Summer in the City
Chapter10
Seth gulped and gave Summer another hug.
"Cohen, thanks for promising not to tell anyone." Summer sobbed, still in his embrace. Seth had promised but he wasn't quite sure he was strong enough not to tell anyone.
"I'm so sorry that happened Summer, but I'm going to try my very best to make you happy and forget about all this. Okay?" Seth announced proudly, and Summer chuckled slightly at this.
"Cohen, are you going to be my prince charming?" She looked up at him, trying to smile through her tears.
"What do you think, mi'lady?" He moved over closer towards her and gave her a peck on the lips.
"Wow. I totally forgot I was raped by my father for 3 years." Summer joked sarcastically.
Seth looked at her stunned; her joke wasn't funny at all. Summer cringed as she realized it wasn't the best thing to say.
"Sorry, too soon." She looked at him and shook her head as she moved in for another kiss.
Minutes later Summer broke the lip lock and looked at Cohen. "Can we leave tomorrow?" Summer asked quietly.
"Anything you want, Sum." He smiled at her and tugged for her to come closer.
"I love you Cohen. Thank you for always being there for me." She mumbled into his shirt as she felt a new batch of tears softly flow over her eyes.
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Seth and Summer walked out of their bedroom and they saw Sandy and Kirsten waiting patiently for them.
"Hi mom and dad!" Seth greeted. "How long have you been here?" He asked, holding hands with Summer as they both went over to the kitchen to get some coffee.
"Good morning." Kirsten replied. "Oh well, we got up early and we couldn't sleep so we just headed over here. We found your very hidden key under the mat, Seth." His mother looked at him and shook her head. "You guys are going to get robbed one day if you don't hide your keys better."
"Kirsten, we just put the spare key under there for you during your visit. We never leave it there. Would we Cohen?" She looked at him and he nodded at his parents.
"I always lose my key so I take hers. We wouldn't be fighting so much if we kept it under there."
Kirsten and Sandy nodded. "So where are we going today?" Sandy asked. "Or do you guys just want to stay in?"
"Nah." Summer shook her head. "We should go out and do something. Tonight we have to pack for Cali but other then that I'm up to anything."
"Cali?" Sandy asked confused.
"We are going to Newport tomorrow." Seth announced. Even though he didn't quite like it there maybe things had changed. He was a successful person with his own comic book company and they knew it. People might actually speak to him now; even if they didn't he was okay with that. He was going to pal around with Summer and Ryan anyhow.
"Really?" Sandy asked happy. "When did you decide this?"
"Last night. We have to buy tickets too." Seth smacked his head and walked over to his laptop and sat down by it.
"Mom, Dad, do want me to purchase tickets for you guys too on our flight?" He asked.
"Sure. Thanks." Kirsten replied. "We hadn't bought return tickets yet so that is really good."
Summer finally sat down on the couch and Kirsten leaned over. "How are you doing, sweetie?" She asked and Summer shrugged.
"I'm good."
"That's great." Kirsten smiled at her. "Now all we have to decide what we are going to do this morning."
Summer and Kirsten looked at each other and both said the words "shopping" together.
"WHAT?" Seth exclaimed horrified. "Summer you just went like 5 days ago. FOR HOURS!"
"And look how that turned out." She replied to him and he shut his mouth remembering the sex.
"Seth, don't back out with me. We have to be strong." Sandy warned his son as he realized Seth was going to go along with it.
"Sandy!" Kirsten playfully smacked his chest with the back of her hand.
"What? Can't a man not want to go shopping?"
"Not really." Kirsten announced and Summer and Kirsten both got up.
"Where first?" Summer asked.
"Who cares? It's still shopping."
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Kirsten, Summer, Seth, and Sandy had spent hours shopping for girly stuff and girly shoes. The boys were bored but the girls had had a blast spending money and looking through racks and racks of clothes.
"Summer! I think I am going to die." Seth pouted carrying all her bags along with a couple of bags that Kirsten had bought in which Sandy had refused to carry.
"Cohen. Shopping equals happiness. You want me to be happy right?" She turned to look at him with her puppy eyes and he looked torn.
"Yes I do Summer, but right now I think my feet and going to fall off about 20 seconds before my legs are and you don't want a midget as a boyfriend do you Summer?" Both Sandy and Seth were exhausted and tired out from the girls 4 hour shopping marathon.
Kirsten looked over at Summer and sighed. "Do you want to call it a day?"
Summer shrugged casually as she said yes. "On one condition."
