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Summer lay in her bed staring at the ceiling; she had been lying there for two hours ever since she had gotten home from detention. She hadn't eaten since breakfast but for some reason she felt like throwing up. She couldn't rid the disgusting taste from her mouth.

Her thoughts were somewhere else when she heard heels echoing off the wooden floors, no doubt the shiny red Jimmy Choos with the awful black bows on the tip that belonged to her step monster. Annette's perfectly manicured fingernails drummed on the door.

"Summer, are you coming downstairs for dinner?"

"Annette, I'm asleep" Summer smiled at her own joke, she knew her step mother would get irritated

"Summer, don't be ridiculous it's seven in the evening, of course your not asleep"

"I'm tired and sleeping"

"Summer, downstairs now. Your father is home and he wants us all to sit down to dinner"

She waited till the sound of her shoes faded until she rolled out of bed and reluctantly clambered downstairs for dinner.

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"Summer darling, how are you?" Neil Roberts was sitting at the head of a large wooden dining table as he greeted his only child

"Hey Daddy, I'm great" She skipped over to his chair and placed a kiss on his cheek before sitting down to his left.

Summer eyed the suspicious looking soup before daring to try it

"So darling, your birthday is approaching, what would you like to do?"

Summer dropped her spoon in the soup and swallowed the lump in her throat

"Um, Daddy, I don't think I want to have a party this year-"

"No party! Ridiculous, it's your sixteenth Summer"

"But I thought something with the family, would be nice, and daddy it's my seventeenth?"

"Oh yes and well what about that, Marissa Cooper, she's basically family to you right?"

"Not anymore" Summer said in a small voice more to the table than her father.

"What was that? Speak up" Annette pressed on

"I said, that I will ask her" She glared at Annette's green eyes

Summer pushed her plate of half eaten soup and excused herself from the room, just as she was leaving Annette called after her.

"Summer, someone tried to call you"

"Who, Marissa?" She said rolling her eyes

"No some boy, Stephen? Se-"

"Seth?" Summers voice quivered

"Yes, Seth, Kirsten's son"

Summer nodded and left the room.

Seth Cohen?

First he talks to me, then he sits next to me in detention, now he's calling me?

Just as Summer passed the phone in the hallway on her way upstairs it rung, she paused in mid-step and froze.

"I am cursed" she muttered to herself

"Hello?"

"Summer, hi it's me"

It just had to be him, didn't it, see you are cursed

"Sorry who?"

She heard him laugh lightly "Seth, Cohen"

"Right Cohen, what do you want?"

"Actually, my Physics book, you must've taken mine home from detention, because I have yours"

"Oh, sorry" Summer didn't mean it of course, there was just nothing else she could say

"Well I thought, maybe we could meet up and swap?"

"Sorry Cohen, I can't"

"Oh okay, so what are you doing that's so important?" Summer could almost see him smiling

"Stuff"

"Oh yes, you seem to have your priorities straight, your stuff is first"

Summer didn't answer.

"I'll come over and swap, see you soon"

"But-"

She heard a dial tone.

Summer dropped the phone onto the wooden table and trudged up the stairs to her room; she grabbed her tote and emptied it out onto the bed. There it was his Physics book. She snatched it off the bed and ran downstairs to Annette.

"If Seth Cohen comes to swap Physics books, his is here okay?"

Annette looked Summer up and down then took the Physics book from her hand.

"So that's a yes? Your going to swap them?"

"I'll see what I can do"

Summer rolled her eyes "Fine whatever Annette" and ran back to her bedroom. The only place she felt like being.

Here she was, in the same place she was about thirty minutes ago, on her bed staring up at the ceiling. Unexpectedly, tears began to roll down her cheeks, her hand automatically moved to wipe them but more began to fall. Summer turned on her stomach and buried her face in her soft pillow. The events of the day still fresh in her mind replayed.

"Hey Summ" Marissa voice was chirpier than usual

"Hey Coop, why are you like so happy?"

Marissa laughed and then answered "Luke is the greatest, he left a bouquet of roses in my locker, can you believe that, how romantic is that?"

