Title: Prom Queen

Summary: A new guy comes to the OC from Australia and he's bound to rock the relationships. So who's going to end up his Prom date? Not for SethSummer lovers. Anna comes in a bit later. SummerNew Guy and a bit of SethAnna and the smallest portion of RyanMarissa.

Pairing: SummerTom, SethAnna, RyanMarissa

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the OC characters. I only own Tom and Tina.

Chapter 5: Kisses

Tom was sitting on the wall, experimenting with chords on an acoustic guitar. If Marissa had seen him she would have seen a flashback of her approaching Luke whilst he was sitting in the same position on the same wall. But it wasn't Marissa who saw him, it was Summer. He didn't notice her standing there so she just stood there, looking at him playing some chords.

"Chase, you found a Prom Queen yet?" Tom looked up quickly, saw Summer and looked as if he'd been caught with his hand in the cookie jar.

"Uh, no." Tom said and then looked up at her, unsure if she knew what he was doing or not. She decided that it was her job to investigate what had shaken the unshakeable Aussie surfer.

"What are you doing?" Tom seemed to relax because she didn't know yet but he tensed back up as he realised that she was actually expecting a response. He quickly told a half lie half truth that didn't reveal what he was really doing and what was at the heart of what he was doing.

"Just, uh, practicing some chords." Not untrue but not the whole truth, just as he'd wanted. Summer got quickly bored with the subject, it wasn't as juicy as she'd expected. Tom put the guitar behind him and let the silence settle comfortably. Summer looked far off into the distance, and appeared to be thinking hard. Then, all of a sudden, turned to him and asked,

"Do you like me?" Tom's eyes widened. They didn't exactly make girls like Summer in Australia. Or anywhere else in the world. That was one of things that he… Tom realised that she was still expecting a response.

"Yeah." Tom grinned at her as he replied and wondered what was going to happen next. There had to be a reason that she had asked that so out of the blue. Tom wished that he knew and hoped that something was going to happen that neither of them was going to regret. Summer looked at him for a moment before grabbing his head and pulling him forward into a kiss.

Tom pulled away a second later but didn't really pull away. Their foreheads were touching and their breaths mingled together in the air. Summer stood there, frozen, and then pulled away. She looked at Tom and seemed to have lost the ability to speak, she glanced away. Tom got off the wall and tried to get Summer to look up at him but she refused to.

She then walked away and Tom thought he could see the start of tears forming in her eyes.

"Summer?" Summer turned and looked at Tom. His thoughts were confirmed as he saw the tears in her eyes.

"It was just platonic." Summer then walked away and Tom did all he could to not go after her. He felt emotions building up inside of him and locked his jaw shut before grabbing his guitar and running off in the opposite direction.

What they both didn't know was that a girl called Tina was watching the whole thing. This would be interesting information for someone who would be very interested in it.

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Seth sat down on the couch of the student's lounge and sighed. Summer was nowhere to be found and neither was Ryan or Marissa. Just his luck, lose all of his friends and be lonerised in the place where everyone hung out in their groups.

Someone's hands clapped over his eyes and he sat up in shock. They were warm and soft so that ruled out Ryan, who didn't do that sort of thing anyway. Marissa wouldn't do it, not really that type. So it was probably Summer. Great timing Sum, he thought.

"Hey, I was looking all over for…" Seth pulled the hands off and turned around to see Anna standing there with a smile on her face. Seth found himself smiling idiotically back at her. Anna walked around the couch and sat down next to him.

"So how are you Anna?" Seth asked, he had to admit somehow he was more pleased at seeing Anna than Summer. At least Anna wasn't obsessed with Tom, only best friends. Besides, he really had missed Anna. He missed having her around and getting that feeling in his stomach that he no longer got when he was around Summer.

"Good, so how are things in Newport?" Anna asked, a glint in her eyes that made Seth's stomach go even crazier and he had to strain against clutching it to calm his stomach. He really needed some harsh antacids or something.

"Great. I mean not so great, Oliver sort of left things in a mess around here... I went to LA!" Anna's smile widened and she said,

"Really? That is so cool! Did you have fun?"

"Well, I was only there for an hour or something but I got to see a lot of strippers, including my aunt." Anna raised her eyebrow and Seth continued,

"Don't worry, Marissa's dad saved her." Anna's eyebrow didn't go down though and Seth understood that. When he said what had happened he felt the urge to raise his eyebrow too because it sounded so weird. If he hadn't been there himself he wouldn't have believed it. He probably would've thrown a comment at the person who'd said it and dismissed what had been said.

"Did you know that pictures are the autograph of the 21st century? I didn't actually know that until LA, seems that my picture phone is the 21st century pen." Seth took out his phone and looked at it before dismissing it with a cursory look and putting it back in his pocket. Seth realised that Anna was looking at him. He turned back to her and said,

"What? Have I got something on my face?" Seth wiped around his lips before Anna smiled at him.

"No, it's just… I've missed you. A lot." Seth stopped wiping and smiled at Anna. He touched her gently on the arm and replied,

"Well I've missed you a lot too Anna. Even though it hasn't really been that long. Oh, did I mention that Luke left with his father. Yeah, cos Marissa's mom is marrying my grandfather and Luke was having sex with/loved her. It's a twisted web of lies and deceit." Anna looked at Seth and this time she was frozen with shock, instead of having the mental capacity to lift an eyebrow.

They sat like that for a few more seconds whilst Anna got used to that idea and then, when she could finally function again she closed the slight gap between her top and bottom jaw. She looked at Seth in a way that he hadn't seen in a while. Not in a while.

"Do you know what I miss most about us?" Anna leaned forward and Seth leaned forward a bit too, not able to resist. Seth gulped and asked,

"What?" Anna looked at him and smiled,

"This." She leaned forward and pressed her lips gently against his. His hand went behind her neck and pulled her in towards him and her hands were in his hair and on his neck….

"Seth?" Seth and Anna unwillingly broke the kiss and looked at the intruder. It was Tom.

(Next chapter we'll find out something new about Tom. Summer tells Marissa what she did. Talking and bonding are in order. And the suspense of Tina doing something bad is hanging like a black cloud. Something's going to happen and someone else is going to come in the next couple of chapters to shake some things up a bit more.)