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Chapter 12

Summer pressed the button inside the elevator as she racked her brain to remember the Nana's hospital floor level. She had talked to her earlier that morning and told her that she would stop by.

She was still swamped with work and had to go in later that day for some last minute stage prepping before Fashion Week in New York started the following week.

"Hey," Summer said as she opened the door.

"Summer, hello!"

The Nana seemed to be progressing each day and her release date had been repeatedly pushed up.

The only problem with this was that she had nowhere to go considering that she could not be alone for some time in case anything would happen again. Summer was not able to have her considering that for the time being she was living in a hotel. This is where Seth came in. In two days, the Nana could finally be released under Seth Cohen's supervision. He was going to be moving in with her until she was okay to be on her own.

"How are you today?"

"I am fine. A little tired, but I get to leave this place soon."

"Yes you do."

"Yeah. So how are things going for Fashion Week?"

"Things are good, slowly moving, but good. I have to go back in a little while. I'm on lunch break now."

"Sweetie, you didn't have to come to see me on your lunch break. You really should be eating."

Summer smiled to herself as she thought about the outward concern for her health.

"Don't you worry about that, Nana, I brough lunch," Summer said as she pulled out a brown paper bag from her purse, setting it on the table and slowly opening it up.

"I recognize that smell. Where is that from?"

"It is from a small café down the street from the AOL/Time Warner Building where I am working now. I think that you were the one to recommend it to me, actually."

"Yes, I knew I knew that smell. That is the first place that I am going to go when I get out of here."

"How about I take you there?" Summer offered as she took the lid off of the steaming soup.

"That would be lovely."

The Nana looked at Summer for a few seconds and could not for the life of her figure out what was taking Seth so long to be with her. She knew they both needed each other and if they never were together, then they would long for each other for as long as they lived.

"How about you ask Seth to come along?"

Summer looked up and said, "sure."

"That would be nice. I haven't heard anything about you and Seth for a while now. Everything alright?"

"Alright being non-existent then yes."

"No, no. Your relationship will be existent soon."

"Nana, please."

"No, doll, things are going to work out. I am telling you that you will both regret not being together forever. Forever is a long, long time and I know that neither of you want to be without each other forever. Forever, Summer."

She laughed and she nodded, agreeing. She was going to call Seth when he left.

Summer and the Nana talked for a little longer before Summer needed to get back to work.

She stepped out on the street just outside the hospital and pulled her cell phone out, remembering that she needed to call Seth.

One ring. Two rings. Three rings. Four rin-.

"Hello?"

"Cohen? Hey, it's Summer. Do you have a minute?"

"Um, yeah."

She could here noise in the background and wondered where he was.

"Where are you?"

"Just walked out of that comic book store I found. Oh, guess what! I found a way old copy of Superman and X-Men. I got them for really cheap too, I was just shocked at how inexpensive they were."

He continued to ramble on about the price when Summer interjected and asked to meet him in twenty minutes at the park where they had met just a few nights before.

Summer didn't care if she was late for work.

She quickened her pace, as did he, to make their meeting time.

She got there several minutes early and went to sit down on the dock that protruded into the Hudson River. The dark clouds began to tumble in and in the distance she could hear thunder beginning to rack the earth.

Summer looked around to see if there was any sign of him in the distance. She jumped when she heard another bolt of thunder and stood up, and went to sit at the trunk of a large oak tree that would give her shelter.

Seth jogged around the park looking for Summer. The rain was beginning to pelt down on the buildings, the river, other passer-bys, and him. He ran over to Summer and noticed that she was the only thing in probably all of New York that wasn't wet.

She looked up at him when she saw his rain soaked Converse's come around the tree.

"Hey," he said, sitting down beside her.

"Hey."

There was silence between Seth and Summer. The only thing that was heard was the rain as it came down harder on the sidewalks and the river, along with the soft breathing of Seth as his breath evened out from his jog looking for Summer.

"So, why are we here?" Seth looked to her.

Summer kept her eyes focused in the distance, watching as the lightening crackled.

Storms. She loved them. This was the one thing that Newport lacked. Along with Texas. Neither place got that much rain and the rain that it did get, there was no lightening or thunder.

As much as rain could cause problems, rain could also disperse problems. It comes and it goes, taking things and placing things back.

Why couldn't rain take her back seven years and place her back in Seth's room, enlightening her with an understanding that she should not leave? She wished that the rain would come down harder and break through the trees canopy, drenching her.

Seconds later her wish came true. Water seemed to dumped through buckets down through the tree. She jumped in shock at the coldness and sprang to her feet, Seth following her movement.

She sat back down, thinking about the irony of what had just happened.

Summer realized that he was there. She had forgotten that he was sitting there while she was thinking about rain.

"Why are we here?" He asked again, realizing that she had not heard him the first time.

"I just needed to see you. I don't understand you, Cohen."

