I don't not own the OC. If I did I would not be writing this right now.

this is a seth/Marissa story set three year in the future. What happen after three years of one of the greatest friendship turn into a chance at true love. Please R&R.

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Seth sat down on his skateboard at the end of the driveway. He had just spent the past two hours skating around the development practicing some of his skating moves. He knew he should be getting ready for the fundraiser, but skating was more fun.

"You know, if you are planning on being my date tonight you better go get ready soon." He turned around to look Marissa in the face. He noticed that she was already dressed for the events.

"Oh wow you look," he couldn't seem to get the right word out of his mouth. "You look great," he finally said after a minute or so.

"Thank you, Seth," she said. "I would say the same thing, but there no way you going to the fundraiser like that," she said with somewhat of a smile on her face. There was no hiding the great friendship that the two of them had formed over the past three years. As much as she knew he should be in his house almost ready she also knew he was going to wait to the last possible minute.

"Come on Cooper, isn't this look the newest fashion of the season?" he asked with a hint of sarcasm in his voice as he stood up from the skateboard.

"Oh yeah Cohen," she said with a little laugh. "Now go get ready before I take your skateboard away from you."

"Fine," he said as he tried to act like he was hurt over the fact that he had to go get ready. "I'll be over to pick you up in about thirty minutes," Seth said before he walked into the house.

He put his skateboard by the front door hoping to be able to use it again tonight, but he knew that Marissa would most likely want to go the party tonight after the fundraiser. He walked up to his room, and took a quick shower. As he was getting dressed, putting his tux on, he heard a knock at his door, "Come in," he said as he stood in front of the mirror trying to make sure his tie was right.

"Hey," Ryan said as he walked into the room. "You're almost ready to go?" he asked.

"Almost man," he said before he picked up his jacket that was on. He looked in to mirror one more time to make sure everything was just right. "You're sure you don't want to come tonight?" he asked as he walked out of the room.

"I'm sure, maybe I stop by the after party tonight," Ryan said.

"That would be great," Seth added as he ran down the stairs. He knew that Ryan was busy with college, so he didn't push the issue with him. "The party is going to be at Summer's house," Seth said as he grabbed his skateboard to throw in jeep.

"Okay, I'll try to stop by," Ryan said.

Seth said his goodbye and made sure to put his skateboard in the back of his jeep and that he had a change of clothes back there. There was no way he planned on staying in this suit for more then a few hours.

He walked over to Marissa's house. He almost just walked right into the house like he was used to doing, but decided that since it was a date tonight he should knock. He knocked on the door and waited for someone to answer it. He was shocked once again when Marissa opened the front door. While he had gotten ready she had finished her hair, and makeup making her look even more beautiful. Seth never noticed how beautiful she really was until this moment. "Say something Seth," Marissa said.

"Oh, hi," was all he was able to get out of his mouth.

"Hi," she said back with a smile on her face.

"Are you ready?" He asked.

"Just about," she said as she walked back into the house and he followed her in. "Just need to grab my bag for afterwards, and my pocketbook," she said.

Seth noticed her bag for after the fundraiser and picked it up so she didn't have to carry it. "I got this for you," he said as he looked at her. There was something in the air as they looked at each other, they was a spark that could have been noticed had anyone else been in the room with them.

"Thank you Seth," she said as they walked out of the house. They walked over to his car without a word being said between the two of them. It was no doubt that tonight was going to be fun.

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The night went on like a normal night. This week's fundraiser was an art show that was to give money to school that was less off then the rest, in order to better that art program. Marissa stood in front of this one picture for a while as she tried to figure out what the artist had wanted to say with it. She felt someone walked up behind her. She knew it was Seth so she leaned in towards him. "What do you think this picture means?" she asked him.

Seth just looked at it for a few minutes as he tried to figure out what was meant by it. "I think the artist want to take a serious issue and make it something that we could take easy. See how at first the painter use darker colors to start with?" He asked as he pointed to a spot on the picture. Marissa just moved her head to say yes. "I think that means a deeper subject, but as he moved around with the paint he decided to take this subject and make it not so deep. So he took a lighter shade of that red and went from there," he said. Marissa just stood there for a few more minutes as she took the whole thing in. "How in the world did you every figure that out?" she asked him.

"Between my mom and Ryan, I have learned more about the arts then I sometime care about. I remember one day we all went out to see this new painter who had done something like this, and like you I was drawn to what it meant. My mom and Ryan noticed me looking at it trying to figure out a meaning so we ended up sitting there for a while trying to figure it out until we came up with that meaning," Seth said.

"That sounds like so much fun," she said as she turned to look at him. They felt the spark between them once again tonight, but instead of just not even given it a second thought both of them just allowed the spark to come over them. They were about to lean in for a kiss when Summer come over to them and said, "Come on guys let get out of this place and go have some fun."

They moment was broken between the two of them, and Seth was the first one to speak. "That sounds like fun," he said with a smile on his face.

"Yeah," Marissa finally said as she turned to look at her friend Summer.

"Cool," she said. "Meet you at my beach house in thirty minutes." Summer added in before she walked away to find other people.

Seth and Marissa didn't say a word as they walked out to the car. Neither one of them realized how long they were at the event until they walked outside and noticed that most of the cars were already gone.

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