Under An Orange Sky
This is just an idea I had that I wanted to go with, I'm not really sure what I have planned for this story as of yet. Feedback would be great, as would ideas if you have any. I'll take anything with a grain of salt and consideration. Thanks for reading and enjoy.
Chapter One: Everything I Knew
Seth sat lazily hunched forward, his head propped up on his left hand with his eyes locked on a head of brown hair. His thoughts were running wild with his imagination, and he found it difficult to think or pay attention when she was in any class with him.
"Mr. Cohen do you know why the Indians attacked the pilgrims?" The class waited patiently for Seth to answer, but he had no idea the teacher was talking to him
"Mr. Cohen?" Mrs. Meyer said growing irritated."Huh?" Seth snapped out of his daze, and his left arm gave out causing his face hit the desk. He laughed it off along with the rest of the class, and saw the brown haired girl turn for a brief moment, they're eyes met for a fraction of a second.
"Mr. Cohen I'm waiting." Mrs. Meyer said.
"Well," He asked sitting up in his seat, "It's probably because the pilgrims wouldn't share any of their turkey. I'd attack people too if I couldn't have my turkey." The class erupted into laughter, while Seth shot them all a cheesy smile.
"I'd like to speak to you after class Seth." Mrs. Meyer said crossing her arms.
The bell rang and all of the students left the history class in a hurry, all of them except for Seth. He packed his bag, swung it over his shoulder, and marched up to the teachers desk, humming the star wars theme.
"You wanted to talk to me Mrs. M?"
"Yes I would really appreciate it if you'd stop disrupting my classroom."
"I'm hurt here," Seth said holding his hands to his heart, "I'm your star pupil."
"Be that as it may, you are still a disturbance. Just because you get good grades does not mean you can sleep in my class. I'd still like you to pay attention."
"Okay I'll work on it." Seth said walking towards the door.
"And Seth?"
"Yeah" He said turning around.
"You should really stop making it obvious, since the beginning of the year all you do is stare at her, make a move already." Mrs. Meyer said with a laugh.
"If only it was that easy." He mumbled walking out of the classroom.
Seth made his way down the hall, and slapped his hand down on Ryan's shoulder.
"Hey buddy, how was school?" Seth questioned watching Ryan stuff things into his bag.
"You know how it goes." Ryan replied not being one for much words. The two walked down the hall and into the parking lot where Marissa stood next to the range rover.
"Hey queer" Luke called to Seth in a joking manner.
"Ah Luke I swear you have to stop using that line." Seth said laughing along with him.
"Are you guys going to Holly's party tonight?" Marissa questioned when the three of them reached her.
"It's Friday night of course we are." Luke said.
"I don't know if I'm up for it." Ryan mumbled looking at Marissa, "But if you want to go I'm in."
"Let's go for a little bit." Marissa said looping her arm through Ryan's.
"Dude you are so whipped." Seth and Luke chimed in making whipping sounds.
When Luke left, the three of them pilled into the range rover.
"So Marissa…" Seth said from the back.
"So Seth…." She said copying his tone.
"I've noticed that you've been dating Ryan for well over a week and you've dare I say it never brought your best friend over to hang."
"That's because she's busy."
"Busy doing what?"
"Does someone have a little crush on my best friend?" Marissa said giggling.
"He's liked her since like the third grade." Ryan put in causing Seth to punch him in the arm. "Dude shut up."
"Have you really Seth?"
"No I don't like her. I just thought it was weird that she never hung out with us cause your always at our house."
"Well she might go to Holly's party tonight."
"Really?" Seth said trying to hold in his excitement.
"Yeah, but I dunno. I'm not sure."
Ryan parked the car outside the house and he and Marissa headed straight for the pool house while Seth made his way to his bedroom. Taking his polo off, he pulled a plain white t-shirt over his head, grabbed his skateboard, slipped his sunglasses on, and plugged his earphones into his ears. He walked the short distance to the pier and began to skate around the boardwalk. The wind whipped through his hair, and he was lost in his own little world. Occasionally he would wave at the numerous people he knew, but for the most part he ignored a lot of people.
His board hit a rock and he fell forward onto the cement. He heard flip flops rush towards him. "Are you okay?" She asked. His breath got in his throat as he realized who it was. He lay there unable to move, frozen at the beautiful girl in front of him. She held a hand out to help him up and he gratefully accepted it. 'Hi I'm your future husband', 'Hi I'm the boy that's gonna sweep you off your feet'. Those were the first things he had wanted to say to her.
