Chapter 2 - The Life as We Know It; Now

Summer Roberts walked down the hall-way. It was the last week of school before the last summer break of high school. Junior year was just 4 days away from being over. How had time flown by so quickly? I guess time tends to do that when you're a kid. Summer walked down the hall in her cute sun dress. It was yellow, with purple-ish flowers on it. It had green stripes separating the flowers, and it was very cute. She tied that with some cute wedged heels, and her hair was done carelessly. Summer was gorgeous, not only that, but adored at Harbor High. Summer Roberts, Marissa Cooper, Lacy Patterson, and Trishden Vail were the four princesses of the school. They were loved and adored by every single guy and girl at that school. One person who knew that was none other then Seth Cohen. Seth knew of Summer's reputation, and he'd never forget how she had just stopped being friends with him. The only explanation he got was that she "didn't hang with people like him anymore." What was that even supposed to mean? He didn't play water polo, or wasn't on the basketball team, so that meant that he wasn't someone Summer could talk to? He was her best friend the day she left for camp, and now they didn't even see each other at school, and if they did, it was a rare occasion, where Summer looked at him with glazed eyes like she didn't even know who he was. She probably didn't care to remember anymore.

"COOP!" Seth heard an almost familiar voice yell from behind.

"Hey girl! Wait up!"

A gorgeous brown-haired, brown-eyed girl nearly knocked Seth over rushing past him to catch up with her best friend Marissa Cooper. It was Summer, of course. It almost sickened Seth that she was so different now, but he'd never forget their times together, all up until freshman year. Seth and Summer actually did have to spend a night together about once a month, but it wasn't like they even looked at each other. Their parents were best friends, and always had a "monthly dinner," to catch up, and get together for cocktails and martinis. They'd sit in Summer's TV room and flip through the channels usually watching MTV or VH1 until Seth felt like 3 hours of one of the music television stations was enough. He'd leave, without saying goodbye, and Summer would watch another episode of whatever was on, and then head upstairs to retrieve her cell phone, which her parents didn't allow her to use during the dinners. It was kind of painful for Summer to sit there with Seth for over 3 hours sometimes just doing the same thing, 12 times a year, every year since they stopped being friends. It was really hard for her their freshman year, because just the year before they'd be playing board games, or having endless discussions about how great something was. When Summer changed, she really changed. She didn't care who she left in the dust. Her life was different now. As the years went by, the times she was forced to spend with Seth got easier, and she was able to just forget he was there unless he happened to be sick with a cough, and made noise to make her jump back to the reality.

"Dude Seth. This comic is so awesome. Have you read it yet?" Zack Stevens asked from behind.

Seth's attention went away from the never-ending hallway to Zack. "Oh yeah. It's good." Seth answered.

"Yeah. Definitely... can you believe there's only a couple of days of school left?" Zack asked.

Seth chucked a little. "I love summer break. It's so sweet. Sleep, sleep, and more sleep." Seth said smiling.

"I feel ya. Well I'm off to class, but talk to you later Seth." Zack said, catching up with Marissa and Summer and heading to English.

Zack was who Summer used to be. Friends with everyone. He didn't care about reps, or anything like that. He just cared about being genuine, and cool to be around. Zack played water polo, so he automatically fit in with Summer, Marissa, Lacy, and Trishden. But it wasn't like that was the center of his life.

"So. This is my life now." Seth said, realizing that things would never go back to how they had once been.

Things were so simple back in the Seth and Summer best friends for life days.

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Where is this story even going?

Will Seth and Summer ever talk again?

How does Summer do it?