a/n: Sorry this took so long! Wasn't in the mood to write but this chapter
shall be a good one!! and I'm starting a new story sometime soon.not sure
of what it will be, but I think a humorous look at the OC.. like a dumbed
down story, just for kicks.
Chapter 21: A Blond Moment
"Mom?" Marissa called out as she sat down on the couch, watching her mother disappear into the kitchen.
She was not in the mood to be tampered with. Not to mention she had very little time to get ready for dinner and she wanted to look good, for Ryan. She honestly felt bad about lying to him, or should she say, keeping things from him, so much lately. Tonight she was going to come clean, fully, and Summer will just have to deal.
"Ok, I'm ready to talk now." Julie said, smacking her lips as she sauntered towards Marissa, a diet coke in her hand.
Marissa watched Julie as she meticulously sat down on the opposite couch.
"Can we make this quick? I still need to get ready." Marissa spat out, crossing her arms.
"Sure. Let's just get to the point." Julie placed her coke on the coffee table, crossing her legs and placing her hands on them, before taking a deep breath. "You're grounded."
Marissa glared at her mother, before relentlessly laughing her ass off. "You can't ground me! I don't even live here anymore."
Julie didn't let her glare fade, waited for Marissa's cackling to subside and cruelly slipped out a remark, "As long as you are staying in my house, you will follow my rules."
"Fine." Marissa laughed again. "And what rule did I break?" Marissa followed this with an eye roll.
"Where were you last night?" Julie snapped.
"Um." Marissa was a little caught off guard and knew she couldn't lie. "With Ryan."
"You lied to me."
"So what?" Marissa snapped, standing up, placing her hands on her hips.
"Marissa Cooper!" Julie stood up just as fast. "Whether you like it or not, I am still your mother."
"The Cohen's are expecting me for dinner. How would it LOOK," Marissa rolled her eyes dramatically, "if I didn't show? My reputation might be scarred for life!" Marissa mocked her mother's social values and Julie let an evil smile take over her own face.
"Well, they can't possibly hold you to an invitation if you are sick." Julie smirked.
"I'm not sick." Marissa said sternly.
"Really?" Julie screeched, grabbing Marissa' purse, sifting through it before Marissa could detest. "Because I think I feel a fever coming over you, Marissa," She smiled as she grabbed Marissa's car keys and cell phone. "Darling." She threw the things into her pockets.
"Oh, mom, that's a genius plan. Take away my keys when the Cohen's live right next door. Take away my cell when we have three phone lines!" Marissa screamed, lifting her curled up wrists in frustrated anger.
"Marissa, I'm doing this for you. That boy is no good for you."
"You have no idea what you are talking about. Ryan's the best thing that happened to me." Marissa let her voice calm down.
"And Summer, ick." Julie displayed her views for Summer with a simple shake of her head. "My daughter shouldn't be associated with thieves and tramps."
"Then I guess I should stop talking to you and Caleb, as well." Marissa screamed again, not being able to help it anymore. She started to walk towards the stairs, towards her room. "I need to get ready."
"You're not going. End of story." She heard Julie's voice trail off as she slammed her bedroom door behind her. Marissa fell down on her bed. In instances like these, she would call her dad for back up, but he was vacationing with Rachel. She looked towards her phone, but quickly realized she had left her portable downstairs last night as she placed her hand on the empty phone cradle. Shit. Now what?
Meanwhile, Julie had casually walked up the stairs behind Marissa and watched her door slam in her face. Julie smirked, taking a pair of keys from her pocket, locking Marissa's bedroom door quickly.
"This is for your own good." Julie whispered, realizing how wrong she was. Spending so much time with Caleb had really made her into an even worse bitch, but she was sure that Marissa needed to break all ties with these kids.
Marissa heard a click come from her door and she jumped up in realization and disbelief. Her mother was insane, but she wasn't that insane, was she? Marissa calmly walked towards the door, feeling warm tears appear on her cheeks. Her hand smoothed over the golden door knob.
She twisted it, and jerked her hand away when she felt that it wouldn't budge. She knocked on the door instantly. She couldn't do this. It wasn't human. Marissa, giving up, fell back on her bed, staring out her window at the Cohen's pool house.
The window. She could climb out the window! She opened the window slowly, but it would only come up to a certain point, and even though Marissa was tiny, she wasn't THAT tiny. Marissa whimpered in defeat. She was locked in.