He looked down, suddenly interested in the rain hitting the river, making small ripples with each drop.

"What's there to understand?"

"Are you kidding? I want to be with you! I thought that after you broke up with Jenny that we would finally be together. I know that I left and I know that your scared, but I'm scared too. And it seems that no matter how many times I put my heart out to you, you push it back," she stood up, looking down at Seth. He still hadn't made eye contact with her. "Look at me."

He didn't look up. "Now!" she spoke almost bitterly.

This time he did.

"I want you to put your heart out to me and I don't want to push it back. I want to take it and

keep it. I don't want someone else to have it. You need to know how much I care about you. God, I care about you so fucking much. You are the one thing in my life right now that I can not push out. And let me tell you through this time with the both of us being in the same city, I have tried not to get close to you." Seth looked up at her, hurt deep in his eyes.

"No, not because I don't want to be with you, but because I don't want to lay out my heart to you and then you realize that you think you wasted time with me. I know it sounds stupid, but that is the way I feel. You have embedded yourself too much in me now for me to walk away and I hope that I am embedded in you, too. I love you, Seth. You're my Seth, my Cohen. And I don't know how much more I can take of this," tears stinging her eyes. She attempted to push them away but after a minute, she didn't care.

She started to get frustrated and started to walk away.

He stood up, going after her, the rain surrounding them.

"I know that this is going to sound forward, but I'm okay with that. I want to be able to wake up next to you and kiss you and not have to worry about wether or not it is real or not."

"Sum."

"Don't talk. I just feel like everyday my heart is on the line and then, bam! It gets shattered, again! If we could finally just be together, I would take such good care of you. I would always be there for you. "

"What do you want from me, Summer! I don't know what you want!" He said, almost yelling.

She looked up at him, now realizing the height difference.

She started crying. Her tears caused his tears.

"I just want you to love me! And I want you to want meto love you!" Summer yelled, not caring if anyone heard her.

Seth couldn't say anything to that. He needed to, but he couldn't. So, without being able to talk, he took his words that he couldn't say and put them into action. He reached around her waist and picked her up, him helping her wrap her legs around his waist. They both went in for the most powerful kiss that they had both had in their entire lives.

They continued kissing in the rain, both totally in the moment.

Summer jumped down and pulled herself out of his grasp and punched him in the arm. Hard.

"What the hell?!" Seth exclaimed.

"You can't just do that!"

"Why?"

"Because! You can't keep making me think that you want to be with me and then tearing my hopes away. You just can't do that!" Summer brought her hands to her face and cried.

"I don't want to do that anymore, Summer."

She looked up, hope surrounding her.

"I have realized that I don't want to keep taking hope from you. I want to be with you. I want everything with you. I want to give you the world, Summer."

He took her hands in his and looked into her eyes. "I was talking to Cameron at the hospital and she made me open my eyes to see you from a totally different perspective. I want you to call me and ask what I want for dinner, I want to spend anniversaries with you, I want kids with you and have sleepless nights knowing that one day our kids will be having our same experiences. I want to send out kids to my parents, hell, even your dad's, just so we can get that one night to ourselves."

Summer's face lit up through the continually darkening sky. She jumped into his embrace once more and hugged him. Then she kissed him, placing her two small palms on both of his cheeks, feeling the slight stubble that was beginning to form.

"You know, the Nana said that everything would work out. I didn't believe her though. I thought you would be a smartass until the day you died."

"I have to live with her for a few months you know. Your going to be going back to Texas and I'll be here, in New York."

"We'll always be able to figure something out. Can I ask you something though?"

"Humm?"

"Why did you keep trying to deny us?"

"Because the more that I denied us, the more I caught myself thinking about us I was just so drawn to that that I didn't want to take that away. I don't really know how to put it but it made sense in my head."

"Surprisingly, I kind of know what you mean."

"Let's go see the Nana," Seth said.

"Yeah, I could use a little of her humor and her I-told-you-so's. You know, as long as I am going to be living here with you for the next several months, I am going to need to get closer with the Nana."

He looked down at her as they walked to the main sidewalk, "live here?"

"Well, if we want to make this work, one of us is going to have to do some moving considering that I live in Texas and your in New York and California. I want a fresh start anyways."

"I think that sounds awesome."

He placed a kiss on her temple and they walked off towards to hospital talking about the next several months.

Hahah, I know this chapter was like a major cliche bomb, but hey, what can I say? Thanks for reading and please review! Also, everyone in the U.S. buy your OC DVD's tomorrow! I am so pumped for them to come out! And if you are reading my other story, We Will Become Silhouettes, I plan on having the next chapter up by Friday. I have this over night thing for school from Wednesday to Thursday, and then I have Friday off, so it will be up then. So, look out for that one!

Also, I can't decide if I should put like one more chapter on this story of it being like fast forwarded like five or so years. Let me know what you think please.