So this was orignially 2 chapters but they were short so I combined them and made it one ULTIMATE chapter:-) So here's chapter 3. Oh and I'm leaving for vacation tomorrow morning so I wont be able to update until next Tuesday! Ahhh, anyways, thanks so my for reading and of course reviewing!
Chapter 3
The first thing Summer noticed when she saw Seth in front of her, were his eyes. They were ususally a full brown, so full of life. But now, they were almost dead, with black bags under his eyes. He looked up when he saw a figure standing in his way and was taken aback when he saw Summer standing in front of him. She was the last person he was expecting to see.
"Summer..." He finally choked out.
"Hey Seth." Summer said leaning in for a hug. He put his arms around her and relaxed in her embrace. He closed his eyes, and for the first time since Ryan had died, he felt relaxed.
"How you doing Cohen?" She asked, keeping her hands on his arms.
He shrugged his shoulders and pushed past her. He walked into his room and layed down on his bed, with his back facing Summer. She frowed when he walked past her, but followed him in there.
She sat down on the bed facing his back and put her hands in her lap. She was about to speak but then didn't. She stood up and walked to the other side of the bed to face Seth. She got down on her knees next to the bed and looked at Seth, who just kept his gaze on the floor.
"Cohen...come on. How you are, really?"
Seth looked up at her with sadness in his eyes. He looked at her for a fewseconds before speaking. "You really want to know Summer?" Summer nodded her head and Seth sat up on the bed. "Well I feel pretty much guilty. I feel like a jackass for letting my best friend-my brother, die."
"Seth...it wasn't your fault." Summer said sincerly.
"Yeah Summer, it was. I begged him to come with me. I told him that I wouldn't talk to him again if he didn't. I was getting rid of the boat that night, and I just wanted to have one last sail on it with him."
Summer felt herself trying to hold back tears when she saw them forming in Seth's eyes. He looked away, hoping that Summer hadn't noticed them.
"Cohen. It's okay, it wasn't your fault, it was an accident." Summer took Seth's hands in hers. Seth looked up at her and Summer gave him a small smile when she noticed the tears in his eyes. "Cohen..." She took her hands and whiped away the tears.
"Can I just be alone?" He asked sadly, settling again back on the bed, facing away from her.
Summer frowned but did as Seth wished. "Sure Cohen...if-if you need..anything. Just come find me. I'll be in the guest room. Whenever your ready to talk..."
Seth nodded his head and Summer slowly left the room. Before she walked out of the room completly she stopped in her tracks. "Cohen?"
"Mmm?" Seth mumbled.
"I'm sorry." She closed the door to his room and sighed. She leaned back agaisnt it and heard quiet sobs from the other side of the door. She closed her eyes, and found herself fighting hard to not go back in the room to comfort him. She opened her eyes and made her way back to the guest room.
She opened the door to the guest room and saw her luggage on the bed. She picked it up and put it on the floor in the corner of the room and sat down on the bed. She sat there for a few minutes before taking out her cell phone. She called Andrew.
"Hello?"
"Hi." Summer said plainly.
"Hey babe." His tone changed to exictment. "How are you? How was your flight?"
"It was okay. I couldn't find my luggage but I eventually found it. I just got settled in the guest room and I was catching up with Kirsten and Sandy."
"That's good. It's good to see your family." Summer smiled when Andrew said 'family'. They really were her family.
"Yeah. I'm worried about Seth." She found herself saying it before she even thought about it.
"Seth?" Andrew questioned. "Love of your life, Seth?"
Summer sighed. "He's not the love of my life. You are."
"Okay, I'm sorry." Andrew said. "But, why? What's wrong?"
"Well..." Summer began. "He lost his brother, and his best friend. He feels guilty about it because he was with Ryan. He begged Ryan to come with him on the boat. I just-I don't want to see him hurting."
"Sounds to me like he's a self-absorbed person."
Summer grew angry. "Andrew! How can you say that?"
"Babe, settled down. He just-He sounds selfish."
"Ok, for starters," Summer stood up from her bed and began pacing around. "Seth is self-absorbed, sure. But his brother just died, and he was with him.He was driving the boat. How would you feel if you were with me in a car and you were driving and we crashed and I died? You wouldn't feel guilty at all?"
Summer heard Andrew hesitate on the other end of the line. "Just forget it. If you even have to think about it..."
"Summer,"
"No, Andrew. I'm going to go. Bye." She angrily hung up the phone and saw back down on the bed. She sighed and stood up when she heard a knock on the door. She opened the door and saw Sandy standing there.
"Are you alright?" He asked sincerly.
"Yeah. I was just talking to Andrew." She motioned towards the phone.
"Sounded more like yelling."
"Yeah well..." She looked at the ground. "He was being a jackass. Talking shit about Seth and Ryan."
She saw Sandy frown out of the corner of her eye.
"Ok, well..Kirsten wanted me to tell you that dinner would be ready in about an hour. So you can just get situated and then come on down."
Summer nodded her head. "Ok."
Sandy smiled at her and closed the door. She looked around the room and opened her suitcase. She went into the bathroom to change out of her jeans into something more comfortable. She looked in the mirror and her face scrunched up when she saw how bad her make-up looked. She washed her face and re did her make-up and put her hair up. She walked into the bedroom,
shut her suitcase and opened the door to go down to dinner with the Cohen family.
