A/N – Hello to all my lovely readers. Thanks for all the reviews on the last chapter. I know I said I would update in two days if I got 20 reviews, which I did thank you very much. The reason I didn't is because I only got 10 in 3 days, then I got about 12 in 20 minutes on the fourth day, it was crazy lol. Anyways, I think this is a relatively quick update, certainly quicker than usual, so hopefully you will repay my act of kindness with a review for this chapter. THANKS!!

WARNING: Some of this chapter is rather raunchy so if you are sensitive towards that sort of thing, be warned!!

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Summer was awoken in her favourite possible way, she was awoken by her boyfriend unconsciously rolling on top of her in his sleep. She scolded him when he woke up himself, saying in was annoying and that next time he did it she was gonna knee him in the balls to rouse him, but truthfully it was her favourite way in the world to start her day.

She wiped the sleep-dust out of her eyes, stared down at her love and softly giggled at the sight. He had his face buried between her exposed breasts as if they were pillows, and Summer knew that if he were to wake up it would definitely be his favourite way to start the day too.

'I love you,' she whispered, affectionately brushing her fingers through his thick curls. 'You love me too, I know you do, but please prove it to me. Why haven't you asked me yet, please ask me. If you're scared I'll say no then you don't know me at all. All I really want from my life is to spend it with you, all of it.'

Summer stopped when she heard him stir and as she had suspected, as soon as he awoke enough to realise where his face was positioned, he wasted no time in attaching his mouth to one of her nipples. She half-giggled, half-groaned in delight as he teased her with his warm mouth.

'Cohen,' she gasped out, all the telltale signs of arousal rapidly appearing all over her body. Her pupils dilated, her breathing deepened and grew more rapid, her face heated and reddened, her nipples grew larger and hardened, and her room, which she knew for a fact was of mild temperature, suddenly felt like a sauna to her. God, how the hell did he do it? Summer didn't know but she didn't particularly care, she was more than happy to let him work his magic.

Seth kissed down her body, never once looking up at her. He focused solely on running his lips and tongue across her erogenous zones, her breasts, her stomach, the insides of her thighs. Her legs had parted and he could hear her whimpering, letting him know that she ached for him to bring his mouth down on her biggest hotspot of all. He didn't do that though, he was a tease but he did it with good reason, he knew that the longer he teased her the more intense her pleasure would be when he finally did give her what she wanted.

'Oh my God Seth,' Summer squeaked when at long last he did bring his lips down upon the centre of her arousal. He was so skilled, twisting his tongue in ways that made her eyes roll back into her head. She considered him the absolute definition of a perfect lover, which was weird because he hardly had the look of a stud. He just knew how to do everything so perfectly, how to take her into realms of ecstasy she didn't think existed.

Seth pushed into his girlfriend with a few fingers as he continued to roll his lips across her swollen pleasure gland, eliciting a low groan from her. Summer began to buck her hips upward, and Seth began synchronize his fingers so they met with each stroke.

It wasn't long before Summer found herself unable to control her breathing. She was manically grinding her hips against him, desperately trying to send his fingers deeper inside her. 'Cohen,' she panted, her husky voice oh so sexy, 'Oh God yes, keep doing that. Uh huh, mmmmm, oh yeah,' she whimpered, and Seth honestly thought that he could come from just listening to her she sounded so good.

He knew she was close to reaching climax when she started sucking in short, sharp breaths, her body involuntarily tensed and she dug her nails into his scalp, hard. Seth couldn't stop himself from breaking into a smile, his mouth still firmly attached to her womanhood. He just loved to please her. In fact, he found seeing her moan and tremble under his actions to be just as gratifying as reaching his own sexual release.

Summer let out a strangled cry as euphoria engulfed her. Seth went to move away but she was at the height of her orgasm, making her incredibly selfish, so she roughly grabbed his head and forced him to stay down there. He didn't seem to mind though as he continued to gently work his tongue across her centre, thus prolonging her intense pleasure. Her body jolted with every shockwave of bliss that pulsated through her veins, as she vocally expressed her delight through a series of soft, heavenly moans.

