Author Notes: Sorry I haven't updated too often lately, but we've been having some technical problems at home and I couldn't type, much less, update so here I am now! I hope you all enjoy this chapter, I'll try to get the next one up tomorrow or the day after! Thank you to everyone who reviewed! Your reviews keep me going and I'm really grateful for each one I receive! Sorry again about the wait and please review!
Chapter Seven
"Sum! Ryan and Marissa are here!" Seth yelled down to Summer from the top landing of the stairs.
"That's nice to know," Summer replied in a cheerful tone from the living room. She was sitting on their couch, picking at her nails. She really shouldn't have been picking her nails because she had just gotten them done, but at that particular moment, Summer couldn't have cared less about her long nails.
"Could you please open the door?" Seth shouted back down to her.
"Nope. But you could," Summer informed Seth. "What a dumb butt," she muttered to herself. She was in a horrible mood. Today, the drugs were definitely having their grouchy effect on her. She was well aware of the fact that she was much closer to the door than Seth was. She was also well aware that she was completely ready while Seth still had on mismatched clothes. However, she was in her grouchy, irritable, angry mood so she refused to be at all sensible or reasonable.
"Summer!" Seth called again. "Please answer the door so I can change my shirt!" He was being polite and nice about how he was asking her to open the door, but she refused to do it.
"You get your butt down here and you answer the door, you lazy geek. What am I, your slave?" Summer snapped angrily. Then Summer got up from the couch, walked through the front hall, past the front door, and into the kitchen to check on the dinner.
"I love her, she's my wife. I love her, she's my wife," Seth muttered and repeated this to himself as he walked down the stairs to answer the door. He had decided it was not worth it to argue with Summer. She seemed more moody than normal lately and Seth was starting to think she was angry with him. He wasn't sure what he had done, but he was sure that he could have very possibly done something.
Seth sighed and then opened the door. He moved aside to let Ryan and Marissa in. "Hey," Seth greeted them. "Riss-you're getting bigger and bigger each day!" he teased happily.
Marissa slapped him playfully. "Seth Cohen, you sure know how to flatter a woman," Marissa teased back as she leaned over and hugged Seth. She then stepped away from Seth and glanced at his clothes. "Seth, hon, do you realize you're wearing mismatched clothes?" she asked. Seth nodded, rolled his eyes, and mouthed 'don't even ask' to Marissa. Marissa giggled and nodded back to him.
"Are you two hungry?" Seth asked as he led them into the kitchen. "Because my beautiful wife made an amazing dinner, if I do say so myself," Seth grinned.
As Marissa and Ryan sat themselves down at the table, which was already set, Seth went up behind Summer and kissed the side of her head. Summer turned, glared at him, and then proceeded in taking the garlic bread and spaghetti to the table. "Seth, dear," Summer said in a chilly tone, "grab the salad and cheese, alright?"
"Yes, honey," Seth replied. He knew that it was going to be a long night. He grabbed the bowls and turned around. He glanced at Marissa, whom was looking bewildered by their behavior. Ryan, as always, was somewhere else and not concerned with the odd behavior.
Summer turned to Marissa and flashed her a giant, toothy smile. It was totally fake and Marissa knew it. She could see almost, if not every, single one of Summer's pearly white teeth. "Have you two made any more decisions where baby names are concerned?" Summer asked in an overly cheerful and enthusiastic tone.
"Actually, we have!" Marissa squealed as all the excitement of name picking came back to her.
"Really? What names?" Summer asked curiously. She had dropped the overly-too-enthusiastic tone and had a genuinely happy tone now.
"Conner for a boy and Malerie for a girl," Marissa answered happily. She gazed at Ryan. "And those are our final decisions name wise right, honey?" Ryan rolled his eyes in a good-natured way and nodded back to Marissa.
"Wow, Ryan. You really let Marissa have her way this time, huh?" Summer commented in a surprised tone.
"Well, I love her, and I couldn't really resist making her happy so…" Ryan's voice trailed off.
"That is sooo sweet!" Summer cooed. She snapped her head in Seth's direction. "Too bad everyone isn't as sweet as you are, Ry."
