The Girl and The Bodyguard II Chapter Six
Title; The Girl and The Bodyguard
Fandom; The O.C.
Pairing; Ryan/Summer. Hints of Luke/Taylor.
Rating; M
Warnings; Alternative Universe
Summary; After the disappearance of Marissa Cooper has everyone in Newport worried about the safety of their own children, Neil Roberts decides to hire a bodyguard to watch over his daughter, Summer Roberts. Summer instantly dislikes Ryan Atwood but that will soon change as the two begin to discover the truth about one another.
Author's Note; Officially halfway through! I have not read it through yet, so apologies for any mistakes! Enjoy! ;)
Chapter Six
Summer was sitting at the kitchen countertop when Taylor Townsend decided that she wanted to let her presence be known. Ryan was just heading to the fridge to grab one of his protein shakes, Summer thought they were totally gross and pulled a face every time he went to take a sip. Ryan rolled his eyes.
“Hey Summer! Bodyguard!” Taylor winked teasingly, Ryan laughed and set about to preparing some lunch. Summer shot up and pulled her best friend into a hug.
“Taylor! I missed you so much. Seriously, like how was Paris?” Taylor squealed, oh boy…here we go…
“Oh Summer, it was amazing! The sights, the accent and the pastries…so good…I even got Luke trying caviar.”
“You did? That’s crazy!” Summer laughed, everyone knew that Luke was the worst person for food, give him a burger and fries and he was happy, anything else…not so much. Taylor giggled.
“Well I didn’t tell him what it was of course. He nearly threw up, hours later when I did though.”
“Taylor, you are cruel!” The two girls sat there giggling as Ryan decided now was the right time to vacate the room.
“So, why haven’t I heard from darling Seth for the last few weeks?” Taylor put her right hand on her hip and raised her eyebrow. She not impressed that Seth hadn’t called. Summer waved her off.
“Don’t feel special, he’s barely been in contact with anyone. I’ll be surprised if Sandy and Kirsten have even seen him.” Taylor’s interest was peaked, Summer grinned as if to confirm Taylor’s thoughts herself.
“A boy?” She gasped. Summer nodded enthusiastically.
“I believe so.”
“Oh My God! Get him on the phone now!”
Minutes later, Summer was being forced to dial the numbers to her best friends phone, she hoped Seth was going to pick up otherwise she was sure that Taylor was going to drag her ass round the Cohen house and to every other building in Newport until they found his scrawny ass. Summer couldn’t complain, she was kind of desperate to know the gossip surrounding his latest hook up at this point.
“Hello?” Seth’s voice was distant and hazy, Summer had a guess that he was just waking up, she rolled her eyes. She wished she could sleep in till halfway through the afternoon. If only.
“Ohhhh Seth!” Taylor sang down the phone, Summer glanced at the door to notice that Ryan was just making his way back, she smiled. Something inside of her was itching to go stand next to him, talk to him instead of talking to Seth. She sighed quietly.
“Taylor. To what do I owe this pleasure?”
“Diner. 2 O’clock. No choice. We need the gossip Seth. Be there.” Summer laughed. Taylor could be so stern but no one could be as stern as Summer.
“Oh I don’t know-“
“Cohen!”
“…Oh hey Summer…I’ll see you at two.”
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Taylor was already making her way into the diner to meet Seth, however Summer opted to hang back to wait for Ryan.
“Sorry if this is a pain for you.” She had certainly changed since they had first met before she never gave a second thought for how her daily plans may affect him. He shrugged.
“Its my job to go where you go, Summer.” Ryan looked at her as he got out of the car, Summer glanced to the floor.
“I know but isn’t it like annoying? Being in the middle of something and then having some bratty teenager interrupt it cause she wants to go sunbathe or something.” Ryan chuckled and stepped a little closer, he lifted her chin slightly so she was now looking at him.
“Summer if you weren’t interrupting me all the time, I would go insane.”
“Whatever you say, Atwood. Come on, I want a milkshake.” Ryan rolled his eyes.
“You ever heard of being healthy, Roberts?” Summer laughed as she flipped her head round, just outside the entrance.
“Did you just last name me?” Ryan smirked.
“Maybe I did.” For a second, Summer was completely speechless. She had never seen Ryan Atwood be so cocky in her life. It was HOT! Ryan headed past her into the diner, Summer watched after him.
“Oh man, I’m in deep.” She murmured.
Summer headed inside the diner, locating Taylor and Seth sitting in a booth at the end, she struggling to locate Atwood, he wasn’t sitting at the table though she thought maybe he was ordering something. Until she noticed him sitting just behind Seth. What the hell?
Summer headed straight to him, signalling to her friends that she’d be a moment. They knew what she would order anyway. She hovered next to Ryan who was just glancing at the menu.
