The Summer of Kayleigh Cohen
Chapter 7
Summer stood. "I'll be right back, guys." She interrupted Julie's conversation and walked over to the entrance.
"Cohen!" She yelled a couple feet from his face. He lowered his binoculars and smiled.
"Hey Summer. Wow? Are you here at the mall too?" He smiled, his teeth showing.
"Ass!" She smacked him on the head.
"I'll take that as a yes." He nodded, rubbing his head.
"What the hell do you think you are doing?" She stared at him, her hands on her hips, waiting for him to answer her.
"Shopping?"
"You are such a jerk, Cohen." She turned and faced Ryan. "What you are guys doing here?" She asked angrily.
"It was Sandy's idea. I just went along." Ryan shrugged. Summer rolled her eyes and took her baby from his arms.
"Cohen! I can't believe you came here to spy on us. You ass."
"I think you already established that, Summer."
"HEY Summer" Sandy came up behind her. "You found her. Good going guys." He patted Ryan on the back.
"Hey, Mr. C. What you doing here?" Her expression still hadn't changed.
Sandy used his hand to comb through his hair. "Oh you know. Shopping."
Summer sighed. "We are right over there. Might as well, get some lunch." Sandy and Ryan nodded as started walking over to the girls. "Cohen…Come HERE." She grabbed his shoulder and tugged him to her.
"Yes, milady." He grinned.
"You are in so much trouble." She sighed, angrily and looked up at him." I think we should break up." She said sternly. His smile turned to a grim frown.
"You are?"
"No ASS. But if you do that STUNT one more time, I am. Jerk." Summer ranted and turned on her heal and joined the others.
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"Sandy! What are you doing here?" Kirsten asked, watching her husband sit down directly in front of her and Ryan sitting by Marissa.
"I came to join by wife for Lunch." He sat and kissed her on her nose.
"Oh. That's wonderful." Kirsten smiled, tightly. "We just finished shopping for the day so we just thought we should get a bite to eat."
"That is good. Did you already eat yours?"
"Nah, I'd thought I would get something back at home." Sandy nodded with satisfaction.
"So Sandy?" Julie interrupted. She was getting bored of not talking to someone. "Is there some friction between Seth and Summer lately?" She asked, pointing over to the middle of the food court where Summer was yelling at Seth and then smacking him on the head once in a while.
"Nah. I wouldn't worry about it. There has always been a love/hate relationship with them." Julie nodded.
"So how's everything going with the baby?"
"Oh. She's a doll. Seth turned into a protective dad this morning. Apparently you aren't allowed to leave a baby in a house." Sandy shrugged and Kirsten perked up.
"What?" She asked confused.
"I went to get Kayleigh some milk but I couldn't find it so I went to ask Seth in the pool house so I put her down on the living room floor for a sec and then Seth freaks when I don't have her."
"Sandy!" She smacked him. "You can't do that."
"Apparently." He sighed, raising his hands up.
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"Hey." Ryan greeted sitting in the seat next to Marissa.
"Hey." She smiled back. "I thought you were going to help with Kayleigh today while we shop?" Marissa asked looking at him, puzzled.
He motioned over to Summer and Seth arguing with the baby in Summer's arms.
"You decided to go shopping?" She asked, still puzzled.
"Nah. They wanted to spy on you guys—"
"And you wanted to come with?" She laughed, picturing that conversation they must have had earlier.
"Yeah, pretty much." He grinned at her. He hadn't seen her for 2 weeks. "So how's your boyfriend? Doing good?"
Marissa hesitated. "I broke up with him yesterday."
"Oh. I'm sorry."
"He wasn't worth it." She shrugged and took another bite of her food.
"Aww." Ryan nodded. "Are you going to Caleb's party tomorrow?"
"Yeah, my mom's making me. She said it wouldn't look good if I wasn't there. And apparently she has some big news to tell everyone. Should be interesting." She laughed. "Are you going?"
"Yeah. The Cohen's are going."
"That's good. Maybe we will see each other." Marissa grinned at him. They still had the chemistry.
"Definitely."
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"So I guess we should go."Julie announced, pushing her tray into the trash can. "Marissa, Honey ready to go?" She asked, after everyone had talked to everyone and all the food had been eaten.
"Sure mom. Bye Ryan. See you tomorrow." She got up and leaned over and hugged Summer who was playing peek-a-boo with Kayleigh. "Bye Sum. Call me tonight ok?"
"Okay, Bye Coop. Bye Julie."
"Sandy, you take Ryan and Seth home in your car and I'll take Summer and Kayleigh home in the Range Rover. Sounds ok?" Kirsten explained, standing up and grabbing her purse.
"Okay, hon. See you at home." He waved and ushered Seth and Ryan out to the car.
"Ready Summer?" Kirsten asked politely. Summer gathered up the baby' stuff. "Hey Kirsten. I don't have Kali's car seat. It's in the other car."
"Oh right." Kirsten snapped her finger.
"Don't worry. I'll get it." Summer handed over Kayleigh.
"Or you can just give them Kayleigh. It might be quicker?" Mrs. Cohen suggested.
