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 and Sarah and Rachel, the history teacher.

Chapter 14: And The Prom Queen Is…

"Welcome to the 2004 prom." Everyone, most sitting at the tables now, turned to the stage where the Dr Kim stood. Everyone clapped politely and Dr Kim continued,

"I hope you've all been enjoying yourselves," She paused, as if expecting the clapping and whooping that had happened whenever another student said that. She continued, "Well, we're now going to announce the prom king and queen and then they're going to have their dance." This actually did cost a murmur among the students and Dr Kim looked almost happy at this.

Another teacher walked onto the stage with an envelope and handed it to Dr Kim. It was the Harbour Prep version of the Emmy's or Golden Globe's or something like that. Dr Kim opened the envelope and said into the envelope with an upbeat tone,

"And without further ado the Prom King is Tom Chase and the Prom Queen is… Sarah Cullum?!?" Dr Kim looked around in shock, there was no Sarah Cullum in the entire school. And didn't Summer Roberts come with Tom Chase?? Seth and Anna actually stopped making out at this and, although Marissa and Ryan were no where to be found, they probably would stop what they were probably doing at this point in time (Ahem).

Summer felt Tom stiffen beside her and suddenly felt the bottom of her stomach fall out. No, it couldn't…. It couldn't possibly…. No freaking way…. It couldn't be the Sarah that shot him a month ago… That meant that… It meant that she was somewhere here. Just as this thought crossed Summer's mind the lights went out and one single spotlight lit up.

Everyone turned to see a blonde, beautiful, long legged, skimpily dressed girl standing in the hall doorway. In other words, Sarah Cullum. Tom stood up and Summer followed suit. The spotlight followed Sarah as she walked down the middle aisle until she reached Tom.

She wrapped her hands around his neck and said,

"So how about that first dance?" Tom looked down at her and then calmly unwrapped her hands from his neck and gave them back to her. Sarah looked at him with a slight confusion on her face.

"No thanks Sarah. Don't look so shocked, it isn't the first time that I've rejected you." There were several howls from the guys in the crowd. Apparently someone had hooked up a mike so that everyone could hear every word of the conversation. Sarah narrowed her eyes and said,

"If it wasn't for me you…"

"Wouldn't have gotten shot three times?" Tom interrupted calmly. And Sarah stared at him, a sudden anger flared up in her eyes but Tom didn't react.

"Look what Brett did to you. He turned you into a tempered criminal."

"And what would you have done? Turned me into a caring woman who would've only had to deal with half of the load of work. The woman who would be happy and could have a career if she wanted to. Be able to look forward to coming home everyday and know that I'm loved every single day of my life." Tom nodded and then said,

"I guess you like having the opposite of that. Being bashed everyday and not looking forward to going out with him, having to take care of everything, being tied down to the home and children in the future, not knowing that you're loved. Being abused everyday instead of being told that you're loved. Wow, you're different from every other girl that I know." Sarah's lip curled as she heard the murmurs around her.

"I only know what I'm taught." Sarah shot back at Tom and there were a few quiet 'oohs'.

"What you were taught was by Brett, not me."

"You think I don't know that." Sarah started to cry fake tears and leaned onto Tom's chest.

"I thought that you never cry over a guy. You told me, remember?" Sarah pulled away and said coldly,

"Well you don't miss a thing do you?"

"You taught me not to." Tom replied, equally as coldly.

"So I did." Sarah said as she remembered exactly what had happened for Tom to act so coldly. Usually he was actually quite friendly, no matter who to.

"Excuse me, you two. I was just wondering if you could pause your rendezvous for just a second." Summer started to move in between the two taller-than-her people. Sarah looked down at her before reaching into her purse and pulling out the same revolver that she'd used before. There were several screams that rippled throughout the audience and a surge to the door until Sarah yelled out.

"ANYONE WHO MOVES GETS SHOT!!" Everything froze and the cicadas took over the job of creating the loudest audible noise.

"Calm down Sarah." Tom was the first to speak and Sarah turned to him with her revolver and put it in his face. Tom practically laughed.

"You think I'm still afraid of that gun? You've already shot me three times with it. If you asked me I would say that you're a tad too jumpy with guns. Shooting people for no reason." Sarah's jaw tightened, as if she could seriously picture shooting him in the head right now. And he wasn't exactly making it better for himself. Quite the opposite.

