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A/n: This is it, the end of it all (until the sequel) It has been a pleasure writing for you all. I hope you like it.

Chapter 8

Summer was waiting in the lift for it to open, wondering what she was going to say to Seth. When the elevator doors opened she walked out and found herself standing in front of a door with 314 written on it, she raised her hand to knock. When she hesitated, she didn't know what part of her made her stop, maybe it was the fear of what Seth would say to her, maybe it was something else. Maybe it was her women's intuition telling her that she needed to be somewhere else but she was determined to face Seth, so she raised her hand, and this time she knocked.

"Hang on." Seth's voice came from inside the room.

Summer was starting to get nervous, but she didn't know why. She had talked to Seth before, she had shouted at him before, this time was no different.

The door opened and there stood a stunned Seth, "Summer? What are you doing here? How did you know I was here?"

Summer looked at him and although she knew his face and his voice something about him seemed different "I came to see you, I went to Anna's first and she told me you had a fight and that you would probably be here. So are you going to let me in?"

Seth looked at her noticing that she has changed, she wasn't the same girl he had left three months ago, he knew that just from looking at her. He moved aside to let her in.

She walked in looking around, the room was a mess and there were fast food wrappers around the coffee table and magazines strewn across the floor.

She turned around to see Seth looking at her "Summer what are you doing here? Not that I'm not glad to see you but..."

Summer had cut him off "I came to shout at you, but now that I'm here I don't know. I just don't feel like shouting. It's like everything that has been going over in my head for the past three months seem so irrelevant."

Seth looked a little confused by what Summer had just said "What do you mean? Irrelevant."

Summer looked over at the couch and decided to sit down "I mean, for the past three months I have done nothing but cry over you and when I found out that you came here to be with Anna I felt … like my heart had been ripped out. And I kept going over things in my head, What I would say to you, what you might say back, whether I would see you again, whether when I did see you, you were with Anna and in love but now that im here. There are only two questions in my mind."

Seth looked up at her scared of what her questions would be "Ok? Ask me."

Summer looked at him as if she was trying to find the right words to say "Why did you leave me?"

Seth knew that would be one of her questions so he knows what to say "Before Ryan came I was nobody, no one knew who I was or that I existed, they only saw me as someone they could make fun of and torture. Which I got used to eventually, but when Ryan came everything changed, people started to notice me, you started to notice me and I was the happiest I had ever been before, in Newport anyway. I was afraid that after he had left I would go back to the way it was before, with no one noticing me, unless it was to make fun of me. That I could have handled but I couldn't handle not being someone to you, I couldn't handle you never noticing me again so I came here, to Anna, the only person who had noticed me for me and not for Ryan"

Summer wasn't expecting that answer she was expecting him to say that he needed a break from Newport. She just looked at him and trying to think what to say "It would never have gone back to that, I could never not notice you Cohen, I would never do that. I may have noticed you because of Ryan but I fell in love with you and Ryan leaving would never have changed that"

Seth looked shocked like he hadn't thought of that. Like that aspect of things had escaped his mind. He just looked at her then realised she had a second question. "What was the second?"

Summer just stared at him again trying to find the correct words "Do you still love me?"

To Seth this was a loaded question. "I still love you, I always will but I am in love with Anna. I know that must seem cruel to you but we have both changed over the summer, I can tell that you have changed and by now you will know that I have changed"

For some reason Summer wasn't upset by this because she knew that it was true she still loved Seth and a part of her always will but she knew that over the past three months they had both evolved into different people, it had just taken her a long journey to realise it.

Seth looked into Summers eyes and a question popped into his head "Summer, how did you get here? All the flights are delayed until tomorrow morning."

At this question Summer smiled as Seth said this "Ryan drove me."

"What Ryan is here?" He said as he looked to the door.

"No he dropped me off here and drove home."

"Why didn't he come up and see me?"

