"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 hours, an a power nap later, Summer walked down the hall towards the nursery with Sam on her hip and came face to face with Becca and Kristi.

"We need to talk." Kristi said, "I'm sorry about how harsh I was on you the other day."

"Same here." Becca told her, "At the end of the day when you tell Seth is really your decision."

"Thank you guys."

"No problem." Kristi smiled

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That afternoon Summer sat in math class doodling on the cover of her notebook while the rest of her classmates enjoyed the free day Mr. Upton was giving them.

"Now a days guys don't really appreciate their baby's momma's I mean look at Britney's hubby..." a girl named Ebony said

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Baby's mommas? What's a baby's momma?" Mr. Upton asked

"You know a Baby's momma." Philip explained

"I'm a baby's momma." A girl named Ali said

"Oh so like a young mother." Mr. Upton said pretending to understand what was being said

"No, like a baby's momma." Philip said

"I still don't quite understand."

"Baby's momma, which is a noun." Summer said looking up from her notebook, "Meaning the mother of your child to whom you are not married. The male version would be a baby's daddy."

The class gave Summer a dumbfounded look and she sighed to herself, "Just because I grew up in Newport doesn't mean I don't know anything other than how many different kinds of shoes Jimmy Choo makes or where to go if you want to see Paris Hilton get into a fight."

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That night while Kristi and Becca sat around waiting for people wanting to hear bad singing Summer tried to negotiate with Wasman's bigger or better team.

"I'm not letting you give me a cd player as collateral while you borrow my daughter." Summer said appalled

"Okay, fine." Wasman sighed, "Jackson, give Summer your ipod."

"No!" he exclaimed

"Do you want to win this game or not?"

"Fine. But you better not hurt it. Janey is my baby."

"You've named your ipod?"

"Five more minutes left for this round of bigger or better." Ms. Casey said from over the loud speaker.

"Jackson. Come on." Wasman said getting irritated

"Fine." he said handing it over.

"Here's Sam." She said passing her over to Wasman

"Come on." Wasman said as they hurried over to the steps of the bleachers to meet with to meet with the other teams.

"I cannot believe you just handed your baby off to Wasman, Jackson, and Bri-Bri." Becca said shaking her head

"I don't trust Jackson with my dog." Kristi said

"Well it's nice to get away for a minute. Besides it'll help me when I go to Newport next month."

"You're not taking her?" Kristi asked

"Nope. Meg agreed to watch her. So I'm going to be baby free for a whole week."

"You excited about the wedding?" Becca asked

"Absolutely. This is going to be the first family engagement of his that we've ever gone to as a couple."

"We're here to return your baby." Wasman said

"You guys win?" Becca asked

"No." Wasman told her as he slid Sam into Summer's arms, "Lauren Johnson got the keys to the stadium from her dad."

"So the keys to the stadium were better than my daughter? I think I'm a little outraged."

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Three days later, before class, Summer sat on the floor of the drama room drawing signs for the Springfield Public School District's annual drama festival with the rest of Drama three while talking to Seth on the phone.
"So, tell me a little more about this thing you've got going on tonight." Seth said

"Well you remember the set you helped build?"

"Yeah."

"Well that is for a one act and we're going to be performing it along side many other school's in the Springfield area trying to win first."

"Awesome."

Summer looked at the clock and saw that it was almost time to drop Sam off at the nursery.

"Hey Seth, school's about ready to start."

"Alright, I'll call you tonight?"

"Yeah. I'll be free around ten thirty or so."

"Okay, talk to you then."

"Talk to you then."

"Bye."

"Bye."

"So Casey, "Becca said while Summer hung up her phone and picked Sam's carrier up, "Since we're doing so much work here and all do you think we can get last block off?"

"Please Casey." Summer begged, "'Cause I'm really not in the mood to listen to Mr. Upton's rant about why gay marriage is wrong."

"Ditto on that one." Wasman agreed.

"Yeah, P.E. doesn't sound that much fun today either." Foxy told her

"You promise to stay on task and not goof off?" Ms. Casey asked

"We promise." Everyone agreed.

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That night after performing in various drama activities, including the biggest event of the night One Act, Summer sat in the auditorium with drama students from many other school's talking to Seth on the phone.

"So how was your day?" he asked

"We had a very fun half an hour when we broke for dinner. I hung out with this friend of Becca's, her name's Marrs. She and I went to Subway and then we played invisible tennis, invisible soccer, invisible lacrosse which was really fun because we don't exactly know how to play visible lacrosse, and we ran through a field like hippies, and we recreated the last supper and I was Jesus and she was Peter, and we played in the Drury fountain. Oh my god I almost forgot about the best part of the half hour. We took an imaginary trip to Tahiti and I got an imaginary tan."

"Wow your day was packed full of invisible goodness wasn't it."

