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A Note from the Author: Lalalala. On my writing kick and it's the weekend! Whee! I'm still liking reviews, so feel free to tell me whatever you feel like about the story. I can see there are people who actually take time to review almost every chapter, so I'm eternally grateful to OcFan4u, BlueStarGirl, Candy.07, and everyone else! Also, I remember someone wondered about what Marissa called about, sometime in Chapter Four. But I was writing it as, like, even a random phone call that probably had nothing to do with Ryan could make Summer guilty – which sort of tied into the whole idea of the chapter. Or… it was a loose plot point. Heh, guess we'll never know. Speaking of loose plot points, I've just noticed the lack of Anna in these chapters. Just think of the story as post-Goodbye Girl, 'kay? Onwards!

Chapter Six

After that big kiss, and after Summer removed the Trident from her mouth and they kissed a couple more times to make up for it, Summer and Ryan pulled away, never taking their eyes off each other.

Summer was the first to speak. "So…"

"So…" Ryan echoed.

"So… we just did something that was, like, totally wrong."

"Yeah."

"And… I should be saying like, 'ew', and 'Chino, get your hands off of me', but… I'm not."

"Huh."

Summer regarded Ryan seriously for a moment. "So, like… what does this mean?"

Ryan thought for a second and mumbled, "Momentary lapse of judgement."

Summer seemed to be quite pleased with this explanation and agreed, "It was a momentary lapse of judgement. Won't happen again."

Ryan nodded. "Won't happen again."

There were a couple more nights of awkwardness after that for them, mixed in with guilt. It was like the beginning of summer all over again. Ryan didn't know whether he could look at Summer straight in the eyes and Summer didn't know whether she was now officially cheating on Seth, except for the fact that he had just ditched her and they were technically, 'on a break' (as some popular sitcom had termed it).

Either way, both knew it was wrong and that it should stop. Right now.

About a week after the 'incident that shall not be named', Ryan and Summer were sitting next to each other on the couch. Summer crossed her legs and they accidentally came into contact with Ryan's.

He looked at her. She looked at him.

It was bare skin against bare skin, and they didn't move.

A while later, as they were making out heavily on the couch, Summer turned to Ryan and said, "Just for the summer."

Because as much as they would hate to admit it, they always had a thing for each other from the minute they met. Granted, it was a turnoff that Ryan was from Chino and Summer was a bitch (in the nicest way possible), but the physical attraction was always there.

And it was the physical attraction, and the hot summer days, that led to this sort of using each other for the sake of gaining some satisfaction. They couldn't really deny it, nor hide it, so it was best to get it all out of their systems, right? All out in the open and then they could return back to normal with their respective, 'destined' partners, right?

Yeah, that's right.

It was just for the summer, and when summer was over, they'd forget this ever happened and chalk it up to a long momentary lapse of judgement.

It would be so easy to control this little recreation they were enjoying, or so they thought.

Because, no matter how many times they avoided the topic, and no matter how many times they reassured themselves that it 'really didn't mean anything', Ryan had feelings for Summer and Summer had feelings for Ryan.

In a word, they were fucked.