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"There you are I've been looking for you all morning," Eliza said as Summer walked up to her at school the Thursday before spring break.

"Sorry, I was running late this morning."

"That's okay. Here."

Summer took the envelop Eliza was handing her.

"What is this?"

"Um, it's your plane ticket." Eliza said as though it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Oh my god, Eliza thank you, I was just going to go do standby so it wouldn't show up on any bills."

"Don't worry I paid for it on my moms credit card. That way you can just give me cash, after you come back, when your g-parents already know you were gone."

"G-parents?" she laughed.

"Shut up, I got you the tickets didn't I?"

"Yes, you did, and you are a genius."

"I know."

Both girls laughed.

"Okay so you have to ditch school tomorrow, your flight leaves at 10, and then your return flight is Sunday morning."

"Thank you so much, and you got me a return ticket?"

"Yes, I couldn't have you staying there now could I?"

Summer smiled at her friend when a thought popped into her head.

"Come with me."

"What?"

"Yeah, get yourself a ticket and come with me."

"No, you're going there to be with Seth, and in a way that's gross."

"Seth doesn't even know I'm coming, and everyone would love to meet you."

"I don't know."

"Please?" she begged.

"How about this, I'll got to standby, if I get on the plane I do, if I don't, I don't."

"Fine," Summer huffed.

"So I'll pick you up for school tomorrow."

"Yes, school."


"Summer, my parents are going to kill me."

"Eliza, you have done so many worse things in the past."

"True."

"Think of it this way, what can they take away. Your car, there is a bus, or me, and it's not like we go anywhere super exciting…"

"Except California."

"Yeah, but wheat else, money, what do you buy, you have tons of clothes. Your computer, you are never on it, I know. Your phone, the only person you talk to is me, and no matter what we will see each other in school. All of these things you will eventually get back, but you will never get to sneak off to Cali with me ever again."

"Thanks for putting it in perspective for me."

"I am using the same thing for myself."


Eliza's seat was four rows in front to Summer's, and that just wasn't going to work for either of them. So Eliza stripped off the track jacket she had over a skimpy midriff bearing t-shirt, and walked up to Summer's row.

"Hi," she said to the elderly man sitting next to Summer, "I'm Lizzie" she threw the man a flirtatious smile, "and I'm really, really afraid of flying, it's my first time you see, and I think it would be extremely comforting for me to be sitting next to my best friend in the entire world. We've known each other since we were born and we've been there for each other since forever. When she broke her arm, when my parents got divorced, when I got my first…"

"I'll move, I'll move," said the man.

"car." She said finishing her previous sentence.

The man grabbed his bag and walked up to Eliza's row, when he was out of earshot, both girls burst into a fit of giggles.

"No one is sitting in this seat Eliza, you could have just taken it." Summer gestured to the other seat in the row.

"Aw, but that was so fun."


"Why the hell did we get a bug?" Eliza whined from her seat in the cramped VW.

"Well we forgot about renting a car and it was all they had left."

"Well, I got the tickets."

"Fine whatever, I forgot, happy now."

"Yes."

"Oh! Were here!" Summer exclaimed.

"Wow, it's amazing."

"I know."

"Hey Summer, it's 1:30, he's not in school."

"Shit."

"Summer, we have to wait here for…"

"An hour and a half, maybe longer."

"We could drive around." Eliza suggested.

"In the cramped bug."

"Lets unload out luggage, no one would steal it."

"Wait I have a better idea." Summer said jumping out of the bug, quickly followed by Eliza.

She walked over to the gate surrounding the yard, luckily it was unlocked, and so they walked in.

The yard looked exactly as it had months before. The grass, the porch, the pool house, and yes, the pool house.

"Ryan has a free period right now."

"And we had to sneak into the back because?"

"Ryan lives in the pool house. I never mentioned that, did I?"

"Nope."

"Well he does."

Both girls walked up to the pool house door, and Summer knocked. In a few moments the door swung open.

"Summer!" Ryan said wrapping her in a hug.

"I thought you weren't aloud to come."

"I'm not."

"I think I had a bad influence on you."

"Yes, now I have someone to blame it on."

Ryan just laughed, and looked towards Eliza.

"Ryan, this is Eliza."

"Ah yes, we've spoken on the phone."

Summer was surprised when Ryan offered her a hug too, which she gratefully accepted.

They sat at the kitchen table and talked for the next two hours, filling in each other on the last couple months, and Ryan getting to know Eliza.

When the topic of Connor came up, Summer just said she didn't associate with him anymore.

She had gone from scared, upset and petrified, about the attempted rape, to angry, then to accepting it, and finally she was now thankful.

Thankful that she fought him off, and she wouldn't have any real scars from the incident, just wounds, that were almost healed.

They heard the front door open and Seth and Marissa's voices filled the house, or more Seth's.

The second he walked into the kitchen Summer stood up.

"Hey," She said softly.

Seth froze. Marissa squealed and ran to Summer, practically knocking her other over in hug. When she pulled away, Summer walked around the table to where Seth was standing.

"Hey Cohen."

"Hey Summer."

She threw tiny self at him, and he caught her.

Ryan ushered the other two girls into the pool house, leaving Seth and Summer alone.

Suddenly there were tears in her eyes.


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