Author's Note: Hey guys! Thank you all so so so much for the awesome amazing reviews. Anyways here's the next chapter. Which I'm way excited about so here it goes…
Seth looked up in annoyance as there was a knock on the door. He was in his office at the studio of his TV show. He was in the middle of writing the script for the next episode and had asked not to be disturbed.
"Mike," he said referring to his assistant producer "I told you I didn't want to be disturbed,"
"It's not Mike," a distinctly familiar female voice said softy
"Summer?" Seth said getting up and walking to the door in two strides, throwing it open. There she was, all 5 foot 2 of her. He hadn't seen her in two weeks, not since he had last been in New York. "What are you doing here? Not that I'm not happy to see you, I am, believe me, I am. But I wasn't expecting to see you until the next time I'm in New York,"
"Well remember how I told you that Coop and I are opening a store in L.A.?" Summer asked
"Yes, but I thought you said your assistant was going to make sure it got all set up,"
"Well she was, but then she had a family emergency, and I volunteered,"
"A family emergency?" Seth raised an eyebrow
"Okay. So actually I asked her to tell Coop that,"
"Did I ever tell you how awesome you are?" Seth asked hugging her
"Yes, but I like hearing it," Summer grins against his shirt. It's been five months since their infamous vacation. Five months of sneaking around and having a fling or an affair or whatever it's called behind everyone's back. They haven't even told Ryan and Marissa, and if anyone should be suspicious it should be them. But their not, not even when Seth buys an apartment in Summer's building under the pretense that he wants to be able to spend more time with them. He tells them that he feels left out that everyone else spends all this time in New York and he doesn't, and that's the clincher because lets fact it, they've known him forever and Seth had never wanted to be left out of a single thing.
Their not suspicious that they spend so much time together, or the fact that Summer's been to California so many times. She told them she misses the warm weather, especially now that it's December, and that she alternates between Florida and California. Except that neither have realized she's only been down to Florida once in the last five months.
Because they were Ryan and Marissa, and even though they loved them they were usually too wrapped up in their drama filled lives to realize what was going on with anyone else.
"How long are you here for?" Seth asks shutting the door as he ushers her into his office. By now he's forgotten about the script he was so involved in writing, the idea of having Summer with him is much more exciting
"Two weeks," Summer grins at him "I got a hotel room,"
"You could have stayed with me," Seth pouts at this. He knows her answer; she has to put it on her company credit card so that Marissa doesn't get suspicious. He knows that she'll spend most of the time with him anyways, it's how it always works. But he asks because he genuinely wants her to spend the night for real, without having to fake sleeping in a hotel.
"No I couldn't you know that,"
"Yeah, but I wish you could,"
"Me too," Summer said and their lips meet, savoring the feel of each others lips. The taste of which they don't get often enough.
Later they lay in a tangle of sweaty limbs, and satisfied grins, completely naked in Seth's bed. They're laying together while Seth's playing with Summer's fingers, intertwining them with his.
"I love you," Seth whispers and Summer has to hide her smile in the pillow
"You don't love me,"
"I do," he insists "Really I do,"
"How can you love me? You barley know me,"
"I do know you, Sum,"
"Even if you did, it's only been five months. You can't love a person in five months,"
"Well then I've proven them wrong, because I love you," Seth said and Summer's about to respond when Seth's cell phone rings. They jump guiltily pulling away from each other, as if the caller could see them "That's Marissa," he says recognizing the ring tone. His voice is un-even as he answers the phone "Hello?"
"Hey Seth," Marissa greets from three thousand miles away
"Hey Coop," Seth says mocking Summer who rolls her eyes and throws a pillow at him.
"Ew, don't call me that, it's weird," Marissa whines "but actually I called to talk to you about Summer,"
"Summer? What about her?" Seth said wiggling his eyebrows suggestively towards the girl that's the topic of their conversation.
