Okay so hey there everyone! So here's the next chapter in my story…I know you are all waiting for Seth and Summer to get back together and it will obviously happen because I can't see them not being together…ur just gonna have to be patient with me, it's coming soon I promise! This chapter is going to be Seth Summer and Lily spending time together and it will lead into something I'm sure you will all be happy about. I'm not really sure how long I plan on this story being but I will say that I'm already planning a sequel! LoL! Oh and in the near future expect the gang to take a trip back to Newport! Yay! So plz R&R!

Thanks to those of you who reviewed: Laugh-a-Lot Bear, Sea4Shoes, ocobsessedrachel2, ItalHunni28, hanselel, Doves30, kursk, and Riley313 this one's for you guys!

I don't own the O.C in any way! And I do not own the song at the beginning of the chapter either!

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The Family Outing and the Invite

Summer walked into her apartment after work to hear music blasting and Lily singing at the top of her lungs. "I don't want another pretty face, I don't want just anyone to hold, I don't want my love to go to waste, I want you and your beautiful soul!" Summer walked into Lily's room to find her and Seth dancing around the room, Lily belting out the words to her favourite song, and Summer was surprised to find Seth singing along too.

Summer stood in the doorway as the two continued to sing and dance, not noticing Summer watching them all the while laughing her head off. After a few minutes Seth finally turned around and came face to face with a laughing Summer as his face began to change colours to a nice shade of red.

Seth leaned over and turned off the stereo and took some interest in his shoes while Summer stood laughing at the now red faced Seth.

"Ugh, hey Summer," Seth said making no attempt to look Summer in the eyes.

"Hey Seth," Summer said finally controlling her laughing.

"Mommy!" Lily yelled jumping into Summer's arms.

"Hey babe, did you have fun with daddy?"

"Ya it was awesome!" Lily said with a smile from ear to ear.

"Well I better get going, Ryan and I have to go to dinner tonight with some people from the Newport group, coming down to check on us I guess," Seth explained.(a/n Ryan and Seth work for the Newport group but through New York).

"Oh okay, hey you should tell Marissa to come here for dinner with Chrissy then," Summer said as Seth went to retrieve his coat from Lily's bed.

"Alright I'll tell her," Seth answered before going to say goodbye to Lily, "See you later Princess, I love you," Seth said giving her a hug and a kiss.

"Bye daddy, I love you too" Lily said and then leaning in closer she whispered, "Don't forget to ask mommy."

"I won't, you clean up in here and I'll talk to her on the way out," Seth whispered back.

"Okay bye daddy," Lily said kissing Seth and starting to clean up the mess they made.

Summer followed Seth towards the door, "So Jesse McCartney huh?" Summer asked with a laugh as Seth's face once again reddened.

"Um, uh, Chrissy always makes me listen to it when I watch her," Seth explained.

"Sure she does," Summer said disbelievingly, "anyways thanks for watching her after school all the time, it really helps me out."

"Anytime, I love hanging out with her," Seth said believing this was the perfect time to bring up his and Lily's plan, "so um this weekend, are you guys busy?"

"Um, no I don't think so why?" Summer asked.

"Well Lily wants all three of us to spend some time together, and we were hoping we could take a trip to the zoo this weekend just the three of us you know. She really wants us to be like a real family." Seth explained looking at Summer with pleading eyes.

"That sounds like a really good idea, the zoo on Saturday." Summer said as Lily came running out from behind the corner.

"She said yes! She said yes!" Lily yelled jumping into Seth's arms as Summer stood laughing at the excited look on both Lily and Seth's faces.

"So uh Saturday it is then, I'll come by around eleven then. I better get going though I don't want to be late, and I'll tell Marissa to head up here for dinner I'm sure she wasn't planning on cooking," Seth said handing Lily to Summer and placing a kiss on both Lily and Summer's cheeks.

"See you later then," Summer said as Seth went out the door.

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"So you guys are going to the zoo? All three of you?" Marissa asked as her and Summer stood at the sink washing the dishes from the meal they had just ate while Chrissy and Lily played in Lily's room.

