Authors Note: Okay hi, I've written fanfiction before but it was a long time ago and I look back on my work and pity myself. However time has gone by and I feel I have renewed myself. I'm not always the best with grammar so I just decided to double space this story. So if you're big on the grammar I will try to make it decent at least in the sense of wording and spelling. I love Seth/Summer but not the overdone stories and plots, if I ever use some of them in a story it's because it appeals to me at the time. I respect and love to read them but I prefer the deeper stuff. So thanks for clicking on my story please enjoy, read, and of course review. Thank you.
Disclaimer- I own absolutely nothing from the O.C. or anything that has to do with it. It all belongs to Josh and Fox.
Note 2: I would also like you to know that they are in there junior year Theresa will be mentioned but not have the most active roll. Summer and Seth have gotten back together (specifically in early September). So they stayed broken up for about a month after Seth got back. It's now October 6th the day before Seth's birthday which they have off for a faculty meeting. Incase you didn't realize this is set season two. Alex, Zach, Anna, Luke, Lindsey and any OC's I add will be mainly platonic or completely for Seth/Summer unless I change my mind. However they might mix things up for other characters. Jimmy is still around as well as Hailey but they aren't together. Zach and Summer broke up. Wow was that a mouthful.
Summer woke up to a gray cloudy day, every day that week the weatherman would come on and say there'd be this huge thunderstorm, needless to say it had yet to happen. Her father was still out of town in Germany, apparently they had a mad demand for smaller noses and Summer couldn't blame them she was thankful for her cute nice sized nose. However despite her understanding she stilled wished they could find a good German plastic surgeon, after all she had daughterly needs now and then. Besides that she was stuck with the stepmonster by herself for another month and that in Summers book was worse than Chinese water torture. Still pondering this Summer looked at her clock and seeing it blaring the time 11:00 a.m. she dragged herself out of bed she had lunch plans with Anna. Anna and she were now great friends Anna was completely over Seth and it turned out they had more in common than just the Golden Girls. Summer had invited Marissa along but was far from surprised when she declined. Marissa had been worse lately with her alcohol intake and was constantly moping about her life.
Summer could understand Marissa but it got old, Julie Cooper was much better now yet Marissa still acted as though she were the devil. Jimmie Cooper had respectable career as an accountant now meaning he'd stay in Newport. She got to live with him on weekends in his lavish apartment or his awesome yacht. Caleb was constantly out of the country so she didn't have to deal with him and Caitlyn whom Marissa felt was a mini Julie was away at boarding school. Not to mention she had unlimited spending on her credit card. Ryan and her weren't together at the present time but they were quite good friends. Despite how well things were going in Marissa's life she wouldn't acknowledge it. She would always say how Ryan would never take her back and the fact that he wasn't with her as a boyfriend made her life horrid. Summer for her part could understand Ryan being so hesitant to take her back, after all they had been together a month ago until Ryan caught her sleeping with D.J. (who was now gone).
As for her part Summer was quite happy apart from her dad being gone and Marissa going all alcoholic on her. Her and Seth had never been better, and she had a great circle of friends around her including Ryan. Ryan and she had bonded as friends they would hangout because they enjoyed each other they were real friends it was no longer just because of their respectable relationships. Yup life was good but they lived in Orange County so it could only last so long….
Lunch
Summer walked it wearing her short skirt off the shoulder top and walked over to the booth where Anna was waiting. "Hey Ani!" Summer squealed. "Her Ro!" Anna replied happily. Anna had moved back over the summer when Seth was gone and since Marissa was busy wallowing life away her and Summer had chance to connect as great friends. One day they had decided they needed friend nicknames apart from Rose and Blanch from Golden Girls or as Summer used to call Anna a pixie bitch and Anna would call her an airhead. Summer thought Ani would be a cute fun nickname for the name Anna. Since everyone called Summer "Sum" Anna took the Ro out of Roberts pronouncing it like Row "besides" she said "in England people call fights Rows so I figured you're pretty notorious for your fighting skills so I thought it'd go well."
