Take It How You Want It

An idea I had, I thought it would be interesting so here it is. Takes place after the Season Finale. This story is going to focus a lot on Seth, Summer, Taylor, Ryan, and the return of a some old characters. This is pretty much how everyone deals with Marissa's death.

Part One: Blown Away

Seth rolled over, and used his free hand to grope for the vibrating phone on his nightstand. Keeping his other arm tightly locked around the sleeping girl, who had finally stopped crying. He flipped open the phone, and rolled his head away in an attempt to keep her from waking.

"ello?" he mumbled.

"Is it true?" The voice asked.
"Wha?" he mumbled again.
"Seth…" the voice uttered, trying hard to keep there emotions in line.
"Is she really dead?" At this point Seth had become conscious.
"Alex...is that you?"
"Please tell me it's not true."
"I'm sorry. Look do you want to talk or something?" There was silence on the end; Seth could distinctly hear heavy breathing.
"Alex are you okay? Come on talk to me." At this point he was still whispering. After a few minutes of silence, he heard a click. Closing his phone and placing it back on his nightstand, he wrapped his other arm around Summer.

It had been hours ago when they found out. He and Summer had been sitting inside the box, talking about the future. When he went downstairs to get a bottle of water he remembered hearing the phone ring, and seeing both his parents run out the door not telling him what was wrong or what was going on. He returned to his room, and saw Summer sitting on his bed. Tears running down her face.

"What's wrong?" He had asked her.
"There's been an accident." She uttered, looking down.
"What do you mean?" Seth questioned.
"Ryan, Marissa…I…" Summer's tears began to flow more freely.

"Summer what happened?" Seth knelt in front of her, and held both her hands.
"Marissa's dead." In that second when the words left her mouth, she began to cry even harder.
"No…that can't be we just saw her…wait what about Ryan?" Summer didn't answer, and Seth thought that both Ryan and Marissa were gone. He didn't know what to do so he did the only thing he could, he put his arms around Summer and held her letting her tears soak through his shirt.

When sunshine started spilling into his room, he crept out of bed quietly and kissed Summer on the cheek, before heading downstairs. When he reached the kitchen, he called Taylor.
"Seth, is she okay?" Taylor hadn't said good morning, or even hello, she just got right to the point.
"Summer or Marissa?" He questioned.
"Summer, I know about Marissa. It seems almost everyone knows."
"She cried a lot, I don't know what to do."
"Get her comfort food, and try to make her feel better."
"Well Taylor, that's not going to be easy seeing as how her best friend died."
"Seth, she needs you more than ever right now." Her voice was firm.
"Okay, what kind of comfort food?" he asked defeated.
"Anything, anything you would eat, anything that makes you feel good. Listen I'll think of something okay? I'll call you back later."
"Yeah okay, thanks." Seth said shutting his phone and placing it in his pocket.

He heard the door unlock, and ran to see who had come home. His dad walked in, looking distraught, and tired.
"Dad, what's going on?" Seth asked following his father into the kitchen.
"I take it you already know about Marissa?"
"Yeah, what about Ryan though?"
"Ryan is…fine, he escaped the accident with few injuries."
"Do they know what happened?"
"Ryan's not talking, he hasn't said much at all. But I got a call from the police department this morning saying that a girl had confessed about who was at fault." Sandy stated, pulling a coffee cup out of the cupboard.
"Where's mom?"
"She's comforting Julie." His dad's phone began to ring and he excused himself from the kitchen and walked into his office closing the door.

Seth returned the kitchen and starting putting things in the oven, and putting a tray together of comfort food. He walked into his room, carrying a heaping tray and put it on his chair, pushing it towards the bed. He lifted Summer up, and sat with his body to the headboard holding her close to him. After a few minutes she began to stir.

"Hi" He said looking at her, attempting a smile.
Summer closed her eyes, trying to forget the news she had received the night before.

"You should eat, I got you a lot of good food." He gestured to the chair.
Summer sat up, with her back against the headboard leaning her head on Seth's arm.

"Did it really happen?" She asked, looking him in the eye.
"I didn't know what you liked so I got you a lot of stuff. Ice cream, bagel bites, candy, cookies, there's a sample of everything in my pantry on that tray."

Neither said anything for what seemed like an eternity.

"I need to go home." Summer said pulling herself out of his bed, and he didn't stop her.

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