A/n: So who else is excited for the end of school because I am! I can finally update more! except for a fewweek when I will be away in Michigan for camp but whatever.I'm also very excited for the huge things of responses for this thing. I know that some things in this chapter will not be right and I was having a really bad time writing Ryan and Lindsey today sobare with me. Lindsey is intruduced in this chapter and I can't remember where she was from but I think it's Chicago and if it is not then...she is now from Chicago. Okenough talking here is chapter 4!
Chapter 4 School
Summer breathed in through her nose and out through her mouth. She took another deep breath and groaned, her stomach was killing her. And ever since she'd gotten back from Tijuana she'd been puking her brains out. She took another deep breath and looked around her bathroom.
It was the first day of school and she felt horrible, she blamed it on the cheap motel they had gotten, maybe she had gotten germs from sleeping on that bed. Who knew what people did in those kinds of places? She sat up from her position on the floor and moaned again.
"Summer! Are you up yet? You have to leave in a half hour." Her father's voice yelled through the door.
She sat up slowly and went back to what she was doing before she had gotten sick. She was half way dressed in a short black skirt, and boots. She had to finish the rest of her outfit and try and look healthy and cheerful.
Fat chance, she thought bitterly. She couldn't feel happy and cheerful if her life depended on it. She got her shirt on and started doing her make-up when she heard a car honk and she knew Marissa was there for her. She quickly finished her morning procedure and grabbed her new back pack then ran out the door.
"Hey!" Marissa said smiling when she saw her friend.
Summer smiled back, "hi." Summer slowly slide into the front seat and tried not to puke as the smell of leather hit her.
"We're picking Ryan and Seth up now. Is that ok?"
Summer nodded trying to breath throw her mouth.
"Are you ok?" Marissa asked a little concerned.
Summer nodded again not daring herself to open her mouth. "Great." she whispered.
Marissa shrugged and turned on the radio.
As they drove along with Marissa chatting happily about nothing in particular, Summer thought of all the symptoms that she had so she could try and identify her sickness.
"Hey, guys!" Marissa yelled honking the horn.
Summer jumped slightly as she came out of her thoughts. The boys hurried outside and slide into the back seat.
"I'm so ready for Junior year!" Seth yelled putting his hands together and rubbing them. "I am going to find some hot chicks and we are all going to triple date. Maybe you, and Alex can do some kissing for us." Seth said pointing to Marissa who rolled her eyes at him but was smiling anyway.
"You wish!"
"Maybe we can do something tonight, I mean, we should celebrate going back to school and all." Seth said.
"Maybe...well actually yeah that would be fun. Alex has a really cool band playing at the club tonight." Marissa said watching the road.
"Ok, then it's settled we are going out tonight to the Bait Shop." Seth looked at Ryan and Summer. "Man, Summer you look like hell."
Summer lifted her head off the window and glared at Seth. "I do not."
"Are you feeling ok?" Ryan asked looking at her.
She nodded, "fine, fine. I just didn't sleep real well." She shrugged it off and looked out the window as Seth was talking about the latest comic book that had come out.
They drove into the parking lot once they got there and all told each other what their schedules were.
"I have English first." Seth said.
"Chemistry." Ryan said.
"Oh me too!" Summer said smiling a real smile for the first time that day.
He smiled right back at her. "I have Rickter, Honors."
Ryan's smile dropped, "oh I have Lee, Advance."
Summer's smile dropped at that too.
"I have Rickter." Marissa said jumping in hoping to make her friend feel better.
"Great! Let's go." Summer said smiling again as they headed off to first period.
"Man, your taking advance?" Seth asked looking at him amazed.
Ryan nodded watching as the two girl went off to 1st period together. "Come on. Let's go to class." Ryan muttered as they left.
A few minutes later Ryan and Seth split up to go their separate ways. Ryan headed to the science wing and Seth to the English. As Ryan walked into his first period Chemistry room and looked around for some empty seats, he felt awkward. He knew he was smart enough to take an advance class, its just he never did. Now he was taking advance science and Math classes, because his guidance councilor recommended it. To become an architect he had to take these kinds of classes, so he promised himself he'd do good.
He found an empty seat by a girl with long reddish hair and a friendly face. He walked over to the seat and squeezed into it, accidently hitting her on the head with his bag. He smiled a small smile over at her and apologized.
"It's fine, I'm Lindsey." she said shyly.
He nodded his head, then realized he should probably say his name. "Ryan." he said then looked at the teachers desk noticing he was about to start.
