Summer and her longtime boyfriend, Matt, are off to hit the ski slopes, but what happens when her ski instructor, Seth Cohen, takes her by surprise? And what secret does he have hidden? AU S/S.

Hey! So I have decided to start a new story that I am excited about. It is AU and obviously S/S- as it said in the story description. I hope that this story can be and stay original so if you have anything that you would like to suggest, I would love to hear it. Flashbacks are in italics!

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Chapter 1

"Come on! Come on! Come on!" Summer Robert's yelled to her boyfriend of seven years, Matt, as she stood in the hallway of their home, nestled up in a quiet, but expensive Los Feliz neighborhood.

Matt poked his head down over the staircase and laughed and told her, "one minute!"

"No! Game Creek Chalet is calling!"

Summer and Matt were heading to the airport for their first ever ski trip together. Up in the small town on Vail, Colorado, stood Game Creek Chalet- their soon to be home for three weeks. They were both taking that amount of time off from work for they had not been on a vacation together for about two years.

"I know it is, but we have to get to the airport first!"

"And were going to be late if you don't get your ass down here!"

"Sum, calm down. Everything is going to be fine! The plane doesn't take off for like four hours!"

Summer grunted and crossed her arms across her chest and sat down on one of the many bags of luggage that were set in the hallway, crossing her legs in a fashion that she only did when she was being impatient.

She looked into the family room and saw their Christmas tree decked out in lights and ornaments. Ornaments from their childhoods, others from past trips, and others from when they were out shopping together. She smiled as she looked at one imparticular.

"Sweetie, come on! We don't want to be late!"

Five-year-old Summer ran down the decorated staircase of her families home. She was going to

see Santa at the mall today. Her tiny hands grasping the thoroughly thought out six page list that she planned on giving Santa- just in case he forgot anything that she wanted.

"Okay, lets go!" She smiled up at her dad and he smiled back seeing her toothless grin.

They walked out the glass front door and jumped into her father's Mercedes SL500 that would

take them to the mall.

Summer hopped out of the car and grasped her father's hand as he led them to where they needed to go.

They got into the line and waited until it was finally her turn. She looked at her dad for reassurance and he nodded at her as she ran up and pushed herself up on Santa's lap, telling him each thing that she wanted for Christmas that year and how much of a good girl she had been.

She waved for her father to come up for the picture that would be taken with Santa. Neil Roberts walked over after the picture was taken and requested that it be put on an ornament- one that they could color together when they got home.

Summer remembered that day like it was yesterday. She got up an walked over to it, fingering the water color paint that adorned it.

She turned around after hearing footsteps coming down the stairs and smiled.

"You okay?"

"Yeah, I'm good."

"Good."

Matt placed two fingers under her chin and lifted her eyes to meet his. He carefully placed his lips upon hers and pulled back.

"Lets go!"

"Yep."

They picked up their bags and placed them in the car. Summer dashed around the house once more to make sure nothing was forgotten. Just as she was about to lock the door, she went over and turned on the Christmas tree lights and smiled.

Not only would this be their first ski trip together, it would also be their first Christmas out of their home.

"Ah! I'm so excited!" Summer squealed as Matt pulled out of the driveway.

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The cold wind of Vail swept through Seth Cohen's dark brown hair as he made his way down the cobblestone and lamp post decorated street. He tied his scarf around his neck tighter and buttoned the remaining buttons on his coat.

Chrismukkah. Seth's favorite time of year was sweeping through Vail. He smiled just thinking about it. Although it had been seven years since he had been back to Newport, or even talked to his family for that matter, nothing could get in the way of celebrating.

He was currently on his way to work- something that he was quite fond of. He never thought that he would be the skiing type, but when he trekked out to Colorado at the age of nineteen, he had surprised himself at how quickly he took it up. He had met many new people and they became the greatest friends he had ever had. During highschool, Seth had been more the loner type- preferring comic books to water polo and sailing to jet skiing. He had also never fully been accepted by his classmates, making his move to Colorado one hundred times easier.

He pulled open the door to the extravagant Game Creek Chalet, showing his ID to the woman at the front desk and made his way to the back room.