"It was."

"Attention, ladies and gentlemen," Ms. Casey said walking on stage "If you all will please take your seats we will begin giving out awards momentarily."

"Seth, I've gotta go."

"Okay, talk to you later?"

"Mmhmm."

"Ooh, and remember..."

"If I win an award I will thank you."

"Good."

"Love you." Summer whispered

"Love you too."

"Bye."

"Bye."

Summer hung up the phone and turned to Becca.

"You've got it so bad." Becca laughed

"No I don't."

"How much longer until you leave for Newport?"

"24 days, eleven hours and---shut up."

Becca started laughing until Counterman and Amy showed up behind her, dressed in clown makeup, and started laughing too.

"Don't do that! Puppet's give me the Wiggins." Becca shrieked.

"Why?" Amy asked

"I saw a puppet once it gave me the Wiggins; there isn't really much of a story." Becca told them.

"What are we talking about?" Wasman asked sitting down behind the group along with a friend from drama two named Matt.

"Becca's afraid of clowns…" Counterman explained as he turned around and then exclaimed, "Whoa."

"Wasman, your mouth make-up is smeared. It looks like you've been making out with someone." Amy whispered

"You've been making out with someone who isn't me?" Matt joked, pretending to be hurt

"No Matt, I only have feelings for you." Wasman said sarcastically patting him on the back.

"That's so sweet! Are you two going to be like the drawing of the two guys on top of the wedding cake in the paper?" Summer exclaimed laughing

"Have you guys gotten to look at the bios?" Kristi asked sitting down on the arm of the chair with a bio pamphlet in her hands

"Uh-uh." everyone said shaking their heads.

"Hand it here." Matt said taking it out of her hands, "Ooh. Tyler 'Wasman---not Biggs' Wasman is a senior who has been in MacBath and Ten Little Indians, among others. His dream play to direct would be Red, White, and Blaine and his favorite movie quote, coincidently enough, is 'I'm going to go home and bite my pillow.' His average weekend involves movie marathons with his girlfriend Kristi. His autobiography would be called Eternal Sunshine of Wasman's Mind and in the movie he might be played by Frankie Muniz but not by ANYONE from The Valley! And in closing he would like to say: JS, AC, what's going to become of the CHS drama department when we leave? AMR just leave already! KM UCLA better watch out 'cause we're going to have the time of our lives next year! And Lastly, Sum you're great and all but "will you please stop talking about that stupid show?!"

"You don't like hearing about the Valley?" Summer asked sticking her bottom lip out

"What does Summer's say?" Wasman asked

"This is Summer Roberts' first and also last year at Central and we're sad to see her go. Her dream play to direct would be Wasman: The Musical, 'if only some would hurry up and get the script written!' Her favorite movie quote would have to be, 'Evian is naive spelled backwards!' from Reality Bites. Her average weekend she: 'Plays with Sam, watches marathons, and works hard to avoid homework that needs to be done before graduation.' Her parting words are ones to think about, KM, thank you for being there for me since day one, and also for knowing so much useless trivia. AMR you're just too much, you really are. Wasman remember 'The male plug goes into the female plug and that creates electricity.'"

"Ladies and Gentlemen." Ms. Casey said returning to the podium on the stage, "We will now begin handing out awards. And since it's almost oh, eleven at night could you please keep your speeches down to less than a minute and a half? Okay. So first award is best original script. First place goes to Avery Smith from Hillcret, I'm sorry, Hillcrest."

"I see how it is." A random guy from the audience yelled out, "You're discriminating against us because our roof is caving in. I see."

After the rest of the individual awards were given out it was time to move on to the one act and readers theatre awards.

"The first award to be given out in this is best supporting actress." Ms. Casey said picking up the award statue, "And the winner is Ms. Summer Roberts."

"Oh my god!" Wasman exclaimed

"You did it!" Becca cried

Summer walked up on stage with a tired Sam on her hip and graciously accepted the statue.

"Oh my god. This is awesome!" She said speechless, "When I first got the role of the Maid I was positive that it would be the best role 'cause no one would notice me. I guess I was wrong. Ooh, and I was informed that I have to thank my boyfriend Seth, who helped build the set."

Summer went back to her seat and Ms. Casey went back to the podium.

"Now the Best supporting actor." Ms. Casey said picking up the next award statue, "And the award goes to Centrals very own Jackson..."

"Yes!" Jackson exclaimed jumping out of his seat, not even letting her finish, and began pointing to various people sitting around him, "Ha to you, and you, and well you're hot so not to you."

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Fifteen minutes later Summer quietly walked into the house with Sam sleeping in her carrier and headed towards the bedroom. She sat the carrier down on her bed and took her phone out of her bag and dialed Seth's number.

"It's me. Guess who won the Best Supporting Actress?"