Our Hands Clasp So Tight

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters on the OC or the show itself unfortunately. The ones I made up are mine though, yayy.

A/N: I know there's a lot of future S/S stories out there but they're my favorite so I'm adding this to the bunch, I hope you enjoy please R/R!

And so it goes…

1. Tears, A sandbox, and a Lecture from Mom

He watched the picture perfect scene play out before him through the tinted shades of this sunglasses.

Seth smiled when he watched her struggle with the shovel, repeatedly dropping the sand from her clumsy grasp.

Finally she was able to pick up a minimal amount of sand and carry it over to the pail, where she proceeded to dump it in. She let the shovel fall to her side as she leaned over the bucket to look at what she had done. To anyone else it was just sand in a bucket, but to her it was beautiful, therefore he found it to be beautiful as well.

She turned around and smiled widely at him, pointing one chubby finger at the bucket. "Daddy! Lookit!" she cried gleefully. Seth laughed and stood up to admire her work. "That looks great Sofie!" he cheered with great enthusiasm. Much to her delight Seth picked her up in his arms and began to place noisy, messy kisses all over her face and her belly.

"Are you ready to go home to see Mommy?"

"Yeaa!"

-

"Mommy we're home!" Seth called as he entered the house with little Sofia perched on his hip.

"Mommy we hewe!" Sofia mimicked, showing her father a wide grin.

Summer smiled when Seth and Sofia rounded the corner. "Well look at you two! Did you have fun today baby?" Summer asked. Seth placed Sofia down on the floor and walked over to the couch to help Summer get onto her feet. Summer gave Seth a grateful smile as she placed her hand on the small of her back. "Come on sweetheart I'm going to give you a bath while Daddy gets dinner together." Summer called to Sofia, holding out her hand.

The little girl smiled and quickly ran over to place her smaller hand in Summer's.

"Sum, are you sure you can do that, I can handle it if it's too much." Seth worried.

"Nah, it's fine, beside I haven't spent time with my Sofia alllll day right baby?" Summer laughed as Sofia stuck out her lower lip and nodded. Seth smiled as he watched his girls walk up the stairs.

Just as he was about to place an order for dinner the phone rang in his hand. Glancing down at the caller id he smiled and answered it on the first ring.

"Hello Mother" he smiled.

"Seth how are you?"

"I'm hanging in there how's everything over there?"

"We're doing good."

There was a long pause before Seth finally spoke.

"Go ahead Mom you don't have to make small talk just ask." He laughed.

"How's my baby doing?"

"I'm good Mom I already told you that." He smirked.

"Not you, your daughter."

"She's doing good Mom. I took her to the park today and I let her play in the sandbox-"

"Seth the sandbox!" Kirsten interrupted. "Do you know what kind of bacteria manifests in sandboxes, not to mention the fact that sick people put things like hypodermic needles in there."

"Oh so that's what she was playing with in there," Seth joked.

"SETH!"

Seth rolled his eyes as his mother continued to rant. "Mother she's fine, she's upstairs getting a bath right now."

Silence.

"Seth a bath? I assume Summer is the one bathing her since I'm speaking with you right now. Seth why would you let Summer bathe her she's nearly due any day now I'm sure the last thing she needs is to be bent over a bathtub watching a rambunctious 2 year old."

Silence.

"Well!" Kirsten yelled.

"Oh, oh your done? Okay, well for your information I offered to bathe Soph and Summer hasn't seen her all day so she wanted to do it AND she knows if she needs any help she can yell for me." Seth explained.

"How is Summer doing?"

"Good, like you said the baby should be here any day now, hopefully when the time comes you'll be available to watch Soph."

"Of course I will Seth, Ohh this is so exciting!" Kirsten squealed.

"Yep, well speaking of your granddaughter, the mother of you granddaughter and soon to be grandchild, I need to get them fed so I better go."

"Seth what are you going feed them you know you can't-"

"Goodbye Mother, love you, talk to you soon!" Seth said quickly before hanging up the phone.

-

A few hours later Seth and Summer had put Sofia to bed and were cuddled up on their own couch watching a movie.

"You think she'll be okay?" Summer asked worriedly, out of the blue.

"Hm, do I think who will be okay?" Seth asked, peering down at her dark head.

"Sofie, when the new baby comes."

"Ohh, yea I think she will. I mean we've spoken to her about it many times." Seth reasoned, not really too worried.

"I just don't want her to feel left out or abandoned, the new baby is going to need so much attention, what I don't want her to think we don't love her anymore." Summer sniffled and Seth had to keep from rolling his eyes. He usually dealt with at least one good cry from Summer a night, it didn't really phase him anymore.

"Sweetie listen to me, Sofia is a good girl, and she'll be fine. We'll be sure to include her in all the stuff with the baby and we can even take her out sometimes just her, and I have a feeling the baby will be like a living doll for her, how exciting!" Seth squealed, having success in trying to make Summer smile.

Seth smiled to himself when it appeared that Summer had finally settled and he could watch the movie in peace. That was until she called his name a few minutes later.

"Seth?"

"Yes Summer?" he asked, trying to hide his frustrated tone.

"I'm sleepy," she whined.

With a sigh Seth stood from the couch to help her up and they made their way up the stairs and into the bedroom.

With one last glance into Sofia's room Seth settled into bed and wrapped an arm around Summer who was already drifting off.

"Nite Sum I love you."

"Love you too." She muttered.

A/N: S this is a little idea I had that I hope to continue, let me know what you think!