"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

"Daddy." Summer whispered

"Hi sweetie." Neil said smiling

"What are you doing here?"

"I came to see you."

Summer sat quietly looking her father in the eyes with millions of thoughts running threw her head, but Sam's cries from inside of her crib caused her to push them all to the back of her mind.

"Come here honey." Summer said picking Sam up, trying to comfort her.

"Is that?"

"Yeah. This is your granddaughter Samara Leigh Cohen. Sam, this is your grandpa."

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Summer laid in bed in bed thinking about all the reasons why, now, her father was here and her mind kept going back to one moment

Summer sat in her room with Marissa, holding a plastic pregnancy test in her hand, crying until she almost made herself sick.

"Sum, sweetie you need to calm down okay?"

"Calm down Coop? Seriously? Look at the stick."

"We aren't even sure that it isn't a false positive."

"Marissa, I'm a month and a half late. I'm never late. It's not false."

Marissa moved closer to her friend and looked her in the eye.

"Have you thought about what you're going to do yet?"

"That's all I've been doing for the past month and a half. And I still have no idea."

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The next morning Summer sat at the kitchen table, across from her father, feeding Sam.

"So what do you have planned for today? Because I was thinking that I could take you and the little one shopping and then out---" Neil started

"Can't. School." Summer said picking Sam up, "But I probably can go after."

"Okay. Should I pick you up and go from there or..."

"We'll meet here. Three o'clock."

"All right. Do you need a ride to school at least?"

"Nope. Wasman's going to be here... right now." Summer told him as she saw Wasman's car pull into the driveway, "I'll see you later."

She grabbed Sam's diaper bag and her backpack and hurried out to the car.

"You're in a big hurry." Wasman said as Summer put Sam into the car seat that was resting in the middle of Wasman's back seat.

"My dad's here." She told him as she quickly ran around and slid into the front seat, "Let's go."

"Why's your dad here?"

"I don't even know."

As the car pulled out of the driveway Summer looked out her window at her father who was standing on the front porch and sighed.

A month had passed and Summer stood in front of her mirror eyeing her quickly growing stomach while talking to Marissa on the phone

"I don't know how much longer I can hide this." Summer said as she pulled her shirt down.

"That only means one thing."

"Marissa..."

"Summer...You have to tell someone about it. You chose to go through with the pregnancy and that means that you need to tell someone. Either Seth..."

"And ruin his relationship with Anna even more? Yeah right."

"Then tell you're dad."

"I am not telling my dad." Summer said emphasizing the word not

"Then tell Seth."

Summer sighed to herself, "My dad is not going to be happy when he finds out that his little girl is a tramp."

"Hey. He isn't going to think that."

"But what if he does? What if he's so mad at me that he kicks me out?"

"Then come stay with me."

"You mean that?"

"Yes."

"I'm holding you to that."

"When are you going to do it?"

"Now. Before I loose my nerve."

"You'll call me?"

"I'll probably be over there."

"Don't think like that okay?"

"'Kay. Bye."

"Bye."

Summer hung up her phone and began to try to psyche herself up.

"You can do this." She kept whispering as she made her way downstairs to her father's study.

As soon as she got to the door she stopped and stood there for a moment trying to gather the courage to knock.

She finally gave up and just said, "Daddy?"

"Summer, come in. What's wrong?" Neil asked looking up from his papers

"I need to talk to you about something." She said as she took a seat across from him

"This sounds serious."

"It is. You see about three months ago---" Summer paused and tried to reword what she was about to say, "I'm in a little bit of---"

'I can't do this.' She thought as tears started to run down her cheeks

"Summer, sweetheart, what's wrong?"

"Daddy." she cried placing her hands on her stomach, "I'm pregnant."

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The next afternoon as they stood in the lunch line Summer filled Kristi in on the daddy drama going on at home.

"So he just showed up?" Kristi asked as she handed the lunch lady her money

"Yep." Summer said as she did the same.

"So, why is he here?"

"I haven't a clue. But he doesn't have the step-monster with him and for that I'm grateful."

