Chapter 15

The Divorce

Summer hadn't been home since she had talked to her Mom a week ago. She had rang Meagan, her second-in-command, to tell her she had full control over the business while Summer was away, and she had rang Marissa to tell her that she couldn't face her Mom, and what she had done to her and Seth. Marissa had been an excellent listener, gasping and screaming in all the right places. They had put the phone down with a mutual disgust for Eva Roberts.

"And that's another thing," Summer said angrily as she and Seth ate their dinner in his poky kichen. "Why does she still have the name Roberts? I mean, hello, she divorced my Dad. Why not go back to Bell? I mean, its not like she did anything worthy with the name Roberts, she shouldn't be allowed to wear it. It's an insult to my dead father. I mean, I know I hated my stepmother, but when she and my dad divorced, she went back to Dickson-Fairmont. She had a little respect."

"yes sweetie," Seth said with glazed eyes.

"You didn't even hear a word I said, did you?" Summer asked, munching on a potato.

"Well, it's just you've done nothing but bitch about your Mom since last week – for which you have every right" Seth added quickly at Summer's narrowed eyes, " – but its always the same thing. That's the third time you've had the 'Roberts' rant. I know it off by heart – no respect, why not go back to Bell, divorce, stepmom was better' etcetera, etcetera."

Summer shook her head. "I'm sorry. It's just, I can't believe my own mother would do this."

"Why don't you ring her. You said you would."

"Soon," Summer promised. "Just not now. I need more time."

"Have you rang Dominic?" Seth asked. She had said she was going to, but had never said anything since.

"Yeah, I did. I told him that I was taking a break, and that we need to talk when I get back."

"You didn't tell him we were together?" Seth asked dubiously.

"No," Summer defended, "I… I thought it would be better to tell him that to his face. I still look at him as a friend Seth, he's been there for me and he deserves that at least."

Seth nodded. He wasn't happy but he wasn't completely annoyed either.

"What's that?" Summer asked. Seth heard a key in the lock and smiled. "Cady must be back."

"You're roommate Cady?" Summer asked.

"Yeah. You guys are finally going to meet." Seth said excitedly. He jumped up as a girl's voice yelled greeting.

"Seth? You in?" she yelled. Summer got up and followed Seth into the hall.

"Cady!" he greeted. Summer's shoulders sagged when she saw Cady. She was extremely pretty, with long brown hair and honey skin. Cady threw her arms around Seth, but stopped when she saw Summer's petite figure in the doorway.

"Hey," Summer smiled weakly. Cady grinned.

"Hi. I wasn't expecting…"

"This is my wife," Seth told Cady, moving over to Summer and putting his arms over her shoulder.

"You're wife? I thought that…" Cady gaped.

"That I had been a jerk and ruined any chances I had with her? Yeah me too," Seth joked.

Summer smiled. "I'm…"

"Summer, I know. Seth has told me everything about you. And I mean everything. I feel like I know you," Cady said.

"Really?" Summer asked, scrunching her nose.

"Oh yeah," Cady replied, her eyes wide. "You have a my little pony called Princess Sparkle, your favourite colour is red, you met Seth in High School where you were like the school's resident Goddess and he was the geek, Your bedroom was purple, you really got on with your dad and you were Prom Queen. Oh yeah, and apparently, you were the best kisser ever."

Summer laughed and threw a look at Seth, "You told her all that stuff about me baby?"

Seth's face was red. "No, she's just a stalker I swear."

"Ha!" Cady said, "The only reason I know all of this stuff is because you drilled it into my head so much with your constant pining. I'd end up sprouting some random fact about you in the middle of an audition for 'Our Town' or something."

"Audition? So you're an Actress?"

"Yeah. We're in LA – who isn't?"

"Me," Seth piped up.

"No, but you're a bum so…"

"Hey!"

Cady picked up the mail from the doormat. "Okay, so why didn't you check the mail this morning?" she asked.

Summer blushed.

"Um, we were kind of in bed," Seth said, with a cocky grin on his face.

"Oh," Cady said, "Very John Lennon and Yoko Ono."

"yeah, the 'R' rated version," Seth laughed. Summer swatted him.

Cady threw some envelopes at Seth. "Here, for you," she stated.

"Hey, there's one from my lawyer here," Seth said.

"Probably the divorce papers for you to sign," Summer said. Seth raised his eyebrows.

"Should I rip 'em?" Seth asked.

"No!" Summer exclaimed. "Those things cost me a fortune. You can at least have the decency to open, and then rip," Summer laughed.

"Hang on a second," Cady said from her place on the lounge couch, where she had flopped and started watching MTV. "Divorce?"

"Yeah, Summer had this crazy idea that we had broken up or something," Seth said, making 'crazy' signals and gesturing to Summer. He opened the envelope and pulled out its contents.

"Yeah, because even though we hadn't seen each other for three years, we still had a relationship," Summer laughed. "Nah, but seriously, divorce was a crazy idea. I would never have divorced Seth."

"Uh Summer," Seth said slowly. "you have."

"What?" Summer asked in confusion.

Seth handed her the letter. "We're divorced."


AN: Yeah, so sorry for not updating in such a long time, but I've just been really busy 'cos we're back at college and... Oooh, it's gunna be such a good year! We're making a music video in Media, we're doing something interesting in History, Sociology's always good, and English is English - and I obviously like writing :-) Also, guess who's organising prom this year? Huh huh, yeah, that would be me. Woo hoo. Oh my God, I kissed the Student Class President on Saturday - that lead to an awkward day at school :-s Anyway, someone told me I should get a livejournal so I don't clutter my stories o much - (heh heh) so yeah, I'm looking into that. Anyway, please review (Pleads with puppy dog eyes)

Luv ya!

Leanna :-)

P.S I would upload my other chapter but it's on my laptop and I'm having problems with that at the moment :-s