Disclaimer: I know, you know, Josh knows, I don't own the OC.

Thanks for the reviews and all the names...but...eh...haha...I think I've got a bit too many names now, so I couldn't use all of them, sorry. I've decided to call Sum's mom Faith and RM's baby...oh, you'll see, just read the chapter.

I'm sorry if it takes sometime before I update, but I'm very busy with school.

"How...what...I...," Summer stammered, while she looked with disbelief to her mother.

This couldn't be real, this was a weird dream or nightmare. This couldn't be her mother, her mother left her a long time ago and Summer had accepted that after a while. She was used to a life with no mother. It was almost like she never even had a mother. And now her mother was here, her mother was here right in front of her.

"She contacted me a few days ago...," Neil said.

"I've tried to...I called you a few times, but I was too scared to say something," Summer's mother said.

"That was you?"

All this time Summer had thought it had been Zach who called her, but now...She didn't know what to say or to think. Her mother already had been here a few days and her father had known.

"Summer, what I did was wrong. I shouldn't have left you and your father..." Faith tried to explain.

"But you did, you did leave us," Summer whispered.

Summer felt the tears coming to her eyes. She stared at her mother and then she ran out of the restaurant.

"Summer," her mother called after.

"I think she needs some time alone right now. She'll come round," Neil said to Faith and then he brought his attention to Seth, who rather wanted to run outside to Summer than standing here.

"What were you doing here with Summer?" Neil asked.

"Oh, I wasn't here with Summer, I just bumped into her...I have a date with someone else, but I think she stood me up," Seth made up, while he looked worried to the window to see if he could see a glimpse of Summer.

"That's too bad," Neil said, while Faith stared at the door of the restaurant.

Seth nodded.

"I guess I have no luck with girls."

"I can arrange a date for you if you want."

"Oh, that's not necessary...I..." Seth tried to talk himself out of this.

"Why wouldn't you want a date?" Neil asked.

"I...I don't like the idea that the father of my ex arranges a date for me. That sounds just really weird."

"Don't be such a wet blanket. I promise she will be pretty pretty. Next wednesday is okay?"

"I don't ..."

"Okay, it's a deal," Neil decided for Seth.

"I don't...," Seth just stammered. He didn't want to argue now Summer was somewhere outside, lonely and confused. He would sabotage this date later.

"I've got to go now," he said to Summer's parents.

Seth walked outside and saw Summer standing by the car.

"Are you alright?" he asked, while he walked to her.

"I'm just...I don't know. I don't know what to think...she...she's here and..." there was a caught in her voice.

She looked up to Seth, she was in tears. He kissed her forhead and pressed her to him.

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Seth and Summer wanted to go the livingroom right away to see Ryan, Marissa and their baby, but they got interrupted by Kirsten and Sandy, who lead them to the kitchen.

"Is there something wrong?" Seth asked.

"No, don't worry," Kirsten shook her head.

"We just think it would be best to not tell them yet that we were bankrupt. It's been a very long, tiring journey and let's give them some peace before you're going to discuss all the problems in the Orange County," Sandy said.

Summer and Seth agreed. After Kirsten and Sandy left the kitchen, Summer looked wondering at Seth.

'What did you actually tell your parents about us?" she asked.

"They think we're still together."

"What? What if they ran into my father?"

"Then we're screwed," Seth said.

Summer looked worried at him.

"Hey, I don't like this situation either," Seth said.

Summer sighed and they walked to the doorway.

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"This is Amy-Rose Lauren Mandy Atwood," Marissa said, while she showed her daughter.

"Gee, couldn't you think of any more names?" Seth asked

"Well, Ryan rather wanted to call her Lauren and I wanted to call her Mandy and then we finally found a name we both liked, that was Amy-Rose, you know, it looks a lot like amorous, but we still wanted to give her the other names as well and then..." Marissa explained.

"Just let Cohen complain, he's upset you didn't call her Sushi...Can I hold her?" Summer asked.

Marissa nodded and gave her daughter to Summer. Summer looked at the ten little fingers and ten littlle toes. Her thoughts went unidented to her mother, while she rocked the baby. Did her mother rock her when she was a baby? Would she have that same happy smile as Ryan and Marissa now have?

"Oh, what a cute little China," Summer said, while she gave Amy-Rose back to Marissa.

"China?" Ryan asked.

"Everyone should have a nickname. And it was going to be Shijazhuang or China."

"Well...China will be fine then."

"Okay, Seth is calling my baby Sushi and you're calling her China? You two weirdos are perfect for each other," Marissa laughed.

Summer's cell phone went off and Summer walked with her cell phone to the kitchen.

"Hello?"

"It's me, Faith, ...your mother."

Summer paused for a moment.

"Oh, you found out how you can talk into the phone?" Summer asked.

"Summer, let's not fight. I know you want to work this out as well."

"You don't know anything about me."

"Let me try then to know you."

Summer kept silent. She didn't know if she wanted to give her mother another chance, if her mother was worth the chance.

"I want to talk with you and not over the phone. I'll be in The Juice Bar tomorrow night. If you want you can come and have dinner with me ... and maybe you could bring your friends, so I learn more about your life," Faith said.

"I don't think my friends have time for that and neither have I," Summer rejected the suggestion before she turned off her cell phone.

"I don't have time for what?"

Summer turned round to see Marissa standing in front of her.

"You said your friends don't have time for that...what's that?" Marissa asked again.

"Nothing."

Marissa glared at Summer.

"If you must know, that was my mother."

"Your mother? How...?" Marissa stammered surprised.

"I was also a little surprised myself when I saw her, but she really is here."

"That...that's huge...what...what does she want?"

Summer shrugged her shoulders.

"She says she wants to learn more about me, she wants to have dinner with me and my friends."

"But you don't want that?" Marissa asked.

"She just left," Summer said, while she thought back at the day she knew her mother wasn't coming back. How much it hurted. And now her mother did return, she didn't feel better. Before today she could make up stories why her mother never returned. Maybe she couldn't return, because she was ill or because she had an accident. But now she had seen her mother alive and kicking right in front of her, all those stories changed into rubbish.

"Don't you at least want to know why she left? And why she came back?"

"What if I don't like the answers?" Summer asked.

"Could they be worse than those unanswered questions whirling in your head?"

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"This is Marissa, my best friend, and that is Ryan, Marissa's boyfriend," Summer introduced Ryan and Marissa.

Faith shook hands with Ryan and Marissa and then looked at Seth.

"Hey, I've already seen you here before. What are you?" she asked.

"Human."

"No, I mean, are you a friend of Summer?"

"Eh...yes", Seth said. Just a friend would be good. He didn't know how much contact Faith had with Neil.

They all went to table.

"He's actually Summer's boyfriend," Marissa added, looking at the shocked faces of Summer and Seth.

Seth laughed very loud and Summer laughed uncomfortably with him.

"Ha, good one, Marissa. Marissa is such a joker," Seth smiled.

Marissa and Ryan looked confused and Faith smiled a bit, not knowing what else to do. Summer avoided Marissa's wondering gaze and hid herself behind the menu card.

"Why are we actually sitting at a table for 6?" Summer asked to change the subject.

"I've invited your dad as well. He can be here any minute."