A/N: Hello everyone! GUESS WHAT! NEW CHAPTER:D HAHA! ER, yeah. Anyway, I'm glad some of you liked my Valentine special, it was fun to do! HA. So anyway, I've decided to give out messages to my reviews from now on, just because I feel I should give you some attention and to thank you for reading:D Anyway, I hope you like this chapter, I would enjoy your feedback!

Disclaimer: What's his face owns the O.C. (If I say his name, it makes it more real)

Two best friends were going to be reunited.

"Hmm, I'd say a seven." Seth Cohen said.

Michael Ann Roberts squinted her eyes. "Mmmm, nuh-uh." she replied.

"What!" Seth said. "What's wrong with him?" he asked her.

"Well, first of all, his pants are too baggy," she began, "and second of all, look at that hair. It has WAY to much gel." she explained.

Seth rolled his eyes. "You're just too picky." he stated.

That's right, you guessed it. Seth and Michael Ann were outside the school rating people 1- 10, 10 being the best and 1 being the worst. Michael Ann was clutching her books to her chest and wearing big, very stylish Prada sun glasses— just incase someone got suspicious. She was leaning against the cool brick wall with Seth right beside her, doing the same thing, except with his arms crossed and no sun glasses. It was 9:41 AM and it was time for a parent-teacher conference before the student's winter break.

Another young boy came passing by. Seth pointed at him. "There! Him! He has GOT to be at least an 8 or 9." he said looking at Michael Ann. So far, she has given most boys a very low number, 4 being the highest. It was annoying Seth, especially because he saw some of himself in the boys he chose.

Michael Ann hid a smile. "Hmmm…" she thought out loud. "Okay, fine, a seven." she said.

Seth smiled. "YES!" he said triumphantly. "Finally!" he exclaimed. "That took freaking forever!" he began ranting. He turned to face Michael Ann and pointed both his fingers in her face.

As he was yelling in 'hurray', Summer Roberts walked up the steps with an amused smile on her face. She was holding two coffees in her hand. Her outfit was very professional She was wearing a light baby blue blouse with a brown blazer and a matching skirt. Her hair was up in a pin.

"…a seven is good-looking." Seth stated. "and that boy WAS good-looking."

"ahhhh, I see Coh-Seth found his true sexuality." Summer said with a smirk.

Seth paused before he turned around. He came face to face with Summer. "Good mornin', Summer. You're looking beautiful as always." Seth said.

Summer blushed at the compliment.

Seth just realized what Summer had said earlier. "And I am NOT gay." he said.

Summer nodded her head. "Mmmhmm, and what were you just doing?" she asked him.

Seth paused. "Er….." he trailed off.

Summer smiled. "I thought so!" she said.

Seth pointed a finger at her. "Hey!" he said defensively. "Just because I was… you know…. Rating a guy, which, by the way, was for our daughter's benefit does NOT mean I'm gay… and you of all people should know that." Seth finished with a smirk.

Michael Ann looked at her parents in disgust.

"Too much information, Seth." she said.

Summer laughed. "Yeah, doofus, and besides, our daughter is TWELVE, it can't benefit her. She doesn't need guys right now." she said.

"Who says that?" he asked her. "I bet you had a hundred of crushes! And besides, I was in love with you when I was twelve." he replied.

Summer looked down to the floor.

Michael Ann saw the two adults look away from each other and laughed nervously. "Uhhhh, um, I mean, Hey!" she said trying hard to be assertive. "Don't I get to decided if I'm old enough for a guy or not….?" still laughing nervously she trailed off wanting to desperately break the awkward silence.

Summer looked up at Michael Ann and smiled. She turned back to Seth and handed him the coffee. "Here. I thought you might have been thirsty… or at least tired." she said with a small smile.

Seth nodded his head. "Yeah." he grabbed it. "Thanks." he said, smiling too.

Michael mocked gasped. "Oh my gosh, mom! You buy HIM coffee and me NOTHING!" she asked.