All through class Ryan noticed Lindsey glancing at him, and when they got there chemistry partners he was surprised at the smile on her face when she found out it was him.
"I'm glad we already met so we don't have to go through all the awkward meeting things." she babbled.
He nodded tryingto act polite, wondering how Summer's day was going, and who her chemistry partner was. He hoped it wasn't a guy. The teacher handed out the first assignment and they got to work, until the bell rang.
"So, should we meet somewhere to finish it up?" Lindsey asked as they started to pack their stuff up.
"Aren't we almost done?" he asked glancing at her.
"Uh, yeah just a couple more things we have to do."
"Fine, I'll do it during my study hall."
"Are you sure? Maybe we could do something tonight, you know so we can work on it together?"
Ryan shook his head getting ready to head out the door. "I can't, I'm going to a club."
"Oh!" she said looking down embarrassed, then handed him there paper. "Ok, then here you can finish it, I'll finish the next one."
Ryan nodded taking it then hurrying to his foreign language. He was surprised to see Summer sitting in it, along with Marissa, and Seth.
"Hey. Man, we all have French III 2nd period!" Seth all but yelled as Ryan walked in.
Ryan was happy Seth was doing better with him and Summer hooking up but sometimes Ryan really worried about his friend. He wasn't always very...stable. But Ryan was confident Seth would end up with some other girl before the end of the month, Seth always had a girl problem going on. When Ryan first met Seth, and admitted he didn't have any friends, it was a surprise when Anna and Summer got in a fight over him. Only one time did two girls fight over Ryan, but it seemed it always happened to Seth. Ryan went to sit next to Seth who sat behind Marissa.
"How was Chem?" Summer asked smiling at him from her seat next to Marissa.
Ryan nodded, "interesting, I met someone..." he trailed off as he noticed the teacher was starting to speak.
After getting a pound worth of hand outs and the bell rang, they all headed to different 3rd period classes. Summer had her elective and so did Marissa, but they had different electives. Seth to his chemistry class, and Ryan to his advance math class.
Seth and Ryan finally met up again for there electives and went to lunch together. As they were in the lunch line Ryan noticed Marissa sitting alone, after they got there food they headed over to her.
"Hey, where's Summer?" Ryan asked looking at the empty seat beside Marissa.
Marissa sighed then gestured to the bathroom's. "she rushed off there a couple of minutes ago, after smelling the cafeteria food." She shrugged as they saw Summer come out of the bathroom's and slowly walk back over to them.
"I hope she's ok." Seth said sitting down and biting into his burger.
Ryan sat down too and looked up at his girlfriend.
She sat down in her vacated seat and looked over at his questioning look.
"You ok?" he asked. "
She nodded smiling at him, "fine, fine." she muttered then glanced over at something behind him. "Can we help you?" she asked.
Ryan and Seth turned around to look at whatever she was looking at.
It was Lindsey.
"Hi, um, I don't really recognize anyone else, and I thought that since we were lab partners and...Can I sit with you guys?" she babbled.
Summer raised an eyebrow, and Marissa shrugged when Ryan looked at them with the question written on his face.
"Sure." he muttered, "pullup aseat."
She smiled grateful then through her lunch down between Summer and Ryan. "Thank you so much, I don't feel like being labeled as a complete loser just yet."
"So, where'd you move from?" Marissa asked taking a bit of her food.
"Um Chicago." Lindsey muttered ducking her head in embarrassment.
"Oh, Chicago." Marissa said smiling at her. "I'm Marissa, and that's Summer. Oh and next to Ryan is Seth." Marissa said.
Lindsey smiled at her, "it's nice to meet all of you."
"Yeah, it's weird to have someone new at our table. So Lindsey why'd you move here?" Seth asked leaning across Ryan to talk to her.
Ryan rolled his eyes and caught Summer's eye, she smiled back at him.
"Oh well, I live with my mom and I heard this school was very—"
"yeah...hm, very interesting. So tell us do you have a boyfriend."
At the question Summer flat out laughed. "I'm sorry, Cohen just has this problem with scaring off people." she said to Lindsey then laughed again.
"Well, Summer you have the potential to scare people off too, with those rage black outs."
Summer glared at him then checked her watch. "We should get going, the bell is going to ring soon, and we don't want to be late to study hall." Summer said getting up and dumping her half eaten lunch.
"Yeah, let's go."
"You guys have study hall now?" Seth asked smiling. "Us too!" he added then followed behind them.
Ryan hurried to catch up as he threw away his lunch. He called behind him a goodbye to Lindsey and finally caught up with the other three.
