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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