"Yep, Lily really wants us to be like a family so the three of us are going to have to spend some more time together," Summer explained to her friend.

"Well that's good though right? Right?" Marissa asked noticing the concerned look on her best friend's face.

"I don't know Coop; I mean you know how Seth and I are. We're always arguing and I don't want to do that in front of Lily. And I really don't want to give her any false hope of me and Seth being together," Summer explained.

"First of all, you and Seth are older now; you're not the same bickering teenagers you were back then. And secondly, false hope? I see the way you look at him, the way he looks at you. You guys so want each other!"

"It would never work out Coop; we have way too much history. I mean we may have worked together back then but he threw that all away when he ran away."

"Oh come on Sum! That was four years ago! You both have changed for the better and you can't tell me you don't have feelings for him still."

"I don't know, I mean you're right we've both changed; we don't know each other anymore. Do I have feelings for him? Ya maybe a little bit, but how do you know he still feels that way about me too?" Summer admitted meeting the smile on Marissa's face.

"Because Sum, he's Seth Cohen, he's been in love with you since we were ten, and I really believe he hasn't stopped loving you since then." Marissa said as Summer sat down at the table and put her head in her hands.

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Summer spent the week thinking about the conversation she had with Marissa, wondering if Seth really did have feelings for her even after everything they had been through. And as she spent her days and nights thinking about this the week seemed to zoom by and before she knew it, it was already Saturday.

"So you excited?" Summer asked Lily while she tied up her shoes for her and the two sat waiting patiently for Seth to arrive.

"Yep!" Lily said as she began to bounce, not being able to hold in her anxiousness.

Just then there was a knock at the door and both Lily and Summer jumped up to open the door and greet a smiling Seth.

When the door opened Seth couldn't help but smile at the sight before him. There stood Summer and Lily both wearing jeans, a different colour t-shirt (Lily in purple, Summer in green), a jean jacket over their t-shirt and matching sunglasses. Both had their hair half up and dressed like this the similarities between the two were very obvious.

"Well don't you two look cute" Seth said while greeting Lily with a big hug.

"Do you think so daddy?" Lily asked as the three made their way out the door not wasting any time.

"I think you look just adorable," Seth said looking down at Lily as she grabbed on to his hand, "you both do," Seth said looking up at Summer who blushed and took Lily's other hand.

The trio took the elevator down and met the taxi Seth had waiting outside for them. They got into the cab, Lily sitting between Seth and Summer and sat in silence for a bit, until Seth finally spoke not liking the awkward silence.

"So Lily what are you most excited about getting to see?" he asked knowing the four year old will probably go into one of her long rambles.

"Well I really wanna see the Giraffes, because they're mine and mommy's favourites. But I also like polar bears, and monkeys, and oh, oh elephants are really cool too! Oh and then I wanna see the hippos because they're grandma's favourites, so I wanna tell her about them and, and…"

"You asked," Summer said laughing at the look on Seth's face as Lily continued naming off the animals she wanted to see.

"…oh and the tigers!" Lily finally finished as they arrived at the zoo after what felt like hours of listening to Lily talk.

The three got out of the car and each parent took their respected place on each side of Lily both taking one of her hands.

"So how about we grab some lunch first and then we'll have all afternoon to see the animals," Seth said having clearly already planned out the whole day.

"Sounds good to me, you hungry babe?" Summer said looking down at Lily who was already jumping up and down with excitement.

"Ya, okay," Lily said sounding only a bit disappointed.

So they made their way to the zoo restaurant which was situated in plain view of some zebras which made Lily happy and kept her occupied choosing names for each of them while Seth ordered for them.

They took a table by the window so Lily could still watch the zebras; who now all had new names like Arnold, Jerry and Shrimp. Lily ate chicken nuggets shaped like animals and French fries, while both Seth and Summer ate cheeseburgers and fries.

They took about half an hour to eat and once all three were finished Lily immediately jumped to her feet and began bouncing around.

"Can we go now mommy? Please? Please daddy?" Lily begged giving her best puppy dog face.

