Chapter 7 - The Green Monster
Summer decided that sitting around being upset about Seth all the time wasn't going to work for her. Especially since she had spent majority of her first year of college crying over him, her second year missing him, her third year being angry at him, and her fourth year working her hardest to forget him. She had a new life now, and a wonderful group of people to share it with. Her and Logan decided to go for a nice dinner at a new restaurant down the street from their loft.
"Awe, babe! This is so cute." Summer squealed as she sat down in their booth.
Logan grabbed her butt-cheek and kiss her neck. "Logan!"
"Haha, sorry baby." Logan said, acting like it was normal.
Summer and Logan sat and flirted like they usually did, somewhat fooling around in the booth. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Leah walk in by herself, Summer motioned for her to come over, but Leah nodded it off, and mouthed that she was meeting someone. She had some kind of weird look on her face, but Summer brushed it off, remember this was her night with her man.
"Hey Seth." Leah said sitting down in a booth across the restaurant.
"Hey... what's up?" He asked her.
"Oh you know, trying to hide from Summer." Leah said, looking around a plant.
"What? Summer's here. I didn't see her when I came in... but yeah oh well." He said, playing it off like he didn't care she was there.
"Yeah... it is oh well because you know... she's with her fiancee. So... let's just chill out. Because me playing the role of the best friend, I'm supposed to hate you too. Remember?" Leah chuckled.
Seth kind of chocked on his drink. The word fiancee had hit him harder than a baseball bat to the face. He had seen the ring, but he kept wanting to believe that it was some jewelry she really liked to flaunt. "Yeah... a fiancee." Leah said again.
"Yeah, my girlfriend from home, Jane.. I gave her a promise ring. It took me a long time to get the nerve to ask her, but I finally did." Seth said, to give Leah the idea that he didn't care all that much.
"Awe, that's adorable!" Leah said. "What's her name?"
"Jane. She's beautiful. I love her." Seth said. "We took a little break after this huge fight we had about 2 months ago, but we started talking normally again right before the I booked Aiden. So, she's flying out here to model with Ford while I'm working with Aiden, and we're going to live together." Seth said, being fully truthful.
"Well that is really good. It is just kind of well... awkward that you're still so into Summer, but you know... whatever works for your kind of emotional tract." Leah said, looking at him like he was a crazy man.
"I didn't mean I was in love, love with Summer, I just still love her as a person. Ghee, Leah... make it seem like I still want to be with her. Psh, what a thought." Seth said looking to side and taking a drink.
"Right." Leah said sarcastically. "That's it!"
"Now Leah... I know we had our little 'convo' last night, but truly... I do love Summer, but it will just never work out, and it has been so long since me and her have even been civil, let alone on a talking level, if you will. I am in love with Jane, and that's where my heart is right now. I know you probably think that since last night I was all choked up telling you everything that I'm lying to your face to maybe have you run off to Summer and tell her stuff. But unfortunately, that is just not in my mind. She hates me, and she has every right now. She's happy with Skippy McHorny over there, and I'm happy with Jane. End of discussion." Seth said with persistence.
"Okay then." Leah said, taking a big bite of her steak.
Summer had gotten up to go to the bathroom, and was looking around for Leah's table to see who she had come with. She spotted Leah's red locks over a beautiful yellow dress. Naturally Summer walked over and squeezed into the booth next to Leah.
"Hey hun!" She said, with vodka on her breath.
Summer say Leah and Seth eating dinner together, and glared at both of them. "Okay then, well I guess I understand now where I stand with both of you." She said, starting to get up.
Leah grabbed her wrist and pulled her back down. "Now, quit being high school Summer and sit back down. You know that is NOT why I am here or why he is here. My wedding is a month away for God's sakes. We're talking about the advertising launch. Seth has no one in town Summer. Would you stop?" She said sternly.
Automatically Summer realized she was in the wrong, and she also didn't know why she would have been angry anyways, just because he was her first love didn't mean that someone else couldn't have him now. Summer was like that with men though, and she always had been. Maybe it was the fact that she still had feelings towards Seth, and seeing him in a date like environment with none other than her best friend, mixed with the 5 vodka shots she had taken at the bar might of resulted in the comments she made. "Well I do apologize. I just wasn't thinking I guess." She said, and walked off briskly.
