Seth locked his vision on her small figure. She was looking out into the vast ocean, not even noticing his presence.
He took a few steps closer, waiting to see if she'd notice him. She still hadn't.
As he went closer, he could see that she was crying, clutching something in her hand.
He admired her beauty for a moment, and then sat down beside her. "Hey" he said softly.
Summer glanced over at him with her red, teary eyes. She looked at him oddly. "What are you doing here?"
He sighed briefly. "When you left, I started coming out here to think. To clear my head I guess. Then that night when you came back and we danced out here…it just reminded me of you."
Summer nodded understandingly. Truthfully, she'd always come out here at night to clear her head. It used to be her and her moms place. But then it had become her and Seth's place.
"What about you. Why are you here?" he asked.
Summer sighed. There was awkwardness between them that she didn't like. "For the same reason as you are. When I still lived here I came out here to think because it reminded me of my mom. But tonight I came here because it reminded me…of you."
She stumbled over her words, not wanting to make their situation any weirder.
"Cohen" she whispered. He looked over at her. She had fresh tears in her eyes.
She held her small hand out, opening her fingers to reveal a small but familiar seashell.
He looked down at it, then back up at her. "What are you doing?" he asked, confused. Was she giving it back?
She sniffled, trying to contain her tears. "I'm giving it back to you" she muffled out. "If there's not going to be a future for us, then I can't keep this."
Now Seth felt like crying. Never in a million years did he expect to get that back.
"But I don't want it back. I gave it to you for a reason" he argued, emotion in his voice.
"You gave it to me because you were telling me that one day you wanted to marry me. That's clearly not going to happen for us now"
She shoved her hand out farther, begging him to take it without speaking a word.
"Summer I can't. I can't take that back from you."
She laughed silently, almost angrily. Why did he have to be so hard headed?
"Cohen, take it. One day if you decide that you can see a future for us, give it back."
She threw it in his lap.
Seth looked at the seashell in his lap, and picked it up gently, careful not to break it. He looked at the purple swirls that decorated it, admiring every detail.
He looked over at Summer, sitting contently beside him, and then looked back at the small shell. It had a lot of depth to it He was basically holding their relationship in his hands.
She sighed heavily, glancing over at him. But her eyes didn't stay on his face long. They wandered down to his arm that was extended out to her.
She gasped. There, in his opened hand, was the shell.
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Since I'm going on vacation and all I thought it would be super nice to leave ya'll with a cliff-hanger! hehe—I know it's not a long chapter at all but it's all I had time to write sooo….
Please review! And I'll write more as soon as I get back!