Hey Everyone! I'm sorry it's taken me so long to update and that I never kept to my word (something unexpected happened, that I won't bore y'all with!) but here's the new chapter. I hope you like it! Again, all reviews, positive and negative welcome.

Chapter 4

A few weeks had past and it had been the perfect two weeks for Marissa. She kept to her word and called Seth the next day. After that, they were almost always together. They had become a recent fixture at the diner on the pier, where they could be found discussing the film they had just seen or the album they had both bought.

"Oh my gosh, the new Death Cab is amazing!" Seth said excitedly, digging into his Balboa burger special.

"I know!" Marissa agreed, taking a slurp from her chocolate milkshake. "I'm so glad you convinced me to buy it."

Seth gave Marissa a huge smile. "Well, I'm normally right. You should know that by now!"

Marissa giggled and threw a fry at Seth, which hit him on his left eye.

"Ouch!" exclaimed Seth, feigning extreme pain and falling onto the table.

This made Marissa laugh outright, making the surrounding tables stare at the commotion. "That so did not hurt! It's a fry for crying out loud!"

Seth sat back up and looked toward Marissa. "Well, it a recurring injury. It's not the first time I've have my eyes scratched by a girl."

"Oh yeah?" Marissa replied.

"Yeah. Do you remember after the SnoC last year, Zach punched me?"

"Zach's not a girl."

"Really!" Seth said sarcastically "Well anyways, Alex tried to teach me self-defence but instead just attacked me herself. She ended up scratching my cornea"

"Poor Seth!" Marissa said mockingly. "How awful that must've been for you!"

"It was. I'm scarred for life. But she did do the decent thing and kiss it better so I forgave her."

There was a small pause and then Marissa, in the moment, leaned forward and kissed Seth's eyelid. "Do you forgive me?"

Seth was slightly shocked by her gesture and replied slowly. "Yeah… Marissa. Totally forgiven."

Marissa noticed the dithering in Seth's voice, and realised what she had just done. Slightly embarrassed by her action, she quickly changed the subject of their conversation. "They're showing 'The March of the Penguins' at the IMAX again tonight. I thought we could see it."

"Yeah, that'd be cool. What time are they showing it?"

Marissa's face squinted as she tried to remember. "I think it said 7.30."

Seth looked at his watch. "You wanna come back to mine first? We've got about four hours to kill before then and there's a programme about The Clash on VH1."

Marissa turned around and motioned to the waitress. "I'll get the check."

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The first port of call once back at the Cohens McMansion was Seth's bedroom. He had told Marissa on the drive back that he had just got the new Franz Ferdinand album and she wanted to hear what it sounded like. Seth sat down by his computer and turned it on.

"If you want, I can burn this for you." He suggested.

"Thanks."

Marissa sat his bed and gazed around his room, which had become a familiar surrounding to her. She saw Captain Oats on his nightstand and smiled. She leant over and picked him up. "Hey Oats!"

Seth turned around to look at her. "Did you know that he's the most excited when he see you? He never shuts up talking about you."

"That's funny," Marissa started, "coz Share Bear says the exact same thing about you."

"Does she now? I always felt that she had a thing for me."

Marissa and Seth both smiled and held their gaze with each other. There was a comfortable silence between them, something that was a new experience to both. Their moment was broken by the sound of Seth's computer's device connection sound coming on. They both looked towards the screen where a huge picture of Seth and Marissa appeared.

"Oh my god! I can't believe you have that picture as you screensaver! I look awful in it!"

Seth snorted. "Yeah right. You always look gorgeous in every single picture I've ever seen of you. Me, on the other hand, am not the most photogenic person."

"Well, that's true." She teased.

"Hey!" he said getting up and moving towards her. "Take that back."

"Or what?"

"Or…." Seth hesitated. "Or I'll tickle you." Seth dived onto the bed and proceeded to tickle Marissa. Marissa burst into uncontrollable laughter. "Seth, no! Please! Please! You know I can't take it. Please Seth! Ok, ok, I'll take it back!"

"You mean it?"

"Yeah, yeah."

"Ok. Apology accepted."

Marissa breathed out deeply then sighed as both sat side by side on the bed.

"I don't think I laughed this much since I was a little girl." She declared. "Thanks Seth."

Marissa, exhausted from the tickle attack, rested her head on his shoulder. Seth didn't flinched and just allowed the moment to happen. "Yeah, well, no problem."