One Summer chapter 51

"SURPRISE!"The room exploded. Summer shrieked as she saw the room. Hundreds of balloons floated and 2 huge party banners hung in the air. " Congratulations Summer and Seth" and "Happy Baby Shower!" hung freely in the air covered with ribbons and streamers. Seth squeezed her hand tightly and gave her a big smile.

Summer covered her mouth as she kept looking around. The whole Cohen family, the Nichol's, and the Coopers were there plus many other people Summer didn't recognize but she assumed Seth did. She stopped and blinked as she noticed her stepmother Diane sipping a glass of presumably wine and talking to Julie. She wondered if her dad had also come.

"Surprise, Summer! Are you surprised?" Kirsten asked smiling, walking over to her and hugging both of them.

"Thank you so much. This really is awesome. You shouldn't have done this." Summer gushed.

"I'm glad you like it. I know we are kind of late with the engagement party thing but never late then never, right?" Kirsten sing-songed excitedly. "And tradition is a baby shower so we thought we'd throw them together. I hope Seth didn't give anything away."

Summer looked up at Seth who was smiling at her and she pecked him on the lips. "Nope. He didn't say a word."

"That's good. Well, I'm going to get along a try to find out why the music hasn't started yet." She waved and in a blink of an eye she disappeared into the crowd.

Within minutes, Marissa and her boyfriend came over and Marissa ran over and hugged her.

"Sum! Surprise!" She cheered smashing a paper hat on her head and a feather boa around her neck. "Now aren't you glad I didn't tell you what the surprise was?" She giggled excitedly.

"Thanks Coop. That would have spoiled it." Summer leaned into Marissa and whispered. "Is my dad here?"

"I don't know Sum. But I'll go find out. Bye." She hugged her again and grabbed her boyfriend's arm and went into the crowd. After they had left, Summer turned to look at Seth who was smirking at her.

"Thanks."

"This party had nothing to do with me in the planning's. I simply caught them yesterday and they spilled." Seth explained happily, quite pleased with himself.

"I can't believe you didn't tell me. You can't keep secrets; I know you."

Seth pouted. "How come you know I can't keep secrets? I could be keeping secrets from you right now and you wouldn't even know."

"But Cohen you aren't." Summer giggled softly, pressing her hand to her stomach.

"But how do you know? He he he" Seth looked at her waiting for an answer.

"Whatev Cohen, you aren't, so stop joking." She had a pained feeling in her stomach but she shook it off easily enough when she went on her tiptoes and pressed a kiss to Seth's lips.

"What was that for?"

"For not keeping any secrets from me." She smiled lightly.

"It was my pleasure." He pulled her in front of him and he encircled his arms around her waist so his arms met in the back. "I wish this wasn't our party or we could go make out in the Range Rover." Seth announced, softly moving his lips over hers and was making her groan.

"Whoa there. PG only here." A voice interrupted and they broke apart.

"Ryan my man." Seth leaned over and gave Ryan a great big bear hug. "What's up?"

"Nothing much. This woman who's like in her 40's stopped me and I think she was making a move on me." Ryan gave a gross face while he told them.

"EWWW." Summer said quickly. "Which one?" Ryan scanned through the crowd and pointed at a tall skinny woman in a small blue cocktail dress who had her arms all over another man.

"Obviously drunk." Summer and Seth concluded together.

"Well, It definitely didn't make me feel very good. Hey do you know where Marissa is?"

"Coop just went to the bar over there." Summer pointed to said location. There was Coop chatting with her step-mother. "But hey, Ryan. Why don't you stay with us awhile? It looks like she's in deep conversation.

"Summer…" Seth paused. "Isn't that your step-mom?" Seth realized glancing over the woman. It definitely was Diane, Seth concluded.

"Oh.. really. I hadn't noticed." Summer said sarcastically.

"Are you ok with this?" Her boyfriend asked. "Because if my mom invited her, I'm going to talk to my mom."

"No Seth, DON'T" Summer said quickly, turning slightly and walking towards the other end of the room. Seth looked at her and wondered why she had just said Seth and then quickly followed her.

"Summer wait! STOP!" He ran after her and when she reached a exit she quickly escaped through there and he followed.

"Summer? What's the matter? Do you want my mom to ask her to leave?" He asked hugging her petite 5'2 frame.

"Why is she here? I …I mean…why?" Summer sobbed. "Is my dad here also? Is he going to try and ruin everything? Fuck, Cohen…why are they trying to hurt me? WHY?" She cried on his shoulder and the wind started up and violently swept around them.

"Shhh. Summer. I'll go get my mom and we'll go get everything fixed ok. Then we can go and have a great party."

"I just…I just want her to leave." She collapsed in his arms and Seth just held her tight as she cried.

The door where they had come out from opened and Kirsten came out. "Is everything all right? Did something happen? Is the baby ok?" Kirsten asked nervously.

"Mom. Calm down. The baby's fine, right Summer?" She nodded sniffling. "Hey Summer how about you go into the bathroom and maybe splash some water on your face while I'll talk to my mom. Ok?" Again Summer nodded and she walked into the building.

"Seth tell me what's going on? Why is Summer crying?" Kirsten asked moving closer to her son while trying to keep her skirt from flying up.

"Why is Summer's step-mom here?" Kirsten's mouth formed an "O" in realization.

"Is that why she's mad?"

"What do you think, Ma? The family that kicked her out on the streets just because she didn't want to kill her baby suddenly appears at the party just for Summer and doesn't even come to apologize! I'd be pretty angry. They don't even consider her family anymore but just some white trash teen that got knocked up."

"Seth, I'm sorry. She showed up. I didn't want to ask her to leave."

"Is her dad here?"

"No."

"Someone should have told Summer that because right now she's freaking out so Mom you go and tell her to get the hell out and I'm going to go see how my girlfriends doing." Seth was mad that this had happened. He hated to see Summer cry and for once it wasn't his fault. Seth was going to make this a perfect day for Summer no matter how hard it was.

TBC

Short, compared to my recent 3 chapters but I wanted to get this much out so you wouldn't be like "Did that writer die or something?" LOL I have a good plot in my mind for the next chap. Thanks for all the reviews I've gotten! You guys rock!

I know now through all the emails I've received that you guys would like a sequel (giggle) and I'm going to attempt to write it but I'm not going to start right after I finish this one. I spent the entire day yesterday writing a new story. I won't post it until One Summer is done and I am back in Chandler AZ. The latter part is because I wrote it on my laptop and for some strange reason it won't let me on Internet with my laptop. Ok thanks. I really like my next story; it's about Seth and Summer when they are 22 and living in NYC. He's still doing his comic book like he was in the last few eps of the OC. Summer is a writer. They have a Chocolate lab named Coco. That's all I have now. I hope to turn it into something really great.

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PS. Next chapter will be really long!