Author's Note: Thanks for the reviews! You guys are so awesome. I hope you like this chapter. =)

Seth walked into his class.

-"Ah, Mr. Cohen, we were all waiting."- said the English teacher rather dryly.

Seth sat down at his desk and noticed Melissa Anders beaming at him.

- "Mr. Cohen you are reading for Romeo". informed Mrs. Barnett. "Mr. Weiss you will read for Benvolio. Act One. Scene One, page 18 where we left off."

- " What about Juliet?" asked Melissa Anders.

From where she was sitting Summer rolled her eyes and made the most disgusted sound. Several people turned around but she stared them down.

- " We're not at that part yet" said Mrs. Barnett and motioned for Seth to start reading.

About an hour later the class was coming to an end. Mrs. Barnett told everybody to close their books. People started rising from their seats but she stopped them.

- " Okay", she started, "I know this is your first class on a Monday morning but this was just too bad. You were all still asleep and Cohen your Romeo sounded so bored like he'd fall asleep any minute."

Seth started protesting.

- "He was heartbroken. He wasn't supposed to sound excited."

- "He sounded bored to me." Mrs. Barnett stared at him." I'm sure you don't know anything about being heartbroken Mr. Cohen."

Seth tried to come up with a witty remark but couldn't think of one because she was pretty much right. He figured it was because all the girls liked him back. The truth was he never really liked anyone enough to be heartbroken about them.

- "Mr. Cohen would you come to my desk please?"

Summer sighed. The class was over. "Thank God" she thought. Then she remembered she still had to get her homework from Friday. She "wasn't feeling well" so she just skipped the class in the medical room. She figured it beats listening to Mrs. Barnett give them lectures about the importance of Shakespeare plays and anyway Summer hated "Romeo and Juliet". "Another love story that ended bad" she thought. Since she wasn't very close with any of her classmates and Marissa had English second semester Summer still had to get her homework. She picked up her books from the desk, straightened her small skirt and walked to Mrs. Barnett's table.

- " Yes Ms. Roberts?"

- " Umm, Can I get my Friday homework? I wasn't there."

- " Yes. I remember. You should've picked it up after school."

- " I forgot" said Summer trying to hide her irritation. How hard was it to just give it to her?

- " Give me a minute Ms. Roberts. Mr. Cohen would you come to my desk please?"

Summer bit her lip to keep herself from saying anything. " Why does she need to talk to Cohen exactly when I'm trying to get my homework? She thought. Just get it over with and let me leave!

Seth Cohen walked up to them and Summer shot him a dirty look, which he didn't notice. She rolled her eyes and decided it was better to just stare at the desk.

- " Mr. Cohen I believe you can do way better. Reading requires emotions. Romeo is a very important character and you should pay more attention to the way you read his parts."

" Like he'd know anything about being in love" thought Summer.

Seth nodded and started to walk away but the teacher stopped him.

- "Did you get your Friday homework?"

- " No. Can I get it now?" Summer heard impatience in his voice.

- " Okay" said Mrs. Barnett." Ms. Roberts, Mr. Cohen I will go photocopy the worksheets." She stood up and walked off.

For the first time Seth realized someone else was standing there. He was so focused on getting out of the class he didn't pay attention to anything else. He turned to the girl. She seemed as anxious to leave as him. She was staring at the her hands on the table and he noticed she was really pretty. Actually he was surprised by how perfect she was. She was shorter than him, but her heels made her appear taller and her legs look longer. She had very tan skin and dark straight hair. Looking at her profile he noticed her tiny nose, full lips, and long eyelashes. " How come I didn't notice her before?" He thought she was about to turn and shoot him a smile, because that's what most girl did, but she remained still. He said the first thing that came to his mind.

- " How come I've never seen you in this class before?"

Summer rolled her eyes.

- " Maybe that's because you're too absorbed in yourself?"

She still didn't turn around and he was surprised.

- "Oh well you've obviously noticed me"

Summer suddenly felt the urge to yell at him.

