A/N: Sorry that it took a while. But I have had a lot of school to deal with. And I'm running out of ideas. But I think this chapter worked out good anyway. Tell me what you think of it!

Chapter 7 – Some Party

Anna woke up by the phone ringing. She picked it up.

"Who is this? I usually sleep at this time of the day"
"Hey Anna it is Seth. Sorry I wake you. I just wondered if you would like to go with me to this party which is tonight at my parents' house."
"You don't have a date so you choose to call me so that Summer doesn't see that you're alone on that party? Is that about right?"
"No not at all. Okay maybe a little. But I thought you were going anyway, so instead of both of us going alone we could just go together. As friends of course."
"Yeah okay. Nice comeback I have to say. Fine I'll go with you. Come pick me up at seven?"
"Yeah sure that sounds good"
"Good! Bye for now. I have to get my beauty sleep if I'm going to go to a party"

She hang up the phone and went back to sleep.

Seth hanged up the phone. That went easier than he thought it would. He was prepared for some serious begging but Anna gave up pretty easy. But she was tired. Stop that right now Seth. Don't go that way, strictly friends was the deal, and that is all you want.

He went down to the kitchen. I probably will have to get my own place soon. I can't stay here forever he thought. Maybe I could spend my day doing that. He took a bite of his bagel and started to look for places in the newspaper.

Summer got up from the bed. She had been awake for a while but she didn't want to leave the bed. Cohen had been home for two weeks now. They had met occasionally but she had tried to avoid him as much as possible. She didn't want to really but he didn't deserve his company. Zach was much better for her. They had a thing that Seth and she never had. Trust… and real love that you couldn't leave behind.

She took some cereals. But tonight I guess I have to see him. The party is at his parents' house so I couldn't see that he wouldn't be there. She saw Princess Sparkle on the table.

"Hey sweetie! It was a wile since I talked to you. I have been pretty swamped. Seth is back you know. Captain Oats probably misses you. What? Yeah I know you miss him too. We had some good times the four of us.

It was some days after that Seth declared his love for her in front of everyone in school. They sat in her bed and cuddled with Captain Oats and Princess Sparkle lying right next to them.

"Can't we stay here forever Cohen?"
"I guess we could but we would probably stink after a while"
They smiled at each other and kissed.

"Just kidding. We can stay for as long as you like."

They kissed again and he had his hands up in her hair.

"Wait. Do you love me?"
"What? What are you talking about? Of course I love you"
"But why? What have I done to deserve your love? I didn't even use to talk to you"
"That's true. But I was sold for you as soon as I saw your stunning beauty"
"Don't joke. Really. What made you put up with me all those years. How could you stand med when I was such a bitch to you? How could you continue to love me?"
"I don't know. It just felt right in my heart. I saw you every day and that made me happy. My life was shit. But when I dreamt about being with you everything seemed better for a while. You were one of the things keeping me from leaving to Tahiti on my boat. And when Ryan came and you finally knew who I was. I can't even describe the feeling that was inside me then"

Tears rolled down from Summer's eyes.

"You are so perfect. I don't deserve you"
"Yes you do. If anyone deserves me it is you."
"Promise me we'll always be together. Promise that whatever happens you will never leave me. No matter how bad things get we will stay together"

He kissed her on the forehead. "I promise we will always be together, and I will never leave you alone."

"He lied to me Princess Sparkle. He said he would never leave me but he did."

The table was getting wet from all the tears. She couldn't keep them inside anymore.

"He left me. He left us. And when he left he took our love with him. And on his way he lost it so now everything is ruined. But I still can't stop thinking of him. Even though I want to"

She put the horse down on the table again and went up the stairs and in to she shower.

The party was about to start. Seth stopped the car, went around and let Anna out.

"Thank you! What a gentleman."
He smiled and they went inside with their arms crooked.

