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Chapter 3
By the time that Summer returned to her seat, there were only five minutes left before the plane reached New York. As soon as the captain announced that the plane would begin to land within the next minute, Summer felt Seth stiffen beside her. She looked curiously at him. He had squeezed his eyes shut and had the most terrified expression on his face.
Summer laughed at him, "Cohen, are you scared of landing?"
"Ha! Me, the great Seth Cohen, scared of landing? Of course not," he scoffed unconvincingly.
"Then why are your eyes closed you big dork?" Summer challenged.
"I…uh…was a bit tired, so I was going to take a nap."
"Really? A nap huh? Wow, that must be hard considering the fact that you're clutching the armrests so hard," she said sarcastically.
"No, not really. It's quite comfortable this way. You should try it sometime. In fact, I might even order one of these babies to put in my room instead of a bed."
"Really? Because it doesn't look like it could accommodate some of your other activities," she said in a deceptively innocent tone.
At this, Seth shot an intrigued look at Summer before he squeezed his eyes shut again as the plane hit a rough air patch. When the plane wobbled again, Seth yelped and clutched Summer's hand. If she wasn't so busy laughing at him, she would have clubbed him over the head with her purse. But as it was, Summer was just enjoying herself, not reading too much into anything.
Marissa heard the Summer's peals of laughter and looked over at where she and Seth were sitting. She smiled at their antics, and pointed it out to Ryan. He laughed and said, "Seth never was too fond of airplanes." Then, they both turned to look behind them at where their former partners were sitting. Cindy and Mike were, um, continuing to enjoy each others' company, oblivious to the fact that the plane was descending. When they had stumbled back from the bathroom earlier, they had asked Marissa to sit with Ryan so that they could sit closer together. Marissa had happily obliged. She and Ryan exchanged another secret smile.
"You know, you and I are pretty good at this matchmaking thing," Ryan quipped.
"I agree…maybe we should do this more often," Marissa said with a grin, "I think I see our next target."
Ryan turned to look at where Marissa was looking, and spied their next targets: Seth and Summer.
Ryan and Marissa weren't the only ones to notice Summer and Seth's newfound flirtation; Mrs. Langdon had noticed it too. Fortunately, she mistook their flirtatious bickering for genuine, mutual dislike. Excellent, she thought. And it would continue to get even better, if all went according to plan.
After the class shuffled off the plane and gathered their luggage, Mrs. Langdon led them on board a bus. That was when she decided to announce that their room assignments. There would be two people per room. Mrs. Langdon had wanted to assign them rooms with their partners, but even she did not dare to give co-ed room assignments. Therefore, she had allowed them to choose their own roommates. Of course Marissa was rooming with Summer, and ditto with Ryan and Seth. To their surprise, they found that their rooms were right next door to each other, and there was a connecting door. While Seth and Summer bickered over the room assignments, Marissa discreetly told Ryan to meet her outside in five minutes. When their clandestine meeting began, Marissa led Ryan into a corner behind the ice machine and quickly told Ryan her plan.
"Okay, so we decided to match up Seth and Summer, right?" Marissa said.
"Uh-huh," Ryan nodded.
"Well, I have a fail-proof way to get them together. It's so perfect that our rooms are connected, because all we have to do is switch during the night, and Seth and Summer will be forced to stay together overnight. And at the same time, Mrs. Langdon will never find out, because we'll switch again in the morning," Marissa said excitedly, her blue eyes sparkling in anticipation.
"And where will we stay?" Ryan asked.
"With each other of course," Marissa said matter-of-factly.
"Um…I'm not sure that's such a good idea," Ryan said slowly.
"Come on! We're just friends now! And I'm sure we're mature enough to handle this."
"Okay, but how are we going to prevent Seth and Summer from objecting to this?" Ryan inquired.
"We'll just have to convince them that we're a couple, and that we would like to spend the night together."
Author's Note: It's a short chapter, but at least I'm updating more, right?
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