Chapter 7 - That's Why.

"Hey Cohen. Do you want to do something?" Summer had called Seth because she really felt like having fun with him outside of school again.

Seth wasn't so sure that he could handle hanging out with this girl that he liked, and didn't know if she liked him back. When he was thinking of something to say, he kept wondering why he had woken up twice with her on him, and was confused.

"Sure, what do you wanna do Summer?" Seth was curious what activities she would chose.

"I figured we could hot tub and go swimming again, that was fun."

It was 8:00 at night, and Seth knew that by the time she got over here, and changed, that it would be close to 9, and it would be dark again. That added even more confusion. Seth was starting to put the puzzle pieces together that Summer may like him, but he was still 3/4 in denial.

"Sounds good, you wanna come over here soon?"

"Actually, i was hoping that you'd come see my house? I dunno, I've been over to yours, and I thought we could hang at mine." Summer said, knowing that her parents were out of town, and she could pull the late night movie thing again.

"Oh, well awesome, sounds cool." Seth knew that there was something going on at Summer's house which made her want him to come over.

"Great, I'll come get you!" Summer hung up the phone, and headed to Seth's.

Summer pulled into Seth's drive way around 8:45, and they were back at her house around 9. She was already changed into her bikini. Shucks for Seth. He got changed in her bathroom, and followed her down to her pool. She sat on the side of the pool with her feet dangling in, biting her bottom lip like she seemed to do when she was thinking. Seth was in the pool just swimming around, looking at her gorgeous face. He swam over to her, and pulled her by her feet into the pool. She ended up not wanting to get her hair wet, so she clung her legs around Cohen's waist, and her arms around his neck.

"My hair got so frizzed from not washing it last time after I got out of the pool, Cohen. I'm not doing that again, nuh huh." Summer said that before thinking.

"But I'm going home later, aren't I?" Seth was definatly putting puzzle pieces together.

"Yeah, well uh, I just meant like, I'll be too tired to shower." Summer knew she let some clues out.

"Ooh. I see." Seth was curious.

"Well I'm cold Cohen, and its like 11. I'm bored also because I'm cold and don't feel like swimming anymore, so lets go inside or something." Summer desperately wanted to curl up on her bed and watch some movie with Cohen again, and fall asleep.

"Okay. Its only 11, so what should we do?" He wanted to do the same thing.

"Movie." They both said at the same time.

Seth followed Summer up the stairs. Once in her room, she turned towards her closet and he watched her pull on the straps of her top, and drop it to the ground. She put her forearm over her chest, turned around, grabbed her tank-top, turned back around, put it on, and then went into her closet for a sec. Seth couldn't believe this, he was just seeing this girl anatomy left and right. Last time they went swimming she was prancing around his pool house in her bra and panties, and this time, she's wearing her swim-suit bottoms, and covering her chest with her arm, and changing in front of him.

"Cohen, are you changed yet?" Summer yelled from the closet.

"Oh, not yet, hold on." Seth had been thinking the whole time Summer was in the closet.

"K. Now I am." Seth smiled.

Summer came out of the closet wearing boy shorts, and that tank top from before, she knee-high fuzzy socks, and had her naturally wavy hair pinned up into a loose bun. She look causal as could be, but she still was extremely attracted to her. She was just in his polo, and his dickies.

"So what movie Cohen? I have lots." She seemed so excited.

Seth was sort of speech less. He hadn't been able to say anything since he had walked out of the closet in the attire she did. He came back to reality.

"What are you in the mood for?" Seth kind of stuttered.

"Hmm, not too sure. Lets see.." Summer started thinking and biting her bottom lip again.

Seth thought it was so adorable when she did that. It was one of those things that wasn't physical that Seth liked about Summer.

"I say we go for, Just Married, that one always cracks me up! Plus that Brittany Murphy is a great actress." Summer spit out in one breath.

