Sorry for lack of updates, I've had a lot of homework and to be honest, lost interest in updating fics because of lack of reviews. To be honest, reviews really HELP me with ideas and inspire me to keep writing, so I hope I get positive feedback for this, it would be really appreciated. If not, I might take a break from fics because it's the same for my other stories too.

Oh well, might just have to stick it out. Here it is.

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Last Night Of Bliss

The week rolled through with no hitches, aside from Summer's usual dating rules being thrust into action at school, things seemed to be going smoothly. Nothing was said or done to prove them otherwise.

After school hours, they were inseparable. Spending dinners together, albeit usually at the others house as going out publicly was still an ongoing issue with Summer, cuddling with each other on the couch and watching movies.

During school however, proved to be a different story. They spent close to no time with each other, which was probably the reason for their inseparable after hours time. Seth decided to try and redevelop his friendship with Anna, while Summer was getting drawn back into the life of popularity.

Neither was particularly happy with what was going on. Summer wasn't pleased with Anna back in the picture, and Seth sure as hell wasn't happy at all with that tool Justin trying to make amends for what happened in the past.

It was Friday afternoon, and the bell rang signaling the end of the day. Students scrambled left and right in a hurry to get away from the torture chamber they called school, and Seth was last to his locker. He collected his homework and jammed it into his bag, then sprang for the exit doors closest to his wing.

He walked stiffly as he spotted the Cohen car out in the car park, with Ryan waiting impatiently. He awaited a car to pass by so he could cross the street to the parking lot, but something caught his eye. He spotted Summer chatting away and laughing uncontrollably with several Harbor jocks and even grazed their chests a few times during her laughing fit. The 4 tools just grinned and leaned against their hummers and beemers. He remained frozen and watched Summer and the idiots joke around and chat, trying to use his jedi mind powers to get her to turn and spot him.

Eventually, just that happened; her eyes crossed paths with Seth's and he could already see her insecurity level rising. The 4 jocks in front of her took no notice in her lack of attention, as her eyes were locked on Seth for the moment. He smiled back at her and raised his hand, which was met with an extremely nervous smile and a half wave-half scratch of the head.

He sighed heavily, and continued on his way across the street toward the car park.

"It took you long enough."

"Nice to see you too, Ryan." Seth retorted with the same grouchiness and dullness as Ryan. Ryan jumped off the hood of the range rover and walked around to the drivers seat. Seth piled into the passengers seat, with Summer still in his sight.

"You know you can make things easier and just talk to her." Ryan explained as he sensed Seth's lack of concentration as they remained silent in the car looking out at the emptying school. Seth watched as one of the taller jocks leaned over and whispered something in her ear.

"Not without jeopardizing our relationship though." He sighed heavily, and lowered his head, unable to watch anymore. Ryan frowned at him. That just seemed completely bizarre. "Hey man, her words not mine."

"Well I'm getting tired of seeing you like this. You've got to make a decision one way or the other. If you don't like things the way they are, do something about it. If you're only intention is to be with her, like it was from the beginning, than you should just deal with it."

"Wow I've never heard you say more than 5 words." Ryan narrowed his eyes at him and snorted. "No, no I got it though, you're right." Ryan finally started the engine, and Seth looked to where Summer was to see if he could get one last glimpse of her. Even if things were rocky, it was always worth it to see her smile…even if it was caused from someone else. But to his surprise, her car was no longer there and the jocks had cleared out too.

"Hey Cohen." Seth shifted his gaze from the front window to directly beside him, where Summer's car was parked. She grinned at him and waved. "Hey Atwood."

"Uhh hey Sum."

"Roberts." Ryan confirmed. "Have you seen Marissa today? I didn't catch her after school."

"Oh yeah she's staying late today because of planning for the year end prom." She explained confidently. "Speaking of planning, what are we up to tonight? Its Friday night Cohen…" She uttered seductively.

"Well when you put it that way, I was thinking about hanging at my house and watching a movie." He shot back with the same passion and desire as Summer. Was he ever looking forward to spending some quality time with her, especially with the way things had been going and…well what she was wearing definitely was a deciding factor.