It was only when Seth was sure her excitement had died down did he look up at her for the first time, a cheeky grin across his face. His lips shone with a mixture of spit and her natural fluid, and Summer thought he looked incredibly hot. 'Good morning gorgeous,' he said sweetly.

'Good morning? No, very good morning,' Summer panted in reply, still breathless, before pulling his face up to hers by his hair and locking lips with him. Seth smiled into the kiss, happy that he had left her fulfilled. 'Our sex life is like perfect already, but you have got to do that more,' Summer muttered between short, passionate kisses. Seth laughed and pulled away, looking at her with a loving smile.

''Not a problem at all my love,' he replied before getting up and strolling into the bathroom.

'Where are you going,' Summer said, 'don't you want me to return the favour?'

'I would love you to but I'm afraid we don't have time. Check the clock Sum, we overslept, our plane leaves in just over an hour.'

'WHAT!!' Summer shrieked, glancing at her bedside clock and discovering that he was in fact right, 'how, I set the alarm.'

'Yeah, and every time it came on you just reached across and pressed the snooze button without even opening your eyes,' Seth replied, walking back into the room with a smirk.

'Well why the hell didn't you stop me,' Summer countered with a glare, 'and even worse, why the hell have you just spent the last fifteen minutes getting me off when you knew we didn't have time?'

'Oh don't even try to act like you didn't love it.'

'That's not the problem Cohen,' Summer replied with an impatient sigh, 'of course I loved it, but we really didn't have the time.'

'Relax my little Summer,' Seth said softly, snaking his arms round her from behind, 'we packed last night, a quick shower and a bagel and we're ready to go. In fact, now that I think about it, we actually have a little spare time for even more fun,' he added in a husky whisper. Summer tried to push him away but when he began placing soft kisses on the back of her neck she went limp in his arms, and suddenly what time it was didn't matter to her.

She fell back onto her bed, taking him with her, and wasted no time in attaching herself to his lips. She moaned into his mouth, feeling her body heating rapidly again. 'If we miss our flight I'll kill you,' she whispered as she pulled away, then crushed her lips against his again before he had the chance to reply. Seth smiled against her lips.

'You know, this is what I love the most about Dale and Sarah "rebounding" together,' he muttered between intense kisses, 'the fact that I have you all to myself whenever I want. It's awesome, like we have a place of our own.' Seth was unpleasantly surprised when Summer shoved him off and stood up.

'Whatever, I'm showering now,' she replied without looking at him as she walked into the bathroom, and Seth definitely heard a large hint of anger in her tone. He closed his eyes in frustration and leant back against her headboard.

'Damn, was it something I said?'

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'Hello, everybody decent?'

'Yeah you can come in.' Sarah and Dale walked into the room. 'Hey guys,' Summer added brightly, 'what's going on?'

'Nothing, just came to see you off. I can't believe you're actually going away for Christmas and New Year, a far cry from last year when you stayed here all alone and cried,' Sarah said with a smirk.

'Yeah, so what are you guys doing about the holidays?'

'Well we're both going home for Christmas, but we're coming back for New Years so we can celebrate together,' Dale replied.

'Okayyyy, and by "celebrate," I presume you mean fuck each other's brains out,' Summer countered with a smirk.

'Pretty much,' Dale replied bluntly with a shrug and a nod, causing Sarah to giggle and Summer to roll her eyes. 'What, don't even try to deny that you'll be celebrating the exact same way with Seth.'

'Well that's because we're together whereas you guys are…………well I don't really know but it's pretty fucked up at the moment.'

'Yeah umm, I'm gonna go grab something from the vending machine, back in a few minutes,' Sarah mumbled, looking very uncomfortable with the turn the conversation had taken. She slipped out the door, leaving Summer and Dale stood alone in silence.

'Look,' Summer said after a couple of seconds of uncomfortableness, 'we don't know each other all that well, but what I do know about you is that you can be a real jerk.'

'HEY!!'

