A/n: THANK YOU!!!!!N for all the reviews! I'm sad to say that The OC is going off the air, I think it's this month. Sad. I know. But I haven't watched any of this seasons eppis Taylor/Ryan. ew. ANd whats up w/ Summer and Seth? Anywho. Sorry I haven't updated in awhile I was stuck then REAL busy I;m lucky to have this time to update for u guys! I hope to get another chapter up this month cause I;ll be busy the whole of it. Too bad I'm making another story lol. I make things so difficult for myself. enjoy!

Chapter 10 Job
It had been a week since Summer had started staying with Ryan in the pool house and so far everything had been going good. Every time Summer talked about moving into a hotel Ryan told her it was fine she stayed there. He didn't mind, but Summer knew that eventually he would so she tip-toed around him and tried to help as much as possible. Summer had rode with Seth and Ryan every day to school and stayed with them without the Cohens finding out.

It was very remarkable.

Summer sat at the kitchen table that morning flipping through the newspaper.

"Hey, Summer, what's up?" Seth asked walking into the kitchen.

"Looking at the newspaper."

"Looking in the newspaper? Why?" Seth asked opening the fridge.

"Isn't it obvious! I'm looking for a job!" Summer said rolling her eyes missing Seth spit the milk he was chugging out.

"What? You a job?" Seth asked going to sit next to her.

"Yeah? What's the matter?" Summer asked looking at him curiously.

"It's just, Summer...have you ever worked?"

"Well I need money to raise this baby, so a job is the first thing I came up with."

"You know, no one wants to have sex with pregnant hookers." Seth said earning a slap from Summer.

"Hey!" he said rubbing his arm.

"Hey guys, what's up." Ryan asked coming into the kitchen from outside and quickly kissing Summers head. Seth looked down at the kitchen table pretending he hadn't seen it.

"Summer's looking for a job." Seth stated as Ryan went over to the fridge.

"So that's why there's milk on the floor." Ryan stated looking at the girl and the guy at the table.

"Yea." Seth said nodding then looking back at Summer with her newspaper.

"Hey do you guys think I could be a computer science, software developer?" Summer asked turning to fast the two boys. They stared at her for a minute then Seth opened his mouth.

"Don't you have to have some sort of degree?"

She looked at the newspaper again then nodded. "Yeah." she paused then looked back over to them. "How about a Computer operations manager?"

They stared at her for longer as she looked between the paper and the two boys. "What? You don't think I can do it?"

"Um. No. Just Summer what about a waitress or something?" Ryan asked.

Summer paused thinking about it then nodded. "Actually that sounds good. Let's go."

"Go where?" Ryan asked confused.

"I need to find a job, so I don't have to live off of you guys, I need to do this." Summer said a strange edge in her voice.

Ryan nodded, "fine but only for an hour."

Summer nodded happily and headed towards the door.

"now? You want to leave now?" Ryan asked looking at her and the door. "I'm hungry! And it's Saturday! Can't we have a break? I've been running around all week." Ryan said his voice almost whining.

Summer stared at her boyfriend and shook her head. "no, I can't sleep, and it's only 10." Summer said opening the door and stepping into the Californian sun.

Ryan looked at Seth who laughed.

"she's your responsibility now. I'm staying here, and relaxing."

Ryan glared at him for a minute when he heard Summer shout his name. He sighed and headed towards the door following in her footsteps. Ryan got into the car with Summer in the passengers seat beside him.

"what's the rush, anyway?"

Summer shrugged looking out her window. "I don't…want you to get tired of me, and I want to earn money for this baby on my own. I told you, didn't I?" Summer said looking at him.

He nodded, understanding her need for a job, he wanted to do that for the Cohen's and now more then ever he wanted to get a job for the baby. He couldn't live off of them forever, he would feel guilty, they had already done so much for him already and now he was introducing a new predicament to them. When he though they didn't even need it, they had been acting so weird and working so much lately, it scared him, to him Kirsten and Sandy were the ultimate super couple, so what happened when they…stopped being that to him and Seth? He knew they thought of him as a son, but what happened if they got a divorce? Would he move around like Seth or something? And would they still love him even though he got his girlfriend even when she wasn't his girlfriend pregnant?

Ryan stared at the intersection ahead of him thinking about all these new problems he and Summer would have to overcome. He figured he should probably start with telling them his girlfriend is pregnant then go into Dr Roberts kicking her out. He was jerked out of his thoughts by his girlfriend and then the beeping from the other cars. The light they had stopped at had turned green and he was acting like it was still red.

"Ryan? Baby? Go. It's red." Summer said touching his arm lightly.

Ryan nodded and pushed the pedal to move.

"Are you alright?" Summer asked curiosity.

Ryan shrugged. "Just thinking about the future."

"hm." She said answering him back with a nod. "I wish we could sleep for the next couple of months and just forget." Summer muttered putting her head against the window.

Ryan nodded in agreement. "I was just thinking about all the things we in her voice have to do before the baby comes." He muttered looking at her and then the newspaper in her lap. "what restaurant do you wanna check out first?" he added.

"um how about…" she moved her finger down the Jobs page until stopping on a familiar restaurant. "this one, it has good food and is really close."

Ryan nodded and drove a little slower to watch out for the restaurant.

"what should we start with?" Summer asked quietly.

"I thought we were starting with Fish N Fry." Ryan said confused.

"I mean for the baby." Summer muttered.

"oh. Well, I thought we should start by telling the Cohen's." Ryan said glancing at her to see her reaction.

Summer tightened her lips into a straight line, Ryan had the distinct feeling she wanted to say something but didn't.

"ok." Summer muttered finally. "Ok. We'll do it tonight."

"Tonight?" Ryan exclaimed almost doing a Seth and running off the side of the road. "Why tonight?"

Summer shrugged, "why not? They are bound to find out I'm living here sooner or later and I'll start getting fat soon, so why wait." Summer said stepping out of the car as Ryan parked it.

"Summer! I don't want to tell them tonight! I need preparation to get kicked out of the house!" Ryan whined.

Summer swallowed a giggle as she heard her macho boyfriend whine. "ok here, if I get a job today we will tell them tonight if not then we won't, deal?" Summer said turning to her boyfriend.

Ryan paused thinking about it, then nodded. "Fine. Lets go."

Summer nodded and they stepped into the overcrowded restaurant.

A girl with dull brown hair passed them carrying a tray with too many plates, "the waits at least an hour." She yelled over the noise.

"We don't want to eat her, I want to work here." Summer said smiling at the girl.

The girl looked her over and nodded. "You're hired, I'm Tracy by the way, can you handle orders? I'll teach you everything important tonight, just hurry up and get a apron on. We need serious help." Tracy yelled walking away. "Aprons are in the back! You'll find a pad in there for orders and put orders on the wheel." Tracy yelled behind her and pointing to a guy behind the counter with a wheel behind him.

"Good luck!" she added carrying the tray to a family. Summer looked at Ryan and Ryan looked at Summer.

"I guess we are telling them tonight." He muttered. "well, go work." He added smirking at her overwhelmed expression.