Summer woke up the next morning with the sun shining brightly in her eyes. She had a terrible crick in her neck, and for the life of her she couldn't figure out why. She opened her eyes to find her surroundings different than usual. She wasn't lying in her bed; instead she was lying on a couch. Summer brushed her hair out of her eyes and sat up only to find Seth Cohen lying on the opposite side of the couch. Oh My God, we fell asleep here last night!
"Seth! Seth wake up" she said hitting him violently.
"Come on mom five more minutes?" he asked still half sleeping.
"Ass! Wake up!" she kept violently hitting him until he opened his eyes. Seth looked around the living room with a confused look on his face.
"Summer? When did you get here," he questioned with a smile on his face.
"Asshat, I've been here all night!"
"Wait, we didn't…" Seth trailed off, then he looked down to make sure his pants were still intact.
"No, we fell asleep watching the movie, at least that's what I think."
"What time is it?"
Summer went into the kitchen to look at the clock. "It's six. School doesn't start for another two hours, I should probably go."
"No, stay!" he said. Summer turned around to give him a puzzled look. "I mean why should you go all the way back to your house when you could just stay here?"
"Let me think, oh yeah, I have parents probably wandering where I am right now."
"Just tell them you stayed at a friend's house and you forgot to call them."
"One problem with that plan: I don't have any friends."
"Well, I thought that we were friends remember?"
Summer smiled at the thought of her and Seth Cohen being friends. She sighed and then rejoined Seth on the couch. He smiled at her and then she rolled her eyes at him.
"I guess I could stay. We are friends and all, that is if you talk to me at school."
"I will, don't worry."
Summer rolled her eyes again at Seth's comment. She didn't know why she was so attracted to him. Maybe it was because many of the girls at school didn't get to see this side of Seth. With Summer he showed his funny side, he didn't show that to any other girls at school. Even his best friend, Ryan, didn't know he was funny.
"By the way you look really nice this morning," he added.
"Shut up you ass!" she yelled playfully at him. She knew she didn't look good. Her hair was messed up and she had no makeup on. But with Seth she felt comfortable not doing her hair and putting makeup on.
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One hour and three bowls of cereal later, the two were sitting on the couch watching old reruns of Beverly Hill, 90210.
"This is my favorite, the one where the graduate," Summer smiled while looking at Seth.
"Hmm, Donna Martin graduates, who would have thought?"
"Shut up, this is a good episode!"
Summer went back into the kitchen to look at the clock. As she walked to the clock, she saw a picture of Seth at his bar mitzvah. She grabbed the picture off the desk and brought it into the living room.
"So, I see this is you at your bar mitzvah," she said as she sat next to him.
"Yeah, that was a pretty good party. Everyone danced to That's What Friends Are For, manthat was one of the best nights of my life. Everyone was there, I invited the entire school."
"You didn't invite me," she said.
"Oh, wow, I didn't know that," Seth lowered his head and stared at the floor.
"I just remember everyone talking about it. How everyone was so excited that they had an invitation, I just kept waiting for mine, but it never came. I even sat next to in homeroom that year. You barley acknowledged me, but you did ask me for a piece of gum one time," she said quietly.
"I didn't know I was that mean to you, I'm really sorry Summer."
"Well, on the first day of school you laughed at me when I fell. Then you told me to not talk to you in Calculus, then you completely ignored when I smiled at you during lunch."
"Summer, I'm so sorry. I didn't realize that."
"Don't worry about it, it's in the past. You can't do anything about it, you can't change the past. I'm gonna take a shower, and I guess I'll wear the same thing I did yesterday, I wasn't expecting to sleep over."
"I'll see you when you get down."
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Thirty minutes later Summer can trudging down the stairs she walked into the kitchen where she saw Seth sipping on coffee and enjoying the comic he bought the other day.
"What are you reading, Wait—are you reading a comic book?" She snatched the book out his hands and held it above his head. Seth stood up and grabbed it from her hands as she laughed.
"Well, they're not so bad after all," he said while winking at her.
"I'm gonna go ahead and go to school, I guess I'll see you there?"
"Yeah, I'm just going to come later." Seth watched Summer walk out his front door and a smile crept across his face.
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Summer tapped her pencil during calculus. It was almost the end of class and Seth had still not showed up to class. Summer started to get worried thinking something might have happened to him on the way to school. She herd the bell ring and immediately made her way up to Mr. Johnson's desk.
"Excuse me, Mr. Johnson; do you know where Seth is? We have a tutoring session today."
"Well, it shows me on the computer that he never showed up today."
"Ok, well thanks anyway," she said with a half-smile on her face.
Summer walked out the room wandering where Seth was. She knew he wasn't sick, she had seen him just that morning. Maybe he's skipping, that would be just like him! He's probably doesn't want to face me today, that asshole! Just as Summer was silently cursing Seth, Luke walked by.
