One thing that Ryan had yet to figure out was why Taylor wouldn't move in with him. He had asked her time after time, and every single time, without fail, she had told him no. He didn't understand where this was coming from, why she was constantly rejecting him. It was becoming more of a problem than ever before.

He had even sneak attacked her today, with Sophie there. He had figured seeing Sophie there with him might convince her, considering she loved the little girl so much.

It had still been a no.

He wanted to spend the party thinking about this and what he could do to make her finally say yes. So far, though, he was spending it with Seth, who was freaking out about the ring being missing. Knowing Seth, it was probably in his pants' pocket. He was constantly losing things, only finding them later on, in rather obvious spot.

He sighed as he watched Seth go across the room to take care of Summer. She looked upset and he couldn't imagine how upset she was going to be when she found out that Seth lost the ring.

He craned his neck, looking for Taylor, who had just been there minutes before. She was searching the ground, looking a little foolish. He walked over to her, deciding that they needed to talk about everything.

"Taylor." He tapped her shoulder and she jumped a mile.

"Ryan!" Her eyes widened in shock. "Uh, I'm kind of busy right now…."

"Taylor, don't you think we should talk? I mean…."

"Now is not the time," Taylor replied, looking around his feet. "It is really not the time. I have to help Summer with something."

"With what?" He glanced over his shoulder in concern at Summer. Aside from looking a little upset, she seemed to be fine to him.

Taylor bit her lip, obviously not sure if she should say anything. It seemed to get the better of her after a minute, because, after all, she was Taylor and she did have a need to share everything with everyone. "Last night, Summer found an engagement ring from Seth. He came home and she shoved it in her purse and she just found it but then…then she lost it."

"Wait a minute…Summer has the ring? Seth's been looking for it all night," Ryan said. "We have to find that ring."

"Why has Seth been looking for it? How does he even know it's missing?"

"He's going to propose tonight, Taylor."

Her eyes widened. "You're kidding! Oh, this just made everything so much worse," she groaned, sitting down on the nearest chair. "Ryan, what are we going to do?"

"We're going to have to find the ring, I guess." Their problem could wait until later. He was going to sort it out, by the end of the night. He was determined to get Taylor to move in with him, no matter what it took.

"How come no one told me about Seth proposing?" Taylor questioned after the two were silent for a few minutes.

"You would have told Summer," he replied with a shrug of his shoulders. Taylor looked ready to protest this until she realized that it was most likely the truth. She sighed and stood up. They needed to find the ring.

Summer sighed, burying her head in Seth's shoulder. They were sitting down, having just finished eating dinner. Seth was jittery and nervous about something, but Summer had just brushed this off as how he normally acted.

She hadn't seen Ryan or Taylor in a while and she knew that they were searching everywhere for the ring. She had given up all hope of finding the ring. It was such a beautiful ring too.

She knew that she was going to have to break the news to Seth soon enough. He probably wouldn't want to marry her anymore. She wouldn't want to marry her.

She felt the tears well up in her eyes and she tried to fight them down. Seth would see and then he would ask questions and then she would have to tell him. She didn't want him to know yet, not when they were actually having a decent evening together.

Taylor rushed over to her side, grabbing her arm. "Uh, sorry, Seth, but I needed to steal Summer from you for just a minute."

She stood up, seeing the hopeful look in the Taylor's eyes. "Be right back, Seth." She wiped all traces of tears from her eyes as she followed Taylor into the bathroom.

Taylor pulled the box from her purse handed it to her. "Here…I found it finally."

"Oh thank God…Taylor."

"What is it?"

Summer turned the box to her, showing her the contents—which, shocking both of them, was empty. "Did you think to check the box?!"

"It's empty? How is that possible? Where did the ring go?!"

"I don't know, I don't know!" Summer felt close to tears again. Taylor saw this and wrapped her best friend in a tight hug.

"We'll find it. With Ryan helping, I'm sure that we're bound to be able to find it soon. If not, we'll just stay late and we'll search the building for it. I promise."

Summer burst into a fresh round of tears at how nice Taylor and Ryan were being to her. Taylor just hugged her, trying to tell her that everything was going to be fine. She only hoped that what Taylor was saying was the truth.

Ryan was finding being the go between guy a little tiring. Seth had no clue that Summer was the reason that the ring was missing and Summer had no clue that Seth as proposing in approximately 30 minutes. He was trying to keep from finding out while trying to get Taylor alone again.

"Dude, what are you doing?! I told my dad I was going to do it soon! What am I going to do?" Seth groaned, burying his head in his hands. "All I have is this cheap ass ring. God, she is never going to say yes."

"I'm just…trying to find Taylor. You're not the only one with problems," Ryan said, his teeth clenched as he collapsed on a chair.