"Sure, Ashton Kutcher is funny in that one." Seth smiled. He kept standing there for a while,

"So where's your living room at?" Seth expected they'd watch on couches.

"Oh, well, I, I figured we'd just watch in here, i mean everything's right here, including us." Summer gave Seth a smile, and she laid on the bed, and got under the covers.

Seth sat in the uncomfortable chair next to Summer's bed, and made her feel like he wasn't interested. When in fact, he was only sitting there because he thought Summer wasn't interested. Seth got cold, and needed a blanket.

"Hey Summer, I'm cold, do you have any blankets?"

"Yeah, on my bed Cohen, but I'm using them all, you can come share though." Summer said invitingly.

Seth wanted to sit by her all night, so he was happy when she invited him over to her bed to share her covers. He took off his shoes, and got into her bed. Pretty soon he fell asleep. This time Summer was awake, and it was much easier for her to just lay on him and fall asleep laying on him, instead of being 3/4 asleep when she finally laid on him. She moved his arm so it was laying horizontal behind her, and she put her feet under his long legs. She put her left hand on the right side of his neck, and kept her other hand close to her chest. Within minutes she fell asleep. Coop called her at 2:00 in the morning to see what she was doing, waking Cohen, but not Summer up. He noticed that she was laying on him again. After the phone stopped ringing he pushed Summer off of him, and turned on his side. He put his arm around her tiny waist so that his fingers were just right underneath her right side. She readjusted her hands so that one was touching his chest, and one was around his shoulder. Their bodies were touching and he fell back asleep less then 2 inches are from her face.

Summer woke up and it was still dark out, it was 4:45 in the morning. She could tell that Cohen had woken up and moved her, and re-adjusted himself with her. She felt like she really liked him. Seth's fingers were digging into Summer's side though, so she decided to move him, she was having trouble since he was bigger then her.

"Come on, Cohen, freakin' move!" Summer was tired and just wanted to fall back asleep.

"Grrr. Why can't I have more muscle? Why?" Summer really just wanted to fall back asleep.

Seth started opening his eyes. They were awake at the same time, in the middle of the night. He looked down at her as she froze trying to move him, and he smiled.

"Whatcha doing Summer?" He said cutely.

"Oh you know Cohen, moving you." She was careful.

"How come?"

"Because your fingers were like, digging into my side, so it woke me up, I bet i have your nail marks there or something, and I needed you to move." She said it in one breath.

"Then why didn't you just roll over?" Seth was figuring her out.

"Cause, I, well, um.." She was stuck. She didn't know what to say. It was easier when they woke up at separate times.

It was okay though, because Seth just looked at her patiently waiting for her complete answer. His big brown eyes look so welcoming staring down at her, she bit in her bottom lip, and wasn't sure what to say. She was sure that she loved sleeping with his arms around her. She was sure that she liked hanging out with him, and talking to him. She was sure that she loved his stupid jokes even though they were, really well, stupid. She kept thinking for a couple more seconds, and finally decided. She half sat up in her bed, and adjusted her fuzzy socks that had moved down off her legs. She moved her top back to a comfortable, none twisted position, pulled move covers off the bottom of her bed, looked back at Seth who was just looking at her doing this all like he was watching something amazing before him.

"So, Summer?" Seth asked, startling Summer with the sudden talk.

She looked deep into his eyes, still not finding an excuse. She leaned in, and held his face with her hands, their lips got really close, and she opened her eyes and so did he. They looked at each other, and finally she finished it. She kissed him. Like she had wanted too for a couple months. He finally knew that she liked him. He rolled around so that he was laying on top of her. He paused and kissed her neck and moved her hair out of her face. He went back up to her mouth, and they kissed heavily. His hand was slowly creeping up the back of her shirt, just a little bit. She kept running her fingers thru his hair, and when they were done kissing they just smiled at each other.

"That's why Cohen." Summer said smiling.

"Why what?" He was confused.

"That's why I didn't just roll over." She had a twinkle in her eye.