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So I want to focus on friendships in this chapter. Friendships between Marissa and Summer, Ryan and Seth and even Summer and Seth because I really think they need to be friends first. So this chapter is going to be a whole lot of that stuff! Hope you enjoy!

Thanks to all my amazing reviewers: XxkelY23xX, ItalHunnie28, caroliscool, ki ki, Danielle, Riley313, nefftys, Seth Ezekiel, Erica, IluvDanBen33, kursk, dodgeviper and I-Believe-In-The-Butterflies. This one goes out to you guys!

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Friends

"So are you going to tell me how your date went or what?" Summer asked walking into the pool house Sunday morning.

"It was great, we had fun," Ryan asked and Summer noticed the small smile forming on his face, "Thanks for the jacket tip by the way."

"No problem," Summer said laughing, "So are you guys like a couple now?" Summer asked meeting a confused looking Ryan.

"I don't really know, I mean we didn't really talk about that," Ryan said sitting down on his bed, "I didn't even really think about it."

"Well do you want to? I mean like be a couple?" Summer asked sitting down next to Ryan.

"Ya kinda, I mean I really like her," Ryan said a smile spreading across his face again.

"Then that's settled, you'll be Harbor's hottest couple by next week," Summer said laughing at the scared look on Ryan's face.

"You sure you and Seth aren't gonna fight us for that title?" Ryan asked causing Summer to stop laughing.

"What are you talking about?" Summer asked trying to sound confused.

"I saw you two last night, you looked like you were having fun, a little too much fun to be studying French," Ryan said poking Summer in the stomach, "So what happened last night after I left?"

"Nothing, we ate and then we played video games for a while," Summer said as Ryan started smiling, "It's not like that, Seth doesn't see me that way okay? He would never be interested in a girl like me."

"You don't know that. And you never know by next week you could be Harbor's hottest couple," Ryan said laughing as Summer punched him in the arm. Ryan reacted by grabbing a pillow and hitting Summer resulting in the two engaging in a full out pillow fight.

The two were laughing and hitting each other with pillows when Marissa walked into the pool house, watching Summer and Ryan laughing in the doorway. It wasn't until a few minutes later when Summer finally noticed Marissa standing there laughing at her and Ryan.

"Hi Marissa," Summer said, trying to fix her hair which was all over the place from being hit with the pillow so many times, "What's up?"

"Not much, I was at my mom's house but she was driving me nuts so I decided to come here," Marissa said laughing as Ryan tried to fix his hair and look cool, "Hey Ryan," She said as she walked up to him and kissed his cheek.

"Hey," Ryan said putting his arm around her as the two sat down.

"Well I think I'll just leave you two alone," Summer said heading towards the pool house doors.

"You don't have to go," Marissa said as her and Ryan got even closer to each other.

"Oh it's fine, actually I have to go um do this thing," Summer said stumbling for an excuse to leave, not wanting to watch Ryan and Marissa all over each other, "So I'll just see you guys later."

"So what's up with your mom?" Ryan asked lying back on the bed.

"Oh you know same as usual, begging me to move back in with her. Saying my dad's to irresponsible to live with or something," Marissa said lying back in Ryan's arms, "And now she keeps trying to drag me out all these places with her, she's driving me crazy!"

"You wanna know what I think?" Ryan asked.

"Oh please do tell," Marissa said laughing as Ryan stuck his tongue out at her sarcasm.

"I think you need something to take your mind off your mom."

"What did you have in mind?" Marissa asked as Ryan leaned in and kissed her, "Well I this could work," Marissa said as she leaned back in and began kissing Ryan.

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"Okay let me see what you've got so far," Seth said taking Summer's French essay and reading the three lines she had written so far, "Sum, I hate to break this to you but this sucks," Seth said laughing as Summer just glared at him.

It was Friday and Seth and Summer were spending their lunch in the library working on their latest French assignment. The two had spent most of their lunches in the library all week because Seth couldn't tutor Summer after school. Summer didn't mind though because she would have rather spent her lunch studying than watching Marissa and Ryan make googly eyes at each other.

