I saw todays episode of the O.C and was overly pleased that my muse has in fact returned for now. I have decided to write for *sure* every Wednesday when the O.C comes on Fox or whatever. And I am most anxious to say that next weeks episode somewhat falls into the category of my story! That's right, Anna is supposed to be leaving for Pittsburgh. Ok, sorta sad, yes. But, my muse nonetheless. _~_+~_~+_~+~_~+)+_~

Anna's eyes slowly opened. She was in an uncomfortable place, and her head hurt. Badly. She tried to open her eyes but it hurt, so she just laid her head on the steering wheel, which in turn made a very loud and uproarious "BEEEEEEEEEP" sound that added to her headache, and awoke a figure from another car she had yet to see. When she finally rose up her head she saw that she had not in fact blacked out, but merely had closed her eyes as the other car hit her. Ok, recapping time. She had some drinks... got drunk... swerved almost into her driveway and was either hit or hit another car. Yes, yes yes, *this* is why she came back to Orange County. What's better then being hit/hitting a car, getting drunk, and becoming most painfully hurt in the heart regions? Perhaps the splitting headache she has will make up for all those silly meager things. Oh yeah...

At all the irony that ever possibly occurred in the world, the best ironical thing ever to happen was when Richard himself (guy from Airplane. Recap chapter 2. Come on people.) came out of the shabby other car and walked straight up to Anna. Apparently he had the luxury of a air bag. Either that or he was just a really robust man.

"Anna? Wow! Such a coincidence running into you! Or ramming... I'm sorry." Was it his fault? She couldn't remember. Most of the stuff on her mind was the headache occurring. She did a small smile, and nodded at him which only added to the throbbing pain.

"It's ok. Would you... um... mm... help me inside?" She asked, rubbing her head slightly before throwing out her goofy grin. He nodded and opened her door before helping her out. They slowly walked up to the door, that was locked of course, dug around for her keys and then opened the door. Proceeding through the house quietly, so as not to wake anyone, they made it to the spare bedroom posing as Anna's room for the time being. Richard lightly laid her down on the bed, and pulled the covers up over her. She smiled and thanked him before turning away from him to go to sleep. Then she felt the bed tilt and her body slanted and moved towards him as he climbed in.

"What are you doing?" She asked, moaning slightly as her head throbbed. It felt like a hammer, a quick and easy hammer pounding on her head sending a pulse throughout the never ending reaches. He laughed, and she felt the hammer again.

"Why, I'm going to bed." He said, snuggling up to her.

"Are you always this open?" She asked, before turning towards him.

"Only around you, sexy!" He roared out before kissing her and pulling the blankets up over their heads. For some reason her body responded only to him, and ignored her. That's when her parents, Seth, and Summer walked in.

"Oh my God! Look at what is happening! I love you Anna!" Seth said, and Summer let out a fake "ugh!" before slapping him....

And then Annas eyes opened. And she found that she was in a hospital (either that or they painted a room a light, off white blue color) and that had all been a dream. A weird, demented, realistic (till the end) dream. She looked around slightly, feeling a bit light headed. She sat up and felt a streaming amount of pain go through her whole body. She rubbed her eyes and looked around to find the room empty. Why is it in movies everyone is always crowding around the beds? How many times in real life does that happen? That the people are just standing there waiting. That's almost impossible, if not completely. I mean, the chances of you ever waking up soon are 1 in who knows what, and the chances of them being so patient as to wait for it are 1 in the same factor. Anna sighed, and laid her head down. Fine, if they won't wait for her to wake up, then she'd wait for them to come in so that she could bit their heads off about it.

Of course, she didn't intend to do that. But either way she ended up falling asleep two seconds later and when she woke up, there was a person beside her. And the least likely person she expected to see, too. Richard was standing above her bed, shifting from side to side in a fidgety manner, and looked like at any second his parents were going to race into the room and start yelling at him for being home late or something.

"I... brought you these." He said, then put on a smile and everything seemed alright again. Everything was happier, and brighter, and no-one was uncomfortable... not that there was any need to be.

"Why, thank you." Anna said, blithely. She put the flowers on a nightstand that the hospital had (that was ironically white) and sat up with her hands in her lap studying the once again fidgety Richard. After two seconds of the "maybe-if-I-just-keep-inhaling-she-won't-see-me" act, he stopped breathing in and out quickly and sat down beside her.

"So, how are you feeling?" He asked, taking in another deep breath.

"Better, thanks. So, what are you doing here?" She asked, cocking her head to the side.

"I was you know, just around." Her parents raced in then, her mom at her side in an instant rubbing her forehead and saying "it'll be ok" a thousand times. Anna replied with "I know, mom" a thousand times, and yet her mom still didn't see that. Sure, Anna will be ok, this was fine. It was just a small car accident. Compared to the Seth proble....

Her mom finally smiled, and nodded. Her father handed her some more flowers and chocolates that he told her to eat carefully so she wouldn't choke, before they all left to let her sleep. Just as she was about to do that sleep part (which sounded perfectly great) in walked...

"Seth..."

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Doobomp. Once again I would like to thank my reviewers. You make me happy T_T. I had to stop here because I have no homework done, and its 11:30 at night, might as well get it done as quickly as possible. Till next week ;).