Seth's grin at the news they could stop shopping had turned for the worst. "What's the condition?" He asked, pausing at every word.
"You buy us lunch." She smiled up at him and he seemed okay with the terms. "Deal."
"Good. Now…deli or pizza?" Summer asked happily.
"Pizza." Three voices replied together almost immediately.
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"That pizza was excellent. Cohen, the 4 years we've lived here, why have we never ate there?" Summer asked, pressing her hand flat against her stomach as a gesture she was stuffed.
"Why is everything my fault? We never did this- I have a stain on my shirt- I'm sick- the sale at Macy's is over-my feet hurts- " He rambled off, counting each one on his hand as he said each one.
"Cohen," She paused. "Do you want to sleep on the couch tonight?" Summer asked jokingly but at the same time very serious.
"And I take that as my cue to shut up." Seth announced to Summer and his parents as they walked out of the pizza parlor.
"So Summer, how long are you thinking of staying in good old California?" Sandy asked, walking with them down the streets of New York to his son's apartment.
"At least a month." Summer stopped on the sidewalk and cursed to herself. "Coco." She said quietly and Seth groaned.
"What are we going to do?" Seth asked. He realized they couldn't just leave Summer's dog alone and they had to do something about it.
"I'm not going to leave her for a month or put her in kennel. That's for sure." Summer replied to herself and to Seth.
"Do want to bring her with?" He asked. Summer loved Coco so much and he knew that she hated ever leaving the dog for more than an hour at the most. He knew she was going to take her with her.
"Yeah."
"Well, We better go to the pet store and buy a crate to put her in on the plane." Seth announced as they walked to their apartment building.
"Mom, dad. Do you want to go back to your hotel or do you want to hang out here in our apartment while we go?" He asked already knowing that they wouldn't want to go with them. They weren't really animal people. The only thing Seth had as a kid was one tiny goldfish and after a week of having it, Kirsten flushed it down to toilet telling her son it smelled.
Kirsten looked at Sandy and he shrugged. "We should get back and pack for tomorrow. Our plane is really early and we should go to bed earlier then normal. I hope you guys do the same."
Summer giggled as Seth handed over Kirsten's bags to Sandy from their shopping adventure.
"See you tomorrow bright and early." They waved at Seth's parents and Seth and Summer started walking up the stairs.
"Hey baby." Seth said, placing a comforting hand over her shoulder. "How are you doing?" He asked in a low voice and kissed her on the cheek.
"Better. I've finally emptied all my skeletons so I'm pretty dandy." She smiled up at him and sighed deeply. "You keep me strong Cohen. The laughter and the sarcasm really help me get by." Summer reveled and hugged him.
"And my good looks and charm too. Right?" Seth joked as she playfully tried to push him down the stairs.
"Cohen!" She laughed. "See…." Summer hesitated, embarrassed. "There you go again and I always laugh."
"I told you I would be your Prince Charming who would save the day." He smiled and kissed the top of her nose softly.
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Coco eagerly pulled on the leash as Summer and Seth walked into the pets store.
"Coco, slow down. You don't want to trample anyone." Summer laughed as Coco pulled Seth along. He tried to get her to slow but his little twiggy frame almost made it impossible. Summer blamed it on his skinny arms.
They all walked over to where all the crates were and Coco seemed happy to sniff them all out.
"Coco, tell us which one you like better." Summer told the dog as it went into another crate.
"Summer, no matter how cute you look saying it, the dog is not going to answer you." Seth shook his head at her and she rolled her eyes at him.
"Whatev Cohen. I get more response out of her then I ever got out of you." She responded, her attitude from the good ol' days of high-school came back and she was Summer Roberts- rich girl with major attitude, again.
"OWWW! Snap." He replied, pretending to laugh. "ha ha, Summer. You crack me up."
"Shove it Cohen. We have to pick one of these out so we can go home." She whined. "I'm tired."
"That's because you shopped for hours Summer." He answered her like it was her problem.
Summer looked at him and didn't say anything at first. "Cohen, can we stop fighting or bickering or whatever we do for a while?" She asked softly with a little smile creeping onto her face.
He wrapped his arm around her waist. "Sure."
Coco barked at one crate and circled around it getting in and out of it.
Summer looked up at Seth, "See Cohen, she did pick one out. I told you." She walked over to her dog and patted it happily.
"What are you waiting for? The crate isn't going to walk to the register by itself?"
Summer grinned, hands on hips, and Seth groaned as he walked over to the huge crate.
TBC
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