"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

Saturday night Summer sat in the Cohen's living room with Sam on her lap while Kristen stood behind her putting the finishing touches on her hair.

"Okay," Kirsten said as she straitened Summer's tiara "give me Sam and then you can go get dressed."

"Go to Gramma." Summer said as she slid Sam into Kirsten's open arms and hurried up to Seth's room and quickly began to get dressed.

Five minutes later Summer made the first of many grand entrances for the evening when she walked down the front stairs and in to the living room dressed in a floor length off-white strapless Vera Wang.

"How do I look?" Summer asked as she struck a picture perfect model-pose.

"You look stunning. Seth is going to be in awe."

"I hope so."

"So Summer, you ready to go?" Ryan asked as he walked through the kitchen.

"Yeah." Summer said as she picked up her matching clutch purse, "Where's Seth?"

"He's coming." Seth said as he walked into the room

"What took you so long? I was afraid we were going to miss our dinner reservation."

"Hey now. You just got dressed."

"How do you know that? Oh my god, were you spying on me?" she asked as she hit Seth's arm with her purse.

"No, and by the way oww." he complained, "I sent dad in here to see how things are going."

"Oh. Sorry then. Now are we ready to go?"

Two hours later Summer and Seth walked into the Ballroom that Harbor was using to hold prom.

"It is so beautiful." Summer said in awe.

"It really is." Seth said with his eyes on Summer

"You know what this reminds me of? Cotillion."

"Only it's going to end a lot differently."

"I hope so." Summer said as she took a hold of Seth's hand, "Now let's go find Coop and Ryan."

They walked down the stairs and onto the dance floor walking past groups of students, most of whom never gave Seth the time of day, looking at the two of them in shock with looks on there face that seemed to say, 'How did he manage to get a girl like her?' They walked past Holly and her clique and were stopped by Holly herself.

"Oh my god Summer!" Holly said ignoring Seth

"Hi Holly." Summer said back, copying the bubbly tone that Holly was using

"So, what are you doing here? Your dad said you moved to Michigan."

"Missouri."

"Whatever. It's just that I didn't think I'd ever see you again."

"We saw each other at that party you threw during Spring break."

"You were there?"

"Yeah. You said that I've almost dropped the five-plus pounds that I had put on when school ended and I said that the ten pounds you gained seems to work for you and you know what? You're right that wasn't you." Summer said, knowing that was the only way that they could drop it.

"I knew it. I would have remembered seeing you."

"Summer, I'm going to track down Ryan and Marissa." Seth said letting go of her hand.

"Okay." She said sending him don't leave me looks.

"I can't believe that you actually went as his date. You must be really desperate to come tonight."

"No, not really. Actually he's my fiancé." Summer told her holding out her hand

"You're...really? Wow. That's a big step."

"I know, but I mean we do..." Summer started but was cut off by Marissa.

"Summer! There you are." Marissa said grabbing Summer's arm, "Sorry but I'm stealing her."

"Sorry Hol. We'll talk more later."

Marissa began dragging Summer off, her lips moving a mile a minute. "Can you believe that Prom is already here? I mean this year has gone by so fast don't you think?"

"Yeah..."

"And it's also turned out to be the total opposite of what I thought it would be. I mean yeah here we are in our Vera and Valentino and yes we do have incredibly sweet guys on our arms but I never would have thought that you would be attending Prom as a guest and that we would be skipping all of the post-prom parties to go home to our kids. Not only that, but you're the only one who's the real mother. I mean I'm just the girlfriend of the father."

"Okay come here." Summer said taking the lead, dragging Marissa into the bathroom, locking the door behind her, "Breath on me."

"Sum..."

"Breath on me."

Marissa quickly breathed on Summer and then crossed her arms across her chest in a very Paris Hilton-esque way, "There happy?"

"You're drunk."

"What?"

"Give me the alcohol."

"This is prom Sum. We need to have a little fun."

"Marissa I do not want a T.J. flashback. Just give me what ever kind of drink you have in your bag." Summer paused for a moment and then repeated herself, "Give it to me now."

Marissa took out a silver flask and flung it into Summer's hand, "There."

"Now what is wrong with you?"

Before Marissa had a chance to answer the girls heard Holly's voice from the other side of the door.

"Did you hear that Summer and Seth Cohen are engaged? I mean really." she said

"What is she thinking?" A fellow Holly-ite asked

"I don't know. But I did hear that the reason that she left is 'cause she got pregnant." A third girl said

"Really? Holly said in shock, "whose is it?"

"I don't know but it wouldn't surprise me if it's the baby that Ryan is raising. I mean Marissa deserves getting cheated on after all the times that she cheated on him."