"See, this is why I was hiding. She's all mixed up over you." She said, and got up leaving thirty dollars for her part of the tab.
"Wha–, I mean... Le–.." Seth cut himself off. What was the point.
Seth waited for the waiter to bring him his tab, and left after paying, passing Summer and Logan's table. He saw them kissing, and he automatically felt a pit of anger rumbling around in his stomach. He looked directly at their tongues swapping back and forth between each other's mouths, and sickened walked away grabbing a tooth pick on the way out. Summer and Logan headed home, and went to bed, although Summer lied awake until 3 A.M. wondering why she had acted the way she did at dinner, and trying to get thoughts of Seth out of her mind.
"I HATE HIM!" She finally said aloud, startling Logan.
Bright and Early. Summer walked into the office with an amazing outfit on. She was decked out in everything Marc Jacobs, and looked stunning with her massive curls. Seth was in a nice suit with a comic book shirt underneath, sitting at the end of the design table putting together color schemes, and typing away on his laptop. He was so cute. Obviously he found something funny because he had that smile on his face, the one that made Summer want to start hugging him. She had to stop herself from smiling and sit down at the other end of the table and start working on her part of the job.
"So, I'm going on a Star Bucks run, anyone want anything?" Leah asked.
"Yeah, I'll take a frozen mocha with a banana muffin." Summer said handing her ten bucks.
"Yeah, I'll take a black coffee with a blueberry muffin..." Seth said handing her some money.
"Okay, well don't work too hard, and I will be back in about 30 minutes!" Leah said, walking out the door.
Ring. Ring. Ring. Seth's cell phone was going off. Summer made a coughing noise, as to signal to Seth to answer his annoying ring-toned cell phone.
"Oh, did you want me to get that?" He asked her.
Summer looked up and give him the eye. He answered the phone.
"JANE! You're here. Oh my God... okay well I will be at the airport in 20 minutes! Love you too baby, bye!" Seth hung up the phone and walked out without even saying goodbye to Summer.
She looked out the window of the design room and saw him giving Loralyne some sorry excuse as to why he had to go get his little lover.
"Whatever." Summer said out loud to herself, but couldn't help but feel a little angry.
Leah walked back into the room with a handful of star bucks, and dropped it all on the table. "Where's Seth?"
"Oh you know, he only left about 15 minutes ago to go pick up some chick named Jane from the airport." Summer said somewhat in vain.
"Oh, Jane... his fiancee. That's adorable." Leah said.
You see, Leah had this little plan. Summer and Seth my never get back together like they were in High School. They may never be a couple again, but she was going to make them friends again. You can't just be in complete love with someone one minute, and then not the next. Sure, time changes a lot of things, but she had talked to both of them, and they were still in love. And contrary to Seth's words, it was that love, love.
"His what?" Summer said.
"His fiancee, Summer. He has a life too. No offense, and you're my best friend... but he was the one that broke up with you. And not to be rude again, but you are kind of acting like you halfway expected him to come in here waiting on you hand and foot like he used to in High School. I truly don't want to offend you, but that is how you're acting, and if you guys are broken up, and have been for 6 years, then why would it matter. You need to grow up, and stop acting like this. Loralyne has come up to me 3 times complaining about the outbursts you've had since he has been here. I've been a good friend and just told her it was PMS, but you need to get your stuff together baby, cause he is going to be here with HIS new life, and HIS new girlfriend. Just like you have."
Summer took each of Leah's words like a bullet to the chest. She had finally been 'told.' Leah was right, she did need to get her stuff together. She was the one that had gotten dumped by Seth, and here she was acting like she was the one that had pushed him away, and now he wanted back in her life. He didn't know that she would be working at Aiden when he took the job. He didn't even know she was in the room when she asked to go home sick. Why was she doing this? Was she jealous of everything, what was going on with her.
"What am I doing Leah?" Summer asked. "Why am I acting like this. I was the one who got dumped, and here I am acting like this. And not only am I acting like this now, but everything between me and Seth has been over for 6 years now, and I am acting like a 16 year old again. I am treating him badly, and I am surprised he didn't break up with me before he did."
"Oh hun! It is okay! Don't cry. You're fine. Just you've gotta realize sometimes what you're doing.
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Next Chapter:
What does Summer think about Jane?
Will Summer and Seth become civil?
What is Leah's plan?
