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Chapter 4

"Okay, everyone listen up!" Sam's voice boomed throughout the room where their first of many meetings were to take place.

Everyone had arrived in New York the day before and already everything was in a whirlwind for Summer. Summer was still like a living zombie and Cameron never shut up- which aggravated her to no end.But, for Summer, Cameron was her support right now. They had gotten to know each other extremely well on that horrid 4 and ½ hour plane ride and for almost all of that time, her mind was Danny free. She had even gotten some talking time in between Cameron's grade school days to her high school days. And even though her talking annoyed her, it soothed her for some unexplainable reason. Deep down, way deep down, she knew the answer.

"Today, all I need are the people who are working in the fashion departments. We need to discuss things for the shows, you know the runways, the models, all that good stuff. Everyone else, you are free to go, but remember everyone needs to meet me tomorrow morning here at 10 am! We have some more things to!" Sam had to yell over everyone as people started to file out of the room. About 200 people were left. Summer noticed the many people surrounding her and she already felt jumpy. She also noticed that Cameron must have left since she was not in the fashion department.

Summer walked over to the other side of the room as Sam was giving directions. She had told everyone to find a partner so that jobs and different things could get done faster and more efficiently.

"Hi, I don't really know anyone here and I was wondering if you wanted to work together?"

She looked around and noticed that people were beginning to pair up. She had not heard anything about getting with a partner, but she figured why not.

"Uh, sure."

"Great, my name's Jenny," she said.

"Summer," she was not really in the mood to make small talk. For some reason, today was one of those days where Summer was just annoyed, not at anything imparticular, but just annoyed at anything that crossed her path.

"Oh, that's a pretty name. Where are you from, Summer?"

"I grew up in Orange County, but I live in Dallas now," Summer answered shortly.

"Oh my God! I live in Orange County now! Newport Beach! It's so pretty. How long did you live there?"

"Until I left for college."

"Oh, I love it there. My boyfriend lives there. His parents are like uber rich," Jenny gushed.

Things had been going really well for them the last couple of weeks.

Summer looked up, suddenly interested. Maybe she knew him?

"Oh really? What's his name? I might know him?"

"Oh, yeah, you might! His name is S-" Jenny was cut off my Sam.

"Okay, everyone found a partner?" Sam paused. "Great, now everyone needs to walk over to the Time Warner Center/ AOL Building. It's right across the street. Everyone bundle up, the wind is starting to pick up!"

Everyone began to leave the room talking and anticipating what they would be doing.

Seth had just gotten up after a long nap. Jet lag sucked. He looked at the clock and saw that it would be a while for Jenny to get back. He walked over to his suitcase, grabbed a sweater, and headed towards the elevator.

He get off and walked towards the exit of the hotel right in the middle of Times Square. As soon as he hit the cold air, he decided that a coffee was next on his to do list. He made his way down the busy street corners, people coming in and out of clothing stores, people on their cell phones, everyone and anything you could imagine was jammed packed along the streets.

He didn't know how long he had been walking, but he came upon the well known 5th Avenue. 5th Avenue was like a haven for many people, but Seth Cohen was just not one of them. Sure, it was fun for a minute, but there was really nothing for him to see. He continued to walk down it though, vanilla latte in hand. He came to a corner and looked at the seemingly never ending building of Tiffany & Co. Another haven for women who loved their jewelry. He saw his reflection in the glass staring back at him. He looked a little closer and he could see how his nose had become red from the gusts of freezing air. Inside of the glass window lay a diamond ring. He stepped closer and looked more closely at it. It reminded him of Summer- perfect and always shining.

He walked away from it not wanting to think anymore of that certain person. As his mind started to go back in time, his cell phone rang. He looked at the collar- ID and saw Jenny's Cell flash across the screen.

"Hey, what's up?" Seth asked her.

"Hi! I was just calling to let you know that our meeting was over and that I am going to go and get some coffee with a few people. Do you want to come or we can just meet up in like an hour or so?"

"No, you go. I'm just walking around. Getting my bearings."

"Okay, well I'll call you when we're leaving."

"Sounds good. Bye."

"Bye!"

He flipped the phone shut and continued to walk down the endless streets taking everything in.

Summer had called Cameron to meet up with her and Jenny. Her and Jenny had worked well together on their first day and she was happy. Over this past week, happy for her was like getting the new BMW that had only come out in Europe.

Jenny and Summer walked in and ordered their coffee's and waited at a small round table in the front window. It had just started to snow as Cameron came bustling in.

