Authors note: In this story Sandy and Jimmy still own the restaurant
"A girl who'd wait for the third time around, head in the clouds feet on the ground,
She's a girl he's glad he's found, she's his Shipoopi."
---Shipoopi, The Music Man
Summer walked into Drama class fifteen minutes late carrying a pink diaper bag and her history book.
"Sorry I'm late you guys but..."Summer stopped mid-sentence and looked around at her class mates who were sitting at various tables making turkey's out of their hand outlines, "You know I should be confused by this but I'm not."
"What's with the diaper bag?" A guy named Ariel asked.
"I'm going to take Samara's home after this block."
"Are you serious?!" Becca exclaimed
"Yep."
"Are you taking her over Anne's thanksgiving celebration tomorrow?" Kristi asked from her spot next to Wasman in the back of the room.
"Well, I wasn't but then I learnt that Meg's husband, Gary, is inviting most of his family, including small children, over. I figured that Anne's place would be a lot more sterile. "
"Did I hear my name?" Anne asked appearing at the door way.
"Oh my god! Anne! Hi!" Gwen exclaimed
"Hi you guys. Hey Summer. You look good."
"Thank you Anne. I've been using the Pilate video that you got me for my birthday. I think I'm getting an ab!"
"Just one?" Sarah asked
"Shut up!"
That afternoon instead of going to their fourth block classes the gang decided to start their four day weekend early by joining Summer, Samara, and Anne Marie at Subway. They all sat in a booth discussing everything that Anne had missed while she was gone.
"The Welcome assembly went horrible." Gwen said laughing.
"What happened?" Anne asked
"Well, for starters, it was almost two weeks after school started due to school being let out early because of heat. And secondly, the power went out five minutes into the assembly."
"Oh god."
"So I'm standing up there screaming so that everyone can hear me and the teachers start making everyone go back to class just ignoring me."
"God, Counterman that's...poor you." Anne said trying not to laugh.
"Counterman!" Orlando, the student body president exclaimed walking up to the table. "I can't believe that you did the time warp up on stage! You made a total mockery of the senior class!"
"Well, I needed to kill time so I thought to myself, 'I'm on stage and I'm wearing a dress. What can I do? I know, the Time Warp'. Besides there were worse things than my dancing at that assembly." Counterman said standing up for himself.
"If you or your skanky friends" Orlando looked directly at Summer, "ever even think about doing something like that again I will bring you down."
"God, he is such a jerk." Kristi said as he walked away.
"You know that he still pissed that if he hadn't of cheated Counterman would have won the election last year." Gwen said shaking her head.
"What exactly did I miss today?" Summer asked shifting Sam to her other arm, pretending that Orlando's comment didn't hurt her.
"It was the Mr. CHS pageant today during second block and Jackson was in it. Well, during the talent portion of the competition Jackson's talent was making Hot Pockets and I was his 'Lovely assistant' and we needed to do something while we waited for the hot pocket to cook. And you know what? There were worse things, like T's band playing 'Tracey Lane' or you know the poem about locking someone in a basement and killing them, then my dancing. "
That night Summer sat on the floor of her room wrapping Christmas presents and talking to Seth on the phone while Samara slept.
"So remind me again why are you wrapping presents?" Seth asked
"Because I've been really busy and now is the only time I can manage to fit it into my schedule. Plus I need to get things early since I have to mail them half way across the country."
"So do you have something for me?"
"Yes, I have something for you."
"What is it?"
"I can't tell you! That defeats the whole purpose of a present."
"Okay." Seth said with an over exaggerated sigh.
"So what are you doing tomorrow?"
"I'm going over to the restaurant with Marissa. We're going to be helping out Mr. Cooper and Haley with the thanksgiving rush."
"What about Ryan?"
"He's going to visit his mom."
"And your parents?"
"They're going to go visit the nana."
The next day Summer sat on Anne's couch watching the first season of Alias along with most of the gang.
"I think this show might have sold its soul to the devil." Gwen said, "I mean what other explanation is there for its addicting qualities? Really."
"Think about this," Katherine said, "Kristi, Becca, Anne and I all watched the show the first time around. We had to wait an entire week, sometimes longer, to find out about everything."
Summer laid down laying her head on the arm rest, getting really into the episode and as soon as it got to the most exciting part Samara started crying from the guest bed room.
"I'll be back." Summer said standing up, "Tell me what I miss."
"I'll come with you." Kristi said following.
Kristi and Summer walked into the guest room and Kristi shut the door
"Wasman and I---I think we're---I think we are going to have sex this tonight." she blurted out.