As they finished their day off, and Marissa dropped them off at their separate houses Marissa finally got a spare moment to talk to Summer.
"So, Sum, how was your first day at school?" Marissa asked as she went through Summer's closet to find something to wear.
Summer shrugged as she sat on her bed getting the homework the teachers had given to them done. "It was ok. Same people, same teachers. Except that new girl Linda or whatever." Summer said looking at Marissa.
Marissa smirked at her, "looks like someone is jealous."
Summer shot her a nasty look. "I'm not jealous, they're just lab partners. I have you for my lab partner that doesn't mean we are going to go and french now."
"Right, for starters I have a girlfriend, and you a boyfriend."
"Who has an annoyingly shy lab partner. Did you see the way she was all over him? How vile is that! I hate co-ed classes."
"As I remember last year, you loved them."
Summer smiled at that. "Yeah, I did like all the guys. But this year I am taken, and no one is after me." Summer sighed then went back to her french.
"Are you ready for tonight?" Marissa asked changing the subject. "I can't wait to see Alex, I feel like it's been forever."
"I can't wait to meet her!" Summer said smiling then going over to her closet and picking an outfit to wear out.
As they started getting dressed for their night out, Summer noticed something. When she started to zip her pants they wouldn't close all the way. She could only zip them up half way.
"What the hell?" Summer shrieked as she took the jeans off and looked at the size.
Size 2 jeans, what was the problem.
"What's the matter?" Marissa asked from the bathroom.
"I-I Marissa, these pants don't fit." Summer whimpered.
Marissa came out and looked at the size. "I don't get it, you're a size 2." Marissa examined the jeans again then shrugged. "Maybe you gained a little weight."
Summer looked appalled at the idea. "No! I just bought these pants!"
"Well I don't know what else to tell you, so there a little small get some new pants."
Summer tried to get them on again, she tried every way she could think of to get them on, but they wouldn't zip. Summer whimpered then finally decided to get another pair of pants out. Those pants were a little tighter then normal but fight neither the less. After they were changed and ready to go they headed to the Bait shop to meet the boys.
Summer tried to ignore the whole pants episode while they drove, but all she could think about were the pants not fitting. She shook her hair out and checked her make up as they stepped out of the car, she was fine, so the pants were a little small, she wasn't sure why she was getting so emotional about it. "I'm fine." she whispered then stepped out of the car, as they were there.
"Hey." she said as the boys came over to her. Summer leaned up to kiss her boyfriend, trying to ignore Seth. Marissa getting the message dragged Seth away to go look at the band.
"Hey." he whispered in her ear, as they headed into the club. "You, look nice."
Summer smiled up at him, choosing not to tell him about the pants not fitting. "Thanks, you don't look half bad either."
He kissed her lightly on the lips and they walked around the club looking for a nice place to look at the band.
"Hey, tomorrow night is the back to school carnival. Would you like to go with me?" she asked as the band set up.
"Sure, but no Ferris wheels."
She nodded kissing him again. "I feel like we haven't had a moment to ourselves all day." she whispered.
He nodded looking down at her, "how was your day?"
She shrugged, "fine I guess. Nothing to interesting happened no fights or break ups. It was kind of nice."
He laughed. "You obviously don't have Seth in many of your classes."
She shrugged. "He's in more then you are."
"I didn't organize the schedules."
"So? I need to blame some one."
"Blame the faculty."
"So whats this Lindsey person like?" she asked a few minutes later.
Ryan shrugged, "she's...my lab partner not to interesting. I guess she's fine."
They went quiet as the band began to play and Seth, Marissa and a blonde came over to them.
"I'm Alex." she yelled over the music.
Summer smiled at her, "Summer."
"I've heard a lot about you!"
"You too!"
"Ryan!" Ryan yelled.
Alex nodded. "Nice to meet you! I hope you enjoy the band!" she went back to work as Marissa gazed after her.
"She's really nice." she yelled to Seth, Summer, and Ryan.
They nodded pretending that they heard her. They stayed till the end of the concert then headed home. It was around 1 when Summer finally got home and rushed to the bathroom.
She groaned, all day she had been sick, when was this ever going to stop. She sat on her cold floor and pondered of what could be going on with her body. She thought of all the symptoms. Nausea, boobs hurt, tired, she had cramps, and the smells around her were horrible. She had read about those symptoms some where else before but where...she realized then that she hadn't gotten her period in a matter of months.
Her blood ran cold when she realized that all the symptoms lead up to one thing.
(A/n: well? I know it was a little OOC but...please review.)