Moving Day: Part 2

Josh, Peyton, Spencer, Zach and Abby are all gathered at Josh and Landon's apartment. Landon rushes into the apartment with two pizzas.

Landon: Dudes! You'll never guess who I saw outside!

Peyton: You're right, so why don't you just tell us.

Landon: (Sets the pizzas down.) Reed and Ethan! They're moving in!

Peyton: Really? I didn't think Reed would have the guys to show his face to us again after what he did to poor Kim!

Spencer: Peyton, really when you think about it, he didn't do something so bad.

Abby: Spence! Is you crazy? The man lied to Kim!

Spencer: Not really, he just withheld the truth for Kim's own good. Kim deserves to be happy and wealthy and thats all that Reed was trying to do.

Landon: Spencer, it's a lie no matter how you look at it. Reed only went with Kim so he could keep his precious trust fund.

Spencer: I suppose, I just try to look at all sides of a situation.

Abby: We know it baby, and we love ya for it too, but Reed needs to be out of Kim's life.

Ethan and Reed enter

Reed: Why don't we let Kim make that decision Abby.

Ethan: I take it by the tone of this conversation we're not welcome.

Josh: You know Ethan, I don't think right now would be best time for you and your buddy to be sniffing around here, most likely looking for Kim.

Reed: I just want to see her.

Landon: Yeah? Well I'd like to see your head as a football so I could kick it, but thats not going to happen either.

Peyton: (Whispers in Landon's ear) Work on better comebacks Landon...

Spencer: (Smiles and leads Ethan and Reed to the door) Perhaps this isn't the best time right now...

Reed: Spencer, will you at least call me when she comes in?

Spencer: I think Kim will call you if she wants you to know she's in.

Reed and Ethan leave through the hall door just as Geneva and Kim enter through the patio door

Geneva: Hello all!

Kim: Holla!

Everyone greets them warmly

Geneva: Well, Europe was positively gorgeous! And Kim turned a lot of guy's heads over there!

Kim: Oh shut up Geneva! You did too.

Geneva: Well, I know, but some of them were looking at you too!

Josh: I'm glad y'all had fun.

Peyton: Yeah, did you see any celebrities over there? You know vacationing?

Geneva: Well, me and Kim partied with George Clooney, he asked for Kim's number and she didn't give it to him! Can you believe her!

Abby: (Hits Kim on the shoulder) Girl! You crazy! For a white dude he is fine as hell!

Everyone laughs

Abby: Just because I'm ebony don't mean I can't appreciate me a nice, smooth piece of ivory! You know what I'm saaaayin!

Kim: I don't know, it just didn't feel right. I'm still kinda hung up on him...

Spencer: And thats understandable.

Landon: No it's not!

Spencer: Landon!

Landon: I'm sorry Kim, but this guy doesn't care about you! Its all about money! The only reason he proposed to you is for his precious trust fund!

Peyton: (Looks at Landon)Lets not get too hasty, he might really have feelings for Kim.

Kim: I just need to talk to him and clear the air.

Landon: Yeah Kim, go ahead and do that and let him lie to you again.

Josh: Landon lay off, it's her decision. (looks at Kim) Kim, we're your friends and we will stand by whatever decision you make.

Everyone nods their head in agreement

Kim: Thanks you guys, I think I'll feel a whole lot better after I talk to him.

Geneva: (Takes a bite of a slice of pizza) Oh my God! I forgot what crappy American pizza tasted like! It's amazing! All I've eaten lately is the rich Italian kind!

Josh: Thats why you two shouldn't leave us anymore, crappy American pizza and opinionated friends!

Kim: (Laughs)

Peyton: (Raises her beer) Amen to that!

Later, outside Josh and Landon's apartment, in the courtyard, Zach, Abby, Landon, Josh, Peyton and Geneva sit around a campfire Landon had built and talk

Zach: So, how do we all feel about starting college? I mean, after this summer, we will be college students! A new chapter in our lives is about to begin.

Geneva: (Looks at Zach) How many beers have you had there Zach?

Abby: (Gets up and pulls Zach out of his lawn chair.) Come on, lets go talk.

Zach smiles and walks away with Abby leading him. They walk through the courtyard.

Zach: Look Abby, I just want to say...

Abby: (Cuts him off) Zach, a lot has happened to me in the past month. You need to know that I still have feelings for you. I love you. If we're going to start this relationship up again, we need to make some rules.

Zach: Okay(Sighs) I'm ready, tell me.

Abby: For one, school needs to come first for both of us.

Zach: That sounds good to me.

Abby: The second rule, is that this is college, we don't need no high school drama happining between us. You have to trust me and I have to trust you.

Zach: (Kisses her) I think I can live with that.

Abby: (Smiles and kisses him back)

Meanwhile, up in Kim and Geneva's apartment, Kim sits on her couch, waiting nervously. There's a knock at the door, she gets up and answers it. Reed's at the door giving her a halfhearted smile.

