"Come on Ryan, skating is so much cooler than riding a bicycle! C'mon your going to love it!" Seth proudly held his skateboard up in Ryan's face.

"Let's see, small surface, four very small wheels, yeah- I can't imagine what could go wrong." Ryan rolled his eyes, recently he'd been keeping the Atwood- luck at bay and he'd like it to stay that way. Skateboarding seemed like it might be tempting the fates, especially after everything he'd been studying physics all weekend. Objects in motion remain in motion... Speed equals distance over time...

"Wow- Mom has really gotten to you…" Seth said, rolling his eyes, "Kid Chino would not be afraid of a little skateboard."

"Kid Chino- has a big test on Monday." Ryan said, assuming that Seth had just come up with a new nickname for him, and he gestured back towards the text book he'd been bent over since 9am that morning.

"Ryan, it's a Sunday! You've been slaving away all weekend! C'mon, live a little!" Seth grinned at him.

Ryan sighed and shook his head, "Alright fine, let's go down to the pier, but I'll be taking my bike, and not for long, I have test in physics on Monday."

"Yeah, you mentioned that," Seth said, but he was glad at least to have some companionship. Life in the OC without Summer or Ryan was lonely and boring- and reminded him a little too much of what life used to be like before Ryan had appeared.

"So Kid Chino?" Ryan said.

"Yeah- cool name right? Sounds like a comic book hero,"

"Okay, you really do need to get out of this house more." Ryan grinned

"Maybe you could take me down to Chino later and you get some bad- boy back in you because seriously, Ryan Atwood, spending all day studying? Just seems plain wrong… Ooh! I know why you're studying! You're trying to impress that girl you tried to set me up with- what was her name again?" Seth pretended not to know.

"Lindsey!" Ryan growled at him, then saw Seth grinning at him and relaxed. Wow- he really did need to get out of the house.