Title: When It All Just Fits

Author: Sara and Lizzie

Rating: R

Disclaimer: Obviously, its not ours.

Summary: Summer, scared at the intensity of her relationship with Seth, left him four years ago. Since then she's been all over Europe. Finally, four years later, she wants to return home to Seth. Funny when she does, he's engaged. Not like that's going to stop Summer.

Author's Note: Awesome reviews last chapter. Even though it sucked.We're putting the times in here, cause we're planning to drag this day on for several chapters.

"It's over, there's nothing left to do, there's nothing left to keep her here." -Sugarcult

1:00 PM

"I think she meant it. She's really gonna leave." Seth said softly. It was one o'clock in the afternoon. His wedding rehersal was set to start in several hours, but he was lying on a raft in his parent's pool, surrounded by Marissa, Anna and Ryan. Summer was having lunch with his mom, which was really creeping him out.

"Of course she's really going to leave." Marissa snapped. "Why the hell should she stay here?"

"Did you discuss with her your reasons why she should stay?" Anna asked diplomatically.

Seth winced. He had very much wanted to finesse this issue. "Sort of."

M arissa sighed. "He told her that nothing lasts forever and maybe theycould work something out."

Ryan actually laughed. "And you expected that to make her stay?"

"Come on Seth!" Anna exclaimed.

Seth sat up on his raft. "I don't know what I'm supposed to do. I shouldn't even be asking her to stay."

Marissa sighed loudly again.

"That's not helping me Marissa. My hands are totally tied."

"What an excuse." Marissa said belligerently. She got out of the pool and grabbed her oversize Chanel sunglasses and jammed them on her face. She whirled around to face Seth, and started laying into him.

"I don't know why you can't see that you're making the biggest mistake of your life. I don't know what fairy tale world you're living in Seth, but you can't just cast her aside until something goes wrong with Molly and then expect that she'll just wait for you."

"But it always…" Seth started.

"Yea, you always get lucky in high school. But you've both changed Seth. You're different people now. This magic vision you have of you two ending up sailing into the sunset together after countless trials is never going to happen. This is your last chance."

"I can't just leave Molly."

"How many times do we have to have the same fucking conversation beofre you finally get it into your head? Seth, you've never had to make a hard choice on your own in your life. This should be obvious. Girl you've loved your whole life, or the stuck up snobby bitch that no one can stand."

Seth looked helplessly at Ryan, who shrugged.

"Fine Seth. I'm done trying." Marissa said. "I give up. Obviously, nothing I can say is going to make any difference, so I won't waste any more of your time."

Anna cleared her throat. "Summer's going to leave Seth. Do you understand what that means? She's going to move away. Fall in love. Maybe she'll get married. Harboring this dilisuion that she'll wait for you…" she trailed off.

"They're right man." Ryan said. "You can't expect her to wait around."

Seth looked at Ryan. "What do you think I should do?" he asked.

Marissa threw her hands in the air, but said nothing.

Ryan looked at Seth. "I can't tell you what to do Seth. But the first time I met you, you told me about a girl you loved. Her name wasn't Molly. Your romantic life has been leading up to this big love with one girl, and you're telling me you're gonna throw it all away?"

He stopped talking and looked at Marissa. "Maybe Molly's good for you, Seth. Maybe she'll make you happy. But I don't think she's that one in a million."

Seth blinked rapidly a few times. "But Summer's leaving again."

Ryan smiled sadly and shook his head. "You don't get it Seth. She's not leaving because she wants to leave. She's leaving because you're letting her go."

Marissa smiled at Ryan, who once again had calmly said everything she couldn't get out through her temper. She walked into the house, running into Molly on the way through the hall.

"I didn't hear what you all were discussing, exaclty." Molly said crisply. "But I heard some of the things you were shouting."

Marissa, who had just gotten out of the pool, and who still, in her mid twenties walked around in bikinis, took in Molly's boring Club Monacco capris and sleeveless Lacoste polo. She was carrying a to do list with Seth's name at the top.

"I really don't appreciate that Marissa." Molly said, her voice rising. "I am the one marrying Seth."