"Well she ended up having to go out to L.A. to help set up this new store, and I feel bad. She has to be there for two weeks, and she really doesn't know anyone there. I was hoping you could just be her friend for a little while, so she's not so lonely,"
"I'm sure she's not lonely," Seth says carefully as he crawls back onto the bed. Marissa is silent for a moment, and Seth can hear her sighs down the line.
"Just please, watch out for her. I worry about her, Seth, please," Marissa pleads with him softly and Seth nods as Summer lays her head on his chest. He's stroking her hair absently, listening to Marissa's breathing when he realizes that she couldn't see him nod. It's probably a good thing, he thinks, that she can't see him. Because if she could, she might possibly kill him.
"Okay, I'll look her up. Do you know what hotel she's staying at?" Seth asks rolling his eyes at Summer, who bites back a giggle. Because the truth be told, she loves hiding this from Marissa. It's fun to sneak around, it makes it so much more exciting.
Marissa give Seth all the information that he needs before they hung up. Seth burst out laughing immediately after hanging up the phone.
"So now you're my baby-sitter?" Summer asked kissing his neck slightly
"Yes, but I promise I'll take better care of you then other baby-sitter's have," Seth said letting out a small moan
"Well you passed your trial period," Summer joked, climbing on top of him, and straddling him. They were deep into making out when Summer's cell phone rang, "I am going to kill Coop," Summer said breaking away reluctantly
"So don't answer it,"
"She'll keep calling, the next thing you know the police will be at my hotel,"
"Right…" Seth said passing the cell phone to her
"Coop?" Summer said reluctantly
"Hey Sum, I can't talk for long, I just wanted to ask you a question," Thank god Summer thought to herself
"Okay, shoot," Summer said flopping back onto the bed. She's actually enjoying the irony of this whole situation.
"Has Seth called you?"
"What? Did you say has Seth called me?" Summer asked "It's a bad connection here,"
"Yeah, so did he?" Seth's nodding his head
"Yes, yeah he did, why?"
"Just wanted to make sure," Marissa said and then there was some mumbling in the background before she got back on "Okay Sum, I've got to go, but call me, okay?"
"Okay, love you,"
"Love you too,"
"Bye, Coop," Summer said hanging up. "I swear that she's like the most dense person in the entire world,"
"Why the fact that she hasn't realized that we're together," Seth asked sarcastically. "Because that's not being dense at all,"
"Your so weird,"
"Thank you," Seth said softly kissing her on the lips "I love you,"
"Shut up, you don't love me," Summer whines but Seth doesn't answer. Instead he kisses her again, and they conveyed everything they couldn't say out loud.
"Summer?" Chloe asked turning to her friend who looked slightly space out
"mmmhmm?" Summer asked not really paying attention. They had agreed to meet for lunch today, and Seth was suppose to meet them after he finished filming a scene at the studio. She was watching the door waiting for him to come back in.
"Are you even paying attention to me?" Chloe asked rolling her eyes as she took a bite of the salad she was eating.
"What? Oh yes of course I am," Summer said prying her eyes away from the door.
"Really, so what's your opinion then? Chloe asked
"Um…I say yes definitely,"
"Ha! You so were not paying attention, I wasn't even asking for an opinion I was telling a story, duh!" Chloe said sticking out her tongue
"Sorry, Chlo, my minds somewhere else," Summer apologized and Chloe looked at her suspiciously
"Are you in love?"
"What? No!" she said too quickly
"Yes you are, or your seeing someone, who?"
"No one, really,"
"You're lying," Chloe said taking another huge bite of her salad just as Seth came and sat down next to her.
"Who's lying?" Seth asked reaching over and stealing a tomato from Summer's plate and placing it in his mouth
"Summer, she's totally in like or love with someone but she said she's not seeing anyone," Chloe said as Seth started to choke slightly.
