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"What happened?"

Summer and Seth were with Sandy and Kirsten in the living room of the Cohen's house. They still hadn't found a buyer for the house.

The house looked empty. Sandy and Kirsten had sold most of the furniture.

Kirsten called Seth when they were waiting at the airport. She said that Ryan and Marissa weren't coming. And now Summer and Seth were sitting here in the living room wondering what happened to Ryan and Marissa.

"I had a phone call from Ryan. They were at the hospital in Shijazhuang, at least I believe that was the name of the town. There were some complications and the baby had to be delivered now," Kirsten told.

"But that's two months too early...is everything going to be alright?"

"Yes, they have a healthy baby."

"What...the baby is already there? So...now I'm an uncle and you are grandpa and grandma," Seth said cheerful to his parents.

"Eh...yes, you didn't have to say that so loud," Kirsten said, she still had to get used of the idea of being a grandma now. She always had thought it was going to take at least ten more years before she would be a grandma, but then again she had thought that when Seth never even had had a normal conversation with a girl and before Ryan was her son.

They all congratulated each other. It would take some time before Ryan and Marissa would come back from China with their baby, but they decided to already prepare the house for the coming of a baby, not that they were going to live in this house for long anymore. Summer and Seth were going to the attic to get baby stuff that was left-over from Seth, when he was a baby.

Summer and Seth hadn't talked to each other since they left the airport. They both had been thinking about Neil's suggestion.

"You don't have to worry. I'm not going to take money over you," Seth said, while they walked upstairs.

"Maybe you can have both."

"How...?" Seth wondered what Summer meant.

"You take the money and we pretend we break up," Summer suggested.

"We pretend? You mean we're going to have a secret romance like Romeo and Julliet?"

"Eh...yeah...but let's hope we don't end up the same way, okay?" Summer said, thinking about their tragic death.

"Okay, that probably wasn't the best comparison...so....?"

"Tomorrow we're going to my place and you take the money and then we break up."

"I shall write it in my agenda. What time are we going to break up?" Seth agreed.

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Again silence.

This was getting weird. How much of these phone calls did she have this last month? She picked up the phone and then there was no one on the other side of the line, well at least not anyone who said anything. She hung up the phone.

The phone rang.

Summer really had enough of this.

The phone rang for the second time.

Summer picked up the phone.

"Son of a bitch, stop calling me," she yelled.

"It's always nice to hear you like it when I call."

"Cohen, it's you," Summer said when she recognized Seth's voice.

She hadn't seen him for two weeks. Summer told her father that she and Seth broke up and it wasn't realistic to pretend they would be best friends right after they broke up. So they decided it was best to don't see each other for some time, because her father knew a lot of people who could see them together. And if one of them told her father, Summer wouldn't have a good explanation.

It had been very lonely two weeks. Now she couldn't see Seth and Marissa & Ryan still hadn't returned from China. She spent a lot of time with her father and stepmother, which wasn't the best way to spend two weeks. Summer really couldn't stand it to be with her father, because he lied to her, because he was willing to give her boyfriend money to break up with her. But she couldn't even fight with him about it, because she had to pretend she didn't know about the deal he made with Seth. But everytime she looked at her father she remembered the deal.

She had thought about Seth a lot. She wondered what he told his parents about how he got so much money. She knew for sure that if Sandy and Kirsten knew Seth got the money from Neil, because he stopped seeing Summer, they never would have taken the money. And there was no reason to doubt that they had accept the money, because they weren't even selling the house anymore. It should have been a big amount her father had given. The last few days she didn't think about this akward situation so much, because she didn't want to anymore.

"Why are you calling to my house? What if my father would have picked up the phone?" Summer asked Seth, a little shocked he just called her.

"You said yourself he's never home."

"Yes, I said that before he disturbed our make out session, remember?"

"How could I forget? Did he already burn the kitchen table?"

"Cohen, if you're calling me just to make jokes, I'm going to hang up. My father will be home soon," Summer said, her dad was supposed to be free from work now. He actually should have been home by now and she had no idea where her stepmother was.

"Ryan and Marissa will be home tomorrow with their baby, I thought maybe you would like to come to see them."

Summer doubted. She would love to see their baby, but it would be weird to be in the Cohen's house, especially to see Sandy and Kirsten. Did they also think she and Seth really broke up?

"Eh...yeah, I will be there," Summer decided.

"Shall I pick you up in a restaurant so you don't have to explain anything to your father?"

"Okay, The Juice Bar?"

"That will be fine..." Seth paused for a moment.

"We're still okay...I mean...a couple, right?" Seth asked.

"Why wouldn't we be? Because we haven't talked to each other, seen each other or kissed each other for two weeks? We're even better than just a couple, we act just like a couple who are married for nine years."

"That's true," Seth smiled.

"I have to go now," Summer said when she heard a door opening.

"And stop calling to my house," she whispered into the phone, before she replaced the receiver.

Summer went to another room and looked at her dad who just came home.

"You're late," she said to him.

"It's very busy at work lately. I'll have to work tomorrow the whole day as well," he explained.

"Oh."

Then she didn't have to meet Seth in a restaurant, but her stepmother could be home tomorrow... She'd better still should go to the restaurant. Because of the interruption of her father she still didn't know what Seth told his parents. Well, she would find out tomorrow in the restaurant.

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Summer stood in The Juice Bar, waiting for Seth. She sighed, she hated waiting. She looked out of the window. Nothing had changed since the last time she looked out of the window. She looked back again at the people in the restaurant.

Then she got sight of the table next to the window. Was that her father sitting there? He was supposed to be working right now. There was a woman sitting on the other side of the table. They seemed to have a lot of fun together. Summer walked towards them, bumping into Seth. Neil and the woman had noticed Summer and Seth and looked at them.

"What are you doing here with Seth?" Neil asked, surprised to see Seth and Summer together.

"What are you doing here with another woman?" Summer gave as answer.

Summer stood right in front of the table and saw the woman's face. She saw the brown eyes and the dark long hair.

"Mum?"

...okay, if you have any ideas for a name for R&M's baby (it isn't going to be Sushi) or for Summer's mother, please let me know...because at the moment I can only think of Dutch names and I don't want to call them Els or Jan...:S