Chapter 11 - The Rekindle

Summer had all these videos of her and Seth from when they were in grade school. They were cute. Some of them were from the Halloween days at school, where all of the kids would come to school in their costumes, and walk around the perimeter of the school, and all the parents would be out there with their video cameras, and Kodak's. They laid there together, side by side, with the laptop on Summer's stomach, laughing at each other's lame costumes, or hair-dos.

"Look at that freaking bow, Summer." Seth started to say. "You look so dumb." he said, both of them cracking up.

She was still cracking up... "Okay Mr. Star Wars shirt, you're the loser!" She said, cracking up even harder.

"Dude. Star Wars is cool, okay? I dunno what you're smoking, but it is THE THING." He said, being slightly sarcastic.

She looked at him... "Right." She said... "Keep telling yourself that, pal."

"Psh. Okay Barbie dream house." He said, remembering Summer's obsession with Barbie's until she was 12.

"OH NO YOU DID NOT!" She said. "BARBIE IS SO PRETTY!" She said, jokingly. Knock, Knock.

"Who the hell is that?" Seth said, seeing as they figured their parents only brought them along, so that they wouldn't throw ragers, have all kinds of unsafe sex, and under-age drinking while they were gone.

"It's your father, Seth." Sandy said through the door.

"Oh, hey dad." Seth said opening the door. "What's up?" He asked.

Sandy looked around. "Where's the lady?" He asked.

Seth pointed to her room, where she was cracking up at some old videos.

"You guys getting along?" Sandy asked.

Seth stood silently for a moment, pondering on what to say. "...Yeah, actually... we are." he ended up saying.

Surprised, Sandy replied... "Well. . . . good . . . I guess."

Seth laughed a little, and then invited his dad to come in and sit down.

"Oh no, no." Sandy said. "Just stopped by to make sure you guys weren't dead, and to tell you we'll get to the Bahama's in about 5 days, then we'll stay there for 10, and take a little less then 2 weeks to get back." He paused for a breath. "It took us a little longer then we thought to actually get close."

"Interesting." Seth said. "Thanks for stopping by dad." He smiled, and gave his dad a 'manly' hug, and shut the door.

Summer turned off her laptop and was sitting on the bed pondering on what too do. Usually she'd completely re-do her nails, or read the same Cosmo 10 times, but she didn't really want to do any of that.

"Hey Cohen." She said, seeing him walk into her room.

"Hey Summer." He said back.

They both just kind of stood there for about 30 seconds not knowing what to do.

"Let's go swimming." Summer said after a long silence.

Seth looked at her like she was crazy. "...In the ocean?" He asked, feeling almost scared.

She looked back at him like he was a complete and total idiot. "No you dumb ass!" She said cutely. "In the cruise ship's swimming pool... duh!" She said smiling, getting up and rummaging around for a 'decent' swimming suit.

"There is a swimming pool on a cruise ship?" He said, completely confused.

She turned around and smiled at him. "You're like a lost puppy." She said, walking over and pinching his cheek.

She went into the bathroom, and quickly changed into her swimming suit, she walked out and grabbed a towel. "Well aren't you coming?" She asked.

He was kind of focused on Summer being in her swimming suit... "Yeah." He said softly, and went to his room and changed.

When he came out of his room all the lights were off, and he had no idea where Summer was. "Summer!" He whispered.

He felt a playful spank on his butt, and turned around to find Summer standing there.

"What the..." He started out.

"Cohen, the pool is off limits at night, so we have to make it seem like we're in here sleeping... be a little less stealth, please." She said, adding her small amount of sarcasm in.

He started to chuckle, since sarcasm was his thing, and she had made a pretty good sarcastic comment.

"LET'S ROLL!" She said in a energetic whisper.

She quietly opened the door, and he followed. Before he knew it, she had intertwined her hand with his, and they were sprinting in different directions. They still had a ways to go. She slowed down, and so did he. She started walking slowly, but their hands were still held. She turned around a corner, and picked a lock with her bobby pin. She opened the door, and there revealed a beautiful pool, that looked sea-foam green. She let go of his hand, and set her towel down on one of the chairs, and went to test the pool water. He copied her movements, except he grabbed her by her waist, and jumped into the pool with her. After the shock of the cold water, and being completely submerged in it, Summer came back to the surface, to find Seth Cohen sitting on the steps laughing.

"Oh you think you're so funny don't you?" She said, pretending to be mad.

"Actually..." he started to say.

She grabbed his hands and pulled him into the pool. She got onto his back like a piggy-back-ride.

"You're going to carry me around now!" She said.

"Psh... yeah right girlfriend." He said, acting like a priss.

Summer started laughing and dived into the water. Seth watched as her glowing tan skin shimmered in the water, and how her hair flowed endlessly. He watched as her beautiful face came back up from the water... he watched her smile, as she waited for his next move. He wasn't sure what was coming over him, or if it was even relevant. She started walking towards him slowly. He wasn't sure what to do.

"You look so serious." Summer said, laughing.

Seth was taken away from his thoughts.

"You're a loser!" He said messing her hair up, and going under the water.

Summer couldn't help but admire his well defined abdomen. His cute curls on his head, and how there was always one or two that were out of place. His perfectly straight, and perfectly whitened teeth that he'd had braces on from 4th grade until 8th grade for. How whenever he touched her she felt a sudden chill go up her spine, but not in a creepy way. She almost felt like she was being drawn too him, but she didn't know why. Maybe it was because they were all alone, all the time. Maybe it was because she had started crushing on him between 7th and 8th grade, and had only hid her feelings. She wasn't sure why it was, but it was resurfacing. Summer heard a loud splash, and felt a bunch of water droplets fall onto her head.

"SETH!" She yelled, forgetting they were breaking rules.

He smiled, and swam over too her. They stood there in the water, sort of staring into each others eyes, but not all "a walk on the beach," kind of lame, cliche way. Summer moved in a little, and then Seth moved in a little, after both of them had moved in a little, Seth moved in the rest of the way, and touched his lips with Summer's. He kept his lips in the same position for a couple of seconds, before moving them around. Summer slowly starting moving her right hand to Seth's neck, and her left hand to his middle back. Seth placed his left hand on Summer's soft cheek, and his right hand on the small of her back. The kiss deepened, but not to an extreme. Just a little quicker, but no tongue. Summer pulled away, overcome with unbelievable emotions. She and Seth looked deeply into one another's eyes.

"Wow." He said, smiling at her with his cute smile.

She smiled back. "Yeah..." after a short silence. "...do you want to go back to our room or something?" She nervously laughed. "It's getting sort of cold."

"Oh... yeah. I was just thinking the same thing. Summer grabbed her towel, and waited for Seth to grab his. She lead the way out of the pool, and shut the door, locking it back up with her bobby pin. She started to walk ahead of Seth on the way back, but slowed down, and he grabbed a hold of her hand. They walked back to their room, and shut the door. Summer let go of Seth's hand slowly, and walked into her room. She was feeling so much emotion right now... and none of it was bad. All she wanted to do was to go back into the main room, and kiss Seth all night long, she still didn't know why, but she did.

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Where is this taking us?
Is this particular night over?