Its been a while since I've updated this one, but once again still enjoy writing this one a lot, and I am going to finish it…this was my first ever fic, so I want this to be the first one I finish….that's right, I'm vowing to finish this one before any of my other fics…anyways enjoy…warning: extra cheesy I belive…lol

K.O

He didn't know exactly where he was heading, but he knew he had to get out of there. It was too painful to stay around. Its bad enough having to live with the water polo jerks every day, now they're stealing his girl? This is just to painful.

He made his way out the exit and directly towards the parking lot. As expected, it was nearly empty, save for the few cars that still lingered about from the late night movies.

It wasn't exactly that he hated everything to do with Newport, it was more he hated everyone in it. Okay, okay, so maybe not Summer, but as far as he was concerned, the rest could all go to hell.

When he first started dating Jess, it never involved any physical attraction and sure as hell personal attraction. Jess had to be by far the dumbest girl in Newport, if ever that title needed to be crowned, she'd be the clear victor. Anything that could ever possibly attract someone to her, it could only be her looks. Which is yet another question amongst the piles and piles of them as to why in the hell she's dating him?

Seth gently lowered himself to the dusty pavement and kneeled against the building billboard. It was a movie promotion, which in other words was another reminder as to why he was out here in the first place. It was your typical California evening, slight breezes but still humid air. The cold breeze was refreshing against his pale skin. He pushed his hair out of his face then planted his hands on his face and distraughtly groaned into his hands.

A few feet away, the mall doors flung open and out came Nordlund, Mark, Jess, Justin and nearly half the water polo team following. Summer also followed behind, though she was well away from the fellow Harbor classmates.

Seth hid his face even more in his hands, hoping the teens would just walk right by him and not recognize him. He heard footsteps approaching him, and also laughter filled conversation. Seth just figured Nordlund cracked one of his lame jokes and now everyone was just agreeing with him and laughing, so that they don't get a beating.

"Well, well, well, if it isn't lover boy…."Shit… Mark piped up above the crowd and froze in front of Seth, causing his 'entourage' to stop and join him. Seth peeked through his fingers and came across the one thing he had been dreading. The group of kids had now surrounded in loose circle around Seth. Seth pried his hands away from his face and finally looked up at the bunch. He shifted his gaze around the group, in hopes of finding Summer, and he did. She was still far behind the group, but she was staring right back at Seth with a look of worry and fear. Seth even spotted that she now had an extra bounce in her step.

"What do you want…" Seth groaned and looked anywhere but the teens before him. He was hoping Summer would catch up to them, and fast. At least he'd have someone on his side. Though it wasn't official or anything, but he'd at least have someone semi on his side.

"Hey Queer, you mind if I take your girl home with me tonight? Seeing as staying here won't exactly fill our needs…if you know what I mean…"Mark wrapped an arm loosely around Jess and she just leaned into his embrace. Seth always knew she was the slut of Harbor, he only dated her in hopes of getting over Summer…Which by the way, failed miserably. Speaking of Summer, where is she?

Seth darted his eyes away from the crowd and spotted his favorite brunette now situated beside Nordlund, but not too close that it looked like they knew each other.

"Hey queer! I said do you mind if I take your girl home and bang her?" Seth was awoken from his thoughts and Mark snickered at his comment, causing his posse to do the same.

These guys seriously need a new vocabulary. I mean queer? Fag? Geek? Gotta admit getting a bit old…Mark's just a pansy and always will be. It was quite funny how subtle he was in stating his intentions with Jess. CoughSlutcough.

Seth grew silent and it only seemed to fuel the fire that was the water polo's confidence in ruining Seth Cohen's life. Summer hadn't said a word the entire time, she was no where near Justin, considering he was among the ones taunting Seth, so I guess it wasn't that big of a surprise. But still she had the most intense look on her face, and her big puffy brown eyes were staring at him with so much passion and fear all at the same time. Her tiny frame looked to be shivering and she was furiously clinging onto her tiny sweater draped over her shoulders. Seth mentally slapped himself for not bringing a bigger sweater for himself for her to wear. It was blown chances like these, when he'd never be able to call Summer his.

"Seth…..I..I just wanted to let you know how sorry I-…"

"-Oh please, you are so full of crap its ridiculous…" Summer finally chimed in and spoke up, interrupting Jess and leaving her a bit pissed off.

"Ah! Excuse me!" Jess held her hand to her chest and her jaw dropped open in disbelief.

"You know exactly what I'm talking about…Your too stupid to realize what a good thing you have…or had…" Summer paused and looked over at Seth. " He's a good guy and I….I…I've just had enough of everyone ripping him apart for being a nice guy…" Seth's jaw dropped in awe of Summer. In the process, adding reason number 149903 why to like Summer.

You've got to be kidding me Sum, I mean look at him…He's the biggest dork in the school…" Summer blanked out of what Jess was saying and took a long hard look at Seth. She remembered the party where she first really met him. Or more like finally acknowledged him. She clearly remembered him taking the beating of a lifetime for her, the look in his eyes whenever he watched her, and how all of this had been right in front of her all along, yet she was too stupid to realize it. She looked into his eyes and immediately knew exactly what she wanted. She wanted him.

"-and you know Sum he's like totall.." And without further a due, Summer didn't hesitate one moment, and she smacked Jess across the face with a fierce slap. Gasps and shock filled the air around the tiny circle, and most of the water polo players already were whipping their cell phones out, in hopes of some sort of Girls Gone Wild resemblance.

