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I'm thinking of adding in Marissa a little later, because Sandy and Kirsten still live in Bronx, hence the reason Kirsten doesn't work. I don't think this story has any real plot, just little Ryan and little Seth running around, having fun. There will be stuff happening later on, but for now, its Seth and Ryan toddlers! If that's a plot, so be it :P

Thanks for all the Reviews and thank you sooo much for telling me that AU stands for Alternate Universe. And I'm guessing this story is an AU, so yeah…

Chapter 3

Newport Beach

"But we don't wanna leave!" cried Seth, straining against the buckle of the car seat.

"For the last time, it's not your choice Seth. You're going wherever I and Sandy go." Kirsten said.

"I don't wanna go either. Why do I have to go?" Ryan complained, joining Seth in the struggle against the buckles.

"Ryan, don't talk back to your mom. We're all going. Period. We're all going to have fun with Grandma and Grandpa. Got it?"

Ryan stopped squirming for a second. "Grandpa scares me."

Kirsten took her eyes off the road and looked behind her. "What? Why does Grandpa scare you? Did he do anything?"

"No… he just, doesn't like me…"

"That's ridicules! Of course he likes you, why else did he-"

"Kirsten! Watch out!" Sandy yelled, grabbing the steering wheel and yanking it back to the right side of the road. A blue mini-van sped by at the last second.

"Sorry everyone." Kirsten said, returning her eyes to the road.

Sandy was worried. Kirsten hadn't been herself since the phone call from her dad, telling her that her mother had cancer. Sandy and Kirsten talked, and decided that they would move temporally to Newport Beach, to be there to support her mother. They didn't tell the boys that Grandma had cancer only that they were going on a visit. At fist they were excited, but what would have been an easy 2 hour flight became a hot, short-tempered 2 day drive, because of Ryan's newly developed fear of heights. They were in their second day, and every time that Sandy suggested he should drive, Kirsten shook her head and only drove faster.

"Can we go to Dairy Queen for lunch?" Asked Seth, inspired by a big bulletin board what read, "Dairy Queen, exit ½ a mile".

Kirsten looked at the clock. It was 3 o'clock in the afternoon. She'd been driving for 4 hours, stopping only twice for "potty breaks". "Alright, but we'll order take-out and eat on the road."

"Honey, if you're going to do that, can you at least let me drive? You look tired…"

"Oh, alright all ready. Just drive fast ok?"

"Sure." Sandy watched as Kirsten put her foot on the pedal, accelerating to 150 km/h.

When they got to the Dairy Queen, they discovered that it had an inside playground.

"Can we go play on it mommy? Please!" "Yeh, common daddy, let us go play!"

Kirsten only shook her head no. She was hoped to get her parents house, which was about 700 k away and if she wanted to get there by midnight, there was no time to lose.

After they ordered their food, Kirsten sent the boys away with Sandy to wash their hands, while she went to find themselves a seat. 5 minutes later, a worried Sandy came back with no kids.

"Kirsten, have you seen Ryan and Seth anywhere?"

"No… Sandy, you were supposed to be watching them, where did they go?"

"I don't know, I was in the bathroom, and when I came out, they were gone! I told them to stay put, but do they listen, no!"

Sandy and Kirsten both started searching around the small fast food restaurant. When they came to the in-side park, they heard distressed wailing coming from the top. They looked up to see Ryan, screaming his lungs out, Seth trying to calm him down, yelling louder and louder to be heard over Ryan.

"Ryan," Seth whispered, getting Ryan's attention by tugging on the miniature hoodies sleeve.

Ryan glanced at Seth, and was about to ask what he wanted, when Seth put his finger to his mouth. Pointing at the door, Ryan immediately got the idea. Hearing Sandy flush the toilet, Ryan followed quickly after Seth.

"Seth, you wanna go to the park right?"

Seth grinned, and Ryan led the way to the colorful tower of diversion. Slipping into the entrance when the supervisor wasn't looking, the kids started climbing up the slippery, foamy slant. Reaching the landing, they looked this way and that at the different directions they could take. It was like kid heaven. The landing had 4 exits leading out of it, bumps, pillars, mazes, you name it, and all somewhere out there ready to be over come. "Common," Seth said, taking the left exit, which had purple foam sticking out of the walls. Dogging the foam playfully, Seth now led the way, up rope ladders, through yellow plastic tunnels, going higher and higher until they couldn't go any higher. They were about to slide down to the bottom, when Ryan happened to look through the safety nets.

"DADDY!!! DADDY!! HELP ME!!! AHHHHHH! MOMMY! DADDY! HELP!!" Ryan screamed, his feet giving way, tears starting to stream down his face.