Reed: Thanks for calling me. (He comes in) I've really been wanting to talk to you for a while.

Kim: Yeah, I think we should get a few things on the table.

Reed: Well, you didn't make it any easier running off to Europe with Geneva right after graduation.

Kim: I had to get away, Reed. I mean, I found out that my family and you, people whom I've trusted implicitly, have been lying to me for the past four years! How would you feel?

Reed: I never lied to you.

Kim: Oh my God! Yes you have! Withholding a truth is the same thing as a lie to me. Did you ever care about me Reed? Or did you just go with me to appease your father and lets not forget how wonderful it looked in the society pages!

Reed: I'll admit, at first I did just want to hold on to my trust fund, but then I got to know you and I fell in love with you Kim. Did our parents arrange for us to meet, yes, and I went along with it, I figured what you didn't know wouldn't hurt you.

Kim: Well it did, Reed. It hurt a lot. I was just a way for you and my father to make money! I assume my father made money off of this arrangement, did he not?

Reed: (Sighed and looked down)

Kim: Answer the question!

Reed: Fine, yes, your father's company, Cobalt, is just a branch of Fallon Industries. No one but me and our parents know it. Being president of Cobalt was part of the deal, my father couldn't have me marrying a person of limited means.

Kim: So my father's money has been your families money all this time? My father didn't really build his own business, it was all just given to him?

Reed: Our fathers were good friends.

Kim: I know that...

Reed: My father just wanted to help your father out.

Kim: Using me as a bargaining chip!

Reed: Kim, no, it's not like that, he just wanted to make sure you and I would be happy and taken care of, thats all. Plus, I turned down the money.

Kim: (Looks at him in shock) You did what?

Reed: (Pulls out the agreement and the information to his bank accounts) You see these?

Kim: Those are the documents you need to access your trust fund.

Reed: Yes they are. (He pulls out a lighter and sets them on fire)

Kim: What are you doing Reed!

Reed: (Runs to the bathroom and tosses the fiery papers into the toilet and flushes it) It's a new begining for us, Kim.

Kim: I can't believe you did that.

Reed: I love you Kim, money or no money. I want to stay with you.

Kim: (Tears come to her eyes) Oh Reed! (she hugs him and passionately kisses him) I love you too, and I don't want us to break up over money and lies.

Reed: Neither do I. Can you give us another shot?

Kim: (Nods her head) Yes, but I don't want to rush anything. I want us to take things slow. I know you and out parents were planning on us being married by the end of the summer, but I need time to get to know you again.

Reed: I understand.

Back at the campfire

Geneva and Landon are the only one's left at the campfire. Peyton and Josh have gone inside and Abby and Zach were still walking around the courtyard.

Geneva: (Takes a sip of Landon's beer) Oh God! How can you guys drink this stuff!

Landon: (Laughs) Come on! It's no different than wine! (Holds up his beer) This is the poor people's wine!

Geneva: Shut up you're not poor! your father's a doctor and your mom's the wife of a senator.

Landon: They make small pennies compared to your people.

Geneva: Oh Landon hush.

They're quiet for a minute

Geneva: You know Landon, we've been friends since we were in preschool. You know you can tell me anything, right?

Landon: (Looks at her) Yeah, I know... and right back at ya.

Geneva: (Smiles) So how long are you going to keep hiding how you really feel about Kim to me?

Landon: (Looks at her in shock) What? How did you...

Geneva: You can't hide anything from me! You know better, thats how I figured out you and Alice Hawthorne were doing it!

Landon: Okay, okay, you only guessed that because you knew that Alice Hawthorne slept with half the football team!

Geneva: Landon, give me some credit, I can read you like a book! Not even a book, a comic strip! Thats how good I know you! And now that I'm saying it, its kinda disturbing.

Landon: No it's not, the truth is you're right. How did you pick up on it?

Geneva: It actually took me a while. You always went out of your way to do things for her, even more so than Reed. And you'd always be there to help her out. Reed has never been that way towards her.

Landon: I don't know what I should do.

Geneva: (Takes his hands) You need to tell her. You've been holding your true feelings back since the seventh grade. You need to let her know, who knows what would happen.

Landon: It could ruin our friendship.

Geneva: Or it could begin something wonderful. And now that her and Reed are history, it's your chance.

Landon: Your right Geneva. (He hugs her) You know. how come we've never hooked up?

Geneva: (Laughs) Because you have the hots for my bestfriend(Laughs again). Just remember to take it slow with Kim and be yourself. She's been lied to a lot.

Landon: I will.

Geneva: (Gets up and wraps a blanket around her) Brrrr! It's getting chilly! Come on lets go in and watch on of those crappy, 80's horror films where people get killed when they're having sex!

Landon: Sounds good. (Throws a bucket of water on the campfire and follows Geneva into the building.)

Ethan emerges from behind a tree, smirking.

Ethan: So, that numbheaded jock, Landon has a crush on Kim does he? I must figure out how I can use this information to my advantage.

Ethan chuckles to himself and walks into the building.