A nice night for Dancing
Friday had come and Ryan was fixing his tie in the mirror. "Okay so how's the hair is it okay?" Seth said coming in the pool house. "It's fine Seth" He said.
"Seriously Ryan is it too Jewish?" He said. "Seth" He said giving him a glare. "Right talking to much I get it" He said. Ryan finished with his tie and went to get his jacket on the stool.
"So you and Marissa are actually hitting it off?" He said. Ryan gave him an obnoxious stare down. "Okay so you don't want to talk about it" Seth said.
"Seth it's just a dance which she made it obvious to me that we're going as friends" Ryan said. "Yeah it is just a dance but you're going with a girl who more importantly you're so into you can't tell me you're not nervous" Seth said.
"Well I can't say this talk helped me out" Ryan said sarcastically grabbing the keys. "Just admit it Ryan" He said. Ryan walked out in silence. "You can't ignore me forever" Seth said following him out to the car.
Summer knocked on Marissa's door. Marissa answered it. "Hey" Marissa said, "Marissa you look so beautiful" She said taking in her simple but yet elegant light pink dress that fell below her knees knees.
Summer was wearing a light violet shimmery dress that fit her personality to a tee. "Sum you look so amazing. See I knew that dress would look great on you" She said.
She came in and waited. Marissa had just been putting her heels on. "So Coop who's the guy that I get to go out with?" She said. "That's not important" Marissa said. "Yeah it is. I so do not want to be a third wheel to you and Atwood." Summer said looking at her.
"Don't worry Sum you won't be. Plus we're going as friends" She said. Summer thought about it. "Yeah right friends good one" Summer said with a laugh.
Marissa stared at her and she stopped laughing putting two and two together" Oh no you didn't Coop? Did you?" Summer said already knowing who she picked for her.
"Summer before you get mad he's a good guy and he was available" She said trying to reason with Summer. "That's because he talks to plastic horses" Summer said.
"Well see you have something in common you have princess sparkle and he has captain oats" Marissa said. "I'm sorry captain oats can't compare to princess sparkle." She said.
"You get what I'm saying Summer. Plus you've never seen captain oats" She said. "Oh so if you paired us up because we both like horses how'd you get Ryan? Are you both equally as interested in wife beaters ? Or does Ryan have a care bear of his own?" Summer said.
"Summer don't be mad just give him a chance for me please" She said. "Okay Coop." She said sighing. "Great" Marissa said with that the bell ring. "Well let's get this over with" Summer said sounding not enthused.
"Summer try please" She said grabbing her purse. "Yeah I promise come on" Summer said. Summer and Marissa opened the door. They all looked at each other awkwardly.
Summer walked past them. "Let's go Cohen" She said. "Right behind ya" Seth said following her to the car. Marissa closed the door.
"Hi" Ryan said. "Well it looks like tonight should be fun" Marissa said with a smile. "You've never been to a dance at Harbor" He said joking.
"Stop we should go before she kills him" Marissa said. Ryan laughed and followed her to the car. Ryan drove to the school. Marissa rode shot gun while Seth and Summer sat in the back of Ryan's black Range rover.
Before they knew it they were at school. They walked in the front door. "So what do you guys normally do at these dances?" Marissa said. Seth laughed.
"You'd have to ask Summer that question Marissa because Ryan and I don't really attend school functions unless we're made" Seth said. She looked at Ryan. "You're serious? So you've never been to a dance at your own high school?" Marissa said surprised.
"Chino that's so not true I saw you last year at the winter ball with Lori McCall" Summer said looking at Ryan. Marissa smiled. "Really who's Lori?" She said looking at Ryan.
Ryan looked away with a nervous laugh. "She was a nightmare right Ryan? Thank god she moved far far away from Orange County because she had a few bolts loose. I mean that girl was seriously" Seth got interrupted by all of them. "Seth" They said in unison.
"I think Marissa gets the point Cohen. Lori was a psycho so moving on" Summer said. "Right okay moving on so back to the topic of the dance what do we do? Do we dance? Do we get a drink? Summer interrupted Seth "Do we ever shut up?" Summer said yelling at him.
Ryan and Marissa looked at each other laughing. "She's really going to kill me for this isn't she?" Marissa said. "Yeah I think you'll have to hear about this one for along time" Ryan said.
"Or Seth could surprise us all" Marissa said trying to look at the bright side. Ryan nodded. "Yeah but it's not likely" He said.
Later on Seth followed Summer by the punch bowl. "So what would you like to do Summer?" Seth said. "What I would like is some peace and quiet" Summer said. He looked down. She felt bad she knew she came off too strong.
"Sorry Cohen. I just suffer from rage blackouts but since you asked maybe we can dance" She suggested. He looked at her. "Are you serious?" Seth said.
"Yeah I mean unless you don't want to? Or don't know how too?" She said with that he dragged her to the dance floor. Summer laughed at his quirkiness.
Ryan and Marissa were dancing while Marissa was dancing Ryan was trying his best not to injure himself. He stepped on Marissa toes for like the tenth time. "Sorry" He said. "It's okay. You don't have any experience with dancing do you?" She said with a laugh.
"No dancing wasn't big in Chino" He said nervously with a smile. "Right." She said. "What about Austin?" He said. "I took ballet and modern dance when I was little" She told him.
"Fortunately for you" He said. "Look it's not that hard. Just follow me I'll show you." She said stopping in the middle of the dance floor.
"Okay now you take my right hand and then you take your other hand and you place it on my back" She said. He did it nervously. "Okay now we just move to the counts one, two, three" She said repeating it as they made the steps.
Ryan smiled he went a full song without stepping on her feet. "You see it's not so bad" She said with a smile. "No I guess it isn't" He said smiling back at her.
Seth followed Summer toward the benches. "So what now?" He said looking at her. "Cohen can you not ask a question for like five minutes? Or is that two much for you to handle?" She said kidding.
"Look Summer I know your only here because Marissa forced you into coming. But I just wanted to thank you because I had a great time tonight. So now that I've said that you can go and be with a guy you really wanted to go to the dance with" He said looking down.
She looked at Seth sadly. She realized she wasn't being fair. After all Marissa had said that Cohen was a nice enough guy when you get to know him. And so far tonight he had proven that to her.
"Cohen what are you talking about? I said yes remember Marissa clearly set this up but she told me you wanted to go with me so I said yes" She said looking at him. Seth looked shocked. "She did? I mean you said yes?" He said shocked.
"Yeah I mean she told me how nice you are and I just thought why not" She said. "So you actually wanted to go tonight?" Seth said confused.
"Okay Cohen Coop said you were nice but she didn't mention you were slow. Do I really have to explain it to you again?" She said joking. He laughed.
"No I completely understand" He said. She smiled. "Good" She said. A slow song started playing. "So do you want to dance?" He said. "Sure" Summer said taking his hand.