No phone. No way out.
She was stuck.
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"Oh my god, not today!" She kicked her old car, wincing at the moan it had made.
"Mommy?" Charlotte looked up at her mother in question as steam started to come out of their car.
"Come on, sweetie." Summer grabbed Charlotte as they walked back to the lobby of their apartment building and up the stairs to their apartment.
Summer threw her purse and keys onto the kitchen table and Charlotte just sat on the floor, bored.
Great. Perfect. Now she needs a ride. Of all days for her car to finally call it quits, it's now.
Summer picked up the phone, automatically dialing his number. No. She pressed the flash button quickly. She dialed Marissa's cell phone but got her voicemail. Great. Just perfect.
She dialed the Cohen's number again.
"Hello?" She recognized that voice. It was distinct, nervous, as usual. She blanked out, not knowing what to say or do.
"Summer, I have caller id. What's wrong?" Seth asked tentatively.
"My car broke down." Summer said slowly, shutting her eyes in frustration.
"I'll be there in 10." Seth said quickly, hanging up.
Summer placed the phone down and looked at Charlotte, sighing.
She hated that he would do anything for her, even when she was being a real bitch.
She hated him.
She laughed out loud, watching Charlotte look up at her, amusingly.
She couldn't even convince herself that she hated him.
Because she was still hopelessly in love with him.
And so what if he won't admit what he did. It was all in the past. And she was planning on letting him know that. Tonight.
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"Where's Seth?" Kirsten asked Ryan as he entered the kitchen, wearing a crisp button down white shirt and black pants.
"He's picking up Summer." Ryan said swiftly, as he dipped his hand into the bowl of chips on the table, swiping it into dip.
"Oh." Kirsten smiled. "Where's your other half?"
"Miss Cooper is at home, probably applying pounds of unnecessary make up."
"I see." Kirsten grinned. "I should go get ready myself." Kirsten said as she looked down at her tee shirt and jeans.
"Yup." Ryan smiled wistfully as Kirsten left the room.
He took another chip and let it crunch in his mouth as he heard the doorbell ring. It was still pretty early, and most Newport inhabitants arrive at least 10 minutes late, he thought as he made his way to the front door.
Of course, at the sight of blonde hair, he realized the girl standing on the opposite side of the door was not at all from Newport.
He also felt his stomach drop, those chips churning in his throat.
This wasn't good, he thought as he opened the door and Anna faced him. Not good at all.
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"Where are you Ryan?" Marissa thought out loud as she scanned the pool house for movement. Nothing. She looked towards the driveway, seeing an unfamiliar car, a tiny blond emerging from the car. "No way."
She ran towards her bedroom door, pounding on it once again.
"Mom, let me out!!!" She screamed, but heard nothing. She sighed, exasperated and ran towards her window, watching Anna step up to the front door. She let her head towards the window, screaming, "Anna, help!" But the girl's head didn't even pop up as she disappeared into the house.
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"Hi Ryan." Anna said softly as she stepped inside. "How are you?"
"Fine, I guess." He said defensively, "What are you doing here?"
"I'm here to see Seth." Anna said quickly, running her hands through her hair.
"He's not here. He's with Summer." Ryan said quickly, watching Anna with accusing eyes.
"I heard they broke up." Anna said, smiling softly.
"You heard wrong." Ryan spat out.
"Oh." Anna said calmly. "Well, can I wait with you until they come back?"
"Why?"
"There's something I need to tell both of them."
"Fine." Ryan let his voice loosen up a little
Anna smiled as she further advanced into the Cohen's house, but her ears perked up at a sound. "Do you hear that?"
"I don't hear anything." Ryan said, straining his ears and motioning for her to come in fully.
Anna shrugged, following Ryan inside as he shut the door behind them.
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Seth knocked her door slowly, watching as the door opened and Charlotte stood on the other side, wearing a pretty shiny thing in her brown hair and a pale pink dress. She looked adorable and Seth picked her up quickly and she giggled in response.
"Cohen, you'll wrinkle her dress." He heard Summer say as she came out of her bedroom, placing a pair of cream colored stilettos down on the ground, slipping her feet into them.
Seth let go of Charlotte and watched Summer, entranced. She stood up and walked towards him, grabbing Charlotte's hand.
