"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
A few weeks passed by and Summer slowly began to make friends with the Springfield locals. One night Summer sat hanging out in Anne Marie's room, along with Kristi, looking through Anne's CD collection.
"Why do you have two copies of the Music man soundtrack?" she asked.
"One's the movie soundtrack, and the other is a copy from when we performed it last year for the musical." Anne Marie said sitting down on her bed, "So when are you going to tell me?"
"Tell you what?" Summer asked playing coy.
"The truth about you and Cohen. Every time I mention him your face lights up, but you refuse to tell me anything. So spill."
Summer took a deep breath silently weighing the pros and con's of telling and then decided that she had to tell, "Okay." She said, "Here's what's happened."
Summer began to tell the whole story of everything that had happened to her and Seth. She told about the debutant ball and how she caused Seth to end up escorting Anna, about kissing him at Caleb's birthday party, the whole TJ mess, realizing that she had feelings for him, everything up until to now, leaving out the part about the two of them being virgins.
"Wow." Anne Marie said nearly in tears, "That is the saddest story I every heard."
"It's just like in the movies." Kristi said sighing.
"You can't tell Seth though, okay Anne?"
"Why not?" She asked
"It's just not the right time. I will tell him that though."
"You better or I just might have to beat you." Kristi joked.
The next afternoon Summer sat with the group in a tiny library room working on her English homework.
"Where's my cell phone? What I need right now is my cell phone." Counterman exclaimed digging through the pocket's of his jacket.
"You mean this?" Summer asked picking it up off of the table.
"Thanks." he said sheepishly
"So, what are you guys doing tonight?" Kristi asked, "Because my sister is have some friends over and I really don't want to be stuck listening to her and her little friends giggle about how great Gigli was and how much they wish that Ben and Jen could have worked it out."
"Your sister seriously doesn't believe that does she?" Gwen asked
"Uh-huh. Oh, and get this, she feels that Lost In Translation was crap."
"You need backup. I can spend the night if you want." Summer told her.
"Are you serious? That would be great."
"I come with sandwiches!" A brunette who closely resembled Katie Holmes said coming through the door carrying a large purse.
"Oh awesome!" Kristi said as the girl put the bag on the table, "Mackenzie you are the best!"
"Tell me something I don't know." Mackenzie said smiling
"Why does Wasman get to go first?" Counterman asked as Wasman pulled a sandwich out.
"Because Wasman's the prettiest." Gwen said matter-of-factly, "You know, I love Wasman."
"Yeah, Wasman is totally hot." Kristi agreed
"Actually, Wasman is totally cold. I think they've got the air conditioning turned up."
"I'll warm you up." Gwen said moving closer.
"'Cause if we put our bodies together, our body heat will warm each other up."
"You are too much, Wazzie, you really are."
"Hey Kenz what are you doing tonight?" Kristi asked
"Probably just watching cable all night, why?"
"Because Summer's coming over and my DVD collection is going to be taken over by the brat squad..."
"And you want me to bring over some movies?"
"Yeah."
"Okay." Mackenzie said, "What are best friends for?"
"I know. Plus you own Finding Nemo."
That night Summer sat on Kristi's bed flipping through the newest copy of Entertainment Weekly.
"Oh my god! I was over at Alex's today after I left the library and he said 'Hey look there's Jennifer Garner' and I looked. And then he did it again and I looked again." Mackenzie exclaimed.
"You are such a dork." Kristi said lying on her back.
"Oh okay sure little Ms. 'Are you laughing at me'."
"What's this story?" Summer asked shutting the magazine.
"Okay, see..."Kristi started.
"No, no, no. I've got to tell the story. You won't do it justice. Okay, so we were in Grammar class last year, and any time I would laugh or anything really she would turn to me and go 'are you laughing at me'?"
"Shut up." Kristi said turning red.
"Look at you. Oh poor Kristi." Mackenzie said putting an arm around her friend.
"How long have the two of you been friends?" Summer asked.
"Forever." Kristi said.
"It'll be thirteen years as soon as school starts back up."
Summer was amazed. "Wow." she said, "I don't think Marissa and I have been friends for that long."
"I don't think my parents have been married that long." Kristi joked
"I know my parents weren't together that long." Both Summer and Mackenzie said in unison.
The three girls laughed until they were interrupted by Summer's cell- phone.
"Please don't be Meg." she whispered as she dug the phone out of her overnight bag. She pulled it out and was breathless when she saw the name on the caller id.
"Oh my god." Summer whispered. "Hey Kristi..."
"We're going to go get something to eat." she said standing up, "You want anything?"
