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Chapter 24: "If im not back-"

Summers POV: "Little Suzy, she was only twelve"

These past couple of week has been a whirlwind. First there was Seth kissing me at the hospital, and then Kirsten asked me to move in. Everything was changing at once. Seth and I still haven't really said much since the kiss, and our relationship has remained more than platonic, for now at least. Sooner or later we're going to have to talk about it, but right now I have been dragged to home depot with Kirsten and Alex to pick out paint samples for my new room.

"Really though, I really don't mind the white." I tried to assure them

"Well even so, my mom never passes up an opportunity to redecorate." Alex gave me a friendly smile.

Kirsten held up a dark pinkish color paint strip.

"What about this one?" She asked

Both Alex and I cringed and Kirsten chuckled at us.

"Mom, she's not a 50 year old woman1"

"Well you guys give me some help then!"

She put the paint sample back and then turned to Alex and I.

"What's your favorite color?" Alex asked sifting through the paint samples.

"I don't know. Purple I guess."

I always liked purple.

"Like violet purple, or grape purple?" Kirsten asked

"A light soft purple." I elaborated. "Like this." I pulled up a paint sample that I had secretly been eyeing the entire time.

"Ooo, I love it!" Alex exclaimed.

"This is like the color that I had tried to get Alex to decorate her own room in. Instead it's that obnoxious bright yellow." Kirsten rolled her eyes as we headed to the counter.

"Hey now mom, I think it has character. It says something." Alex playfully shot back

"Yeah, it says you want to be blinded." Kirsten smiled at her daughter

Kirsten and I laughed as Alex pouted.

"So what I'm not the domestic type!" Alex defended herself again throwing her hands up into the air.

Ryan's POV: "She was given the world"

I never expected that I was going to be living in a mansion in Newport Beach. I never even imagined that I would see the ocean, and now I'm here with the world at my fingertips. I can't screw this up.

Marissa walked into the pool house. She had been in the main house cleaning up to go over to dinner with her father. She had seemed frazzled all day, and so unsure of herself. I found it kind of cute.

"Ryan can I ask you a question?" She asked as her mouth turned to a pout "Do I look okay?"

I looked up from where I sat on the bed at the girl that stood before me. She was wearing a pair of Alex's old jeans that clung to her body. I had never really seen her in anything that fit before. On top of that she wore a red halter top and had her hair twisted into a low loose bun. The only flaw was that she was undeniably too skinny, but she was still beautiful. The California sun had taken away the pale grey tint of her skin and replaced it with it's golden glow.

"Of course." I stuttered trying not to look at her too hard.

Marissa then chuckled to herself and began to blush.

"What?" I asked looking around wondering what was so funny.

She turned her eyes gesturing towards my lap. Realizing the "situation" I felt my face flush and I grabbed a pillow and quickly covered myself up.

"Sorry." I said.

Ever since the incident the other night where I had to drag Marissa into the bath tub there had been no other problems. She had been trying hard not to use, and she had cut back on everything, a lot. Hopefully Jimmy can give her the help that she needs.

Marissa made her way across the room and plopped down on the bed beside me, and then lay back allowing her body to splay the bed.

"At least we're all together right?" Marissa spoke up.

"Yeah." I said, "we are. You're only next door. We'll see you everyday still."

"What if they hate me?" Marissa asked turning over onto her stomach

"Who?" I asked not following whatsoever.

"Jimmy's kids. What if the hate me."

"They wont."

She then sat up next to me. Her movements were always very fidgety and anxious. She sniffed and wiped her nose furiously for a moment before she stood up.

"Alright. I guess I'm off then." She fidgeted with her top again.

"Yeah, I guess so." I responded.

"Hey Ry?" She said turning as she made her way to the door.

"Yeah?"

"Thanks for everything." She smiled quickly before she slowly made her way over to the Cooper mansion.

The girl was an onion and there were way too many layers for me to get to the bottom. At the same time though that's was kind of what attracted me to her. Layers.

Marissas POV:

You will not fuck this up. This is a real family. Just act calm and normal. Shit, do I know how to do either of those! What if they hate me? I mean I guess they have to like me because I'm their sister. But what if they don't? What if it gets so bad that Jimmy kicks me out? Where would I go then?

My mind was racing so fast that I barely realized when I reached the door to the mansion right beside the Cohens. I guess that I somehow underestimated the distance between the two houses or something.

Before I could even knock the door swung open. It was Jimmy standing there, he was grinning from ear to ear, but at the same time he looked a little nervous.

"Hi." I said sheepishly playing with my feet again.

"Hey." He said backing away from the door allowing me to enter. "You look nice." He commented.

I admit that this had to have been the first time that anyone in Newport had seen me remotely put together. I looked into the den before stepping inside.