'Well I'm sorry Dale but it's true. You hit on me, you never stop partying, you act like a real dumbass sometimes basically. I'm sorry to be blunt but my first impression of you was that you were a dick, and you haven't really done much in the last two months to disprove that theory. With Sarah though you've got a chance to change my perceptions of you, so don't waste it jackass. We've been friends for over three years now and let me tell you, in that time I've seen her jerked around by a string of guys. Don't be one of those guys Dale, treat her right.' Dale nodded at her words.

'Don't worry Summer, I will. I really like her, she's smart, she's funny, and my God she's beautiful. There's no way I'm gonna mess her around, she's too good for that.'

'Well if you already feel that way about her then why are you both still insisting you're only each other's casual rebound to get over your latest failed relationships. I know she likes you too so why are you both still pretending you're nothing but fuck-buddies, why aren't you dating? You've been hooking up non-stop for a week now but that's only gonna be fun for so long, eventually you're gonna get bored with just having sex and both start wanting more. So why don't you get off your lazy ass and do the gentlemanly thing of asking her out on a date.'

'I dunno,' Dale replied with a sigh, 'I mean I know I'm ready to start dating again, she's helped me forget about that tramp of an ex already, but I'm not sure if she's ready yet. Seth said she was pretty messed up.'

'She was but trust me, she's ready. On the rare occasions you two haven't been fucking during the last week and I've had the chance to talk to her, all she's ever talked about is you. And before you ask, no she hasn't been saying you rock in bed, she's been saying what a sweet guy you are and stuff like that. She likes you Dale, you like her, so do the right thing and make the effort to make things more serious.'

'You're right. Okay I'll ask her, thanks Summer,' Dale replied with a genuine smile.

'No problem.' They went back to silence, a much more relaxed one this time, until Sarah reappeared through the door.

'Hey guys, so what are you talking about?'

'Nothing,' Dale replied, 'we don't have much to say to each other to be honest, we're not exactly BFF's are we Summer.'

'Hardly,' Summer countered with a smirk.

'But listen,' Dale said to Sarah, 'I was thinking that when we get back we could, you know, go out, for real.'

'What, like dating?'

'Umm, yeah, if you want to that is.'

'Sure, I'd love to,' Sarah replied with a big grin, leaning across to give him a quick peck on the lips, 'on one condition.'

'What's that?'

'That you get your hair cut,' she said with a giggle. 'Sure the surfer-dude look is cool in Cali, but not here, and I'm not particularly keen on calling a guy who has longer hair than me my boyfriend.' Dale grinned and nodded.

'You got it, the hair will be gone by the time I get back.' Sarah grinned back and gave him another quick kiss. When Dale wasn't looking she mouthed a quick "thank you" to Summer, who smiled and nodded. 'So where's Seth?'

'In the bathroom,' Summer replied.

'We've been here for ten minutes, what the hell is he doing in there?'

'I don't know and I'm not really sure I want to. COME ON COHEN!!' Summer shouted, banging on the bathroom door.

'Two minutes, I'm doing my hair,' they heard him yell in reply.

'Cohen we both know that great big mop on your head isn't controllable, now come on, LET'S MOVE!!'

'I am not going out like this, you really messed it up this morning when I went down on you.'

'COHEN!!' Summer shrieked, her face reddening rapidly, 'Sarah and Dale are here you ass.'

'Oh……………hey.'

'Hey Seth,' Sarah managed to shout between a fit of giggles. Summer glared at her and Dale, who was just stood there smirking. She decided to take her embarrassment out on him.

'One word outta you, and I mean one word, I will have your balls surgically removed, got it,' she said menacingly, prodding him in the chest pretty hard.

'Got it, not one word,' he replied, though he was still smirking. 'Oh hey I forgot to ask,' he said to Sarah after a few seconds, 'I was thinking about going out to lunch today, you wanna come?'

'Sure, where?'

'Well I was thinking about going downtown, maybe I should ask Seth where to go.' Sarah burst into a fit of laughter while Summer sighed and closed her eyes, having to use all her self-control to not go rage blackout on his ass.

'You know, I really hate you Dale, I really genuinely hate you.' He smirked at her words.

'See,' he said to his sort of girlfriend, 'definitely not BFF's.'

