Thanks for the reviews! Again there are a lot of lines from the show... I may have changed a few of them up so it wouldn't run my story long for no reason lol and also so it will fit in with my story. Also this chapter will concentrate more on Ryan considering Rachel is sick :-P. some one asked about rachels place in the story... she is Ryans friend as said in the first few chapters. Enjoy!

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Ryan woke up the next day and stepped out of the pool house and looked out at the view. 'So this is what it is like to be "Livin large"' He thought to himself as he scanned the view of the ocean and coast line of Newport. He walked in to the main house to see a kid about his age sitting in front of the TV playing video games.

"Hey." The kid stated.

"Hey." Ryan said back.

"Wanna play?" The kid asked. Ryan nodded and went over, sat down and began to play. He was beaten at the game very badly.

"Oh, looks like someone's trying to be a hero, but he got a little cocky. X O X O. It's an unbeatable combination. Oh! Oh! Oh…! What happened to your head, dude? Where did it go? I'm sorry. Did someone die?" The kid gloated. Ryan still didn't know his name. "Oh, hey, do you want to play Grand Theft Auto? It's pretty cool. You can, like, steal cars and…not that that's cool…or uncool. I don't know. Um…" the kid rambled obviously he was filled in on his little car incident this morning by Sandy. Just then Sandy walked in.

"I see you two have met. Seth, what are you doing inside on this beautiful day? Why don't you show Ryan around?" Sandy said. 'Seth. Ok I know his name now.' Ryan thought.

"Yea like there is so much to do here dad." Seth said sarcastically. "Is there something you want to do?" He asked Ryan. Ryan shrugged.

"What do you guys do around here?" He asked. next thing he knew he was out on Seth's mini boat. 'This is kinda cool.' Ryan thought. He had never really been to the beach before never the less on a boat. Seth was rambling on about a girl named Summer. He listened and smiled inwardly. 'This kid is kinda cool. A little weird but cool.' After a while they brought the boat back to shore. Sandy had come down to greet them.

"Hey guys. Have fun?" He asked. The boys nodded. "Come on we gotta get ready for the fashion show." He said. Ryan was confused and Sandy noticed it. "The ladies of Newport put together a fashion show for charity and we are all going. Even you Ryan." Ryan wasn't to sure about that. He gave sandy and 'I don't know about this' look. "Come on it will be fun."

"I don't have nice clothes for that." Ryan stated.

"Don't worry I am sure we have plenty of suits." Sandy said. "Come on lets go get ready." Then the three of them walked back to the house.

A half and hour later Ryan was showered and dressed standing in front of a mirror trying to do his tie. He got frustrated cause he couldn't tie it and decided that he wouldn't wear it. He stood there looking at himself. 'Never thought I would be wearing a suit' he thought. He heard someone knock on the door and looked past himself in the mirror to see it was Sandy.

"Wow, look at that. Fits you beautifully. Where's your tie?" Sandy said walking over to him.

"I'm not going to wear one. Open collar. It's a good look." He said tugging had his suit jacket. sandy smiled a bit.

"I didn't know how to tie a tie till I was 25. Come on. Give me your tie." He said and Ryan handed it to him and proceeded to explain how to tie a tie. Once he was finished he followed Sandy out to the car. Ryan was a bit nervous. He was going to a place he really didn't belong and he just wanted to go back home where at least he knew what was what. He didn't know what to do or how to act so his plan was to just stay quiet and out of the way.

When they had gotten to the house where the show was being held he saw everyone talking to one another about how much money their respective companies were going to make.

"Welcome to the dark side" Seth said sarcastically from behind him. Ryan walked two steps before he had a woman come up to him. She asked, obviously flirting, if he was the cousin from Boston and then she said she couldn't live there cause of the cold. Then another woman asked if he liked Seattle and if all the rain was depressing. A third asked if she heard correctly and if he was from Canada. He replied with a "yes you did" . 'Wow word travels fast when someone new enters their world.' Ryan thought. He went to the bar and asked for a seven and seven. He took a sip then Kristen came over to him. He gave her a half smile and looked down at the glass. He handed it over to her.

"Thank you. I want my husband to be right about you." She said with a small smile and walked away. Ryan spots Seth and walks over to him. He sees a guy taller then Seth standing next to him.

"Hey. Yea suck it queer." The guy said and Ryan didn't like that to much and made sure that when the guy walked away he bumped into him. He gave the guy a glare.

"Yea Luke my vacation was great. Thanks for asking." Seth said sarcastically. 'This is going to be a long night.' Ryan thought to himself. Through out the party Seth kept pointing out Summer to him. Ryan noticed that Summer and her friend, Seth told him her name was Marissa, would look over at them too every once in a while. He liked the Marissa girl. He hoped to get to know her better later.

Ryan was walking out to the front of the house when Summer came up to him.

"Hey. Where you going? My friend, Holly…well, her parents are letting use their beach house as a gift, you know, 'cause of all our hard work for charity. If you need a ride…or…anything. I'm Summer.." She said then walked away with her friends over to a jeep. Ryan went to go find Seth.

"Hey, you ready to go?" Seth asks

"Yeah. We should, uh, go to that party at that girl Holly's place." Ryan states.

"Uh, yeah, no, that's all right." Seth says

"Summer…invited me." He says looking over at where Summer is.

"Really? She did?" Seth asked a bit surprised and a little hurt. Ryan sees this and covers.

"Us. She asked for you, actually."

"Really? She did?" he said again and they both looked over to the jeep.



"Come on!" Summer yells

"That makes absolutely no sense, but, yes, we should go." He turns to the people he was talking to before "We're going to go with them. Thanks, guys." They walk to the jeep and get in. Ryan watches as Marissa gets into her boyfriend's truck.

"If it sucks, we can always bail…" Seth states and Ryan nods and then smiles.

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A little less action in that chapter. More action to come in latter chapters. Keep reviewing! Thanks!!!! I have 2 more chapters written after this ready to go but you know what they say...lol..update every few days to keep people interested....and the questions everyone are asking will be answered as the story goes on... promise!