Chapter 3: "In this stage we can't get hurt"
Marissa and Summer rode along in Marissas car in silence.
"So where are we headed?" Marissa asked Summer, trying to cheer her up.
Summer shrugged as she looked out of the window.
"Come on, it's your choice." Marissa insisted
"Doesn't really matter Coop."
Marissa stops the car, and turns off the radio and stared her best friend in the eye.
"Are you sure that this is what you want to do?" Marissa asked Summer.
Summer nodded
"Look, Seth would not be freaked out by the ba-"
"Can we not talk about Cohen!" Summer said, … it was the first thing that she said with emotion the whole car ride.
Marissa nodded.
"So where to?" She asked
"Somewhere they will never look. Somewhere…" Summer searched for the word, "somerwhere un-summer-like." She decided
"And where is that?" Marissa asked
"Kansas?" Summer suggested
"Kansas?" Marissa said in surprise. "You sure?" She said grinning
"Yeah, I think I am."
"Alright then, Kansas it is." Marissa declared pulling the car back out onto the highway.
~ Newport
Ryan sat on the bed in the pool house, waiting for Seth to come. He had gone to see Summer the night before.
"Hey." Ryan said to Seth as he came in. He could tell from the sleepless look in Seths eyes that something was up."
"She wasn't there." Seth said
"Maybe she is with Marissa." Ryan suggested
"No man, I already tried her house. Her dad said that she went to Summers last night, and he hasn't talked to her." Seth said letting out a long sigh
"And their cells?"
"Were off."
Ryan sat next to Seth on the bed.
"I don't know what to tell you." Ryan confessed.
"'S not your problem, just thanks for being around."
~ On the road
"How much longer until we get to Kansas?" Summer asked impatiently.
"Not long. You okay?" Marissa asked looking over at her Summer, who was leaning back in the seat looking a little pale.
"Yeah, I am fine, I am just getting a little car sick I think."
"It is probably because you are-"
"I know!" Summer said irritated
"Summer, you have to admit that you are pregnant sometime."
"No I don't."
"Well in a couple of months there will be no denying it."
"I can deny it as long as I want." Summer said bluntly
"What are you trying to say Summer?"
"I am saying I wouldn't be pregnant if I realized it in time that I could have had a-"
"Don't even say it Summer! Listen to yourself, I cannot believe you! You would not have done that!" Marissa said in disbelief
After that there was an awkward silence for about two hours until Marissa pulled up at a motel.
"What are we doing?" Summer asked
"I'm tired, we're getting a room for the night."
Summer nodded as the two climbed out of the car.
~ Newport
That night Seth lay in bed drowning his sorrows in the bottle of vodka that he found in the liquor cabinet. He had never been much for drinking but Summer had a weird effect on him.
He turned over the picture of her that sat on his dresser as he stumbled into bed,
"Where are you?" He said aloud
~ The motel
Marissa was sleeping heavily as she always did when she was stressed out, but Summer was completely different. She sat in the arm chair staring at the motel sign, and then at Marissa lying in the bed. She could not go on like this. She could not do this to Marissa anymore. Everyone that she was around she hurt.
Silently this time, Summer grabbed her bags, and Marissa's car keys and some of the money they had, and sped out of the motel in tears, Regretting what she had done, but believing it was for the best.
This chaps a little weird but everything really comes into play starting with the next.