Dinner and a movie?

A/N: Sorry there was a delay in updating this. I blame 15 exams in two weeks and one vacation to Austria. I hope you like it. I am not very pleased with the dialog especially, for some reason I can't write it, but I needed to put it in for the next chapter.

Disclaimer: I own nothing related to the oc except the dvd boxes for season 1 and 2

"So what do you want to do tonight Kirsten?" Her roommate Sarah asked her later that same afternoon.

"Oh, I can't. Sorry."

"You have plans!"

She nodded, yes she had plans. For the first time since she started school last fall she had plans on a Saturday night, tonight she wouldn't have to rely on Sarah or Jessica to make plans or find a party to go to.

"So…?" Sarah continued. Eager to find out what was going on.

"So what?" She answered clearly oblivious to her friend's curiosity.

"What are you doing? You've never made plans before."

"Oh, I have a date."

"A date! You are going on a date? I didn't think we would live to see the day. I mean you know how to party, that I have seen, but a date? I didn't know you had it in you." Sarah stated in clear disbelief.

"I date!"

"Sorry darling but you don't. Remember that guy Jake? He was asking you out everyday for a month and still you turned him down every time. And believe me, they don't come much hotter than that."

"He didn't ask me out everyday."

"Almost. Anyway I'm just curious on who captured your heart."

"Who captured who's heart?" Jessica asked as she walked through the door.

"I don't know. I was just about to find out." Sarah replied before turning back towards Kirsten. "So tell us; who are you going out with?"

"You have a date!" she sounded just as surprised as Sarah had minutes ago.

"It's just this guy I met yesterday. You probably don't know him, he graduated last year."

"Well try us."

"His name is Sandy Cohen."

"No no no no. You can't go out with him. No Kirsten." Jessica was shaking her head violently.

"What's wrong with him, Jess?" Sarah seemed more confused than normal.

"Just trust me on this one. You do not want to go out with him."

"But I do."

"No, you don't. Trust me."

"Come on Jess, what ever he did it can't be that serious." Sarah joined in again.

"Yeah, remember that lab that got blown up last year?" Kirsten and Sarah nodded, of course they knew, everyone did. "Well the person responsible was his girlfriend, apparently they were engaged or something. Either way she fled the country without as much as a goodbye and ever since Mr. Cohen has been a real player.

"And you know this how?" Sarah asked.

"My sister was one of the girls he never called the next morning. So trust me Kirsten you do not want to go out with this guy."

"You know what Jess? Maybe what you said is true but that doesn't mean he is like that anymore, maybe he's changed."

"You can't be serious! The love of his life leaves him without an explanation and you think he has changed?"

"Maybe he hasn't but you know what? Right now I don't care! I can talk to him and tonight I'm going out with him." Then she stormed of, afraid that they would see the river that was now threatening to flood, hoping that she was right and Jess wrong, that Sandy Cohen really was a good guy.

Dinner had been good. Really good. They never made it to the movies. But she hadn't minded. She liked talking to him. And she felt like he liked talking to her. She didn't know when she had started liking him, but then she realized that when wasn't important or at least not as important as the fact that she did like him. And he liked her too, she was pretty sure he did. She couldn't point her finger to when she had started flirting with him but if she was to guess it would have been sometime after she got the feeling that he liked her too. To her relief he had flirted back. It was a good feeling. Flirting with someone who was flirting back to you, not the character everyone believed was you. And with every compliment he had given her, every stroke over her hand, the river, once so violent, inside of her lost its strength and now only a small stream remained. It wasn't big enough to reach the cracks and not strong enough to open the gate.

After dinner they had walked around, without any particular destination, talking about everything and nothing and she found herself being totally honest for the first time since she could remember. Her life had always been imprinted with those small lies that just come so easily. Yes daddy, I did well on the test. Or Mom you have to believe me, I didn't do it. It must have been Hailey. But not with him. With him lies didn't fit. All it took was one look into his eye and then she knew, he didn't lie, and he wouldn't accept being lied to. To her surprise it felt good. Before she knew it they had ended up in front of her dorm. He kissed her and to her own surprise she found herself asking if he wanted to come upstairs. When he declined she felt a wave of disappointment in her and he must have seen it written across her face because he hurried to say that he would call the minute he woke up the next morning, then he kissed her again and she still felt disappointed. But she accepted his offer and walked up the stairs alone thankful that she hadn't listened to Jessica and Sarah. She wouldn't believe that he could do that, not after looking into his eyes.

He called the next morning, just like he promised, and then he called the morning after that and all the other days that week. And the next week. And the week after that. They had gone out for a month and a half when it happened…

So what did you think? I promise I'll try to update faster but I am kinda stuck, ideas are greatly appreciated.