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Kirsten parked her car outside her house and Seth came out with her. She put her key in the lock and stepped into her wonderfully furnished house.
"You need to be quiet when we go in, she is probably still asleep," Lilly said to Seth who walked behind her.
Seth nodded and then headed for his room. He slammed himself down on his bed and picked up Captain Oats. "Hello Captain Oats, it seems to me that you are the only one that cares about me."
Seth looked at his horse and almost waited for an answer. "Yeah, I'm insane," Seth said putting his horse to the side.
"Seth, come downstairs and help me," said Kirsten peaking her head in his room.
Seth sighed and then followed his mother out of the room. Kirsten quickly walked down the stairs and out the front doors. She walked over to her car and opened the trunk. Inside was a field of clothing bags for both Lizzie and Kirsten.
"Do you have enough clothes mom? Because if you don't I have those pants that you bought me that I will never wear and they are free to you," said Seth gaping at all of the bags.
"Take all of these and put them in either my room or Lizzie's, she is staying in the pool house. You will know which ones are who's when you look at them and see if they are maternity or just normal. Now get to work, I have to go to work," She said helping him unload the bags.
"Yes master," he said.
They worked together unloading everything and then Kirsten left for work. Seth grabbed all of his mother's things and put them away in his parent's room. He walked back out to grab Lizzie's clothes and when he got to the pool house he saw Lizzie slowly waking up on the couch.
"Hi! I am your deliveryman here with your clothes. Anything else that you need?" he said setting the clothes down next to her bed.
"Are you the butler or something?" she said looking confusedly at him. She fumbled around to find her glasses. She wore contacts mostly, but when she slept she took them out.
"No, I'm Seth, Kirsten's son, Ryan's friend/confidant/conscience," Seth said, thinking he sounded awfully a lot like Jiminy Cricket.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I couldn't see you. No, but thank you for bringing in my stuff, would you like to sit down?" Lilly said when she could finally see that it was the man that had opened the door for her that morning.
Seth nodded and sat across from her. "So," Seth sat there for a while thinking, "Do you like video games?"
Kirsten rushed into her office and hoped her father wouldn't notice her tardiness. When she looked up she saw that her father was standing behind her desk.
"So, ou obviously think that because you are my daughter, you can get away with breaking the rules, huh?" said Caleb when his daughter had walked in.
"Dad, there was an emergency. I was needed at the house, so just drop it okay?" said Kirsten trying to get to her desk.
"I'm not going to drop anything. You better explain to me, in detail, what the emergency was and it better not have anything to do with that Ryan boy," Caleb said moving over for her daughter to sit as he walked to seat across from her.
Kirsten groaned underneath her breath. Why did her dad have to be so nosey? "One of Sandy's relatives was in trouble and she needed to stay with us for a while. Since Sandy was gone this morning I had to settle her in."
"Probably drugs, if there was a relative. I know you when you're lying Kiki. Tell me the truth,"
Kirsten rolled her eyes. "It's Ryan's cousin. She was in trouble and I had to help her get settled. It's fine Dad, don't groan like that, we have it under control,"
"You know pretty soon you are going to have a half way house were your home should be," with that Caleb left her office.
"You are pretty good at this, are you sure you haven't played before?" Seth said eying Lizzie.
"Never, I just am a master and a quick learner," Lizzie laughed. She had fun with Seth, since he didn't make her feel pressured to talk about things she didn't want to talk about.
"Ha! I killed you! In your face!" Seth shouted t the screen.
Lizzie joked with him by scooting away from him and giving him a funny look.
"What? I have never been able to kill this guy before. Oh come on you can't tell me you've never wanted to laugh because you killed people before," Seth said noticing her face.
Lizzie laughed and kept playing. Finally Ryan walked in the door with Marissa and Summer. Lizzie tried to get off the floor but was unsuccessful. Ryan walked over and gave her a hand.
"I hate sitting on the floor. So you are?" Lizzie said looking at the girls.
"I'm Marissa, Ryan's girl friend, and this is Summer, Seth's girlfriend. We came over to visit you," Marissa said stepping out to welcome Lizzie.
"Yeah, nice to meet you. How about we get away from the guys and get to know each other better?" said Summer grabbing Lizzie's arm. Summer didn't like the way that she was looking at her boyfriend, so she had to separate the two immediately.
They dragged her out to the pool house and sat her down on the couch.
"So, is there anything we could help you with or get you? Because Marissa and I are huge helping people buffs. We just love to help others," said Summer with an overly fake smile.
"Um...I'm good," Lizzie said scooting away from Summer.
"God Summer, leave her alone. You're scaring her. So how old are you?" asked Marissa trying to save her from the wrath of Summer.