"Gee thanks, some tutor you are," Summer said crumpling up her essay and pulling out a new piece of paper, "Come on Seth I really need to do well on this assignment. It's only been two weeks and I'm already failing French! You've gotta help me out here I only have until Monday!"

"I know, I know," Seth said pulling out his French book, "Don't even worry about it, we'll work all day tomorrow if we have to you're not going to do badly on this."

"But don't you have your own essay to work on?" Summer asked slightly worried.

"Already finished it," Seth said pulling out his nicely typed essay, "So I'm all yours now."

The two sat working through her essay and with Seth's help Summer produced two full actual paragraphs within no time. The two were just packing up their things giving up until tomorrow when some blonde girl came over to their table.

"Hey Seth," The girl smiled. Summer recognized her as one of Marissa's old friends but she had no idea who she was.

"Hey Jenn, what's going on?" Seth said in the voice Summer noticed he always talked in when he was trying to impress girls.

"Nothing really, what are you doing?" Jenn asked giving Summer a dirty look and then focusing her attention back on Seth.

"Um uh nothing, I was just um doing some tutoring," Seth stumbled trying to act cool, "for extra credit," he added which really made Summer mad.

"Want to walk me to my next class?" Jenn asked taking Seth's arm without waiting for an answer leading Seth away. He just walked with her not even looking back at the angry looking Summer.

Summer walked to study hall and threw her stuff down at her usual table already occupied by Marissa.

"Hey Sum, you okay?" Marissa asked noticing Summer's angriness.

"He drives me nuts!" Summer exclaimed, Marissa knowing perfectly well who she was talking about, "I mean one minute he's talking to me acting completely normal and then the second a girl comes around he just ignores me. He acts like he's ashamed to be seen with me!" Summer said her voice softening as her anger turned to sadness.

"Don't take it personal Sum, that's just how Seth is sometimes," Marissa said trying to give Summer some friendly advice, "I mean he's my best friend and he used to do the same thing to me when girls would come around. He'd ignore me so girls wouldn't think we were dating. Half the time he doesn't even realize he's doing it."

"You said he used to do it to you. How did you get him to stop?" Summer asked trying not to sound too desperate.

"I told him that if he still wanted to be my friend he had to stop acting like an ass!" Marissa said as she and Summer began to laugh, "You just gotta talk to him, make him realize what a jerk he's being."

"I guess your right," Summer said with a sigh as she began taking her books out.

"You know what you need?" Marissa asked suddenly excited.

"What?" Summer asked confused.

"A girl's night in; tonight. My dad's going out tonight so we'd have the place to ourselves most of the night, it'll be fun. We'd have to sleep on the pull out cause I don't exactly have a bedroom yet but it'll be great!" Marissa said excitedly.

"Okay," Summer said with a laugh, "Sounds like a plan."

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Later that night Marissa and Summer sat on Marissa's bed in the middle of the living room in their pj's, face masks on, Marissa painting Summer's toenails. They had the stereo blasting and they were laughing so much Summer's side was starting to hurt.

"You know I haven't had a girlfriend sleep over since I was like ten," Marissa said as she put the lid back on her red nail polish having successfully finished painting Summer's toes, "This is really fun!"

"It is!" Summer exclaimed as Marissa stuck out her feet so Summer could paint her toes purple, "I know I've said it before but it's really great to finally have a girl to talk to about things. I mean we both know I'm not exactly popular, I don't exactly have a lot of friends to talk to."

"Well it's great to finally have someone to talk to who isn't more interested in hooking up with my boyfriend than being my friend," Marissa said referring to Holly, "You know it's too bad we didn't become friends earlier, I mean all those years we lived next door to each other."

"I know, but I guess it's better now than never right?" Summer asked.

"Right," Marissa laughed and the two broke out in a fit of giggles once again at absolutely nothing in particular. Marissa suddenly felt that she had been friends with Summer her whole life, the two seemed to be able to tell each other everything and Marissa was grateful she finally had a real girlfriend to hang out with.