"It is freezing," Cameron said. "You know, they really should have like these enormous heaters nailed to the sides of buildings so that people don't have to freeze their asses off."

Both girls laughed as Cameron put out her hand to Jenny.

"Hi, I'm Cameron."

"Hey, I'm Jenny."

They shook hands and Cameron left to grab her coffee. A couple minutes later, she was back and they were all sitting quietly.

"Oh my gosh, I am so excited!" Summer squealed.

Both girls looked at her confused.

"Um, hello! Shopping! We totally have to hit up 5th Avenue this weekend."

They all smiled and nodded their heads enthusiastically.

"They have all my favorite designers- Prada, Versace, Gucci, and of course Harry Winston!" she squealed again.

It didn't take much for the girl who grew up in Newport to come out again. Since she had moved to Texas, she didn't think as much about designers. But now that she was in New York, all of that came out.

"I know, I am so excited to go to Bulgari and Fendi!" This time it was Jenny's turn to give her favorite designers.

Even though Cameron was born in California too, her family had not had the kind of money that Summer's or Cameron's had. Sure they did okay and had that certain amount of money left over for what they wanted, she had never gone out shopping and dropped 10 grand. She looked back and forth as both girls gushed about different things having to do with their favorite designers. She hated to admit it, but she felt a little left out.

They sat around for about an hour or so telling stories about their college days.

Summer looked at her watch and saw that it was getting close to 7. "Wow, its gotten late! Do you guys want to go out to a club or grab some dinner?" Summer asked.

"Yeah, totally. How about we all go back to the hotel get showed and changed and we meet down in the lobby around 8:30?" Jenny suggested.

"Sounds good." Cameron added.

They made their way back to the hotel and the whole afternoon had gone by smoothly. They went their separate ways when they got back to the hotel.

Cameron walked into the hotel room where Seth was lying on the bed watching the news.

Seth jumped up from the bed and gave her a small kiss.

"Hey. You want to go grab some dinner? Maybe go to a club after?"

"Hey, yeah that sounds good."

"Ready to go now?"

"No! I have to take a shower. Some of the girls that I met today are going to come too. Their really nice," her voice got more distant as she walked into the bathroom and closed the door.

20 minutes later she was out of the shower and putting on make-up.

"You know, we don't have to go out tonight, we could hang out, order room service, watch some movies," he raised his eyebrows suggestively.

Jenny rolled her eyes and continued to put on her make-up.

"Seth, this is our first full day and night in New York. We need to have fun. And going to a club is fun."

"But there will be dancing. And I don't dance well. Remember, I only move well," he said as he raised his arms to do the robot.

"Uh huh. Well, how about you move well on the dance floor."

He grunted before giving a final "fine".

"Now, I have to get a shower," Seth said as he pulled his shirt over his head and turned on the shower.

"No. We have to leave in 5 minutes," Jenny said annoyed. 'Why does he always put everything off?' she wondered.

"I have been walking around all day, I need one."

"Fine. I'll just call them and tell them well meet them there."

She picked up the phone and dialed Summer's cell.

"Hello?" Summer answered.

"Hey, it's me. We're running a little late, can we meet you there?"

"Yeah, were going to head over to Bungalow 8, you know right over on 27th Street?"

"Yeah, sounds good. We'll see you there around 9 then."

"Okay, bye!"

The music at the club was blasting from the speakers and you could not find one person without a drink in their hand. Jenny and Seth still had yet to arrive and Summer was only on her 2nd drink.

Summer began talking to Cameron about something that had to do with work when she felt 2 hands grip her hips. She flung her body the other direction to find out who would possibly do that. She took a step back to examine the man before her. 'Ew, talk about slimy and most defiantly not what I'm looking for' she thought to herself.

"Sorry, but your not my type," she told the man bluntly.

He shrugged and walked off only to do the same thing to the girl at the other end of the bar.

Cameron's phone rang and she looked at the ID. Jenny. "Hello?"

"Hey! I tried calling Summer, but she didn't answer. Is she with you?"

"Yeah, she's right here. Do you need her?"

"Oh, no. Just letting you know we just got past the bouncer. Where are you guys?"

"We are in the back corner in the small booth. It's right next to the bar. Wait, who are you with?" She asked after she noticed she said we.

"My boyfriend, Seth."

"Oh okay. Well, you'll see us if you walk back far enough. We'll look for you!" Cameron had to practically scream to get over all of the noise.

"Okay, see you soon!"

"Are she here?" Summer asked Cameron.

"Yep, just got past the bouncer."

"Good."

