sad expression she did, but they both turned and nodded at him anyway.
"Okay well you have your bike here, and Seth always goes everywhere on his skateboard,
and I have my roller blades, I say we go to the diner to get lunch." Casey said, as the three of them lounged around the pool , Ryan doing laps, Seth relaxing in the hot tub and Casey getting a tan.
Seth shrugged, "Sure we might as well."
Casey skated out of the driveway almost running strait into Jake and Marissa Cooper,
who were about to board Summer's car.
"Sorry... steep." she explained motioning towards her driveway.
"No problem." Marissa said, she glanced over Casey's shoulder and saw Ryan, "What are you doing here? I thought you left"
"Yeah well I'm back for a few days." he explained, circling around on his bike.
"Cool." she said.
"Coop, Jake, what are you doing?" Summer asked getting out of her car.
"Hi Summer." Seth said eagerly.
Summer looked at him as if remembering something, but then she shook it off and said,
"Who are you"
"Seth Cohen, we've met before." he said with an air of cockiness in his voice.
"Yes you were just both drunk of your asses, so excuse us." Casey said dragging the boys away.
"Case!" Seth exclaimed shrugging her hand off his shoulder.
"Seth, girls like confidence not cockiness"
"I wasn't being cocky"
"Yeah you were dude." Ryan said.
"Why are you on her side"
"Cause she's right." Ryan shrugged.
"Dude your not helping"
"Sorry dude"
"Okay dude alert." Casey joked grabbing onto Ryan's shoulders so his bike was towing her.
"Okay annoying sister alert." Seth said grabbing Casey's shoulders.
"Why am I towing both of you?" Ryan asked.
Seth let go, "Your not"
"Yeah your only towing me cause I'm lazy." Casey said.
The three kids laughed as they entered the diner.
"Oh please, he so wanted to kick your ass." Casey said shoving her brother lightly.
"Small world." a voice close by commented.
Casey looked down to see Marissa, Summer, Jake, Luke, and a couple other water polo players, stuffed into a booth.
"Hey Casey." Jake said.
"Hey everyone." she said politely.
"What are you doing here?" Luke asked in an almost demanding tone to Ryan.
"We're gonna eat." he answered unimpressed.
"Yeah so we're gonna got this way." Casey said pointing to the other side of the diner.
As they turned, the three heard Luke mumble, "Whatever, that girl is such a dyke"
No one saw it coming, it happened so fast. Seth launched himself onto the water polo player and punched him square in the jaw, realizing where he was and what he was doing he quickly jumped backwards. Ryan quickly steeped forward and blocked any punches headed in Seth's direction. Casey quickly opened the door and threw Ryan and Seth out of it, following closely behind.
"I can't believe you did that." Ryan said when they were safely hidden.
"Yeah." Casey agreed.
"Your my sister, I'm the only one that gets to pick on you." Seth said sheepishly tugging her hair.
"Still, that was awesome, it like all happened in slow motion. He was like, 'dddyyykkke'
and you were like 'raaarrrr!' jumping on him, and punching him. You could so tell Summer was impressed"
"And that Jake wanted the next go." Ryan commented softly.
"Don't you two start that again"
"Don't start what?" Seth asked innocently grinning at Ryan, before the two broke out in a verse of, "Jake likes Casey, Jake likes Casey"
"You both suck." she muttered.
"Hey I just defended your honor"
"And then I made sure you didn't get pulverized by the rest water polo team." Ryan added to Seth.
"Yes, thank you for that man... so Summer looked impressed"
Ryan and Casey groaned in unison.
Please review. There isn't any Ryan/Casey pairing going on. The three of them are gonna be best friends like Ryan and Seth are. The same goes for Summer/Jake/Marissa.
-Em
The edit page on is flipping out on me so sorry for the punctation mistakes guys, I'll try to fix them tomorrow.