"Sure." She grabbed her daughter back and walked quickly to the exit.
"COHEN!" She screamed into the parking lot. Within a minute, Seth ran over to her. He stopped and bent over to catch his breath.
"WHAT? What happened? Are you okay?" Seth rambled.
"I'm fine. Take Kayleigh. You have the car seat." She handed her over. Seth released a deep breath of air and sighed.
"that's it?"
"Yep. See you at home." She turned around and walked over to where Kirsten was.
"Bye Summer." He waved. "There goes your mommy." Seth cooed to his baby.
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Summer and Kirsten walked up to the Range Rover and got in after loading their bags into the trunk.
"Could you believe Cohen? He was just spying on us." She shook her head. "He's really corny sometimes. And sometimes she's just plain weird but I guess everyone can't be perfect." She sighed. "Did you have a fun time today, Mrs Cohen?"
"Yes Ms. Roberts. I did." Kirsten laughed at her.
"Oh right. Sorry. MOM." She giggled.
"There you go. You have to start getting used to it."
"I guess I will. 4 people will now call you mom." Summer realized, saying it quietly.
"Yep. They will." Kirsten sighed and drove out of the mall parking lot.
"Do you not want to have another baby?" Summer asked, her eyebrows furrowed.
"I would love another little one but I'm kind of old, you know. What? Am I going to be 60 when he or she graduates from high school?" Kirsten explained, keeping her eyes on the road.
"It doesn't mean you won't be a good mom." Summer comforted.
"I know but I don't want my kid to be ashamed of me for being old. Seth does it now. I mean, we aren't getting any younger." Kirsten said emotionally. Her voice started to get crackled and Summer knew she had tears in her eyes.
"I guess you and I make up in it for age differences, huh, mom?" She smiled at her and she wished she could give her a hug.
"Thanks Summer." She laughed embarrassed. "I just don't know what I will tell Sandy."
"I don't think you should be worried about Sandy. He is going to be trilled. I bet he won't shut up for days until he tells the whole town." Summer could picture it. He would be so happy and supporting that she bet he would want 20 more kids after this newest addition.
"I know. He loves kids but for the first year he has no clue what to do with them.Like today with Kayleigh." Kirsten chuckled at the thought of that.
"Wait? What happened with Kayleigh today?" Summer looked over to her "mother" and gave her a puzzled look.
"Oh." Kirsten laughed. "Seth didn't tell you huh." She looked at Summer.
"KIRSTEN! LOOK OUT!" Summer screamed as a car veered and pummeled into them. The car almost broke into two as it rolled over completely three times. Everything inside was dark.
"Kirsten?" Summer fumbled inside the car and tried to see anything. The passenger side was smashed in and the window had completely shattered. Her right leg throbbed as she tried to move it but Summer tried not to dwell in the pain.
"Kirsten? Can you hear me? Kristen?" She yelled over to the drivers side. She moved her hand over to her and she quickly withdrew her hand as she felt a wet sticky substance.
There was movement outside the car but everything remained dark in the car.
"Is everyone inside, all right?" A man's voice yelled from outside.
"I'm okay but the driver's not!" Summer screamed to the man.
"I called 911 and they should be here soon. Stay right there and don't try to move." He responded. "Is the driver breathing?"
Summer moved her hand back over to Kirsten and stuck her hand in front of what she thought was her face.
"YES!" She yelled back.
"Good. Good." He said to himself. Summer closed her eyes as the pain in her leg increased and she was worried to death about Kirsten.
Loud sirens were heard in the distance and Summer opened up her eyes again.
"Kirsten. Kirsten." She repeated again. "Please say anything."
"Hello? Can anyone hear me?" A firefighter shouted into the car.
"I can." She replied.
"Is there anyone else in the car?" He asked; she could tell he was fumbling with Kirsten's door.
"My mom is." She shouted back. "She's was driving."
"Is she breathing?"
"I think so."
"Are you okay?" The man yanked on the door again and light flooded into the car.
"I'm not sure." Summer felt tears flooding her eyes as she looked at Kirsten.
Blood was rushing down her face and there were sharp pieces of glass coming from her body.
"Can you move?" He asked again. There was a banging on her door and then it opened up.
"The glove box thing is on my leg. I can't get it out." She turned her head away from Kirsten as two firefighters tried to pry the metal away from her leg.
"Can you move you leg out now?" Another man asked.
She grimaced in pain. "No. OUCH."
"Okay. GREG!" He yelled turning away from her. "I need something to pry this metal away from her leg."
"What's your name?" The first man asked her again.
"Summer." She repeated. "I mean Summer Roberts." She shook her head. "Sorry."
"What's her name?" He pointed to Kirsten.
"Kirsten Cohen."
Two ambulance workers carried Mrs. Cohen out of the car and out to a stretcher.
"Does Kirsten Cohen have any medical things I should know about?"
"She's Pregnant."
TBC
So that was chapter 7. Review and you just might get your next chapter sooner. I always start to update after 10 reviews so, guess what that means. LOL