"Oh, by the way, Pete Murray reckons that you're 'So Beautiful' (It's an Australian song look up the lyrics)." Sarah looked at him for a second before making a face throwing back,

"Well I've just had a 'Mistaken Identity'. Delta Goodrem reckons that and I'm not one to argue, as you know." Tom made an 'understanding face'. During this little exchange Summer recognised Pete Murray's name extremely faintly, some singer or something. At Delta's name she definitely recognised her name. She'd had this thing for Australia secretly last year and actually owned Delta's old album and a downloaded version of 'Mistaken Identity'. 'So Beautiful' rang a bell but she couldn't remember what it was quite about, apart from the obvious.

"You can put that down now," Tom pointed to the gun, "Not exactly doing any help in scaring me."

Sarah stared at him and realised that he was speaking the truth and her pointing a gun at him wasn't going to do anything, other than freak out other people. Sarah then suddenly moved the gun to be pointing in Summer's face and said,

"No, you aren't scared of the gun for yourself but are you afraid for your girlfriend Tom?" Tom finally reacted and his eyes widened with fear. Fear for Summer. Fear for Summer's life. She didn't deserve to be dragged into this. Sarah had no right to drag Summer into something that was their problem. And that was what he was going to tell her.

"Don't do this Sarah. Summer doesn't deserve to be dragged into this, she didn't do anything to deserve it. And you have no right to do this. To threaten someone else's life especially since she didn't do anything to you." Sarah then dropped the gun and said,

"No, of course not. Louise did. So maybe I should go back to Australia and shoot her. Hm? What do you think Summer?" Sarah turned to Summer and asked her. Summer shrugged, she didn't even know who Louise was in the first place.

"Oh, of course you don't know about Louise. Well you see, after Tom dumped me for loving someone else…"

"You were having sex at my birthday party." Tom interrupted in an annoyed tone. Sarah cleared her throat and then continued,

"Well anyway, he went to some loner slut and probably had sex with her and dumped her right before he moved here…" Tom interrupted her again but this time it was more looking back than angry.

"You were the loner slut, Louise was the girl who was not included because she wasn't a slut and was a virgin. We never had sex and were only together for one real date, that one date was perfect but I had to move. So I moved on, we both did."

"You sure about that?" Sarah asked with a smug expression on her face. Tom opened his mouth to make a smart remark but then closed it. Sarah was only smug when she had the upper hand and she knew it. So how could she have the upper hand in this situation? No, she couldn't have… She didn't. It was just her pretending to know something he didn't.

"Yeah Sarah. I am sure." Sarah didn't expect this but, after a second to get over it, clapped her hands.

"Go Tom, finally not reading into stuff too much. You used to think so much but I guess you're over it." Tom didn't respond and just stood there. Sarah then raised the gun and motioned for Summer to move away with her gun hand. Summer looked at Tom and then did what she asked.

"Well, now that we have no annoying girl to bother us we can finally get all comfortable together." Sarah took a step towards Tom but Tom didn't look at her, but stared straight ahead as he replied,

"As long as Summer doesn't get hurt I don't care what you do to me."

"How gallant." Sarah said sarcastically, "What if I were to do this?" Sarah raised the gun to aim at Summer again and pulled back the safety hammer. In an instant Tom was at Summer side. Then he was standing in front of her. Sarah looked at him.

"Well, you've chosen your path. Let me tell you it isn't a very long one at all. I'd say at the most ten minutes of torture as your stomach acid eats you alive. That is since I am aiming for your stomach. It's a hell of a lot more painful." Tom stood there, struggling with his hands behind his back to keep Summer behind him. Sarah looked at him for a second with sadness in her eyes,

"Well, since you've chosen this path I guess mine is chosen too." Sarah then shot him. Sarah looked around at the people rushing to Tom's aid and then took the gun and placed it under her head. She then squeezed the trigger and in a split second the bullet penetrated the roof of her mouth and into her brain. Death was instantaneous, Tom wasn't so lucky.

(Going to stop it there. Goodbyes are in the next chapter and there's two more chapters after that. I think that should be about right. This is a sad time. Let us be sad and not be happy. If anyone out there is happy I know where you live!)