"Milk. And thank you."
"No problem, we'll be in the kitchen when you're done."
"Hello?" she said answering the phone as Kristi and Mackenzie left the room.
"Hi." the voice on the other end said.
"Hi."
"Hey." The voice said chuckling, "How are you doing?"
"I'm okay. How about you? How are things going back in Newport?"
"They're okay."
There was an awkward pause and Summer decided that that was the perfect time to ask the question she was dying to know.
"Why are you calling me Cohen?"
"We haven't talked since school let out, and I wanted to see how you were doing. And I sort of thought that you'd be back in town by now."
"Well I'm not. And I'm probably not going to be back for a while."
"What's wrong with you?"
"What do you mean what's wrong with me?"
"You've got this tone."
"I don't have a tone."
"Then what is wrong?"
"Things have been going really well lately without you here."
"I didn't think that things were going wrong with me back here."
"Well things were. Look, Seth, I've got to go. I'm over at a friend's house and I'm being a really rude guest."
"Well hopefully I'll talk to you soon."
"Yeah. Maybe. Bye."
"Bye."
Summer hung up her phone, walked into the kitchen, and sat down at the table.
"Was it him?" Kristi asked
"Mm-hmm."
"How'd it go?"
"I think 'really bad' is an understatement."
"You want a cookie?" Mackenzie asked pushing a plate forward.
"Thank you." Summer said with tears forming in her eyes.
"On a scale of one to ten with one being 'I just had my first kiss' and ten being loosing your virginity to your best friend who also happens to be a virgin how awkward was it?" Kristi asked.
"A seven point two."
"That bad?"
"I forgot how much I enjoyed hearing his voice, I could picture his face, I could practically smell him, and the whole time we talked I just wanted to tell him everything."
"Can I interrupt for a minute?" Mackenzie asked, "I'm a little confused about what is going on."
The next morning Summer laid in Kristi's bed looking at the ceiling. She felt terrible about the call to Seth. She didn't mean to be so mean to him it just came out.
"I've got to do this." She thought to herself.
Slowly she got out of bed and picked up her overnight bag.
"What are you doing?" Kristi whispered rolling over in her sleeping bag.
"Oh my god!" Summer exclaimed quietly throwing the bag on the bed, "You scared me. I didn't wake you did I?"
"No. I can go to bed at two in the morning and still wake up at six. But what are you doing?"
"I need to call him. I need to apologize."
"I think that's the best thing."
"I was just about to step out onto the back porch if that's okay."
"Yeah that's fine."
Summer put her phone out and began to sneak out onto the porch.
She selected Seth's number from her speed dial and waited while it rang.
"Hello?" he answered groggily.
"Hi."
"Summer?"
"Yeah. Hi. I woke you up didn't I?"
"No, no. I actually just was aboutt to go to sleep."
"I'm sorry."
"It's no big deal. What's up?"
"I wanted to apologize for the phone call last night. I was rude and..." Summer paused to think up a lie that would sound believable, "A little drunk and it wasn't right."
"It's okay."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah."
"Good. Oh, and Seth?"
"Yeah?"
"I didn't tell you this last night, but I miss Newport. And I miss you."
"I miss you too."
"So I'll talk to you later?"
"I'd like that."
"I'd like that too." Summer took a deep breath and then said, "Bye."
"Bye."
She hung up the phone and walked back into Kristi's room.
"How'd it go?" Kristi asked pulling her hair into a loose ponytail.
"It was better than last night. But it was still weird." Summer said lying back down on the bed.
"It will be weird for a while but, it'll get better?"
"You promise?"
"Promise."
"I'm the Mariah Carey of the clarinet" Mackenzie exclaimed sitting up half asleep, "Whoa."
"Weird dream babe?" Kristi asked.
"The weirdest."
That night Summer sat on the couch flipping through channels while eating from a carton of ice cream.
"What are you doing?" Meg asked walking into the room.
"Trying to find something to watch."
"I taped last night's Daily show if you want to watch that. It's in the vcr."
"Thanks."
"Night."
"Night. Summer grabbed the vcr remote and hit rewind. She laid down, and thought back to a conversation that she had with Seth.
"Well, I'm going to go." he had said.
"Yeah, well I have to go ice big funny guy. So..."
"Well if you're ever feeling you know too bitter and lonely, I Tivo'ed some Daily Show. I know Jon Stewart is no Leno."
"Thanks."
"Okay." Summer hit play and smiled to herself. She couldn't push Seth Cohen out of her mind, no matter how hard she tried.
She's girl he's glad he's found, she's his shipoopi."
