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"Hey, I'm glad you came," Summer smiled shyly as she opened the door for Seth.
"No problem. I'm glad you called."
"I didn't want to do this alone and I knew I'd have to sooner or later."
"You can't stay in a hotel forever," Seth offered a lopsided grin to ease the tension.
"Yeah," Summer said before taking a deep breath and opening the door to her house.
Seth followed her inside silently.
"It's so quiet," Summer whispered.
"Yeah," Seth agreed.
"It looks exactly the same though."
"Yeah."
"I know it's stupid but I just thought it'd be different now," Summer explained, looking around the empty house.
"Well it's still your house…but I know what you mean."
They fell into an awkward silence as they stood in the main entrance.
Summer suddenly spoke up, "I know we should talk about what happened last night but right now…"
"It's fine. We've got other things to deal with at the moment."
"Thank you."
"No problem."
"I'm just going to head up to my room and take care of some things," Summer nodded before heading up the stairs.
Seth remained in the entrance for another moment before walking around downstairs and carefully shutting the door to Dr. Robert's office and his bedroom door. Then he walked to the living room where all of the flower arrangements and sympathy cards had been placed. He scanned several items until Summer came back down.
"Do you think it's time to get rid of that stuff? It's been like two weeks. Most of the flowers are looking kind of pitiful," Summer sighed, lightly brushing her finger over a petal of one of the arrangements.
"It's probably time."
"I guess I can keep the cards and everything. I should probably write some thank you notes or something."
"We can make a list of everyone who sent things as we get rid of them," Seth suggested.
"That works."
They sat for the next few hours going through cards, flowers, gift baskets, and anything else fellow mourners sent in honor of Neil Roberts. They made a list and talked a little while they worked together. Neither discussed what happened the night before. Actually, neither discussed any of the pressing matters concerning their relationship or if it was a relationship.
"Cohen, can we like stop for a minute?" Summer asked.
"Sure. What's up?"
"I need to say some things."
"Ok. Shoot," Seth said putting down a basket.
"You need to know where I'm at right now."
"Where you're at?" Seth asked slowly.
"Exactly…see, I'm not really sure where I am at this particular time…but I do know that I couldn't have done any of this without you. You have no idea how grateful I am that I've had you by my side through this. It means so much to me…probably even more than it should…and that fact alone raises some questions…and after last night, I can only imagine what's going through your head. I know how entirely confused you must be because I am too. This year has just been so crazy. I moved back here, Marissa's having a baby, I got this really great job, I made my first movie, you and I are friends again, and I lost my dad. So much has happened in such a short time. I can barely grasp how much my life has changed, but I'm glad you've been here for it. All of this has been easier with you right by me and I really can't thank you enough. So maybe that's all last night was, maybe that was just my thank you to you….but maybe it was more. I don't know but-," Summer tried to explain.
She was interrupted by her cell phone ringing.
"Coop," Summer muttered. "I'll ignore it. I've gotta get this all out while I still can."
Seth simply nodded in response as Summer silenced her phone.
"The point is, Cohen, I realized that I need to have you in my life. No matter what level it is, I just need you here. I don't know if we're supposed to be friends or if we're supposed to be more, but I know that we have to be something. After everything that's happened, I can't go back to how things were. I can't leave Newport again and I can't leave you. I don't want to stop talking to you. I don't want to stop seeing you. I don't want to stop just being with you in general. What I'm trying to say is that I think that we-," Summer continued.
This time Seth's cell phone interrupted.
"It's Ryan," Seth shrugged. "I'll ignore it."
Summer smiled a little before continuing, "You've helped me so much this year. You got me that job. You became my friend. You really helped me when I lost my dad. I need you…and I think that I want to-,"
Seth phone rang again.
"I'm sorry. This is ridiculous. It's my parents," Seth laughed at the numerous interruptions as he silenced the call.
"Seth, I'm trying to tell you that-," Summer began again as her phone rang. "What the hell is going on? There is a serious conspiracy against me!"
Seth phone rang again.
"It's Ryan calling me," Summer said in shock as she checked her phone.
"It's my parents again," Seth replied.
They both shrugged before answering their phones.
"Hey what's up?" Seth asked.
"Ryan?" Summer asked.
"Marissa's in labor," both calls replied.
"I'll be there," Seth and Summer said simultaneously.
They hung up.
"Coop's having a baby," Summer grinned.
"Can we do this later?" Seth asked gesturing between them.
"Let's just get to the hospital," Summer nodded.
(AN: I'm sorry for the massive delays. As it turns out being a play every night and having classes during the day really does take over your life. Bat Boy was a massive success and I loved every minute of it but now it's over and it's time for finals. Please bare with me. I'll try to update again later this week but I do have 6 finals God help me. Luckily, I tend to procrastinate and do other things like write or paint my toenails and that kind of thing instead of studying so chances are I will update again soon haha. Thank you all for sticking with me. As always, keep reading and I'll keep writing!)