“Atwood, what are you doing?” Ryan glanced up, confused slightly. He was doing his job just like he always did. He opened his mouth to speak but was interrupted by Summer, as per. “Don’t start with the Roberts thing either. No one lasts names me, Atwood.” Ryan chuckled.
“I’m sitting at the nearest table Summer, so I can watch out for you.” She rolled her eyes.
“I know what you’re here for, you’ve been stalking me for the last three months now.” Summer caught Ryan flinch slightly and instantly regretted it. “You know what I mean. You might as well just sit at the table, its not like I’m embarrassed to be seen with you or anything.” She wasn’t? Ryan didn’t know what to think, it may have been the greatest compliment she had ever paid him. Summer turned to sit at her own table but not before she addressed Ryan one last time. “And you better join in the conversation too. Don’t do your whole I’m hot and brooding thing!”
“You think I’m hot?” Ryan smirked, there it was again… Summer blushed, she wasn’t meant to say that, she was just thinking it!
“Shut up!”
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Thirty minutes passed of endless chatting about all the spring break hook ups and how Summer actually did next to nothing with her time, she had been invited to endless amounts of parties but hadn’t felt like going to any of them. Somehow staying at home doing nothing seemed more appealing then hanging around with Holly’s crew, that or staying at home with Ryan, doing nothing. Ever since she had met his mother, the two of them seemed to get along much better. Summer almost felt like the playing field was even, she had confessed about her feelings over Marissa’s disappearance and she now knew about Ryan’s past with his mother.
“Why is it so hot? I can’t handle this heat!” Seth complained as he ordered another drink, Summer raised her eyebrows.
“Good job you’re just living in California and not Australia, jeez Cohen.” Taylor laughed and rolled her eyes.
“We all have a pool in our backyards and live by the sea if it’s really a big deal just go in one of them.” She gasped loudly. “Oh my god!” She squealed. “That’s perfect!”
“What’s perfect?” Ryan asked, Summer nudged him and leaned in.
“This means that Taylor has come up with something, most likely not perfect for us. She tends to overreact a little, right Tay?”
“Oh shush.” Taylor grinned, waving her off. “No, this is really perfect!”
“Well don’t keep us waiting, Townsend.” Seth replied, faking enthusiasm and equally receiving glares from Summer. He grimaced. “Right, last names your thing.” Ryan chuckled, taking a glance at Summer.
“Damn straight.”
“Let’s have a pool party!”
All three of them inwardly groaned, there was no way Seth wasn’t going to get caught checking all the guys out, Summer didn’t exactly want a hundred people she didn’t like round her house - she had the bigger pool and her father was yet again out of town and Ryan didn’t like the idea of having to watch men drool all over Summer - though technically he would have a reason to stare at her, he was protecting her after all.
“Come on guys, it will be fun!” Taylor whined, Summer glanced at Seth. Taylor squealed, she already knew what their answer was going to be.
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If Summer had to death glare Zach Stevens once more for checking her out then she was going to stab in the eye with the nearest fork. Take a hint! It was bad enough she was friends with Seth, she didn’t need another comic book nerd in her life.
Ryan was of course skulking in the background though she had noticed that Luke was seemingly keeping him company, he didn’t tend to socialise with their friends either asides from her, Seth and Taylor of course. Summer had noticed that Ryan was certainly dressed down a little though he still managed to look smart. Of course.
Taylor was giggling away on a sun lounger close to her, she wasn’t one for drinking usually but obviously she needed to let out come steam. Summer grinned as she joined her on the sun lounger next to her. She nodded her head to the cup in Taylor’s hand.
“Vodka and lime.” Taylor replied to her unasked question.
“I think I definitely want in on that. Be right back.” She headed into the kitchen where her alcohol was stashed in the fridge. It was common courtesy for people to bring their own to these things, Summer always made a point to hide the expensive stuff, the other she wasn’t all that fussed about. She found Ryan and Luke in a deep conversation about what appeared to be football. Yawn, she thought.
Ryan, who had been in a deep conversation about football, immediately stopped paying attention to what Luke was saying about Ronaldo as soon as Summer stepped in the room. She had her hair up in a ponytail, he liked that so much of her neck was exposed to him. He couldn’t stop the flashes that entered his mind, his lips on her neck, her hands in his hair; pulling on it as he nipped against her skin-
“So what do you think?” Ryan was brought back to reality as he faced not just Luke but Summer watching him curiously also. He blushed - something he was sure he hadn’t done for many years, if ever.
“Huh?” Summer giggled, she’d already grabbed her drink at this point and figured she would just spend some time with the lads before she went and joined Taylor outside. “Oh yeah, sounds good?” He had no idea what the hell he was saying. Luke chuckled to himself and muttered something about Taylor before vacating the room. Summer watched Ryan as fixed himself a drink.