Summer shrugged her shoulders "I don't know, I guess he figured that we would want to be alone."

Seth was hurt by this comment, Ryan his brother didn't want to see him, he always wanted to see him and they had gotten on so well. Wait there had to be a reason why he didn't come up, maybe it wasn't because he wanted to give him and Summer some time alone maybe it was something else " Summer, tell me what happened on your way here?"

Summer wondered why he had asked such a weird question, but then she answered herself 'it's Cohen, he's the king of weird' so she told him. She told him everything, she didn't feel the need to hold anything back. As she told him she had flash backs, the argument with Marissa, the cancelled flights, the heat, the air conditioning breaking, the car breaking down, the hotel, the drinking, the kiss, the morning after, the conversation they had about the kiss, just then she realised something the look of disappointment and heart break on his face. Then her mind kept skipping to moments when Ryan looked at her and how it made her feel, how she had never seen him smile so much… OMG.

She looked up at Seth with realisation in her eyes "OMG Seth."

Seth smiled "So you finally figured it out?"

Summer looked a little confused "You knew? How? When I didn't even know?"

Seth smiled again "Well Ryan would have come up to see me but for some reason he didn't, and I saw the look in your eyes when you said that Ryan had brought you here. So have you told him?"

Summer looked up at him "Told him what?"

Seth gave a little laugh "That you love him."

All Summer could say and think is "OMG I love him, I really do"

All of a sudden worry flooded over her face, he was on his way back to Newport. She had no way of getting home until getting a flight in the morning "Seth what am I going to do?"

Seth looked at her, his ex- girlfriend who he loved and always would and how she looked so scared of the fact that she couldn't get home quick enough to see Ryan "You are going to go to the airport get the first flight back to Newport and tell him you love him."

Summer hugged Seth "Thank you, for everything."

She ran out of the hotel and got a cab to the airport; once she was there she ran up to the desk "When is the next flight to Newport?" The woman at the desk looked on the computer screen and typed in a few letters and looked up at Summer "all flights are delayed for another 3 hours, you could get a flight after that." Summer knew that it would be a day before Ryan got home but as long as she was there when he got back she didn't care how much money she had to spend "When is the next seat available?"

The woman typed some more things into the computer "ok well the next coach seat is available tomorrow at 3pm." Summer started to get scared, Ryan would be home by then, the only reason the trip on the way there took so long was because of the problems with the car. "Is there any sooner? Money is not a problem." again the woman typed some more things into the computer "The next available flight with a spare seat is at 9pm tonight it is in first class and the amount for the ticket will be $1,151.22 and the flight will take 4 hours is that ok?"

Summer smiled, the sooner she saw Ryan, the better "That is fine so when will the plane land?"

Again the woman looked at the computer to confirm the flight details "It will take off at 9pm and will land at around 1am is that ok?" Summer knew that she would get home before Ryan and decided that she could crash in the pool house without the Cohen's knowing she was there. "Yes that is fine, here is my card."

Summer had a 4 hour wait before her flight was in so she decided she would try and call Ryan to make sure that he was ok. She dialled his number but got his answer phone so she left him a message "Ryan hi it's Summer, I'm just calling to make sure that you are ok and haven't picked up any hookers on your way home." She gave a little laugh into the phone "anyway I just wanted to thank you for being there for me the past couple of months. Bye."

She hung up not knowing weather she had said the right things or not. She couldn't wait to see him, to touch him, to taste his lips and most of all she couldn't wait to be in his arms, where she felt safe and where she belonged.

Meanwhile in the range rover

Ryan has been driving without a stop for 3 hours now and he didn't intend on stopping, not just yet anyway. He wanted to get home as soon as he could. He wanted to get as far away from Pittsburgh as he could. He hated that Summer was probably now lying in Seth's arms instead of his, he hated that Seth would be able to kiss her and taste her peach lip gloss. Most of all, he hated that she loved Seth, and not him. He knew that without the stopping and without the car problems that they had on the way there he would be home in half the time.

