A Heart's Desire

We live a life of perfection

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"Sweetie, can you get me my purse? It's in the bedroom." Summer called from where she was standing in the foyer, looking at herself in the mirror. She looked pretty good; a light green top and brown pants. She looked relaxed but still respectable enough. Not that she needed to look great - they were only going to Seth's parents' house – but Summer kind of wanted to look nice.

Kirsten and Sandy had already been told the news since they had known that there was a possibility that Summer was pregnant. Summer had, after she had told Marissa, wanted to call them immediately and Seth just couldn't say no. And even though Summer was the one jumping around and saying how much she loved him and how happy she was every other minute, Seth was just as excited.

He had once the doctor told them the news completely lost all his anxiousness and fear. He had for such a long time believed that he wanted a child after thirty; he had never thought of getting a baby as rushing. When he realised that Summer might be pregnant and when he'd realised that she needed him he had hidden those feelings but he had still had them.

But the moment the doctor confirmed that they were going to have a baby everything about those feelings had just vanished. Now he felt nothing but happiness about Summer's pregnancy. Because when you thought about it, they were ready. They had all the money a child could possibly need so money or careers weren't an issue. Seth knew that he would still be working because he couldn't just quit. But now, nothing was the same; he didn't feel the same need to earn money.

For some strange reason Seth had always worked hard to get much money; partly because he felt good about it. And the reason of why he felt good about it was that if he had the money he could give Summer whatever she wanted; he could give her anything. Summer had always been rich and she had always been a little spoiled and because Seth knew that Summer wasn't going to earn much money if she committed herself to her dream he wanted to be able to give her the support to just go for it. He didn't want her to worry about money and she had never had to.

So here they were, expecting a baby. No one of them had thought that just two years after their wedding they would be parents. To every other couple that might seem normal and two years for themselves would be enough but this was just something that Seth and Summer never had thought. They had both been prepared to wait.

"Did you mean this one, Sum?" Seth walked up to Summer as she was zipping her jacket and held up a brown purse.

"Yes, that's the one. Thanks!" Summer said and gave him a quick peck on his lips. It was funny how lost and adorable a man looked with a woman's purse.

Seth, grinning slightly, placed his hands on his wife's shoulders and stood behind her, their reflection looking nothing but perfect. He was about a head taller than she was and with their brown hair and brown eyes they just matched in a way that nothing else could. As their gazes met in the mirror they both smiled and Seth placed a light kiss on top of her perfect head.

"You ready?" Summer nodded and grabbed his hand. "Let's go then."

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Driving to the Cohens took forever it seemed. The traffic was a nightmare and Summer, having to pee, was a nightmare to sit next to. Seth swore that it didn't exist anyone on the entire planet who was better at complaining than his wife. The entire time she was telling him all about how much she needed to go and every time they had to stop in the traffic jam she would have an outbreak at all the cars not moving.

Now they were finally there and Seth was greeting his parents while Summer already had run to the bathroom.

"So, where's Ryan?" Seth asked as the three of them moved to sit in the living room. He didn't need to get that question answer though because the doorbell rang and Ryan walked in.

"Ryan!" Kirsten exclaimed and jumped up from the sofa to hug him. They didn't see Ryan very often, or at least not as often as they saw Seth.

"Hi, Kirsten." Ryan said inside of her tight hug. Seth met his eyes and walked over to his mother and brother together with Sandy.

After Kirsten let go of her son Seth gave Ryan one of his 'man hugs'. A man hug did pretty much include a stiff hug and a few hard pats on the back. "It's good to see you, man."

"You, too." At that moment Summer came back from the bathroom. She smiled brightly when she saw Ryan, not having seen him in a while.

While waiting for Sandy to greet the man he once took home from work Summer walked to stand beside her husband. To be alone together with the four of them always gave Summer a special feeling; a feeling she couldn't explain. They were the Cohens and even though Ryan technically was an Atwood and she was a Cohen they were a family, a family that she was a member of because she had married one of them.

Summer felt very welcome in this family and in this house. She'd always felt welcome and she now included herself in this family. But the four of them would always be something special, and not in a bad way. Summer loved the fact that they were still close and stuck together. The family she came from wasn't like that.

"Summer," Ryan now turned to Summer and she immediately flung her arms round his neck.

"Ryan, it's so good to see you."

"It's good to see you too, Summer."

After Summer and Ryan let go of each other the five of them, with smiles on their faces, remained standing just a little from the front door. That was until Kirsten excused herself to continue with the dinner. "So, I should get back to the kitchen but you can just take a seat in the living room and catch up."

"No, we'll come to. I can help you." Summer said and hurried after Kirsten leaving the three men standing left behind in the foyer.

"Hey, we should just-" Seth started, breaking the silence, and made a gesture to the kitchen.