“I never had you down for one of those guys.” Ryan glanced at Summer, confused. What kind of guy was he? She laughed. “Do you have any idea what you just agreed to?” He laughed.
“Was I that obvious.”
“Oh just like completely obvious.” She took a sip, maybe a little too much vodka. “You just agreed to play footy with him next week.” Ryan let out a sigh of relief he hadn’t realised he had been holding.
“Oh, I thought it was much worse.” He grinned, Summer was surprised. Though he was obviously athletic, she just hadn’t thought he would be into sports all that much. “So, I’m not that kind of guy, huh?” Summer shrugged as she looked down at her drink.
“I wouldn’t mind watching you play.” She asked quietly, Ryan smiled a little.
“You can watch me play.” He watched Summer slowly lift her head as she searched his eyes, looking for a lie? He wondered. “I’d like it if you did.” He said as if to convince her he meant every word he was saying. Summer smiled as her stomach fluttered.
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Eventually everyone decided to head to Holly’s beach house to really get the party started, those who wouldn’t get ID’d would then go on to some club or another. Summer declined to join them, her dad may be easy going but he wasn’t easy going enough to let the current state of the house be allowed.
“You didn’t want to head to Holly’s party?” Luke asked as he sipped another beer, he’d brought a sixteen pack with him to the party himself and drank the majority of them, Summer was amazed he wasn’t wasted. She would have been but then she was a total lightweight. Marissa used to tease and laugh at her for getting drunk so easily when she could hold so much liquor herself. But then there had never been an in between with Marissa, she was fine appeared to be almost sober until she wasn’t and she just passed out.
“My dad’s back tomorrow and he’ll freak if I leave it like this.” Summer said as she began picking up empty paper cups and throwing them into black bags.
“We’ll help.” Taylor replied as she, Luke and Ryan started doing the same. Seth stood there, itching his neck.
“The thing is, I was going to go to that party…” Seth said awkwardly, Summer laughed.
“Its fine Seth, go.”
“You sure?” Though Seth wasn’t particularly known for his selflessness, he knew better than to leave Summer in the lurch. The place wasn’t too much of a mess considering the number of people that had been there.
It only took a little over an hour after Seth left for the place to be relatively clean, the maids could come in and spruce the place up how they liked it, they were finicky like that, Summer had discovered. Taylor and Luke decided to take off after they had ordered a pizza to celebrate their hard work. Now, it was just Ryan and Summer.
“You Harbour kids sure know how to drink.” Summer giggled.
“Yeah, we can get a little crazy sometimes.” Marissa was more than crazy sometimes. Ryan laughed.
“You still got nothing on the Chino lot though.” He chuckled, smirking at her. Summer got up so she was standing in front of him, hands on both hips.
“Oh yeah?” She questioned. Harbour kids could drink. The party was nothing.
“Yeah!” Ryan laughed as he wrapped his arms around Summer’s waist, picking her up and throwing her into the pool. She squealed as she came up from the water.
“Atwood! Seriously?” Ryan fell about laughing, the image of Summer soaking wet was not one he would forget any time soon, he was sure.
“Alright, I’m sorry. I just couldn’t resist.” He held out his hand to help her, he’d seen this scene enough times in a movie. “Truce.” He added. Besides, Summer is tiny, there’s no way she can manage to pull-
With all her might, Summer took hold of Ryan’s hand with both of hers, yanked and pulled. Ryan headed straight to the water, unaware and completely stunned. Summer giggled as she floated, thank god she had taken of her cardigan that she had been wearing on top of her bikini - that was Gucci.
Without a word, Summer attacked Ryan with water as soon as he came up for air. Ryan attempted to defend himself from her splashes before he dived under water, wrapped his arms around Summer’s legs and dunked her once and for all.
“Okay! Okay! Okay, I give!” Summer spluttered as she attempted to breathe with all the water in her mouth. It only took moments for her to register that Ryan still had his arms wrapped strongly around her though they had moved to her waist at this point. She pouted, her face just centimetres away from his own. “Water went up my nose.” She whined. Ryan chuckled.
“I’m sorry, sweetheart.” He replied as he moved a piece of her wet hair out of her face. Ryan searched Summer’s eyes, a reason to tell him not to do something he’d wanted for so long. It wasn’t supposed to be like this, he wasn’t supposed to fall for the girl he was protecting, that wasn’t him. Before he could think this through any more, Summer placed her lips on his own.
His eyes fluttered as they closed, accepting, his hand that had rested on her cheek was now wrapped in her hair as he pulled her in closer. He pressed his lips harder against her own, his body going rigid as he heard Summer’s faint moans in his ear. He eagerly slipped his tongue inside her mouth.