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Chapter 13

Seth and Summer walked quietly back to the Cohen household. Summer didn't speak much along the way. What was there to say? Her confusion and sympathy for Marissa seemed to cancel each other out. When they got back to the house they walked inside and Summer's confusion took over. "I just don't understand how this could happen! I mean, you can't just like..decide that you like girls now, you know?"

Seth nodded solemnly, "I know, but I just feel bad for her! I mean, her sister's gone, her dad left, she has to live with the Grandad of doom, and her mom is…well, Julie Cooper."

Summer nodded, "I know! This is the last thing that Marissa needs to be confused about right now!"

"What's the last thing that Marissa needs to be confused about right now?" asked Ryan, entering from the kitchen.

"Uhh…" Summer and Seth exchanged nervous glances.

"Just that with us in L.A, she hasn't really gotten to hang out with any of us!" Summer said quickly.

"Oh." Ryan nodded, "But Seth, didn't you say last week that she was starting to hang out with Alex a lot?"

"No!" Seth exclaimed.

Ryan looked skeptically at Seth, while Summer shot him a glare and mouthed, "Be Smooth."

Seth Swallowed, "What I meant was that yes, they hang out, but they're not like, always together. They're not attached at the hip or anything!" Seth laughed nervously, "Geez Ryan!"

Ryan was about to say something, but he shook his head instead. "Oh, well then why don't you have her over or something?"

Seth nodded slowly, "Yeah, we..we could do that, right?" He asked Summer.

Summer nodded eagerly, "Yeah, lets invite her over! We can all hang out, the four of us again!"

Ryan cocked his head, "Yeah, but I was going to invite Lindsay."

"Oh." Summer said, a little bit saddened, "Well, that's fine then, we can invite other people so that Coop isn't the only one without a boyfriend."

"Summer come on," Seth started, "Ryan's boyfriend won't be coming either."

Summer rolled her eyes and continued, "Maybe we could invite Zach."

"Why don't you invite Alex too, now that all of you guys are friends."

Seth smiled awkwardly, "yeah, ok, I guess we could."

Ryan nodded, "Ok, well I'll call Lindsay and see if she can come over around seven. What are we going to do? Just hang out?"

Seth nodded, "We'll call Zach and Marissa."

Once Ryan had left the room, Summer hissed to Seth, "Cohen! What are we going to do? How awkward is this going to be for Marissa and Alex?"

"Summer, it really shouldn't be that hard, they did hide it from all of us for so long."

Summer nodded, consoled, "that's a good point Cohen."

"It was bound to happen soon or later."

Summer smiled and kissed Seth slowly, but before they got too far, she backed away and picked up her cell phone. I'll call Marissa, do you want to call Zach and Alex?"

"Not particulary, but I will."

"Good enough for me." Summer said quickly, pressing number 2 on her speed dial. It rang twice before Marissa picked up.

"Hello?"

"Hey Coop!" Summer said cheerfully.

"Hey," Marissa said a little bit softly.

"So, I'm here at Cohen's and we were just wondering if you wanted to come over tonight? Were just all going to hang out."

"Cool, who's coming?"

"Well, so far, me, Chino, Cohen, and you, but were going to call Zach, Lindsay and Alex."

"You're calling Alex?"

"Yep." Summer said proudly.

"You don't have to." Marissa said sharply. "I mean, just because you found out about us, doesn't mean you guys have to accept it."

"But we do accept it Coop! And I personally want to get to know Alex better, she's obviously important to you. And plus, her and Cohen are friends."

Marissa sighed, "So, Ryan doesn't know, does he?"

"No, he doesn't know anything, so you guys can act however you want tonight, it really won't be weird."

"You're sure it won't be weird?"

"Well…" Summer paused, "It might not be weird."

Marissa laughed, "Sum, I'll see you at Seth's around 6:30 ok?"

Summer smiled. "Bye Coop!" Summer turned to Seth, "One down, you're turn."

Seth took the phone and dialed Zach's number.

"Hello?"

"Hey Zach, it's Seth."

"Oh, hey Seth. What's going on?"

"Well, were going to have some people over at my house tonight and we just wanted to know if you wanted to come."

"Really?"

"Yeah, you see Zach, I have not yet showed you that I am capable of destroying you in the Ninja game, so right now, I'm all talk. I'm going to have to prove that to you."

"Ok Seth. I'll come by around seven."

"All right man! I'll see you then."

Seth ended the call and looked at Summer, "And that Summer, is how we men get passed our problems."

"I see, so you guys are going to play a ninja game on the playstation rather than seriously duke it out? You're manliness is overwhelming Cohen."

Seth gave Summer a big fake smile, and took the phone and dialed Alex's number.

"Hello?" asked a groggy voice into the phone.

"Sorry." Seth said, "It is 4:15, so I know I'm waking you, but I just wanted to ask you something."

"Seth?"

"Glad you remembered. So listen, some people are coming over around seven to just hang out and whatever and I happen to know that you don't work on Thursdays, so I was wondering if you would like to come."

"Did you talk to Marissa?"

"Yeah, she's coming."

"No, I mean, does she want me to come?"

"Yeah, of course! It won't be weird tonight Alex."

"It wont." Alex stated skeptically.

"Mmmm. Maybe." Seth said.

"Seth, I'll be over at seven." Alex said as she hung up the phone.

Seth looked at Summer, "So that's it, everybody's coming."

"Good." Summer said, while nodding her head. "So…" she continued, "This is going to get weird isn't it?"

"Oh yeah." Seth confirmed. "Really weird."