Marissa was in no mood for a lecture from this bitch. She rolled her eyes. "Go to hell Molly."

4:56 PM

Seth was dutifully getting dressed. What do you wear to your own rehersal dinner? He settled on khakis and polos and trudged out of the pool house. He practically smacked into Anna as he headed for the kitchen.

"Hey." He said.

"Oh Seth." She said. "This should be a happy day for you and you look so sad."

"Anna, you're the wise one. Tell me what to do."

"Oh, Seth." She repeated. "If I thought I could make things better by telling you what to do, I would. But that will only make things worse. You need to decide."

"I have decided. Molly. Molly, Molly, Molly." He said, his voice rising. "See? I decided. The only reason I'm doubting is because every seems to think that's a crazy choice."

"It's not a crazy choice, Seth. If you don't chose her, you'll hurt her. Like Summer hurt you. And you'll break the commitment you made to her…."

"I feel a but coming on."

"Do you really want to hear the but?"

"Anna, just tell me."

"But if you marry her, you're condemning yourself. You'll spend your whole life in love with Summer, and wondering what there could have been between you two."

"The lesser of two evils?" Seth asked her.

"The heart wrenching choice between love and duty sounds more romantic." Anna said with a smile. "So many people in history have made this choice."

"Yea, and death follows the decision." Seth muttered. "Would Helen have picked Paris if she knew he'd die?"

"I doubt Molly will sail a thousand ships to Newport to hunt down Summer."

"You obviously don't know Molly."Seth said. Anna laughed appreciatively. Seth continued. "You think I shouldn't marry her?"

Anna just shrugged. Seth looked out past their pool and at the storm clouds gathering threateningly in the distance. "It's going to be one hell of a night." He said.

5:15 PM

Summer stood on the balcony off the Cohen's house, staring out into the distance as well. She was mesmerized by the clouds. They seemed to symbolize everything to her, but she couldn't figure out why. Her trance like state was broken when the door opened, and she heard Molly.

"Oh." She said. "I'm sorry, Summer. I didn't realize you were out here."

Summer smiled. "It's fine." She had been civil to Molly then enitre time she was here, with the excpetion of a few weak spots, but she really, really hated her.

Molly sighed. "I came out her so I could stop watching the Weather Channel and fretting that the dinner will have to moved inside the resturaunt instead of on the lawn." She gestured toward the sky and chuckled nervously. "I guess it didn't help."

"Guess not." Summer said tightly. They both turned and looked at the storm brewing over the ocean. Summer was standing right next to this girl, in Newport, on Seth Cohen's deck, but she felt a million miles away from all of it.

Miles out on the ocean, she could make out lightning shooting down into the water. She turned to Molly. "Do you ever just wish you were out there? On some little island, or a pier, or even a boat? Just in the middle of a huge storm, lightning, the works? Just to tempt fate a little bit? See what happens?"

Molly looked at her strangely. "I never thought about it before."

"It's a thought. Just to be alone with something so much more powerful than you, to have to stand your ground, test your luck."

Molly nodded. "I have to go call the resturaunt." She started walking inside. "But it's a thought."

5:18 PM

Molly was shaken up by her excahnge with Summer. In more ways than one. She was a smart girl. She noticed that Summer was in a zombie like state, and had been sobbing all over herself last night, which meant that something had happened between her and Seth.

Until five minutes ago, Molly had assumed Summer had made a play for Seth and gotten turned down. But hearing what she said about the storm had given Molly doubt. That was so much like something Seth would say. Molly ran down to the kitchen and found who she was looking for.

"Seth." She said brightly. "I need to tell you something."

Seth immediatley worried she knew, but she was smiling. "I am just so excited that we're finally taking this step. Tonight is going to be fun, no matter what the weather is, and tomorrow is our day."

She kissed him, and he kissed her back. She pulled away and looked him in the eye. He focused on the shiny Sub Zero fridge somewhere behind her head. When he met her eyes again, he saw concern in them.

Seth forced a smile. "It's gonna be great Molls."

She apparently bought the act, because she seemed satisfied that he couldn't wait to marry her. Seth almost laughed at how she couldn't have been farther from the truth.