Title: It All Comes Together In The End

Rating: R

Disclaimer: cry nothing

Ch. 4--- Moving On ---

Ryan sat in front of the T.V before he headed off to work. He had gotten a job at a construction site doing architectural work. Theresa walked in then and sat in the chair, a bowl of salad in her hand. It was 8:00a.m and her weird pregnancy cravings were kicking in. One month had passed since the phone call from Summer and Marissa and he still didn't feel at home. He and Theresa were still distant. Sure he helped whenever he could but the whole connection wasn't there.

"Ryan, I have another OBGYN appointment today. I know you have to work, so I'll let you know how it goes."

"O uh… ok" Ryan answered absentmindedly.

Theresa got up and walked to her bedroom and shut the door.

Ryan knew he should make a better attempt at making a connection but he couldn't lie to himself. The only connection he would really have was with the Cohen's, Summer, Marissa, and Seth. He looked at his watch and noticed it was 8:15.

'Time to go' he thought. As he headed out the door, he knew that if he didn't try harder to be there for Theresa, he would be slowing down his life and taking a road that led to nowhere.

Summer Roberts stared around the penthouse. It had been one week and her and Coop had found the perfect place. They knew they had wanted an apartment so they started looking at the upper class ones, close to Marissa's mom. Summer didn't care how far away she was from her step mom, as long as she was out of that house. They had found a penthouse at the top of a posh apartment. It wasn't furnished or painted but it was fairly good money to purchase. The only thing was, was that it was pay up front, not renting. So on impulse they bought it, and it furnished and painted. They chose colors of pastels, mainly pink and yellow, with some orange thrown in. Marissa had the wall, which Summer and Seth had done, taken out of her dad's place and put into her bedroom at her new house. The furniture was very bubbly and modern. It was a two bedroom house with three baths, a kitchen, game room, and living room (which they had splurged on so it had the whole home theatre system). They had used up some of their saving and gone mad with her dad and Caleb's cards. Everything was done and everyone knew. The one thing left was to tell Marissa's mom. That's where Marissa was now but should be back shortly.

'Hmm… might as well go look around" slipping her feet into her strappy sandals. As she headed to the main floor she saw a couple of very cute guys at the front desk. One was tall and muscular, looked to maybe Cuban, and the other was tall and lean, a very pretty boy. He was the one to catch Summer's eye. He turned and looked at her and smiled. She smiled flirtatiously back and mouthed her house number to him. He caught it and mouthed back 'I'll call you'. She smiled and went back to her house. Five minutes later Marissa walked in looking very happy.

"OMG I did it, I did it" she sang.

"You told the ice queen Coop?"

"Totally and man was she pissed but she softened when I told her that time apart would make us miss each other. Then I started talking about how I really do love her and how I want things to work out for us. She got all mushy, but still didn't cave."

"So… you can't live here?" Summer said very upset.

"No, then Caleb got in and she can't say no to him. But I had to give her our house and phone number".

"Well I'm proud of you and now you'll be proud of me. I gave our number to these hotties downstairs and they said they'd call. And this was all done from opposite sides of the lobby downstairs." Summer beamed, apparently very proud of herself.

Just then the phone rang and Summer ran to answer it.

"Hello" she said sweetly "uh huh… uh huh… definitely! I'm Summer and my friend Marissa will be joining us, so bring your friend that was with you. Ok see ya. Bye!" she hung up and squealed. "WE got dates Coop at the little café down the street today at four."

"Sum it's already three… that's only one hour to look amazing" Marissa cried out.

"Shit!"

They both ran to their rooms and jumped in the shower.

AN: Well I"m starting to catch up on my typing lol yay! So expect another shortly. Please R&R! I luv reading them!