"Summer," Seth felt all his breath escape his body as he watched the way her silky, cream dress moved with her body, hugging her every curve. Her hair was wound up, with a few tiny tendrils falling in her face and for a moment, she looked like her high school self.
"You look beautiful." Seth managed to say and Summer watched him, mesmerized as well at how good he looked.
"You're wearing," Summer said as she lifted up his shirt and saw the diesel logo. "The jeans I bought you."
"Now I know you just did that little maneuver so you could check out my a." He hushed his voice as Charlotte watched him carefully, ready to accuse him of blurting bad words.
Summer just smiled, flirtatiously. "As if you even have one." She said, patting his but softly as she walked past him, out towards the hallway.
"Not going to argue with the woman when she's right." He said, happy to see Summer's bad attitude had faded.
Summer let go of Charlotte's hand and turned to Seth quickly, following her impulse.
He looked at her, startled, sure she was about to plant one on him, when instead she locked her apartment door, pushing him out of the way. She looked back at him, wrapping her arms around his tiny waist, feeling the warmth of his body on hers and he looked down at her confused.
"Summer, what's wrong?" He asked her as he placed his arms around her as well.
"I just wanted to make sure that you were really here." She whispered and let go, looking up at him.
"I'm always here, Summer." He said, watching Charlotte as she started off towards the staircase, whistling, knowingly.
"I know." Summer smiled, grabbing his hand as they followed Charlotte down the stairs and towards his car.
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"Anna!" Sandy said loudly in surprise as he saw the blonde and Ryan in the living room, looking pretty quiet.
"Hi Mr. Cohen." Anna smiled earnestly and smiled at Kirsten as well as she came down the stairs. Anna felt slightly embarrassed at how under dressed she was, noticing Kirsten's beautiful blue dress. "Mrs. Cohen."
"Hi Anna, are you having dinner with us?" Kirsten asked, eyeing her suspiciously.
"No, I just need to talk to Seth and Summer. I'm waiting for them to come back." Anna announced, slight disdain in her voice.
"Ok then." Sandy said. "Kirsten, why don't we, um, set up?"
"The caterers did all that, already." Kirsten said quickly but realized Sandy was hinting towards something and ran after him towards the kitchen.
Anna looked back at Ryan, who was staring at his shoes.
"Honey, I'm home." Seth's voice screamed through silence of the living room and stopped when his eyes landed on hers. "What are you doing here?" His voice escalated as he looked behind him at Summer, who stared blankly at Anna and Ryan.
Ryan got up quickly, clearly uncomfortable and made a dash for Charlotte. "Come on Charlotte, let me show you the pool house."
Charlotte, confused, just followed her Uncle Ryan without much detesting.
"Hi." Anna said quickly, nervously scanning them for their reactions.
"What are you doing here?" Seth repeated, watching Summer as she sat down on the edge of the couch, still staring blankly into space.
"I needed to talk to you. Both of you." Anna started, clearing her throat.
"Well, we're listening." Seth said as he sat close to Summer, placing his arm around her shoulders, feeling her shudder in disgust underneath his arm. He let go and looked at her, confused slightly.
"Ok, well," Anna started, but the doorbell rang, interrupting.
Seth waited for someone to answer the door, but no one did, so he jumped up nervously, not wanting to leave the two girls alone.
"Summer, how are you?" Anna asked timidly and Summer snapped out of her daze.
"Don't." Summer snapped, then stared back at the door to see who it was.
"Grandpa, Julie, hi." Seth said as they walked inside. "Gang's all here!" He rolled his eyes and closed the door behind them.
"Where are your parents?" Julie asked quickly, laying her eyes on Summer, who looked as if she were frozen stiff.
"Where's Marissa?" Summer spat out quickly, trying to keep her composure.
"Sick." Julie glared at her.
"Um, kitchen." Seth said quickly, although he wasn't sure where they were.
Julie and Caleb disappeared towards the kitchen and Seth looked back at Anna and Summer, who both looked extremely sad.
"I need Marissa." Summer demanded.
"Summer, I need to tell you something." Anna urged. "Trust me."
Summer glared back at the girl with extreme anger. "Trust you?" She screeched.
"Ok, ok." Seth said, sitting down next to Summer, trying to calm her. "Let's hear Anna out and then we'll go find Marissa, ok?" He kissed Summer softly, trying to make sure Anna knew they were together. Although he wasn't sure what they were.