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Ryan sat in the living room alone, Summer had said she was sleeping at Marissa's and both girls had said he wasn't aloud anywhere near Marissa's house tonight and Sandy and Kirsten went out to dinner and a movie. So Ryan was left alone with nothing to do but watch some stupid made for TV movie. The movie was just starting when the doorbell rang. Ryan got up to get it thinking it was the pizza guy, but when he opened the door he found Seth Roberts standing on the other side.

"I'm guessing you're not the pizza guy?" Ryan asked a little confused as to why Seth was at the Cohen house on a Friday night.

"What? No, um is Summer around?" Seth asked walking in the doorway as Ryan moved aside to let him in.

"Uh no she's at Marissa's house; they're having a girl's night in or something," Ryan explained as Seth looked a little disappointed, "Why? What's going on?"

"Oh it's just I kinda just left her a lunch and she seemed a little pissed," Seth said as the doorbell rang again.

Ryan answered the door to the pizza guy, handing him some money and taking the pizza and putting it down as he shut the door again.

"Ya she did seem a little pissed when I talked to her," Ryan said not wanting to sugarcoat it, "but I'm sure she'll get over it."

"Okay cool, well I guess I'll just go then," Seth said as he headed slowly for the door.

"Hey man," Ryan said immediately wishing he didn't, "Where are you headed?"

"I don't know I guess I'm just gonna head home," Seth said not really feeling like going to the party Jenn had invited him to.

"Why don't you hang out here for a while? I've got pizza and video games," Ryan said feeling a little bad for the guy, and plus he didn't seem all that bad and Marissa was always saying how he should make some more friends.

"Alright sounds good," Seth said as Ryan grabbed the pizza and he followed him to the living room.

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The next day Summer took her time driving home even though Seth was supposed to come by at one to help her with her essay and it was already 1:30. Ryan had come to Marissa's that morning and told Summer about Seth coming over last night and even though she wasn't really mad at him anymore she decided she would make him wait anyways.

Summer pulled in the driveway to find Seth's car parked next to her parent's car. She walked inside and found Seth sitting at the kitchen table talking to her parents.

"Oh God," Summer said under her breathe as Kirsten looked up as Summer walked in the room.

"Hey sweetie," Kirsten said smiling from her seat at the table, "We were just talking to Seth here while we waited for you."

"Oh ya sorry about that, I lost track of time," Summer said dropping her things on the table and taking a seat beside Seth.

"Well you're here now so we should probably get started," Seth said pulling out his books.

"Well we'll leave you two to work," Sandy said as he and Kirsten got up, "Nice meeting you son," He said shaking Seth's hand as Summer's face reddened at the fact that his dad just called Seth Roberts son.

When her parents left the room Summer just sat silently pulling out her books without saying a word to Seth, she was trying her best not to be mad but she just couldn't help it.

"So, uh you gonna talk or should we use sign language or something?" Seth asked trying to lighten the mood.

"Oh so now that Jenn's not around you wanna talk to me?" Summer said coldly, "I see how it is."

"It's not like that," Seth said guiltily.

"Oh really than how come the second she came around you acted like I wasn't even there?" Summer asked not waiting for an answer, "Because if you're ashamed to be seen with me or something I really think I'm going to have to find a new tutor."

"I'm not ashamed to be seen with you!" Seth said, "Listen I'm sorry about yesterday I was an asshole! I didn't mean to just blow you off like that, sometimes I just do that but I promise it won't happen again. I want us to be friends."

"Being my friend would require you to be seen with me in public though, are you sure you can handle that?" Summer asked looking him straight in the eyes.

"I'm sure, and I promise what happened with Jenn will never happen again. I don't care what other people think about us being friends," Seth said with a smile causing Summer to break her straight face with a small smile, "So do you forgive me?"

"I guess so, but I swear if it ever happens again…"

"I know, I know, and it won't," Seth said smiling as the two opened their books and began working. They both knew that the conversation was over and that they were now friends. But the truth was neither of them really knew if they wanted to be just friends.

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Okay so that chapter had a little bit of everyone hanging out. Seth and Summer are now friends, as are Summer and Marissa. And there's even a friendship forming between Ryan and Seth cuz I really want them to be friends too! So next chapter expect a new guy to come into the picture, but don't worry about it too much. Until next time! Xoxo! Plz review!