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Kiss for the Camera

'Dude come on! LA's not coming to us!' Seth hopped in the passenger side of the range rover and yelled out the window.

'I thought he wasn't excited about LA?' Marissa whispered and Ryan just shook his head at the sight before him.

'He wasn't. But I guess he's coming now. Better get him out of the passenger side. There's no way he's pestering me the whole drive' Ryan grabbed onto Marissa's hand and squeezed it as they made their way down the driveway to Seth.

Marissa opened her mouth to respond but was cut off. 'Seth, get the hell out of the passenger side.' Ryan boomed as he walked around the car and entered the drivers side.

'Right. Forgot you two need to have your mandatory car ride handholding session, be extremely cute and stare into each other's sparkling blue eyes.'

'Don't ever say sparkling again Seth..' Marissa said through giggles and opened the door, waiting for Seth to move.

'Sparkling..' Seth retorted with a smirk and crossed his arms. Ryan reached over to Seth and punched him hard on the shoulder.

'OW' Seth bellowed and tumbled out of the car and rolled onto the pavement. Marissa grinned widely and patted Seth on the shoulder before climbing into the vacant seat.

'What was that for?' Seth held his shoulder and climbed into the backseat.

'She told you not to say it, and you did anyway.' Ryan smirked

'Man, you two really do share the same brain..' Ryan pulled the car away from the driveway and blindly held a fist in the air. 'Anyways we got to go pick up Anna.' Marissa shot Ryan a look and he just shrugged.

'I told you we were bringing Summer' She hissed to Ryan in a low voice. Ryan's face turned a pale shade of white.

'No, no, no its Anna. Not Summer.' Seth spoke up, unaware of the situation.

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'We just have one more stop you two..' Ryan announced as he continued to drive. Marissa had her head buried in her hands just thinking about the situation they all were going to be in.

Anna and Seth had been indulged in talking ever since they picked her up just a short while ago, most likely about sailing and comics. Ryan pulled into Summer's driveway, unbeknownst to Seth. They continued chatting while Summer came strutting down from her house with a guest.

'Oh this just got a whole lot more interesting..' Ryan whispered over to Marissa as they watched Summer pull the backdoor open. She sprung the door open and stared absentmindedly at Seth and Anna. Seth looked straight up, praying to any and all gods that this was all his imagination. Her guest however, did not go unseen by Seth.

Oh god. Justin?!? You've gotta be kidding me. She's back with him? Maybe they're just friends. God snap out of it Cohen, you've got Anna with you now…But boy does Summer ever look good.

Seth scooted to the far side of the car, seemingly trying to go straight through the door. Anna was cramped right against him as they made room for Summer and her man.

'Ugh…Clearly this car wasn't made for 6 people so ugh…' Seth mumbled and found interest more in Summer's roof than he did in the scene in the car.

Summer got the hint and glared at Seth, attempting to rid him off his head with her eyes. ' Oh no, we're not missing out on LA Cohen, you leave!' Seth fixed his sight back on Summer and shook his head frantically. Summer continued to glare at him, and Seth stuck his tongue out at her. Summer hid a grin by sticking her tongue out back at him.

'Well guys, we'll just have to manage…' Ryan sighed and shifted the vehicle in gear and began to pull away from Summer's.

'I don't know if I'll manage to keep my hands from strangling Cohen..' Summer spat out.

'Keep your hands off me woman, I know I'm desirable and all, but not in the car…' Summer rolled her eyes. Justin was closest to the other door and continued to glare out the window. He really had no with him on this trip, he was all on his own. He had no water polo players to back him up. He was dreading every moment of this trip.

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'Oh my god, Cohen you totally suck at I Spy..' Summer laughed and continued sipping on her soup. It was now dinnertime, they stopped at French 75 for some dinner, before going to the game. Which was going to be a hassle all on its own. Ryan and Marissa already had tickets purchased for the game, which would leave Seth, Summer, Anna and Justin to fend for their own tickets.

'Well if you didn't pick things that we past hours ago, I would've done better.' Seth shoveled food into his mouth and Summer just rolled her eyes and laughed.Anna had been aware of the heavy flirting between Seth and Summer the entire ride, and was determined to bring it to a stop. She wanted Seth all to herself, she couldn't do it if he was clearly interested in another girl.

