Chapter 20

A/N: Whoof, I'm at chapter 20 already! Yay, I'm going to have a little 20 chapter mark celebration. starts doing a victory dance

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OKAY! I'm back!!! Whew. wipes sweat from forehead What a workout!!! Lol. Oh and I love the reviews. Keep them coming! I'm so happy with them.

I'm going to end this story very soon, I mean I have 20 chapters up already! I don't want this to be one of the stories that last forever, you know the ones that have about 50 chapters? I can't go THAT much into the future. I mean they'll be, like, 40! But I think the length of my chapters are pretty long, so if you ever miss my story, you can always re-read it. Winks Lol. I'll have more fics later in the future.

I don't think I can wait until October 30th this year. Ug, I hate summer when all the shows stop!!! And only one more One Tree Hill episode before the season ends. Boo-hoo. sniffs

I have no idea why I'm telling you this, but when I review, I use the name S. It's much easier than writing starryskyangel1 every time. I don't like logging in. I'm just lazy like that. Okay, so remember, I'm S. So, if you don't like one of my reviews, you can send hate mails to whatever email I have posted with this user name. Jeez, you guys are probably sick of my author note. Well, tough luck! Just kidding. . . here's Chapter 20.

Ryan was dumbfounded. "What?"

The doctor had a somber expression on her face. "I said she lost the baby due to stress." She enunciated.

Cindy broke into a torrent of tears. She buried her head in Ryan's chest like she had earlier that night.

Ryan was still speechless. "H-h-how did it happen?"

The doctor was starting to get aggravated. Did he hear what I just said, twice??? She tried not to get frustrated. "She lost it DUE to STRESS. That means she was stressed out. You know like um. . ." She tried to find synonyms for the word stress.

"I get it Doc." Ryan snapped.

The doctor surveyed the two of them. "Have you two been fighting recently? That would probably be what caused the loss of the baby."

Ryan felt so guilty. He was the one who yelled at her. It was his fault. Now he could go with Marissa. But Ryan felt so guilty for thinking that.

Cindy stopped crying. She looked up at his blue eyes with her puffy, red eyes. "Now you can go back to Marissa. Right?"

Ryan's heart broke. Cindy was so sweet and thoughtful. "I don't know Cindy, I'm so sorry. . ." He said as he kissed the top of her head.

"Maybe it was for the best. . ." Cindy whispered.

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"Please, Summer, let me explain." Seth asked in his pleading tone.

Summer couldn't feel a tug in her heart when she saw the desolate condition Seth was in it. He was soaked wet, and looked really hot. But, Summer's mind flit back to the image of him and Anna and her heart tore.

"I-I can't Seth."

"Summer!" Seth's eyes were wide.

I'm not a perfect person

There's many things I wish I didn't do

But I continue learning

I never meant to do those things to you

And so I have to say before I go

That I just want you to know

"I can't Seth." Summer turned away from him towards somewhere. Anywhere, away from Seth. She couldn't stand it.

"Summer, wait!" He grabbed her arm.

I've found a reason for me

To change who I used to be

A reason to start over new

and the reason is you

"Let go of me!" Summer hissed. She attracted the attention of the surrounding customers. They scorned at Seth's disheveled appearance.

Seth sensed her anger and let go. "I-I didn't do it." Seth whispered to her.

"How do I know?" Summer asked. "I don't know if I know who you are anymore? What happened to you Seth? You used to be the caring guy, the sweet one."

Seth was hurt. He knew that this was a really seriously subject. He lowered his voice. "Aren't I still those things Summer?"

Summer shook her head. "You're never there when I wake up. We always send the kids to your parents' house. And you come home after the kids go to sleep. I wait up for you every night, but sometimes it gets too late for me to keep staying up. And you know what? That's almost every night. When's it going to stop?"

"Summer, do you think you are so easy to support? For god sakes, you run up a bill of clothes every week of 10,000 dollars. It's always some new car or gadget that you have to buy. I work to make that much money. Summer look at you, your shoes cost probably about 1,000 dollars."