"Ryan?!" Seth looked around startled. When he realized Ryan was on the ground crying, he tried to comfort him. "RYAN! Ryan, look, were not that high up, it's only like, 20 meters up," Seth said, exaggerating. "Even if you do fall, you're not going to die. I mean, you might die, but it won't hurt. But if you die, you won't see mommy or daddy again, and," but this only made Ryan scream all the harder. This resulted in Seth screaming louder as well.

"RYAN, LOOK AT ALL THE PEOPLE, THEIR TINY. THEY LOOK LIKE ANTS; WE MUST BE REALLY HIGH UP. BUT DON'T WORRY, YOUR NOT GOING TO FALL, THERES SAFTEY NETS, SEE!" To prove his point, Seth leaned against the side, and popped back. Ryan, noticing that Seth's comments were about dieing and ants, wailed all the harder.

By now, there was a large crowd gathering at the base, everyone looking up to see if it was their kid up there, screaming and causing such a commotion. Sandy and Kirsten looked horrified at each other. They would recognize their boys' voices anywhere. Sandy was about to start climbing up to get them, when Kirsten slid in before him. She scrambled up the foamy slant, and dodged through the pads. It took her about 30 seconds to get to the top, and sweep screaming Ryan into her arms.

"Ryan, shhh, its all right, mommy's here, don't worry."

Ryan looked up and saw Kirsten holding him. He decreased his screaming volume slightly. "Mommy, I'm gonna DIE!"

This comment hit Kirsten hard. "Ryan, you're not going to die, and stop saying that. Die is a very strong word…" She swallowed fresh tears as thoughts about her mom came into her head. "Common, lets go down the slide!" She suggested with fake enthusiasm.

"But I'm scared!"

"Common Ryan, its not that scary! Look!" Seth said, as he jumped into the slide, 'Wopee!"ing all the way down.

"AHHHHHHH! SETHS FALLING!!"

"Ryan, Seth's not falling, he's having fun! Nothing's going to happen if you come down. You'll be fine!"

"Fun?" Ryan asked.

"Fun," Kirsten confirmed. "Look, daddy and Seth are waiting down there. Don't you wanna see them?"

"Yeh…" Ryan replied, still curled up in Kirsten's arms. "Will you come down with me?" He looked hopefully into Kirsten's eyes.

"Yes, we'll go together. Ready?" Kirsten carried Ryan over to the mouth of the slide, her arms about to fall off. She sat down and placed Ryan on her lap. "One, two, three!" She pushed herself down the slide, enjoying the 5 second slide to the bottom. When she arrived at the bottom, she carried Ryan over to Sandy, and placed Ryan in his arms. Ryan hugged Sandy's neck as Sandy patted his back. The crowd didn't know how to react. Some people clapped, and some others just looked away. Kirsten grabbed Seth's hand and their food, and led the way to the car, Ryan sobbing into Sandy's shoulder.

When Ryan and Seth were buckled into the car, Sandy got into the drivers seat and started on his way, Kirsten hand feeding him fries. In the back, Seth handed Ryan his kid's meal toy.

"Thanks," Ryan whispered, and put his head on Seth's shoulder. When Kristen and Sandy looked back a little while later, the two boys were sleeping soundly, Ryan on Seth, and Seth against the window.

Sandy shook Kirsten awake as they entered the huge gated community. It took Kirsten a second to get her mind straight. Looking at the clock, she saw it was midnight. Just as Sandy pulled up the drive-way to a house that was 10 times bigger then their old one, the light flicked on. Three people came out, a tall person, with a half-bald head, one with a hat on, and another that was both shorter and younger then the two others. Kirsten recognized these as her mom, dad, and little sister, Hailey. Kirsten got out of the car a split second after Sandy had stopped it.

"Hey," she said, hugging her mom, crying.

"Hello," said Alice back, hugging her daughter just as hard. Sandy came up and shook hands with Caleb.

"Hello Caleb," he said, loathing himself for being so polite.

"Hello, Sanford." Caleb said just as politely, though it was the distaste these two had toward each other was obvious.

He turned to Hailey and hugged her. "Hailey." "Sandy."

When Kirsten had detached self from Alice, Sandy went over to hug her too, while Kirsten hugged Caleb and Hailey.

"Mommy?" came a scared voice from the car.

Kirsten grinned, despite her tears. "Guess the kids are up." She started for the car, until Hailey stopped her.

"I'll go get them Kirsten, you guys go in. I'll put them to bed, if that's all right. You and Sandy can join them later"

"Thanks Hailey," smiled Kirsten as the four of them went inside.

Please Read and Review, tell me whatcha think! Oh, and Marissa and Summer are going to be in the next chapter, so that should be fun to write :P