A Second Chance (The O.C./Modern Family/All-American)

Melissa and Mike dry off and get dressed as they get ready to head back outside, but just as she is about to open the door she knew she was forgetting something. "Oh fuck! Holly!"

Melissa and Mike had really hit it off tonight and they had been off in their own little world drying each other's bodies with a towel as they fondled each other and kissed, so they had forgotten that Holly was passed out in the tub. After getting high as a kite and getting her brains fucked out Holly had been sleeping ever since and it didn't seem like she was going to get up anytime soon. 

"Come on, let's take her upstairs." Melissa said.

Mike scooped her up from the tub, dried her off, and wrapped the towel around her body as Melissa grabbed Holly's clothes on the floor. He carried her in his arms as he followed Melissa out of the bathroom and to a bedroom upstairs. There was a couple in bed but thankfully it seemed as though they had just finished fucking as well. So Mike placed her in the bed after they left on her side just in case, and placed a trash can right next to her on the floor. 

"I'll meet you downstairs, I'm gonna lock the door and climb out the window," Mike said to Melissa. He knew how creepy guys could be and he didn't want someone taking advantage of the inebriated girl. 

So that's exactly what he did, Melissa went downstairs and after locking the door Michael went outside on the Balcony. He called out to some people below so they could clear some space for him to drop down, then he climbed over the ledge standing on the railing as he lowered himself down. For a guy with booze, weed, coke, and xanax coursing through his system he somehow moved with the grace of a still sober person. 

"Hey Seth, quite a party huh?" He said as he spotted his friend standing by the keg next to a passed out drunk guy. 

"Yeah… uh… yeah," Seth looked down awkwardly avoiding eye contact with Mike. 

Michael just chuckled and went back inside to rejoin Melissa. She was in the kitchen making a cocktail with the blender. "Want a frozen margarita?" she asked Mike. 

"Sure."

She poured them each a glass and met him over on the couch where there were a bunch of stoners passed out, but he still found a spot to sit down. She walked over, handed him his glass and then sat on his lap. He continued to flirt with Melissa for the next thirty minutes making sure no one else got their hands on her as he wanted this big booty all to himself. He got her number to make sure they would meet up again.

Outside on the porch Ryan was having his fourth beer when a very drunk Summer approached him flirtatiously. "Look who I found!" she said as she approached him to hug him but Ryan flinched back as he didn't want to get all touchy feely with the girl that he knew Seth had a huge crush on, so Summer stumbled forward a bit and spilled some of her drink on Ryan's crotch. 

"Ooops!" she shouted with a laugh. "I'm waaasted." she got even closer wrapping her hands around his neck making Ryan extremely uncomfortable. "Soooo.. What's your name anyway?"

"Ryan…." he said in a deadpan voice. 

"Ryan!" Seth approached, also drunk, as he had finally started to let loose and wanted to party with his cool new friend. But when he saw Summer acting all flirtatiously with Ryan he got a bit emotional. "Dude… what are you doing? I named my boat after her." 

"What?!" She laughed, mocking him. "Ew! Who even are you?" 

Trying to deescalate the situation Ryan approached Seth and started whispering in a low voice, "It's not what you think, she's a little bit drunk." But these words did nothing when Summer approached Ryan from behind and wrapped her arms around him again trying to drag him off with her. 

Ryan shrugged Summer off him as Seth began to walk away, heartbroken. "Seth! Seth!" 

As Ryan tried to grab Seth so they could talk it out Seth spun around and shoved Ryan off him into the glass sliding door, "DON"T TOUCH ME!" Seth bellowed in a voice so loud everyone began to look at the commotion. "You know what, why don't you just go back to Chino?! I'm sure there's a really nice car in the parking lot that you could steal!" 

Seth walked off towards the beach splitting the crowd as over forty people were just standing around staring at them. 

Summer scoffed. "Chino? Eww!" 

Ryan ran back into the house in embarrassment as people stared at him whispering the gossip they just heard to people that didn't hear. 