Summer winced as she looked at her 15,000 dollar shoes. They were blue diamonds. She thought of the other ones she had for special events.

"Summer. I love you. I would do anything for you."

Summer couldn't take it anymore. "You're only spending time around here because Ryan is here. When he goes back to New York, it's going to be the same."

Seth was frustrated. Why can't she see it from my point of view? "She gave me damn sleeping powder." He yelled.

"Seth, shutup. You're attracting attention. I can't trust you anymore. You've done a 180 on me. You are my dad in a much younger form."

"Summer, I'll promise I'll change."

"Seth, you've only done a 180. You still got another 180 degrees to do. Which is probably going to take something disastrous to wake you up. Seth, I'm going to go. Just leave me alone."

"Are you going to abandon me just like your mother Summer? Running away from your fears." Seth said. He immediately regretted it the instant he processed what he said.

Summer's eyes flashed with anger. "Maybe I am. And all I know is that you made a mistake and you're going to pay for the consequences." She said with a smirk. Summer wasn't going to let him break her heart like that. She turned to leave again. Seth stood there shocked. He knew that there wasn't anything he could do that would make her forgive him. What was the reasonable evidence he had? He had no way of showing it. Then he saw Summer turn back. His heart surged a bit with hope. But it was quickly diminished when he saw the same smirk Summer had when she was bent on revenge. "Don't even think about picking up the kids, Seth." Then she triumphantly strode out of the door into the now clear LA.

Seth stood there. He didn't know what the hell he was going to do. Taking his own kids away from him? What the fuck did Anna do to him?

I'm sorry that I hurt you

It's something I must live with everyday

And all the pain I put you through

I wish that I could take it all away

And be the one who catches all your tears

Thats why i need you to hear

An elderly man passed and patted his back. "Sorry son, looks like you're not getting laid tonight."

Seth gawked.

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Ryan and Cindy were walking along. There wasn't anything wrong with Cindy, the immense pain only lasted for an hour. They walked side-by-side silence in the air. Ryan really enjoyed this. He looked at Cindy. She was really bearing it well. Ryan felt so much pity for her. He put his arm around her and pulled her into him.

"LA is really pretty at night." Cindy remarked.

Ryan was silent for a minute. "Yeah."

Another silence filled the air.

"This is really beautiful." Cindy said as she stopped along a bench in one of the deserted parks. It was night and there wasn't many people around since they were off of the main streets of Los Angeles. "Ryan, I really like you. But, we're not in love with each other. We're just really good friends."

Ryan nodded.

Cindy suddenly laughed.

Ryan turned on the bench to face her.

"You know, if you ever need any quick sex, you can always call me." Cindy joked. She nudged him in his side with her elbow.

Ryan smiled. Cindy was so glad that he smiled. She didn't really see him smile often. She smiled back at him with her peaceful blue eyes looking into his stormy blue eyes. Ryan hugged her and kissed her on the top of her head. Cindy giggled.

They just sat there, admiring the stars and each other's company.

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Seth sat on his empty, desolate hotel room. He couldn't bear to go back to that hotel room. The bed had a sort of reddish hue to it. He lay back with his bottle of gin. He had already drank the hotel's vodka. The buzz really affected him. Seth could hold his liquor in well after Ryan came along, lets say he had plenty of practice. But, the alcohol was starting to get to him, which really was saying something.  Seth stumbled after getting up from the bed. He giggled.

Someone knocked on the door. Seth couldn't get there in time because he was so drunk. Apparently, the person got sick of waiting because they just slid the large manila envelope under the crack of the door. Seth ripped open the package.

Seth:

I think that we need to take sometime apart. Separate. K? Here are the divorce papers. Just sign them and send them to the firm. ---Summer.

Seth threw up his head and emptied the rest of the bottle into his mouth and reached to grab another bottle of vodka from the mini-bar.

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A/N: There you go, chapter 20. So, what will happen with Seth and Summer. And what will Summer do when she finds out about what Anna did? I would love suggestions for plots of revenge. winks review, review, review! Thanks.