"Excuse me?" Summer asked in complete shock taking Sam out of her carrier.
"Well, we've talked a lot about it and we both feel like we're emotionally ready for it."
"Kristi, no one is emotionally ready for sex. Believe me."
"Summer---"
"No, listen to me. Your first time should be thought out thoroughly, you should do it because you know that both of you are ready."
"How do you know that it's my first time?"
"Kristi, I was once a virgin too you know. I can tell. And I can also tell if you're rushing into it to fast."
"What was your first time like?" Summer sat on the bed, looked down at her daughter and sighed.
"It was very sudden." She said. "But it also wasn't, if that makes any sense. He was the first guy I ever loved. He came to my house and he just gave this speech and even though it sounded like it came from an 80's movie it was very romantic and I just knew that there would never be another moment as perfect as that one."
"So it was perfect."
"No. The moment was perfect but the act itself was...well I think bad is an understatement."
"Oh."
"We couldn't even look at each other afterwards. It was awkward. I think he blamed himself, I blamed myself. We haven't spoken about it since. I don't want that to happen to you and Wazzie."
"Thank you."
"No problem. Plus, you know, other things can come from having sex. And you know that story about how you can't get pregnant your first time? Total crap."
Kristi was silent for a moment and then asked, "Are you trying to tell me..."
"That Sam here came from that night? Yes."
"So Seth was your first?"
"Yep. Now, we better get back out there before they send a search party. You ready to go Sami? Hmm."
Summer held Sam close to her body and put her free arm around Kristi.
"Thank you." Kristi whispered
"No problem."
The three walked back into the living room and Kristi took a seat on the couch with Sam while Summer went into the kitchen to get a bottle from the fridge. She then turned to go back when the door bell rang.
"That's probably the pizza. Can you get that?" Anne asked
"Yeah." Summer called back
"Thank you. The money's by the door."
Summer opened the door and was shocked that instead of finding the pizza delivery guy standing in front of her it was Sandy and Kirsten Cohen.
"Summer, hi." Sandy said just as surprised as Summer was.
"Hi Mr. Cohen, Mrs. Cohen."
"Hi Summer. What a surprise." Kirsten said.
"I second that. What are you guys doing here?"
"Well we were on our way to New York to visit my mother and our plane had to make a detour here because of weather and so we figured 'Why not stop over at Mary and Jeff's'." Sandy told her
"Mary and Jeff are out of town for the next couple of days."
"What is taking so long?" Anne asked walking to the door, "Sandy, Kirsten. Hi!"
"Hi Anne. "Kirsten said.
"Would you like to come in?"
"Thank you Anne." Sandy said
As Sandy and Kirsten walked into the house Summer pulled Anne Marie aside.
"What the hell do you think you're doing? "Summer whispered
"What do you mean?"
"I'm inviting Sandy and Kirsten in. That's just asking for trouble."
"It's asking for trouble if we just let them stand outside too."
"Sorry to break this up but I think Sam's ready for that bottle now Sum." Kristi said walking up to
"Oh god Sam, I totally forgot. I'll be right there."
"It's now or never." Anne whispered into Summer's ear, "You ready?"
Summer stood still and silent for a moment and then turned towards the family room.
"Yes, I am."
The two walked into the living room and saw Samara sitting on Kirsten's lap, not scared at all.
"How old is she?" Sandy asked
"She's three months old." Gwen said as Kirsten brushed some strands of Sami's curly brown hair down.
"I've got her bottle." Summer said taking a seat in between Kirsten and Gwen with her arms out.
Kirsten handed Sam over saying, "She's beautiful."
Summer smiled, "I know."
"Why didn't you parent's tell us that they had another baby Anne." Sandy said
"They didn't tell you because she's not theirs." Summer said before Anne or Katherine had the chance to open either of their mouths, "She's mine."
"Yours, oh." Kirsten said shocked.
"That's impossible. If she's three months old then you would have been showing when you left..." Sandy started
"She was premature." Summer said cutting him off.
"Oh. So that means that...is it..."
"Yes Mr. Cohen. It is."
"I'm missing something." Kirsten said confused
"Hey there," Katherine said jumping up, "I think I just heard a car outside. Let's go see, shall we?"
"Yeah, let's go." Anne said ushering everyone but Summer, Sandy, and Kirsten out of the room and shutting the door.
"What am I missing?" Kirsten asked.
"You want to tell her or should I?" Sandy asked using a mix between his upset father and lawyer voice.
"She's your son's." Summer said avoiding looking anyone in the eyes, "She's Seth's."
