Authors note: Okay, so here's the new chapter, but it might be a while till I get the next chapter finished, so I have a question for you guys: because I have to type the story at the library where there's always a line to use computers,would you rather have longer chapters that you have to wait a while for or would you like shorter chapter that you don't? Let me know in the reply.

"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

"Excuse me." Seth finally said, "What's going on?"

"Seth!" Summer exclaimed looking up.

"We should probably leave them alone." Marissa said picking Cohen up.

"Right." Ryan said heading towards the door, "If you need us we'll be in the house."

Marissa and Ryan quickly exited leaving Seth and Summer alone.

"Are you going to tell me what that was about?" he asked

"What does it mean when something changes how it's always been?" The Liz sang over the speakers

"Who's Sam?"

"She's your daughter." She whispered

"I've done the damage, the damage is done. I pray to god that I'm the damaged one. And all these grownup complications that you don't understand I hope you can, someday I hope you can."

After a long pause Seth looked at her, his eyes filled with confusion, "What?"

Summer stood up, "Her name is Samara Leigh Cohen. And she's your daughter."

"How did I not know about this?" he asked taking a seat on the bed

"I wanted you to enjoy your senior year."

"How old is she?"

"She'll be eight months the nineteenth of April."

"Wait, that doesn't come out right." He said standing up

"It does if you only count back six months."

"She was premature?"

"Very."

"God." He whispered running his hands through his hair

"Seth?" she asked taking a step towards him

"Don't." he said moving towards the door, "I think--I think need to be alone for a while."

"I understand." She said sitting back down on the bed.

"I'm glad." he said as he quickly left leaving the door open

Half an hour later a very puffy eyed Summer sat on the porch drinking from a half empty bottle of Champaign

"Well I have to admit, when I got news that there was a teenager crying on my porch with a bottle of Champaign I thought I'd find Marissa out here." Kirsten said walking up from behind

"Hi Kirsten." Summer said putting the bottle down.

"Does this have to do with you telling Seth about Sam?" she asked sitting down on the step.

"You know about that?" Summer said wiping her eyes.

"Yeah. He told Sandy and I. And we told him that we already knew about her."

"Was he mad too?

"Yeah, he was. I'm sorry Summer. I know how much you wanted to tell him yourself."

"It's not your fault. I should have known that Seth wouldn't take it to well." Summer said beginning to cry.

"Oh Summer." Kirsten whispered wrapping her arms around Summer's shoulders.

Ten minutes later Kirsten pulled up to Summer's house and stopped the car.

"Are you going to be okay?" Kirsten asked turning in her seat

"I think." Summer said nodding her head

"Should I help you in?"

"No. I've managed to sneak in without waking my dad when I was far more wasted then this. "

"Okay."

Summer slid out of her seat, quietly shutting the door behind her and began walk up to the front door.

"Hey Summer?" Kirsten quietly yelled sticking her head out of the car, "It'll all work out."

"Thanks." she said smiling

Two days later Summer drove to Seth's house, with Hailey's wedding present sitting on the seat next to her, while talking to Kristi on the phone.

"What have you guys been up to day?" Summer asked turning a corner

"Well, we went to an improv workshop and we did a lot of fun things there. And then we went to Grand Central Station for lunch and shopping. Ooh and after that we went to the UN and guess who was there."

"The president?"

"Even better. Nicole Kidman."

"Really?"

"Mmmhmm."

"That's pretty cool."

"I know! And even better we were looking out a window and this girl from Drama two goes, 'Oh my god! Isn't that here?' and all the girls are just like, 'Where' and we start looking really hard to see if we can find her and then the girl goes, 'Oh, wait; it's just a camera guy'. And our tour guide starts just cracking up."

"Hey Kristi, Wasman," Summer heard Ms. Casey whisper in the background, "Ms. Cox and I are going to tell everyone that we just saw someone famous. Play along okay?"

"Okay." Kristi said

"Hey you guys we just saw Sarah Jessica Parker going into OTB." Ms. Casey shouted to the back of the bus.

"Really?" Anne Marie asked

"Yeah."

"What a loser."

"God." Kristi said laughing.

"So what else are you guys going to do?"

"We're on our way to dinner at this place called Angels and then we're probably going to go to Dylan's candy store and then we're gonna go see Chicago city limits."

"Ooh, it they've got any Razzles pick me up some." Summer said as she pulled up to Seth's house

"Will do."

"Okay, well I'm at Seth's so I'm going to have to talk to you later, 'kay?"

"Okay, talk to you later."

Summer hung up the phone and threw it in her bag before picking up Hailey's present and getting out of the car. She walked up the door and knocked on it twice.

Fifteen minutes later Summer sat in the kitchen with Kirsten and Sandy eating left over hors d'oeuvre from the wedding, talking about everything that had happened the last couple days.

"So has Seth talked to you at all since Thursday?" Summer asked cautiously.

"Yeah he has." Kirsten said nodding her head, "Last night after the wedding we had a pretty long fight."

"Did he understand?"

"No." Sandy said taking her hand, "He's still pretty upset."

"He didn't even stay here last night."

"He didn't?" Summer asked turning to Kirsten, "Where did he stay?"

Kirsten and Sandy gave each other a 'should we tell her' look before Sandy let out a hesitant sigh

"What?" Summer asked

"He stayed over at Anna's." Seth said coming into the room

"Seth." Summer said standing up, "Hi."

"Hey." He said looking down at the floor, "I think we need to talk."