Hey! I was actually gonna wait longer before I put this chapter up but I just had to post a SS story. There hasn't been many updates lately.

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A Heart's Desire

How are things gonna change?

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It was a late Sunday night, a night where the temperature was too high, the air stifling. The warmth from the sun hadn't gone away, it was lingering and the degrees wouldn't fall enough during the night; the sun would rise and the heat would again fill a new day.

During this heat sleep was something you barely were allowed to do. The sheets would stick to your body and to find a comfortable sleeping position was impossible. Even if the air conditioner was working perfectly you weren't able to get the temperature you wanted.

Seth and Summer lay in bed with no clothes on though it would be too hot. The clock on the bedside table was showing 01.46 and normally that would be a time where they both were asleep.

With an angry force Summer hit Seth's pillow, slamming her fist down just far enough from Seth's face.

"Jesus, Summer! You could have given me a black eye." Seth said and sat up, slightly annoyed at his wife for disturbing him once he finally was being comfortable and about to fall asleep.

"Sorry." Summer sat up as well, taking the sheet with her to cover her body. "I'm just so tired." she explained.

"I know you are and so am I. This heat is killing me." Summer nodded in agreement and got up from their bed, dropping the sheet, walking towards the bathroom. "Where are you going?" Seth asked.

"I'm gonna take a bath. There is no way that I'm staying in that bed. Who knows? Maybe I'll fall asleep in the tub. At least it's not as hot sitting in water." she said as she closed the door and Seth could hear the water start to run.

Being worried that she actually would fall asleep in there Seth fallowed his wife having decided to join her. He would never forgive himself if he would wake up in the morning finding Summer dead in the bath tub. And he wasn't getting any sleep anyway so he could as well do something.

"So, I see that you thought that my idea was a good one." Summer pointed out as Seth entered the bathroom. Summer was already sitting in the tub, the water slowly making its way further up.

Seth shrugged. "Well, I had nothing better to do." Summer nodded and gestured for him to come sit with her. "Woah! This water isn't cold at all." Seth commented as he sat down in water cold like the ocean in winter. Well, almost.

Summer glared at him, not wanting to reply to his sarcasm. The look she gave him gave him answer enough.

"Okay. We are in the middle of the heat." He nodded as if he was agreeing to something. And he was...in a way.

"We should go somewhere." Seth said out of the blue after a while of just sitting there.

Summer frowned and turned her head to look at him. "Go somewhere?"

Seth nodded. "Yeah. Just you and me." He gently tucked her hair away from her neck and leaned over her shoulder. "Before the baby arrives we should spend some time just the two of us."

"We're together every day." Summer pointed out but smiled.

"I know. But I work and I want to take you somewhere where we don't have to worry about anything or think about anything. It was a long time ago we did that."

"It was." Summer agreed and tried to think of the last time they went on vacation together. "Last time we went to Venice and that was almost a year ago." She uttered the last words with sadness, not able to believe that it had been a whole year.

Seth placed a kiss on her cheek. "Too long ago. After we're done with the nursery we should go."

"We should." Summer agreed, moving to sit in his lap and placing a tender kiss, happy that he was the one coming with an idea like this.

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"Summer, this is just adorable." Kirsten was holding a tiny baby outfit. She and Summer were placing the baby's clothes in the closet. There were tons of clothes, both boy clothes and girl clothes, making it difficult to wait any longer before using them. But Summer had a couple of weeks more to go; she wasn't even in her last month.

Summer couldn't agree more to Kirsten's words. That little outfit was so cute; maybe it was the cutest one she'd ever seen. But then again, Summer felt like that every time she saw baby clothes. It was a shame that they might not get to use it. "I know. It's too bad that we won't even get to use them all."

"I think that it's a great thing to make it a surprise, Summer. I didn't know Seth was a boy until I had him and I loved the not knowing part of the pregnancy." Kirsten said, having noticed the doubt in Summer's voice.

Summer brightened up. "You did? Because I really want it that way but Seth...well, he wants to know."

"Had you expected anything else, Summer? It's Seth we're talking about. He's the most curious person I know and he has no patience."

Summer smiled, happy to hear that she was doing the right thing from the woman she looked up to the most. Kirsten Cohen's advice and wise comments were always worth listening to. Summer giggled as she thought of how right Kirsten was; Seth could be such a baby sometimes. "Except when it comes to me."