Summer nodded, smiling at him, pressing her hand into his and they both turned to Anna who cleared her throat again, ready to apologize.
Chapter 21: A Blond Moment
"Mom?" Marissa called out as she sat down on the couch, watching her mother disappear into the kitchen.
She was not in the mood to be tampered with. Not to mention she had very little time to get ready for dinner and she wanted to look good, for Ryan. She honestly felt bad about lying to him, or should she say, keeping things from him, so much lately. Tonight she was going to come clean, fully, and Summer will just have to deal.
"Ok, I'm ready to talk now." Julie said, smacking her lips as she sauntered towards Marissa, a diet coke in her hand.
Marissa watched Julie as she meticulously sat down on the opposite couch.
"Can we make this quick? I still need to get ready." Marissa spat out, crossing her arms.
"Sure. Let's just get to the point." Julie placed her coke on the coffee table, crossing her legs and placing her hands on them, before taking a deep breath. "You're grounded."
Marissa glared at her mother, before relentlessly laughing her ass off. "You can't ground me! I don't even live here anymore."
Julie didn't let her glare fade, waited for Marissa's cackling to subside and cruelly slipped out a remark, "As long as you are staying in my house, you will follow my rules."
"Fine." Marissa laughed again. "And what rule did I break?" Marissa followed this with an eye roll.
"Where were you last night?" Julie snapped.
"Um." Marissa was a little caught off guard and knew she couldn't lie. "With Ryan."
"You lied to me."
"So what?" Marissa snapped, standing up, placing her hands on her hips.
"Marissa Cooper!" Julie stood up just as fast. "Whether you like it or not, I am still your mother."
"The Cohen's are expecting me for dinner. How would it LOOK," Marissa rolled her eyes dramatically, "if I didn't show? My reputation might be scarred for life!" Marissa mocked her mother's social values and Julie let an evil smile take over her own face.
"Well, they can't possibly hold you to an invitation if you are sick." Julie smirked.
"I'm not sick." Marissa said sternly.
"Really?" Julie screeched, grabbing Marissa' purse, sifting through it before Marissa could detest. "Because I think I feel a fever coming over you, Marissa," She smiled as she grabbed Marissa's car keys and cell phone. "Darling." She threw the things into her pockets.
"Oh, mom, that's a genius plan. Take away my keys when the Cohen's live right next door. Take away my cell when we have three phone lines!" Marissa screamed, lifting her curled up wrists in frustrated anger.
"Marissa, I'm doing this for you. That boy is no good for you."
"You have no idea what you are talking about. Ryan's the best thing that happened to me." Marissa let her voice calm down.
"And Summer, ick." Julie displayed her views for Summer with a simple shake of her head. "My daughter shouldn't be associated with thieves and tramps."
"Then I guess I should stop talking to you and Caleb, as well." Marissa screamed again, not being able to help it anymore. She started to walk towards the stairs, towards her room. "I need to get ready."
"You're not going. End of story." She heard Julie's voice trail off as she slammed her bedroom door behind her. Marissa fell down on her bed. In instances like these, she would call her dad for back up, but he was vacationing with Rachel. She looked towards her phone, but quickly realized she had left her portable downstairs last night as she placed her hand on the empty phone cradle. Shit. Now what?
Meanwhile, Julie had casually walked up the stairs behind Marissa and watched her door slam in her face. Julie smirked, taking a pair of keys from her pocket, locking Marissa's bedroom door quickly.
"This is for your own good." Julie whispered, realizing how wrong she was. Spending so much time with Caleb had really made her into an even worse bitch, but she was sure that Marissa needed to break all ties with these kids.
Marissa heard a click come from her door and she jumped up in realization and disbelief. Her mother was insane, but she wasn't that insane, was she? Marissa calmly walked towards the door, feeling warm tears appear on her cheeks. Her hand smoothed over the golden door knob.
She twisted it, and jerked her hand away when she felt that it wouldn't budge. She knocked on the door instantly. She couldn't do this. It wasn't human. Marissa, giving up, fell back on her bed, staring out her window at the Cohen's pool house.
The window. She could climb out the window! She opened the window slowly, but it would only come up to a certain point, and even though Marissa was tiny, she wasn't THAT tiny. Marissa whimpered in defeat. She was locked in.
No phone. No way out.
She was stuck.