"Kids!" Jimmy hollered.

It was then that I heard a rumble on the stairs.

"Sorry, they can be a little rowdy sometimes." Jimmy warned me. He was right.

"Give it back to me Rhett!" A teenage girl screamed

"Dude, I don't even know what IT IS!" He screamed back at her.

"Yeah you do, you know you took it!" The girl screamed back.

Jimmy and I exchanged glances as they stormed into the living room.

"You were probably stoned and left it somewhere!" The boy argued back

"Left what where!" The girl yelled back

"I don't know! I don't even know what this argument is about!" He screamed. He wore a blue button down shirt and khaki shorts. His hair hung in his face.

"My I-pod!" The girl screamed back.

"I didn't even know you had an I-pod!" He screamed back, his voice booming

The teenage girl did something then that took me more than by surprise. She picked up a book from the table and chucked it as hard as she could into the boy's head. She ducked and it hit the wall right behind him. Were it not for his quick reflexes he would have had a nice dent in his forehead.

"God Caitlin, why do you have to always be such a pmsing bitch!" He screamed throwing a miscellaneous object back at her head. But this time it hit her, square in the forehead.

The girl who I am now assuming was Caitlin growled at her brother and rubbed her head furiously. We all gasped when we looked to the floor to see what the boy I have now gathered is Rhett, threw a her. It was a hot pink I-pod. Caitlin picked it up from the ground. It was in pieces.

"I KNEW YOU HAD IT!" She screamed

"I swear I didn't! I grabbed the first thing that was on the couch. I didn't even look on the couch I swear!" Rhett argued

"KIDS!" Jimmy finally said breaking it up.

"WHAT!" Both Rhett and Caitlin said turning to their father.

Jimmy sighed before he spoke.

"I want you to meet your sister. Marissa, this is Rhett and Caitlin."

It was a moment before any words could escape my lips.

"Hey." I said in a small voice

"What's up." Rhett said flashing me a charming toothy smile.

"Hey." Caitlin said as she held her hand to her forehead.

Suddenly a small girl with blonde pig tails walked into the room. She was wearing a pink tutu and dancing tights.

"Daddy, can I use this to make dinner?" She asked holding up a plastic baggie.

My eyes got wide when I looked at the bag that contained over an ounce of weed.

Jimmy snatched the bag from the young girls hand and closed the huge door to make sure that nobody had seen.

"Where did you get this Sophia?" His nostrils flared.

"Rhetts room!"

The little girl, Sophie, give Jimmy a wide smile, proud of herself for finding the "cooking ingredient". I realized that she was missing her two front teeth. When I was about four my moms boyfriend had knocked one of my front teeth out. Luckily for me by the time that I was six it had grown back in.

"Can we ever just have a normal evening!" Jimmy said sighing.

"Haha." Caitlin laughed from across the room. "You are totally busted, now he's going to drug test the hell out of you."

Rhett stood with his arms crossed gritting his teeth.

"Well Caity, if that's true then he may as well test you while he's at it, and then check in your top drawer for you condoms and phone numbers of men twice your age." Rhett spat rather smugly.

I honestly found this situation more than humorous.

"Caitlin, Sophie, Rhett, dining room table now! We will eat one meal as a civilized family!" Jimmy yelled at his children. Then he turned to me, " I am so sorry about all of that. It gets a little hectic around here sometimes." He explained

"Don't even worry about it. It's fine, really. They were sweet…"

Jimmy gave me a disbelieving look.

"Alright, well they look sweet." I smiled as he grinned back at me. We turned our heads to the kitchen where there was a loud crash and then a scream, and then breaking china.

"Oh my God!" Jimmy said throwing his head back as Caitlin rushed from the dining room.

"Don't worry Daddy it alright. Rosa just spilled the casserole when she was taking it out of the oven! The dish shattered, but it was an old dish anyway, and the casserole was already burnt so I mean, it happens right?"

The girl spoke a mile a minute. I don't think that even her own father could keep up with her. He sunk to the steps of the den.

"Rhett's ordering Chinese!" Caitlin said her voice rising as she rocked back and forth on her feet. "How do you feel about general tsao's chicken?" She turned to look at me smiling.

"It sounds… great!"

That night we were going to all sit around the table and eat some fancy dinner. What it turned into was a movie and Chinese on the couch, which was perfectly fine with me. They, the Coopers were actually decent company. Sophie asked if I sniffed and rubbed my nose so much because I had a cold. I dumbly responded yes. Caitlin seemed not to notice, nor did Jimmy, but since that Rhett was eyeing me funnily.

So the changes just keep on coming… It might be alright. Right?

I thought Caitlins POV was a little different and definately a fun twist to this. A little lighter it was than the other teens and thats a good thing, i think at least.

lemme know what you think.

xoxo Jules