- " Listen Cohen. The only reason I have EVER noticed you is because my best friend is going out with your brother. If I had the choice I would've changed this class, but then again you don't affect me that much. Now don't you have some dumb bimbo to make out with? Go torture someone else. You're tricks don't work on me." She knew she was being too harsh. He barely said anything to her, but she believed he deserved it.

When she said all this she turned around to him staring at him with her big brown eyes and he was surprised at how quickly he noticed everything about her. She was just so.. Seth couldn't think of a word. She just yelled at him, insulted him and basically told him off but he was glued to the spot. There was something about Mrs. Roberts.

Summer was a little surprised at his reaction. They were both about to say something when Mrs. Barnett walked in.

- "Okay" she said " Here's your homework."

- " Thanks" mumbled Seth taking his sheet and walked out the door.

Summer looked after him then quickly turned around.

- " Here's your sheet Ms. Roberts"

Summer grabbed her homework and walked out of the class. She looked at the clock on the wall. " Three minutes till next class, better find Marissa" she thought. She hurried down the hall not noticing Seth Cohen standing near by with Anna Stern. But he noticed her and watched her walk down the hall in her tiny skirt.

- "Sum!" yelled Marissa.

- " Hey!" Summer noticed Marissa standing by her locker.

- " I can't believe the school day is finally over." said Marissa in a cheery voice.

- " I know" Summer let out a long breath. Right at that moment she saw Seth Cohen and Ryan Atwood walking in the hallway." It's funny they have different last names", thought Summer to herself, " they're so like blood brothers." Summer watched Seth Cohen. For the first time she just let herself look at him. There was just something about him. It was that cute lopsided smile, and those brown eyes. And just the way he was when he was walking with Ryan, just strolling in the hallway like that, he seemed so different. He didn't look like the jerk that Summer was used to, he just looked like a very good looking guy walking in the hallway. Summer did admit to herself that he was good looking. There was no denying it. Maybe he wasn't so bad. His reaction earlier surprised her and actually she realized he's never really done anything to her. Summer blinked. Was she just checking out Seth Cohen? Still she couldn't look away and Marissa noticed this.

- " Wow. You're like checking out Seth Cohen. Isn't he on your biggest jerks list?"

- " I was not checking him out"- said Summer quickly turning.

Marissa gave her a weird look. At that moment Ryan left Seth's side and walked up to them. Summer knew they're about to start with the "cute stuff" which she somehow found very annoying and looked away. Her eyes landed on Seth again.

- "So Seth", said Anna Stern," what are you doing after school?"

- "Umm" Seth didn't know what he was doing after school. Probably go out with the guys.

- "Cause I was thinking", interrupted Anna." You could come over, you know help me with homework" She winked at him.

Seth stared at her. Sure he liked Anna but. There was a but. He couldn't put his finger on it. He remembered something Ryan said to him the other day. Something about the "right girl". So was Anna the right girl? He wasn't sure. One thing he was sure of is that he didn't feel the same way about her as Ryan about Marissa. He looked at them, happily making out by Marissa's locker. He didn't notice Summer looking at him.

- "Seth?" Anna was waiting for him to answer.

- " I don't know" he started unsure even of what he was saying.

- " Maybe this would change your mind" Anna grabbed him by his shirt and started kissing him. It was unexpected and Seth was thrown off for a second, but then he was used to that sort of thing happening.

To Summer it didn't seem unexpected at all. So three girls at that party and now Anna Stern in the hallway? Nice one. She thought. What was I thinking anyway? Just because he wasn't being a jerk to me doesn't mean he isn't like that. And I was actually thinking he was cute! Oh my god she thought, I was falling for his trap. Suddenly he didn't seem so cute and easy going and good looking anymore. He seemed like the Seth she hated. The one that was an asshole to all the girls and used them, the one who used his popularity to get chicks. No, thought Summer, he doesn't need to get chicks, they all throw himself at him. And I started falling for it too! After one tiny conversation. Summer felt betrayed somehow at that moment. She didn't know why. Why did she care anyway? He turned out just what she thought him to be. She told herself she didn't care. All this went by in her head so fast that by the time Seth and Anna broke away she made up her mind.