"Are you serious? Come on Cohen, we do that everyday."

"I never hear you complaining once you're over." He quirked back, knowing full well she enjoyed herself once she was over.

"That's different, besides today's Friday. I heard there was a party at Holly's tonight."

"Who'd you hear that from…Justin?" Seth mumbled under his breath, but Summer heard it full well and sighed. She really didn't know what was up with him, she thought everything was fine. At least, he hadn't said exactly if something was wrong.

"When isn't there a party at Holly's?" Ryan chimed in, interrupting her pondering over Seth and receiving a glare in the process. "I'll be quiet now."

"Come on Cohen…please?" She offered those puppy-dog eyes that at the moment, wanted to ignore, especially when he was in such a crappy mood. But it was Summer, so he couldn't help but give in. "I promise you won't be disappointed…" She trailed off, leaving the rest to his imagination.

"Tonight…Holly's…can't wait." He smiled nervously, which Summer chose to ignore. She scanned the surroundings, noticing everyone had left long ago, and closed the distance between the two vehicles, and pecked Seth on the lips. She pulled back and grinned back at him once more, before pulling away.

"Well I'm assuming you're fine with just being with her for now, after witnessing that."

"What?" Seth muttered out wearily as he was still more focused on Summer's now disappearing car in the distance and recovering from her kiss that always left him breathless, than listening to Ryan. "Oh I mean, no of course not."

"You didn't quite help your cause to have a public relationship by acting like a lovesick puppy and obeying her every word."

"What can I say Ryan, I'm whipped."

"I'll say…"

"But not nearly as much as you are."

"Psh yeah right, you've got to be kid-…" Ryan started but was interrupted.

"Ryan! Thank god you're here." They both turned to see who it was, and sure enough, the one and only Marissa Cooper was scampering across the parking lot toward them.

"Ah! Marissa, what a surprise!" He feigned excitement and had his mouth open in fake disbelief as she approached his side.

"Hey you guys, Ryan I was wondering if you could give me a hand." Seth turned away from to face his brother, smirking the entire time.

"Did you hear her Ryan? She needs you to help her out." Seth chimed with his mouth still wide open and his hand covering, while Ryan grunted.

"What's up?" He completely ignored Seth and focused on his girlfriend.

"Well we're building a model for the prom that we want to place at the front doors, and I figured since you like construction ,you could help out."

"Sure…" He replied through gritted teeth.

"Alright thank's. I've got to get back inside, I swear those girls can't do nothing without me." She gave her signature smile and made her way around the vehicle to give Ryan a kiss, before trotting back toward the school.

"Hmm…you were saying something…I just can't seem to remember what it was." Seth broke the temporary silence as Ryan groaned and unbuckled his seatbelt.

"You take the car home." Ryan informed with no enthusiasm whatsoever.

"Oh I've got it! It was something about being whipped…"

"Shut up Seth…" Ryan groaned and opened the door. They both exited the car and began swapping places, Seth in the drivers seat and Ryan trudging toward the school.

"Ta ta Ryan!" Seth hollered after him, which was met with the 'Atwood glare'. He smirked back at him, then sped out of the parking lot.

"Suuummer hurry up!"

"One more word and I swear you'll regret ever being born."

"Believe me I already do."

"Can it Cohen, don't make me come out there and kick your ass."

"Please do, so we can get a move on already." Seth hollered back from the other side. "God did I just 'get a move on'?"

"You're not helping speed things up with your constant whining."

"Why do I always have to be the gentlemen and agree to pick you up?"

"Because if you didn't, you wouldn't get to see me and find out how much I appreciate you for it." She responded as Seth nodded and sighed.

"True. But sometimes I just wish we could agree to meet up there, it would save so much time."

"Well constantly babbling away to me isn't speeding things up."

It was 8:30 and Seth was waiting rather impatiently in her room as she was 'glaming' up as she liked to call it. Even for the littlest things such as a Holly Fisher party, where 70 of the attendees ended the night in next to nothing, Summer still had to go all out.

She finally emerged from the bathroom, grinning broadly at the look on Seth's face. He was about to start on another rant about time management, but was now struggling for words to describe her appearance.

