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Chapter 9: The Orientation

Summer walked hand in hand with Seth along the pathway leading up to the auditorium, with lips pursed. The small frown upon her face and her narrowed eyes were evident as she contemplated her thoughts. Anna was a step or two ahead, leading the way.

"and no jokes Cohen. Just be sensible"

"Yes Mam" Seth replied with a mock salute

"Seriously Cohen!" Summer said with a frustrated sigh. "Just one night with none of your so called comedy"

"You like my comedy"

"You know what else I like, the pain my fist is gunna cause if you open your mouth with that so called comedy". Seth just gulped and kept quiet, whispering "Yes dear" as they entered the hall.

"Name please". A short older lady, with white hair and glasses asked the group.

"Anna"

"Summer and Seth" Summer said, pointing to Seth before he got the chance to say anything. The lady quickly wrote down all their names onto name tags before ripping each off and giving it to them.

Summer grabbed Seth's hand she lead him further into the building. At the furthest point of the room there was a small stage set up. Large round tables covered most of the floor, with a small dancefloor and DJ set up on the right.

"I guess we all get assigned seats" Anna said, coming up behind them and pointing to the place cards. "Summer and i are over to the right. I'd say you're over to the left Seth". Anna continued quickly, as she pulled Summer towards their table, leaving behind a dumbstruck Seth watching as they disappeared into the crowd.

"You know you actually do a good job of leaving Seth speechless. I mean I have other ways and means of doing that, but none so quick and ……"

"Summer" Anna shouted

"Oh sorry, too much info right" Summer blushed

Anna continued to try read Summer. "Are you okay"? she finally asks.

"Yes, of course, I'm fine. Why"

"It's just that you seem to be happy one minute, then angry the next, and well you get the point."

"It's just that time of the month" Summer made up quickly, trying to avoid Anna's stare.

"Can everyone please be seated" a tall brooding man at the microphone on stage announced.

"Oh look, better sit down". Thankgod thought Summer as she quickly found her seat at the table an turned all her attention to the stage, ignoring Anna's quizzical gaze.

"Ryan" Taylor yelled throughout the apartment. "Ryan"

Ryan walked into the bedroom, spoon hanging out of his mouth, holding a bowl of dry cereal. "What"

"The bed, Ryan, the bed". Ryan looked to the bed, then at Taylor, back at the bed. "What" he repeated.

"The red quilt doesn't go with pink sheets. I pacifically told you the red with the white" Taylor let out a frustrated sigh. "Do you know what it's like when people don't listen to you huh, it gets annoying that what it gets Ryan" Taylor continued to rant, with Ryan still standing there, spoon in one hand, bowl in the other.

"Taylor"

"Taylor" Ryan continued a little louder. "I'll re make the bed, with the 700 thread count white Egyptian cotton sheets, and you go to class. I wouldn't want you to miss your first communications class"

"Thanks Ry" Taylor replied, slightly too cheerily, grabbing her stuff and walking out the door, not before giving Ryan a quick peck on the lips. Ryan turned around and left the room, mentally making a note to change the bed later.

Once all the speeches were done, Seth began to talk with his room mate Matt. He had met him that afternoon, walking into the room to find the guy just getting up

Seth unlocked the door, not bothering to knock. "oh hey man, sorry……um"

"Hey" replied Matt. "Don't worry about it man. I'm Matt by the way". He was just getting out of bed, and heading towards the bathroom. He was fairly tall,with dark blonde hair with a toned body. Just like the type of kids that beat Seth up on a regular basis back at Harbor.

"Hey, I'm Seth. You're room mate, I guess. I …I think I have the right room" Seth stuttered looking around

"I kind of figured that, you know with all the bags over there. Plus I think you got the right room. You're bags have bright name tags on em" Matt said with a laugh.

"huh yer" Seth replied nervously. Thanks mom Seth thought to himself. He didn't know how to take this kid. Was he another Harbor jock.

"So where are you from Seth" Matt asked, sitting back down on his bed.

"Newport beach, California"

"Oh cool, that's near me. I'm from Berkeley". It was weird, Seth was actually beginning to feel comfortable around this guy. He kind reminded him of another version of Ryan

"Hey so what classes are you taking Seth?" Matt asked, relived that the old men in suits had finished their speeches.

"Graphic design and business" answered Seth. "What about you"

"TV and film production and multimedia"

"Hey just a question"

"Yer shoot" replied Matt

"You never played Water Polo in high school did you?" asked Seth

"Nah, those jocks shaved their chests" joked Matt.