"Yes. Except that," he blonde agreed. "Seth has never been able to say no to you; he'll always let you have things your way. That's a big plus for you."

"I know." Summer said and turned her gaze to look at Seth. He was painting the wall, not happy having it just yellow. She guessed that he wanted some comic person there, someone like Superman or Batman.

Summer had a long time ago learned not to care about her husband's clear interest in comics. She'd let it come between them in high school but she wouldn't let it happen again. In the end she had to accept his 'hobby' even if she wasn't too happy about it. Comics brought up bad memories, such as the time when she'd treated Seth like shit. Every time Summer thought about that she felt the guilt return and she immediately had to go and tell Seth that she loved him, even if he already knew.

"Cohen! What are you doing?" Summer asked as she passed the room to stand next to him, leaving Kirsten with the clothes.

Seth stood with a brush in his hand and had tons of paint all around him. "I have paper on the floor and I promise not to spill."

"I can see that." Summer said and was actually proud of him; he was doing it all right. "Now, what are you painting?" she asked while leaning against his side.

Seth seemed to be surprised that she wasn't angry at him. He hadn't asked. "I just wanted our baby to have the best." he apologized.

"I know and I think it's great that you're doing something special." Summer softly said and studied the painting, or what would become a painting. Now you couldn't really see what it was. Summer frowned.

"I'm making a horse." Seth said after having watched Summer trying to figure out what it was. "It's not finished yet."

"I see that." Summer giggled. "A horse, huh?"

"Yeah. Well, I'm gonna have some background as well but I though a horse would be a good thing." he explained. "You don't like it?"

"Seth? Are you kidding me? Of course I like it. Captain Oats, Princess Sparkle." Summer said happily, glad that he chose to have something with meaning in their baby's room instead of some comic thing.

Seth smiled, happy about himself. "You got the point."

"Of course I did." Summer finally leaned in for a kiss, a kiss Seth quickly deepened. He carefully held the brush in his left hand, afraid of getting Summer's clothes dirty, while his other hand was resting on Summer's shoulder. "Your mom's here, Cohen." Summer was able to say in between kisses.

"Not anymore." Summer looked around and realised that Seth was right. No one was there, not Kirsten and not Sandy.

"You're right," she said and wrapped her arms round his neck, capturing his lips with hers. Seth had been able to put the brush down and was now walking them away from the paint, never breaking their kiss.

Seth gently pulled Summer's loose blouse away from her left shoulder and began to trace kisses along her collarbone and neck. "Seth..." Summer whined, knowing that they couldn't keep doing this while his parents were at their home. Seth silenced her though by kissing her on the mouth again.

"Seth, your parents," Summer said, breaking the kiss. She smiled apologetically and gave him a peck on his lips before replacing her blouse.

Seth just leaned his head onto her shoulder, sighing into her hair. "Summer," he whined, upset that she always had to be so perfect around his parents.

"Cohen, you wouldn't want to have sex in the same house your parents are in." Summer told him, she disapponted as well.

"We've done it before." Seth tried.

"Yeah, but that was their house. Totally different."

"I really wanna get out of here." Seth said and kissed her one finale time before she exited the room.

"You coming?"

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Seth sat in his office after having finished all the work he had to do before their vacation. Seth was thrilled about this baby but he had no idea how he and Summer would handle not being able to just be with each other. For such a long time it had just been the two of them and their issues had been attached around work and them not spending as much time together as they should.

Now it would only get harder.

A baby would maybe bring them closer together but it could also tear them apart. It could make them fight even more than they already did and a baby would take all their time. How would they be able to handle things?

He had booked the tickets; they were going to a place he knew that Summer would love. There would be no problems and no one who could interrupt them. They needed this time to prepare and some quality time was well needed. You could think that a couple that had lived together for such a long time would be ready to let the attention fall on a baby. But you could never get used to the feeling, the thought, of not being able to spend all of your free time together.

Nothing scared Seth more than this baby. But nothing made him as happy as knowing that he would have a child with Summer.

Seth packed his things and said goodbye to the building; he wouldn't come back there for some time now. He had made sure that his work wouldn't be in the way. The coming weeks would be the last he and Summer would have together alone and nothing was going to lie in the way.

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This wasn't my best chapter at all. I don't really like it myself. But hopefully my next chapter is gonna be better.

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