The Look Back on Today

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters from The O.C. I do own Kelly Conner.

The title of the story is from the title of "Looking Back on Today," by The Ataris.

This is another story that explores Kirsten and Jimmy's relationship while they were in high school, and what happened when they go off to college…Eventually Sandy/Kirsten and Jimmy/Julie…

I have tried to construct a somewhat accurate timeline based on what has been said in episodes, but some of the information conflicts, so it might not be quite accurate…

UPDATED TIMELINE!

1961: Sandy Cohen born (just a guess…says he met Kirsten when he was 22 and I am assuming it was while Kirsten was an undergraduate at Berkeley and Sandy was in law school at Berkeley, which would make her younger.)

1963: Kirsten Nichol and Jimmy Cooper born (I am assuming that they are the same age, given that they dated in high school and went to prom together and stuff…but they very well could have been a year apart…)

1970: Julie born (In one episode, Jimmy states that Julie was pregnant with Marissa during the 1986 NBA finals (in June)…however it was actually the 1988 NBA finals because Jimmy talks about the Lakers playing the Pistons, which was in 1988, not 1986, so that means Marissa was born in 1988 or 1989 depending on how pregnant she was at the time…in another episode, Kirsten makes it known that Julie had Marissa when she was 18 years old)

1973: Hailey Nichol born (Jimmy says in one episode in season one that she was 8 years old when he left for college, making her 10 years younger than Kirsten and Jimmy…of course there was an episode in season two when he says that Hailey is 25…I think that the ten years younger thing sounds more accurate.)

1979: Jimmy Cooper meets Kirsten Nichol when he is 16 years old.

1980: Kirsten and Jimmy are 17…apparently, Caleb Nichol tried to convince Jimmy to propose to Kirsten when he was 17.

1981: Kirsten and Jimmy are 18 and graduate from high school…Kirsten attends Berkeley in the fall.

1982-1983: Rebecca Bloom disappears (in the same year as Kirsten and Sandy's 20th Anniversary, Sandy tells Rebecca that it has been 22 years since he last saw her.)

1983: Sandy Cohen meets Kirsten Nichol for the first time when he is 22 years old.

1985: Kirsten and Sandy get married (January 2005 was their 20th Anniversary…which conflicts with the fact that in season one Sandy states that he has been married 17 years…I'm going to go with 20 years, since they had an entire episode based around it…)

1988: Seth Cohen and Marissa Cooper born (if you go by Julie being pregnant when the Lakers played the Pistons in 1988 when it actually happened and not in 1986…1988 actually makes more sense with them being seniors during season three, even though I know that they really should have been seniors during season two…)

1990: Hailey Nichol runs away from home at age 17 (during season two, Kirsten makes reference to Hailey leaving home at age 17)

1994: Kirsten's mother is diagnosed with ovarian cancer. The Cohens move to Newport Beach from Berkeley. After her mother passes away, Kirsten begins working for her father at the Newport group. (In season one, Sandy says that Seth has been "planning his exodus since he was six," which is when I am assuming they move there. So if you go by Seth being born in 1988, then he is six in 1994.)

Please let me know if you like it or not and if you have any ideas!