Chapter 11 - Jared

Summer break was just kicking itself off, and Marissa and Summer were constantly at Seth and Ryan's house hanging out. Summer didn't really have much of a choice in the matter, she liked Cohen and everything, but Marissa was her best friend, and Marissa was dating Ryan. Ryan and Marissa wanted to do everything together, since now they lived by each other, so once again, Summer didn't have much of a choice. She flirted with Cohen constantly, and he flirted back, but she never really could tell what he was thinking. It was annoying to her, because she had never really let herself like someone before, and she couldn't help but like Seth.

"Haha, Cohen. You think you're so cool." She laughed, beating him at a game.

"Yeah well, beginners luck Summer." He snickered, cutely.

"Uh-huh." She said tousling his hair. "Sure."

Ryan and Marissa were outside, once again, fooling around in the pool. They were all over each other all the time, and Marissa would never tell Summer anything, not that she felt comfortable asking anyways.

"Look at them. They're just all over each other, they have been for almost a year." Summer said. "They started dating last August, right before school started."

"Ugh. Don't even bring up school." Seth grouchily said.

"Gee. Sorry." Summer said sarcastically.

Her cell phone rang.

"Hello? Oh gosh. Hey, Jared." She didn't seem excited.

"Who the hell is Jared?" Cohen thought.

"Sure, we can hang out." She started to smile.

Seth seriously really wanted to know who this Jared guy was, but why? Why did he want to know? He brushed it off.

"Yeah, I'll meet you there. Bye." Summer closed her cell.

Seth looked her up and down, with a hint of jealousy in his eye, but he didn't really let it phase him, and she didn't let it phase her.

"Ex-boyfriend, Jared Bennett." She looked at Seth deep into his eyes. "I gotta go, I'm gonna go hang with him . . . I guess. Tell Coop I said bye." She smiled at Cohen and left.

Summer had always been right next door, or even right beside him, all the time. Now, she was going off without even telling her best friend, to go hang with her ex-boyfriend, Jared Bennett. Ugh. Was Seth jealous? He brushed it off again, and went outside.

"Okay, stop making out. Let's go order pizza, and play video games, Marissa you can come too." He smiled at her.

"Gee. Thanks Seth!" She got out of the pool and kicked him in the calf.

"Ha. Ha. You're just too special Marissa." Seth said again.

Him and Marissa walked into the house. "Hey, where's Summ?" Marissa asked.

"She went off with some guy, like Jared or something." Seth answered.

"Uh. Jared? She went to hang out with Jared Bennett?" Marissa asked, again.

"Yup, I think that's what she meant when she said she was going to hang with her ex-boyfriend, Jared Bennett." Seth mimicked.

Marissa just stayed silent, and then she ordered the pizza. Jared had been a bad boyfriend to Summer, she had slept with him, and then he treated her like royal shit. He was so mean to her, and would barley ever call her, unless he wanted to "hang out," he was an asshole to the extreme. Marissa hated him. Then Jared had to leave town, and he started being cool with everyone, especially Summer. Marissa always thought it was because he wanted one last screw with her, but she didn't give it to him, and he was still nice. Summer decided he was probably going through a hard time when he was so mean, and she forgave him, and her and Jared became friends.

"Hello?" Marissa answered her phone.

"Hey, Coop." Summer said calmly. "Do you think it would be cool to bring Jared over to Cohen's to hang? We're bored."

"Uh. Okay." Marissa said. "Whatever." She hung up the phone.

Summer was well aware that Marissa disliked Jared, with a passion.

"Yeah, it's fine Jared, lets go." She headed to her car.

Jared and Summer stepped into the house. "Hey. We're here." Summer announced.

"Great." Marissa whispered sarcastically. "We're back here eating pizza." She said loudly.

Jared followed Summer into the family room. No one even looked over, besides Seth.

"What's up Jared?" Seth said.

"Nothing man, you?" Jared acted too cool for school, like he was friends with everyone.

Ryan hated him too.

"Just playing some PS2." Summer looked nervously around.

Finally they left, and everyone let out a breath.

"He just wants to get into bed with Summer while he's in town." Marissa said. "I'm sure of it."

"Me too." Ryan said.

Seth didn't say anything, he was thinking. "Yeah. He's weird." Seth finally said.

The next day Julie Cooper was holding a charity event. Seth's parents forced him to go, and Ryan and Marissa were a packaged deal these days, well ever since Ryan had moved next door, so he figured he'd just go. He didn't have a date, but it wasn't a big deal. Summer and Jared showed up together. It made Seth sick to his stomach.

"Why the hell is she here with Jared?" He asked Ryan and Marissa.

He saw some girl there. He went up and talked to her.

"Hey. I'm Seth, who are you?" He smiled with his cute smile.

"Oh hey cutie. I'm Katrina." She smiled at him.

He started cracking cute jokes, and they were flirting. He took his mind of Summer being there with Jared. Pretty soon Seth figured out that Katrina was the dumbest person alive, she kept saying how beautiful Julie's grass was, who says that? No one normal. He excused himself, to go to the bar. He saw Summer and Jared having a pretty good time. They seemed like they were just enjoying the night to the fullest, and that made Seth in a bad mood. He decided to forget about what's her name, oh yeah, Katrina, and go upstairs and sit in Marissa's room. Maybe he'd watch tv.

"Where's Cohen?" Summer asked.

"Hm. I dunno. I saw him go inside, maybe he's in Marissa's room." Ryan replied.

Summer headed upstairs, she wanted to see Cohen, for some reason. She opened Marissa's door, and there he was laying on her bed, watching tv.

"Hey Cohen."

"Hey Summer." He said, sort of out of the element.

"What's the matter? I mean, we haven't really talked about anything lately." She was so caring.

"Nothing." He said, flipping the channel.

"Weird. Cause, you and I kissed, and you haven't said one thing to me since about it, and now you're acting all weird." She sighed. "You aren't going to talk, so bye." She got up, and headed for the door, which she had locked before.

"Wait."

Summer turned around real fast. "What?"

He got up, and grabbed her face in his hands, and he kissed her. There it was, the best kisser in the world. She opened his mouth, and they started making out. He pulled away real fast. He turned around, and sat on the bed.

"Cohen?" She said with question.

"Oh god." He said.

"What does that mean? What's going on?"

"I like you." He finally said after Summer had stood there for a minute.

"What?" She asked.

"Yeah. I like you, Summer. I like you."

"You, like me?" She asked again.

"Yeah. I do."

"Well i sort of like you too, Cohen.

"You do?" He didn't really believe her.

"Yeah. I've pretty much liked you since the first night we all hung out. I was always attracted to you, but then i started to like you." She started to babble on.

"So we like each other?" Seth smiled.

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I wrote this last night, but for some reason, was freaking, malfunctioning, or something. I couldn't access the log in page on my computer, which has all of my files on it. So i had to go downstairs to our other computer, and leave a little message in the reviews, but now i'm able to get on here, and update you with this chapter. I thought of a few more ideas for some chapters last night, like i do every night, so i'll update those by later tonight.

Love Love. --Marissa.