---Shipoopi, The Music Man
A few weeks passed by and Summer slowly began to make friends with the Springfield locals. One night Summer sat hanging out in Anne Marie's room, along with Kristi, looking through Anne's CD collection.
"Why do you have two copies of the Music man soundtrack?" she asked.
"One's the movie soundtrack, and the other is a copy from when we performed it last year for the musical." Anne Marie said sitting down on her bed, "So when are you going to tell me?"
"Tell you what?" Summer asked playing coy.
"The truth about you and Cohen. Every time I mention him your face lights up, but you refuse to tell me anything. So spill."
Summer took a deep breath silently weighing the pros and con's of telling and then decided that she had to tell, "Okay." She said, "Here's what's happened."
Summer began to tell the whole story of everything that had happened to her and Seth. She told about the debutant ball and how she caused Seth to end up escorting Anna, about kissing him at Caleb's birthday party, the whole TJ mess, realizing that she had feelings for him, everything up until to now, leaving out the part about the two of them being virgins.
"Wow." Anne Marie said nearly in tears, "That is the saddest story I every heard."
"It's just like in the movies." Kristi said sighing.
"You can't tell Seth though, okay Anne?"
"Why not?" She asked
"It's just not the right time. I will tell him that though."
"You better or I just might have to beat you." Kristi joked.
The next afternoon Summer sat with the group in a tiny library room working on her English homework.
"Where's my cell phone? What I need right now is my cell phone." Counterman exclaimed digging through the pocket's of his jacket.
"You mean this?" Summer asked picking it up off of the table.
"Thanks." he said sheepishly
"So, what are you guys doing tonight?" Kristi asked, "Because my sister is have some friends over and I really don't want to be stuck listening to her and her little friends giggle about how great Gigli was and how much they wish that Ben and Jen could have worked it out."
"Your sister seriously doesn't believe that does she?" Gwen asked
"Uh-huh. Oh, and get this, she feels that Lost In Translation was crap."
"You need backup. I can spend the night if you want." Summer told her.
"Are you serious? That would be great."
"I come with sandwiches!" A brunette who closely resembled Katie Holmes said coming through the door carrying a large purse.
"Oh awesome!" Kristi said as the girl put the bag on the table, "Mackenzie you are the best!"
"Tell me something I don't know." Mackenzie said smiling
"Why does Wasman get to go first?" Counterman asked as Wasman pulled a sandwich out.
"Because Wasman's the prettiest." Gwen said matter-of-factly, "You know, I love Wasman."
"Yeah, Wasman is totally hot." Kristi agreed
"Actually, Wasman is totally cold. I think they've got the air conditioning turned up."
"I'll warm you up." Gwen said moving closer.
"'Cause if we put our bodies together, our body heat will warm each other up."
"You are too much, Wazzie, you really are."
"Hey Kenz what are you doing tonight?" Kristi asked
"Probably just watching cable all night, why?"
"Because Summer's coming over and my DVD collection is going to be taken over by the brat squad..."
"And you want me to bring over some movies?"
"Yeah."
"Okay." Mackenzie said, "What are best friends for?"
"I know. Plus you own Finding Nemo."
That night Summer sat on Kristi's bed flipping through the newest copy of Entertainment Weekly.
"Oh my god! I was over at Alex's today after I left the library and he said 'Hey look there's Jennifer Garner' and I looked. And then he did it again and I looked again." Mackenzie exclaimed.
"You are such a dork." Kristi said lying on her back.
"Oh okay sure little Ms. 'Are you laughing at me'."
"What's this story?" Summer asked shutting the magazine.
"Okay, see..."Kristi started.
"No, no, no. I've got to tell the story. You won't do it justice. Okay, so we were in Grammar class last year, and any time I would laugh or anything really she would turn to me and go 'are you laughing at me'?"
"Shut up." Kristi said turning red.
"Look at you. Oh poor Kristi." Mackenzie said putting an arm around her friend.
"How long have the two of you been friends?" Summer asked.
"Forever." Kristi said.
"It'll be thirteen years as soon as school starts back up."
Summer was amazed. "Wow." she said, "I don't think Marissa and I have been friends for that long."
"I don't think my parents have been married that long." Kristi joked
"I know my parents weren't together that long." Both Summer and Mackenzie said in unison.
The three girls laughed until they were interrupted by Summer's cell- phone.
"Please don't be Meg." she whispered as she dug the phone out of her overnight bag. She pulled it out and was breathless when she saw the name on the caller id.
"Oh my god." Summer whispered. "Hey Kristi..."
