AN: Sorry it took me so long to update. Iv'e been spending time with family. I hope you like this chapter. It's a little choppy, but I tried my best! Thanks for the reviews!

Disclaimer: Do not own the O.C.
It had been two weeks since Julie dropped the news that she was pregnant. Abby suddenly felt very unwelcome at the Cohen house. Kirsten had taken to locking herself in her bedroom for hours, Sandy spent his days trying to talk to her, and Seth and Ryan were just quite about it. Apparently there were some big issues with this ordeal. Ryan and Seth had tried to explain to Abby the details of what the past year had been like, but with all that had gone on it was very hard to take it all in.

All Abby wanted to do now was kick Seth's butt in Mario Cart and hope that this dark cloud would soon pass.

"Seth you can't do that!" She said yelling at him for running her off the road.

"It's a racing game and I'm trying to beat you. Of course I can do that," Seth said not taking his eyes off of the screen.

"Oh, well I guess I'll just have to do this," Abby said taking a short cut and soon coming out in front of Seth.

"Hey!" Seth cried.

Abby smiled as Seth reached over and put his hand in front of her face. She tried to move up and down so she could see the screen but he wasn't letting her.

"You want to see fair. I'll show you fair. Huh! Look at this," Seth said as Abby started laughing.

"You just have to win don't you?" Abby said as they finished the game, "well, I need to go finish some homework for Calculus tomorrow."

Abby stood up. She really did need to do her homework. Her teacher, Ms. Malay, was riding her case all week. She hadn't been at the school for more than a month and teachers already were prowling on her.

Abby stood there for a moment until Seth stood up to.

"Who needs to do homework? They are only trying to make us better educated and I say you're educated enough." Seth said.

"Then what do you say we do Mr. Cohen?" Abby asked.

She was really glad that she was going to have an excuse to get out of schoolwork. Besides, she had been having a lot of fun hanging out with Seth these past few weeks. Grant it, most of the time they played video games, but it almost felt like it did back when they were little.

"Well, we can go get milkshakes," Seth said.

"I think I'd like that," Abby said. "We should ask Ryan if he wants to go."

"He's not here," Seth said.

"Oh, is he going to see Marissa?" Abby asked.

Seth nodded.

"Well we better leave that one alone," Abby said turning to walk out.

"Hear Hear," Seth said following her.

Ryan stood outside of Marissa's house. He had been there for 20 minutes just staring at it. He wanted to go in; but then again he didn't know if Marissa wanted to see him if he did go.

He sat there for a few more minutes. He hadn't seen her in a really long time. He knew she was still upset about her mother being pregnant. Heck, she had every right to be. Marissa already had a complicated relationship with her mother, and this only made it worse.

That's why he was still sitting here. He didn't want to make thing worse for her. It wasn't that he was still in love with her because he wasn't. Ryan just had a history with her and they were still going to be friends so, he just wanted to make sure everything was all right.

With that he mustered up enough courage to step out of the car and walk up to the front door. He stood there for a moment making sure this was exactly what he wanted to do then he knocked.

He waited for a moment until a soft voice from the other side seeped through the door.

"Who is it," it asked.

"It's Ryan," he said.

He knew it had to be Marissa. The door opened quickly and exposed a shaken up Marissa. She hadn't been crying, but Ryan could tell that she was exhausted.

"Can I come in?" he asked.

"Sure," she said letting him in and then shutting the door.

"How are you?" he asked.

"Well, not really that great," Marissa said looking at the floor.

"Yeah, I heard. I'm really sorry. I know this has to be weird for you," Ryan said.

"Very. It's just how could she do that to me? Another kid Ryan? Did she even think about how this would effect her other children?" Marissa asked.

"I'm sure she did," Ryan said.

He was trying to comfort her with this but it wasn't going to work and he knew it.

"No, you're wrong. She never thinks about us anymore. You know what she said yesterday? Aren't you excited Marissa? You're going to have a little baby brother or sister! She is totally oblivious to how I feel about this," Marissa said throwing her hands around showing Ryan that she was clearly about to lose it.

"What did you say to her?" Ryan asked.

"Nothing. I can't say anything to her anymore." Marissa said. "Thanks for coming Ryan, but I think I want to be alone right now."

Ryan nodded. He hadn't even been there for five minutes and she already wanted him out.

"I'll see you at school?" he asked walking to the front door.

"Yeah, I guess so." Marissa answered opening it for him.

"You can call me if you need anything," Ryan said.

She gave him a small smile and nodded. Ryan turned and walked to the car. He looked back before he got in to a closed door.

Well, he got that over and it was awkward. Very awkward.

Abby sat in the booth and Joe's Burger Shack and watched as Seth came back over with the milkshakes.

"Here's your chocolate shake and here's mine," Seth said sitting down.

"Seth can I ask you a question?" Abby asked.

"Shoot," Seth said.

"What happened over the summer?" Abby asked.

They had talked vaguely about how Ryan had come back to Chino for Teresa's and his baby and how it turned out to not be his. Abby still couldn't believe that. More about Ryan being in Chino and her not knowing it than Teresa and the baby.

"Do we have to talk about that?" Seth asked.

"Come on! I really want to know," Abby said.

"Well, I left," Seth said.

Abby gave him a frown.

"You left? Because Ryan left? Is that it?" Abby asked.

"Yeah, and before you came Ryan came back and he got me to come home," Seth said.

"Awe, it's almost like Lassie," Abby joked.

Seth grinned.

"So you left Summer." Abby asked.

"Yeah and when I got back she had moved on," Seth said looking a little uncomfortable with this conversation, "Speak of the devil."

Abby turned around and saw that Summer had walked into the Shack with her new boyfriend, Zack. She spotted Seth and Abby and walked over trying to not look eager.

"Hey Cohen, Abby," she said.

"Hey Summer," Seth said looking down at his milkshake.

Abby didn't really like Summer. She seemed to be very stuck-up and nosey. Apparently Summer didn't like her either. I guess you could say it started back in the third grade when Seth discovered this huge crush on Summer. At the time Abby had actually like him and her disgust for Summer started and ended when Abby punched her in the eye under the monkey bars. Kids had gone around calling Summer a panda bear and Summer never forgave Abby before Abby left later that year. Things hadn't been that great when she got back either. Summer had only nodded to Abby at Abby's welcome home party.

"How's my favorite slugger?" Summer asked.

"Just great Summer. You know, I think you're in the wrong place. The trash is out back." Abby said.

Summer glared at her and turned away in disgust.

"What do you see in her?" Abby asked turning to Seth.

"Do I have to answer that?" Seth asked.

"You could do better," Abby said finishing her milkshake and standing up to leave.

Abby walked outside and went over to the dock. She stood there for a moment and looked out into the ocean. She felt Seth come up beside her.

"What do you have against her?" Seth asked.

"Do I have to answer that?" Abby asked.

She really didn't know why. It was just that sort of mutual hate that would never be solved unless both people sat down and talked it out. Abby wouldn't give in and do that either.

Seth smiled at her comment and they both stood there looking out into the water for a moment.

"I could do better? Seth asked. "With who?"

Abby looked over at him and gave him a smile.

"The year is young my friend," Abby said as she turned and walked away.

"Wait, what does that mean?" Seth called out before running to catch up with her.

AN: I couldn't come up with a good ending to this capter...sorry. Well, I hope that was ok! more stuff coming up!