"Well, my problem is more important. She's going to keep saying no to moving in with you. You two could be married and she still wouldn't want to live with you. I mean, I don't really blame her. I've lived with you and I can tell you…." He saw the look that he was getting from Ryan and decided it would be best to stop talking. "But really, I have the bigger problem."

"I don't know what you're going to do, Seth."

"Oh, she's coming back, stop talking about it!" Seth said, panicking.

He watched as Taylor and Summer walked back towards them, an upset look on both their faces. He didn't think anything of it, because honestly, he had about 15 minutes to think of some sort of excuse to not propose to Summer that night.

This was turning out to be a bigger disaster than he thought.

Sophie giggled softly as she looked down at the pretty ring on her finger. She had found it in Summer's purse and she thought it was the prettiest ring she had ever seen. It was just like Mommy's…engagement ring. Her mother loved that ring, almost as much as she loved Daddy.

Sophie looked next to her, where her neighbor Sawyer sat. He smiled at her and she gave him a wide grin back. At six years old, Sophie had decided that she was going to marry Sawyer; he seemed to have agreed with this, considering he's the one who put the engagement ring on her finger.

Taylor had told her that meant someone was engaged and gonna get married. Well, she had more overheard the conversation. She smiled to herself, thinking how nice it would be to get married to Sawyer.

"What do we do now?" Sawyer questioned, tilting his head to look at Sophie.

She shrugged her small shoulders. "We have to plan a wedding!"

"Oh." Sawyer wrinkled his nose. "That's a girly job though."

"Fine, I'll get Taylor and Summer to help me plan my wedding!" Sophie huffed, standing up and stamping her foot. Maybe Sawyer wasn't the best choice for a husband.

"What am I going to do? What am I going to do?" Summer groaned, resting her head on the table.

Taylor tried to reassure her with a small pat on her back. "It'll work out fine, Sum. I know it will."

"He obviously spent so much money on that ring. How could I be so stupid!?"

"You're not stupid. I'm sure he'll understand when you explain it to him. You're pregnant…you forget about things all the time. It's definitely a legitimate excuse."

"That's not the point, Taylor," Summer said, glaring at her best friend. "I just…."

"Taylor! Summer!" Sophie skipped over to them. "I have a question."

"What is it sweetie?" Taylor questioned, turning her attention to the little girl. Sophie was a welcome distraction for a few minutes.

"Will you help me plan my wedding to Sawyer? We just got…" she thought for a minute, obviously trying to think of the word. "Engaged!"

Summer let out a small groan. She loved Sophie, but that was the last thing she wanted to hear about at the moment. She didn't even want to hear the word engagement for a long time.

Sophie frowned at Summer, looking at Taylor, who shrugged her shoulders. "She's having a bad night, sweetie. Of course we'll help."

"Yay!" the little girl exclaimed, jumping a little. "I hafta tell Sawyer."

That was when Taylor saw it. The ring. The engagement ring was on Sophie's finger. She practically leapt from the chair, trying to chase after Sophie. Unfortunately, the little girl was small and she was able to move through the crowd of people faster than Taylor was able to keep with her.

And then Ryan got in the way. He stood in front of Taylor, grabbing her by the arms. "Listen, Taylor, we really need to talk. I want to know why you said no again."

"Ryan, this isn't the time."

"That's what you've been saying all day…."

"Ryan! Sophie has the ring and just lost track of her," Taylor groaned. "All because you wanted to talk. You're silent half the time and you decided to want to talk now?"

He groaned. "How was I supposed to know?"

"We have to find Sophie right now before she loses the ring."

Seth was admitting defeat. He had tried to think of excuses, but he had nothing. He was going to have to propose to Summer with a plastic ring and have her most likely say no to him. God, this was not how he had expected the night to go.

Maybe it was a possibility for him to still get out of the proposal. He could tell Summer to fake sick and tell his dad that he had to take her home. It was perfect! He didn't know why he hadn't thought of it before.

That was when he saw his dad take the microphone on the small stage. He panicked. His dad was at least ten minutes earlier than he said he was going to. He should have had more time to escape than this.

Why had he ever gotten the idea to propose to Summer like this? It was all because of their coffee car moment. He had wanted to recreate that feeling but this time around, he definitely wasn't feeling the same he had been then.

He waved his hands at Sandy, hoping that his father would get the message. He could only hope that his father could read his signals.

"Could my son Seth and his girlfriend Summer please come up on the stage?"

Seth gulped. Apparently, his dad wasn't so good at reading the hand signals. He grabbed Summer's hand, who had a look of confusion on her face. There was no stopping it now.

He was going to have to propose to her, even with a cheap, 25 cent ring. He was not looking forward to what Summer was going to say to him. As he saw his dad signal something from behind the stage, he realized that his dad (probably with Ryan's help, the stupid guy always had to give his input) had decided to surprise him with a coffee cart to propose to her.

This was going to be one interesting proposal.