Summer rolled her eyes. "come on, my loser," she put an arm around her shoulder. "let's go inside and meet Mr. Smellyhead." she said.

Michael Ann giggled. "Okay… oh! I forgot to tell you… last week, when his wig flew off, a DIFFERENT nasty smell flew with it… it wasn't that bad before." she said, telling her mom.

"oh, ew." Summer muttered with a very concern face.

Seth watched from afar, okay, not really far, but he watched from behind. His two favorite girls.

Before entering the build, Summer turned her head to Seth. "See you later, teach." she said with a wink, and pulled the door open.


"…and um, well, to sum it all up, I think he really needs to try harder. I am seriously not satisfied with his grades." Seth explained to Mr. Durgan, one of his student's fathers. The two men were sitting in a couple of chairs in Seth's classroom. Seth was clutching a clipboard and there were a bunch of folders laid out on a desk.

Mr. Durgan nodded his head. "A lot of late homework, eh? Okay," he sighed and stood up. "I'll work on that and have a talk with my boy. Thank you," he stuck his hand out. "Mr. Cohen."

"Seth, please." Seth replied, taking his hand and shaking. "It was nice meeting you."

"You too. And thanks again." Mr. Durgan replied and left out the door.

Seth sighed and gathered up all the folders into a pile. Afterwards, he looked down on his clipboard and looked at his list. 'yes!' he thought. 'a break! Finally!'. He laid his clipboard down onto a desk and left his classroom, whistling a cheery tune. When he reached the teacher's lounge coffee table, he saw a lot of parents and teachers there, chatting away. He noticed a particular brunette attempting to put coffee into a cup. The coffee was spurting everywhere.

"Stop! Stop! Stop!" Summer muttered in a panicky voice, trying to stop the scalding hot coffee from going everywhere. "WHY WON'T YOU STOP!" she yelled, looking like she was going to kick the machine.

Rage blackouts, yikes.

Seth immediately took action and grabbed the cup away from her. He simply clicked a green button on the side and the coffee stopped spewing. Seth cracked a smile and looked at Summer. She looked dumbfounded. "hey," he said in a 'comforting-type' voice, "as long as you're pretty." he winked at her.

Summer shot him a glare once she realized what he had said and smacked him in the arm.

"Ow!" he said, rubbing the area furiously. "That hurt."

Summer stuck her tongue out. "Yeah, well, that's what you get for calling me dumb." she replied.

"I never-" Seth began but was interrupted by another woman's voice.

"Oh Sethhhhhh" a voice sang out.

'Crap.' Seth thought when he heard her voice.

A blonde woman with enormous breasts came prancing his way. She was wearing an extremely showy skirt and a very revealing blouse. She was a 32 year old mother trying to be 24. Her name was Cathy Andrews. Ahem, Mrs. Andrews, Darin's mom.

Summer looked disgusted but smiled when Cathy reached them. "Hi, I'm Summer Roberts." she said, sticking out her hand.

Cathy just stared at it and went back to Seth. "So…." she battered her eyelashes. "…When's our conference?" she asked in a supposedly seductive voice, but it came out like a frog croaking.

Seth closed his eyes for a moment, wishing he was somewhere else but here.

Summer finally put her hand down and turned to Seth. "Um.. I'm gunna go and um, find Mike." she said to him, trying to keep from laughing. She walked away, dying to find Michael Ann and tell her what she just witnessed.

Seth was mortified but nodded his head in acknowledgement. He turned to Cathy. "Mrs. Andrews," he said. "We already had a conference…. This morning." he said.

Cathy smiled. "You know what I mean.." she said slowly.

Seth gulped. "Uh, actually, I don't." he said.

Cathy just laughed and touched his chest with her hand, as if what he said was the funniest thing in the world. "Don't be silly. You are so cute when you try to act dumb. I mean-" but she never got to finish.

The principle came in with her son, Darin, in his hands. "Mrs. Andrews, We need to talk." he said in a firm and angry voice.

Cathy looked at Seth in embarrassment and excused herself.

