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After her grandparents left Summer alone for a couple of hours to talk with her dad's lawyers, Seth came over.

Now it was two hours later and her head lay on his bare chest listening to the rhythmic beating of his heart. Summer let her eyes droop, taking in this moment, for she was sure not to have one like it for a long, long time.

As Seth watched Summer slowly drift into sleep he couldn't help but feel his heart tear just a little bit. He was so sure it was close to breaking, it had slowly been being pulled at since the day Summer called, sobbing into the phone. He knew this would be the last time he lay here with the girl of his dreams, just like he thought it would be the first time he had. This time was different though, not only were the circumstances very different but so was the room. The first time it had been so full of life and well, Summer. Now there were brown cardboard boxes stacked all around the room, and two big suitcases that lay ready to be flown across the continent. The only reminiscence of Summer left were the dark purple sheets and a few items of clothing she had set aside for tomorrow, when she would be leaving.

Summer began to stir and Seth looked down at her.

"Hello Love," he said when she gazed at him.

A small, sad, smile broke out on her face and she had to blink back tears.

"Sum, I'm sorry, I didn't mean…"

She put up a hand to silence him and he obeyed.

"It's not your fault, it's just, I'm really going to miss you."

He leaned down and kissed her, letting her know he would miss her too.

"Cohen, we need to talk."

He knew this had been coming for a week now, but he secretly had been hoping he was wrong.

"I don't think I can do this." She said sitting up and wrapping her sheets around her body.

"I mean, I love you, so much, but relationships are hard, and I don't think I am strong enough to make this last while moving so far away and trying to get over, you know... my dad."

"But Sum, we can, I love you more than anything and I need you, I can't loose you" he pleaded.

"You're not loosing me, I'm still going to call you everyday, and you'll be the first to know everything, you'll still be my best friend, we just won't be an official couple. Please Seth I need to do this, and I need you to be okay with this more than anything"

"And when you come back," Summer had a hesitant look on her face. "You are coming back...right?"

"Of course," she said quickly, "and when I do, it will be like nothing has changed, remember were still Seth and Summer, just in a different context."

Seth nodded slowly, convening his answer and she slowly lay back down on his chest. He didn't was to do this, but for her, he would do anything.

"Cohen?"

"Yeah."

"Can we please not be…" She choked "broken up, until tomorrow?"

"Of course," he whispered.

He would do anything for Summer, including letting the final strand that kept his heart together be cut.


A moving truck came the next day and loaded up Summer's things and some other personal items her father had left. She knew her grandparents sold her house furnished, with all of her father's furnishings, she didn't really care though, none of it held any sentimental value to her.

She told herself she wasn't going to cry, no. She had cried too much already and there was nothing she could do. She would leave Newport and live in Tennessee, it was only a matter of time before she would be back, back to the town and people she loved.

No one was coming to see her today, she told them not to. She and Seth said there goodbyes the night before, it wasn't much. The exchanged, "I'll miss you's" and "I love you's" and he held her. She had done the same with Marissa and a more brief exchange with Ryan and the Cohen's, yet she had tears in her eyes for every goodbye.

Now she sat in her empty pink room and had to remind herself of her promise not to cry.


Seth didn't sleep at all that night, and he didn't think he could sleep tonight either.

So there he sat, talking with Captain Oats.

"She leaving for good this time, I know I'm really going to miss her. I really loved her man... I really love her, I do still, I always will." He sighed "I did a lot of stupid stuff and she always came back to me, this time, Captain, it wasn't my fault, but she's not coming back, not for a while anyway. I don't know how I'm going to live without seeing those eyes everyday. We're not even together, she broke up with me. Yeah your right, I guess it will be easier for her. God knows she needs as much easily as she can get." He looked down questioningly at the horse "Of course Captain I will always be there to talk to her, she knows she can call me anytime. Yeah, man, I know your going to miss her too. Your right, Sparkle is going with her; I'm not the only one loosing the love of my life."

Seth sat in silence for a while, but with a jolt he looked to Oats.

"Captain Oats you've been a great friend"

With that he was out the door.


Summer opened up the door to the taxi her and her grandparents would take to the airport. She was about to slid in when she saw a black range rover pull up. It came to a halt and Seth came bounding out.

"Summer!"

"Cohen, I told you not to come."

"I know I know, and I'm sorry but I had to give you something," he said walking up to her.

"What?"

At her words, he pulled out a brown plastic horse from behind his back.

"Captain Oats?" she gasped.

He nodded and handed him over to her.

"I... I don't know what to say," she muffled "wait a sec."

She walked to the cab where her two very confused and annoyed grandparents sat and grabbed her bag that was on her seat. When she came back to Seth she was holding her own horse.

"Here," she said holding up Princess Sparkle to him.

"No Summer, I can't take her."

"I want you to have her."

"No, I mean, you'll miss her to much, and I have Ryan to talk to, you have no one, so now you have both horses. And they deserve to be together, Some couple has to be together."

Summer smiled as she choked back a sob

"I really don't think the Captain will make if he doesn't have Sparkle."

Summer threw her arms around Seth and he held her close to him. The tears she had been trying so hard to hold back came freely.

Without another word, she pulled back. Slowly she leaned in and placed a long delicate kiss on his lips. When she finally pulled away tears were in his eyes as well.

Summer walked toward to cab and climbed in, a horse in each hand.

As the driver pulled away, Summer looked back on not only the house she grew up in, but the boy she didn't think she could grow up without.


AN- I'll have another chap up tom, or mon.