Title: Prom Queen

Summary: A new guy comes to the OC from Australia and he's bound to rock the relationships. So who's going to end up his Prom date? Not for SethSummer lovers. Anna comes in a bit later. SummerNew Guy and a bit of SethAnna and the smallest portion of RyanMarissa.

Pairing: SummerTom, SethAnna, RyanMarissa

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the OC characters. I only own Tom and Tina.

Chapter 1: Mr. Blue Eyes

Summer and Seth were arguing about whether or not Seth would look better with a cleft in his chin. Summer argued that it would make him look smart, older and wiser. Seth retaliated that Michael Jackson also thought that and look where he was. All of a sudden Summer stopped in mid-rant and stood up.

"What? What? Did I say something?" Seth asked. Summer silenced him with an annoyed,

"Shhh! My senses are tingling."

"Uh Summer, that's meant to be a bad thing." Summer looked around and Seth stood up and attempted to follow her gaze. In the end he settled on looking at her strangely. She seemed to 'sniff' the air and then looked around and saw what she was searching for.

"There." She hissed to Seth and hit him in the chest, she acted as if she'd spotted an endangered bird.

"What?" Seth asked in an exaggerated whisper.

"Fresh meat at 3 o'clock." Seth's face contorted into confusion and then he shook his head. Poor guy, he thought. Whoever he was, because unlike what Summer seemed to think she wasn't looking in the direction of '3 o'clock'.

Summer looked at his confused face and rolled her eyes in frustration. She grabbed his face and turned it to her interpretation of 3 o'clock. Standing there was a tanned guy laughing with a girl. Tina or something. The guy had electric blue eyes and blonde hair that went halfway down his eyes and (at the back) halfway down his neck.

To Summer everything seemed to go in slow motion as he was laughing at some lame joke and then he spotted her. He stopped laughing and stopped smiling but his eyes showed his intense interest. Intense blue and intense interest are a very good (and very cute) combination.

As their eyes connected Summer felt as if she'd been taken away to a different place. An exotic down to earth place, Australia maybe. Sitting in the sun, soaking it up and feeling that warm feeling that she got here when she tanned. Maybe Bondi. The Gold Coast was so overrated.

She snapped out of it when Seth asked,

"What is it Summer?" She turned to him but couldn't speak. She decided just to turn back to Mr. Electric Blue Eyes. She saw that he'd gotten rid of the other girl and was now walking towards her. She found that she couldn't turn away, she was captured by his eyes. They were so cool, friendly, nice, protective and...sexy.

As they kept their eye contact he managed to bump into a few people on the way to where Summer was standing. Summer giggled and Mr. Blue Eyes smiled at her brightly. He dodged another student and finally made it to where Summer was standing he just stood there. The sexual tension was unbelievably strong and Summer could feel it like a heat wave.

They were about a metre away from each other and both of them wanted to close it. Summer could see the want in his eyes and she knew that the same thing was reflected in hers. She could see that the hesitation was over and that he was making his move when...

"Hi I'm Seth Cohen." Seth cut in with an out held hand. Mr. Blue Eyes and Summer kept eye contact a second longer before he broke away to move his eyes to Seth's face and he shook his hand.

"Hi, I'm Tom. Tom Chase. I'm new here." They both let go and Seth looked at him,

"Yeah, haven't seen you around before. I guess that's the reason." Tom smiled at him, unsurely. Seth smiled back and then reached behind him to grab hold of Summer's arm and drag her next to him.

"This my girlfriend. Summer." He stressed the word girlfriend but seemed to add her name on as only an after thought. Summer held out her hand and Tom held it to his lips. Summer giggled again. There was something about Tom that made her relax. And it wasn't just his eyes. It was also his laid back attitude and his other gorgeous looks. Everything about him just put her completely at ease.

It was, on the other hand, a completely different experience for Seth. He thought that Tom was reasonably okay, or he would've if he wasn't hitting on his girlfriend. Jealousy was not Seth's best trait.

"So where are you from Tom, Tom Chase?" Summer asked in a bemused tone.

"Well, I'm from Australia. Bondi in Sydney to be exact."

"Bondi Beach?" Summer asked, slightly surprised that she was thinking of Bondi when she first saw him.

"Yeah, you know of it?" Summer nodded,

"I want to go there. I've heard that it's a good place to get a tan."

"Yeah, it is. I mean, it's crowded but it's a good place to get a tan. Even though I reckon you've got a good tan already." Tom grinned at her and Summer smiled back. She was about to say something but Seth decided to cut in on the little grinning fest.

"So are you this Aussie surfie guy?" Tom moved his eyes to Seth but kept the grin on his face,

"Yeah."

"Hey that's great man. I can take you to the beach and we can try out the Californian waves. See if they're gnarly enough for you." Tom kept his grin but the underlying threat that was so obvious in Seth's voice made his forehead crease with a mixture of worry/concern/imagination of what was to come. Seth's own face showed no sign as he just had his normal smile on his face.

(Jealous and Seth are almost contradictions. Except for when it comes to Summer. In the next chapter Tom and Summer get some quality time together and he explains a bit and reflects back on the 'surfing session' he and Seth had.)