Summer shot Marissa a 'they've got to be kidding' look and was even more shocked when she heard the rest of the conversation

"It's not like he hasn't cheated on her."

The voices began to move farther away and Summer looked Marissa in the eye and asked, "They're not serious about you, right?"

"They're not right about a lot of thing but unfortunately they are right about this."

"You cheated..."

"Only once. Okay, technically twice but the second time Ryan and I had decided that we'd see each other with others on the side. And I know what you're thinking but we didn't do anything. We just kissed."

"What about Ryan?"

"He didn't do anything. You know him he's loyal."

"Why would they think that?"

Marissa leaned up against the countertop and took a deep breath, "You know girls like them. They need drama to make their life look like its normal."

"Does Ryan know about the others?"

"No."

"Maybe you should tell him. I can tell that it's really weighing heavily on you."

"Why didn't you tell me about this earlier?"

"Your life is going so well. I didn't want to make you with it."

"Coop, I'm your best friend. I'm going to deal with it whether you want me to or not."

"Now are you sure about this?" Seth asked as he pulled into a parking lot.

"Yes. I mean it's not like we can go out and get plastered or anything."

"It's just…I never pictured spending prom night like this."

"You never pictured spending prom night with your incredibly hot fiancée and your nine month old daughter watching movies?"

"What teenage boy does?"

"Now come on…" Summer started but was cut off by Seth's phone ringing.

"I've got to get this."

"Okay. I'll go get movies and you get munchies and we'll meet back here."

"Gotcha."

Summer began walking towards the video store, lifting up the bottom of her dress trying not to get it dirty. She opened the door and began looking threw the isles of DVD's and video's.

"Summer?" a voice from behind her asked

"Yeah?" She asked turning around and was surprised to see Danny standing there, "Danny! Hi!"

"I'm surprised that you remember me."

"Of course I do. How's everything?"

"Everything's good. I'm working here."

"Really? Wow. And you're working right now?"

"Yep."

"Gosh, what unspeakable crimes did you do for them to make you work the late shift on Prom night?"

"I volunteered. My girlfriend and I just broke up. She said that my comedy was too big whatever that means."

"That sucks. I'm sorry."

"I'm getting over it. But how are you? We haven't seen each other since last year."

"Well I'm engaged."

"Really? Congratulations."

"Thank you. But, um, that's not all. I have a daughter."

"Really? Wow."

"Yeah. Her name's Sam, she's nine months old, beautiful. Looks like a spitting image of her father."

"And who is her father, if you don't mind me asking?"

"Seth Cohen."

"Seth Coreally? And is he your fiancé?"

"Yes."

"Well, he's a lucky guy."

Summer hurried to the range rover as the sprinkles that were falling quickly turned to raindrops.

"Oh my god!" She exclaimed as she got in the car and shut the door.

"Made it just in time." Seth laughed

"So what did you get?"

"Chimichangas, spicy buffalo wings, fries and tator tots."

"Ooh. All the makings of a fun filled night of movies."

"What about you?"

"I rented Garden State and then I saw that they're having this huge sale on used movies so I kinda splurged a little."

"How much is a little?"

"Thirty-eight dollars."

"Thirty-eigSummer!"

"I got some good movies. I got Kids, High Fidelity, Pretty in Pink, Blues Brothers 2000, The Village, Animal House and Rob Roy for your dad 'cause he loves that movie."

"You got the Village?" Seth asked

"Yes. And once you get passed the fact that the previews make it look like a scary movie and it's not it's really good."

"Hmm."

"Ooh and I also saw this movie called Lord of the G-String that I thought about getting for you but I decided against."

"Actually it's called Lord of the String."

Summer looked at Seth for a minute and then raised her eye brow.

"I've never seen it or anything. I've just seen the box." Seth said stumbling on his words

"Uh-huh."

Seth started the car and they started on their way home

"So I saw an old friend while I was getting videos."

"Really? Who?"

"Danny."

"Big Funny Guy?"

"Yep. I told him that we are engaged and about Sam."

"You told him about Sam? Really?"

"Yeah."

Summer waited a minute for Seth to say something and she couldn't wait any longer

"What?"

"What what?"

"Your attitude. If something's wrong just say so."

"I thought we were going to wait to tell people about Sam. You know together."

"Well if I were to wait that long Sam would be all grown up having kids of her own. It's not that big of a deal Seth."

"Yes it is! You've gotten to make all the decisions in Sam's life and I haven't had any word."

"Oh my god! Is that what this is all about?"

"You chose to keep Sam. You chose to move half way across the country. You chose to not tell me about her for seven months."

"Oh my god!" Summer exclaimed but she wasn't responding to what Seth had just said. Her eyes had locked onto a red convertible that had moved into their lane to try and pass a few cars.