"We're going to go get something to eat." she said standing up, "You want anything?"
"Milk. And thank you."
"No problem, we'll be in the kitchen when you're done."
"Hello?" she said answering the phone as Kristi and Mackenzie left the room.
"Hi." the voice on the other end said.
"Hi."
"Hey." The voice said chuckling, "How are you doing?"
"I'm okay. How about you? How are things going back in Newport?"
"They're okay."
There was an awkward pause and Summer decided that that was the perfect time to ask the question she was dying to know.
"Why are you calling me Cohen?"
"We haven't talked since school let out, and I wanted to see how you were doing. And I sort of thought that you'd be back in town by now."
"Well I'm not. And I'm probably not going to be back for a while."
"What's wrong with you?"
"What do you mean what's wrong with me?"
"You've got this tone."
"I don't have a tone."
"Then what is wrong?"
"Things have been going really well lately without you here."
"I didn't think that things were going wrong with me back here."
"Well things were. Look, Seth, I've got to go. I'm over at a friend's house and I'm being a really rude guest."
"Well hopefully I'll talk to you soon."
"Yeah. Maybe. Bye."
"Bye."
Summer hung up her phone, walked into the kitchen, and sat down at the table.
"Was it him?" Kristi asked
"Mm-hmm."
"How'd it go?"
"I think 'really bad' is an understatement."
"You want a cookie?" Mackenzie asked pushing a plate forward.
"Thank you." Summer said with tears forming in her eyes.
"On a scale of one to ten with one being 'I just had my first kiss' and ten being loosing your virginity to your best friend who also happens to be a virgin how awkward was it?" Kristi asked.
"A seven point two."
"That bad?"
"I forgot how much I enjoyed hearing his voice, I could picture his face, I could practically smell him, and the whole time we talked I just wanted to tell him everything."
"Can I interrupt for a minute?" Mackenzie asked, "I'm a little confused about what is going on."
The next morning Summer laid in Kristi's bed looking at the ceiling. She felt terrible about the call to Seth. She didn't mean to be so mean to him it just came out.
"I've got to do this." She thought to herself.
Slowly she got out of bed and picked up her overnight bag.
"What are you doing?" Kristi whispered rolling over in her sleeping bag.
"Oh my god!" Summer exclaimed quietly throwing the bag on the bed, "You scared me. I didn't wake you did I?"
"No. I can go to bed at two in the morning and still wake up at six. But what are you doing?"
"I need to call him. I need to apologize."
"I think that's the best thing."
"I was just about to step out onto the back porch if that's okay."
"Yeah that's fine."
Summer put her phone out and began to sneak out onto the porch.
She selected Seth's number from her speed dial and waited while it rang.
"Hello?" he answered groggily.
"Hi."
"Summer?"
"Yeah. Hi. I woke you up didn't I?"
"No, no. I actually just was aboutt to go to sleep."
"I'm sorry."
"It's no big deal. What's up?"
"I wanted to apologize for the phone call last night. I was rude and..." Summer paused to think up a lie that would sound believable, "A little drunk and it wasn't right."
"It's okay."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah."
"Good. Oh, and Seth?"
"Yeah?"
"I didn't tell you this last night, but I miss Newport. And I miss you."
"I miss you too."
"So I'll talk to you later?"
"I'd like that."
"I'd like that too." Summer took a deep breath and then said, "Bye."
"Bye."
She hung up the phone and walked back into Kristi's room.
"How'd it go?" Kristi asked pulling her hair into a loose ponytail.
"It was better than last night. But it was still weird." Summer said lying back down on the bed.
"It will be weird for a while but, it'll get better?"
"You promise?"
"Promise."
"I'm the Mariah Carey of the clarinet" Mackenzie exclaimed sitting up half asleep, "Whoa."
"Weird dream babe?" Kristi asked.
"The weirdest."
That night Summer sat on the couch flipping through channels while eating from a carton of ice cream.
"What are you doing?" Meg asked walking into the room.
"Trying to find something to watch."
"I taped last night's Daily show if you want to watch that. It's in the vcr."
"Thanks."
"Night."
"Night. Summer grabbed the vcr remote and hit rewind. She laid down, and thought back to a conversation that she had with Seth.
"Well, I'm going to go." he had said.
"Yeah, well I have to go ice big funny guy. So..."
"Well if you're ever feeling you know too bitter and lonely, I Tivo'ed some Daily Show. I know Jon Stewart is no Leno."
"Thanks."
"Okay." Summer hit play and smiled to herself. She couldn't push Seth Cohen out of her mind, no matter how hard she tried.