Beautiful seemed to be getting overused now every time he described Summer. But she was in fact just that, in every sense of the word.

"Alright Cohen, enough drooling. Can we get going now?"

"Yes ma'm"

He saw the look in her eyes, and knew it couldn't be good as they pulled onto Holly's street, which was lit up by dazzling lights that enhanced the exquisite homes. Seth finally found what Summer was concentrated on, and was already fearing the worst.

Basically, her entire old life lay just ahead of her in the form of a rocking house and partying Newport socialites. She had cut down on the amount of parties she attended since she and Seth started their little, messed up dating scheme, and already she was feeling the itch as she saw several of her old friends laughing and having a great time.

Seth swerved away from the house, leaving Summer ogling backward after it as he parked further down the street. As he pulled in, Summer instantly shot for the handle so she could begin scampering down the road back to the raging party. Seth however, was way ahead of her, and shot the locks shut.

"Cohen! What the hell!" She barked as she began to use her fingernail to open the lock. "Let me out!"

"Can we just hangout in here for a while?" Seth offered, which was met by a glare from Summer but she turned away quickly to continue picking her way out. He sighed, as his attempt to spark anything between them failed, and grabbed onto her hands. "Summmmeeerrr…we're all alone…" He uttered seductively from behind her into her ear.

"Cohen, please I'm not in the mood, can we please just go." Seth sighed as his last chance at keeping Summer from the party, and essentially back to her old life failed and he opened the doors. He was now doomed for a night full of watching her from afar and basically supervising her as if she were a child. That's what their relationship had come to, and neither liked it.

Summer sprung out the door and began pacing her way down the sidewalk, while Seth trudged out the door to catch up to her. She finally reached the front of Holly's house, when Seth suddenly pulled on her hand and tugged her back.

"Can we just talk for a minute?" Seth pleaded with her, which caused her to sigh. She really didn't feel like dealing with this right now, and she knew exactly what Seth wanted to talk about. Which was why getting into the party was now priority number one, so she could forget all about her troubles and Seth problems.

She felt terrible for treating him like crap, and new certainly that he deserved a hell of a lot better than being dangled around on a string.

"Please Cohen, can we not do this now. I promise we can talk to tomorrow." She sighed heavily, frustrated with herself for even being in the situation she was in. Having a great guy and completely treating him like shit. Tomorrow definitely wasn't looking too bright.

She avoided his gaze, but knew he understood her. He always would, it was just who he was. Seth squeezed on her hand, but she still refused to look at him fearing one look at him and she'd break down right there.

"Yeah its alright Sum, whatever you want." He loosened his grip on her hand and she began to squirm away. Until a wave of passion and desire surged through him, and he tightened his grip and pulled her back into him.

"Cohen what the he-…" She was now fed up with him, but was startled by what she was dragged back into. He pulled her in close, and lifted her chin up so she was looking right into his eyes. He began to softly stroke her cheek with his other hand, a move that drove her wild every time, and finally closed the gap between their lips, igniting the sparks even further that were already flying.

She felt his tongue begin to trace along her bottom lip, a sign she instantly picked up on, and opened her mouth to allow him entrance. It was amazing that Seth was inexperienced with women before her, because from all of his kisses, she sure couldn't tell. She began to softly moan into the kiss and Seth's hands fell down to her hips and pulled her in tighter.

Eventually they broke apart for air, Summer with a stunned expression and Seth smirking.

"Go have your fun Sum." He replied and shot her one last smile before breaking off into the party ahead of her. Summer was left feeling even more guiltier, but couldn't help the smile that crept onto her face for having a wonderful guy like Seth.

"Hey." Seth shook his fading gaze from the floor to the person seated beside him.

"Oh hey Anna.."

"I just wanted to say sorry about everything that's happened between us in the past few months."

"Its okay…" He replied drearily. His attention was focused on Summer dancing rather seductively with two guys, Justin and another water polo guy, and he didn't like it one bit. Anna sensed his mood, and decided to keep things rolling along.

"So how are things going?"

"Oh you know, just fine, watching my girlfriend dance with another guy. But other than that just fine." He muttered angrily.

