Hey guys I have been so busy lately that this post was really just pushed into my schedule when I really didn't have the time but still managed to finish it before I go to bed. I watched the sleeping beauty and me being a diehard R/M fan loved the episode…weird yeah I know. It seems to me that the O.C. is getting back on track, I still miss Marissa but I loved the episode…and I think Ryan and Taylor aren't that bad. I'm actually happy she isn't trying to replace Marissa, and she not remotely like her or tries to act like her it makes it a lot better to watch. And if you haven't already please go show your support for the O.C. and help safe the O.C. on the site and sign the oath! thanks in advance! Here is your post love Noor!
Chapter 10: Back to being happy.
The Cohen family had been dealing with the aftermath of the death of the beloved grandmother, mother, wife, mother-in-law and dear friend; Nicole Nichol. Fortunately things were getting better for the Cohen's things were finally getting back to normal, well as normal as it could be. The past few weeks Kirsten and Sandy had to deal with their boys fighting which they never did before, one of their sons building a wall around himself and letting no one in. He also figured out another way to let go of his emotions, a way that really wasn't tolerated by his parents, he would fight… a lot. He had hit his brother, which scared Sandy and Kirsten to death and he promised them he would never do it again, fortunately he had kept his promise, after keeping his promise he became overly protected of him and started to fight anyone who even joked about him.
Kirsten and Sandy had told Ryan numerous times that fighting was not the way to handle things, every time they did he would nod and tell them he was sorry, sadly they had to have the same talk the other day every single time. They even had to ground him a couple of times, and he couldn't go to his soccer matches.
Seth was an entirely different story, Seth started to make jokes about every inappropriate thing and that eventually ended him in the dean's office a couple of times, next to his brother who had been in yet another fight. Seth would crack jokes about the teacher and he sometimes just ignored a teacher and tried to be a smart a.ss and give them a sarcastic comment. Which then landed him next to his brother on the living room couch, getting lectures from both their mom as well as their dad.
Kirsten and Sandy hadn't been doing well themselves, Kirsten put up a smile everyday and told everyone she was fine when she was actually dying inside, she even started to tell her husband she was fine, which frustrated him so much he would sometimes scream at her and tell her she wasn't fine and that she had to let him in, which then made her smile even more and tell him he was to stressed and she would then kiss his cheek in a fake way and walk out of the bedroom. The truth was she wasn't fine she was frustrated and annoyed and scared between having just lost her mother and seeing the weird behaviour of her boys, her two eight year olds.
Sandy felt as if he was the only sane person in his family, his wife was being the perfect shepherd-wife making him feel like he was living with a robot, one of his sons was taking everything out on any and everything around him using his fists while doing so, and his other son was becoming quite the sarcastic boy joking at everyone's benefits and sending the teacher's in a angry spiral. Time after time both his boys landed at the dean's office and he or Kirsten had to go pick them up apologizing sincerely to the teachers who had been offended by Seth and to the parents of the kids who had been hit by Ryan.
Currently though everything was getting back on track his family was finally talking and they had at least dealt with their emotions, leading to a very sombre Sunday morning, but that was not the fact. They were actually getting back to being the Cohen's; the happy family they once were.
'Mom are you sure you know how to cook?' Ryan asked as he saw his mother look at the turkey that was lying in front of her and observing it carefully, every time attempting to touch it, but every time she got even remotely close she with drew her hand and stared at the pink bird again.
'Yeah honey are you sure you want to cook, I mean you have never cooked before and starting with a Thanksgiving dinner isn't really the easiest place to begin.' Sandy said while eyeing his wife and chuckling every time her eyebrows came together and she shook her head.
'Well the way I see it, is that I have to start somewhere and if I start at the top it can only get better.' Kirsten said confidently. She looked at her husband who was smiling at her then she looked at her curly dark haired son, who was reading a comic book while sighing loudly, and at last she looked at her sandy blond haired son who was shaking his head and looked at her with disbelief.
