Chapter 8 - The Brady Bunch

Seth walked back into the design room quickly and shut the door. He basically skipped back over to his laptop, playfully tapping Leah on the top of the head, and started typing away again.

"So, Romeo, where did you run off too?" Leah said jokingly.

"I had to go get Jane." He said in a professional manner.

"Ah, I see. Well, where is Ms. Model at now?"

Summer looked up, and looked over at Leah mouthing the word 'model.' Leah quickly gestured yes, and turned her attention back to Seth.

"She's at my hotel getting cleaned up. She had some meeting today for her job or whatever, I didn't really ask her about it. I was more concerned with getting back here, and just talking to her later."

"Psh, that's nice." Summer said, aloud.

She hadn't even noticed that she had said it until Leah looked at her with a 'what the HELL,' look, and Seth looked at her with his 'uh, okay?' face.

"Well, I just mean that is kind of rude to say, I hope Logan doesn't say that kind of stuff when I'm not around, and he isn't concerned with talking to me. Especially if I hadn't seen him in a while, but whatever." She said, trying to make it seem like she didn't care.

"Okay then. Whatever." Seth said, tired of battling with her.

"Yeah, whatever." She said back, and took a sip of her frozen mocha.

Seth just glared at her. He was so tired of being treated like crap, but he was never going to tell her why he had done what he had done, and obviously she was still bitter about everything, especially seeing him after 6 years, and talking after their brutal break up. Leah just looked at Seth and gave him a calm down face, and continued to eat her bagel. She kept thinking to herself how much of an interesting 6 months this was going to be.

At the Hilton. Jane and Seth had talked non-stop about their lives since their break-up a few months back. Even though Seth had made it seem to Leah that him and Jane were back together, and on the road to marriage he was kind of lying. Him and Jane weren't even dating again, they were just working on finding a solution to their problems. They wanted to be good friends before anything else, but he figured if he let Leah know that him and Jane were together, that somehow Summer would find out, and he wasn't sure what he wanted the outcome of that to be, or what it would even be, but he wanted it to seem like he wasn't desperate for her affection or anything along those lines.

"Babe! Let's go to that club I saw on the way here." Jane said.

"Mmm, okay... let me change." Seth replied getting up to change his clothes.

"Maybe I will meet some of your friends!"

"Yeah... or not. I haven't really met anyone except my two partners at Aiden. Leah and Summer." He said.

"Summer, like Summer Roberts the love of your life?" Jane asked.

After pausing for a good 30 seconds. "No, another Summer. I think her last name was Bishop or something like that... I honestly don't remember, but she's a nice girl."

Jane had never even seen pictures of Summer, just random stories about her that were brought up by Ryan or his family.

"I see, I see. Well, good deal than. Hopefully we'll have fun!" Jane said, ripping off her top and changing.

At the Club. Leah and Summer were at the club, and Logan was there too, but he was off dancing around getting drunk off his ass like the alcoholic he was.

"This is an amazing time, truly Leah, thank you so much." Summer said sarcastically, as she took another shot of rum.

"Oh shut the hell up girl, you know you're about to be drunk and happier then anything!"

With that, Jane and Seth walked in directly in front of Leah and Summer holding hands and looking like the happiest couple alive.

"Now why does that sicken me?" Summer asked Leah pointing right at them with her shaky drunk finger.

"Girl, PLEASE just let it go. Come on, they're happy! Just like you and Logan." Leah replied.

Summer looked at Seth and just glared at him. She didn't know why but she wanted to go beat that girls face in and then make Seth feel stupid for even bringing her. But she wasn't going to sink down to that level, she was better then that, and she had to figure out some way to get over the Seth thing, and just live her life. Leah being drunk and loveable motioned for Seth and Jane to come over and take a few shots with them. Seth didn't have any other friends in New York except for Leah, and he wasn't about to call Summer one of his friends, especially since she treated him like a piece of trash on the streets of 5th avenue.

"This is my good friend from work, Leah Michaels, Leah this is my girlfriend Jane Belle."

"Well it is very nice to finally meet Ms. Model!!" Leah said enthusiastically.

"Hahaha, you're so adorable! It's lovely to meet you as well darling." Jane said, laughing. "And you, who are you?" She asked to Summer.

"Oh, hello... um, I'm not with them, so sorry." Summer said getting up, acting like she was just a random person who happened to be mistaken as with Leah.

"Oh, I guess I just made a fool of myself to some New Yorker." Jane said, chuckling.

Leah started to say something, but Seth stopped her. "I guess babe." He said, and excused himself to the bathroom. On the way to the mens room he bumped right into Summer knocking his drink all over himself and bashing his chin with the cup.

"Jesus Christ, watch where you're going." Summer said before turning around to see Seth. "Oh, I'm sorry. I did- I mean... I didn't mean for that to happen. Oh God, you're bleeding."

She pulled Seth into the men's bathroom, and put the 'sorry unavailable' sign on the door. She didn't want anyone getting the wrong idea, or walking in and thinking she was some kind of transvestite. She grabbed a paper towel and soaked in. She wiped off Seth's bleeding chin and held the paper towel in place to give him pressure to stop the bleeding. She took a couple of dry paper towels and started dabbing his shit to try and dry the mess she had made.