"I'm Seventeen. Listen, you guys don't have to go out of your way to be nice to me, just because I am a cousin of your boyfriend. We probably have nothing whatsoever in common. Besides, I won't be here that long," Lizzie said trying to get off of the couch.
Summer looked guilty, damn that Cohen and his feelings, and grabbed her arm gently. "I'm sorry, I'm just extremely jealous and any girl talking to Cohen gets me kind of riled up. We probably have more in common than you think though. Do you like partying, or The Valley?"
"I love the Valley, I haven't been able to watch it in a really long time, what's happened?" said Lizzie turning to Summer.
"Oh my God, you will never believe what Joey did," Summer took off on a wild story about what had gone on and Marissa rolled her eyes. Summer has found her new soul mate.
Sandy set his briefcase down on the table in the kitchen and going to see what was going on at his house. When he walked into the living room he saw Seth and Ryan arguing about something.
"Boys, what is up?" Sandy said stepping between the two.
"Listen Dad, has Mom called you today?" asked Seth turning away from Ryan. When sandy shook his head no he went on to explain Ryan's cousin and the predicament she was in. "And I was trying to be friendly and bond with her and now Ryan thinks I was hitting on her."
Sandy tried to take in all of the information that was thrown at him in Seth's fast pace speaking. "Did you hit on her?"
"I was being friendly, is that a crime?" asked Seth throwing his hands into the air.
"You were not being friendly, you were hitting on her and you know it. You were playing that game with her," said Ryan finally speaking up.
"I play that game with you, that does not mean I'm hitting on you!" Seth stomped off to his room. "I'm surrounded by crazy people!"
"What is all of this about?" asked Sandy after his son had left the room.
"I don't know I've always been this way about people and my cousin. I don't want her to get hurt. I guess I just freaked out. I'll go apologize," Ryan said walking in the direction that Seth had gone.
"Oh dear God!" Seth said when he saw Ryan, "I swear I'll never touch her. Just please don't hurt me."
"I'm not going to hurt you. I'm sorry; I just am very protective over my cousin. Do you forgive me?" Ryan said laughing at Seth who had covered his head.
"Sure man, but dude listen, please don't scare me like that again,"
Lizzie showed Summer and Marissa out of the house and went to sit on the couch. She sighed deeply and started to rub her feet, which had swollen to the point where her shoes didn't fit anymore. She flipped the channels of the TV in front of her and started to watch Bridget Jones's Diary.
"Ah, a wonderful chick flick. Always soothing to see a boy get away from a girl at least five times before they actually make out," said Seth standing next to the couch she was sitting at.
"Why do guys not like chick flicks? If more guys watched them they would get an idea of how to romance a girl. Why don't you sit? I'm not claiming the whole couch," Lizzie said scooting over for him.
"I better not, Ryan might kill me," Seth said as his feet started to hurt.
"Really? We'll see," Lizzie got off the couch and marched around the house to find Ryan. She finally found him out beside the pool. "Ryan Atwood what the hell is wrong with you?"
Ryan jumped at the voice and when he saw her he walked over to her. "What?"
"Why is Seth so afraid to sit next to me on the couch now?" Lizzie said placing her hands on her hips.
Ryan almost laughed, but knew better by the look in her eye, "I thought he was hitting on you when you were playing the game. I can't help it if I'm over protective."
"You better help it. Seth is a nice guy and I wanted to know him, as a friend. I will never make any friends if you keep thinking they're going to hurt me. You haven't changed since you left!" with that Lizzie walked back to the living room.
"It's fine you can sit. I took care of Ryan," she said when she got back to the living room.
Seth took a seat on the couch, still a distance away, and then sighed. Then Sandy walked in and stopped looking at Lizzie.
"You must be Lizzie, nice to meet you. I'm Sandy, and welcome to our home. Would you mind talking to me in another room?" he said.
Lizzie nodded and then followed Sandy, a little nervously. She barely knew him and he was making her be alone with him.
"So, I just called Kirsten and she told me about your rapist. I know we can catch him; you will just have to give me some time. Kirsten told me the description and I think we can start an investigation. Plus, when you have the baby, we can have a paternity test to see if the people we have found are the right ones. Are you okay with this or is there something wrong?" Sandy told her trying to make her feel comforted. She looked pitiful and scared, like she didn't trust Sandy to be alone with her.
"Thank you for your generosity. I don't know how I could repay you, but I will one day," she said trying not to be as frightened as she was.
"The only thing we want from you is happiness. If you were not happy, then we wouldn't have done our job. I do want you to know that I will never hurt you, so you don't need to be afraid,"
"That's what he said too," Lizzie said leaving Sandy alone in the hallway.