Mike heard some muffled shouting over the loud music but he hadn't paid it any mind or even heard what was said as he was too busy making out and groping Melissa on the couch. But he saw Ryan walking inside the house with an upset look on his face so he figured he might as well see what was going on. Ryan grabbed a drink and then walked back out.

"I'll be right back, I think that was one of my friends out there." Mike says as he pats her on the butt. 

"Awww, leaving already," she says in a fake pouty voice. 

"Oh don't be like that, you know I'll be back. Besides you still have my tie, and if you lose it"--he spanks her ass–"I'm gonna have to punish you," he says with a cocky smirk. 

"Mmmmm… baby don't threaten me with a good time," she says in a low sultry voice before she leans down once more to taste his lips. 

Meanwhile on the beach Seth is standing by a bonfire quietly sulking when a couple Newport water polo douchebags walk up to him and shove him.

"Go home geek!" 

"Who invited you, suck-ass!"

(A/N: ^^ actual dialogue from the show BTW…. lmao who da fuck wrote that haha)

Ryan saw a group of three guys shoving Seth around so he went over to intervene.

"Come on… you guys really wouldn't hurt me because that would be so cliche." Seth started as they picked him up. "Oh!" he yelped. "I guess you're fans of the cliche!" 

"HEY! HEY! Put him down!" Ryan yelled at them. 

"Hey! What's up dude? You got a problem?" Luke Ward, the little leader of this group, said to Ryan as he walked towards him. 

"You tell me…" as Luke got closer Ryan punched him in the face and put him on his ass. 

Ryan pounced on Luke and began to hit him with the ol ground and pound, but before he could get his third punch off one of Luke's friends tackled Ryan off of him as they wrestled and fought on the ground. At this time Mike had finally stopped flirting with Melissa and stepped out on the back porch where he saw this all go down. 

Another guy piled on top of Ryan as Seth grabbed him and with all the strength he could muster yanked him off of Ryan. Seth, not used to getting into fights, began to shake his head as he put his hands up to show he wasn't a threat but the guy didn't care as he punched Seth in the face. 

Mike had begun to sprint toward the fight as fast as he could on sand. 

With Ryan on the ground Luke kicked him in the ribs. Looming over him Luke spread his arms out in a cocky fashion and began to taunt Ryan, "Welcome to the O.C. bit-" but before he could finish his sentence he got drop kicked in the back by a sprinting Michael. Luke fell face first into the sand as Mike quickly got up off his ass because there were still 3 more guys in this fight. 

Two of the guys charged at him, the first one receiving a kick straight to the face that knocked him out cold. The second guy reached Mike and tackled him down to the ground as he began to start punching him from up top. At this moment Mike had regretted neglecting learning grappling martial arts, the only martial art he had studied was Muay Thai. He tried blocking the blows with his hands, which he did for most of them but one snuck through and busted his lip causing him to bleed. 

But then Ryan finally got up off the ground and ran over tackling the guy off of Mike. Mike sprang back up to his feet to find Luke approaching him. He got in his stance and as Luke threw a punch he slipped it and countered with a quick one-two straight down the middle. Then he jumped in the air and hit Luke in the chest with a flying knee causing him to drop again. 

Michael stood over Luke glaring at him with a cocky grin, "Thanks for the warm welcome, bitch!" 

Mike turned around and walked away to see Ryan beating the absolute shit out of the guy that he had tackled. "Ryan! Come on bro, that's enough." he yanked Ryan off and Seth finally got up from the ground as he was playing dead. "Come on, let's get outta here before the cops show up."

They ran around the side not wanting to pass through everyone inside the house and made their way to Mike's Porsche. "Ok so… I'm fucked up, who can drive?" Mike asked as he climbed into the passenger seat. 

"Not me," Seth said as he climbed into the back seat. 

"I only had four beers, I'm fine." Ryan said as Mike handed him the keys. He put it in the ignition and turned it, starting the engine as Mike began to queue up Gasolina by Daddy Yankee, turning his speakers loud as hell. 

"Don't crash my baby, man, I just got her."

