***Authors note: I wrote this before last week's show, so in my story Seth and Anna never broke up. Authors note II: I like to say just how happy I am that you guess like my story. ***

"A woman who'll wait for the third time around, head in the clouds, feet on the ground

She's girl he's glad he's found, she's his shipoopi."

---Shipoopi, The Music Man

Summer looked around and was confused about where she was. 'This isn't my room at Meg's." She thought.
Then she recognized it. It was the little restaurant on the way to Tijuana, the one that she and Seth had ate breakfast at.
"You enjoy my comedy. You know what else I think you enjoy? Me." She heard Seth say. If only she had known then how right he was.
"That's because you're mentally unstable."
"Be that as it may I think the facts speak for themselves. May I remind you of a little thing called 'The time you kissed me by the pool at my grandfather's birthday party.'?"
She chuckled to herself, and then got very confused when she heard Seth say, or sing rather, "Early morning there's a hallo hanging from my girlfriends two post bed..."

Summer's eyes opened wide and she sat up in bed. It was just a dream. It was all just a dream. She lied back down and shut her alarm clock off.
"Mom wants me to make sure that you get up." Kellie said bouncing into the room.
"Five more minutes, please."
"Nope. You don't want to be late for your first day of summer school do you?"
"No, we wouldn't want that." Summer said standing up.
"Mom says that if you hurry then she'll take us out for breakfast." Kellie told her bouncing out of the room.

"You ready for breakfast? Huh kid?" Summer asked rubbing her stomach, "Well, let's get ready."
She walked over to her dresser and pulled out a Roonie tee that she had stolen from Seth, a pair of jeans, and a pair of white sneakers.
"I think we need a little bit of Daddy to help us through today. What do you think?" She felt a slight kick and she laughed to herself, "I'll take that as a yes."
She quickly changed clothes and pulled her hair into a tight bun.
"You ready to go?" Meg called out.
"Almost! "
Summer put on a little blush and mascara on, and threw some lip gloss into her purse along with her cell-phone.
"Okay. Let's go."

After stopping for a nice breakfast consisting of eggs, toast, and orange juice Meg, Kellie, and Summer were on there way to school.
"Central is the oldest school in town." Meg said
"I'm going to go there when I grow up." Kellie chirped from the back seat.
"It's the only school in town with the IB. program. Kids from all over town go here just because of that."
"What's the IB. program?" Summer asked
"International Baccalaureates. Basically it's the smart people classes." Meg slowed down and pulled up to the curb, "Well, we're here."
"Remind me again why I'm taking summer school."
"So that you can take easier classes your senior year, and meet people."

Summer got out of the car and shut the door. She walked across the lawn, and up the steps.
"This place is as big as Harbor." she said to herself.
"You new here?" A girl asked from behind her. Summer turned around and came face to face with a petite blonde.
"Yeah I am. I'm Summer."
"Kristi." The blonde said, "So, you here for summer school?"
"Yeah."
"I'll give you the tour. Come on."
"Thanks."
"What's your first class?"
"English with Ronald."
"I've got that class too."

Kristi pushed open the door and walked in.
"So, where'd you come from?"
"California. Orange County."
"Like the movie?"
"Yeah, I guess."
"Cool."
"So, like what's popular here?"
"Not a whole lot."
"What do you do for fun?"
"Hang with friends, like I said, there's not a whole lot to do around here."

Kristi stopped suddenly.
"This is it." she said.
Kristi and Summer walked into the room and took a seat in the back.
"You conscious Stephanie?" Kristi asked a short brunette who was curled up in a chair with her head resting on the desk.
"Shut up." She said raising her head slightly.
"That's Stephanie; she's...well she's a genius, but she doesn't apply herself. This is the second year she had to take this class." Kristi whispered and Summer just nodded her head.

"Okay, this is English four and I am your teacher Mrs. Ronald's." A young woman said from the front of the room, "Now I know that the last thing that anyone wants to do during there summer vacation is to read a bunch of books wrote by people who died years ago. But unfortunately we have to...."
As the teacher continued to talk Summer slid down in her seat and began to feel the next two hours of her life slip away from her.

Later that afternoon Summer hurried down the steps of the school and caught up with Kristi who was talking to another blonde girl.
"Hey Kristi!" she said
"Summer hi. Oh, um, Summer this is Becca, Becca this is Summer."
"Hi." Becca said smiling.
"Hi." Summer said back and then turned her attention to Kristi. "So I was wondering if there was any good place to eat around here."
"There's a Subway, we were about to head over there right now, if you'd like to join us."
"That's cool."

