It was a Saturday. 

The sun was out, the skies were clear, and it wasn’t oppressive like it had been the last few days. The Selznicks were all outside ... and Drew was not. He’d occasionally go hiking or fishing or camping with them, but he wasn’t nearly as much of an outdoorsmen as the other three and he decided to stay behind today. 

Which was a really bad idea, considering that, since Ginny was working a double shift, he was home alone. 

And he was bored. Really bored. 

He’d walked over to Val’s but she wasn’t home and neither was her sister. He’d texted Tom, but he hadn’t answered (Drew wanted to bet that he’d probably given his phone away to someone without one again). He was about to go take a drive when he saw Seth pull up the street. 

Valerie was wiping down the tables when her brother walked in. 

Well, more like half-stumbled. He looked like he’d just crawled out of bed (quite possibly in the clothes he had slept in). She knew that he was battling a hangover. Again. 

He and his best friend had decided to do this insane twenty-one days of bar hopping. It probably had sounded like a good idea once, but she could tell that he had some regrets. Especially right now. He hadn’t even taken his sunglasses off yet. 

“Okay, I have done some drinking in my day, but – “ She laughed, “ – dude, this is a new level of crazy. How many more days of this do you have? Because you look like a zombie. And a really douchey one if you are gonna have to wear the sunglasses inside.” 

Two things come to mind w/ these two:

Seth is the same age as Leslie’s sister and probably would have been in the same graduating class. That would give another layer to their relationship besides just coworkers. 

Seth would be Leslie’s easiest intel about Will and Valerie, and I’m pretty sure Seth was still working at Dough Boys when Leslie/Will broke up and then the succeeding (as in following not as in successful ohhhhh burn) relationship b/t Will and Valerie. 

I feel like they could bitch about relationships w/ each other (Rachel in his case, and Will and Max in Leslie’s.) Thoughts?

Ps. If Leslie, Seth, and Steve were ever in a Dough Boys and co. band, I’d like to think it’d be called Hot Girl and the Bozos. Trademark pending. 

Personally returning to Virginia Beach had seemed like a good idea: right up until it didn’t. They hadn’t even reached the mainstrip when Ian realized that they never should have come back, at all. Nostalgia rushed over him like water, and there was nothing to do but think about the better days he had once seen here. 

Being in the house itself was even worse, somehow. There were too many memories there. The boys decided that they’d stay somewhere else, but until Woodhouse figured out where that would be, Ian decided to take a walk. 

It was late: he didn’t know what time it was, but he wanted to clear his head. He was walking down the boardwalk (which was still somewhat crowded, even this late) when he looked up and saw Seth Connors. He might not have said anything if Seth hadn’t seen him, too. 

He didn’t know what Natalie had said to him (or hadn’t). He didn’t even really know where he stood with Natalie anymore, so where, exactly, did that put him with her brother? 

There had been a time when talking with Seth was one of the easiest things in the world, but now? Now, he didn’t know what to say.