Chapter 11

A short chapter I know, but I had to leave it where I did, when you read you'll understand. Besides I'm tired, I need my sleep...okay read and review, I love reviews!
"Summer!" Seth calls out to her at lunch but she keeps on walking like she hasn't heard him. "I know you can hear me, people ahead of you are staring, would you just slow down? Summer come on!"

Summer stops suddenly and whirls around, "what do you want Cohen?"

"I just wanted to explain what you thought you saw at the hospital," Seth gasps for breath winded after chasing Summer across the lawn.

"Why would you have to explain anything?" Summer asks indifferently, "we broke up, remember? You can see whoever you'd like."

"I'm not seeing Anna," Seth states quickly. "We were playing charades, the word was Tango."

"It doesn't matter," Summer responds, "I don't care what you're doing Seth. I don't care if you're with Anna or if you're not, it doesn't matter either way to me." With her statement Summer begins walking again.

Seth grabs her arm, "Summer, come on."

Summer's eyes are on fire when she turns around again, "leave...me...alone. We're not dating anymore. I can go back to not knowing you even existed, if you want to follow me around like you used to then please, do it. But like before make sure I don't see or hear you."

"Summer..." Seth's words die on his lips both from lack of any idea as to what to say and because Summer has already begun to walk away.
"Jimmy, it's perfect," Hailey exclaims walking around in the first house they were touring. "It's perfect size, there's three bedrooms, one for us, one for Marissa and one for Caitlin when she comes to visit. There's a guest house, plenty of room to throw parties, a huge pool, it's..."

"Across the street from Sandy and Kirsten," Jimmy finishes for her.

"I was going to say perfect, but that too."

"You want to live across the street from your sister?" Jimmy asks.

"Well, yeah. Besides Marissa'll be close to Ryan again, it's exactly what we've been looking for. We could even get married here if we wanted to."

"It was just put on the market today, I have a feeling this house is going to go fast," their realtor speaks up. "So if you want the house I'd suggest you put an offer in as soon as possible."

Hailey bites her lip, "what do you say Jimmy?"

Jimmy sighs, "if you don't mind living across the street from your sister, then I guess you're right it is perfect."

Hailey clasps her hands together, "great. You start working on the paper work, I want to look at every square inch of this house."

"You're fiancee is energetic," the realtor comments to Jimmy.

Jimmy nods and smiles, "yes, she is."
"So we didn't find anything we like, who cares." Sandy responds, "we'll find something we like, we can't force it."

Jimmy nods as they settle around a table at a small restaurant for lunch, "I agree."

"So when's Marissa going to move in with you?"

"As soon as we get all the paperwork settled on the house, I don't want to give Caleb a chance to come up with a new scheme to keep her in that hellish place."

Sandy nods, "smart idea."

Jimmy nods, "Hailey really likes Marissa and she's glad that Marissa is moving in with us. Besides, I think it will be good for Marissa to have a stronger mother figure in her life, someone she can go to with teenage problems and can get help that doesn't have a hidden agenda behind it. Besides I think she loved living close to Seth and Ryan..."

"Living close to Seth and Ryan?" Sandy asks.

"Yeah," Jimmy nods, "about that."

"Where is this new house anyway?"

"Well...you drive by it a lot," Jimmy responds slowly.

"What is it, on my way to work?" Sandy asks.

"Yeah," Jimmy nods. "Actually it's on your way to everything."

Sandy's eyes narrow, "what do you mean?"

"It's the house across the street from yours."

"It's not even on the market...you mean Hurricane Hailey is moving in across the street from my house?"

Jimmy nods, "I tried to talk her out of it. But you know how she is, sets her mind to do something..."

"Do you really love her? Because if your not really in love and your just torturing me..."

Jimmy nods, "I love her."

Sandy sighs, "all right. Well then I suppose I can cope, I mean I lived next to Julie for years how much worse can Hailey be?"

Jimmy nods, "good, a positive attitude." Changing the subject Jimmy asks, "so how's Kirsten handling life of the unemployed?"

"She doesn't like the idea of not having a job, she's still pretty upset about it...but I'm sure there'll be something soon to take her mind off of it."
Kirsten stares, she can hear movement in the house below her letting her know Sandy and Seth are home with dinner, but all she can do is stare at the little stick. The little stick with the pink plus sign. The little stick that had come in the box that Kirsten had tried to convince herself she didn't need to buy. The little stick that had brought yet another drastic change into her life. A change that she didn't know if she could or wanted to handle.

The call of, "Mom! Dinner!" Doesn't register through Kirsten's mind as she continues to stare, her stomach and her mind churning.

"Kirsten," Sandy knocks on the open doorframe as he walks into the bathroom, "is everything..." Sandy takes one look at Kirsten's frozen face and stops, "what's wrong?"

"I've been really stressed out so I didn't really think that...but I thought maybe I should check just in case you know...just like with Seth. 'Cause that's how it happened..."

"Kirsten, what's going on..." Sandy's gaze finally lands on the pregnancy test in Kirsten's shaking hand. Closing his eyes and taking a deep breath Sandy asks, "Kirsten are you pregnant?"

Kirsten nods slowly, "I'm, I'm pregnant."