True Love

Chapter 2

Yay! I wrote chapter two! Whoohoo! Okay…let's begin. Oh, yeah, thanks for the reviews!

Reminder… This story is from a world that deals mainly with season one. There may be some season two or three things in there, but mainly what happened during season one.

Disclaimer: Read Chapter 1

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New Port, although it seemed practically the same as it had been about seven years ago, there had been some significant changes…

Sandy and Kirsten were the ones that changed the least, older but basically the same kind-hearted people in the neighborhood.

Seth had grown up to be a video game software developer, quite famous but still living with his parents, though this time in the beach house.

Marissa was now engaged to Dan, a handsome lifeguard, they were currently living together in the old Cooper's house.

Jimmy was now somewhere in the Himalayas trying to find himself, while Caleb and Julie were still married. Everything seemed perfect like it always did, but trouble brew in the horizon…

Ryan knocked the door of the beach house a few times. He would've just gone inside if it wasn't for an incident he had not so long ago that was still vividly plastered in Ryan's memory.

"Hey man! Come in! Long time no see!" 'Thank God' Ryan thought. Seth was fully clothed and with no girl trailing shyly behind him.

"Hey, how'd you been?" Ryan asked while hugging him. They still talked on the phone, but it had been some time since they had actually seen each other. They were so glad to finally be able to.

"Ahhh, not so great."

"Why?" Ryan knew exactly what was coming, but he knew how much Seth liked to talk about his "girls."

And so it began, from Tracy to Dina, Seth mentioned every girl he had talked, kissed or slept with since senior year. The last subject only being Summer one drunken night last year of high school.

Ryan talked about New York, Theresa, Maria and Ramiro and as skillfully as Theresa had dropped her bombed he did as well.

"So, tell me about Dan, Marissa's fiancé."

Seth started choking with his own saliva but when he finally recovered he said:

"He's…not so bad, Ryan."

"Yeah, sure…his name is Dan... What kind of name is Dan?" Seth could see the pain in Ryan's eyes, he knew how much Ryan loved Marissa and how much it had hurt to move to New York.

"He's really nice though, I mean apart from the name, of course. He got me a collector's edition of the NES! Those are like really hard to find, man! And plus, they're worth thousands! He works as a lifeguard; do you know how much a lifeguard makes?"

"He works as a LIFEGUARD?" Ryan tried saying more but was interrupted by Seth screaming on how those models were practically extinct and how only a few people could win his heart.

"Fine. Fine!" that finally made Seth stop "Dan is nice."

"Thank you!"

"But he is still stealing the love of my life." Ryan sounded sad and longing.

"True, but that is…partly your fault, ya know?"

'Damn!' Seth was kicking himself for being so stupid. 'Ryan is not feeling so well about Marissa's wedding and there I go telling him that it's his fault! I'm so stupid!'

"Yeah…I know…" Silence filled the room for a few minutes until Seth broke it.

"Hey, did ya know Summer and I are engaged?" Seth said giving Ryan a pat in the arm for him to wake up. This made Ryan laugh.

"Really? Does she know?" That caught Seth off guard.

"Umm…ha, not yet" Seth said sheepishly. This time Ryan let a huge laugh that lasted a long time.

"Hey, don't laugh" Seth pleaded but Ryan couldn't stop. "Fine! Laugh! But you'll see me one day marrying Summer and then I'll be the one laughing!"

"Hahaha, yeah, maybe in one of your videogames, Hahaha."

"Changing the subject!" Seth said loudly "Where you staying tonight?" Ryan had finally stopped laughing and said:

"Umm…tonight, I was thinking of staying here, is there a problem?"

"Naw and tomorrow?"

"I don't know. I'll deal with that tomorrow."

"Ya know… I was thinking we should all get together tomorrow and hang out. Ya know the gang all together again!" said Seth raising his arms up in the air at the 'all together again!'

"Nope. Can't," Ryan said as he took his shoes off.

"Why?" Seth asked as he got some pillows out of a closet.

"Have to work tomorrow."

"Oh" Seth then got out a futon and laid it on the floor.

"I get my work schedule tomorrow, and then I'll tell you when I'm free."

"Ok" Seth and Ryan where each in their beds ready to go to sleep.

"G'night."

"Night." then the lights were off.

"Ya know, Dan IS a horrible name." Seth said randomly.

"Told ya."

"And you know what other name is horrible?"

"What?"

"Dick. I mean what kind of mother would give her son the name Dick? The horrible name of Dick? Plus, the hidden joke is just too mean."

Ryan started cracking up. And then they both starting listing the names that they thought were horrible and talking about other things. They talked until early in the morning like they had done so many years ago. Just like it had been a week instead of a few years since they had seen each other.

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"Is someone there? Help! Help! Someone please help me! Please! I can't do this anymore. Please, someone help me…please…"

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The next morning, at six o'clock, Ryan was at the door of Caleb's house. He rang the bell but no one answered.

'There must be something wrong' he thought. Caleb was very punctual and responsible; he had told Ryan to be at his house at six in the morning the following week if he wanted the job. Ryan did want the job, so now he was at Caleb's doorsteps but Caleb was nowhere in sight.

Ryan rang the bell again this time the door opened, but it wasn't Caleb at the door. It was Julie Cooper.

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Okay! Long chapter with almost no action…hmm…oh well…I have good ideas for the next chapter that will contain a nice amount of action and drama which this one lacked…if you managed to finish reading this chapter that is so nice of you, thanks! 

Review even if it sucked!

Ale

PS.

If your name is Dan or Dick please don't be offended. I mean nothing personal.