"Summer's in love?" he asked raising an eyebrow in amusement
"Well she's at least in like," Chloe explained catching the look Summer was shooting her "I mean she wasn't paying attention to my really interesting story,"
"Chloe I don't even pay attention to your stories, and I'm like your best friend,"
"Hey, that's mean," Chloe said throwing a piece of lettuce at him
"It's just the truth," Seth said throwing the lettuce back at her
"Well now I understand why they say the truth hurts," Chloe said as the lettuce hit her smack in the center of her forehead
"It's just lettuce, Chlo," Summer said picking it up so that they couldn't throw it anymore. "Now are we going to eat or what?"
"Isn't Chloe already eating?" Seth asked in confusion
"Hey you were the late one," Chloe said with a mouth full of salad.
"Say it don't spray it," Seth says laughing as the waiter comes to take their order.
Later when Chloe's gone to go to an interview for some magazine, and they've paid for lunch, the two of them sit in Seth's car, driving towards her hotel. He's going to drop her off at her hotel before he too heads to a press conference. He rolls his eyes about it, but Summer knows he secretly enjoys it.
"Listen, Sum, I have a question," he sounded nervous as he asked
"Okay, Cohen," Summer said pulling her sunglasses down from on top of her head.
"Okay so I was wondering ifyouwantedtocomehomewithme?"
"What?"
"I was wondering if you wanted to come home with me?" Seth asked shyly speaking more clearly
"Cohen, sweetie, I think it's too late to just be asking that," Summer said kissing his cheek
"I meant I have to go back to Newport to get something from my parents, and I was wondering if you want to come with me. I'm going to go for a few hours tomorrow, what do you think?"
"Seth we haven't even told Ryan and Marissa," Summer said biting her lip
"I mean we can just go as friends, of course," Seth said quickly
"Okay, sure why not. I have to work in the morning, is that okay?"
"Yep. I was planning on leaving around two," Seth explained and Summer grinned at him
"Sweet," Summer said as they pulled up to her hotel "thanks for the ride, Cohen,"
"No problem," he said winking at her "Love ya," he said and she winked back,
"Love ya," and with that he drove away. Seth's heart sunk as he drove off towards the press conference. He loved her for real, at least he thinks so. It's the closest he's been to love since…well he wasn't going to go there. Let's just say it's the closest he's ever been to love, at least that he wants to remember.
He wants to tell the whole world that he's dating her, he wants to introduce her to his parents for the first time as his girlfriend, he doesn't want her to be just a friend. He wants to tell Marissa that he's been doing her best friend for five months- to get a reaction out of her- and then after Ryan threatens to kill him if he ever hurts her, he wants to tell them that he loves her.
In fact he's starting to understand Tom Cruise. He wants to jump on Oprah's couch and tell the whole world that he loves Summer Roberts. He doesn't care if people make fun of him or think that he's stupid. He just doesn't want it to be their secret anymore. Which is actually what he had hoped would happen when he told her that he loved her. But things don't always work out the way you want them too.
Seth walks into the hotel lobby not even trying to pretend that he's someone else. He walks over to the desk and the concierge doesn't even look surprised. This is L.A., celebrities are not that big of a deal.
"Mr. Cohen, can I help you?" the concierge asks in a too polite voice
"Um yes actually I was wondering if you could do me a favor,"
"Of course," the concierge is eager to please, eager for the publicity
"Great. I was wondering if you could ring up to Summer Roberts, and tell her that I'm down here waiting for her," Seth says
"Why of course, Mr. Cohen," the concierge says picking up the phone as he searches through the computer
"Thank you," Seth says and is about to go sit down when a teenage girl comes up to him, giggling the entire time.
"Are you Seth Cohen?" she asks quietly and he nods once. She giggles again "Can I have your autograph?"
"Uh…sure," Seth said taking the piece of paper "what's your name?"
"Autumn," she says softly and Seth laughs
"That's so cool. My good friend's name is Summer," he explains so that she doesn't think he's laughing at her.
"That's cool, like Summer Roberts,"
"You know of her?" he's surprised
"Yes!" Autumn's eyes light up "she's only my favorite designer, ever! Her and Marissa Cooper,"
"Hey Cohen," Seth turned to see Summer come downstairs. She looked amazing, he thought "Ready to go?"