"Exactly what I said"

"I played basketball, but I was never in the crowd, if you know what I mean"

Seth and Matt continued to talk. In one way they were so much alike, yet in another so different. It was like he was mixture of both Seth and Ryan, into sport and all the general things Seth's jewish-ness has prevented him from doing, yet into comics, emo music, and unlike Seth, surfing. They were soon interrupted by a girl, medium height, dark tanned skin, with long dark blonde brown hair.

"Hey Matt … … … and friend" she said looking to Seth

"Hey Cady" Matt replied. "This is Seth Cohen, my room mate. Seth this is Cady, my girl friend"

"Hey" replied both Seth and Cady at the same time. Seth had to admit, this girl was pretty, but to him nothing could beat Summer.

"I'm gunna go get us some drinks, kay babe" said Matt. "be back soon"

"okay, I'll just be talking to Seth" replied Cady.

"So Seth give me the 411, what's it like living with Matt" Cady playfully asked once Matt was out of earshot, tapping Seth on the arm.

Summer was bored out of her brain. Thank god I at least know Anna here. All these other girls seem to be so uptight and stressed, Summer thought looking around. Of course, that's not how it actually was. Summer's hormones were running wild, and tonight was not a good night.

"I'm gunna go look for Seth" Summer shouted to Anna

"Okay" Anna replied in mid conversation to another girl.

Summer walked over to the other side of the room, scanning each table for a mop of curly jew fro, and adorable dimples, with deep chocolate browns eyes. She finally found him, talking to another girl. No, not just another girl, she playfully hit him, and they were laughing, acting like they were the best of friends. "How dare he flirt with another girl" Summer thought. "He knocks me up, and is all nice and lovey dovey to me in California, but once we reach Rhode Island I'm nothing" Summer was furious now as she stalked over to him.

"So do you have a girlfriend" Cady asked

"Cohen" Summer yelled

"I'll take that as a yes" Cady laughed, looking at Seth's face, when he heard his name being yelled.

"Yes my love" Seth asked, pulling her down to sit on his lap and kissing her cheek, which seemed to dissolved some of her anger.

"I'm back" stated Matt, pulling up a chair beside Cady. "Who's this"? he asked, looking towards Summer.

"My beautiful girlfriend, Summer" replied Seth with a grin. "Summer this is Matt, my room mate, and Cady, his girlfriend.

"Hey" said Summer. She was still a little angry at Seth. Why she didn't know, but she was sure she could come up with a reason before nights end. "I'm going Cohen" she paused. "Well are you coming"

"I'll see you in the morning Sum. Matt and I are going to go socialize, seeing as how I wasn't very good at it in high school, I thought I'd get an early start in college"

Summer just snickered. Even though she was still angry with him, he some how could always make her laugh. "Bye" he said, leaving a lingering kiss on her lips.

"Bye Cohen" she sighed, starting to get up. As she went to walk away, she felt his hand grab hers. "I'll just walk Summer up to the room and meet you guys back here okay" he announced.

"Okay, night Summer" replied Matt, giving her a small wave, as did Cady.

Summer had a feeling she has no leg to stand on when it came to being angry with Seth. Although she was kinda pissed about the way he was acting with that Cady chick, she was his room mates girlfriend. She kept silent the whole way back to her room, deep in thought, with Seth babbling in the background about something or other.

It was later that night that Seth returned to his room with Matt. After his 'socializing', which concluded with many beers, he stumbled into his room and fell on the bed, asleep before his head hit the pillow.

It was 8am in the morning when his phone started to ring. It took Seth a while to realize his pants were vibrating. "aarrgghh" screamed Seth into his pillow. After some work at trying to dig it out of his pocket, and a bit of swearing here and there, he managed to retrieve the cell.

"Who the fuck calls this early" he asked himself, trying to focus on the caller ID. In the end he gave up, answering with a tired murmur "hello"

"Hello Sethela".

Hey. So I don't really like this chapter but anyways…. Sorry this took so long. I've been really busy with Christmas, and work. So this is my bad attempt at making them fight, or something. So I want your opinion. Why should the Nana be calling? Also what do you think of Matt and Cady? I will finish this story completely, so I will not just leave it but I want your reviews. I'm aiming for at least 10 for this chapter. Thanks for all the reviews so far.

Merry Christmas.