"I'm just going to the bathroom. Go and meet some people and I'll find you when I am ready"

It was a mystery for him how much time women spent in the bathroom so he just nodded and let her go. Then he walked around to see if he recognized any fun people there. He stopped when he saw Summer and Zach standing and talking to some people. They laughed and seemed to have a good time. Good for them he thought sarcastically. He went to the bar and took a drink. This is going to be a long night he thought.

Summer looked around. Ryan and Marissa weren't there. They couldn't come. Had to work and no one could look on Trisha who was sick. What about Cohen? She didn't see him anywhere. Wait there he was. Sitting in the bar alone drinking. She was just on her way there to say hello when Anna walked in and sat beside him. They talked and then walked to the other room together. He's here with Anna? He's been home for two weeks and already he's together with her.

"Zack can't we go to the other room and see if there's some people we haven't greeted"
"Ok sure"

They walked in. Summer looked for Seth and Anna. They were both looking in their direction and Anna waved. Summer waved back and then she turned to Zach kissing him long and gently.

"What was that for?"
"Nothing I just remembered that I hadn't kissed you in a while. You like it?"

"As always"

Seth made a grimace and looked away.
"Oh my god. She just had to look for me ant then do it."

"What? Summer? Little self absorbed still huh? Maybe she just wanted to kiss her boyfriend. You know sometimes girls like to do that."
"Yeah right. It wasn't so obvious that she looked to see who was in the room before she kissed him."
"Stop that! I can't stand a night with you talking 100 about Summer. I had enough of those in high school. Can't we talk about something else?"
"Fine. I will try not to think of her tonight"

They talked and talked about all sorts of things. The time rushed away and the party was running low and he had nearly not thought of Summer one single time. But now she was there again. The nearest people to the Cohen's were still there and they stood in the kitchen. Summer was all over Zach and he didn't seem to mind. But Seth did. Anna had already left so he thought maybe it was time for him to go too. But then it hit him. He lived in this house. Dammit. I have to get my own place soon.

"I'm just going to go out for a while. Have to get out of here for a while"

His mother looked at him

"Why? Is everything okay?"
"Yeah everything is fine. I just need some air" He looked at Summer and then turned and left.

She looked at him as he left. She saw that something was wrong.

"Listen Zack. I'm going to go home now."
"Okay let me just get my coat and I'll drive you home"
"No that's okay stay here and talk. I'll just walk home. Could use the air"
"You sure?" She nodded "Okay I'll call you tomorrow then" He kissed her.

She closed the door behind her. Then she started to jog away from the house. Ahead of her she saw the silhouette of some guy with curly hair. That must be him. She caught up with him shortly after that and he turned to look at her.

"What are you doing here?"
"I just came to check on you. Something seemed to be wrong back there"
"You don't say? You couldn't guess what my problem was?"
"No not really so why don't you just tell me."
"You weren't directly discrete with Zack."
"Yeah so? That shouldn't bother you. I mean we haven't been together in a long time."
"No we haven't. But it was still hard"
"Why?"
He sighed. They were close to the pier now and he looked out on the ocean.

"You know when I was out there I met a whole lot of girls"
"Trying to make me jealous?"
"No not at all. I promise I have a point. As I said I dated a lot of girls. I was more confident after I'd been with you. But it didn't work out with any of the girls. I were with them for some time and then I took this picture from my wallet" He took up his wallet and drew out a picture from it an looked at it. Not showing her. "I looked at it and compared the girls with it. And when I had done that, I left them. There was nothing else I could do. Because when I compared them to this picture they were nothing. I couldn't love them. Because all the love I had was for the one girl I really loved. The girl on the picture."
He gave her the photo. It was of her in the dress she had on Caleb and Julie's wedding. She stood in the sun with a tree in the background. She remembered that he had insisted to take that picture of her. She was stunned of what he just said.

"It was the last picture I had on you. I took it 'cause by then I knew I had to leave and I needed something to remember you by."
"Why do you have to do this to me?" She almost didn't get the words out.

"Because I love you Summer. I love you more than anything in the world and nothing will ever change that. I will always love you"

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