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"Oh my god, not today!" She kicked her old car, wincing at the moan it had made.
"Mommy?" Charlotte looked up at her mother in question as steam started to come out of their car.
"Come on, sweetie." Summer grabbed Charlotte as they walked back to the lobby of their apartment building and up the stairs to their apartment.
Summer threw her purse and keys onto the kitchen table and Charlotte just sat on the floor, bored.
Great. Perfect. Now she needs a ride. Of all days for her car to finally call it quits, it's now.
Summer picked up the phone, automatically dialing his number. No. She pressed the flash button quickly. She dialed Marissa's cell phone but got her voicemail. Great. Just perfect.
She dialed the Cohen's number again.
"Hello?" She recognized that voice. It was distinct, nervous, as usual. She blanked out, not knowing what to say or do.
"Summer, I have caller id. What's wrong?" Seth asked tentatively.
"My car broke down." Summer said slowly, shutting her eyes in frustration.
"I'll be there in 10." Seth said quickly, hanging up.
Summer placed the phone down and looked at Charlotte, sighing.
She hated that he would do anything for her, even when she was being a real bitch.
She hated him.
She laughed out loud, watching Charlotte look up at her, amusingly.
She couldn't even convince herself that she hated him.
Because she was still hopelessly in love with him.
And so what if he won't admit what he did. It was all in the past. And she was planning on letting him know that. Tonight.
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"Where's Seth?" Kirsten asked Ryan as he entered the kitchen, wearing a crisp button down white shirt and black pants.
"He's picking up Summer." Ryan said swiftly, as he dipped his hand into the bowl of chips on the table, swiping it into dip.
"Oh." Kirsten smiled. "Where's your other half?"
"Miss Cooper is at home, probably applying pounds of unnecessary make up."
"I see." Kirsten grinned. "I should go get ready myself." Kirsten said as she looked down at her tee shirt and jeans.
"Yup." Ryan smiled wistfully as Kirsten left the room.
He took another chip and let it crunch in his mouth as he heard the doorbell ring. It was still pretty early, and most Newport inhabitants arrive at least 10 minutes late, he thought as he made his way to the front door.
Of course, at the sight of blonde hair, he realized the girl standing on the opposite side of the door was not at all from Newport.
He also felt his stomach drop, those chips churning in his throat.
This wasn't good, he thought as he opened the door and Anna faced him. Not good at all.
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"Where are you Ryan?" Marissa thought out loud as she scanned the pool house for movement. Nothing. She looked towards the driveway, seeing an unfamiliar car, a tiny blond emerging from the car. "No way."
She ran towards her bedroom door, pounding on it once again.
"Mom, let me out!!!" She screamed, but heard nothing. She sighed, exasperated and ran towards her window, watching Anna step up to the front door. She let her head towards the window, screaming, "Anna, help!" But the girl's head didn't even pop up as she disappeared into the house.
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"Hi Ryan." Anna said softly as she stepped inside. "How are you?"
"Fine, I guess." He said defensively, "What are you doing here?"
"I'm here to see Seth." Anna said quickly, running her hands through her hair.
"He's not here. He's with Summer." Ryan said quickly, watching Anna with accusing eyes.
"I heard they broke up." Anna said, smiling softly.
"You heard wrong." Ryan spat out.
"Oh." Anna said calmly. "Well, can I wait with you until they come back?"
"Why?"
"There's something I need to tell both of them."
"Fine." Ryan let his voice loosen up a little
Anna smiled as she further advanced into the Cohen's house, but her ears perked up at a sound. "Do you hear that?"
"I don't hear anything." Ryan said, straining his ears and motioning for her to come in fully.
Anna shrugged, following Ryan inside as he shut the door behind them.
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Seth knocked her door slowly, watching as the door opened and Charlotte stood on the other side, wearing a pretty shiny thing in her brown hair and a pale pink dress. She looked adorable and Seth picked her up quickly and she giggled in response.
"Cohen, you'll wrinkle her dress." He heard Summer say as she came out of her bedroom, placing a pair of cream colored stilettos down on the ground, slipping her feet into them.
Seth let go of Charlotte and watched Summer, entranced. She stood up and walked towards him, grabbing Charlotte's hand.
"Summer," Seth felt all his breath escape his body as he watched the way her silky, cream dress moved with her body, hugging her every curve. Her hair was wound up, with a few tiny tendrils falling in her face and for a moment, she looked like her high school self.
