" we can't be friends, but i'd like to just pretend. " mallory hart and seth cohen have been best friends since birth. living in newport was not an easy social scene to keep up with, so mallory and seth often kept to themselves. being completely ignored by the popular kids in newport was their daily, up until ryan atwood stepped into the scene. the new kid living with the cohens completely kick started the two's social life. now mallory must adjust to the new norm that is parties and sharing seth cohen with summer roberts. ( seth cohen x oc! ) the oc fanfic.