Seth opened his locker and shoved his backpack, coat, scarf, and gloves into it and walked over to the bulletin board to see who he would have a lesson with today. Jeffery Scott. 'Again? This is the third day in a row!' he thought to himself. He looked down the list, going farther down into the week and noticed a name that he had never seen. Friday: Summer Roberts. 'Should be interesting,' he thought again, 'Summer is defiantly not a winter-y name.' He grabbed his ski's and making his way outside.

"Cohen, hey!"

He turned around instinctively even before hearing the voice.

"Emily!" He smiled as he hugged her.

"How it been?"

"Its been good. How was your vacation?"

"It was good. But, surprisingly, I realized that I don't miss it here." Emily said, smiling.

"Well, I am just so glad to see how much I mean to you."

"I'm kidding," she paused, "or am I?"

"You'll regret saying that some day!" He shouted playfully over his shoulder as they both went

different ways to being their seemingly endless days of teaching.

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"Flight 5175. Last call for flight 5175," the announcer announced to the terminal.

"Yeah, yeah we're coming," Summer mumbled.

There had been a mix up at the security check with Summer and her bags. She could have sworn that she was aloud to bring on three carry-ons, but they had limited it to only two. She continued arguing with the security people while Matt took her bags and condensed the three to two, having to throw away different things that had probably been in her purse for well over a year.

She mumbled something incoherent as she gave the young man her ticket and began to board.

The plane ride had gone relatively fast. Summer had her iPod, some weekly tabloid magazines, and travel brochures of Came Creek Chalet. She read up on all the things to do but what she was most excited about her private ski lesson.

She took out her ear-plugs and looked out of the small rounded window and saw the snow cap mountains come into view. She reached over and shook Matt's arm as he had finally fallen asleep into a slumber.

"Matt, look!"

He slowly opened his eyes to see Summer's excited face.

"You look like a little kid on Christmas morning!" He said, smiling at her.

"I feel like it. Look out."

"That could be us out there on those mountains!"

Summer laughed and said, "I know!"

"Your going to get so good after this ski lesson. We may even be able to move to the 'black'

slopes."

"You wish."

"You wish too!"

"Whatev," Summer thought for a minute. " Wait, are the black diamonds on the black slopes?"

"Uh huh."

"Oh okay. Then I might want to do those."

Matt laughed again. "What changed your mind?"

"Remember two years ago when we watched the winter Olympics and we saw those skiers and snow boarders?"

"Yeah."

"Yeah. That's why. Actually, if I want to be able to go on those, I may need more than one ski lesson. Hope my ski instructor can put up with me that long."

"Okay. We can set up some more lessons when we get there."

"Okay, but go back to sleep. We will be there soon," Summer ordered him. "That way, when we get there, we can go right out!"

"Sounds like a plan."

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The plane started to descend about thirty minutes after Summer had told Matt to go back to sleep.

They quickly got off the plane and made it to baggage claim not wasting a single minute. Matt walked over to the car rentals and got the keys to the car while Summer got their numerous bags off of the carousel.

"Ready?" Matt asked.

"Yeah."

"Here, I got a cart for the bags."

Summer smiled and took his hand as they made their way out the car.

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"Emily, wait up!"

"Hey. How was the lesson today?"

"Not to shabby. Although, this is the guys third day in a row for a lesson and he's not getting any better."

"Bummer."

"Yeah. What about you?"

"Good. Ross is making some good strides. It's good to see when someone gets better."

"Yeah, it is. How old is he?"

"Four."

Seth laughed. "Yeah, if only Jeremy could make some strides. Hey! Maybe Ross could teach him a thing or two."

"You know, he probably could. Anyways, want to grab some lunch?"

"Sure. So do you have anyone knew this week?"

"Nope. All regulars. You?"

"Yeah, thankfully. Summer Roberts. First timer from what I can tell."

"Should be fun."

"Yeah, I hope. I need some fun around here."

"Don't we all."

Little did Seth Cohen know, fun would be coming in a small package.

... and so my new story begins!

I am so excited! Sorry that this chapter was relatively short, but I thought that it set up some good storylines for the future. Also, I felt like that conversation between Summer andMatt on the airplane was a little awkward, but I hope everyone liked it.

What to expect in the upcoming chapters:

-Seth and Summer meet for the first time.

-What will Seth reveal to Summer that he has never told anyone? And how will this make her see him in a new light?

-Summer tells Seth about her life and the different things that she has struggled through

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