'Mom where's Rosa?' Ryan asked while walking over to his dad, who picked him up and he gladly linked his arms around his neck, he might be eight but he still loved it to be carried by his parents.
'She is with her family in Mexico, she's celebrating Thanksgiving with her family just like us.' Kirsten said. She walked over to him and kissed him on his lips lightly and then went back to the kitchen counter. To remain where she was left of which was nowhere.
'Can't we just order dinner?' Seth spoke up for the first time looking at his mom. She shook her head and started to take the temperature of the turkey.
'Aren't the Cooper's coming over honey?' Sandy asked Kirsten nodded her head, and Sandy let out a laugh he had been holding the entire time. 'Wow I think they're actually expecting dinner to be served.'
Kirsten stared humming a song and then looked at Sandy with a glare before continuing to hum. 'I really can't hear you I'm going to start dinner.'
'Well I'm going out, the surf is really great, Ry want to come with me last time you did great…' Sandy said while Ryan's head shot up and he nodded his head yes a couple of times while smiling big. 'Seth want to come too?' Sandy asked not wanting to let his other son feel left out.
Seth shook his head no. 'No dad I'm going to play at Norman's remember he has a new video game he wanted to show me, you were going to bring me remember and then you were going to get me before dinner.' Seth said while looking at his other comic book.
Sandy nodded his head and walked out of the kitchen with Ryan still resting on his hip.
Sandy and Ryan just arrived at the beach after dropping of Seth. Both were walking in sweatshirts, their swim shorts, and one surf board under one arm. Sandy's board was three times bigger then Ryan's but then again Sandy himself was three times bigger then Ryan so it made sense. Taking of the sweatshirts and leaving them in the car, they walked towards the ocean.
Sandy had been teaching Ryan how to surf ever since he was able to walk he had taken him out in the ocean, and Ryan loved it. Every time he was in the ocean he was like a fish in the water. And he loved to surf he couldn't do it as good as his dad and he never got the big waves because Sandy never went to far with him, but he was still the best for an eight year old. Then again Ryan always had been big at sports, Seth however was a total different story he was more like his mother loved to watch it but never wanted to play it. Sandy asked him and Kirsten a lot of times to come surfing with him and Ryan and they both replied in unison 'with the fish?!'. Sandy however never gave up he wasn't really the quitter type of guy and every time he asked them again, and every single time they said no or had other plans.
Ryan and Sandy both walked out of the water soaking wet and Ryan beamed happily at his dad, he had had a couple of good waves and every time he rode them perfectly, well at least as perfect a eight year old boy could.
'Dad did you see the last one?' Ryan asked his dad happily and Sandy nodded and smiled while ruffling Ryan's hair.
'Yeah son I did you did great, I don't think there is one eight year old boy that can do what you did.' Sandy said proudly. Ryan just smiled and kept remembering how good it felt to catch a good wave, as his dad always said.
Kirsten had tried her best to make something of the turkey but in the end it didn't work, just as Sandy had predicted, but it didn't bother Kirsten that much, at first it had been bothering her. She had to order in while guest were showing up, but Julie had made her feel better telling her that she almost set the place on fire once she tried to cook. Kirsten laughed with her and didn't mind she ruined her thanksgiving dinner anymore, because the night had been a blast.
Jimmy and Julie were sitting on one side of the table with Marissa next to Julie. Sandy sat at the head and Kirsten sat on the other head, with Ryan next to Kirsten and Seth next to Sandy. They were eating, talking, laughing, and eating some more.
'Luckily Thai always does the trick.' Jimmy said while taking Julie's hand under the table and smiling at her. Julie could feel herself melt at the small gesture, he really was the man of her dreams and she really loved him for that.
'Yeah it does.' Sandy said while looking at his wife and winking at her, she smiled back at him and resumed eating her dinner.
