A/N: Wow! We've just reached 100 reviews and 20 chapters - 2 milestones in one! Thanks so much to all of you have reviewed up to now, and I really hope you continue to enjoy the story. Anyway, this post is just a bit more Seth-Ryan time because I quite like writing it! Oh also, don't worry too much about Zach, he will appear a bit later but Summer's not that stupid...If you get what I mean!

"Hey Ryan, Ryyyan…buddy you awake?" Seth crept through the pool house door and over to Ryan's bed, calling his name quietly but insistently "Ryan…Ry…"

Ryan grunted and rolled over "What?" he mumbled prising his bleary eyes open a crack but then firmly shutting them again as he realised Seth was standing over him.

"Oh good you're awake!" Seth exclaimed, settling himself down on a chair next to the bed

"Uh no…definitely not awake" Ryan murmured pulling a pillow down over his head to try and block Seth out.

"Come on Ryan I need you and all your…wisdom" Seth prised a corner of the pillow away from his brother's face and shot him a pleading smile.

Ryan sighed and emerged reluctantly from under the pillow "What time is it anyway?"

"So you see…" Seth began "The problem, as you may have guessed, is Summer. There's definitely something bothering her…"

"Seth seriously I need to sleep for at least 3 more hours before I can be of any help to you"

Seth shot Ryan a disappointed look "How can you even talk about sleep at a time like this?"

"Yeah and what time would that be?" Ryan snapped

"It's my hour of need buddy, that's what time it is." Ryan shot Seth a look that caused his eyes to wander distractedly for a moment "It's…y'know...5.45…" Seth winced at the thunderous look on Ryan's face but tried to gloss over it with more rambling "But the point is Ryan that…"

"Ugh" Ryan buried his head in his pillow and clamped his hands over his ears.

"Ryan please…we haven't talked properly in ages" Seth stuck his bottom lip out like a little boy.

It was true, Ryan decided, their brotherly heart to hearts had tailed off a bit since Seth got back together with Summer. And to be fair, he had been fairly pre-occupied with Marissa lately. Maybe it'd do him some good too…though he doubted that he'd get a word in.

"So just a ballpark…what are the chances of me getting anymore sleep this morning?" Ryan asked with a note of resignation in his voice.

"Hmm I don't know…" Seth began shrugging "What are the chances of Julie Cooper finding God?"

"Great" Ryan muttered. He heaved himself up in his bed, prepared himself for the long haul and shot his brother an expectant glance.

Seth however, had got an odd faraway look in his eyes "I wonder what my Grandma would look like in a nun's outfit..."

"Seth!" Ryan smacked his brother over the head with a spare pillow.

"Oh ok sorry" Seth shook his head and came back to reality "So yeah Summer is…not right. I just have no idea what's bothering her."

Ryan looked at his brother but said nothing, Seth clearly had a lot on his mind and it was far easier just to let him say it all before commenting on anything.

"The thing is…" He continued, a pensive expression now settling on his face "I genuinely thought everything was going well with us. But now I'm not so sure…" Seth tailed off and began to play distractedly with his hands.

This, Ryan decided, was his cue "Well have you talked to her? I mean, she's not usually reluctant point it out if you've done something wrong."

Seth gave a wry smile "That's the thing though; I really don't think I've done anything. And when I asked her about it she said everything was fine…which, clearly, it's not."

"Well then maybe that's it. Maybe it's nothing to do with you, it might just be family problems or school or something"

"Well why the hell won't she just tell me then?" Seth's voice rose and he slammed his hand onto the bed. He'd already lain awake in bed for hours going over and over this in his head and his frustration was finally beginning to show. "Sorry" he muttered, seeing that Ryan was a little taken aback by his outburst.

"It's just…" Seth's voice returned to a normal level and his eyes gazed stoically at the floor "She should be able to talk to me about whatever it is. I thought we were tighter than this."

"Besides, I know her too well…" he continued, looking back at Ryan and finally saying what was really bothering him "It may not be that I've done something…but it's definitely got something to do with me…or us"

"Not you and me…." He muttered indicating to himself and Ryan "I mean me and her…me and Summer"

Ryan rolled his eyes "Yeah I get it" he nodded. He stared at Seth for several moments, who had now fallen quiet.

"You know what?" Ryan began "I can see this is just going to drive you crazy…or more crazy anyway…so if Summer won't tell you, maybe you could ask Marissa. At least then you'd know what was going on"

Seth nodded and gave a small smile. "Thanks Ryan" he got out of his seat and started making his way over to the door "And sorry…for waking you up so early"

Ryan nodded and lay back down on his pillow with a sigh as the door clicked shut behind Seth. He honestly though he had seen the last of Seth's Summer drama when they'd got back together, but obviously there was still some way to go.

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