"That would totally work!" Jackson exclaimed as the girls sat down

"It would not!" Wasman argued

"What's going on?" Summer asked as she took a bite of her sandwich

"Let's ask ok?" Jackson said, ignoring Summer, as he reached out and grabbed the arm of a girl passing by, "Sare, would Hell's fire destroy a castle?"

"Yes."

"What about if the castle were made of Kryptonite?"

"Yes."

"What about if the castle were---"

"Yes. Okay? Hell's fire would destroy anything. Well, except for Jesus."

"Thank you." Jackson said and then turned back to Wasman, "Okay, so we make the castle out of Jesus and we get Tenacious D to gather everyone in the world and bring them all to the castle where---"

"Where Paulie Shore would kill them with his Paulie Shore-ness 'cause no one wants to be around him."

"Dang it!"

"Oh my god." Kristi said shaking her head, "You two are insane! Let's get to a topic that everyone can understand, okay? Alright. So Summer, your dad is town."

"Yes, he is."

"And you have no clue what he wants?"

"Yep. But he does want to take me shopping, which you know could be a good thing."

"Unless he wants to tell you some bad news like he went to Vegas and spent all of your college money and you're stuck going to Orange County Community College rather than Berkley." Jackson said

"Shut up okay?"

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Summer sat on her bed listing to Kellie and Gary fight over what movie to watch in the other room, while she waited for her dad arrive. She sighed to herself as she flipped through a magazine. She stared at the page trying to focus on it but her mind went back to the day her life was changed forever.

Summer sat on Marissa's bed clinging to her Share Bear with one arm and holding a glass of water in the other.

"So he was pissed?" Marissa asked rubbing Summer's back.

"I've never seen him so upset."

"I'm sure he wasn't upset..."

"Disappointed then. Which, happens to ultimately be worse. He couldn't even look at me after I told him."

"Does he know that it's Seth's?"

"No!"

There was a knock at the door and both girls turned and looked

"Come in." Summer said sniffling

"Hey girls." Jimmy said peaking his head in, "Summer, your dad's here. Should I..."

"Let him in. Yeah. Coop could we..."

"You bet. Come on dad."

Marissa and Jimmy left the room and in a minute Neil walked in

"Hi." He said trying to make minimal eye contact, "I'm sorry I reacted so harshly before."

"It's okay." Summer lied

"We need to discuss what you're going to do."

"That's a good idea."

"I've contacted my attorney and he gave me the name of a friend of his who works girls in your situation."

"What?" Summer asked confused while her father went on talking

"I called him and he gave me the name of a couple in Laguna Beach who are looking to adopt and they're more than happy to take you into their home for the rest of your pregnancy."

"I'm not giving this baby up!" Summer exclaimed standing up.

"Summer you're not thinking clearly."

"Yes I am daddy. And maybe if I were a different person then I would take you up on your offer, but I'm not."

"Summer you can't be serious. Think about what this will do to our reputation."

Summer stood in shock for a moment and then laughed softly, "So that's what this is all about? You don't want to be known as Neil Roberts, the doctor with the knocked up daughter."

"Summer..."

"You know what daddy? If you don't want me in your house while I'm pregnant, fine. I'll be gone as soon as school's out for summer."

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That night, after a long 4 hours of shopping, Summer and her father sat at a table in Subway while Sam slept in her stroller beside them.

"Daddy you really didn't have to buy me that dress."

"Summer, it's only right for a father to spoil his only daughter. And that goes double if it's for her prom."

"Yeah but I've already got a prom dress though."

"But this is a Vera Wang and ever since middle school all I've heard from you is that you will just die if you don't get to wear a Vera Wang to prom."

"I'm not that same girl daddy."

"I can tell." He sighed and then looked Summer in the eyes, "It kills me that I have missed so much of your life. There's this girl standing in front of me that I can't even recognize. You've matured far beyond your years."

"Daddy..."

"You have. And it hurts that I've missed that, and that I've missed my granddaughter grow up. "

Summer sat looking at her half eaten sandwich with tears beginning to form in her eyes.

"I'm sorry you missed that too."