"I'm uh I'm um…"
"Seth right?" She said giving him a smile.
"Ew your all sweaty." She continued, with a laugh.
"Yeah…" He stammered, she had this effect on him that he couldn't control. 'God she knows my name' Seth thought.
"Well I'm Su-"
"Summer!" A guy from behind Seth called, he walked up towards Summer ignoring Seth and pulled her into a big hug. "Hi Brent." Summer said when he released her. The boy clad in Abercrombie talked to Summer completely oblivious to the fact that Seth was even there.
Seth had wanted to say something to him, but he was one of the many boys that hated his guts for no apparent reason. And the fact that Brent was talking to his Summer only made him angrier. But she wasn't his, not yet anyway so he had no reason to be upset. Putting his glasses back on, he plugged his ear buds in, and made his way towards his board. Kicking it up towards him, he grabbed it and held it under his arm. Turning to look at Summer one last time before making his way home. She offered him an apologetic smile, before continuing to talk to Brent.
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Seth swirled the remains in his cup before downing it in one gulp. He had a slow buzz building, and made his way towards the booze table. He held the newly filled cup up to his mouth and looked around the room, he stopped drinking when he saw her walk in with Brent and his friends. Brent met Seth's eyes and gave him an mischievous smile. He grabbed Summer's hand and made together they made their way towards Seth.
"Hey fag, what're you doing here?" Brent said parading the fact that he was holding Summer's hand. Not many people knew that Seth liked Summer, Brent was one of them though.
"He's talking to you." One of Brent's buddies said coming up to them.
"I have ears, I can hear thank you very much." Seth said sarcastically, downing the rest of his beer. He glanced at Summer and noted how amazing she looked.
"What did you say?" Brent yelled looking for a reason to fight.
"You look really nice." Seth said looking at Summer directly, before walking away from them.
When Seth was outside he saw people milling around on the sand all happily getting drunk. He felt a pull at his collar, and turned looking at Brent with a group of his friends behind him. "What do you want?" Seth questioned. Brent didn't respond and collided his fist with Seth's face. Blood started dripping down his chin, and the pain from the blow was continued only this time to his stomach. Gaining all of his strength Seth pushed Brent back. "What's this about?" He yelled wiping the blood with the back of his hand.
A small crowd of people had surrounded them. Ryan and Luke came up and stood next to Seth. "Come on Seth walk away." Ryan whispered trying to get him to leave.
"Yeah Seth why don't you listen to your little boyfriend."
"Hey Brent come on." Luke said getting between the two.
"You know Luke I was cool with you until you became friends with him. Isn't it weird though? Your ex is dating him." Brent yelled gesturing towards Ryan.
"And what Brent?" Seth called pushing past Ryan and Luke, "It's about the same thing it's always about, isn't it? Amy left you for me and I didn't want her. So what'd she do? She went back to you, till she cheated on you right? Then you dumped her. Oh wait she dumped you. Are you two together again?" Seth sneered getting right in Brent's face. Brent shoved Seth and Seth shoved him right back. "Are you gonna tell me what this is about or am I right?" Seth remarked.
"I'm not with her fag, cause I've got Summer now." Brent said with a big smile. When he heard those words he lost it. He punched Brent in the face, which caused him to stumble backwards but before Seth could continue Ryan and Luke grabbed onto his arms and pulled him away.
"Let me go!" He yelled kicking at the sand.
"Seth calm down, you've got blood on your shirt."
"Seth what happened?" Marissa asked running towards them.
"Did she hear him?" Seth questioned calming down.
"She who? Hear what?"
"Summer, did she hear Brent?"
"No we were inside, when we got outside all we saw was you hitting Brent. What happened?"
"Nothing forget it." Seth said pulling away from Ryan and Luke and walking through the sand towards his house.
I guess I have some explaining to do. Seth is popular but he's not popular popular, he is well liked though. Ryan came into the Cohen house the same way he did in the show, Luke is friends with them, Marissa and Summer are best friends, and Summer is one of those popular popular girls but she doesn't party as much as she does in Season One, she's more I guess in a way more of a homebody. Anyways I'm still working everything out in my head. Feedback would be great!