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Hey sweetie,' Kirsten said brightly as soon as she'd opened the door, wasting no time in throwing her arms around the woman she was convinced would one day be her daughter-in-law, 'how was your flight?'

'Hey Kirsten, it was fine thanks. So how are you?'

'I'm great now you guys are here, so where's my baby boy?'

'Here mom,' Seth puffed, halfway up the driveway with one smallish bag over his shoulder and two huge suitcases, one in each hand. Kirsten smirked, it didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what was his and what was his girlfriend's.

When he reached his mom, Seth placed the bags down inside the door and wrapped her in a warm embrace. 'Hey sweetie, is your back okay,' she said with a grin when they pulled apart. Seth pouted and shook his head. 'Well it's okay, you're home now, mommy will take care of you.' Seth grinned triumphantly at his girlfriend, who rolled her eyes and looked at him as if to say "you're such a loser."

'So how are you mom?'

'Good thanks, how are you guys?'

'Awesome, never better, right Sum?' When his girlfriend merely nodded, avoiding all eye contact, Seth broke into a frown. He knew she was upset at him for some reason, he could read her like a book, but he had no idea as to why. Kirsten obviously sensed the tension and decided to break it.

'So umm, leave your bags, Sandy will get them. Ryan and Ellie are in the lounge, why don't you go and make yourselves comfortable.' Summer smiled thankfully and nodded. They both stepped in behind Kirsten, who made off towards the kitchen. Summer walked towards the living room, but was surprised when Seth forcefully grabbed her arm and spun her round.

'Okay what the hell is wrong with you, what have I said or done to piss you off so badly?'

'Whatever gave you that idea,' Summer replied coldly with a roll of the eyes.

'Oh I dunno, maybe the fact that you just put in your iPod and ignored me for the entire duration of the flight, or maybe it's the cold looks, or the fact that you won't let me touch you. Look Summer, just tell what I've done wrong so I can fix it. Is it because I accidently revealed intimate details about our sex life to Dale and Sarah?' Summer sighed.

'No Cohen it's just…………it……………it's……………you know what, no. You're the one who supposedly loves me, the one who knows me better than anyone, so why don't you figure it out yourself.' With that, Summer spun on her heel and made her way towards the lounge, but was once again abruptly cut off by Seth spinning her round.

'I supposedly love you, what the fuck does that mean?' Seth spat. Summer didn't reply, she just forcefully shoved him off.

'Get off me. I'm bored of talking to you now, we're done here.' This time Seth let her go, following her with a huge scowl. They walked into the lounge and were instantly greeted by Seth's adoptive brother and his girlfriend.

'Hey,' they both said in unison.

'Hey Atwood. Elle, girl talk, Cohen's room, NOW!!' Summer replied, not once breaking her stride towards the stairs.

'Oh God Seth, what the hell have you done now?' Ellie scolded as she watched her friend stomp up the stairs.

'I honestly don't know. When you find out, please tell me,' he pleaded in reply. Ellie merely smirked before heading towards the second floor.

'Hey man, what's up with her,' Ryan enquired amusedly.

'God knows,' Seth countered with a sigh, sitting down and picking up the second playstation controller, 'all I know is she's got a major stick up her ass and her problem is with me.'

'Well go find out then.'

'How? I mean they're hardly gonna let me just walk in and join in with their bitching, which in all likelihood is about me.'

Well from what I remember, the Seth Cohen of high school used to be pretty damn stealth. Why don't you put your skills to use, see if you've still got it.' Seth smirked at his brother's words.

'You're a genius Ry, I could kiss you right now.'

'Please don't.'

'Back in two minutes.' Seth tiptoed up the stairs and silently pressed his ear against his old bedroom door. He listened intently and heard the familiar sound of his girlfriend very obviously ranting.

'I love him so much, but sometimes he can be so, so……………ugh. You know what I mean?'

'I think I do, what happened?'