'Seth, come with me for a second. I'm just going to go check out that shop across the street.' Anna smiled devilishly to herself when she saw the hurt look on Summer's face. She clearly didn't want her bickering with Seth to end, because believe it or not, that's just how they worked.

'Woman please, I'm eating. Go by yourself.' Summer snickered and Seth continued shoving forkfuls down his mouth.

'Seth your not being very nice…just come with me, it will only be a few seconds.'

'Nice stops at dinnertime…And you already finished your food so there. Some people like to take their time.'

'Cohen you totally eat like an old lady.' Summer teased and Seth just gave a cheeky grin and opened his mouth, exposing all the food in his mouth.

'Dude nobody wants to see the gobs of food in your mouth.' Ryan made a disgusted look and made an attempt to throw up. Seth just grinned.

'Your just jealous.'

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'Okay, so can I trust you guys to get your own tickets?' Ryan held tightly onto Marissa's hand and glared down at the 4 other teens like they were his responsibility, which technically they were. Ryan always was the more responsible one.

'Yeah as long as geek here doesn't say anything to get us killed by some scalper' The group all just looked at Justin. Not only were his first words practically all trip a cheap shot at their friend, but also an insult to basically everyone there. Ryan felt enraged because Seth was his best friend, Marissa was angry because her and Seth had formed a special bond in the past few weeks and Summer because well, she secretly had a huge crush on Seth. Which she hoped would stay a crush.

'Well I've been known to have a bevy of marvelous one liners but I would never attempt any of them without some much needed backup.' Seth pointed to Ryan and he just smirked and so did Seth. The group broke into laughter and Justin looked on in rage. Not only did he feel out of place, now he knew he was out of place. Add on the fact that Seth continued to be the huge attraction of the group, and you got one pissed of water polo player.

Ryan and Marissa both said their goodbyes for the night, and walked toward the arena entrance grinning, still hand and hand. That left the remaining latter of the group extremely awkward and extremely quiet.

'….Okay….So who's going to get the tickets?' Seth spoke above the looming awkwardness.

'It should be either you or Justin, since you can handle the like, creepy stalkerish scalpers.' Summer rubbed her hands up and down her arms, desperately trying to cover the exposed skin left uncovered from her shirt.

'Stalkerish Summer? Is that even a word? And secondly, I'm a child set in Southern California…I'm not too good with handling the needy.' Seth bellowed. It was both honest and true.

'Dude don't be a pussy..' Justin boomed and rolled his eyes.

'Well dude, why don't you go get them Mr. Waterpolo?' Everyone shifted their gaze to Justin, and he just groaned and stalked off to find a scalper. Which in turn, left Seth in even more awkwardness.

He had no clue where he and Summer stood relating to a relationship, and as far as he knew he and Anna were friends. But her attitude was beginning to bother him and it seemed to only be growing worse as the night moved on.

Summer was shifting on the spot and kept sneaking glances to see what Seth was doing. He had his hands buried in the bottoms of his pant pockets with his back turned to Anna. Summer grinned to herself at that sight.

'Here you go..' Justin held the tickets out, unaware that his voice just broke an extreme amount of tension amongst the three.

'Thank god….Seth?' Anna held out her hand and extended it towards Seth. She gave her best puppy dog eyes, and Seth rolled his eyes and sighed. Anna's puppy dog eyes surprisingly had limited affect on him opposed to Summer's. When Summer would shoot him that look, he felt compelled to do whatever she wanted.

Seth groaned and with his hands still shoved in his pockets, raised them a bit to allow Anna room to link her arm with his. They walked away toward their gate with Summer and Justin following close behind. Anna looked over Seth's shoulder back at Summer and grinned. Summer glared back at her and Justin was more interested in checking out the racks of each and every passing blonde that strolled by him.

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'Come on! That ref's an asshat!' Summer yelled out. The game was about 10 minutes to halftime, and the Lakers were losing. Justin had been trying to make small talk since the beginning of the game with Summer. He wanted to keep Summer away from Seth, but she continued her bickering and teasing with him. It was really beginning to frustrate him.