"Oh my god, your Summer Roberts," the girl cried in excitement
"Yeah…hi?" she exchanged a look with Seth
"Sum, this is Autumn she's a fan of yours," he explained and Summer grinned
"Oh, hi, nice to meet you," Summer said sticking out her hand which Autumn gladly shoot
"I love your clothes," she said happily
"Thank you," Summer said
"It was awesome to meet you, but we have to get going," Seth said apologetically
"Of course, it was great to meet you," Autumn said excitedly as she ran back to her parents.
"Ready?" Seth asks as Summer watches the girl talk to her parents
"Yep, I loved her name," Summer says as she follows him outside.
"I thought you would," Seth says rolling his eyes. Outside their bombarded by paparazzi wanting to know where their going and screaming question and asking them to look over at where their standing, cameras ready. Seth shields Summer as he opens the car door for her and helps her in. He smiles at the paparazzi before getting into the drivers seat.
"Ready?" he asks squeezing her hand briefly before starting the car. They head off towards the highway and towards Newport.
It's nearly three o'clock when they finally drive through the gates of Newport.
"Here we are," Seth says pulling up in front of his childhood home.
"It's gorgeous," Summer said "your like right on the beach,"
"Yeah. Marissa lived right there," Seth said pointing to the house next door "for a little while at least,"
"Yeah she told me," Summer said as they walked up. She knew she was being stupid but she was actually sort of nervous. It was like she was meeting her boyfriend's parents, without them knowing she was his girlfriend. She watched as Seth fiddled with his keys clearly looking for the one that would open the door. He finally opened the door and tentatively pushed it open
"Hello?" he called out and a few seconds later Kirsten Cohen appeared in the living room.
"Hi honey," Kirsten said giving him a huge hug "and you must be Summer, it's so nice to finally meet you," she said as she pulled away
"Hi Mrs. Cohen,"
"Kirsten please, how are you?" Kirsten asked amicably "I've heard so much about you over the last years, I feel like I practically know you. Ryan and Marissa, and now Seth, talk so highly of you,"
"That's so sweet," Summer said blushing slightly "I've heard amazing things about you and Mr. Cohen, as well,"
"Really, my sons say nice things about me?" Kirsten said faking shock
"Sum must have gotten me confused with someone else, why would I ever say nice things about you?" Seth said rolling his eyes as Kirsten lead them towards the kitchen
"I have no idea. Your father went out, he had to go take care of something for work, but he should be back soon. He did leave bagels though," Kirsten said thoughtfully
"Bagels?" Seth said his face lighting up. "I love bagels,"
"I know you do, honey," Kirsten said as she passed the bag towards him "So Summer, how long are you in L.A. for?"
"Two weeks, although after watching the weather channel I wish I wasn't going back until July,"
"Why? Snow's awesome!" Seth said, his mouth full of chewed bagel
"Ew! Cohen, say it don't spray it. Anyways, you only say that because you've never lived with snow, only visited it," Summer said rolling her eyes
"I have an apartment in New York," Seth said indignantly
"Doesn't count. Your barley ever there," this was said with yet another eye roll
"I come as often as I can," Seth said slightly hurt, which made Summer feel sort of bad
"I know," She said patting him on the back "I know,"
"Did you grow up in New York?" Kirsten piped up as she watched them in interest. There was a vibe between the two of them, she just couldn't figure out what it was yet. But she would, she was his mother.
"Yep" Summer confirmed breaking away from Seth "That why I love this place so much, it's so different from home,"
"True, very true. Do you like it here?"
"Very much, it's not New York, but there are so great things about it," she said exchanging a look with Seth, something Kirsten didn't fail to notice. There was that vibe again, she just had to figure out what was going on between them. She would pump Marissa for information later.
