(AN- Thanks for all the great reviews, you guys are great. There is more RM in this one, I hope.)

Disclaimer- I own nothing, and I mean nothing especially not anything OC related. So yeah I do not own The O.C. Oh and I don't own Big Bear, Big Bear Lake or anything related to Big Bear(the place). I Don't Own Barry Manilow's "Can't Smile Without You", Goldfish, Kudos, or Louie Vuitton.

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"No Seth were all taking one car" Kirsten replied to her sons complaining

"But Mom"

"Hey who is paying for this trip"

"Who is making me go on this trip"

"Would you stop brining that up, plus we're letting you girlfriends go, so were all going in the range rover"

Just then Sandy walks out into the foyer with his and Kirsten's (or at least on of her) suitcases (and no there not LV) he has heard the majority of the conversation between Seth and Kirsten.

"Have you read the latest EPA figures, what we're doing to the environment; we really should take just one car."

"You know that sounds oddly familiar for some reason" Kirsten just shrugs.

Ryan who has been in the kitchen eating comes out into the foyer

"Ya maybe there right Seth, remember what happed the last time you drove on a road trip"

"I'm not saying I have to drive, you can drive or Marissa, or Summer even."

Ryan just gives Seth one of his infamous glares. Seth throws his hands up in defeat.

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Summer and Marissa came together; Julie had dropped then off on her way to the mall.

They arrived to find Sandy in the driveway loading up his family's final possessions.

"Hey girls just leave you stuff here I'll load it up, I think the Boys are inside."

"Thanks Mr.C"

"Summer please, call me Sandy"

Summer just smiled at his comment but Marissa replied,

"Thanks Sandy" with that they went inside to find there respectful boyfriends.

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The girls went inside to find Kirsten in the kitchen packing snacks for the road trip; goldfish and kudos were among the other things, to Summers dismay.

"Oh hey girls, Ryan's in the pool house, and Seths actually I don't now where Seth is"

"Oh ok ill just wait here, if you don't mind"

"Oh of course not sweetie"

"I'm um, going to go see Ryan then" Marissa said as she pointed to the pool house and then walked out of the kitchen. Kirsten just smiled at her.

"Would you like something to drink" Kirsten asked Summer, being the polite hostess she is.

"Actually yes, but um I can see your busy, I can get it myself."

Kirsten began to object but Summer had already made her way over to the cabinet where the glasses were kept and began to pull one out. Kirsten thought it was sweet that her son's girlfriend knew where the glasses were kept in her house, probably because she spent so much time there. Another realization dawned on her, maybe it was because Seth made her get her own drinks when she was over, she hoped it was just because Summer had seen him get a glass for her so many times but she made a mental note to ask Seth about it. Summer finished getting water and was leaning against the counter when Seth came in and wrapped his arms around his waste and kissed the top of her head.

"How are you today"

Summer put down the glass she was drinking from and laid her hands on top of Seths and turned her head as far right as it could go with Seth's body pressed against her back.

"Good, excited about this weekend and you"

Seth removed on of the hands that was on Summer's stomach and made one of those iffy motions with his hands in a sarcastic manner.

"ehh"

Summer smacked his chest.

"Cohen"

He just smiled and kissed the top of her head again.

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Meanwhile in the pool house…

"Hey" Marissa said as she walked in on Ryan making his bed .

"Hey" he responded as he finished up his chore, Marissa quickly walked over to him and wrapped her arms around his neck

"Good morning"

"Good morning to you to" Marissa replied her voice barley above a whisper.

Ryan leaned in and Marissa followed suit closing the gap between them and laying a passionate kiss on his lips, which he more than eagerly returned. They both pulled away and stared at each other until Ryan broke the silence.

"So you excited"

"mmhhmm" Marissa groaned

She wasn't in the mood for talking so she quickly kissed Ryan again, this time longer then before. When they finally broke apart it was only for a brief second for air in which Marissa pushed her self against Ryan making him fall onto the bed. They continued to kiss until Ryan began to talk in between kisses.

"You… you… kno… ow…we prob…probably… wont be…be able …to do... this… much …this… this… this we…weekend.