"Gladly." Seth muttered under his breath. He went back to the coffee machine, thinking about what just happened. Where was Summer now? Probably hyperbolizing the story to Michael Ann.

He picked up a foam cup and placed it under the coffee machine. As he clicked it, he heard and "ahem" behind him.

"Patience is a virtue." he said as he turned around to see who was so impatient.

It was Clarista Benningfield. A beautiful mom Seth thought was 'okay'. He was attracted to her, but he never thought of anything than just being friends with her.

Clarista smiled. "Sorry, that wasn't a 'hurry up' ahem, it was like 'ahem, look! It's me!'" she said, trying to explain herself. "hi." she finally said, blushing slightly.

"Oh.. Okay," he said. "that makes sense… so, hi." he replied with a shy smile.

Clarista giggled. "Er, anyway, I just wanted to thank you again for helping Trevor out this semester… like I said, in the past, English has always been boring and hard for him… and now he's starting to love it and that just makes me happy." she said with a big smile.

Seth chuckled. "Yeah, well, English is a great thing, so I'm glad he now likes it…." he said, beginning to ramble.

From behind, Summer and Michael Ann watched them interact. Summer had her arm around Michael Ann's shoulder. Michael Ann felt her mother tense up a bit at the sight they were seeing. She knew the green monster was eating away at her mom.

"Who's that?" Summer asked quietly, trying to keep her cool.

Michael Ann squinted her eyes. "Mrs. Benningfield, Trevor's mom." she replied.

"Oh.." Summer responded. "anything else?" she asked her, not really wanting to know the truth.

Michael Ann knitted her eyebrows in confusion. "……like what?" she asked her.

"She single?" Summer said turning her head to look at Michael Ann, getting right to the point.

Michael Ann bit her lip before responding. "Uh, yeah. She's single." she stated.

Summer winced and went back to look at the couple in front of her. "and?" she asked again.

"…And that's about all I know. She got divorced about a year ago…"

Summer nodded her head.

"…but you know, mom. She has no chance at ALL compared to you. You know Seth wouldn't do anything…" Michael Ann said, trying to lighten the mood.

Summer looked at her strangely. "Okay…" she said slowly.

She and Michael Ann turned their heads back towards Seth and Clarista.

The sight they were seeing was nauseating for Summer. Seth was smiling, no wait, he was laughing. So was Clarista. Her hand was on his chest, and they were just cracking up like mad. Summer watched as Clarista moved slightly towards Seth. As she got closer, the green monster got bigger.

"Stupid bitch." Summer muttered as she watched Clarista 'accidentally' spill her coffee on Seth's shirt and whip it off with a tissue.

Michael Ann's eyes widened. "Woah, okay mom." she said. "No need for such profanity."

Summer shot Michael Ann a look.

Michael Ann just smiled sweetly. She watched her mother's face get darker and sighed. "Mom, I know what you're thinking, and let me tell you…" but she never got to finish. Her mom beat her to it, doing the exact opposite of Michael Ann's foretelling slash future advice.

Summer saw Clarista getting dangerously close to Seth and it was time to, in Summer's very heart-warming words, 'put that bitch back in line'. Summer marched right up to the flirting Seth and Clarista.

Seth turned his head as he felt Summer's presence and was about to say 'hey' before she put her arm around his waist. She grabbed his arm and put it around her own waist, leaned up a bit and kissed him on the cheek. Afterwards, she shot him a very big smile.

"uhh… hey." he said slowly, not sure of what was going on, but enjoying her arm around him very much.

"Hey!" she said in a cheery voice. She turned her head towards Clarista. "Who's this?" she asked, trying to be polite.

Clarista smiled stiffly and took out her hand. "I'm Clarista Benningfield."

Summer accepted the shake. "Oh, well, it's very nice to meet you. I'm Summer Roberts." she said in a phony-type voice.

Seth was just looking between the two women, seriously wondering what the hell was happening. Okay, in his head he was saying 'what the hell is happening?' but he knew very well what was happening. Summer was getting jealous, and he loved it. She was, like she usually did back then, marking her territory. He just continued to smile, oblivious to Michael Ann sending him death glares.