"Oh my God I'm so hungry my stomach is gonna like eat itself." Summer stated.
"Don't worry I already ordered grilled cheese and curly fries with cheery coke," Anna replied.
"You are a lifesaver, our house is like out of food minus the ten week old Chinese," Summer said.
"Your stepmother hasn't bothered to get groceries," Anna said.
"Nope, she like doesn't eat or something she lives on those pills," Summer said disgustedly.
"Anyways moving on, are you excited for Seth's birthday tomorrow?" Anna asked.
"Totally, well okay the parties gonna suck after all Caleb's throwing him some fancy Newpsy party, he claims he had his first brilliant idea at seventeen so now it's like a Nichol family tradition to have huge seventeenth birthday party. Still though it's his birthday and he's totally gonna love his present!" Summer squealed excitedly.
"Are you so sure about that?" Anna asked doubtfully. "I mean you got him a shirt that says 'Summer is my favorite season', an orange and blue striped polo from Abercrombie, and a shirt with a big picture of you on the front with little hearts all around it…. It seems a little conceited and I'm not to sure Seth would be into those kinds of clothes."
"He will love the shirts that are about me he loves me so why not show the whole world through cute shirts. As for the polo well I'm just trying to get him some cooler clothes, he wears too many plait button ups and those are eww. Besides that's only part one of the present I've got a hot costume, handcuffs, and lots of chocolate pudding for the when all the guests leave, then we'll go up to his bedroom and that's where the real party starts." Summer said happily.
"I take it back he will like his present, anyhow I got him some cool CD's he's going to love do you know what everyone else got him?" Anna asked.
"Yup, Luke got him a new skateboard, Alex got free tickets to a The Killers concert at the Baitshop, Lindsey got him some book, Ryan got him some video games, and Zach got him some rare edition comics or whatever eww…" Anna rolled her eyes Summer didn't notice and continued talking. "And Coop got him a Rolex watch apparently his old cheapo watch broke, waterproof my ass." Summer chided. The food finally arrived and they chewed hungrily at the grilled cheese for a few minutes silently.
"So then Marissa did go shopping to get him a present?" Anna asked curiously.
"Yup Ryan called her up and asked her if she wanted to go shopping for presents with him. You should have seen her, her eyes like lit up seriously she was all giggly and happy like." Summer said sadly.
"She really misses him huh?" Anna asked.
"Yeah she does, I mean she has him their friends but she's not willing to accept that he's not ready to be in a relationship with her yet after she cheated on him. It's sad, I go over there a lot trying to cheer her up you know but it doesn't work. I'm worried about her this whole attitude about it seems unhealthy. I don't know how to get through to her, I wish I did." Summer said playing with her food.
"She's needs him I guess, she must be codependent or something. Maybe, maybe we can't help this might be bigger than that you know?" Anna said quietly.
"What do you mean?" Summer questioned.
"I think she should go back to her psychiatrist they could probably help her because she needs help this all around need she has for him is not healthy and since we're obviously not getting through to her I think it would really help her." Anna said sadly.
"You're probably right; unfortunately I don't think that's going to happen any time soon. Coop is stubborn and Julie doesn't want to see it, even if she did Marissa won't go willingly." Summer stated.
Anna nodded her head in agreement and the two girls finished their lunch.
A couple of hours later Summer headed over to the Cohen's house she and Seth had planned to hangout. She rang the doorbell and was greeted by a big Coheny hug. "Summer, cupcake you're late I was starting to get worried that you'd fallen asleep on a toilet or something, because you know over 20,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year." Seth joked.
"Cohen and told you not to call me cupcake! Our waiter was a ditz and it took us forever to get our food so that's why I'm late and as for the toilet thing are you crazy?" Summer asked.
"Of course not sweetie pie it's just a large number of people and last time I checked you are an American and you do use the toilet so I figured it might've happened." Seth said.
