Poison Ivy
A/N: There is a plot, I promise. You just have to look for it.
Summer Roberts remembers going to the local video rental store with Marissa Cooper when they were about twelve years old and browsing through every single movie rack. They had both developed a fascination with anything pertaining to Drew Barrymore and were planning on having a Drew movie-athon. They grabbed several movies, not even bothering to read the blurb on the back to decide whether it was interesting or not.
Several of the movies were PG-13 and R, and even though the girls were only twelve, they were able to rent them all. The thing was, the clerk at the rental desk was a nerdy, zit-faced sixteen-year-old, and Summer – even at twelve – was able to use her charms to persuade the clerk to allow them the rentals. After the girls left the store, Summer swore to Marissa that after that experience, she would never again flirt with someone that geeky.
So the two went back to Summer's house – empty, as usual – and decided which movie to watch first. While Summer made popcorn and got their Diet Cokes, Marissa picked one entitled Poison Ivy. She told Summer that she thought it looked interesting – it was made when they were about five or six, and neither one of them had heard of it. Summer brought their snacks into the den-type room just as Marissa was popping the cassette into the VCR.
The movie wasn't exactly what they expected. The scary thing, however, was that the last name of Sara Gilbert's character, Sylvie, was Cooper, and Drew's character Ivy called her Coop. Summer also shortened Marissa's last name of Cooper down to Coop, and they were best friends like Ivy and Sylvie. In the movie, Ivy basically screwed Sylvie over, and it made Summer and Marissa not watch much with Drew Barrymore anymore.
However, Summer and Marissa's friendship started to slightly dwindle in their teen years. Once Ryan Atwood showed up in town, Marissa started spending more time with him than she did with Summer. Ironically, given that Summer had written off geeks since the video store incident, Summer began to spend more time with Seth Cohen – the Seth Cohen, whom she had never taken a second glance at – than she did with Marissa.
While they still considered themselves best friends, it was undeniable that they weren't as close as they had once been. For a while, with messes with such people in their lives as Anna Stern, Oliver Trask, Luke Ward, and countless others, the two girl spent a lot of time apart, compared to their usual inseparableness.
Then, when they were around seventeen or eighteen, they both spent a lot of time together once again at Summer's. Well, they had to. They had both been "attacked" by that pesky green plant while camping – they were affected by poison ivy.