This is a story about how do I see season 3.I do not like how things went on so I did this fanfic.Here are alson a lot of things about each of the characters reactions.The fanfic is mostly about Seth and Summer.Enjoy a whole new story about the time after Marissa dies!And please make some reviews to know if it worths writing next chapters.

P.S. - This was a quite short chapter but if you like it I will try to make the next chapters longer.

A TRAGEDY IN SO MANY HEARTS

CHAPTER 1

TEARS DO NOT COME EASY

1Seth Cohen hung up the phone. He had heard the sad news and he was more than shocked. A few hours ago, he said goodbye to her hoping he would see her again someday. And now, he didn't know what to do. He had never been in situations where he felt he needed to take charge. Seth had always been hiding behind someone stronger.

Before he decided what to do next, he took a moment to sit down on his bed and reflect on what he was really feeling. She had never been very close to him. While they were growing up, she had always been the girl next door and nothing more than that. In fact, she had always kind of ignored him, gone on like he didn't even exist. However, how could he really blame her? It seemed as though that's the way everyone handled him.

He remembered how hard it was to hug her and say goodbye. In the last year, she had become one of his best friends. But still, they were not so very close. In fact, Summer had made them hug. They couldn't do it on their own.

From the first moment he found out she would be leaving, he knew he would miss her. Marissa Cooper was a part of Seth's life. They had been living next door to each other all their lives. Her father had even been his mother's boyfriend once. But that didn't really matter.

Seth thought about something she had said when they had been talking earlier. She said that if Ryan had never come to Orange County, she probably wouldn't have ever spoken to Seth. Ever. And he was pretty damn sure that was true. Without Ryan, that would have been Seth's life.

Seth laid his head in his hands. He felt too weak to do anything, but he knew there was something important he had to do. For a moment, he felt like maybe if he could just sleep for the night, the whole mess would just go away and the weight would fall from his shoulders. But he realized that was impossible.

He felt like he couldn't cry. Maybe only one little tear, but nothing more. It was not the time to cry. He still couldn't really accept what had happened, and he struggled to imagine what life would be like without her. A long time would pass before they would be able to return to normalcy. Tough times were ahead. Marissa was loved by many in Orange County, and many hearts would be broken.

Seth stood up from his bed and went to the kitchen. He heard laughing and thought how unsuitable that was. This was no time for laughing. But then he remembered that the other part of the Cohen family did not yet know anything about what had happened. He was going to have to tell them.

Seth walked into the room and leaned back against a wall, staring at his parents. They noticed the look he had on his face and stopped laughing. They knew something was going on, and Seth could not believe he was the one to have to tell them. His family loved Marissa as one of their own.

As they looked into Seth's eyes, Kirsten and Sandy Cohen knew a tragedy had occurred but they could not really guess what it was.

"What's going on, Seth? You don't look so well," said Kirsten. Her eyes were looking intently into her son's.

"I'm not sure you're prepared for this," said Seth. He remembered how his mother had acted when she found out her father was dead. The case with Marissa was a whole new story.

"Something happen to you?" asked Sandy.

"No. With someone else, Seth?"

"Mom is right." The next words remained long in his throat before they were spoken. "With Marissa."

"Did she make it to the plane?" asked Kirsten.

"No, she didn't, Mom. Marissa and Ryan got into a car accident. Ryan is okay, but Marissa... She's dead." As Seth said this, he felt the same shivers he had felt the first moment Ryan told him the news.

"Oh no," said Kirsten. Her throat was dry and she could hardly speak. Sandy just sat silently in his chair. There didn't seem to be anything suitable for him to say.

"Yeah," said Seth, and he left the room. He stood against the wall outside the kitchen waiting to hear someone say something, but no one did. Words would not come, but rather were replaced with tears. And tears could not be heard.

Kirsten began to cry. Sandy stood up and hugged her, hoping to take away her pain, but it seemed that he could not stop even his.

Seth felt like his mother's crying was tearing apart his own soul. It was making something deep inside of him come out. It was the pain which was trying to get out of him as tears. But he was trying to stop it. Seth had to be strong. He had to go see Summer soon, and when he did, he had to be strong in front of her. He had to try to protect her, just as his father was doing for his mother.

He felt like he couldn't breathe, and then there it was. The first tear from his eyes. It was so warm and he felt it on his cheek. It was salty as it fell to his lips. The same taste he had experienced so many times growing up alone.

He just felt so weak. He wanted to hide somewhere like he used to when he was a child trying to get away from the boys at school who thought so little of him.

He went back into his room. His mother's cries were way too much for him; he couldn't take it. He couldn't take anyone crying. Not that he was much of a tough guy. He was just too weak to stand tears.

The hardest thing was coming up. He had to go and see Summer. If she knew what happened she would need his support.