Short chap. Begins sweet, it ends kind of angsty. I hope you like it. Not the best but not the worst. READ AND REVIEW!
XOXO Jules
Chapter 12: "Only know what they have"
The next morning Marissa had to go to work. She took Ryan to give him a tour of the shelter. That left Summer and little Seth at Marissa's apartment, and Seth at his place.
"Alright, do you remember what you are going to do?" Summer asked as she fixed little Seths overalls, and red T-shirt.
"Yea!" He said smiling looking down proudly at his new red converse shoes.
"Alright, go on then." Summer said giving Seth a light push down the hall.
Seth knocked repeatedly on the door, a lop-sided grin on his face. Seth opened the door, and looked around, he didn't see anyone until little Seth tapped on his knee. Seth jumped back when he looked down, seeing a miniature version of himself.
"Hi." Little Seth said smiling
"Hi." Seth said picking him up.
"Thank you for my shoe." He said pointing to his shoe.
"Yeah buddy." He said as he carried little Seth back to the hall where Summer stood waiting.
She smiled. Seth tried to look away from the bruises on her face.
"Hey Seth." She said.
"Hi." Both Seths said at the same time.
"That's going to get a little confusing." Seth said laughing.
"Eh, just call him Ryder, he'll answer to it."
"Ryder?" Big Seth asked
"Yeah, it's his middle name. He'll answer to it. I'd call him either. I only call him Seth because of you. I'm not particularly fond of the name." Summer said mischievously blushing.
"Well gee thanks." Seth said shifting Little Seth… or Ryder of that matter to his other arm.
"Seth Ryder Hanson…" Summer said.
"Well you never know, Seth Ryder Cohen." Seth said smiling.
Summer looked down and nodded
"We should really get that straightened out." Summer said
"I already made plans." Seth said.
"Oh you did?" Summer asked surprised.
"Yeah, for tomorrow actually. There's a clinic downtown that can give us the results in two days." Seth informed her. He fixed Seths overalls.
"Haha, those are his trade mark pants." Summer said
"Why is that." Seth asked holding up the child above his face.
"Because, anything else he wears looks like he is planning for a flood." Summer confessed.
"Ah, then to the mall we must go." Seth said
"Seth Cohen? Talking about going to the MALL!" She said in disbelief
"Yes, for my potential son I will travel into the belly of the beast."
"The beast being?" Summer asked
"Teenage girls sporting in Louis Vutton bags, toting daddy's bank card."
"You just described me as a teenager." Summer said kicking him.
"I know that I did. Come on, close up shop. We're heading out."
They shopped around the mall for an hour until Seth was satisfied… well almost.
"One more thing." Seth said
"What is that?" Summer asked raising her eyebrow
"We bought something for mini me, but I want to get his mother something." Seth said
"NO! Letting you buy my child stuff was enough, but me? No." Summer said holding up her hand.
Little Seth was holding one of Summers hands, and one of Seths walking in between them.
"Since when do you not like to be pampered?"
"Since I grew up." Summer said airily
Seth nodded
"Well that sucks for you because since I grew up I found that I love to pamper so you're stuck with me."
"Oh please Seth you always pampered me!" Summer said rolling her eyes
"That's because I love you." Seth said causing Summer to stop dead in her tracks.
"How can you still love me after what I put you through?" Summer said, her voice quivering.
"I don't know." Seth said shrugging picking up little Seth. "I just do." He said
Summer stopped.
It was Todd's birthday. She had spent all day baking him cake. Little Seth and She had spent hours cleaning as well. The apartment had never shined so brightly.
"SURPRISE!" Little Seth yelled when he walked through the door.
"What the hell is this?" Todd asked
"It's for your birthday honey." Summer said coming over and giving him a kiss.
Todd looked at the cake and pushed it off the table and went over to Summers purse taking out what little money she had.
"For my birthday I'm going to get a real woman."
And with that he left. Summer fought back tears.
"I love you." Little Seth whispered in her ear.
"I love you too baby."
She looked at the cake on the linoleum floor and handed little Seth a fork. Seth looked down at the cake.
" 'S dirty." He said.
"We cleaned so much earlier, I think it will be okay." Summer said kissing her son.
And together they ate the cake that had fallen to the floor like hope of something better.
I'm not sure if I said or not. The chapter lyrics to this story are from a Jack Johnson song Mediocre Bad Guys. Check it out. It is on the CD "On and On"