"OOOOH!" The trio of guys consisting of Nordlund, Mark and Justin roared out. Justin was among the guys reaching for their cell phones, meanwhile it was him who should've been scared shitless right now.

Jess staggered backward and nearly tripped over Seth, who was still planted on the ground. But he quickly rose to his feet and his jaw was still dropped from Summer's little declaration speech-ish talk she had. Her slapping Jess still hadn't been processed yet.

Jess stumbled back over to Summer and broke into a flurry of slap attacks, flailing her hands around in any direction, hoping to catch one across Summer. She finally did and she immediately clung onto a chunk of Summer's hair and she quickly tugged back on it. Summer shrieked.

Seth stood up and approached the girls. He had had enough of this, but clearly the other guys hadn't. They were still heavily into taping the catfight. Seth loosely reached a hand in between the two girls, and succeeded in separating them. He pried Summer away from Jess, and she was fuming. He held tightly onto her waist and buried his head into her shoulder and whispered sweet nothingness into her ear. He pinned her against the wall, trying to act as a shield and also a barrier between the two girls. No one had yet to calm Jess down. Summer had landed loads of smacks, slaps, punches you name it on Jess, and even managed to walk away with pieces of hair still attached to her nail beds. Jess on the other hand, landed a sole punch, to the right of Summer's cheek and it was quickly starting to bruise.

He couldn't quite make out what all the commotion was behind him, nor did he really care. Especially since he was in this position with Summer. Her back pressed against the brick wall and her face was inches away from his chest, and he was pressed up against her as tightly as possible. He felt hits and smacks here and there, presumably from Jess, that was until someone managed to land a hard blow directly to his spine. Seth released his hold on Summer, and turned slightly to see who punched him.

"Let the bitches fight…" Mark yelled out, causing any remaining people in the parking lot to look and stare. Mark clenched his fists into a tight ball and glared at Seth.

"Sorry, no can do…Are you a boxer…I mean you just ummm, look like the boxer-type, seeing as you got your fists all clenched and all…but I was just a wil..-" Seth's rambling was cut short thanks to punch to the face from Mark. And in a very Seth Cohen reaction, he hit the ground.

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Seth opened his eyes, he was still dazed and confused as to what was going on. He looked around at his surroundings and found his answer. He was in a dark and empty parking lot, leaned up against the outside wall of the theater, and his arms wrapped around something. He shook off any remaining paranoia and glanced down at his arms. Summer…

She was all curled up in a ball, and almost her entire body was positioned on top of Seth. He gently shook her, and she awoke instantly and glanced back up at Seth, with smile pierced on her lips.

"Hey sleepyhead…" she kept her smile and pressed remained in his arms. She never even realized that he had slept the entire time leaning against the wall, while she got her beauty sleep.

"Did I fall asleep?" Seth exclaimed stunned that he could ever fall asleep in the middle of an empty, dark and not to mention scary parking lot.

"Well, I mean, you got put to sleep…" She giggled and Seth playfully tickled her briefly, but cut it short in hopes of getting some answers." Remember….Mark…Jess…You getting punched? Falling to the ground? Me sitting your ass up so you don't get like, brain damage?" Summer rambled on and on about her troubles that night, and Seth could do nothing but smile. This was the girl he always knew was there.

"I'm sorry Summer…but boy they're lucky I fell…cuz If I didn't….phew! there would be some hell to pay…I'd give them a little bit of this…a little bit of that…" Seth gestured and mockingly moved his arms in punching motions and Summer just scoffed at him at first, but broke into a flurry of laughter.

"Hahahaha right Cohen….." To Seth's dislike, Summer rose from laying on top of him and shifted her arms around in her purse. Seth saw her face for the first time, and spotted her face bruising up and he quickly grew mad. " Whats the matter Cohen?" Summer also noticed the change in his mood.

"Its just…your face and all…and how they tried to-"

"-Cohen, trust me its fine…I should be going home anyway, I'll clean it up then…" She nervously glanced at Seth and fiddled with her fingers. "WouldYouMaybeWannaComeToMyHouseAndWatchAMovie?" Summer shot out, it wasn't like her to be nervous in front of a boy, but something about Seth was different. Plus she didn't quite no where he stood with Jess, so she didn't want to rush into things.

"Slow down my little NASCAR princess, could you repeat that?" Seth playfully patted her on the head. Summer rolled her eyes, then sighed and gulped as she prepared to ask her question.

"Do you want to come over and maybe…I don't know no…watch a movie…Keep me company after all it is your fault I look like this!" She finished confidently and pointed towards her face.

"That you look like what? Beautiful? I'm sorry but that's all you…" Seth rose to his feet and didn't see Summer blush. "And I'd love to come over…"he reached a hand down to pull her up, and she gracefully allowed him to pull her up. She already felt embarrassed enough so she was the first to make a dash for the car, Seth on the other hand was busy processing everything.

Who's got a date with Summer Roberts? Seth Cohen does! Yeah! Who gives a rats ass that I spend more time talking to myself then I do with others….I got a date with Summer, and you don't!!!!! Nah Nah Nah! Okay, Okay, its not exactly a date, but her actions cause me to think it is…

"Are you coming or what Rocky?" Summer mockingly threw a few fake punches in the air and Seth just laughed to himself and shook his head.

"Right behind you Summer…"

That to me was really really cheesy….but I felt it needed to be done…the other chaps have kinda been angsty and full of drama but that's just how I write…but every so often I manage to pull off some romantic stuff like in this, even though there was no kissing or nothing, still sparks! Gotta give me props for that..

REVIEW PLEASE…I write better when I know people are enjoying my story: )