AN- First things first. The last two chapters were actually put up while I was in Alaska, and we have Danielle to thank for that. So this chapter is dedicated to her, and I think she deserves a round of applause.
I had a wonderful time on my cruise, and if you add me to your live journal, you can see pictures very soon.
Also READ THIS! Due to some minor changes, Summer is not a senior now, she is a junior, I know she was a senior, but because of legal and plot issues, she is now a junior. Sorry for the confusion.
Thanks you all for the wonderful reviews on the last chapter, they really inspired me, and helped with my post-cruise blues.
This is just a fluffy filler chapter; the next one will be full of plot lines.
Disclaimer: On user page but I own nothing.
The night of Summer and Eliza's arrival, the five kids beamed at the thought of having a slumber party in the Cohen living room, much like they had done just before that fateful tragedy that defined Summer's life.
Summer didn't think about that night, and the events that followed though, she thought of how happy she was here in this moment, with the brilliant friends she left behind, the one she had gained amongst the heartbreak, and the one and only boy she was sure would ever have her heart.
So cuddled up amongst the many pillows and blankets Seth and Ryan had gathered from many different destinations, Summer couldn't not smile.
She was the last person to fall asleep. Not surprisingly Marissa had drifted off during "Batman Begins" and Ryan, unable to move from beneath Marissa's body, soon followed. Seth fell asleep right after the movie was over, and after twenty minutes of talking with Summer, Eliza shut her eyes too.
So for what seemed like hours after the four had fallen asleep Summer studied each one of their sleeping figures, the light from a small lamp, and the moon, made is capable for Summer to see each persons faces clearly, and her view from the floor made it possible to have a view of all her friends.
Ryan had his head turned away from the back of the couch Marissa and he were on. His chin rested on top of Marissa's head, which was turned away from Summer and snuggled into Ryan's chest. It surprised Summer how different, how peaceful, Ryan looked while he was asleep, there wasn't a sign of any negative energy on his face, something he almost always had in his waking hours. His arms were wrapped tight around a sleeping Marissa, and their breaths came in rhythm with one another.
Eliza was very different from Marissa and Summer, who both likes to cuddle and be near a warm body in their sleep, Eliza liked to sleep like a bird in the sky, arms out stretched, and in a new position every hour. Whenever Summer and Eliza spent the night at each others houses, the guest would sleep on the floor due to Eliza's sleeping habits, something Marissa and Summer never did, Summer missed this, amongst the many other thing in her old life.
At the moment Eliza had one arm straight up resting on the back of the couch, and the other hanging off, her feet were in a similar positions. If Summer weren't so comfortable, she would have gotten a camera to capture the humor in the way she looked.
The looked on Seth's face made her miss him even more, despite being a mere three inches away. He looked happy, peaceful, something she hadn't seen in him for a long time, and not just because of their distance. Before she left all the looks his face held when she was around was fear, sympathy, and worry, but now, he was happy, and so was she, even though she knew the feeling would be over in just a little more than a week.
She awoke warm and comfortable, her body pressed up against another's and her head buried in the crook of his arm.
Seth moved as he felt her stir and shot her an undeniable smile.
She looked around for a moment, realizing no one was to be seen, or even heard.
"Where is everyone" she asked expressing her thoughts.
"The beach" Seth answered knowingly.
Summer shot him a look of confusion and no words were needed for Seth to reply.
"Marissa wanted to go to the beach, which of course means Ryan would go, Eliza told them she didn't want to be a third wheel when they invited her but Marissa said she hasn't had much female company in a while and that she needed a third wheel, so that's where they are, at the beach." Seth said brightly, but the next words to come out of his mouth were in a soft, almost hurt tone, "They didn't leave more than twenty minutes ago, I could take you if you wanted to go be with them."
Be with them.
The only person Summer really wanted to be with now was Seth, she had time to spend with Marissa later, and she was sure Marissa, Ryan, and Eliza knew it.
"No" she said answering his suggestion, "I think they got out of the house to give us some time alone."
"And should I thank them for you later."
"Oh yes, defiantly" She quickly sat up to match his sitting position and took his face in her hands, crashing her lips upon his own harshly, passionately.
Luckily both Sandy and Kirsten would be at work the entire day.
Summer's hair hung in loose curls around her bare shoulders, the small heart pendent Seth had gave her for Christmas sat on her neck. Her dress was a dark satin emerald green that flowed at her waist and stopped just below her knees.
"Summer are you ready?" Seth asked from outside the guest room.
"Yep." Summer said happily as she grabbed the silver purse that matched her necklace and heels.
She stepped out of the room and Seth's jaw immediately dropped.
"Wow, you look, I don't know, what's the word, beautiful, stunning, breathtaking, inspiring, dazzling, glorious, spectacular, superb, incredible, amazing, wonderful, magnificent, out of this world, well that's three words but.." he rambled.
"Seth.."
"You know what, we should come up with a word for you, because, you deserve your own word or something." He said placing his hands on her hips and leaning in for a kiss.
"Thank you, you look quite snappy yourself."
"Snappy, after that speech I just gave, and you tell me I look snappy." He teased
"Speech, it was more like a ramble, and do you look as amazing as me?" She retaliated with a smile.
"No one could look as good as you Summer, no one ever."
"Aw, I missed your cheesy comments so much." She said leaning in for a longer deeper kiss.
"Well then, off we go." He chimed as Summer linked her hands with his.
"The restaurant was amazing Seth, really you didn't have to do that for me, you know I'm a cheap date." Summer said sleepily from her passenger seat in the range rover.
Seth took Summer to a romantic Italian restaurant complete with candles, four course meals, and soft music in the background.
"Well you've changed since I first met you, what happened to the girl who wouldn't eat in a fast food place because you could see the food being cooked when you stood at the counter."
"That girl got her priorities in order." She replied with a smile.
The restaurant was about forty five minutes away from the Cohen home, Seth drove the car along a freeway that overlooked the many homes, restaurants, and businesses of Orange County.
Summer's head rested against the window in the silent car, it was almost midnight, and she was tired from the lack of sleep the night before, so here she sat in silence watching the lights of the city below her go by.
Both had been quiet for the majority of the ride home when Summer's hushed voice broke the silence.
"It's beautiful isn't it?"
"The lights, yea they are."
"They make you wonder." She told him.
"About what?"
"Life. I mean each one of those lights represents at least a person, maybe more, and there are so many of them, and in such a small place, think about all the lights that are on around the world. Just imagine how many people that is."
"Plus all the people who have their lights out." Seth chimed in.
"Exactly, and out of all those people, what's one, ten, a hundred, a thousand; it's absolutely nothing compared to what, the six billion people in the world."
"Like the Katie Melua song." Seth said with a smile, one she didn't return.
"My dad didn't mean anything. No one misses him." She said sadly.
"You miss him." Seth said changing his tone from the comments before.
"But I'm not anything either, just like him. There aren't even a hundred people who really truly miss him, and even if there were, that's still nothing, no one really means anything. No one but the people who make world changing thing happen, the people who cure diseases, or invent amazing things. He didn't do anything like that, I won't do anything important."
"You don't know that."
"Yea I do. And I know, I know I need to live my life for me, because who the hell cares if no one misses me, if I'm nothing, but still it would be nice to be something. If I die, in actuality no one would really care"
"You're something to me. I would miss you enough for every last 6 billionth person on this earth."
"So you're saying you're something?" she said cracking a small smile.
"No Summer, we're something."
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