'Well my roommate recently hooked up with his, we introduced them, so she's spending a lot of time at his place, meaning we have my room all to ourselves. Anyways, we were taking advantage of that this morning by making out pretty heavily, it was definitely leading somewhere, but then he has to go and wreck the mood by saying that it's cool that our roommates are never around anymore and it's like we have a place of our own. I got so angry, I just wanted to scream at him that it's not the same, it's nothing remotely like having a place of our own. Do you think I'm overreacting?'

'No of course not, if Seth can't see that you're ready to take your relationship to the next level then he's dumber than I thought. I've gotta say it Summer, why are you waiting? Why don't you talk to him about it?'

'I can't,' he heard his girlfriend reply sadly, and Seth felt his heart break when he heard her sniffling, 'as much as I want to live with him, he needs to want it too. It's kind of a catch 22 really because I have to let him ask me in his own time, but if he doesn't ask me soon I'm gonna end up reassessing our relationship. I love him more than life itself, but that only goes so far. I mean w-wh…………what's love i-if there isn't a f-future in the r-r-relationship.'

'Oh come on honey, don't cry,' he heard Ellie say softly, and that was all Seth could take. He knew what he had to do. He brought a hand up to the door and knocked. It was quickly thrown open by Ellie, who wasted no time in giving him a dirty look.

'What do you want?'

'A comic and they're all in my room.'

'Now's not a good time Seth.'

'Well I don't really care, it's my room.' With that, he walked into his room and as he suspected, found his girlfriend sat on his bed with puffy red eyes. 'Hey what's wrong,' he said gently, sitting beside her and placing a comforting hand on her thigh. Summer merely made a "humph" sound, got up and stormed out the room, her nose turned up in the air. Seth sighed and turned to face Ellie, who was stood there, arms crossed with an angry scowl on her face. 'She thinks I don't know why she's upset but I do, and trust me, I'm gonna fix it Ellie.'

'When?'

'Christmas.'

'Well you better Seth, because she loves you but right now, you're breaking her heart.' Seth sighed unhappily as he watched his friend walk out the room. Knowing what he had to do to make things right, he pulled out his phone and selected a contact.

'Hey man, you get home okay?'

'Yeah fine thanks buddy,' Seth replied. 'So you're still in Providence right?'

'Yeah, why?'

'Great, can you do me a huge favour?'

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Two days later it was Christmas day, still known as Chrismukkah by all in the Cohen residence thanks to Seth. After spending a night on opposite sides of the bed with their backs to each other, Summer had gotten up the next morning and either forgotten she was mad at him, or had decided to forgive him for the sake of having a decent holiday. There was still a little tension between them but at least they were talking, and sometimes she even rewarded him with a quick kiss on the cheek when he did something right.

Sure they'd had better holidays, but even Summer couldn't hide her joy that morning when he had given her his present. It was a series of signed, first edition self-help books by her favourite author. Being a health & lifestyle journalism major who cared passionately about her subject, Summer loved them because they covered every aspect of human life and would be of endless help to her in her final year and a half of studying.

He'd also gotten her lots of other random bits and bobs, a nice necklace, a bunch of CD's, a fancy new watch, tickets to a play, and a years subscription to a high class Providence gym because she'd said a few weeks ago that she wanted to work on her figure, even though he thought, and often told her, that she was already completely perfect.

Summer had gotten him the usual, all sorts of geekiness that she didn't particularly understand or care for. She'd gotten him the new pro-skater game, though his PS3 was in her room so she would probably be playing it more than him. She'd also gotten him an iTunes gift voucher worth a hundred dollars, a pricey pair of skinny jeans and had paid for six months worth of DVD rental from their local video store.

Now, after a huge festive banquet that had of course been cooked by everyone but Kirsten, they were curled up together on the sofa watching the timeless Christmas classic, Jingle All the Way. Kirsten and Sandy were intertwined together on the other end of the couch, while Ryan occupied an armchair and his girlfriend sat on the floor between his legs, playing with the iPhone he'd gotten her.

'Hey, I've got another present for you. It's upstairs, wanna go get it?' Seth whispered in her ear.

'If you're trying to lure me upstairs with false promises of another present, only to say you wanna have sex, I'll kill you.' Seth grinned at her words. He couldn't blame her for thinking that, it did sound like something he'd do.