Ryan reversed and peeled off making the trip back to the Cohen house. It was 3 am when they finally stumbled into the pool house looking all disheveled. Ryan took the bed that was left out for him by Mrs. Cohen, Seth sat down on three cushioned seats that were squished together as Mike laid down on a grey mattress in the corner. 

"Well…" Seth began, "I don't know what to say… except that you guys totally had my back out there and we really kicked their asses huh?" 

"We?!" said Mike, causing Ryan and himself to laugh. 

"Hey! I… helped. I pulled a guy off Ryan." This only made them laugh even harder. "Well y'know if you guys teach me some moves we could become a force to be reckoned with. What a night." 

Mike and Seth quickly passed out as Ryan went out and headed to the driveway to smoke a cigarette. But as he was walking by the side of the house he spotted a car pull up into the driveway of the Cooper house right next door, so he stood and watched. It was Summer and another girl dragging an unconscious Marissa to her house. When they couldn't find Marissa's keys they just left her lying there and drove off. 

He went down and scooped her up, taking her to the Cohen's pool house where he placed her down to rest on the bed that was for him. After covering her with some blankets he grabbed the other pillow on the bed and went to sleep on the floor. 

..

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Kirsten Cohen had a hard time going to sleep last night, her son Seth was not one to hang out with friends till the wee hours of the morning and she couldn't help but worry about him. 

"Relax hon', he'll be fine. He's got Ryan and Michael to look after him, quit pacing back and forth and come to bed." Sandy Cohen had said to his wife. 

She was finally able to relax at midnight and she promptly went to sleep setting her alarm early so she could check in on Seth. 7am was when the alarm went off and she rushed to Seth's room only to be overcome with even more worry as she didn't find her son in his bed.

Then she rushed on down to the pool house and bursted in, throwing the door open with force. And sure enough there she found them. 

"Thank God!" she said. 

The sound of the door opening and her loud relieved voice woke up all three of the boys, and when she made her way over to them they all looked up at her and she saw that all three of them had bruises on their faces and she saw that Mike and Ryan had bloody lips. 

"What happened to your face?!" she asked her son.

"Hmmmm… I got into a fight last night." 

"With who?! WHY?!"

"I don't really know, I don't really remember. Uhm, I was really drunk. Yeah I still think I am a little bit," Seth replied as he tried to slink back down to fall back asleep.

"We got jumped by some guys Mrs. Cohen, you know how it is ma'am, just guys being dudes," Mike said.

As Seth tried to fall back to sleep Mrs. Cohen yanked him by the arm and pulled him up, "Let's go! House! Now!" 

She led Seth out of the pool house and into their house and as she closed the door she shot a glare full of disdain directed towards Ryan Atwood. 

Sandy Cohen was returning from the beach retrieving his surfboard from the back of their Range Rover when his wife approached him. "Oh honey, you shoulda seen the waves coming in. Six foot, and it was going off."

"Seth got into a fight!" 

"He did?" 

"This is what happens when you let someone like this into our house, when you let Seth hang out with someone like Ryan, that criminal."

"Well at least he has someone to hang out with, don't salt his game honey." 

Sandy and Kirsten continued to argue about Ryan, and Kirsten laid down the law, she didn't want him living in her house anymore. Sandy was to bring him back home to his mother in Chino. At the time they were having this argument Ryan was in the kitchen cooking up pancakes, bacon, and eggs for the five of them to eat. 

Kirsten went to find Ryan to tell him he was to return home, and she found him in the kitchen. "Is that bacon?"

"I usually make breakfast at my house. My mom's not much of a cook, so…"

"I'm sorry you seem like a really nice kid."

"It's okay… I get it." Ryan was used to people disappointing him. His father and brother were both in jail and his mother was a toxic alcoholic, he hadn't expected his little living arrangements with the Cohens to last, he was just grateful that he didn't have to spend the night on the street. He set the breakfast down on the dining room table then walked back to the kitchen counter to grab his jacket. "You have a really nice family, Mrs. Cohen."

Ryan said goodbye to Seth and then Sandy drove him back to his house in Chino.