Michael Ann watched the scene being played in front of her with a long, continuing sigh. "Mom…" she muttered to herself. "you need to grow up…" she smacked her head with her hand. "…this always happens." she said. She turned her head towards a very amused Seth. He was just smiling away. 'And you!' she said to herself. 'you should be ashamed! Making mom embarrass herself! You shouldn't even be flirting!' she said. She kept repeating 'you're gunna regret it' in her head, over and over again. She was trying to see if Seth would somehow, maybe telepathically, get the message. She concentrated real hard on Seth, glaring at him at the same time. "you are going to regret it." she said one last time.

'You're gunna regret it.' Seth said all of the sudden in his head. He turned his head towards the door and saw Michael Ann staring at him. He smiled guiltily because he knew she knew what he was thinking - 'that Summer is so hot when she wants me.'

Seth averted his attention back towards Clarista and Summer.

"How do you know Seth?" Summer asked Clarista, it sounded threatening.

Clarista narrowed her eyebrows in response before replying. "My son, Trevor, is in his class…. And I assume you two are dating?" she asked, looking at both Seth and Summer. She shot Seth a look that said 'I can't believe you led me on.'

Seth, however, looked at Summer. "Yeah." he said. "Are we dating?" he asked her too.

The pressure was now on Summer. Were Seth and her dating? "Well.." She began, tightening her grip on Seth's waist. If she said 'no', then she knew Clarista would just jump in, but if she said 'yes', then she knew she would have to do a lot of explaining to Seth. 'But why shouldn't we be together?' she asked herself. Summer looked at Michael Ann with pleading eyes to help her.

Michael Ann saw the look and immediately went in. "Seth!" she yelled. "Seth! SETH! SETH!" she said breathlessly as she jump towards him.

Seth took his eyes off Summer and turned his head to Michael Ann. He was glaring at her.

Michael Ann hid a smile. She look at her parents and at Clarista. "What's going on?" she asked, a small grin slowly forming on her lips.

Clarista began combing her hair with her hands nervously. "Oh, um, nothing." she replied. "Mr. Cohen and um.." she said looking at Summer.

"Summer." Summer replied in an icy tone. 'That bitch forgot my name!'.

"Summer," she went on "were just, you know, talking…. Grown up stuff, sorry Mike. Not for kids." she said.

Michael Ann lifted an eyebrow. She hated when adults treated her like a little baby. "Oh…. Okay. Well" she turned to Summer. "me and my MOM," she stressed "need to go to Wal-Mart and pick up my diapers." she said, glaring at Clarista. She grabbed her moms arm and pulled her away from Seth. "Let's go, mom." she said.

Summer looked to Seth and then to Clarista. "Oh, I'm so sorry I have to go like this. Maybe we'll catch up later?" she asked politely, hiding the relief in her head.

Summer looked back at Seth and kissed him on the cheek again. "See you later, Cohen." she said. She walked away after finally shooting one more glare at Clarista, Michael Ann linking her arm.

Seth just stood there with Clarista, looking dumbfounded. Okay, NOW what just happened?

Clarista glared at Seth. "What the hell was that?" she asked him.

Seth's eyes just grew wider. "I have no idea." he said.

Clarista eyed him carefully. "Did you even know who she was?" she asked.

Seth laughed. "Of course I do… you really think I'd let just any woman touch me?" he asked her.

Clarista smiled and moved in closer to him. "you know.." she said in a low voice "she never said you two were dating…. So, are you going to tell me?" she asked, putting her index finger on his collar.

Seth grabbed on to her finger before it traveled any lower. "Yeah." he said softly. "We are, um, we are dating. Yeah, she's my, my girlfriend." he half stuttered (is that possible?). "I'm sorry."

Clarista just looked at him. "Fine." she said and pulled away. She turned around began walking. "This is what you're missing out on." she said behind her back, trying to move her ass right and left.