Ring Ring

"Hello?"

"Ryan hey" It was Sandy and he sounded worried

"Sandy? What's wrong?"

"Nothing is wrong, I just wanted to know where you were, and we were worried since you haven't called in a while."

"Oh sorry, I'm on my way back now."

"Ok where is Summer?"

"She is with Seth" Sandy heard the bitterness in his voice and knew instantly that Ryan had feelings for Summer but decided to let it go.

"Ok Well how long will it be until you get home?"

"About 15 hours I think I plan on driving through the night, I can't sleep anywhere but in my bed."

"Ok well drive carefully kiddo and I will see you soon."

"I will good bye."

Ryan hung up the phone and started to drive faster, now that it was getting dark, he could get away with driving faster.

Back at the airport

Four hours have now passed and Summer is boarding the flight. She can't help but think 'how was she going to tell Ryan that she loves him. What if he freaks out? He wouldn't freak out if Seth was right then he loved her too.'

The four hour plane ride was killing Summer, she couldn't stop thinking about Ryan the whole journey, it seemed to last forever. She started to feel as if she was never going to see Ryan, when the plane started to descend.

She got off the plane, and out of the airport as fast as security would let her. She got a cab back to the Cohen's with the plan of sneaking around the back and slipping into the pool house without the Cohen's noticing. However it seemed that her plan would be impossible, as sandy was sitting on the doorstep obviously waiting for her. But how did he know she would be there?

She paid the cab driver and got out "Sandy, hi."

Sandy gave a little laugh "Come on in Summer, Seth called to let us know that you would be coming, it's ok you can wait for Ryan in the pool house but I think you should get some sleep, he wont be back for another 6 hours yet." "Ok." Replied Summer as she walked to the pool house to go to sleep.

Ryan walked into the house at 7am. Sandy and Kirsten were already up and sitting in the kitchen eating bagels and drinking coffee. "Hey" Kirsten said looking up from her coffee mug.

Kirsten stood up and hugged him and Sandy did the same thing "Were glad your home safe." Ryan smiled "I'm going to go to bed. It's has been a long couple of days." Kirsten and Sandy nodded to let him know that they understood.

Ryan walked outside and walked almost zombie like to his door. He was so tired now because of the long drive. He walked in and locked the door not wanting to be disturbed for another few days, he turned around to see Summer asleep on his bed. She was wearing one of his tanks and a pair of his shorts. She was curled up into a small ball. Ryan smiled instantly and sat beside her and brushed her hair out of her face so that he could see how beautiful she was. Summer felt his hand and she was awoken instantly. She looked up at him and smiled "Summer, What are you doing here? I thought you would still be with Seth."

Summer smiled and sat up she turned to Ryan so that she was facing him "I realised something." Ryan couldn't help but smile "Oh yeah? And what's that?" Summer shifted so that she was closer to him "I realised that I love Seth." With her saying that Ryan's smile faded and he looked at the floor. She lifted his head up with her fingertips. "But I am in love with you." Ryan felt his heart skip a beat. He had always thought those old school films where the guy reacts to the girl confessing her love for him were a bit over the top. But now he knew they didn't compare. He felt his heart would burst at any moment from the happiness that one sentence brought to him. He leaned in to kiss her, straight away he felt a rush of happiness flood him, he could taste the peach again, he could taste her again and he loved it, he loved her.

Ryan broke away looked her in the eyes "I am in love you too."

With that Ryan and Summer lay down on the bed and after another few kisses fell asleep in each others arms and in that instance, they both knew, that was where they belonged… together and in each others arms.

A/n: That's it, the end. I got 2740 words. Lol

KTMO: I'm glad you're hooked, I hope you liked this chapter. I wasn't too sure on the ending.

esta cena fan: It's never too late in my eyes.

halliwell11: Cool, I hope you liked it