Chapter 5 - What I Really Think.

Summer was happy that Seth had accepted her apology, and actually apologized for not accepting it. Summer and Marissa were doing their usual thing after school.

"So yeah, I really like Ryan, but it took me way to long to figure that out, and now he's dating Kayleigh, and she used to try and hang with me all the time. She's so fake."

"Ew. I hate those superficial girls who think they're perfect. She's probably just some stupid skanky slut." Summer was quite opinionated.

"Yeah." Marissa liked being able to talk to Summer.

It had been 2 months since school had started, and Marissa and Summer were now best friends. Marissa called Summer "Summ," and Summer called Marissa "Coop." Seth wasn't too happy about that fact that he didn't even want to befriend this girl, but he found her gorgeous. The first time he noticed he thought this was in Chemistry, he was sitting there waiting for her to get done writing out this long definition he gave her, to initially piss her off, and he noticed how she was having trouble spelling out a scientific word. She bit her bottom lip, and tapped her fingers on the table. Her dark brown hair was curled that day, and her locks moved in front of her face, the way everything about her seemed to fall into place at the right times. Her perfect color of tanned skin, and the good smelling perfume he ending up smelling around him all day. Her lip-gloss that she was always leaving uncovered. There wasn't much about her that he didn't find perfect, or that he didn't find attractive. He could never let her know that.

"All I'm saying Cohen is, this is like, how you spell it okay?"

"Wrong you are Summer, this is."

"Mmhmm Cohen, so sure of your self aren't you?"

"Oh, you are defiantly right Summer, I'm a cocky bastard."

Seth and Summer argued like an old married couple, and most people thought that they hated each other. Marissa and Ryan both thought differently tho. Summer was constantly telling Coop about Cohen and how he was "so wrong about everything." Seth was always telling Ryan how he was hoping for a new lab partner every day, but ending it with a smile. Ryan lived with Seth, and he had for a while, and he knew when Seth liked a girl. Marissa and Summer were already close on the first day they hung out, and now its been almost 3 months, Marissa could tell that Summer liked Cohen.

"You like Seth don't you Summer?"

"Coop? You totally, like, not serious are you?" Summer stared Coop up and down.

"Summ, please. You talk about him 24/7, and I see the way you look at him when you think I'm tangled up in some other convo, and he's talking to someone else."

"Hello? Earth to Coop. I look at him when he makes that face he does when he thinks he made a cool joke or something, and I only talk about him sometimes, cause he like, annoys me and stuff.."

Summer hadn't really thought about liking Seth before, but she did remember the way she looked at him once Coop had mentioned. She couldn't help but remember a time in Chem., when they reached for the same thing and he touched her hand, and she liked it. It kind of made her feel weird to think of what her best friend had told her, and start feeling like she had a crush on Cohen.

"Dude, maybe you like Summer or something?" Ryan had heard how Summer almost got them detention for doing something or other for the 8th time.

"What? Are you, uh, uh kidding me? What um, gives you that idea?"

"Well with that response, I have no doubt in my mind that you do, so I'll just answer with that." Ryan was sure that Seth crushed on Summer.

"Okay, well here's the thing. I don't wanna like her, but I sorta do." Seth couldn't believe he just said that, but he was glad that he told somebody.

"Uh huh ... So what are you gonna do about it Seth?" Ryan was curious to see if Seth had a plan.

"Well, uh, I dunno, I wonder if, she likes, Marissa might know something, and uh, I dunno Ryan."

Summer and Seth, were confused alike. Summer hadn't admitted to her best friend that she had a crush on Seth, even though after Coop pointed out a few things that she realized she did in fact, like Seth Cohen. Seth on the other hand, had told his best friend that he liked Summer. He also told him everything he thought about her, along the lines of her looks and everything. Seth thought Summer was gorgeous, and the hottest girl he'd ever seen. Needless to say, neither of them had any idea that the other one liked them.

"Hey Cohen." It wasn't too hard for Summer to act normal when she liked a boy and he didn't know.

"Oh, uh, h-h-he-hey S-Summer." It was hard for Cohen.

"You just choke on your spit or something, or are you okay?" Summer had no trouble keeping the joke around.

"Oh, yeah. Funny one Summer." Seth did.

"Oh k-a-y, let's just start working huh?" Summer didn't know what was up with Seth. Was he sick?

While Seth was writing down some last minute notes Summer couldn't help but notice some of the quirky things that Cohen did that made her smile. The way he was always trying to make everything perfect, and how he always tapped his fingers to a song, and had to explain to her that emo was the best music ever, over and over. How he always made fun of her and she didn't care or get mad. And how he made her feel like she could be the real her without feeling like she had to keep her guard up all the time. She almost felt ridiculous for crushing on him, because he showed no signs of liking her.

"Coop, you got me. I totally like Cohen. I mean, its just weird, and I do, and I-I."

"Its okay Summ, lots of girls like Seth. Just Seth doesn't like lots of girls.."

"Omigod, I like a homo boy?"

"No, no, definatly NO. He's totally straight, but, he just, has trouble finding girls he likes, like, ever." Marissa said cracking up at Summer's reacting just before.

"Whew, good Coop, I wasn't about ready to like a gay boy! But I still feel pretty silly for liking Cohen, I mean, he doesn't show any signs of liking me, and its just really hard for me to.."

"I know whatcha mean." Marissa sympathized.

The next day Seth and Ryan were bored, so they invited Marissa and Summer to come over and go swimming. Seth was pretty excited to see Summer in her swim suit, and Summer was just wondering what it was like to hang with Seth outside of Chem., and lunch. It wasn't until 9:00 Saturday night when the guys called them, so they didn't get there until almost 10. Summer had to change into her swimsuit, and everyone else was ready to go. She went into the pool house and turned on the light. The tiki torches weren't on yet, so you could see Summer's outline thru the curtains. No one but Seth was even paying attention, because Marissa and Ryan were way to busy flirting. He saw Summer get undressed thru the curtains and dropped his jaw. All the attraction to this girl physically and other things about her just increased.

Summer walked out of the pool house, and Seth quickly closed his mouth, and lit the tiki torches. He thought Summer was really hott. And Summer thought that Seth was really hott also. It was sort of weird for both of them to be hanging out, knowing how they felt personally, but not knowing that their crush, actually crushed them back. Seth tried hard to not flirt with Summer as much as he was, because he knew that Marissa would notice. Summer didn't know how warm the water was, so Seth picked her up, and jumped in with her. They kept splashing each other, and dunking each other. Until they realized that Marissa and Ryan had gone in to watch a movie. Seth stopped and looked at Summer adjusting her top, almost couldn't take not to find out if she liked him too. When Seth got out of the water to go get the floaties, she noticed his six-pack and how hott he was underneath the shirt as well, she really wanted to just, hang with him all the time.