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"What is it that you don't like about apples?" Summer asked as they walked out of the grocery store, each with two bags.

Seth shrugged. "It's just that when I was little I found a worm in one. And after that I just can't eat them."

Summer laughed. "That's so grouse."

"I know!"

"Then I can understand why you never buy apples." Summer said. They had had a small argument, not anything serious, in the store about apples and oranges. It had ended with them buying both.

"So, you have to eat all the apples we bought." Seth told her, his voice cracking.

"I'll just make an apple pie." Summer replied ingeniously and continued to walk towards the car. "Do you eat that?"

Seth tried to look unmoved. "Sometimes. But you have to inspect the apples very carefully."

"I will," Summer said and grinned.

"Look! Marissa's over there." Seth made a gesture; as good as he could with two bags, over to a tall girl locking her car.

Summer nodded. "Yeah,"

The blonde had obviously seen the two of them because she quickly made her way to their car. "Hi!"

"Hi, Marissa." Seth said and placed the groceries in the car. He then took Summer's two from her so that she could greet Marissa.

"Hi, Marissa," she said and smiled at the taller girl.

Marissa smiled as well, happy to see her brother in law with his friend. Summer always thought how weird it was that Marissa always smiled. Was she like the happiest person on earth or what?

"It's good to see you two again. I see you've been grocery shopping." A natural conversationalist, too.

"Yeah, we were out of food." Seth explained and closed the trunk.

"As usual." Summer added, making Marissa laugh. She had a cute laughter.

"I was just on my way in."

"Alone?" Seth asked and looked weirdly at Summer.

Marissa nodded. "Yeah. I didn't feel like hanging out with my mom so I told her that I had to go grocery shopping."

"Grocery shopping? Ryan says that he always has to do that." Seth said confused.

"Yeah. Well, he does. But I couldn't say to my mom that I was going shopping. Then she would have come."

Seth laughed. "Her mom can be a little tedious," he explained to Summer who didn't really understand the funny side of this.

"Oh,"

"Would you like some company, Marissa?"

"You guys want to go shopping?" she asked hopefully, if possible smiling even more brightly.

"Well, I should get the food home," Seth gestured at the car. "But, Summer can stay."

Summer quickly looked at Seth, not having expected him to push her into doing something in front of another person.

"That would be great!" Marissa exclaimed and made it impossible for Summer to say no. She hated situations like these. "If you want to, that will say," Marissa worriedly added, referring to the last time she'd asked Summer to come shopping with her.

"Summer?" Seth asked, smiling as well. Something in his eyes told her though that it was okay for her to say no. And somewhere Summer felt that she could, if she wanted to.

"I'll stay," she quickly said though and was even a little surprised herself. But she needed to do this. It couldn't be that bad, right?

"Great!" Marissa exclaimed, looking at Summer. "I can drive you back later."

Seth nodded and fumbled with his wallet. "Take this and buy yourself something nice," he told Summer and gave her a comforting hug. "You deserve it," he whispered in her ear.

"Thanks," Summer smiled and turned to Marissa.

The taller girl locked arms with Summer and started to walk them away from Seth. "This is gonna be so much fun, Summer."

Terrified, but determined to do this, Summer just smiled and agreed.

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"This would look great on you." Marissa said and showed Summer a green dress with silver details on.

It was gorgeous, Summer couldn't think anything else, but she'd never even tried on anything like that before. Marissa had taken her to places Summer never even had known existed. She had, in her early teens, just walked around in expensive stores and looked at all the clothes. But as she'd realised that she'd never be able to buy anything in there, or try it on, she'd stopped.

And now she realised how much she'd missed it. The clothes were amazing and Summer wanted to try everything on.

But, being who she was Summer didn't touch anything or pick anything to try on. So therefore Marissa gave her tons of things and showed Summer the dressing rooms. Summer was glad for that.

"You think?" Summer asked and eyed the dress, so beautiful that she didn't dare to look at the prize.

Marissa nodded. "Yeah. I think you'd look great in this colour."

Summer went to the dressing room, smiling while holding the dress in her hands. She had expected herself to be all scared while shopping with Marissa, but she wasn't. It was fun and Summer never wanted to go home.

It was crazy, so crazy that Summer while inside the booth had to pinch herself.

"Can I see?" Marissa asked from outside and Summer stepped outside, kind of shyly. She felt a little weird; she hadn't worn a dress for years and she was slightly embarrassed about her pale body.

"Wow," Marissa said and eyed Summer. "It's perfect on you."

"Really?" Summer said, not being able to hide the big smile on her face.

"Yes! You have to buy it, Summer."

Summer awkwardly looked down. She had never even thought about buying it, just try it on. "Oh, I don't know. I bet it's very expensive."

"Who cares? Seth's paying, right? And I know that he'd want you to have this."

"Do you really think that I should?"

"I do. Do you like the dress? I mean, I know I do but if you don't like it…"

Summer quickly interrupted. "I love it! It's the best dress in the whole world."

"Then what are you waiting for?" Marissa asked.

Summer smiled and stepped inside the dressing room again. She loved this dress.

After buying the dress the two girls decided to go and have some coffee before continuing. Marissa showed Summer a cosy little café where they found a table and sat down.

"Thanks for letting me come with you today, Marissa." Summer said as the coffee had arrived.

Marissa nodded. "I'm just glad to have some company. And by the way I think you have a very good sense of style."

"You do?"

"Yeah. You know what looks good and what doesn't. You must be a shopper, too, right?"