Kirsten parked her car outside her house and Seth came out with her. She put her key in the lock and stepped into her wonderfully furnished house.
"You need to be quiet when we go in, she is probably still asleep," Lilly said to Seth who walked behind her.
Seth nodded and then headed for his room. He slammed himself down on his bed and picked up Captain Oats. "Hello Captain Oats, it seems to me that you are the only one that cares about me."
Seth looked at his horse and almost waited for an answer. "Yeah, I'm insane," Seth said putting his horse to the side.
"Seth, come downstairs and help me," said Kirsten peaking her head in his room.
Seth sighed and then followed his mother out of the room. Kirsten quickly walked down the stairs and out the front doors. She walked over to her car and opened the trunk. Inside was a field of clothing bags for both Lizzie and Kirsten.
"Do you have enough clothes mom? Because if you don't I have those pants that you bought me that I will never wear and they are free to you," said Seth gaping at all of the bags.
"Take all of these and put them in either my room or Lizzie's, she is staying in the pool house. You will know which ones are who's when you look at them and see if they are maternity or just normal. Now get to work, I have to go to work," She said helping him unload the bags.
"Yes master," he said.
They worked together unloading everything and then Kirsten left for work. Seth grabbed all of his mother's things and put them away in his parent's room. He walked back out to grab Lizzie's clothes and when he got to the pool house he saw Lizzie slowly waking up on the couch.
"Hi! I am your deliveryman here with your clothes. Anything else that you need?" he said setting the clothes down next to her bed.
"Are you the butler or something?" she said looking confusedly at him. She fumbled around to find her glasses. She wore contacts mostly, but when she slept she took them out.
"No, I'm Seth, Kirsten's son, Ryan's friend/confidant/conscience," Seth said, thinking he sounded awfully a lot like Jiminy Cricket.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I couldn't see you. No, but thank you for bringing in my stuff, would you like to sit down?" Lilly said when she could finally see that it was the man that had opened the door for her that morning.
Seth nodded and sat across from her. "So," Seth sat there for a while thinking, "Do you like video games?"
Kirsten rushed into her office and hoped her father wouldn't notice her tardiness. When she looked up she saw that her father was standing behind her desk.
"So, ou obviously think that because you are my daughter, you can get away with breaking the rules, huh?" said Caleb when his daughter had walked in.
"Dad, there was an emergency. I was needed at the house, so just drop it okay?" said Kirsten trying to get to her desk.
"I'm not going to drop anything. You better explain to me, in detail, what the emergency was and it better not have anything to do with that Ryan boy," Caleb said moving over for her daughter to sit as he walked to seat across from her.
Kirsten groaned underneath her breath. Why did her dad have to be so nosey? "One of Sandy's relatives was in trouble and she needed to stay with us for a while. Since Sandy was gone this morning I had to settle her in."
"Probably drugs, if there was a relative. I know you when you're lying Kiki. Tell me the truth,"
Kirsten rolled her eyes. "It's Ryan's cousin. She was in trouble and I had to help her get settled. It's fine Dad, don't groan like that, we have it under control,"
"You know pretty soon you are going to have a half way house were your home should be," with that Caleb left her office.
"You are pretty good at this, are you sure you haven't played before?" Seth said eying Lizzie.
"Never, I just am a master and a quick learner," Lizzie laughed. She had fun with Seth, since he didn't make her feel pressured to talk about things she didn't want to talk about.
"Ha! I killed you! In your face!" Seth shouted t the screen.
Lizzie joked with him by scooting away from him and giving him a funny look.
"What? I have never been able to kill this guy before. Oh come on you can't tell me you've never wanted to laugh because you killed people before," Seth said noticing her face.
Lizzie laughed and kept playing. Finally Ryan walked in the door with Marissa and Summer. Lizzie tried to get off the floor but was unsuccessful. Ryan walked over and gave her a hand.
"I hate sitting on the floor. So you are?" Lizzie said looking at the girls.
"I'm Marissa, Ryan's girl friend, and this is Summer, Seth's girlfriend. We came over to visit you," Marissa said stepping out to welcome Lizzie.
"Yeah, nice to meet you. How about we get away from the guys and get to know each other better?" said Summer grabbing Lizzie's arm. Summer didn't like the way that she was looking at her boyfriend, so she had to separate the two immediately.
They dragged her out to the pool house and sat her down on the couch.
"So, is there anything we could help you with or get you? Because Marissa and I are huge helping people buffs. We just love to help others," said Summer with an overly fake smile.
"Um...I'm good," Lizzie said scooting away from Summer.
"God Summer, leave her alone. You're scaring her. So how old are you?" asked Marissa trying to save her from the wrath of Summer.