The music seemed to have gotten even louder since Summer had arrived. She saw Jenny trying to make her way pasted the packed club. She got up and flung her arms around her in greeting. Only, to Summer's dismay, the happened to catch the back of a boy who looked identical to Seth. 'No way.' Summer thought, 'he wouldn't be here.' But, as fate took its course, Seth turned around only to be greeted by a shocked Summer. 'Holy shit. Why does this kind of thing only happen to me?' Seth thought to himself.

As much as Summer wanted to say that she wasn't happy to see him, she couldn't. The music seemed to fade and everything else around her disappeared.

"Cohen," Summer said, trying to sound curt.

"The one and only," Seth said rudely.

As much as Seth wanted to be happy to see her and hug her and tell her that it "has been too long", he couldn't. He was still mad at her for what she had done those long years ago.

Cameron and Jenny were still saying their hello's and were oblivious to the encounter that had just taken place.

The night had progressed rather nicely. Seth and Summer had not had a single interaction since their meeting, but at least they weren't staring each other down. Jenny and Cameron had been drinking for a while now and their speech was starting to slur.

"Summer, I'm kinda tiiiiiired. I wan..wanna go home," Cameron said as she reached for her forehead.

"Yeah, Sethy, I'm not feeling so well. I want to go too," Jenny said sticking out her lower lip.

"I can't drive, I've been drinking too, Jen," Seth told her. "How about we get a cab and go back to the hotel?"

Jenny and Cameron both nodded.

They all went outside and stood on the street corner trying to hail a cab. Even though this was the "city that never slept", it was hard to get a taxi.

"God, my arm is tired from having it up so long trying to get this friggin cab!" Seth said to no one imparticular.

Cameron and Jenny were having a drunken conversation but Summer's mind was elsewhere. her eyes were too busy looking Seth up and down and thinking about how he had grown up well.

She got up the nerve to walk over there and try and at least talk to him.

"Hey," she said quietly.

"Hi."

"What have you been up to?"

"Sailing, comic booking, and that's pretty much it."

"Oh, cool. That sounds like you," she smiled to herself. "Do you have a job?"

"No."

She was a little taken back. Sure he was mad, she got that, but he didn't have to be so short. She almost walked away, when a sudden burst of energy shot through her. At that short moment, she felt invincible.

"I get it, your mad at me and I understand why, but you could at least talk to me."

"Your right, Summer, I am mad. I am still mad that you left me and that you never called.." he trailed off as a cab finally came to get them, but Summer was not done talking to him. Seth walked over to get the 2 girls and helped them get in the cab. As he was doing this, Summer told the driver where to take them and she paid for the fare in advance. Just as Seth was about to get in the car, Summer grabbed the back of his shirt and pulled him up and out of the car. She shut the car door and the driver had already taken off.

"What the hell, Summer. That was our ride home!" he said sternly.

"I wanted to talk to you. That's all that I wanted." She looked down at her feet.

Seth sighed and looked at her annoyed. But once he looked into her eyes, he couldn't help but soften a little. 'God, keep your backbone' he told himself. Even since Summer had left, Seth had learned not to let people jerk him around anymore.

Seth started to walk down the street with Summer at his feet.

"So talk."

"I just wanted to see how you've been."

"Jesus christ, this is why you pulled me out of the cab? To ask me how I've been? You could have asked me that in the bad!" He was mad now.

"Just talk to me, don't yell!"

"Fine Summer, I'll talk. My life had been hell for me for the past couple of years. It seems like no one has been there for me, no one knows how I felt. You just pack up and leave one day and it's sayonara! You don't call, don't write, did you even come home once for a holiday?" Summer could see the tears start to shield his eyes.

"I'm sorry, Seth. I didn't know what else to do!"

"Yeah, well sorry isn't good enough! You have had no one in your life leave you so suddenly, have you?"

He actually had no idea how much those words sent daggers into Summer's heart.

Her eyes flashed anger before she said, "I do know, Seth. My boyfriend was just killed in a car crash so don't you even tell me that I don't know what it's like!"

'Here I am again, becoming vulnerable around Seth Cohen, again! Get a fucking grip Summer,' she thought.

And that it when it really hit Seth that she may have had some things happen to her too. Tears were still flowing down her cheeks when he went up to her and wrapped his arms around her. They stood like that for longer than either of them knew. He was still mad at her, but she needed him, and he knew that. So, that's what they did. They stood in the middle of the sidewalk, people walking around them. Some wondering what was wrong, others totally oblivious to anything wrong. They stood there and let the night absorb them.

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