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Chapter 2 – Family Bonding

"Seth, give me a hand." Sandy called opening the door. He looked at Seth and Summer who were coming from kitchen. "Oh, Summer, hi!" he said and gave a little strange look to Seth who was approaching him to take some bags from his hands. Seth had this 'What?' look on his face.

They came back to kitchen putting the stuff down.

"What did you do? Rob the store?" Seth asked with a famous grin on his face. "Where is everybody?"

Ignoring his first question Sandy replied:

"They're coming."

And as soon as he said that the front door opened again. This time it was Kirsten, Marissa and Ryan.

"We're in kitchen!" said Sandy and the three of them came in.

"Hey sweety!" said Kirsten and looked at Summer "Summer, honey, I didn't know you're coming."

"Yeah, I didn't know either." said Marissa and gave a questioning look to Summer.

"Well, it was kinda unplanned." said Summer a little bit uncomfortable "I went to your place" she looked at Marissa "...and since you wasn't there I thought that I could stop by."

Ryan looked at Seth who looked back with the same 'What?' look that he gave his dad 5 minutes ago.

"Now that you're here you'll stay for lunch, right?" Kirsten said cheerfully.

"Umm..." Summer looked at Seth.

Why am I looking at him? Maybe he doesn't want me here. Well, it's not like I have other plans. And it will be nice to have a lunch with a normal family for change.

"Sure, thanks." She finally answered and smiled to Kirsten.

"Great!" Kirsten concluded and turned to the bags to get the stuff out.

"Why don't you go to the living room or the pool house while we finish this?" asked Sandy.

"Do you need some help?" asked Summer. She really didn't want to be with Seth.

"No, just enjoy yourself!" answered Kirsten and the four of them left the kitchen.

Sandy turned to Kirsten.

"Are you thinking what I am thinking?"

She looked at him.

"Well, I do Mr. Cohen. And I kinda like it."

He smiled.

"Yeah, me too."

She smiled back and they kissed.

Ryan, Marissa, Seth and Summer came back to living room and fell on a couch. Seth turned on the TV.

"So, why didn't anybody wake me up?" he asked nonchalantly still looking at the TV and flipping the channels.

"Because you slept like a baby." Ryan grinned. It was unlike him to grin, he was usually quiet and serious. "And I think we did a good thing." He couldn't suppress another grin.

Seth didn't know what to say. He smiled to himself. Yeah, you did a great thing. Leving me alone with Summer, making a complete fool of myself. As usual.

What does that mean? And Coop keeps looking at me like that. Chino and her think they know everything. Ugh... I'm not into Cohen.

Marissa playfully hit Ryan.

"What? I meant, look at him, he looks so fresh. He needed a good sleep. Afterall, it's good that he stayed at home, because, well, Summer came." Ryan explained.

"Yeah, right." Marissa laughed. Summer is way too quiet and so is Seth. And Ryan is trying to talk. Everything is upside down. Who would've tell. Summer is still into Seth. I know that, cause I know her whole my life. And Seth, well, it's clear. It has always been.

Sandy and Kirsten came in from the kitchen.

"Guys, lunch is ready. Let's eat!" announced Sandy.

"Great! I hope mum didn't cook." Seth added.

"Really funny." Said Kirsten. "You know I didn't."

They sat. Ryan across to Marissa and Summer across Seth. There was still tension in the air. Kirsten was smiling to Sandy while he was pouring drink to kids. They started eating.

"So, how's your dad Summer?" asked Sandy.

"He's fine, I guess. He went on a business trip to New York last week." Summer answered and returned to her plate.

"Say hello to him when you hear him." Sandy said and looked at Kirsten.

"Thanks Mr. Cohen." Summer smiled.

"Marissa, I heard you're planning that school charity event." Kirsten took over the conversation.

"Yeah. Well, it's gonna be nice. It's next Saturday. You have to come."

"Of course. We wouldn't miss it."

"Of course." Seth didn't resist.

"Well, it happened to be really important Seth." Summer interrupted.

"I'm sure it is." He looked at her across the table and smiled sarcastically. Everyone looked at two of them.

Drop it! Just drop it. He's not worth it. He just enjoys teasing you, making you angry. But you can control yourself, right?

"Well, it's not something you could possibly understand." Oh, no, I guess you can't control yourself, Summer. Great!

"You're right. I can't understand a bunch of self-absorbed snobs coming to a charity event just to be seen. As a matter of fact I think they're pathetic." He smiled highly amused with her angry looking back at him.

"I'm sorry for being the one telling you the truth, but guess what – you're one of them." Calm yourself Roberts. Gee... What an effect Cohen has on you. And you're letting him!

Seth gasped and laughed again.

"Nice one Summer. You really know how to hurt my feelings..." And pretending feeling hurt and theatrically putting his hand on his chest he grinned again.

"It's imposibble to have a serious conversation with you. Afterall Coop is organizing that charity event for, as you say, self-absorbed snobs." She answered again looking at his eyes, correction, drowning in them.

"Well, just for the record that's the only reason why I'm going." Seth mentioned glancing at Marissa and back to Summer.

"Good."

"Good."

"Good. Ok, glad we solved that... Anyone, more wine?" Sandy said. The rest of the lunch went in peace.

A/N – This one is short, I know, so I put the next one too.