"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 shut the door to her dad's SUV and sighed happily. It was six at night and she was back home in Newport once again. She began to walk around the front of the car when she saw Marissa coming out of the front door with Cohen in her arms.

"Sum!" Marisa exclaimed

"Coop!" she cried back

"What are you doing here?"

"I'm surprised that you haven't heard. Seth invited me to be his date for Hailey and your dad's wedding."

"Seth invited you? Really. So I guess things have moved from being just good between the two of you to being really good."

"Yeah, things are going real good. But we can talk about that stuff when we get inside."

As soon as Summer and Marissa got inside the house they headed straight to the kitchen for some much needed gossip and ice cream.

"So where is everyone?" Summer asked as she opened the freezer and pulled out a fat-free sugar-free ice cream bar.

"Seth, Sandy, and Ryan are getting things for the rehearsal dinner and Hailey and Kirsten are out getting food."

"So, is your mom going to be coming to this wedding?"

"Well Hailey is her step daughter now, so it looks like it."

"God help us all."

Marissa laughed as they took a seat at the kitchen table.

"So, how are things going back in Springfield?"

"It's the best. I've made some more great friends, and everyone loves Seth."

"Yeah, Seth told us about all the fun he had taking you to the dance."

"It was a lot of fun."

"He also told us about how he went into your house. But however, he didn't mention seeing Samara."

Summer took a deep breath and looked at her best friend, "That's because he didn't get to see Samara."

"You still haven't told him?"

"Can we not get into this right now?"

Summer sighed, leaned back in her chair and took a bite of her ice cream bar.

"So," Marissa said deciding to change the subject but was cut off by Summer's phone ringing

"Hello?" she asked answering it.

"It's Kristi."

"Hey! You guys get in alright?"

"Oh yeah."

"No problems?"

"Nope."

"So, have you seen the city?"

"Not yet. We're going tomorrow."

"Excited?"

"Ecstatically."

"Where are you now?"

"Elizabeth New Jersey. And let me tell you something about Elizabeth New Jersey. Looks mean nothing. Our hotel looked so nice from the outside but on the inside it smelt funky and just plain not nice. The mall that was across the street however was way better then it looked on the outside."

"Did you buy anything?"

"Yeah, I ended up getting you a shirt and a couple videos."

"You got me a shirt?"

"Yep. Oh hey, the group wants to go have dinner so I'll talk to you tomorrow?"

"You bet. Tell Wasman I said hi."

"Will do. Bye."

"Bye."

Summer hung up the phone and turned to say something to Marissa, but was cut off by the front door opening

"Marissa?" Kirsten asked walking through the door, with Hailey right behind.

"In the kitchen!" She called out

"Whose car is that in the drive?"

"That would be my dad's." Summer said standing up

"Summer!" Kirsten exclaimed, "How are you?"

"I'm fine."

"And my granddaughter?"

"She's perfect. Oh you should see her. She's gotten so big, and she's starting to talk."

"You're kidding!?"

"Nope. But don't worry. I've got tons of video's and pictures in the car."

"I cannot wait to see them."

Later while the guys were still out running various errands the girls sat around the kitchen table flipping through pictures dating back to thanksgiving.

"Look at her!" Hailey squealed holding up a picture of Sam with Kirsten and Sandy, "She looks just like Seth."

"She acts just like Seth too. Seven months old and she already loves Bright Eyes."

"Are you serious?" Marissa asked

"Very much so."

"What's this?" Kirsten asked holding up the cast bio from the one act

"Oh god." Summer laughed, "That would be the bios from the one act. Since Seth helped with the set Casey said that he could fill out a bio sheet."

"I need to know what this says." Hailey said snatching it away, "Okay. You might have seen Seth Cohen in his critically acclaimed role of Duck number three in his kindergarten production of The Ugly Duckling,"

"I was in that." Marissa announced

"But don't worry, if you missed him then you're obviously...Well, you're not actually watching him now but you are seeing the set he helped build. His favorite movie quote is 'Goonies never say die' and on an average weekend he skateboards, talk to Summer on the phone, terrorizes random Newport social events and sit by his pool and watch time slowly pass him by. His autobiography would be called 'Totally Redonkulous: The Seth Cohen Story'; and he doesn't know who would play him in the made fore TV movie 'cause there's always a made for TV movie but 'Anne Marie says that I resemble John Mayer so that's what I'm going to say.' And when asked if the seniors had a parting words he replied by saying, 'Sure, what the heck. Anne Marie, I've known you all my life and I'm glad that Summer gets to know you as well. Speaking of Summer, you can be my wonder woman anytime.' I'm sure she knows what that means.

An hour later the guys finally got home, while the girls were in the kitchen trying to put take out food on plates in a way that it looked home made.

"Hello?" Sandy called out opening the front door.

"In here." Hailey yelled back.

"Here would be?" Ryan asked as he walked into the house with Seth

"Kitchen." Summer said smiling

"You're here!" Seth exclaimed rushing into the room, "When did you get in?"

"Around two. But my dad and the step-monster wanted me to hang out with them for a little while."

"I bet that was fun." Ryan said sarcastically

"You have no idea."

"Was the flight okay?" Sandy asked

"The flight was great. Actually I somehow managed to sleep through most of it. So, that was good."

Later that evening Ryan, Marissa, Seth and Summer sat in the pool house trying to get a very fussy Cohen to sleep.

"Why don't we tell her a story?" Marissa suggested

"That would work, if she liked stories." Ryan told her.

"Maybe you haven't told her the right stories." Seth suggested and then turned to Summer, "What was that one that game that you played?"

"You mean story tellers?" Summer asked.

"Yeah. We should do that."

"You guys know how to play?"

Ryan and Marissa both shrugged their shoulders and shook their heads.

"It's easy. I'll start. Okay once upon a time there was a boy named Aladdin and..." Summer began

"And he was very..."Seth said picking up, "Marissa?"

"He was very...poor? I don't know. Ryan."

"And there was this princess named Jasmine and she liked him because of that and... Marissa?"

"And because he shared his Genie. One day they went to a..."

"They went to a bar mitzvah to buy dates..." Seth said interrupting Marissa, "Summer."

"To buy dates from the date stand where he had an account with Harry the shop assistant." Summer laughed, "Coop?"

"After that they went to see a movie staring the flying carpet that could fly. 'Hi'"

"Said Genie." Ryan said taking over, "Summer?"

"After the movie Aladdin found a ring and gave it to Genie. She didn't like it so she threw it down and Jasmine found it. She liked it very much."

"True Dat." Seth said ending the story.

A few hours later Summer and Seth sat with their feet in the pool looking up at the sky.

"What time do you have to be home?" Seth asked wrapping his arms around her

"Dad said midnight, which is soon, but I'm sure that if I get home late and give him my puppy dog eyes he'll let it slide."

"Maybe you should get home early so that you could use the puppy dog eyes tomorrow night. "

"What do you mean?

"Holly's having a party at her house and I thought that you might like to go and see your old friends, catch up on everything."

"You'd really suffer through a Newport party just for me?"

"I'd do anything for you."

"Okay then. I'm in."