"Uhuh right, so anyways what are we doing?" Summer asked.
"Well I figured we could go up to by bedroom and WORKOUT you know I figured we could both use a good WORKOUT." Seth said, and then he kissed her warm candy flavored lips sliding his tongue into her delicious mouth passionately confirming his obvious suggestions.
"Mmm" Summer moaned running her hands through curly hair as his hands went under her shirt and up her sides. Then she broke the kiss and smiled teasingly at him.
"Sorry Cohen but I'm not in the mood for a workout, besides you have to wait for tomorrow and then we workout all you want ANY way you want." Summer said in a way Seth found incredibly sexy.
"Any way?" He asked.
"Any way." She said planting light kisses on his neck.
"Well when you put it that way I guess we can go play video games with Ryan or something." He said happily.
"Hmmm, okay but only if we can play DDR." Summer agreed.
"You just want to see me get my groove on and who can blame you?" He chided.
"Yeah right dumb ass you suck at DDR last time you like tripped over your own feet and you get an E grade every time and everyone knows that's the worst grade." Summer chided.
"Okay we all know that Captain Oats deliberately stuck a controller cord right in my dancing path last time, and E stands for excellent come on you know I'm the king of DDR." Seth stated.
"Yeah right Cohen keep telling yourself that." She said.
"Ouch Summer you know that really hurts, coming from the girl who failed at the Ecstasy song, but yet is on the Harbor school dance team." Seth countered.
"Hey that's songs really hard and it was my first try ever what's your excuse?" she asked.
"My bunions were a bit sore that day making it difficult for me to acquire greatness on that song." He said.
"Uhuh whatever lets just go play." Summer said.
"Alright I'll set it up and then I can show you my mad skills since my bunions are feeling much better now I'll tell you Captain Oats sure does do great foot massages." Seth joked.
Summer laughed and said "Okay Cohen I'll meet you in there do you mind if I you your phone? I left mine in my car and I need to call Coop." Summer asked.
"Sure it's right over there." He said pointing by the counter.
Summer dialed Marissa's phone number and was surprised when her friend picked up on the first ring.
"Hey Ryan!" a happy sounding Marissa said.
"No Coop its Summer I'm using the Cohen's phone." Summer replied.
"Oh hi Sum." Marissa said sounding putout.
"Listen my car has like smoky chemical looking crap coming out of the A/C so I'm taking it to the shop later, but it won't be done in time for Cohen's party tomorrow and I was wondering if you could give me a ride?" Summer asked.
"Yeah whatever." Marissa said sounding thoroughly depressed.
"Good thanks a bunch." Summer said.
"Hey Sum is Ryan there?" Marissa questioned.
"Yea." Summer said knowing where this would leave.
"Did he mention me at all or getting back together or anything because if he did that'd be great I think we've been connecting lately and since you're there I figured he might of mentioned something." Marissa said sounding hopeful.
"Umm nope well I haven't even talked to him yet." Summer said sadly.
"Oh well umm bye." Marissa said sounding crestfallen. She then hung up.
Summer stared sadly at the phone and twisted a lock of her chocolate hair around her feeling. A bad feeling was pitted in her stomach and for some reason she couldn't shake it, tomorrow may not be so perfect after all. Little did Summer know though how right that feeling was.
Alright I hoped you guys liked it. I will try to update soon. The next chapter will be much more dramatic and something awful and unexpected will happen and much more Seth/Summer to come. This chapter just needed to set the path for what's to come. This will not be a Marissa bashing story but she does have big issues and you'll see that a bunch next chapter. Also soon how much Seth loves Summer. We'll see all kinds of fun stuff coming soon this chapter was needed to just set it up. Anyways please review and some criticism is fine just no mean flames. Oh if you guys think this story sucks please tell me. If you think its boring don't worry something huge is going to happen next chapter. Thanks a bunch please review.