"Yeah." Ryan and Sandy agreed and they walked towards the kitchen.

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"So, everything is good?" Ryan asked later as they all sat in the living room having had a nice dinner.

"Yeah, everything's great." Seth said and they all nodded in reply. After getting a look from Summer Seth continued. "Actually, we have some news Ryan."

Ryan looked at everybody, knowing by their silence that everyone except he knew what this was about. "News, huh?"

Seth, feeling that it was his turn to tell, cleared his throat and prepared to tell his brother the great news. "Yes. Summer…Me and Summer…you see, we're…well, Summer and-"

"Cohen! Get to the point." Summer interrupted Seth, who was rambling and getting everyone annoyed.

"Right, so Summer is actually - and you're not going to believe this but it's true and she's-"

"I'm pregnant, Ryan!" Summer exclaimed happily, not being able to wait any longer. It was just so much fun to tell everybody. And she had given Seth a chance to.

Seth wasn't too disappointed though. It didn't really matter who told Ryan and the look on Summer's face made not getting to tell him worth it. She was so excited. "That's what I was gonna say. Eventually."

"You are? That's great." Ryan said, seeming to be surprised. Seth had told him about his 'plans' when it came to babies.

"I know!" Summer smiled and quickly took Seth's arm, wrapping her own round it.

"You don't really look though…you know pregnant. Not that I'm an expert or anything."

"Well, I'm only nine weeks pregnant so you can't see it or anything." she explained and Kirsten agreed with a nod.

"Oh," Ryan said and looked over at Seth who made a face saying that he should let her talk.

"Yeah, and I haven't gain any weight either. On the contrary I've lost weight actually." Seth placed his hand on Summer's head and brought her closer to his body where they sat in the sofa.

"You can do that?" Sandy asked, joining the conversation and getting a glare from his wife.

"Sure. I just happen to have a lot, and then I mean a lot, of not so funny morning sickness. I can hardly keep anything down."

"Okay."

"Summer, that might be to over share a little bit." Seth told her while smiling.

"But it's natural."

Summer looked confused so Seth explained to her. "I know but you know guys aren't as interested in pregnancies as women. And Ryan's a man."

"I know he is. But you're interested though."

"Well, of course I am. It's my baby."

"I know. Isn't that great, Ryan. I mean, me and Cohen are having a baby." Summer exclaimed again, never getting tired of saying those words.

"It's great. Congratulations!"

"Thanks Ryan. And you know that you're gonna be the baby's uncle."

"That's pretty cool."

"I know. You've never been an uncle before, right?"

"No, I haven't."

"This baby is the first one in the family. Well, since Seth anyway." Kirsten said and smiled at Seth.

Summer turned her head to look at her husband and spoke in a childish voice. "And you're not a baby anymore, are you?"

"No, I'm not." Seth replied as they kept being cute with each other.

"So, Seth. How's work going?" Ryan said and interrupted the twosome.

"Oh, it's alright." Seth told Ryan shortly as he felt Summer tense a little in his arms. He placed a comforting kiss on her temple as they started talking about Ryan's work instead.

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"It was great to see Ryan again." Summer said as she and Seth stumbled into their apartment late that night. They had stayed for hours and were now exhausted. They had seriously thought of staying over but decided to spend time with Ryan the next day and sleep at home.

"Yeah, it was." Seth said yawning. "Let's get to bed immediately." Summer agreed and without caring about anything else than getting to that bed they slowly walked towards their bedroom.

"I'm so tired." Summer said and fell down on the bed, not caring to pull the sheet away. She wrapped her arms round one of the decoration pillows and closed her eyes.

"Honey, aren't you gonna undress?" Seth asked as he sat down next to her.

"No, I'm too tired." Summer said with a muffled voice since she had her head inside of the pillow. Seth quickly threw his clothes off and started to help Summer with hers. He would not let her sleep in her clothes; he knew that she hated that.

"It's gonna be very uncomfortable if you don't take these off." he said but she didn't seem to care so he lifted her body up into a sitting position.

"Seeeth," Summer wined and lowered her head.

"Come on, I'm helping you." Seth said and helped her put on a shirt.

Summer sank back down to the bed once the shirt was properly on making a 'mmm' sound as her head touched the pillow, happy to finally be allowed to sleep. Seth fallowed her example and lay down next to her. "Night, Summer. I love you."

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I really wanted to give you guys an update so I wrote this chapter really quickly. Therefore it might not be the best, but at least I updated as I promised. I'm also gonna move this week so I'm pretty busy.

I wanted to ask you if you want to see more of Ryan. I thought of jumping ahead a few days or weeks but I haven't really decided yet. I would really like your oppinion.

Thanks again all of you for reviewing. I hope you'll leave me a quick (it doesn't necessarily have to be quick because I love the long reviews from you guys) review to this chapter as well.

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