"Okay, okay we're going," Seth said as he and Summer took Lily's hands and began their trip around the zoo. They started off with the giraffes where Lily and Summer both got extremely excited, Summer pulling out a camera from her purse and taking a bunch of pictures of the animals. After the giraffes they decided to just walk along the path and go wherever it led them. They walked around for almost two hours, Lily enjoying the animals and always stopping to name them, while Seth and Summer would talk and watch Lily jumping about rambling on about names.

"Okay so what's next?" Seth asked after Lily finally got bored with the lions after looking at them for about ten minutes, "Want to go to the reptile house? They have snakes!" Seth said hopeful.

"Snakes? Ew!" Lily said giving her father a look of great disgust.

At these words Seth stopped dead in his tracks, "She just said ew? My daughter said ew? O God Summer what have you done to her?" Seth said as Summer just stood and laughed at Seth, knowing that he always hated it when she said ew all the time.

"Yes Seth she says ew, as a matter of fact I believe it was one of her first words," Summer said taking Lily's hand as the two walked off giggling.

Seth caught up with them and they stopped in front of the cage full of monkeys and Lily once again went right on to naming them as if they were her pets.

"Mommy what do you think I should name that one?" Lily asked pointing to a rather skinny monkey sitting alone in the corner of the cage.

Summer considered the monkey for a minute and then with a smile the name came to her, "well it kind of looks like your father, so I think you should name it Seth," she said and her and Lily began laughing once again.

"Oh you think it looks like me do you?" Seth said suddenly grabbing Summer's waist from behind and beginning to tickle her. The two remained like this for a few minutes; Summer laughing hysterically, causing her mascara to begin running down her cheeks, begging Seth to stop who just kept on tickling her.

"Well then I think we should name that one Summer than, it kinda looks like you mommy," Lily said pointing to the monkey making its way towards the Seth monkey.

At these words Seth stopped tickling Summer and the two gave each other a look and a nod and both grabbed Lily and started tickling her.

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Another two hours later the trio was back in a cab on their way home, Lily fast asleep leaning again Summer holding on to the stuffed giraffe Seth had bought her, Summer sat stroking her hair holding on to a similar giraffe that Seth had also bought her. Seth sat watching the two girls in silence until they finally reached the apartment. Seth paid the driver and then lifted Lily out of the car carrying her up to Summer's apartment.

They walked into the apartment where Seth brought Lily to her bed, giving her a kiss on the forehead and leaving the room, waiting outside the door while Summer put the sleeping Lily into her pajamas.

A few minutes later Summer emerged from the room, closing the door behind her and joining Seth. They made their way back to the door where Seth stood looking anxious.

"Hey are you okay?" Summer asked looking a bit concerned at Seth's sudden weirdness.

"Um, oh ya I'm fine," Seth said trying to calm himself down, "I had a really great time today," he said.

"Me too, it was really fun," Summer said with a smile that made Seth become suddenly interested in his shoes.

"Listen I was thinking, maybe we could go out next weekend, just the two of us. Lily could stay at Ryan and Marissa's and we could go to dinner or something." Seth said trying his best not to ramble.

"Are you asking me out on a date Cohen?" Summer asked, slightly enjoying Seth's nervousness.

"Yes Summer, I'm asking you out on a date," Seth said trying to sound confident, "and I know we've been through a lot, and I know I left you but that was a long time ago and I've changed, we've both changed and I just think we should give it another chance because I still like you Sum, and…" just then Seth was cut off as Summer leaned forward, meeting Seth's lips with hers. Seth suddenly became calm as he once again felt Summer's lips with his after four years.

Summer than pulled away, breaking the kiss that Seth wished would last forever, "so is that a yes?" Seth asked.

"Yes," Summer nodded giving Seth one last kiss before he walked out of the apartment, feeling like he was floating on a cloud.

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A kiss! YAY! LoL, now I had actually not planned on that happening in this chapter I was just gonna have Seth ask Summer on a date but I just thought it was better this way! I think ya'll will be very happy with that! Haha! So next chapter expect their date which I'm really excited about writing and I'm already brainstorming ideas for. Um I plan on doing a chapter for my other story next but I'll try to get another chapter posted in this one as soon as I can. Hope you all enjoyed and I would love it if you would review it means a lot to me!