Summer's snappy and moody attitude soon shut everyone at the table up and they all finished dinner in silence other than the occasional 'please pass the salad'.
"Oookay, that was a lot of fun," Seth said after they all finished dinner. Everyone started to clear the table and clean up.
"Hey! The night's still young!" Marissa reminded Seth. "Do you guys want to call it a night or do something else?" Marissa suggested.
Summer flipped her dark brown hair over her shoulder. "We could watch a movie or do something here. You probably shouldn't be up and about too much nowadays anyway," Summer said to Marissa.
Marissa laughed. "You sound just like Ryan. He gets worried when I walk from one room to the next," Marissa grinned.
Ryan ignored Marissa's comment and answered Summer, "It's not like we have any where else to be so why don't we just stay and watch a movie?" He shrugged at them all.
Marissa laughed again. "Pretend like your happy to be here, honey," Marissa giggled.
Ryan gave her a small grin and said, "You all know what I mean."
"Alrighty then, what movie?" Seth asked as they all moved into the living room.
"Anything but 'When Harry Met Sally'. I can not take that movie more than once a week and she's-" Ryan pointed at Marissa, whom gave an innocent shrug, "made me watch it once already this week."
"I know what you mean," Seth said sympathetically. Seth turned to the two girls and said firmly, "No more Harry and Sally."
"That's fine," Marissa answered smiling mischievously.
Ryan and Seth exchanged confused glances. "Are you sure?" Ryan asked.
"I was expecting more of a fight than that," Seth admitted.
"Yes, we're sure," Marissa said as Summer nodded.
"What are we going to watch then?" Seth asked, although he wasn't completely sure he wanted to hear the answer.
"Clueless!" Summer and Marissa exclaimed in unison.
Seth rolled his eyes. "Could we, like, totally, watch another movie?" he asked in a mimicking tone.
Summer linked arms with Marissa as the two headed over to the huge flat screen TV. "I think you'll just have to live with Clueless for tonight, dear," Summer said as she glared at Seth.
Seth took a deep breath and again decided to let Summer's comments fly by him. He did, however, turn to Ryan and grin. "I guess we should have been able to see that movie coming next," Seth said rolling his eyes.
"Yeah, I know, it's all she ever wants to watch if I refuse to watch our dear friends, Harry and Sally," Ryan said laughing.
Soon enough, the two couples had settled down onto the couches and began watching Clueless. Other than the fact that Summer was sitting about three feet away from Seth, everything was going smoothly until the phone rang about half way through Clueless.
Seth started to get up to answer the phone, but Summer shot him one of her famous death glares and snapped, "Sit down, the machine will get it!"
Seth obediently sat back down and after a couple of rings, the machine answered the phone. "Hi, you've reached the Cohens. Leave us a message at the beep, thanks!" Summer's voice rang out in a cheerful tone.
"Hello, this message is for both Seth and Summer Cohen. My name is Kara Clarke, from Ryan Atwood's office. I'm just calling to let you know that in approximately a month, Ryan will be moving away to New York to help open up our new building out there. Therefore, you will have a new associate assigned to all your cases. If you have any questions, you can give me a call back at 555-5123. Thank you, good night!" Kara hung up the phone and suddenly it was very quiet in the Cohens' living room.
There was an awkward, tense silence that lasted for at least five minutes after Kara had hung up. Finally, Marissa spoke up. "Isn't that interesting?" she asked. Her voice sounded ice cold and, at the same time, emotionless. "My husband is moving to New York. With out me," she said. Now, her voice had become more angry and outraged.
Marissa was glaring angrily at Ryan, Summer was staring in disbelief at Ryan, and Seth was just pondering in his little head how long this fight was going to last. Suddenly, out of nowhere, Seth said something that shocked even him. "Wow, Ryan. I told you that you should tell her yourself before she found out some other way," Seth blurted out. Even HE wasn't sure why that had come out of his mouth.
No one in the room was glaring at Ryan anymore. Now, they were all glaring angrily at Seth.