"I understand," Kirsten said although she didn't "Seth said you've been spending a lot of time out here lately,"
"Yeah, it's a nice change to the cold, and on top of that now I can come even more since we're opening a store out there,"
"Marissa told me, congratulations,"
"Thanks, it's pretty exciting,"
"Who wouldn't want a store on rodeo drive? I'd love to see it, when it's done,"
"Well if you want a tour any time during these two weeks, just give me a call," Summer offered
"Sounds like fun, if you have time of course," Kirsten said quickly
"I'd loved too, I think it's so cool! You worked with building developments, right? You can always give me your opinion,"
"I'm not sure mine is worth anything, Ryan's though would be helpful,"
"Yeah, we actually had him design the inside, and he worked with this interior decorator, which was pretty hilarious. Right, Cohen?"
"What? Oh Ryan and that crazy interior decorator, it was kind of funny," Seth admitted, he had been too busy thinking about Summer to fully listen to the conversation.
"Your weird, it was hilarious, the lady has amazing taste, but she had no knowledge of architecture and she and Ryan kept fighting,"
"I would have paid to see that,"
"Yeah, Ryan got all hot and bothered and then stormed off," Summer explained laughing slightly "Marissa had to convince him to work with her, but I don't even want to know what it took," she said not thinking, causing her to blush furiously. This was Ryan's mom, for gods sake.
"Don't worry, sweetie," Kirsten said kindly, then she pointed out the window towards the pool house "You see the pool house, over there?"
"Yes," Summer said still embarrassed
"Ryan and Marissa use to sneak out there all the time when she lived next door," Kirsten explained "I caught them there too many times to count,"
"Please mother, you think you caught them there to many times, Anna and I use to sneak in there and play video games or Jenga during those boring Newpsie parties, and they were always there, it was kind of scarring," Seth explained
"You had a hide out from those parties, and never bothered to share?" Kirsten asked feigning hurt
"Mom, you were just not cool enough to hang out there," Seth said sticking his tongue out at her
"Ouch, you wound me,"
"Who's Anna?" Summer asked hesitantly
"Anna's like my best girl friend, like girl space friend, not the one word kind," Seth explained quickly
"You haven't met Anna yet?" Kirsten asked surprised "but she lives so close to you guys, she lives in Pittsburg,"
"Oh…nope, I don't think so, is she friends with Marissa and Ryan?"
"Yeah…but she's better friends with me," Seth said possessively, sounding sort of like a two year old
"You are such a child," Kirsten said laughing slightly
"Surprisingly, that doesn't bother me," Seth said thoughtfully
"I can't imagine it would," Summer said
"What does that mean?" Seth asked indignantly
"Your just a child inside" Summer explained and they stared at each other for a moment. Had it just been the two of them, now would have been the time for her to kiss him, to let him know that it was just a joke. Sort of. But it wasn't like she was going to kiss him in front of his mom
"So what do you guys want to do today?" Kirsten asked clearing her throat to get their attention. She needed to talk to Marissa. In actuality she was kind of hoping something was going on between them. Summer seemed like a sweet girl, and everyone spoke so highly of her. Plus she wasn't all Hollywood. That was a good thing. Besides Seth needed a girlfriend, at least in her opinion, and since meeting Summer he had seemed happier. She smiled at the idea of playing matchmaker.
"Um actually I have no idea how long we're going to stay. Sum?" Seth asked turning to Summer for an answer
"It doesn't matter to me," she said with a shrug
"How do you feel about the beach?" Kirsten suggested "I can't imagine that you get there that often,"
"Nope, the beach sounds cool. But really tanning sounds like fun, I don't care if I do it in the backyard,"
"I vote the backyard, no use getting mobbed by fans," Seth said with a sigh
"Okay, sweetie, then if you guys are just going to hang out here, I'll go pick up some lunch, crab shack?"
"Yum, but take your time, I just ate a bagel," Seth piped up
"What's the crab shack?" Summer asked hesitantly- she didn't want to be rude.