Holly walked on Marissa's other side "Your so lucky Coop, I wish I had a guy like that"

"There is Seth Cohen" Marissa exclaimed

"Ew" Summer wrinkled her noise in disgust "Everyone knows he's a player"

"But" Holly began to defend him "He's cute, wealthy and is friends with all the jocks"

Holly continued to speak "There should be a Luke for all of us somewhere"

Summer felt awkward and uncomfortable "Coop I saw something"

"Summ, wow that's great we can see too"

"No I mean like, on Friday at the party I saw something"

"What? Did Seth make out with more than ten girls or something?"

"It was Luke"

"Then why wasn't Coop with him"

"You guys had tennis the next morning and you weren't allowed to go to the party remember?"

"Oh yea, but anyways continue"

"Luke…he…Coop, I saw…Luke…he was totally groping and kissing Evie Saunders"

Holly turned to her in disbelief "You're just making that up"

Marissa's eyes were filled with worry "Summer are you sure-"

"Coop, don't believe her, she's just jealous" Marissa looked unsure for a second but then as if she didn't want to believe anything else said.

"God Summer, just because you don't have a boyfriend like Luke doesn't mean you have to make up crap about him and other girls" Summer stopped dead in her tracks, she was shocked.

"Coop, believe me, why would I lie, you're my best friend"

"Not anymore, she's not" Holly linked arms with Marissa and steered her in the other direction.

Summer's eyes welled with tears as she watched them pausing and whispering to others. She ran towards the girl's bathroom. How could they not believe her? Why would she ever lie to them?

Summer suddenly opened her eyes when she heard a sudden knocking on the door.

She rolled onto her back, her cheeks were tear stained and her eyes were red.

"Annette, do not come in"

"Well, I don't remember having that sex change, last time I checked I was still Seth Cohen"

Summer froze. Seth. Cohen. Outside her door. Why was she even fazed? She was acting like all the other stupid sixteen year old girls. She hated Seth Cohen.

"You can come in"

"Whoa what happened to you?" Seth Cohen walked into her bedroom and glanced at her distressed face

"Thanks Cohen, your so nice, and incase you forgot, none of my friends believe me so now they hate me"

"So who's that" Seth said with a smirk on his face

Summer followed his gaze to Princess Sparkles perched beside her bed

"Right, change the subject Cohen"

"Sorry, I'm just not emotionally equipped to handle all that girly cat fight stuff"

"It's Princess Sparkles" Her cheeks flushed red, but she had to show him she didn't care what he thought of her. Summer continued "Can we just swap Physics books?"

"Your Mom gave me mine, I need to give you yours"

"She's not my mom" Summer began to break down again, she snatched her book out of his hands and turned on her stomach once again to face the pillow, she shook as a fresh stream of tears took over her.

"Okay, now is the great time for interference, is anybody out there? I am stuck inside a bedroom with an emotional teenage girl who is on the verge of creating an ocean"

Summer looked up from the pillow at the unsure figure of Seth Cohen "You are not stuck inside my bedroom, you are free to leave"

Seth sat down on the end of her bed "Sorry, about ah, what I said about your step-mom"

Summer ignored him and tried to block out his voice, but it was so prominent, so captivating.

She felt a warm hand on her shoulder, her body went rigid, the hand was hesitant but it rubbed circles on her back as if he was trying to comfort her. She tried to create some different visual image that detached the hand from Cohen's body and made it belong to some one else, but it wasn't working. She turned to face him.

"Thank you, for everything but I think you should go"

"I really didn-"

"Now"

"Okay, I'll see you round then"

She watched him leave her bedroom, she wasn't ready for another friend right now because it seemed every time she let somebody into her life, and they disappointed her, betrayed her and left her. She didn't want to experience it again. Her mom left her, her dad was never around and now her friends had ditched her.

So how was that? Like? No like? Lol

Just something to clear up, Summer used to be bitchy but she's not so bitchy now that she's "friendless" lol so yea she's more 'vulnerable' now if you get what I'm saying. Review please! Any suggestions are welcome!

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