"Luke, wait up!" she yelled, but he didn't seem to be stopping. He just walked right by her. She finally ran far enough to catch up with him.
"What do you want Summer?" he asked grimly.
"Luke what is wrong with you?"
"Like you don't know. Ryan finally asked Marissa out. She's been acting cheerful this entire week; she even talked to me in anatomy."
"Luke, that's great!"
"Summer, did you not listen? Ryan asked her out, my chances with her are officially blown. Some advice I gave. Just go for it, you know that's the stupidest shit I've ever heard. Look, I got to go to class. Bye Sum."
Summer now knew why Marissa had talked to her the other day. She was in a good mood because Ryan asked her out. Summer just stood in the middle of the hallway thinking about what Luke had said. She shrugged her shoulders and then went down the hall to her next class still wondering where Seth was.
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Summer stood at her locker after school deciding what to bring home. She was still upset at what Luke had told her, but Luke never made his move. He didn't follow his own advice, he wanted Marissa to make the first move, he was too afraid of being rejected. Summer closed her locker and headed out to the parking lot.
Once Summer was home, she threw her books on the kitchen table and headed into her bedroom. She wasn't supposed to be at Seth's house until five. She couldn't wait to curse him out for leaving her today, plus she wanted to know where he was.
Summer walked into her bedroom and picked Princess Sparkle off her nightstand. She got out one of her brushed and began brushing the horse's hair. I feel like I'm six years old again. She needed to do something to get her mind off of Seth. She knew if she sat around the house and waited until five she would go crazy. Plus brushing Princess Sparkle's hair relaxed her.
She then became quickly bored of brushing her horse's hair, and she reached under her bed to read one of her comics. She tried to concentrate on the plot, but all she could think about was Seth Cohen. Why didn't he come to school today? I hope nothing happened to him. She was beginning to get worried about Seth. She immersed herself in her comic until she finally looked at her clock and saw that it was already four-thirty.
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Summer breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Seth's car was in the driveway undamaged. At least he didn't get in a car accident. She then saw Seth close the blinds to his room and wave at her. That ass! He skipped school because of me! Summer marched up to the doorway and pounded in as hard as she could, but no one answered.
"Cohen, I know you can hear me! Now open this door!" she yelled while still pounding on the door.
Seth walked up to the door with a content look on his face. Summer couldn't believe he was being like this, all happy and smiling.
"Shalom!" Seth said to her.
"Ass!" she said while pushing him. "You blow me off school today and then you answer the door yelling 'Shalom'? Wait—are you wearing a Yakama?"
"Precisely, now will you please close your eyes and follow me?" he asked. Summer rolled her eyes and then closed them. She stuck out her hand and Seth grabbed it while leading her.
"Now open your eyes!" he said. Summer looked around the living room confused. She saw that there were table set up and a podium at the front of the room. She turned around to Seth with a puzzled look on her face.
"Um, what the hell is this?"
"Here," he said handing her an envelope ", I'm sorry it's a few years late."
Summer tore open the envelope to see that it was an invitation. She furrowed her eyebrows until she read the invitation:
You're invited!
What: Seth Cohen's bar mitzvah
Where: His house
When: Today
"I'm sorry it was so late, it must have gotten lost in the mail. Those damn postal workers can never get anything out on time."
Summer didn't say anything. She just ran up and hugged Seth.
"Seth, this is the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me. Thanks!"
"Now if you will please take your seat, I will begin my reading of the Torah."
While Summer sat at listened to Seth, she couldn't help but laugh. The entire time he was reading he was stumbling and mispronouncing all of the words. But it didn't matter to Summer, it was the fact that he had skipped school to plan a bar mitzvah just for her. Once Seth was finished she clapped and hugged him again.
"I think you need to brush up on your Hebrew skills," Summer joked.
"Yeah, well it takes a lot of work to become a man—twice." Seth grabbed the remote off the coffee table and turned the stereo on. The stereo started playing That's what friends are for.
"I'm sorry you got to miss this song the first time, it's a bar mitzvah staple. Summer, would you like to dance?"
"God, Cohen that is so cheesy!"
"Well that is how I get all the girls; I use the cheesy Cohen charm," he said to her smiling. Seth grabbed Summer and pulled her close to him. As they were dancing Summer turned to Seth.
"Thanks for this Seth, it was really nice."
"Hey can I tell you a secret?"
"Yeah…"
"Last night I saw you fall asleep, but I didn't wake you up."
"Why?"
"Because I wanted you to stay."
Summer didn't say anything. She just moved her body closer to Seth and closed her eyes, and for once in her life things seemed perfect.
A/N: this was definitely my favorite chapter to write. I loved to write this one so much! Anyway read and review and check out my other story The Last Five Years!