'Daddy I got to pee.' Marissa whined from where she was sitting. Julie looked at Marissa sternly but not too sternly. She shook her head.
'Marissa you know where the toilet is your seven years old and you know better then to be rude while were eating. Go to the toilet. Of you go.' Julie said. While shaking her head and smiling at her daughter's forwardness.
Sandy couldn't help but laugh when the little girl blurt out she had to pee, and soon the table was filled with laughter coming from the adults, but Ryan and Seth both looked disgusted.
'Girls don't pee!' Ryan said while shaking his head at the visual.
'Yeah that's gross!' Seth said, when he realised he suddenly didn't have an appetite anymore.
Marissa heard her two friends say that and shook her head, how could they say that, girls weren't gross boys were 'eww' as her best friend Summer Roberts would have said it. 'Well boys are yucky!' Marissa yelled over her shoulder while she closed the toilet's door.
'Well boys are yucky.' Seth repeated Marissa in an annoying girly voice, while Ryan just made a face making fun of Marissa while doing so.
This made the adults laugh even more and watch the two boys on the table making fun of the girl who was now standing behind them. 'Are you making fun of me.' Marissa asked, and Ryan and Seth immediately stopped. They both slowly turned around to see Marissa standing there her hand on her hips and her eyes were burning holes in both Seth and Ryan.
'No.' Ryan said while smiling sweetly at her.
'Goodness gracious no!' Seth added while doing the same as his brother and before either of them knew it Marissa spilled water over them and started running away while quickly saying 'oops sorry'.
Ryan and Seth both followed suit and chased Marissa around the house laughing while they did so letting the adults look at them and retreat to the kitchen. Marissa was running through the family room and she could barely breathe because she was laughing so hard.
Seth laughed to as he went to get Marissa but she stopped dead in her tracks, Seth wasn't expecting this and ran with full force into the couch, laughing as he landed on the soft cushions, to exhausted to get up he kept laughing. Marissa laughed and turned around to hide for Ryan, but when she did so.
He ran into her with as much force as he had landing them both on cushions that were all on the floor. He tickled her and she laughed and called for Seth to help her. Seth obeyed and jumped on his brother's back. The adults could hear the sweet laughter that was filling the entire house and they loved every minute of it.
'Seth you traitor!' Ryan said while falling back on the couch with Seth on his back. Marissa got up and sprinted to the couch and tickled Ryan just as he had done with her the difference now was that she was tickling Seth too.
'What are girls?' Marissa asked loudly. And kept tickling them, she could hear them laugh and was amazed that she was holding the two boys down. Well actually Ryan was holding Seth down seeing as he was lying on top of him.
'Won…der…ful..' Ryan tried to say through his laughter.
'I can't hear you?' Marissa said. While smiling the entire time.
'GROSS!!' Ryan said while laughing even harder, Seth laughed too, and before the boys knew what was happening they were picked up by two adults. Who were kissing them on their cheeks.
'Is this gross too!' Kirsten asked as she kissed Seth all over his face, and Julie did the same thing with Ryan.
Julie had loved both Seth and Ryan the moment she saw them, well she just loved the Cohen's in general and loved spending time with them. She felt at home here and that was something she had never experienced while she lived in Riverside.
'Ewww!!!' both Ryan and Seth said in a whiny voice in unison while continuing to laugh.
Jimmy and Sandy were both throwing Marissa from the one to the other and tickled her every time they did so.
Someone who would've walked into the Cohen house would immediately light up, while seeing these two families interact. Some people would long for this too, and some people would be sad knowing they had that once but let it slip away, some would want to go home to their own families and interact the exact same way this big family was doing.
The laughter didn't subside until very late that night, until everyone was warn out and ready to go to their respectful homes, and beds.
That was it, this story needed some fluff seeing as this story is basically a happy story with not too much drama. Summer will be in the next post don't worry. She just couldn't come to everything the Cooper's came too she has a family of her own. Well review please! Love Noor!