Outside of the Cohen and Cooper houses'

Earlier at the fundraiser Kristen had noticed that Jimmy Cooper her childhood friend and ex had acted a little weird and when she was outside throwing out the trash, saw him and took the chance to talk to him about it.. She sees Jimmy walking his dog and goes over to him. Since they are next door neighbors.

"Hey, Jimmy."

"Oh Hey Kirsten."

Kristen smiles and then looks at the golden Labrador retriever. "Hey Dusty. "

Jimmy looks back at Dusty and says in a happy voice to get the dog's attention, "Dusty, look who's here." Dusty then prances over to Kirsten and she pets him.

"Hey Jimmy are you really okay?" Kirsten asks while crossing her arms over her chest.

"Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah." Jimmy says and runs a nervous hand through his hair.

"Cause you know you can always..." Kirsten started

"No, you know, I've just been working really hard. So who was that, that kid that you brought tonight. You have a cousin from Boston?" Jimmy said and changed the subject

"Uh... actually he's one of Sandy's clients. He... brought him home for the weekend."

"Uh-huh." Jimmy said while nodding in understanding knowing how Sandy Cohen was. "You ever think this would be our lives? "

Kirsten shook her head, "Is Marissa back yet? "

"Oh, well, she usually stays out pretty late. "

"Well Seth never goes out. So I'm worried."

"Don't worry. I'm sure they're not doing anything we didn't do. "

They laugh lightly and Kirsten says sarcastically, "Well then, that's comforting."

Holly's Party

A little while later Marissa walks up to Ryan

"Hey Ryan. So, what do you think of Newport?" she asked him invading his personal space bubble so to speak.

"I think I can get in less trouble where I'm from." he said and she looked him up and down like Summer had done earlier.

A girl shouts from the card table, "Hey, Coop! It's your turn to deal."

"Ok," she yelled and then looked back at Ryan and said, "You have no idea." She smiles and walks away.

Over at the keg the guy who shouted about getting naked is now passed out.

"I fixed the keg." Seth said and offered another cup to a guy who stood by it but he of course didn't take it. "Alright fine more for me." Seth said and took a big gulp of beer.

Nearby a pack of nearly identical looking blonds all talk on their cell phones. Ryan was standing nearby when Summer comes through the door onto the back porch and obviously drunk.

She walks up to Ryan who is leaning against the railing. "Look … who I found." She says accidentally spills her drink on him. "Oops!! I'm wasted." She states.

Ryan brushes off the suit and she attempts to "help" basically rubbing her hands on his chest. She wraps her arms around his neck.

"So what's your name anyway?

"Ryan." He says and tries to detangle himself from her when Seth comes outside.

"Hey Ryan you got to come…" Seth started but stops talking when he sees them "What are you doing man?"

"Hey um it's not what it looks like. I'm not into her like that." Ryan says and pries Summer off of him.

She is obviously insulted and offended and says, "Excuse me?!"

Seth is still upset and in a small voice says. "What are you doing? I named my boat after her."

Summer laughs and then looks at Seth. "What? Eww, who ARE you?

Ryan quietly says not wanting to cause a scene, "It's not what you think. She's just a little but drunk.

Summer comes up behind Ryan and wraps her arms around his neck.

"Come on, Ryan." Summer purrs into his ear. Ryan pulls her off. Seth walks off back into the house. Ryan chases after him.

"Seth, Seth, Seth!" he says.

Seth grabs Ryan and shoves him against the wall of the house since they are on the back porch. "You know what? Why don't you just go back to Chino? I'm sure there's a really nice car in the parking lot you could steal." Shouted a very upset and not to mention drunk Seth

Marissa, Rory and everyone else sees and hears this while Seth takes off down the beach. Ryan just stood there for a moment.

"He's from Chino? Eww... that's so gross. I mean Chino come on…" Summer said while laughing and Rory rolled her eyes.

"Thanks for the input Barbie." Rory stated and Summer looked at her suddenly seeming to have sobered up.

"Excuse me? What did you just say?" Summer asked stepping towards Rory and a small circle started top form around them.

"Did I stutter?" Rory asked in a mocking voice. Now she normally wouldn't have ever done anything like this but she had, had enough plus the little alcohol that she already had in her system seemed to make it easier for her.

"Hey Rory hold up what's your problem?" Marissa said stepping in between the two.

"My problem? My problem is that she is so infuriating she has to make a really stupid comment about every little thing that goes on and I am sick of having to listen to it!! I wish I could just go back home and get away from you and your desperate plea for attention and everyone in this god forsaken town that's my problem!!!!" Rory said in a loud voice and then stormed off into the house while grabbing a full bottle of vodka on the drinks table and left the party.

Ryan watched and heard the whole exchange between Summer and Rory then he walked away towards the beach and nearly bumped into Marissa who just looked away and he headed for the beach not only in search for Seth but to also get away from everyone in that house who was staring at him and talking about him.

-rnl1993