Redundant: Part Five "Memory"

A/N: Here it is. Took a while to decide what to do with it. But I think it's all right now. Hoping this will turn out good but I need your feedback. Please read and review. Oh and by the way, this chapter is all flashbacks. Be aware of that. And by the way, it really pisses me off that I can't use the star symbol. It never works even after I add them in and save the changes. Does anybody know why it does that?

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This may never start

We could fall apart

And I'd be your memory

"Hey," said Seth nervously, as he wiped his now sweating hands off discreetly on his pant leg. Here he was talking to Summer Roberts. It was exciting. Maybe she'd see him for what he really was. Not a nerd, but a sweet, smart, good-looking guy. Yeah, right.

"Yeah, hey," she replied. Seth decided to ignore the fact that she was giving him an odd look. At least she was talking to him.

"So, uh. So how are uh. What's new with uh? Uhm… How are you?" Seth was finally able to spit out, with much difficulty.

"I'm fine, thanks. I guess. But can you just pass the me the freakin' paper please." Guess she was tired of the small talk.

"Oh, uh that. S-Sure. Here you go. Have a nice day," Seth replied, disappointedly as he passed her the assignment so she could get back to her friends.

Having now received what she needed Summer turned on her heel and briskly walked away with only the slight muttering of "Creep." She, of course, did not stomp. Stomping was too juvenile and like junior high. Not something Summer Roberts would do in front of everyone else. Only the girls who cry on the first day of school, or at parties do that. Summer, of course was not one of those girls.

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Lost your sense of fear

Feelings insincere

Can I be your memory?

As Summer lay in her bed later that same night that that Seth Cohen boy had tried to talk to her, she remembered him. Not what he had said or what he was supposed to be doing. She didn't remember any of that, nor did she try, but she remembered his eyes. And the way his jawbone moved when he talked. The outline of his face. She was mesmerized by the picture, in her mind, of him. He was beautiful.

'Whoa, whoa, whoa. Stop,' Summer thought to herself. She wasn't supposed to be fanaticizing over Seth Cohen! Ew!

No, no, no, NO! She wasn't supposed to be fanaticizing anyway. She could have any guy she wanted and here she was practically drooling over Seth. What was wrong with her? What about those snotty words she had spoken to him earlier. She hadn't noticed it then, but as she recalls it she remembers the way his face dropped at her words.

'What have I done?' Summer asked herself.

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So get back, back, back to where we lasted

Just like I imagine

I could never feel this way.

Seth remembered this one time with Summer, during their first year of college when they had been coming back from somewhere. Where didn't matter. It was what happened after he remembered.

He remembered him carrying her over his shoulder to their apartment. He remembered the way she giggled while pounding him away. Pouting for him to let her down, while actually enjoying every minute of it. He remembered tickling her sides, causing her to giggle even more. He remembered every second of that moment. Every moment. Every word spoken.

Her remembered how when they got into the apartment he gently tossed her onto to the couch. How she immediately jumped up and chased him around. How she had pinned him against the wall.

He always had been weak.

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So get back, back, back to the disaster

My heart's beating faster

Holding on to feel the same.

Summer remembered the time when she pinned Seth up against the wall. The time he had tickled her mercilessly. How what had started off as her getting revenge on Seth had turned into something very, very different.

She remembered how it took both of them a few seconds to register that she had her body pinned up against his. How when they did realize it they stared deeply into each other's eyes. After what seemed like an eternity they both leaned for a kiss.

What had started off as simple kiss turned into something much more than simple. There was everything in that kiss. Passion, anger, energy, happiness. All of it combined. The mixture of emotions that occurred in all of Seth and Summer's passionate embraces. Something they both loved.

Summer remembered how they ended up in the bedroom soon after.

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This may never start

I'll tear us apart

Cannot be your memory.

Summer remembered the time when she had officially decided that she had a crush on Seth Cohen. Not that she would ever admit it. I mean, come on, a crush? This is Summer Roberts we're talking about. Uh uh. There were to be no crushes for her. Especially on Seth.

Although it should have been blatantly obvious to Summer that Seth was practically in love with her, she didn't quite realize it. So instead of doing what she could of, and asked him out – although it would be better if he asked her out – she just stood in the background waiting for him to notice her. Hoping he would notice her.

Please, as if Summer needed to hope for Seth to like her.

Summer remembered though, the biggest reason she didn't make a move. The one she would never admit to Seth, much less anyone else. She was afraid of what would happen if she started to date Seth Cohen. Not of her reputation or anything, but to the two of them. Would it work out? Maybe. Would she wreck it? Maybe.

Maybes scared Summer. She didn't want a maybe.

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Losing half a year

Waiting for you here

I'd be your anything.

Seth remembered how he waited for Summer. How we waited, and waited and waited. He waited for her to notice him. For her to want him. At least as a friend. As an anything. Anything would be good enough for him. After all, an anything is still a something.

Funny how it works, they both waited for the other one. Neither making a move. There's a lot you can miss waiting.

Somehow, someway, for some reason the forces of the universe brought the two of them together. Sure they didn't run into each other's arms or anything cheesy and fake like that. But in the end they got together.

It's a good thing it happened when it did, because Seth had almost convinced himself that he should move on.

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A/N: I didn't use the whole song in the part, but I might use it in the next part. I don't know. Please review and I have a poll for you.

How would you like Seth and Summer to end up:

A) Together again,

B) Apart, as they are now or

C) Have one last moment together… I guess you could say a one-night thing. I don't want to say one-night-stand because they had so much more than that, and calling it that just takes away from it all.

So please vote and I'll take all your votes into consideration.