"A girl who'd wait for the third time around, head in the clouds feet on the ground,
She's a girl he's glad he's found, she's his Shipoopi."
---Shipoopi, The Music Man
Summer walked into Drama class fifteen minutes late carrying a pink diaper bag and her history book.
"Sorry I'm late you guys but..."Summer stopped mid-sentence and looked around at her class mates who were sitting at various tables making turkey's out of their hand outlines, "You know I should be confused by this but I'm not."
"What's with the diaper bag?" A guy named Ariel asked.
"I'm going to take Samara's home after this block."
"Are you serious?!" Becca exclaimed
"Yep."
"Are you taking her over Anne's thanksgiving celebration tomorrow?" Kristi asked from her spot next to Wasman in the back of the room.
"Well, I wasn't but then I learnt that Meg's husband, Gary, is inviting most of his family, including small children, over. I figured that Anne's place would be a lot more sterile. "
"Did I hear my name?" Anne asked appearing at the door way.
"Oh my god! Anne! Hi!" Gwen exclaimed
"Hi you guys. Hey Summer. You look good."
"Thank you Anne. I've been using the Pilate video that you got me for my birthday. I think I'm getting an ab!"
"Just one?" Sarah asked
"Shut up!"
That afternoon instead of going to their fourth block classes the gang decided to start their four day weekend early by joining Summer, Samara, and Anne Marie at Subway. They all sat in a booth discussing everything that Anne had missed while she was gone.
"The Welcome assembly went horrible." Gwen said laughing.
"What happened?" Anne asked
"Well, for starters, it was almost two weeks after school started due to school being let out early because of heat. And secondly, the power went out five minutes into the assembly."
"Oh god."
"So I'm standing up there screaming so that everyone can hear me and the teachers start making everyone go back to class just ignoring me."
"God, Counterman that's...poor you." Anne said trying not to laugh.
"Counterman!" Orlando, the student body president exclaimed walking up to the table. "I can't believe that you did the time warp up on stage! You made a total mockery of the senior class!"
"Well, I needed to kill time so I thought to myself, 'I'm on stage and I'm wearing a dress. What can I do? I know, the Time Warp'. Besides there were worse things than my dancing at that assembly." Counterman said standing up for himself.
"If you or your skanky friends" Orlando looked directly at Summer, "ever even think about doing something like that again I will bring you down."
"God, he is such a jerk." Kristi said as he walked away.
"You know that he still pissed that if he hadn't of cheated Counterman would have won the election last year." Gwen said shaking her head.
"What exactly did I miss today?" Summer asked shifting Sam to her other arm, pretending that Orlando's comment didn't hurt her.
"It was the Mr. CHS pageant today during second block and Jackson was in it. Well, during the talent portion of the competition Jackson's talent was making Hot Pockets and I was his 'Lovely assistant' and we needed to do something while we waited for the hot pocket to cook. And you know what? There were worse things, like T's band playing 'Tracey Lane' or you know the poem about locking someone in a basement and killing them, then my dancing. "
That night Summer sat on the floor of her room wrapping Christmas presents and talking to Seth on the phone while Samara slept.
"So remind me again why are you wrapping presents?" Seth asked
"Because I've been really busy and now is the only time I can manage to fit it into my schedule. Plus I need to get things early since I have to mail them half way across the country."
"So do you have something for me?"
"Yes, I have something for you."
"What is it?"
"I can't tell you! That defeats the whole purpose of a present."
"Okay." Seth said with an over exaggerated sigh.
"So what are you doing tomorrow?"
"I'm going over to the restaurant with Marissa. We're going to be helping out Mr. Cooper and Haley with the thanksgiving rush."
"What about Ryan?"
"He's going to visit his mom."
"And your parents?"
"They're going to go visit the nana."
The next day Summer sat on Anne's couch watching the first season of Alias along with most of the gang.
"I think this show might have sold its soul to the devil." Gwen said, "I mean what other explanation is there for its addicting qualities? Really."
"Think about this," Katherine said, "Kristi, Becca, Anne and I all watched the show the first time around. We had to wait an entire week, sometimes longer, to find out about everything."
Summer laid down laying her head on the arm rest, getting really into the episode and as soon as it got to the most exciting part Samara started crying from the guest bed room.
"I'll be back." Summer said standing up, "Tell me what I miss."
"I'll come with you." Kristi said following.
Kristi and Summer walked into the guest room and Kristi shut the door
"Wasman and I---I think we're---I think we are going to have sex this tonight." she blurted out.