Seth broke away from Anna and noticed her smiling.

- " Changed your mind?" she asked.

But Seth wasn't looking at her, he was looking at someone behind her. He noticed Mrs. Roberts as he nicknamed her looking at them. For some reason it all seemed wrong now. Why did Anna have to kiss him right now? Right in front of her? When she noticed Seth looking at her Summer turned away as quickly as possible.

- " Coop!" she said, " Lets go"

Marissa mumbled something to Ryan then kissed him goodbye and walked off.

- " What's wrong?" she asked noticing something different in Summer's face.

- " Nothing" said Summer and smiled a fake smile. "Let's go"

" I don't care " she told herself.

After convincing Anna that he couldn't make it to her house he found Ryan who was on the school football field. He had a football practice

- "Seth! What's up man you don't look so good?" Ryan ran up to him.

- "Hey you know the girl that hangs out with Marissa?"

- "Summer?"

- "Oh is that her name?." Suits her, thought Seth.

- "Yea, why?"

- "Nothing, I was just wondering. We have English together."

- "You have a class together and its almost the end of the semester and you still didn't know her name?"

Seth just looked at him. So Summer Roberts was right. He was too absorbed in something else to even know his classmates names. And he did ended up kissing some "bimbo" as she put it.

- "Seth?" Ryan asked.

- "Yea hey, I'm not feeling well. See you at home man."

He walked off and Ryan figured he was just making an excuse to go to Anna's house. He shook his head and ran back to the field.

The next day Summer Roberts walked into her English class. She was late and didn't like it because everyone turned to look at her when she walked through the door. Including Seth Cohen. She quickly turned away and found her spot. They were reading Romeo and Juliet Act One. Scene 5. The one where Romeo meets Juliet.

Three people were reading already. They were reading for Capulet and Tybalt. Seth was still reading for Romeo. They finished their part.

- "Now Mr. Cohen" said Mrs. Barnett." I am hoping you will do as good as you can on this part because its one of the most important ones in the play."

- "Unfortunately we do not have our Juliet here today. Melissa Anders is absent. Who would like to read the part?"

Almost every girl in class raised her hand. Everybody wanted to read for Juliet. Who wouldn't want to? Seth Cohen was the Romeo. Summer didn't raise her hand.

- "Okay I guess I'm going to have to choose. Mrs. Roberts aren't you interested in the part?"

Summer looked up from her book. Everyone was staring at her.

- "I didn't see you raise your hand", continued Mrs. Barnett.

- "Noticing how many people want the part, I think I'll just let someone else have it."

Summer smiled politely.

- "That's too bad. Because I'm choosing you. Page 33. Start reading."

Summer was so surprised she didn't even say anything. Seth smiled to himself.

"If I profane with my unworthiest hand, He started, This holy shrine, the gentle sin in this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss."

He said this in a very different voice from his usual voice. It sounded almost like he was whispering it softly to someone. The teacher seemed surprised. Summer stared at him. Who knew?

She figured she could try as well. She could do even better then him. She started in a very sweet innocent voice trying to imagine she was saying something like this to someone she was in love with. She didn't even realize she was pretending she was in love with Seth Cohen.

"Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, which mannerly devotion shows in this, For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, and palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss."

She looked up at him. He had this look in his eyes that she never noticed before. Almost like a glow. She looked back down. They continued reading both trying to be as realistic as possible. In fact it sounded so realistic that it gave Mrs. Barnett an idea. After they finished she nodded approvingly.

- "That was very good. I wonder what caused such a good change. You gave me an idea. My other English class suggested this but I rejected it." she paused. "I think we should act out the most important scenes of the play to give you guys a little idea of how it really was."

Summer stared at Seth who in return stared at her. Romeo and Juliet?

Author's note: Thanks for reading. Reviews are very much appreciated and are a very good motivation. Happy holidays everyone! =)