Chapter 5

As soon as Seth had turned around from seeing Summer on the dance floor, she had seen him walking away. She could have sworn he was drunk as he was stumbling out the door, knocking into a few people. But Seth drunk? Puhlease. As she tried to shake this crazy thought from her head, something deep inside her made her want to follow him.

Zach had begun to dance heatedly with Summer, his hands slowly inching down her waist. Summer stopped dancing suddenly and over the loud music yelled that she was going to the bathroom. Zach nodded and continued dancing, thrashing into a few people. He'd had one two many shots.

Summer rolled her eyes as she left in the same direction Seth had. She grabbed her own keys out of her faux fur coat she had come in (she had never been a fan of real fur. How mean was that?) and jumped into her car. She could see Seth crawl into a car in front of her that looked strangely familiar and bit her lip as she realized it was Ryan's car.

"Shit." She muttered as she reached for her phone to call Ryan. She stopped mid action however when she saw Seth pull away from the car park at high speed.

Summer was shocked to see Seth turn left at the traffic lights instead of right. He was going down the back way that was rarely used by cars as it had been declared unfit unless for an emergency. The road was too narrow and was extremely close to the beach and was mainly used as a one-way road for small trucks.

Seth was swerving dangerously on the road in front of her and was going at an ungodly speed Summer couldn't match.

She put her foot down but Seth was slowly speeding out of sight.

Summer cursed as she remembered there was a sharp turn coming up. She had no concept of how far away Seth was. She had no choice but to slow down, unless she wanted to wrap her car around a tree. God, she hoped Seth was slowing down.

She braced herself as she came round the corner and gasped when she saw Ryan's car smashed into a small pole on the side of the road. She watched in shock as Seth crawled out of the vehicle, clearly unhurt, but still completely trashed.

Summer pulled over to the side of the road behind Ryan's car and ran out to Seth.

Seth whirled on the spot to face Summer, almost falling over in the process.

"Summer!" he grinned.

He stumbled then grabbed onto Summer's shirt before falling to the ground.

"Oh my god Cohen, you crashed Ryan's car!"

Seth began to laugh, his hand on his mouth.

"Yeah, oops."

Summer shook her head.

"God Cohen! You could of killed yourself! Your drunk. I can't believe your drunk!"

Seth put his hand to his head.

"Whoa, no yelling." He said scrunching his eyes up.

Summer ignored him and ran back to the car to grab her phone.

When she came back, Seth was lying on the grass, staring at the stars.

"Look at this Summer! Stars! It's soooo nice." He giggled.

Summer put one hand on her hip, the other she used to dial Ryan's number. But before she had finished dialing, Seth groaned and called out to Summer.

"What?" she said impatiently, turning to face him.

She stopped dead when she saw the ground around Seth covered in blood.

"Oh my god, Seth?"

She didn't need to ask him what it was from however, as Seth began to cough in answer. At first Summer thought he was just throwing up from drinking too much, but he was coughing up blood. Summer felt cold as she watched him.

She knelt beside him to hold up his head and instantly felt him burning hot.

She took her hand away immediately.

"Oh, god. Seth? What did you take?"

Seth groaned again and collapsed first face on the grass.

"No, No Seth, get up."

As she went to pick him up, Seth's phone rang from inside Ryan's car.

Summer rushed over to pick it up.

"Hello?"

Ryan's voice answered.

"Summer? Where's Seth?"

"Chino? Thank god it's you. Seth took your car… look he just crashed at the side of the road and he's sick. He's throwing up blood and he's shaking. I don't know what's wrong with him. What the hell did he drink?"

There was a short pause then,

"Ok, Slow down. I don't know what he had. I was with Marissa. I'll be there in a minute ok? Where are you?"

Summer quickly rattled out the location to Ryan and hung up the phone.

"Ok, Seth I need you to get up now…"

She stopped cold when she saw Seth was gone.

Frantically searching around her in the darkness, finding no sign of Seth, she jumped around the other side of the car to see better.

"Seth?" she yelled at the top of her lungs.

Then, just as she was about to turn back she saw a figure crawling across the middle of the road.

Summer felt as if her breath had been sucked out of her.

"Seth!" she yelled again.

A thousand thoughts ran through her head.

Seth was coughing up more blood, he was shaking as he slumped into an unconscious heap right in the middle of the road.

"Oh my god Seth!" Summer screamed again.

Then she heard the sound that stopped her heart.

She heard a truck coming at an alarming speed around the corner. Faster than the speed Seth had been driving.

Summer had a less than a second to decide what to do.

She bolted as fast as she could to get Seth and with all her effort rolled him away just as the truck sped past them.

Her hair blew up around her from the speed and force of the truck as she dove to lie on top of Seth protecting him.

As the truck sped out of sight, Summer cursed.

She couldn't believe it kept going. How could they not see us?

She curled her arms off Seth and sat back.

"Seth, sweetie. Wake up. Please wake up."

She shook him gently and he stirred, much to Summer's relief.

She hadn't realized she had been holding her breath the whole time.

"Summer." He croaked.

Then before she could tell him not to talk his body started to convulse.

She screamed in panic, and tried her hardest to hold onto him but he continued to shake violently.

Then, just as suddenly as it started it stopped and he fell unconscious again.

"Seth!"

Summer's eyes turned wide as she tried to feel for a pulse.

But she couldn't find one.

"Seth!" she screamed just as Marissa's car pulled up.