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

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

---Shipoopi, The Music Man

Summer sat on her bed trying to finish her paper for history before she had to leave for school, while Sam sat on the floor chewing on a set of plastic keys, when the house phone rang.

"Summer, phone call!" Meg called from the kitchen

"Coming." She yelled, picking up Sam and walking into the kitchen

"Hello?" She asked picking up the phone.

"It's Seth."

"What's going on?"

"I was wondering what you had planned for this lovely, lovely Friday."

"Well I've got to go to school and then when three comes around I'm totally open, why?"

"Go to the door." he told her

"What?"

"Go to the door." he repeated

"Okay." Summer said bewildered as she shifted Sam to her other hip and began walking to the door.

"Okay, I'm there." She said

"Open it."

"Seth, what is going on?"

"Just open it."

"Okay." She told him, suddenly feeling butterfly's in her stomach.

She turned the door knob, opening the door and she was excited by who she saw standing on the other side.

"Seth!" She exclaimed

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"So Seth was just standing there on the other side of the door?" Gwen asked half an hour later as she and Summer sat outside the drama room waiting for Ms. Casey to show up with the cast list for Noises Off

"Yeah, he was just standing there." She said glancing over at Seth who was sitting on the stairs, leading up to the auditorium, playing peek-a-boo with Sam.

"So are you guys back together?"

"I don't know exactly."

"Wow, Summer's actually early for a change. That's new." Ms. Casey joked as she walked down the hall

"Yeah, but I probably won't be here for to long however." she said standing up

"And why's that?"

Summer tilted her head, and Ms. Casey glanced over at Seth and Sam nodding her head knowingly.

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"So tell me again who made the cast." Seth said while he unlocked the door to the rental car

"Okay, but this is the last time. It was Kristi, Jackson, some guy named Jeremy, Sarah, Becca, Amy, Wasman, and some guys named Matt and Josh."

"And..." He asked smiling

"Myself." She said sighed as she put Sam in the car seat, "And I don't know why you're so excited about it because you probably won't even get to see me in it."

"I could, you never know. I could bribe the parental's. You know use the same 'you kept my daughter a secret from my' line I used to get them to pay my way here."

"You used our daughter as a way to get something? You have been related to Julie for far too long."

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That afternoon Seth and Summer sat in the living room looking through the picture window at the rain falling while Sam slept in the bedroom.

"Seth?" Summer asked as she laid her head down on his shoulder

"Yeah?" he asked

"Where do we stand?"

"What?"

"You and me, what are we? I mean we're going to be going out tomorrow and what if we run into someone I know that you've never met before? What am I going to introduce you as? Are you my boyfriend, are you my ex, just my baby's daddy?"

"I would like to be your fiancé."

"What?" She asked raising her head quickly

"I was going to do this tomorrow night when we went out for dinner but now works too." he said pulling a red box out of his pocket and moving down to the floor in front of her, "Summer Roberts, will you marry me?"