He has all kinds of time and that's why he's prepared to wait. Knowing the eventuality of their situation – their self-imposed drought – makes it a lot easier. It doesn't make him happy to think that she's lonely but the fact that she chooses to remedy this with him lifts his mood considerably. Even as she pours her heart out and he burns his fingers on her acid – misdirected.

Momentarily he believes that his lips could relieve the pain but it's a fleeting thought and rationality strips it down. If she could only stop talking then maybe she would see the look in his eyes, maybe she sees it now. Her bent brow, furrowed in thought, says otherwise – he's not surprised or disappointed.

He knows that this is not his time but one day when she tires of having two boyfriends, one new and one real, she'll let him know. She's never one to turn down confrontation, and neither is he when it forms their only physical contact. Her tiny fingers touching his arm – making his skin itch.

Right now her shoulders shake before him – but he's not allowed to touch, to initiate. It happens every break-up and he casually wonders when Marissa stopped listening and he became the main confidante.

It isn't any less awkward than when they themselves first broke up but he's willing to believe that it's all she's got.

As he listens intently little shaking fingers seek out solace round his neck. Her face digs into the cotton of his shirt – dampening quickly. Idly he wonders if maybe this time she's ready. Ready to stop pretending and admit that their still something in some form.

She isn't. But he expects it.

She doesn't like to admit that she's wrong. And every time he asks her Summer asks when he's going to realise they're over. He would be willing to accept their ending – if there was one – but Seth doesn't think that they'll ever really end. This is just a self-imposed drought, but ultimately every drought ends.

His fingers comfort through her clothes and she mourns another failed relationship while he muses when it will rain again in Newport.