Before Note: THANKS AGAIN GUYS! I LOVE GETTING ALL OF YOUR REVIEWS. You all have no idea how much they mean to me... they mean so much. Thank you. I'm continuing the story, writing between 1-2 chapters a day, and taking a break for a day or so, at the most :). I really love this story, and have some big plans for it in the future chapters. Thanks for reading, reviewing, and sticking with me. 3 Marissa.

Chapter 10 - The Confusion

"What?" Seth said again, after Summer sat there in silence, and sniffled.

Summer sat there, having a million thoughts crossing through her mind all at the exact same time. It was like trying to concentrate on 10 different people telling you an in-depth story all at the exact same, and keep full attention. She was getting lost in her own thoughts, she felt like she was going to go insane. She couldn't see straight.

"Summer?" Seth said.

"...huh?" She asked very quietly.

"You just said something about you still keeping feelings for me?" He stuttered out.

She looked over at him slowly. "Yeah." She answered.

Seth was so confused he could have smacked himself in the face with a book. "Summer you're really confusing me." He said to her.

She couldn't think. She knew that she'd always had feelings for Seth since she started to crush on him in 7th grade, but she couldn't think of how to tell him certain things, especially in her new train of though. "I.. I-uh.. I... well.. I ca-can't th-thi-think." She muttered out, with difficulty.

He was utterly lost, but he wasn't going to try and push her into telling him the rest of her thoughts about the whole 'still keeping feelings,' ordeal. After a few moments of silence, Seth decided to speak.

"Well do you want to go to sleep?" He asked her.

She nodded her head yes, she had been through a lot of changes today, and even though they seemed minor on the outside, it was traumatic on the inside of a person. She was completely emotionally drained, and it was taking a big toll on her physical energy and strength. Seth picked her up and laid her on his bed, and covered her up with the blankets. He turned on a little fan because the sound helped her fall asleep, or it had used too. He grabbed his pillow, and crashed on the couch. The next morning Seth woke up, and Summer wasn't anywhere to be found. He normally wouldn't have cared, but after the evening she'd had last night, he needed to find her to make sure that she wasn't pulling a Titanic, and jumping off the back of the boat. He walked right out of the room in the clothes he'd worn yesterday, and bed-head. He walked all the way around the boat just to find Summer sun-tanning, jamming to her ipod. I guess it was something any girl enjoyed, and it helped them get away. He went up to her, and tapped her softly on her shoulder.

"Oh. Hey Seth." She said. "You kinda scared me there." She smiled.

"Hey." He said.

She smiled at him, and took off her sunglasses. "Whatcha up too?" She asked.

He thought for a second. What was he doing? He had woken up, and was worried about a girl he told himself he hated for the last 4 years, and he immediately rushed after her to see if she was okay, just to find her sun-tanning, and completely fine. "Oh. You know, walking around, thought I'd say hey." He finally ended up saying.

"Ahh." She said. "Wanna hang out?" She asked.

He kind of looked at her weird, but then said sure. She got up, shyly Seth looked at her, and couldn't help but feel an attraction to her. But it was too soon for that, they had just gotten over fighting every 2 seconds of the day, to being civil..ish.

"DUDE!" Summer said when they got into the room. "We should so play some freaking Sorry!" She said.

For some reason she was still walking around in her tremendously skanky swimsuit, and Seth was having some issues keeping his eyes off of her, which sort of pissed him off, and made him smile all in the same second.

"...sure." He said slowly.

She laughed. "Haha, loser. I was kidding."

It was almost like 8th grade Summer had been transplanted into 12th grade Summer's body, given boobs, and a more mature face/body.

"This is weird." He said after Summer turned back around from getting a water bottle.

She looked at him funny. "What is?" She asked.

"Well, not even 2 full days ago we were fighting, and you were a completely different person. I hate to be one to bring up arguments, and negative energy, but it almost seems like you're trying to act like someone completely different." He said, but it had to be said.

She stood there for a second. She thought about what he said. "Well then." She started out. "I guess that I'll go back to being a bitch, being bitter, and treating you like shit Cohen. I guess that after I talked to Marissa, and admitted to you the things that I did, that maybe things could be different..." She bit her bottom lip. "...Apparentally.. I.. I was wrong." She said softly, trying to not to cry.

She felt her tears coming, so she looked deep into Seth's eyes from across the room, turned around, and walked into her room. She softly shut her door, and collapsed on the floor right in front of her door, and began to cry, but quietly. Seth felt terrible. He did think it was sort of sudden for her to be acting the way she was, but on the same note, she was just trying to be who she really wanted to be. She had crushed all of these hidden secrets, and then he just had to go and ruin that for her. She broke free from things that held her down on the inside, and he just ruined it for her. Knock, Knock. Seth knocked on Summer's door.

Sniffle. "Yeah?" She said in a calm tone.

"Can I come in?" Seth asked.

"I guess so." She said again, calmly.

Seth walked into to find Summer laying on her bed, with her laptop on her belly. She was now in some AE pajama shorts, and a wife beater colored tank top.

"Hey." He said quietly.

She closed her laptop, and sat up on her bed Indian style.

"Hey Cohen." She said back.

"So, about that... earlier... I'm sorry, okay? It's just, that I guess I felt that maybe you were trying to... I don't even know Summer, I'm sorry." He said.

For a few seconds they just stared into each others eyes. It was almost like speaking without speaking, but at the same time not. They definitely had a full-blown connection though. They always would, but being best friends from kindergarten until 8th grade might do that to a pair of people.

"It's alright." She said, still in her soft, calm tone. "I understand where you're coming from. I mean.. I've only ignored you, and treated you like trash for the last 4 years..." She paused for a little bit. "And for what?" She questioned aloud. "To benefit myself, and try and control pain, that came rushing in every single day, and the pain you had... it was never worth it." She started tearing up a little, but gained control. "I can't even imagine what you were thinking, and I am so sorry Seth. This isn't even about anything but what I did... and it shouldn't be about anything else. It's all my fault, and I am so sorry... words can only go so far." She said.

Seth took in all the works she said, and listened to them as if her words like they were going to determine his life plan. He completely understood her, and he felt pretty bad about calling her out about her attitude change... because he'd been wishing the whole time they'd been on the cruise ship she'd stop being so mean... and then when she had, he called her out on it, like it was bad.

"I understand Summer." he said after a while.

She looked at him. "You do?" She asked.

"Now that I think about it, slowly day by day, you've been getting more like the Summer I used to know, in middle school and stuff... you're not as immature, but you're that girl I used to know."

They both sort of smiled, and remembered some of their old times together.

"We were really best friends huh?" She said... "Just a couple of kids, being so inseperable."

"Yup.." He said.

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Next Chapter:

How will Seth and Summer "re-build?"

When are they getting to the Bahamas?