"Girlfriend? Who?" Seth cringed at Anna's words, realizing nobody really knew about him and Summer. Anna smirked as she watched Seth scramble around; but she knew full well that they were dating, and hoped to change it.

"Uhhh its nothing." Anna nodded with a smirk on her face as they both fell silent. "Listen Anna, I've gotta get Summer home I'm responsible for her seeing as I gave her a lift and all" He sighed as he saw how hard the task was going to be as Summer's near unconscious body continued to spark up the dancefloor.

"Okay then, bye." He smiled briefly then began to head for Summer.

"Hey wait." Anna shot her head up at this. "We should maybe, ummm hangout sometime…if that's okay with you?"

"That sounds great!" Anna replied with a grin on her face. Seth nodded one more time and waved, then made his way toward Summer.

"Summer." He called but was cut off by Justin blocking him off from her. "Summer."

They had been at the party for about 2 and half hours and everyone was now trashed out of their minds. Seth had watched Summer closely over the duration of the party, making sure she didn't do anything she'd regret later.

"Okay that's it." He said to himself as the guys and Summer continued to ignore him, though Summer didn't appear to even comprehend what he said. "Get away from her! We're leaving." He snaked his hand inside and split them apart, receiver angered glares from the guys.

"Cohen!" She gave a goofy smile and wrapped her arms around him, a move she could get away with considering her state.

"Lets go Sum, I'm taking you home." She pouted her lip but obliged, Seth couldn't help but smile at her adorable face. Seth guided her away from the designated dancefloor, walking past the angered Justin and water polo player, deciding to just smirk at them so he could parade Summer off in front of them, and they walked out the door. Although, Summer was having trouble getting her right foot to come after the left, so Seth leaned her against the door once they were outside, and picked her up; cradling her in his arms.

It amazed him at how tiny and light she was, but figured it all added to her charm. She rested her head in the crook of his neck and wrapped her arms tightly around his neck as his hands supported her back and her legs. He quickly reached the car and placed her in the backseat comfortably, with her still babbling away.

He sped off without another word to Summer and even she could sense the hostile mood Seth appeared in.

"Alright Sum, I'm going to take off."

"No don't go!" He sighed heavily and scratched his head. "Pleeeease can you s-stay?"

"I think it would be better if I went home. We'll talk in the morning." He saw her mood change from ecstatic to hurt within seconds, as her body slouched deeper into the sheets as she lay staring up at the ceiling. Seth remained seated on the edge of her bed. He sighed again, knowing he wasn't going to get home.

"Oh alright." She shot her head up, smiling brightly. She wrapped her arms around his neck and pecked him quickly on the lips.

"Thanks Cohen, I-I just don't w-want to s-spend another night alone." She replied weakly, and Seth studied her face. These were the things he loved about Summer above her appearance and the added hotness that was her. The times when she let out too much or said things she wasn't supposed to say about her actual life, and not the one everyone assumed she had. He knew for certain she had issues to, just like everyone else.

He was snapped awake by Summer pulling the blankets out, leaving room for him on the other side of the bed.

"I'm not tired yet Sum, but you should get some sleep."

"Oh…okay."

"Don't worry I'll be right here. I'm not going anywhere." He smiled at her and received a druken goofy grin. She leaned up one last time to kiss him, before falling back down on the bed and crashing instantly.

Seth's smile faded as he was now left sitting on the edge of the bed just watching Summer, one of his favorite pastimes. He traced a hand up her leg and eventually made his way up to her face and brushed some strands of hair away, to view her perfect face.

He remained like that for a good portion of the night, switching his gaze from her and stroking her cheek, to staring blankly at the wall, lifeless as can be. Tomorrow definitely wasn't going to be a good day, but he knew it had to be done. He couldn't go on like this, and neither could Summer.

The way Summer treated him had to end, hopefully the relationship doesn't crumble apart in the process….

I feel pretty good about that chapter. I know its been a while since I updated, but I don't think I lost any flare or whatever.

PLEASE review. Thank you, hope you liked it.

Trouble in paradise. Last day of school. The dance.