"You look beautiful." Seth managed to say and Summer watched him, mesmerized as well at how good he looked.
"You're wearing," Summer said as she lifted up his shirt and saw the diesel logo. "The jeans I bought you."
"Now I know you just did that little maneuver so you could check out my a." He hushed his voice as Charlotte watched him carefully, ready to accuse him of blurting bad words.
Summer just smiled, flirtatiously. "As if you even have one." She said, patting his but softly as she walked past him, out towards the hallway.
"Not going to argue with the woman when she's right." He said, happy to see Summer's bad attitude had faded.
Summer let go of Charlotte's hand and turned to Seth quickly, following her impulse.
He looked at her, startled, sure she was about to plant one on him, when instead she locked her apartment door, pushing him out of the way. She looked back at him, wrapping her arms around his tiny waist, feeling the warmth of his body on hers and he looked down at her confused.
"Summer, what's wrong?" He asked her as he placed his arms around her as well.
"I just wanted to make sure that you were really here." She whispered and let go, looking up at him.
"I'm always here, Summer." He said, watching Charlotte as she started off towards the staircase, whistling, knowingly.
"I know." Summer smiled, grabbing his hand as they followed Charlotte down the stairs and towards his car.
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"Anna!" Sandy said loudly in surprise as he saw the blonde and Ryan in the living room, looking pretty quiet.
"Hi Mr. Cohen." Anna smiled earnestly and smiled at Kirsten as well as she came down the stairs. Anna felt slightly embarrassed at how under dressed she was, noticing Kirsten's beautiful blue dress. "Mrs. Cohen."
"Hi Anna, are you having dinner with us?" Kirsten asked, eyeing her suspiciously.
"No, I just need to talk to Seth and Summer. I'm waiting for them to come back." Anna announced, slight disdain in her voice.
"Ok then." Sandy said. "Kirsten, why don't we, um, set up?"
"The caterers did all that, already." Kirsten said quickly but realized Sandy was hinting towards something and ran after him towards the kitchen.
Anna looked back at Ryan, who was staring at his shoes.
"Honey, I'm home." Seth's voice screamed through silence of the living room and stopped when his eyes landed on hers. "What are you doing here?" His voice escalated as he looked behind him at Summer, who stared blankly at Anna and Ryan.
Ryan got up quickly, clearly uncomfortable and made a dash for Charlotte. "Come on Charlotte, let me show you the pool house."
Charlotte, confused, just followed her Uncle Ryan without much detesting.
"Hi." Anna said quickly, nervously scanning them for their reactions.
"What are you doing here?" Seth repeated, watching Summer as she sat down on the edge of the couch, still staring blankly into space.
"I needed to talk to you. Both of you." Anna started, clearing her throat.
"Well, we're listening." Seth said as he sat close to Summer, placing his arm around her shoulders, feeling her shudder in disgust underneath his arm. He let go and looked at her, confused slightly.
"Ok, well," Anna started, but the doorbell rang, interrupting.
Seth waited for someone to answer the door, but no one did, so he jumped up nervously, not wanting to leave the two girls alone.
"Summer, how are you?" Anna asked timidly and Summer snapped out of her daze.
"Don't." Summer snapped, then stared back at the door to see who it was.
"Grandpa, Julie, hi." Seth said as they walked inside. "Gang's all here!" He rolled his eyes and closed the door behind them.
"Where are your parents?" Julie asked quickly, laying her eyes on Summer, who looked as if she were frozen stiff.
"Where's Marissa?" Summer spat out quickly, trying to keep her composure.
"Sick." Julie glared at her.
"Um, kitchen." Seth said quickly, although he wasn't sure where they were.
Julie and Caleb disappeared towards the kitchen and Seth looked back at Anna and Summer, who both looked extremely sad.
"I need Marissa." Summer demanded.
"Summer, I need to tell you something." Anna urged. "Trust me."
Summer glared back at the girl with extreme anger. "Trust you?" She screeched.
"Ok, ok." Seth said, sitting down next to Summer, trying to calm her. "Let's hear Anna out and then we'll go find Marissa, ok?" He kissed Summer softly, trying to make sure Anna knew they were together. Although he wasn't sure what they were.
Summer nodded, smiling at him, pressing her hand into his and they both turned to Anna who cleared her throat again, ready to apologize.