This is the final chapter to an awesome story. I hope that you all liked it as much as I liked writing it. You can see at the end they all came full circle. I know that I said that I would do a "promo" thing at the end of this chap for my new OC story, but I think that I will just add it later as an additional chapter to this later. I have the plot at everything just not in the summary form... more in the mental one. Anyhow, this final chapter has been written for sometime but because the site was down for awhile I wasn't able to post it. LOL. Anyhow I hope that it's worth the wait.
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xoxo Always Jules
Chapter 33: "Like fifteen strangers dancing"
Epilogue
2 years later
"Mom! MOM!" Ella yelled from the kitchen where you could see smoke emerging from
"IT'S OKAY!" Kirsten called out to Summer who was sitting on the couch
"What's going on in here?" Summer said fanning the air with the blanket that she held in her hand.
"Grandma Kirsten burnt the lasagna!" Ella said with a goofy grin on her face.
She was still tiny for her age of eight, and she had wild curly hair, and always sported a mischievous grin.
"Lasagna isn't really a thanksgiving food anyway." Summer said looking at her mother-in law sympathetically.
"I tried!" Kirsten said throwing her hands up in the air. "I'm going to watch football with the guys."
Seth sat with his father and Jimmy on the couch to watch the game.
"This has to be the most pointless sport ever." Seth complained "If it involved like stealing cars, or blowing stuff up event that'd be awesome, but a bunch of guys fighting over a ball and tackling one another. Ya gotta admit that's a little minty." Seth said raising up to get the door that was being knocked at for the past five minutes. It went unnoticed due to the football, and the lasagna fiasco.
"What kinda son did you raise?" Jimmy asked Sandy shooting him a look
Sandy shrugged and turned his attention back to the TV.
"Ryan, Marissa!" Seth said as he opened the door. "How goes it."
"You tell me, I smell something burning." Ryan said looking past his brother into the house.
"Did you let Kirsten cook?!" Marissa asked in horror.
"It was Bam's idea not mine!" Seth said holding up his hands
"And you take orders from an eight year old since when?" Marissa asked rising and eyebrow lifting up Andrew onto her hip. Aden, a daddy's girl from day one entered behind Ryan holding on to the back of his shirt. The twins were now two. "Sum!" Marissa said embracing her pained looking best friend. "How are you?"
"How am I? How do you think I am?! I'm as big as a house, and the food is burning, and my daughter is skateboarding in the house once again and the smoke is making it really moist in here causing my husbands jew-fro to emerge and he just looks very unattractive right now!" Summer complained
"It might just be the cranberry sauce that he has all over his face." Marissa said with a grin
"What am I going to do Coop? I have two children already with Seth and Bam." She put her hand on her swollen stomach
"Only two more months Sum." Marissa said loving her best friends mock agony "What do you think that you are going to name her?"
"Well Cohen," Summer said calling her husband by his pet name even though she was now a Cohen herself, "decided that he should name the baby since I named Ella. But I think that I should name her because he made up Bam which we call her more than Ella anyway!"
Marissa sighed
"Why don't you just compromise?"
"That's easy for you to say. You killed two birds with one stone and you and Ryan each got to name one, or at least half of it."
"Well why don't you solve the problem and let me name her." Marissa suggested as Seth came up behind Summer
"Your letting Marissa name our kid?" Seth asked
"It's better than letting you do it and risk our child's name being Zelda, or Xena or something of the sort." Summer snapped
"Her name is going to be Nina Danielle Cohen." Marissa said with authority.
Summer and Seth exchanged glances and their features softened.
"Dad!" Marissa said skipping over to the couch and plopping down beside her father
"Hey sweetie. Where are the twins?"
"Off somewhere with their father." Marissa said not even bothering to turn around "So did Caitlin tell you that she's coming?" Marissa asked
"No, she didn't!" Jimmy said in surprise
"Yeah, and she's bringing some friend from boarding school." Marissa said with a smile
"That should be nice." Jimmy said turning back to the game
There was another knock at the door.
"Door!" Ella said running to get it.
"That must be Noah and her new boyfriend!" Summer said wiping her hands off as Seth followed her to the door.
"Hey!" Ella said as she swung the door open, she gave Noah a big hug before looking at her guests. "Do I know you guys from somewhere?" Ella asked raising an eyebrow
"Craig?" Summer said raising an eyebrow.
"Aw this is great!" Seth said sarcastically when Summer elbowed him in the stomach
"Summer you look… pregnant." Craig said
"Looks like you've been doing well yourself…" Summer said glancing at Noah's belly…
Logan and Ella just stared at one another, and Ella didn't know why, but she began to blush.
"Well this is awkward so come on in!" Seth said stepping back allowing everyone in.
--- Soon enough everyone was sitting around the dinner table
"I think this is the first time that we've all sat down like this together in years." Sandy commented
They all smiled at one another warmly
"For awhile there it seemed like it would never happen." Seth said squeezing Summers hand.
"We've all made some dumb mistakes." Summer said
"Nah, I knew we'd be here." Marissa said
"Right, because your just the Queen of optimism aren't you?" Seth asked sarcastically
Marissa stuck out her tongue
"Aw, and you're mature too!" Seth added
Then once again, the doorbell rang.
"That's probably Caitlin, late as usual." Marissa said going to get the door
"Hey!" Caitlin squealed giving her big sister a hug. "I am so sorry I'm late, I caught the wrong flight and we had to get Taylor a ticket." She said in an exhausted voice
"Oh, so is Taylor your roommate?" Marissa asked
"Nope." Caitlin said
"I'm Taylor." A young boy about seventeen said as he entered.
All of the mens eyes shot up protectively. The kid had scruffy brown hair and wore a tank top with a jacket over it. He had an apprehensive lost look in his eyes.
"Hi…" Ella said figuring that someone should say something
"Taylor just transferred to my school on scholarship daddy." Caitlin said with a smile and a bounce.
"Oh yeah, from where?" Jimmy asked concerned.
"Chino!" Caitlin said watching everyone's shocked expressions
Seth stood up from the table.
"Let us be the first ones to welcome you." Seth said with a smile.
"Yeah." Ryan said shaking the boys hand. "Welcome to the OC bitch."
THE END
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