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Chapter 3After Sandy and Kirsten made their way out of the driveway Ryan and Seth entered the Cohen mansion and looked around not knowing what to do with themselves. "Wanna call the girls?" Ryan asked after a second
"Nah. Summer's tanning today and no doubt Marissa will be with her." Seth informed.
"I guess we could get started on my new room. Or we could go shopping for bedding and stuff."
"Wow that's rather minty of you Ryan. Are you sure we don't have anything better to do?" They both stood for a second before Seth continued, "So that'd be a no? Okay let's go…I'll drive." He said reaching for the keys. Ryan frowned at Seth and shook his head, "Right. Good point. You drive."
When Ryan and Seth entered the department store they looked at each other in bemusement. They had no idea what to look for. Seth scanned the map of the store, "Uh… I think if we go down to the right past the… Jewellery, turn left at the toys and the home improvement area should be directly in front of…"
"Us," Ryan intercepted, "We're right in front of the home improvement area. Now help me choose a rug."
"Wow your getting more and more like Mom every day." Seth said frowning. He began again camping up his tone, "Now have you assembled a colour palette at all?" Ryan squinted at Seth, "No? Well I must say Ryan that your organisational skills have gone down quite significantly. Are we thinking blue? Green…? Black to match your current expression?"
"Seth I'm no good at this! Help me. I need bedding and rugs and they all have to match and this is just all too much. I mean how the heck a I supposed to know how colours and patterns go together?" Ryan stopped realising the group of people that swarmed through the department were now staring at him quizzically. Seth ushered Ryan to the side.
"Not to worry my friend. I'll call Summer. She did Marissa's room. I mean I know I helped but she was down with the whole design thing. I just hammered and levelled and sawed." As he rambled on he flipped open his cell and called Summer.
Seth and Ryan sat on the steps outside the department store and waited for Summer and Marissa. "Do you think your mom would let me take the mirror out of the pool house? I think it'd go good in the room." Ryan asked sounded more excited at the prospect of his own space, "And you know I was thinking. I'm not gonna go with blue cause you've got blue in your room so I was thinking more along the lines of green. You know it's supposed to be relaxing."
"Is that so Chino? You're really getting into this aren't you?" Summer and Marissa had crept up behind them. Ryan and Seth sprang up, "We were just rehearsing for a… a play." Seth covered.
"Whatever Cohen. Lets go. Shopping!" Summer dragged Seth behind her as she headed for the drapes.
When the gang emerged from the store they were laden with bags full of different bits and pieces for Ryan's room. They got into the car and loaded the bags into the trunk. Seth turned to Summer, "So you girls ready to get dirty?"
"Excuse me?" Marissa asked incredulously.
"Painting. Come Coop try to keep up." Seth answered. Summer frowned.
"Again with the Coop thing Cohen. Just. No. Okay no. And if you think I'm gonna give up a day of tanning to be stuck inside painting then you're sadly mistaken." Summer said all this in one breath. Ryan exchanged glances with Marissa who shrugged her shoulders and giggled. Marissa kissed Ryan on the cheek before heading for her car with Summer in tow.
"Have fun guys." They called over their shoulders.
Ryan and Seth struggled through the front door with a number of different carrier bags of all shapes and sizes. They dumped the stuff in the hall and made their way to the kitchen. Ryan opened the fridge and threw a juice box to Seth before choosing one for himself. "So what do we do? Do we take all the stuff out of the room then paint or do we cover up all the stuff with big sheets?"
"I don't know man. Who cares?" Seth was lying on the couch in the den, "Who knew that shopping for drapes would be so energy consuming?"
"Got me." Ryan answered as he dropped down next to him. "We'd better get started on this if we wanna be done by the time your parents get back."
Seth moaned and pushed himself off the couch with a grunt, "Okay just as long as you don't expect me to do anything that involves any upper body strength. That's all yours Chino."
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