Chapter 3 - The Breaking News

It was the last night of school, and it also happened to be the night of the month where Seth and Summer were forced to spend an evening in the same room as each other. No parties until after 9:00pm. Both Seth and Summer had to be home by 4:00 after school, and the dinner started around 6:00. Summer always tended to get really spruced up, she loved attention, and plus, she always wanted to look her best. Seth didn't really care. But he did think that Summer was very pretty.

"Dad, do I seriously have to be here? It's the first night of summer break." Summer complained to her dad.

"Yes, Summer. You have to be here. It's a tradition." Her father replied.

"Psh. This is bullshit." Summer said in a huff. "So dumb." She stomped up the stairs.

Summer plopped on her bed, next to her cell phone where she had 11 missed calls from leaving it upstairs all day, and her Cosmo magazine. She opened it up and started reading an article about Kate Hudson.

"I wish I had her curls." Summer said aloud, and continued to be absorbed.

Seth threw his book bag into his closet, and shut it with a slam.

"NO SCHOOL FOR 3 MONTHS." Seth yelled out loud.

Seth's windows were open, bringing in the smell of warm California. Although he didn't really like his life in Newport anymore, he adored the weather. Always something that you can go walking around it. He thought about sailing, and all the different things he could do to start off her summer vacation. Knock, knock.

"Seth, honey." Kirsten Cohen said from the doorway. "Pick someone nice out for the Robert's tonight." She smiled and began to turn around.

"Wa-wa-wait, mother dearest. There is a Robert's function tonight? It's the first night of summer break."

"Afraid so sweetie. Sorry." She paused. "You have to go hon." She half smiled, and walked into her room.

"Shit." Seth said to himself. "Just what I need... to spend 3 or 4 hours with Summer Roberts on the first night of summer. Gheez."

Instead of complaining it about it anymore, Seth got up from his bed, and picked out something to wear to the Robert's house, and then went skateboarding.

"You know. It wouldn't be so hard if she wasn't so freaking gorgeous." He said to himself.

Seth thought that Summer was beautiful. He wasn't 'into her,' or anything like that... but he really thought she was just beautiful. Every time he happened to see her, he was just overwhelmed with her beauty. But you know what they say, beauty on the outside has to measure with the beauty on the inside... and Summer wasn't a pretty person on the inside, so even though she was drop dead gorgeous, her attitude sucked.

"To the beat of my, to the beat of my heart!" Summer sang along with radio as she took her hair out of the towel.

"I'm thinking about letting it out, I wanna give in, I wanna go out..." Summer continued to jam with Hilary as she slipped into her 'love pink' Victoria's secret pants, and a matching tank-top for her primp time. Summer decided that she was going to wear her hair curly, but that was about as far as she had gotten, and it was now 4:50, and she had less then an hour and a half to get ready. She quickly blew her hair dry, but quickly meant about 15 minutes. After that was completed, she put her curlers into her hair, and started make-up. She wasn't sure what type of make-up she was going to do. Sometimes when she felt upset she'd apply heavy-ish eyeliner, and wear darker make-up... but right now she wasn't sure on her mood. So, so just applied it normally. Summer's technique was to not think about Seth being there, and how they'd have to sit in the same room for a long time. She just focused on her music. "SPICE UP YOUR LIFE!" Summer sang along with her "burn baby burn" mix on iTunes. She had a some of her old favorites from 3rd and 4th grade. She was almost done getting ready, just about time to get dressed, and pick out shoes. A task that had to be done the night before school or else she'd be late everyday. She decided she'd wear a black Chanel mini-dress that had a white shirt underneath it. She wore long necklaces, and some 3 inch Louis Vuitton shoes. It was 6:15 now, and Summer had been getting yelled at for the last 30 minutes to hurry up.

"Hello Summer." Sandy Cohen said.

Summer flashed a slight smile at the Cohen's, and brushed past Seth. She walked right into the dining room, and sat down. After they ate, she excused herself to go sit in the family room, and turned on MTV. She wasn't allowed to have her cell phone, so she had to sit there, on the first night of summer vacation, and watch MTV for 2 hours.

"This is so lame." Seth said walking into the family room and plopping on the other side of the couch.

Summer looked at him like he was an alien species. "Uh... okay." Summer said very rudely. Sometimes she couldn't believe that she had been friends with Seth for a long period of time in her life. As MADE rolled on, Summer was getting very bored. Next thing she knew Seth and her were being called back into the dining room.

"Hey kids." Mr. Roberts started out. "We have a discussion we need to begin."

Summer could actually feel her brain cells popping. "Hmm. Okay... what is it?" She asked in a hurried manner.

"Well... our two families are going on a cruise!" Kirsten said. "We'll be leaving in 3 days, and we'll be gone for a month!" She finished.

Summer and Seth's faces were both priceless. They look like they had just been told they had 3 days to live. Which in their minds, they pretty much were told that. In their minds they were going to have to spend an entire month together, without much contact to their friends, or anyone else but their two families. They would be going from Newport all the way to the Bahamas, and saying in the Bahamas for a week, and then cruising back.

... after a few moments of utter silence. "Gr..eat" Summer spat out, gritting her teeth. "Just dandy."

Seth looked at her, and then walked out the door. This couldn't have been more disastrous. An entire month with nothing but Summer, her talk about tanning, magazines, cell phones, bikini's, and how much she missed her friends. Joy. He was sure that they were going to be spending majority of their time together, because that's how it was when the families had their dinners, so how would this be any different? What a perfect way to spend the first month of summer break.

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Next Chapter:

The cruise?

Will SS talk?