"I'm Seventeen. Listen, you guys don't have to go out of your way to be nice to me, just because I am a cousin of your boyfriend. We probably have nothing whatsoever in common. Besides, I won't be here that long," Lizzie said trying to get off of the couch.
Summer looked guilty, damn that Cohen and his feelings, and grabbed her arm gently. "I'm sorry, I'm just extremely jealous and any girl talking to Cohen gets me kind of riled up. We probably have more in common than you think though. Do you like partying, or The Valley?"
"I love the Valley, I haven't been able to watch it in a really long time, what's happened?" said Lizzie turning to Summer.
"Oh my God, you will never believe what Joey did," Summer took off on a wild story about what had gone on and Marissa rolled her eyes. Summer has found her new soul mate.
Sandy set his briefcase down on the table in the kitchen and going to see what was going on at his house. When he walked into the living room he saw Seth and Ryan arguing about something.
"Boys, what is up?" Sandy said stepping between the two.
"Listen Dad, has Mom called you today?" asked Seth turning away from Ryan. When sandy shook his head no he went on to explain Ryan's cousin and the predicament she was in. "And I was trying to be friendly and bond with her and now Ryan thinks I was hitting on her."
Sandy tried to take in all of the information that was thrown at him in Seth's fast pace speaking. "Did you hit on her?"
"I was being friendly, is that a crime?" asked Seth throwing his hands into the air.
"You were not being friendly, you were hitting on her and you know it. You were playing that game with her," said Ryan finally speaking up.
"I play that game with you, that does not mean I'm hitting on you!" Seth stomped off to his room. "I'm surrounded by crazy people!"
"What is all of this about?" asked Sandy after his son had left the room.
"I don't know I've always been this way about people and my cousin. I don't want her to get hurt. I guess I just freaked out. I'll go apologize," Ryan said walking in the direction that Seth had gone.
"Oh dear God!" Seth said when he saw Ryan, "I swear I'll never touch her. Just please don't hurt me."
"I'm not going to hurt you. I'm sorry; I just am very protective over my cousin. Do you forgive me?" Ryan said laughing at Seth who had covered his head.
"Sure man, but dude listen, please don't scare me like that again,"
Lizzie showed Summer and Marissa out of the house and went to sit on the couch. She sighed deeply and started to rub her feet, which had swollen to the point where her shoes didn't fit anymore. She flipped the channels of the TV in front of her and started to watch Bridget Jones's Diary.
"Ah, a wonderful chick flick. Always soothing to see a boy get away from a girl at least five times before they actually make out," said Seth standing next to the couch she was sitting at.
"Why do guys not like chick flicks? If more guys watched them they would get an idea of how to romance a girl. Why don't you sit? I'm not claiming the whole couch," Lizzie said scooting over for him.
"I better not, Ryan might kill me," Seth said as his feet started to hurt.
"Really? We'll see," Lizzie got off the couch and marched around the house to find Ryan. She finally found him out beside the pool. "Ryan Atwood what the hell is wrong with you?"
Ryan jumped at the voice and when he saw her he walked over to her. "What?"
"Why is Seth so afraid to sit next to me on the couch now?" Lizzie said placing her hands on her hips.
Ryan almost laughed, but knew better by the look in her eye, "I thought he was hitting on you when you were playing the game. I can't help it if I'm over protective."
"You better help it. Seth is a nice guy and I wanted to know him, as a friend. I will never make any friends if you keep thinking they're going to hurt me. You haven't changed since you left!" with that Lizzie walked back to the living room.
"It's fine you can sit. I took care of Ryan," she said when she got back to the living room.
Seth took a seat on the couch, still a distance away, and then sighed. Then Sandy walked in and stopped looking at Lizzie.
"You must be Lizzie, nice to meet you. I'm Sandy, and welcome to our home. Would you mind talking to me in another room?" he said.
Lizzie nodded and then followed Sandy, a little nervously. She barely knew him and he was making her be alone with him.
"So, I just called Kirsten and she told me about your rapist. I know we can catch him; you will just have to give me some time. Kirsten told me the description and I think we can start an investigation. Plus, when you have the baby, we can have a paternity test to see if the people we have found are the right ones. Are you okay with this or is there something wrong?" Sandy told her trying to make her feel comforted. She looked pitiful and scared, like she didn't trust Sandy to be alone with her.
"Thank you for your generosity. I don't know how I could repay you, but I will one day," she said trying not to be as frightened as she was.
"The only thing we want from you is happiness. If you were not happy, then we wouldn't have done our job. I do want you to know that I will never hurt you, so you don't need to be afraid,"
"That's what he said too," Lizzie said leaving Sandy alone in the hallway.