He'll Be Back
Chapter sixteen
"Hello?" Marissa said flipping her phone open.
"Coop, " Summer sobbed, "can you come and hang out with me."
"Or course, I'll be right over."
Marissa closed her phone and grabbed her purse from a chair. "Summer?" Ryan asked returning with two glasses of ice water.
"Yeah, I need to go and spend a little quality time with her."
"She needs some serious moral support." Ryan said placing a kiss on her cheek.
"Thanks for understanding." Marissa said as she walked out the door.
Marissa pulled up to Summer's house and parked. She rang the bell and waited. Summer opened the door. Her face was red and puffy and her eyes were glassy and red. "Oh sweetie" Marissa said pulling Summer into a tight hug.
"I hate him,"
"What did he do this time?" Marissa asked following Summer to her room. "Oh, god, Summer." The room was littered with baby clothing, there was a mini pink smocked dress, a denim jacket, tiny onesies with flowers and others with frogs, black chucks, khakis and polos, and many pairs of overalls. "Did he buy all of this?"
Summer nodded, "He must have spent easily $300."
"Where is he now?"
"Probably buying a crib,"
"You're kidding right?" Marissa checked.
"Yeah. Look what he did though, I don't know what to do with all of this."
"Just return it."
"Easier said than done"
"You want to keep it?"
Summer picked up a small black hoodie and shrugged. "I don't know. I can picture myself dressing a kid in this stuff. My kids will be the most hip babies ever."
"Whoa, first of all you're now talking in multiplies. Secondly, you can have kids later."
"I know but if I just sit back and wait right now, I'll have a baby."
"Summer, you're not thinking about this clearly, what happened to before when you were all 'get it out of me'?"
"Coop, that's the thing, I was all anti baby until he did this. I had intellectualized it."
"Do you think that you're now fantasizing about it?"
"I don't know. I'm confused, but I think that if there is any hesitation I shouldn't get an abortion."
"So are you going to tell your dad?"
"See that's another thing that makes me just want an abortion."
"Summer you can't have a baby with out him knowing,"
"I'm not sure that's true," Summer said laying down on her bed.
"You're not going to try right?"
"No, my dad would flip a nut." She sighed.
Seth sat in the Range Rover in his driveway. Marissa's car was gone now and his parents still did not appear to be back. He looked at the receipts in his wallet and sighed. He had made a valiant attempt to sway Summer. He got out of the car and walked into his room to sit quietly.
There was a knock on his door. They entered with out earning a response from Seth.
"Cohen," Summer spat, tossing a romper with bold red silk screen that read 'broken condom'. "Our kid is not going to wear this."
"Our kid?" Seth asked surprised.
"What you forget about it already?" Summer teased sitting on Seth's bed.
"No I just didn't know that we had move on from destroyable fetus to baby," Seth said catching Summer's lips with his own.
"We have on one condition."
"Great now the life of our kid is being used as a bargaining block."
"Shut up, you have to tell my dad that I'm pregnant."
"WHAT? Summer I'll drive you to the clinic right now I am not going to do that it is suicide."
"Seth. I can't do it, I don't want to see his look of disappointment."
"Could we at least do it together?" Seth begged.
"No. Seth it is not up for discussion. Sometime between now and the start of school you have to tell him."
"Won't you be huge by September?"
Summer socked him in the arm. "You can't say things like that, it is insensitive and I am hormonal."
"Are you going to be present when I tell my parents? Because if you're not, they're just going to think that I am making it up." Seth reasoned.
"Why would you do that?"
"Summer, I've been in love with you forever, my boat is named after you. If they hadn't walked in on us I'm sure they would never had thought I was capable of sleeping with you."
"Cohen, calm down, it doesn't have to be done today."
"How pregnant are you?"
"It didn't happen in the last week." Summer smiled.
"Despite all our vigorous efforts," Seth laughed.
"No it happened some time in May before you left." Seth placed his hands on her stomach. Summer fought the urge to push them away.
"Hi there," Seth spoke to her lower half.
"Seth don't do that," Summer said with a disgusted look on her face.
"Summer it will make our baby smarter."
"Yeah but I am going to hit you up side the head each time you do it, so you may get stupider."
A door down stairs slammed and Summer and Seth looked at each other as heavy steps were heard on the stairs.
"Summer I vote for telling them now,"
"No, Seth we have months to tell them, let's sort out some of this stuff first."
"Wouldn't be better to have parental support?" Seth asked.
"Then we would have no control over any decisions." Summer said crossing her arms with finality.
"Right, wait till the last possible moment to tell the parents." Seth said understanding, "Would this be before or after your water breaks?"
"Cohen, shut up," Summer said pushing him to the bed. Seth pulled the broken condom outfit from under him and grinned.
"I guess we don't have to worry about that any more,"
Summer responded by giving him a look of death and then kissing him, she ran her hand though his curly hair and he ran his hands up the back of her thighs and under her skirt. There was a rapid urgent knock on the door, and they separated quickly.
"Seth," Sandy called into the room as warning as he opened the door, " I just wanted to remind you to invite Summer to stay for dinner." The couple nodded and Sandy turned to leave. "And for god's sake lock your door."
Seth looked down and saw that Summer had undone his belt. He looked over at her, " So are you going to come to dinner?"
"I guess so, if I get to have dessert first," Summer said pushing Seth back onto the bed.