"Why do you think were doing it now?"

Ryan just laughed and continued kissing her until they heard a knock at the door and then they heard the door open revealing Seth and Summer.

"Oh Chino, Coop getting you groove on I see"

Seth just gave Summer a 'what' look but continued talking as Marissa stood up from her position on top of Ryan on the bed, looking embarrassed.

"You two are very Lucky Summer and I offered to come out here and get you"

"Ya Kirsten was on her way out here and I don't think she would have been too happy"

"Anyway were leaving so I would suggest that we… ya know, leave." Seth said as he pointed towards the pool house door.

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Seth was the first of the four teenagers to start to climb into the Range Rover and into the middle seat.

(AN- so I totally know Range Rovers seat 5 people, but pretend it's like a suburban and can seat 7-8)

Kirsten who was already in the passenger seat stopped him.

"Why don't you let Ryan sit there with Marissa, you and Summer sit in the back."

"What why"

"Well I'm assuming That Ryan and Marissa want to sit together, as do you and Summer"

Kirsten look to the other three kids for reassurance, witch they all gave by nodding there heads, so Kirsten continued,

"and um well"

Marissa seeing that Kirsten, despite how much she loved her son, didn't want her ear talked off, so Marissa thought of a lie quick.

"You and Summer are smaller than me and Ryan so it only makes sense"

Summer, letting the fact that she thought she was once again being punished for her height, let that soft spot not let he to open her eyes and see what the real reason was.

"Oh sure the short person always has to get shoved in the spaces no one else does"

Seth put a hand on her shoulder and replied to everyone.

"Its ok Sum I get it, some parents don't love their kids enough to see past their flaws"

"Why whatever do you mean Seth, of course we love Ryan enough to do that." Sandy teased

"Ha ha very funny, although I don't think my excessive talking is a flaw ap-parent-ly some people do. I'll just go wallow in self pity in the way way back of the car"

With that everyone got in their seats and they were off. About twenty minutes into the trip the radio station they had been listing to on the XM radio started playing Barry Manilow's song "Can't Smile Without You" Right away Marissa started singing along to the song very softly.

"You know I can't smile without you
I can't smile without you"

Ryan looked at her and she scooted closer to him and began singing it to him in a hushed tone.

"I can't laugh and I can't sing
I'm finding it hard to do anything
You see I feel sad when you're sad"

Ryan looked at her and cut her off by kissing her.

"What you don't like my singing"

"No, I just love you"

With that Marissa stopped her singing to kiss Ryan back.

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In the back of the car Summer was also humming the tune, Seth, who had known the song because his mother had various Barry Manilow CD's she sometimes listened to, was surprised Summer knew it. Her dad didn't seem like a man who would be into Barry and her step-mom didn't seem like a very musical person, period.

"You Like this song"

"Yeah, why gonna make fun of me for it"

"No, I just never knew you were a Fanalow"

"I wasn't my mother was"

"Really?"

"Ya she used to put it on for me and we would dance around the living room, and sometimes she would sing to me, granted she wasn't the best singer, but I loved it. This was my favorite song"

Summer was closed to tears now as Seth just patiently listened, she didn't talk about her mother much so he knew if she was it must mean a lot to her.

"When she would sing it she would always end with 'I can't smile without you' and she would tickle me on you and I would laugh, the sad thing, I actually believed her. Apparently she can smile without me because she made no attempt to stick around."

Seth put his arm around Summer and kissed her head.

"I still love the song though"

"Hey Sum"

"Yeah"

"I can't smile without you"

With that Summer kissed him and sprawled her body out across the back bench, her head in Seth's lap, and went too sleep.

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I am having some trouble with this story, it seems that you cannot access the forth chapter unless you are on the first chapter, I assure you the forth chapter is u,p and to read it you just need to go back to the first chapter and it will be under the chapters there, hopefully it will fix it self in time or once I get the fifth chap up.

(AN- Too much fluff? I kinda liked it and yes I love Barry Manilow mainly because my mother always has it on so I guess I grew up to it. Remember to R&R)