Safe With You || Seth Cohen

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I stood in the living room, holding onto my suitcase beside Seth and Ryan, who were doing the same.

"You're taking all that? You only own, like a wife beater and two hoodies." Seth asked Ryan as he saw Ryan's full looking suitcase.

"I'm sorry okay, I don't know what people wear for a  prospective students weekend, so I packed everything."

"Well, I packed light. Wanted to be free and easy for pre-frosh weekend."

"Even though you're not a pre-freshman? Are you sure they'll let you go as Ally's guest?"

"Of course. And if they don't, I'll threaten them. Besides don't worry about us, Ry. You're going to Berkeley with your ex-girlfriend." I told him with a small smile.

"You ready to go? College calls." Kirsten stated as she walked into the room.

"Yeah. I think we're all set." Ryan told her.

"Just think, the next time we send you three off like this, it'll be for real." Kirsten said, looking sad.

"I'll only be a few hours away." Ryan told her.

"What about you, Ally, going all the way to the East Coast. And Seth, when you join her.. if I wasn't so proud, I'd be angry.."

"Alright, alright, we've got planes to catch." Seth stated.

"Okay, let's go." Kirsten stated, grabbing her keys.

"Where's Sandy?" I asked her.

"Uh, he had an early meeting. He said to say goodbye for him."

"That's weird, the man lives for the airport sendoff." Seth stated with a frown.

"Well I guess it was an important meeting."

When we reached the airport, Seth and I stopped next to our gate.

"Well, this is our gate."

"Call when you get there." Kirsten stated, hugging us both.

"We will. Bye, Ry. Have a good time." I told him as I hugged him as well.

"See you Sunday." Seth called to Kirsten and Ryan as the two of us walked towards our gate.

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When Seth and I walked onto the Brown campus, I immediately knew I'd made the right choice. It was the craziest thing to be stepping on a college campus-an Ivy League college no less.

"So Seth, I saw there's a Meet the Faculty reception here tonight. I assume Dr. Overbee will be there." I stated, nudging Seth on the arm.

"That's the admissions guy."

"Yeah, maybe you can try talking to him."

"And what would I say?"

"I don't know. I mean, we both knew that you didn't just fly out here to be with me. You came to try and get admitted because you want to come here so badly. So don't you think you should come up with that speech and yourself?"

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I was standing at the Meet the Faculty reception by myself when two girls walked over to me.

"Hey, what's your name?" One of them, a pretty redhead asked.

"I'm Ally Atwood. What about you?"

"I'm Serenity and this is Hope." She said, gesturing to the blonde girl next to her.

"Nice to meet you both."

"So where are you from?" Serenity asked me.

"Newport Beach."