Seth smiled. "Yeah, but…. you gotta see Summer do that." he said quietly to himself.


"Thanks, Mike. You are a life saver." Summer said to Michael Ann as they came out of the building.

Michael Ann rolled her eyes. "You owe me!" she said.

Summer rolled her eyes too. "Okay, fine. What do you want?" she asked.

"Let me think about it later." she said "first, we need you to stop getting like that."

Summer turned her head to face Michael Ann and gave her a glare. "Like what?" she asked hotly.

"You know…. All freakishly jealous." she replied.

"I do not get 'freakishly' jealous!" Summer snapped.

Michael Ann just stared at her.

Summer sighed. "Okay… fine… whatev." she said.

"See mom? You're a loser too." Michael Ann said with a small laugh.

Summer rolled her eyes with a smile and unlinked her arm from Michael Ann and placed it on her shoulder.

"That's okay, we can be losers together." she said.

"Right on." Michael Ann replied.


Somewhere around 2:30 and Summer stepped up towards Seth Cohen's classroom door, it was wide open. 'Does he ever close it?' she asked herself. She peered inside and saw Seth fiddling around with a bunch of papers looking quite nervous. He was placing folders around and every now and then he would step back and stick his forefinger and thumb out to see if it looked nice. Afterwards he would shake his head and rearrange the folders, muttering something Summer couldn't hear. She watched him for a couple of minutes,

"Ahem." she said.

Seth turned around and saw a pleased looking Summer staring at him. He immediately stood up straight and looked at his watched. He then cleared his throat.

"Summer…" he said. "I was wondering when you were going to be here…"

Summer nodded her head with the same type of smile and walked in, her hands fidgeting slightly.

Seth noticed this. "You okay?" he asked her in a concerned-type voice.

"Yeah. I am." she replied, putting her hands away when she saw what he was looking at. "So, um, let's begin?" she asked him.

"Oh, yeah." he replied, feeling around his pockets. "where's my pen?" he muttered quietly to himself. He turned around and towards his desk, lifting folders and papers searching for his missing pen. When he found it, he went over to Summer and took her hand in his, dragging her towards his desk too. When he reached his destination, he turned around and was now facing Summer. His expression seemed like he wanted to say something, but didn't know if he should.

In Summer's head, they were too close. She could smell his cologne quite clearly and decided to back away slowly. She pulled her hand out of Seth's and sat down in a desk in front of him, looking at him expectantly.

"So what was that all about in the teacher's lounge?" Seth asked bluntly.

Summer rolled her eyes. "This is a parent-teacher conference, Seeeeeth. We are hear to discuss Michael Ann." she said, avoiding his question. "and besides, you already know." she added with a sigh.

Seth smiled. "Well of course I know, but what was that whole walking away thing with Michael Ann?" he asked her.

"Yes, speaking of Michael Ann, shall we talk about her? You know, the thing we should be doing?"

"But you already know everything, I gave you that 'pre-parent teacher conference' thingy." Seth whined.

Summer stood up quickly. "That's right!" she said. "I guess I'll be going, talk to you later, Seeeeeth." she tried to escape but was not fast enough. Seth instantly pulled her arm towards him.

"Not so fast, Miss Roberts." he said.

Summer smiled slightly at the name and waited for what he had to say while she already knew what it was going to be. She had, obviously, been avoiding it and wanted to escape from it.

"I'm going to ask you one more time," Seth said before he took in a deep breath. "Why aren't we together?"

A/N: I'm so sorry that took so long to post! But SOOO much stuff happened that delayed it! Anyway, I hope you like this! And I also hope it wasn't boring. This chapter is bringing Seth & Summer closer (is that possible too?) AND making Summer realize her reasoning is fading. So why does Summer keep avoiding Seth, eh? Also, that whole 'seeeeeeeth' thing is showing Summer is trying hard to get used to it. She isn't saying it in that whiney way. Anyway, next chap: WELCOME TO THE O.C! Heck yeah! I'm just excited. R&R!