'I'm not I swear, I really do have a present for you.'

'Okay then,' Summer replied, grabbing his hand and pulling him up, 'back in a minute guys,' she added to no one in particular. They all just grunted, not taking their eyes off the screen. Obviously they were too full and tired to even find the energy to give her a response. She rolled her eyes before dragging her boyfriend up the stairs. 'Come on then, give it to me,' she said when they reached his bedroom, holding out her hands with an excited grin on her face.

'Why can't you say that more often in the bedroom?'

'Cohen!'

'Okay okay, close your eyes.' Summer did so and didn't reopen them until she felt him place something in her hands and he told her to do so. She stared down at his gift, unable to hide her disappointment.

'A three day old copy of ProJo, what the hell would I want this for?' ProJo, short for the Providence Journal, was the local newspaper back in Rhode Island, and Summer failed to see how it could be classed as a present.

'I'll tell you why you would want that my little Summer. I thought you'd want that so you could get started straight away.'

'Started on what?'

'On finding our new apartment of course.' Summer gasped, her head shot up from the paper and her eyes met his.

'W-w-what?'

Seth looked at her intently, moving forward and putting his hands on her hips. 'Summer I love you. I'm sorry I took so long to ask you, I don't know why. I guess it was a number of factors, the fact that I wasn't sure if you were ready, the fact that I know you like living with Sarah, and not to mention the fact that I'm incredibly lazy and this will mean a lot of work.' Summer couldn't stop the tears from rolling down her cheeks.

'I-I, I don't know what to say. Of course I'll live with you Cohen, you have no idea how long I've been waiting for you to ask me this,' she replied emotionally, throwing her arms around his neck and kissing the hell outta him. 'I gotta say it, I'm very relieved. I was starting to think that you were never gonna ask me and that even though I'm with you, the guy I wanna be with forever, I was terrified our relationship had already hit it's peak.'

'Trust me baby,' Seth replied ever so softly, gently caressing her cheek with his thumb, 'this is only the beginning. I wanna spend my entire life with you, I wanna be one of those eighty year old couples you see sitting on a park bench, still holding hands and smiling at each other after all those years.' Summer smiled to herself at the thought. Old people on their own had the ability to be a little icky and creepy, but she knew what he was talking about. The ones that sit together in nursing homes and spend what remaining time they have together just talking and holding hands, they were the absolute definition of cute. Although she was scared of losing her youth, Summer couldn't deny that a part of her eventually wanted that too.

'God, we would make such a cute old couple Cohen,' she replied softly with a giggle, threading her fingers through his thick, curly locks. 'I love you so much,' she whispered, so quietly that he could barely hear her, but at the same time her words were laced with so much emotion.

'I love you too, merry Chrismukkah Summer Roberts,' he replied, mimicking her barely audible tone. Summer crushed her lips against his, forcefully shoving him back onto his bed. She crashed on top of him, grinding her hips against his as she moaned into his mouth. 'What's going on?' he said breathlessly when she pulled away after a good few minutes, 'what happened to the no sex rule?'

'Well you gave me this amazing extra present, so it would hardly be fair if I didn't return the favour,' she replied huskily, her clothes dishevelled, her face flustered and her normally perfect hair completely tousled. 'Cohen………take me………I'm yours………I'll do………whatever………you………want,' she muttered, giving him a passionate kiss between every other word. She giggled when she pulled away and saw his completely stunned look.

'Really, whatever I want?' She giggled once again and nodded.

'The door's locked, they're all half asleep down there. For the next couple of hours, I'm your slave, do what you like to me. Merry Chrismukkah Cohen.' With that, she leant down and locked lips with him again.

''Mmmmmm,' Seth moaned into her mouth before pulling away and grinning at her. 'It's official. Best. Chrismukkah. EVER!!'

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There you go guys, hope you liked. I can have another chapter up before I leave on Sunday, maybe even two, but only if you review QUICKLY!! You guys have been amazing with reviews so far, keep it up and I promise this story is really gonna spice up soon. CHEERS!!