"Oh it's this awesome restaurant near here," Seth explained "You'll like it, I promise," Seth then rattled off a whole bunch of food that he thought that Summer would like.
"Or I could call you and you can tell me what you want," Kirsten said after Seth had rambled on for a good five minutes.
"Okay," Seth said with a shrug "Hey Sum, you brought a bathing suit right?"
"What? Oh, yeah, it's in the car," she said with a shrug
"Sweet, and I have bathing suits upstairs, we can go swimming!" he cried happily racing out of the room, only to return a few seconds later. "You need the keys," he explained seeing her blank stare
"Oh, right, we're going swimming now? But shouldn't we help your mom?" Summer asked looking unsure as she glanced at Kirsten
"Sweetie, it's okay. I can handle take out, it's my specialty," Kirsten said with a smile "Besides at this time of the day it will take at least an hour to get the food,"
"If your sure,"
"I'm sure," Kirsten said with a smile as she grabbed her purse and car keys off the kitchen table. "I'll see you guys soon, have fun,"
"Bye Mom," Seth said kissing her on the cheek "I'm going to change, Sum, meet me upstairs when you get your bathing suit, you can change in the bathroom,"
"Sweet," Summer said as she heard Kirsten close the front door behind her. She waited a few seconds before kissing Seth softly, slowly, passionately before pulling away "I've been waiting to do that," she said kissing him quickly before heading towards the car.
Meanwhile Kirsten was furiously dialing Marissa's number as she drove towards the crab shack.
"Hey Kirsten," Marissa answered sounding slightly tired
"Hey Marissa, how are you?" Kirsten asked impatiently but still attempting to be polite
"I'm good, what's up? Hey…isn't Seth there?"
"Yeah, he brought Summer," Kirsten said carefully, the last statement caused Marissa to let out a mini shriek
"You finally got to meet her! Don't you love her?"
"She's a sweetheart," Kirsten agreed "She and Seth seem to get along really well,"
"Yeah. They've become good friends," Marissa said thoughtfully "Why?"
"I don't know…" Kirsten thought for a second, trying to figure out a way to voice her thoughts "They just seemed very…close,"
"Yeah, well Sum has spent a lot of time out there recently, especially with Seth. I don't know, they spend most of their time together out there, although he did buy an apartment in her building," Marissa said suspiciously
"So you haven't heard of anything going on between them?" Kirsten asked, still not convinced
"Nope," Marissa said "Hold on, let me put Ryan on. Maybe he's heard something," There was some shuffling and then Ryan was on the phone
"Hey,"
"Hey sweetie, how are you?"
"I'm okay, how about you?
"Good, your brother at home,"
"So I've heard, Marissa said Summer's there as well,"
"Yeah, she's a sweetheart," Kirsten said and there was a pause "Do you notice anything going on between Seth and Summer?" Kirsten asked as she pulled into the parking lot
"Seth and Summer?" Ryan laughed
"You don't think so," Kirsten said as she got out of the car and headed inside
"I hadn't really thought about it, although Seth did mention something about…I can't remember exactly, but I was teasing him about not getting laid recently," Ryan blushed even though Kirsten couldn't see him, "and he said don't be too sure about that," 3,000 miles away Kirsten hid her smile, she was his mother- she could practically feel him blushing
"Oh," Kirsten said "Interesting, all right sweetie I have to go, I'll talk to you later. I love you,"
"Love you to, Mom, say hi to dad for me," Ryan said "bye," Kirsten hung up the phone, but she wasn't convinced. Mother's instincts are always right.
Kirsten pulled into the driveway, and grabbed the bag of food from the seat next to her. Getting out of the car she headed straight into the backyards, she figured that they'd probably be back there.
What she saw was Seth, half naked in his bathing suit, with Summer on top of him- in her tiny black bikini- kissing like there was no tomorrow.
Authors Note: Ha Ha! That was too much fun to write! Hope you liked it, I'm getting so excited to write this story. Anyways please, please, please review, I will seriously love you forever.