Summer shook her head. "Actually I don't shop very often and this is the first time I've bought anything in here." Summer confessed. She always found the smaller, less expensive places.

"Then you're a natural."

Summer grinned. "Now I just have to find an excuse to wear the dress. It's so fancy."

"Living in Newport you should need it. Charity events are a weekly thing."

"You have charity events?" Summer asked, a little surprised. She had seen them in movies but she never thought that she'd actually meet people who went to things like that.

"Yeah. All the time. Seth hasn't been on many lately though. Maybe he should bring you."

"Maybe," Summer said unsurely.

"It would be nice to see more of you. I've never really thought that Seth's friends are very interesting but I definitely think that he's found someone good this time."

Summer smiled and pinched herself again.

This all couldn't be true. She was having coffee with one of those girls she'd always looked away while meeting; always admired. And she had a friend, a best friend. Seth.

"So, where do you want to go next?" Marissa interrupted and again showed those perfect white teeth.

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The moment Summer walked inside of Seth's apartment she heard him call for her from the kitchen.

"Hi Seth!"

He was cooking dinner and Summer giggled as she noticed the flour on his left cheek. "Hi! Did you have fun?"

"Actually I did, a lot of fun."

She placed her bags on a chair and leaned back against the counter to see what he was cooking.

"That's great. Marissa can be a little too much sometimes but overall she's nice," Seth scratched his chin and got even more flour in his face, but didn't seem to notice at all.

"Yes, she is." Summer agreed and eyed him with a grin on her face. "You're making dinner?"

"Yeah," he proudly said. He didn't cook very often; he was more of a takeout person. Suddenly getting a bit nervous he asked. "You want to stay, right?"

"Sure. And I love it when you cook." He was being so cute, she couldn't help but smile at him.

Seth smirked. "Can I see what you've bought?"

Summer nodded enthusiastically and was about to pull it out from the bags when he stopped her. "I want to see it on you, silly. Now, go change!"

"Alright,"

Summer came back into the kitchen a few minutes later wearing the green dress she loved so much. She was a little unsure of how he'd react; it was after all kind of expensive and maybe he wouldn't think she needed anything like that.

Seth was standing by the counter, cutting some bread, when he saw her. He just stopped and put the knife down, looking her up and down.

His eyes seemed to grow twice its size and with the flour still on his face and the apron he looked pretty adorable in Summer's eyes.

"What?" Summer asked after some time of complete silence. She was starting to worry.

Seth kept standing there, just looking at her.

"Seth?" Summer said and wanted to disappear out of the room. Why didn't he say anything?

He didn't think that the dress was anything for her.

"I just…you…well…you're just..." Seth mumbled. "You're amazingly beautiful, Summer."

As soon as he'd uttered those words Summer relaxed and realised that she'd been holding her breath. "Really?" she asked and he nodded.

"Beautiful,"

"So you think I should keep it? The dress,"

"Of course. Why wouldn't you?"

"I don't know."

"Then keep it. It looks gorgeous on you but then again everything does," he quickly said, as if he was nervous.

And Seth who never showed her any nervousness.

Was he flirting with her?

No, he couldn't be. He saw her as a friend, maybe a sister. But, still she blushed.

Seth cleared his voice. "Did you buy anything else?"

"Oh, yeah I did. You want to see?"

vvvvvvvvv

"Are you sure, Seth?"

"Of course I am. I asked you."

Summer nodded understandingly, tucking some of her dark hair behind her ear. "Yeah, but I've been staying here a lot and I don't want to-"

"Summer, I love to have you around. Really," Seth interrupted, hoping that she would stay.

Summer felt like she could drown in his brown eyes, so pleading and so kind. "Well, I guess I'll stay then," she whispered.

A smile spread on his face. "Good and maybe we should fix the guestroom soon,"

"You have a guestroom?" Summer asked, confused. Wouldn't she have noticed a guestroom?

"Yes. But at the moment I'm using it to put all the stuff I don't know where else to have in," Seth explained.

"Oh, that's the room with the surfboard in?"

"Yeah, I've never really bothered to fix it; the room,"

"But I can sleep here on the sofa. It's comfortable," Summer said as she knew how much things he had in the room.

"I know but I thought I'd give you a proper bed to sleep in. That way you don't have to make bed all the time. And I was going to have it as a guestroom; I've just been lazy."

Summer leaned back into the cushions and brought a pillow into her lap. "Okay,"

"But I don't really feel like doing that tonight," Seth confessed.

"Me neither. I'm pretty tired," Summer agreed and just now realised how tired she really was.

"After a day of shopping with Marissa I can understand that,"

"It was actually really fun," Summer smiled; she still couldn't really understand that she'd been out shopping with another person. She hadn't done that for years.

"Yeah?"

Summer nodded and suddenly remembered that she never would have been able to buy anything without Seth's help. "Thank you so much for the dress by the way. I really love it,"

"Hey, no problem. I'm just glad that you had a great time." Seth told her with a sincere voice; he was just happy to see her smile more and more.

"Thanks,"

A silence fallowed and the two stared at the TV screen .

"Movie?" Set suggested.

Summer laughed and looked at him. "We see a lot of movies, don't we?"

"We don't have to. What do you want to do?" Seth quickly said, afraid that she didn't like movies at all. Maybe she just was scared to tell him because he loved movies.

Summer immediately replied. "No. I want to; I like watching movies with you. Your comments to everything are very interesting. Makes me see the movies in a whole new perspective."

Seth laughed. "Then another movie it is."

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