"Excuse me?" Summer asked in complete shock taking Sam out of her carrier.
"Well, we've talked a lot about it and we both feel like we're emotionally ready for it."
"Kristi, no one is emotionally ready for sex. Believe me."
"Summer---"
"No, listen to me. Your first time should be thought out thoroughly, you should do it because you know that both of you are ready."
"How do you know that it's my first time?"
"Kristi, I was once a virgin too you know. I can tell. And I can also tell if you're rushing into it to fast."
"What was your first time like?" Summer sat on the bed, looked down at her daughter and sighed.
"It was very sudden." She said. "But it also wasn't, if that makes any sense. He was the first guy I ever loved. He came to my house and he just gave this speech and even though it sounded like it came from an 80's movie it was very romantic and I just knew that there would never be another moment as perfect as that one."
"So it was perfect."
"No. The moment was perfect but the act itself was...well I think bad is an understatement."
"Oh."
"We couldn't even look at each other afterwards. It was awkward. I think he blamed himself, I blamed myself. We haven't spoken about it since. I don't want that to happen to you and Wazzie."
"Thank you."
"No problem. Plus, you know, other things can come from having sex. And you know that story about how you can't get pregnant your first time? Total crap."
Kristi was silent for a moment and then asked, "Are you trying to tell me..."
"That Sam here came from that night? Yes."
"So Seth was your first?"
"Yep. Now, we better get back out there before they send a search party. You ready to go Sami? Hmm."
Summer held Sam close to her body and put her free arm around Kristi.
"Thank you." Kristi whispered
"No problem."
The three walked back into the living room and Kristi took a seat on the couch with Sam while Summer went into the kitchen to get a bottle from the fridge. She then turned to go back when the door bell rang.
"That's probably the pizza. Can you get that?" Anne asked
"Yeah." Summer called back
"Thank you. The money's by the door."
Summer opened the door and was shocked that instead of finding the pizza delivery guy standing in front of her it was Sandy and Kirsten Cohen.
"Summer, hi." Sandy said just as surprised as Summer was.
"Hi Mr. Cohen, Mrs. Cohen."
"Hi Summer. What a surprise." Kirsten said.
"I second that. What are you guys doing here?"
"Well we were on our way to New York to visit my mother and our plane had to make a detour here because of weather and so we figured 'Why not stop over at Mary and Jeff's'." Sandy told her
"Mary and Jeff are out of town for the next couple of days."
"What is taking so long?" Anne asked walking to the door, "Sandy, Kirsten. Hi!"
"Hi Anne. "Kirsten said.
"Would you like to come in?"
"Thank you Anne." Sandy said
As Sandy and Kirsten walked into the house Summer pulled Anne Marie aside.
"What the hell do you think you're doing? "Summer whispered
"What do you mean?"
"I'm inviting Sandy and Kirsten in. That's just asking for trouble."
"It's asking for trouble if we just let them stand outside too."
"Sorry to break this up but I think Sam's ready for that bottle now Sum." Kristi said walking up to
"Oh god Sam, I totally forgot. I'll be right there."
"It's now or never." Anne whispered into Summer's ear, "You ready?"
Summer stood still and silent for a moment and then turned towards the family room.
"Yes, I am."
The two walked into the living room and saw Samara sitting on Kirsten's lap, not scared at all.
"How old is she?" Sandy asked
"She's three months old." Gwen said as Kirsten brushed some strands of Sami's curly brown hair down.
"I've got her bottle." Summer said taking a seat in between Kirsten and Gwen with her arms out.
Kirsten handed Sam over saying, "She's beautiful."
Summer smiled, "I know."
"Why didn't you parent's tell us that they had another baby Anne." Sandy said
"They didn't tell you because she's not theirs." Summer said before Anne or Katherine had the chance to open either of their mouths, "She's mine."
"Yours, oh." Kirsten said shocked.
"That's impossible. If she's three months old then you would have been showing when you left..." Sandy started
"She was premature." Summer said cutting him off.
"Oh. So that means that...is it..."
"Yes Mr. Cohen. It is."
"I'm missing something." Kirsten said confused
"Hey there," Katherine said jumping up, "I think I just heard a car outside. Let's go see, shall we?"
"Yeah, let's go." Anne said ushering everyone but Summer, Sandy, and Kirsten out of the room and shutting the door.
"What am I missing?" Kirsten asked.
"You want to tell her or should I?" Sandy asked using a mix between his upset father and lawyer voice.
"She's your son's." Summer said avoiding looking anyone in the eyes, "She's Seth's."
