"Don't these look dorky?"

Marissa stood with Summer in Summer's bedroom, staring into the full-length mirror. They were both dressed in their caps and gowns. They were graduating in a matter of hours.

"Pretty dorky" Summer agreed.

"So where are Gucci and Chanel when you need them? Why haven't they tackled this fashion-design problem? I mean, anybody can create a dress or a suit, but a fashionable cap and gown-now, that's a challenge. They make us look like whales."

Summer shrugged. "You obviously didn't see me pregnant. Now that was a whale. I'm sure people ran when they saw my big belly come waltzing down the street."

Marissa laughed, "You know, I never saw you pregnant. Sucks to, because I could have thought of some pretty rough comments to say about you and your new found fatness"

Summer playfully hit her best friend on the arm. "Thanks for the support, Coop"

Marissa played with the tassel that hung from her waffle-shaped cap. "You're welcome," she replied with sarcasm.

Summer spun around at the sound of Caden's crying coming through the baby monitor. She sighed.

"I am getting no sleep. Caden cries all night long and he never used to do that. I think he's teething" Summer complained, slipping her dorky gown and cap off.

"I'll be right back," she said before retreating down the hall to Caden's pastel blue room.

Marissa examined her blue-whale image in the mirror once more before slipping it off and repeating Summer's steps down the hallway.

Marissa silently praised her best friend. Summer was an excellent mother. Marissa knew that if she were in the same situation she could never handle it so well. And she could never sacrifice everything, including money, to live in the shacks of all shacks.

But Seth and Summer gave it all up and found a way to call their dumpy house home. Pictures of Caden hung on the painted walls bringing life to the small house.

Marissa finally reached the end of the hallway and stood in the doorframe of Caden's nursery. Her eyes examined the room for the millionth time. Summer was all about rearranging it. Every time Marissa came over things were in different spots.

Marissa guessed that it was Summer's way of stifling the boredom.

"Do you ever have regrets about Caden?"

Summer looked up from her chubby son and found her best friend. She sighed. "Not regrets. Sometimes I just think about how different my life would be if I hadn't gotten pregnant. I mean, your supposed to live your senior year up. But I stayed home and changed diapers and fixed bottles. It's definitely not how I thought my life would be."

Marissa was about to respond when Seth walked in the front door whistling. "Gee, someone's in a good mood," Marissa said.

He stopped whistling and sauntered down the hall. "Gee, someone's not," he mocked.

Summer rose from the chair, swung Caden on her hip, and walked over to Seth, placing a short kiss on his lips.

"So why are you in a good mood?" Summer asked curiously, eyeing her boyfriend.

Seth rolled his eyes. "Can a guy not just be happy to come home to his loving girlfriend and fat son?"

Summer lowered her eyes. "You tell me. And he's not fat!"

Marissa tried to hold in the laughter that threatened to explode out of her mouth but couldn't contain it any longer.

Summer hit her on the arm. "He's not fat, Coop! He's just chunky!" Summer said. "Aren't you, baby?" she asked, kissing Caden on the nose.

Seth rolled his eyes. "Whatever. He's fat."

Summer handed Caden over to Seth. "Well here. Hold your fat son. Marissa and I have an appointment at the salon. Graduation is in like 4 hours."

"And we all know it will take you two that long to get ready." Seth said, bouncing around the nursery.

Summer and Marissa glared at him. "Anyways, we're going to go" Summer said.

The two girls pranced down the hall and out the door, hopping in the range rover and driving down the sunny streets of Newport Beach.

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I know this was a very, very short chapter. But I felt like giving you guys a chapter because I know I haven't in so long. My schedule has been crazy. But it's about to get crazier. I'm busy every weekend in October except for one weekend, and with school work, I'm not sure how much time I'm going to have to even get on the computer. So until football season is over the chapters will come pretty far apart and pretty short. I'll try and get a new one up every chance I get. Anyways, thanks for reading and please review!