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"Hey guys." Summer said walking into the kitchen. "Am I early?" She looked around at the food that was still being cooked.
"No, sweetie you're just in time. Why don't we catch up some more?" Kirsten stirred the food that was in the frying pan. "So,
what's this I hear you have a fiancee?"
Summer smiled and nodded. "Yes, his name's Andrew. He's great..."
Kirsten looked up at Summer. "That's great. Do we get to meet him?"
Summer was shocked. They want to meet him? "Um..sure...i'll just have to set up some time." Kirsten and Sandy both nodded their heads. "Well..wait, we can just invite you to the wedding. Unless..you want to meet him before that?"
"Oh no Summer that's great. We would love to come to your wedding. Do you have a date set?"
Summer took out a orange juice and took a drink. "Uh yeah..August 3rd. And it's going to be in Minnesota so I hope you guys can make it."
"Of course, we'll be there."
At that moment Seth walked into the kitchen. He stopped for a second and looked at Summer before going to the fridge and getting a pudding. He was about to walk out and go back up to his room when Kirsten stopped him.
"Seth, honey, Summer's here." She motioned towards Summer. Seth just nodded his head and continued out the kitchen. When they heard his door upstairs shut, Kirsten turned to Summer.
"He hasn't been good. All he does is mope around."
Well, duh. His brother just died. "I tried talking to him earlier...he just told me to go away."
Kirsten frowned. "He's taking it really hard. He won't even talk to Nikki."
Summer looked up. Nikki? Who's that. "Uh..who's Nikki?"
"Oh!" Kirsten said. "I forgot to tell you about her! Nikki..is..was..i dunno, his girlfriend. She's a sweetheart. I haven't seen or heard from her in awhile. I can't talk to him and ask him about it because he'll just shrug and walk away."
Summer was about to speak when they heard a "Hello!" from the doorway. They all made their way out there and Sandy and Kirsten looked extremely happy when they saw this woman. She had long brown hair and a cute face. Her eyes were a perfect blue, just like Kirsten's, and she had the most beautiful smile.
"Nikki!" Kirsten ran towards her and pratically jumped into her arms.
"Hey Kirsten! How's it been?"
"Not good.."
"Oh no. What happened?"
"Seth hasn't called you?" Nikki looked at me and then Sandy before looking back at Kirsten.
"No..I was on vacation."
Kirsten took a deep breath. She hated telling people this. "Well..there was a boating accident. Ryan...Ryan...he didn't make it." Kirsten looked at the floor and took slow, deep breaths to calm herself down. She looked back up at Nikki who had tears in her eyes.
"Oh no..." Nikki looked up the stairs. "I'm going to go see him.." On her way to the stairs she passed Sandy and said a quick hello.
Summer watched her bound up the stairs so happily. She turned back around and noticed Kirsten in Sandy's arms crying. She felt really out of place all of a sudden so she went upstairs into her guest room. On the way, Nikki was outside his room knocking on Seth's door. When Seth opened it, his face lit up and a excited "Nikki!" flew from his mouth. He wrapped his arms around her tight, and she could hear a few 'iv'e missed you's'. She went into the bedroom and sat on the bed.
Was she jealous? No, of course she wasn't. She doesn't love Seth Cohen anymore. She love's Andrew and she's marrying him.
She smiled at the thought of him a debated wether or not to pick up the phone. She did, but then set it back down, remembering the fight they had. She was over Seth Cohen. She loved Andrew, and always will. A few days back in Newport will not have her feelings resurface. Will they?
Summer was brought out of her thoughts when she heard a knock on the door. She said come in and Nikki came bounding into the room, like a happy bunny.
"Hey!" She walked, well pratically ran, over to the bed. "I'm Nikki. You must be Summer? It's great to meet you."
Summer took her hand. "Yeah."
"So..." She hit herself on the forhead, like she just remembered something. "Oh yeah! I was suppose to come up here and get you for dinner." She smiled at Summer before turning around and leaving the room.
Summer stood up and sighed, she was just like Seth.
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Once Summer made it through dinner, which was horrible by the way. It was just a whole bunch of flirting between Seth and Nikki, oh actually, it's Nicole now. She settled down on the bed in the guest room and turned on The Valley. After a few episodes she fell asleep and then woke up to the phone ringing in the morning.
"lo?" She mumbeled.
"Hey Summer. It's Andrew."
Summer just mumbled to let him know that she was there.
"I'm really sorry about yesterday. I shouldn't have said that stuff about Seth. His brother just died."
Summer smiled through her sleepy eyes. "Thanks sweetie, it's okay."
"So today's the funeral, right?"
Summer noded and realized he couldn't see her. "Yeah"
"Well, i'll see you tomorrow. Okay?"
"Yup. I love you."
"I love you too Sum, byebye."
"Bye." Summer hung the phone up and looked at the clock. She only had 2 hours to get ready for Ryan's funeral. She put on her black dress, and did her make-up. She left her hair down, not wanting to take the time to put it up. She went downstairs into the living room and they were all standing there waiting for her. Seth and Nicole rode in one limo by themselves, while Summer rode with Kirsten and Sandy. Before she got out of the limo, she took a deep breath and let it out. This was not going to be fun. It is going to be just like Marissa's funeral, and she clearly wasn't ready to let go of another best friend.