Thankyou very much to all who have reviewed so far. It was very interesting noting the responses on the last chapter's events. Originally I thought that most would be an outrage to the way Alex treated Summer but instead what the general feedback was completely the other way. All who reviewed said that Summer was a bitch for what she did to Seth and Alex slapping her was simply justice for what Summer had done to Seth.

As a result I am going to conduct a poll for reviewers. When you review if you feel Summer deserves more punishment say that and if you don't want her to receive any more say that. If you say nothing I will regard it as a neither vote.

This is a rare opportunity for you the reviewers to decide what will happen in the future of this story. Note though Summer's punishment won't start until at least chapter five as I have already written the first four chapters which will be posted when a significant number of reviews occurs. So remember to read and review. PLEASE. It only takes 60 seconds of your time if that. And even if you're not a fanfiction member you can still review anonymously. So please do review. Anyways here's the newest chapter.

Chapter 3: Where is he?

Where could he be she asked herself. She had been searching for 3 hours and had found nothing so far.

Suddenly she saw a figure in the distance cleaning up a dirty looking boat. It was called the Summer Breeze (and no he didn't sell it at all in my story).

'That must be him' she thought to herself.

Running up to the figure she recognised it was indeed Seth with eyes drained from tears and in the same wet shirt he had on. He was clearly trying to remove the words 'Summer Breeze' but thus far had only removed the S.

"Seth what the hell are you doing?" she asked him.

"Oh hey Alex I thought you'd be long gone by now. I'm just trying to move on by removing the name of my boat since in my idiotic nature I named by boat after you know who."

"Summer" she replied. Somehow she was not at all surprised. She knew he was still hurting so decided to be frank with him.

"Seth, are you okay?"

"Alex do I look okay?"

Seeing her hurt he rephrased it

"Sorry about that its just I thought I loved Summer for like at least 8 years and when she was with me I thought my dreams had come true. But boy I was wrong. To feel what I'm feeling right now take you're hurt over Marissa and multiply it by about 100 and you'll feel like me."

"Ouch" she replied. "That's gotta hurt"

"Yeah it does"

Just then they both heard a song. It was Good Charlotte's Girls & Boys. It was Seth's ring tone.

"Excuse me for a minute" he said before walking a bit and answering the phone.

About five minutes he was back. "Sorry for the wait it's just that was my mum, she wants me home. Also I asked if you could come over and she said yes."

"Seth I couldn't impose..." she started but was again cut off.

"You won't besides when we Cohen's ask there's no such word as no. Now come on, my car it just over there" pointing to the black Holden (Australian Car Company) four-wheel drive (called an SVU in U.S.A) just around the corner.

"Okay" And with that they headed to the car.

Within another ten minutes they were outside the Cohen residence. Just before they went in Seth told Alex to "be aware that my parents aren't normal" speech. Alex remembering his parent's 20th Anniversary celebration at The Bait Shop nodded her head in reply.

Entering the Cohen household they found Ryan and Marissa making out on the couch.

"Dude" said Seth. "Find a room now. We have more than one guest here tonight."

Looking up Ryan saw that Seth was indeed right. Standing right next to Seth a little too close for friends was the one and only Alex. Looking up to see what Ryan was staring at Marissa was stunned to see Seth AND Alex looking down on the two of them.

Alex spoke up "Marissa I have moved on and no me and Seth are just good friends. Now please can you two move? I've wanted to beat Seth and Tekken 4 ever since he started talking about it."

"Unfortunately that will have to wait. Dinner is served courtesy of Seth's favourite restaurant Mc Donald's" came Kirsten's voice as she entered the kitchen with about five bags of food.

"And hello to you Alex. I've heard what's been going on these past few weeks and I was just wondering are you okay?"

"I'm fine Kirsten" she replied. "And thanks for having me over. I'm really great full to you guys."

"No problem honey. We the Cohen's are ready to help in anyway we can. See Ryan over there. He came to us after trying to steal a car and now look at him he's doing

well in his studies and has a good life. That's our goal in life. That's why Sandy's a lawyer."

"Well Alex would it be okay if I spoke with you privately for a bit after dinner?" Kirsten inquired.

"Not a problem but first, lets eat!"

Before you knew it the four teenagers were digging into their burgers, munching on their French fries and slurping down their drinks.

Within five minutes Sandy returned and gave his wife a kiss before digging in himself.

After dinner Alex went out to Kirsten's bedroom for their little chat. "So what did you want to talk to me about Kirsten?"

"Well Alex there's two. The first has to do with how my son's doing and how you're doing."

"We're both fine" Alex said lying through her teeth.

"That's the biggest lie that I have ever heard," said Sandy walking into the room.

"Now lets here the truth Alex."

"Fine then Sandy. Here's the truth though you might want to sit down for a while."

With that she told them in detail with what happened between Marissa and herself, how she almost left Newport and how Seth got cheated on.

"Wow" Kirsten said once she'd finished. "You're one tough girl!"

Suddenly, without warning Alex broke down into tears. Seeing her from outside the room Seth quickly came through the door and wrapped his arms around her protectively.

'Wow' Sandy and Kirsten thought. 'Looks as if these two might be together once again!'

Seth meanwhile had got Alex to his room and was trying to make her feel better by giving her a history of the great stuff ups of his life so far.

"You see I saw Luke there and I was shit scared" he recalled. "I didn't want to get beat up so I ran out of school as fast as I could forgetting the fact that I had a Maths test and hadn't studied one bit with my books in my locker."

Seeing Alex's smile made his day.

"You feeling any better?" he gently asked her.

"Yeah thanks to you. You're the best Seth" she happily replied.

"Well that's largely thanks to you and your work with the Bait Shop. It made me more of a man," he said proudly. "Especially when I get my 'Twin Ambassadors of Pain' up and working again"

"Yeah in like ten years" she teased.

Just then Alex remembered something important. Something real important.

"Oh no I gotta get back to The Bait Shop. It's still a normal night and I'm still working there because I'm staying in Newport. What am I gonna do!" She began pacing.

"Don't worry for the mighty Seth Cohen and Captain Oats are here!"

"While you were asleep the manager called in asking for you. I told him that you've had a rough night and deserve the night off and that you were sleeping over at my house."

"Seth" she replied, "thanks but I can just go somewhere else and besides I haven't got my clothes here"

"Never fear, Captain Oats and Seth are here!" he replied before walking out the door and returning with four suitcases labelled with the name 'Alex Kelly'.

"You'll be sleeping here so don't fret and no you can't get out of this."

"Fine then I accept" she replied.

"But where will you go then?" she inquired.

"I'll just sleep on the couch while you sleep here" he replied.

"Oh no we'll share this bed"

"You sure?" he asked

"Positive. Now ya ready to get beaten at Tekken (Playstation 2 game)?"

"You're going down!" he replied.

A few hours later they both headed for Seth's room completely exhausted. Seth had agreed to change in the bathroom to avoid any discomforts. When they were both done they got into their various sides of the bed. Seth had his Superman pyjamas on while Alex was in Roxy matching pyjamas.

Seth was extremely quiet and when he thought Alex was asleep he took down Captain Oats and whispered "Thanks Captain Oats for keeping Alex here. I promise you I'll be there for her no matter what" before drifting off to sleep.

Alex who heard every word was looking forward to Seth keeping his promises suddenly remembered when she and Marissa slept together and broke down once again.

Hearing her woke him up and Seth put an arm around her comforting her. Within another thirty seconds everyone in the Cohen household was either fast asleep or making out (Ryan and Marissa once again LOL. You know how they are LOL.).

End of chapter 3