Becca, Kristi and Summer made their way three blocks down to Subway. They walked in and Becca started waving at a group sitting in a booth near the back.
"Jennifer Gardner made Daredevil worth it." A guy with light brown hair said.
"Uh-uh. No way, it was all Ben Affleck." The brunette sitting next to him said.
"What are we discussing?" Kristi asked sliding into the booth.
"Who was better in Daredevil: Jennifer Gardner or Ben Affleck?" the guy said
"Oh that would have to be Jennifer Gardner without a doubt."
"Who's you're friend?" A blonde asked.
"Oh, this is Summer, Summer these are my friends; my 'peeps' if you will." Kristi started with the guy, "This is Andy or Counterman whatever you want to call him, next to him is Gwen. Then we've got Anne Marie, and then at the end we've got Wasman."
"Hey." Summer said looking at everyone.
"Summer's from California."
"Where in California?" Anne Marie asked.
"Orange County. Newport if you wanna get specific."
"Are you serious?!" Anne Marie exclaimed, "My parents have friends there. I've gone and visited them almost every summer since I was seven!"
"Oh my god! Who?"
"Sandy and Kirsten Cohen, you know them?"
"Know them? I da---I was friends with there son. My best friend Marissa's now dating the kid that they took in."
"The kid from Chino?" Anne asked, wrinkling her nose when she said 'Chino', "What's he like?"
"He's your typical boy from the wrong side of the tracks. I used to not be able to stand him, but he's grown on me."
"I drove threw Chino once. It was dirt and scary, so I didn't stop." Gwen said butting into the conversation.
"So, how's Seth doing? Is he still as much of a loner as he once was?"
"Totally not. He's got a whole group of friends now. And a girlfriend."
"A girlfriend?!" Anne Marie asked with her jaw practically on the floor, "Are you serious!?"
"Totally serious. Her name's Anna. Their relationship is complicated."
"What do you mean?"
Summer paused to think about the right way to answer that question.
"Well..."She started and then her phone rang, "Excuse me for a second."

She pulled her cell-phone out of her purse and said, "Hello? Hi Meg...You're on your way? Okay, I'm at Subway right now so you want to pick me up here? Okay. See you soon."

"That was my cousin. She's on her way over here to get me."

That night Summer sat on her bed talking on the phone to Marissa.
"She knows Cohen! Can you freakin' believe this?"
"It'll be alright Summer."
"What if she tells him? I mean, I moved out here so that he wouldn't have to know about the baby, and know what if all of that is for nothing?"
"I can tell Luke if you want and he can..."
"No! I know what you are going to say and no! I am not having Luke pose as this baby's father. I'll move to South America if I have to."
"Summer, you never have explained to me why you don't want Seth to know about this baby."
"He loves Anna. And when we had sex it was a total moment of weakness. I promised him that no one would ever find out about us. And besides, this is his senior year the last thing he needs is a baby."
"It didn't sound like the sex was 'a total moment of weakness' when you called me the morning after."
"Coop!" Summer exclaimed, "It was. I didn't mean for it to happen."
They both were silent until Marissa finally decided to say something, "You know he asked about you today."
"Oh he did. That's nice. What he say?"
"He wanted to know where you were and I told him that you're visiting family. "
"Ugh, I wish that I could be there you know that? I hate it here."
"You just said that you made a friend today."
"Yeah Kristi's great and everything but she's not you. I've known her for one day; I've known you all my life."
"It'll get better. "
"Yeah, I guess."
"It will okay? Now you're going to get you're mind off of everything any you're going to give me a full report about the baby, starting now."
Summer sighed and laid back on her bed, "Okay, here goes..."

Later after she got off of the phone with Marissa she thought back to the conversation that she had earlier with Anne Marie. She should have just left it alone. But she couldn't because like Marissa had said the year before, she was jealous of Anna.

"What's Seth Cohen doing with Tinkerbell?" She had asked.
"Anna's cool."
"She's a scammer. First thing she does is go after Caleb Nichol's grandson? And have you seen how she looks at him?"
"No but obviously you have."
"Only because it's like totally obvious."
"Yes it is. That you're jealous. You like Seth Cohen."

Okay, PLEASE reply. Good, bad, whatever it doesn't matter. You can even talk about how upset you are that none of your friends enjoy Summer and Seth together, or that it's cold outside. Anything works for me.