Ryan was seated next to Seth eating their usually morning breakfast, a bagel with cream cheese. Kirsten was just making herself some coffee when Sandy walked in from surfing. He kissed her lightly and went ahead on making himself something to eat. "The surf's great today! I was catching wave after wave, and it was actually pretty quiet, not that many people out this morning."

At that moment Jaime walked in the room. She looked worn out, tired, as if she hadn't slept the night before. "You look dead!" Ryan exclaimed, as he raised his head and saw his sister.

"Thanks Ryan," Jaime said, slyly smiling at him.

"Need some coffee?" Kirsten asked, trying to make the awkward situation a little more bearable.

"That would be great," Sandy said gesturing an empty coffee mug towards his wife.

"Not you Sandy," Kirsten giggled, pouring coffee into any empty mug and filling up Sandy's.

"Thanks. I need the caffeine," Jaime said downing half her cup. "Didn't sleep too well last night. Guess it's just hard sleeping in a strange place. I mean, the bed is really comfortable and all, it's just weird."

"You'll get used to it," Kirsten said. Jaime looked up at her. She was so surprised to hear Kirsten so welcoming. She was giving Jaime enough time to 'get used to it.'

"Since it's a lovely Sunday morning, I thought we could all go down to the pier, and show Jaime more of the OC, Newport style," Sandy suggested.

"Sounds great!" Kirsten replied. "Jaime, would you like to come see if anything in my wardrobe is your style? WE don't want you walking around in your dirty clothes from yesterday."

"I can take a look I guess," Jaime said, not really comfortable with the Cohens yet. She wasn't used to such kindness, and being very untrustworthy, was wary of it. The two of them went upstairs to take a look at Kirsten's clothes, while the three guys stayed downstairs finishing their breakfast.

"I actually wanted to talk to you Sandy," Ryan began. "About Jamie's whole situation here."


Kirsten and Jaime were in Kirsten's room, and Jamie took a seat on the bed while Kirsten went into the closet searching for something that might be Jamie's size and style.

"I'm glad I got you alone," Kirsten started. "I wanted to talk to you about what we do next."


"Kirsten and I were talking about it last night," Sandy said.

"Ya, I thought you would be, but you can't send her back to my mom's, she's not safe there."


"Please don't make me go back to Dawn's. I can leave; I'll get out of your hair today. Maybe you should just go to the pier and y the time you get back I'll be gone." Jamie said, getting up off the bed and heading to the door.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa," Kirsten demanded, and gestured for Jamie to sit back on the bed. "We are not going to send you back to your mom's, we know how hard it was for Ryan there, and we don't want to put you back somewhere you don't want to go. Sandy and I were talking last night - "


"Ryan, if we thought living in Chino was not safe you a 16-year-old man, why would we feel it safe for a 15-year-old female?" Sandy questioned. Seth was listening intently, not wanting to interrupt this moment between his father and Ryan.

"Chino's not the unsafe part, it my mom's house," Ryan muttered.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Seth asked, doing just as he was trying not to.


"I'll go back to Chino if you don't want me here, I just don't want to go back to Dawn's, I hate it there,"

"Why do you hate it so much?" Kirsten questioned.


Ryan and Jamie say this at the same time, "Oh, don't worry about it."
"Ok, but let me finish here," Kirsten said, throwing some clothes on the bed next to Jamie. "Sandy and I were talking, and we really do have a big house here, one more person won't be a bother. I mean, we would like to invite you to stay with us for a while, until we can figure out what is best for you and Ryan."
"Seth, be quiet!" Sandy ordered. "Ryan, Kirsten and I cam to a mutual decision to let Jamie stay here, until we can all decide what to do next, what is best for her."

"That's exactly what I was going to ask you Sandy," Ryan said gleefully at his sudden luck.


"Do you really mean that?" Jamie asked.

"Of course I do, why would I say something I don't mean?" Kirsten questioned, putting a few more blouses on the bed.

"It's just that, I've never met anyone who's been so nice and welcoming before. It's just weird."

"Well, as you will with the big house, you'll get used to us Cohens."

Jamie and Kirsten continued with their search for clothes, and about 30 minutes later, the two headed downstairs. When Ryan saw his sister, he barely recognized her. Jamie was wearing a light blue blouse and a pair on black pants, but that wasn't the stunning part. Kirsten and straightened her hair, and it was flowing over her shoulders and made her look more like a model, than a girl who just stepped out of Chino. Kirsten had also managed to convince Jamie to put on a little bit of make-up, only natural looking though, so it brought out Jamie's stunning green eye color.

"Wow!" Seth said allowed. Everyone in the kitchen turned their heads to look at Seth questioningly. "Uh, did I say that out loud?"

"Yes you did genius!" Ryan said punching Seth lightly on the arm. "Jamie, you look great! I guess Seth and I better go clean up so we won't be the ones looking like we were in Chino 24 hours ago." He embraced his sister for a moment and then pulled Seth up the stairs.

"I better go take a shower real quick too." Sandy said, as he gulped down the last sip of his coffee and threw aside the article he was reading.

"Never thought you would get that reaction from those three did you?" Kirsten asked Jamie.

"I never thought I would get that reaction from anyone," Jamie said honestly.

"You are quite a stunning girl Jamie; you'll learn how to make your best features stand out when Newport is through with you." The two of them began to eat their breakfast as they waited for the boys, talking mostly about the close bond Ryan had with Jamie, and vice versa.


ok... sorry about the lok period with no upsate... i've had a very hard week and haven't had the time, or really felt like writing. This chapter is very jumpy, and I am sorry if you cou;dn't follow it. I tried to make it so that it was like two things going on at once, so both Jamie and Ryan found out the news at once. I will be brining in summer ans Marrissa soon, so no worries lol... please R&R, it might give me inpiration to write more lol... if i dont get review i feel like no one is reading this, and i might as well just not write it hehe