"I really am sorry." She said again, not realizing how nice she was being to Seth.

Seth smiled and started to remember how nice it was to be treated like this by Summer. Especially her touch. The way his stomach felt every time that she would touch him, made him feel like he was 15 years old again. He didn't want to feel that way, but he couldn't help it. She was so beautiful, and even with her hair a drunken mess she still looked gorgeous. He could tell that she cared by the way she was going about helping him. After taking the paper towel away from this chin she blew on it to make it sting less. She threw the paper towels away and kind of just stood there.

"So..." Seth said.

"Yeah... So..." She said back.

"To be honest I am kind of surprised you are being nice to me, I don't understand it, but whatever." He said.

"Yeah... I just felt bad because you started bleeding, and yeah... I don't know. Well you better get back to Jane and I better... ju... just go." She rushed and headed towards the door.

"Summer, come on... wait. Why did you walk away from Jane like that? Why didn't you just introduce yourself. And why do you keep walking away from me? What are you afraid of. Are you afraid to cry in front of me, what is the deal?" He asked her.

"Excuse me? The first thing that comes out of your mouth is that you think I am afraid to cry in front of you. Boy, please. You are ridiculous. You know, I know you dumped my sorry ass, but do you actually think for a second that after 6 years of not being together, and not even talking that the first thing I would be worried about would be CRYING in front of you. I am not 11 years old here Seth, just... I am going to leave now. So just go back to your girlfriend and everything will be all good again." She said with anger, and walked out the door kicking the sign she had set up.

"He strikes out... again." Seth said to himself looking at his cut in the mirror, and then leaving the bathroom.

"Baby! What happened?" Jane said running to Seth giving him a kiss on the lips.

"I ran into someone and their cup hit me pretty hard. I'm okay though!"

Summer came up and grabbed Leah only to find Seth and Jane in a deep make-out session. She purposely knocked over a shot glass right next to them, and walked out the door. "Bitch!" Summer screamed when she got outside. "She is so beautiful, and tall like Marissa was. She's gorgeous. Her style is amazing, and she looks perfect with Seth. I AM SO PISSED." Summer said bending over and crying a little.

"Summer, maybe it would help if you talked to Seth about everything. Maybe it would make you feel better or do something to, I don't know Summer, but it has been like 2 weeks now and you still feel like crap all the time, you're a total bitch to everyone when he is around, you're completely jealous of his fiancee, and you're just a different person now. Not only have you changed but you're starting to scare me. You need to sit yourself down and figure out what it is that is making you act like this. You need to figure it out, and soon because you're going to end up losing your job, your fiancee, and your life in New York if you don't get it together. I'll always be here for you, and you KNOW that, but something is going on with you, that you don't even know. Night Summer." Leah said, and got into her cab.

"What is the matter with you girl, you need to get it together NOW!" Summer said to herself.

Jane walked out of the club and was standing about 5 feet away from Summer. She was trying to get a cab, but it wasn't working. Obviously she was from a smaller town and didn't know how grab one. Summer could tell she was tired, jet lagged, and probably ready to hit those soft sheets on the Hilton beds. She decided to be her actual self and grab her a cab. "Here..." Summer said, and opened the door.

Jane looked up at her, and smiled. "Thank you." She closed the door, and away the cab went.

"That's a good start!" Summer said to herself. "Embrace the girlfriend... or fiancee." Still talking to herself.

Summer walked back into the club to find Seth sitting in a corner booth by himself with a big mixed drink in his hand. He had his palm pilot out and he was fiddling around with it when she joined him in the booth.

"Hey stranger." She said, like nothing had ever happened between them.

Seth looked up, and was almost disgusted. "Oh, hey." He said, rudely.

Summer took the hint, but kept talking anyways. "I'm sorry about my actions lately, maybe I will regret this, maybe it is the vodka, but I really do apologize. I still don't want to be friends, but I do want to be workable with one another. Our circumstances in the past just make it impossible for things to work out for our future. It really sucks that this had to happen, but I'm dealing with it. To be perfectly honest I don't want to have to see you everyday and work with you, it brings back to much pain. You screwed me over Seth, and that is the bottom line." Summer said in basically one breath. "That's all I really have to say to you, have a safe ride home." With that, Summer picked up her clutch and headed out the door, again.

Seth sat there in complete shock. Summer practically just told him in a polite manner to screw off. The fact that she apologized was really not significant to Seth, she was being juvenile and acting like a 14 or 15 year old. She kept taking everything back to what he had done to her 6 years ago. Seth was tired of dealing with a teenager who was actually 24, so he decided that since she was going to be that way, he was just going to stay out of her way, and make sure they only talked when they had too. He was tired of everything, and just wanted to go to sleep.

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Next Chapter:

Leah's plan for Seth and Summer?

Jane and Seth's relationship?

Where is Logan at?

Will Summer ever find out why Seth dumped her?