'Summer, Summer Summer. He's just doing his job.' Seth sipped on his drink and popped popcorn into his mouth. Justin was the furthest into the row, next was Summer, than Anna and closest to the aisle was Seth

'No way! How could you say that! He's totally blowing the game!' Seth smiled at Summer. One of the things he loved about Summer was when she set her attention to something, she gave it her full attention and truly got into it. In this case, she was very into the game. 'How could he call it on Kome?!' Summer replied exasperated. She along with the nearby fans, were screaming in protest.

'My little Summer, I believe it's Kobe, not Kome. And because he ran with the ball.'

'Its called traveling moron.'

'Well I'm sure that call in particular won't change the outcome of the game, the Knacks totally have it in the bag.'

'It's the Knicks queer' Justin snarled, causing everyone to turn and glare at him. Summer was shooting daggers at him with her eyes and Seth was looking at him with confusion. He really didn't know what his deal was.

'Well, go Knicks!' Seth screamed out and the surrounding fans near him all looked back at him with angered faces. Seth's face turned a dangerous shade of pink and he lowered his head in embarrassment. One fan in particular, took Seth's confession a bit too seriously, and dumped his bag of popcorn on Seth and stormed away from his seat. Most likely to finish watching the game at the bar. That action, resulted in a chain reaction of beverage and food tossing at Seth. He was covered in pepsi, mountain dew, sprite, you name it. Hell, you could even venture to say he was covered in booze, people were that angered at him.

'Great! Now I gotta go cleanup…' Seth stood up and angrily brushed his shirt off. Anna stood up and allowed him to pass, but reacted to late to stop Summer. Summer followed Seth out toward the isle and then realized what she was doing. If she was going to go with Seth, she at least needed an excuse.

'Ummm…I'll just head up with him, I'll bring you back something. What do you want?' Summer eagerly awaited an answer as she kept peering up the isle to make sure Seth didn't get too far away.

'I'll have a pepsi.' Justin mumbled out but still had a grin plastered on his face from the barrage of items thrown at Seth. Summer rolled her eyes, and rushed hurriedly up the stairs to keep up with Seth. The crowd around them began to clap and cheer as Seth was almost up the top of the stairs, so he left to a standing taunt.

'God I hate sports..' Seth groaned as Summer joined him.

'Come on, lets go clean you up…' Summer took off ahead of Seth through the arena. Seth poked his head back out toward the court. Everyone had their backs turned to him, and were just beginning to sit back down.

'GO KNICKS!' Seth yelled out and took off to find Summer.

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'Cohen, someone threw a dime at you…' Summer smiled sympathetically and continued dabbing away at Seth with a damp cloth. They had to plead the concession stand to borrow it, and decided not to go into detail how he ended up covered in every food item available.

'How do you know?'

'Cause It's stuck to your neck…' Seth reached a hand back and sure enough, found a collection of change practically glued to his neck. The sticky pop had been enough to keep it stuck on his neck.

'Oh my god!' Summer boomed, causing Seth to jolt up. ' That was soo not a foul!' Summer pointed at the TV monitor.

'Summer, I'm not a hundred percent sure about this, but I'm pretty sure you can't elbow someone in the face…regardless if its accidental or intentional.' Seth replied as he viewed the replay. He really didn't have a clue about what was going on.

Summer smiled and set the cloth down on the ground. She continued to smile and watched Seth looking at the replay and making faces. She pretty much figured out Seth enjoyed arguing against the obvious. Summer began hovering her body closer and closer to Seth while he viewed the monitor, still with a smile permanently sealed on her lips.

'-I mean that's just outrageous Summer…That was obviously a f-' Seth ranted on and on but was brought to a sudden halt. Summer cupped Seth's face in her hands, and attacked him with her lips. Seth was stunned at first and opened his eyes to see Summer pressed against him. Seth finally brought himself back down to earth, and smiled into the kiss. He deepened the kiss and put his hands around her waist in an attempt to bring her even more, if possible, close. Summer felt Seth's tongue grazing the surface of her lips, until she finally opened her mouth to allow him access. Seth searched her mouth with his tongue and which made Summer moan into Seth's lips.

They finally broke apart for air, but remained in one another's arms. Summer gazed up at Seth and he kept his hands attached to her waist. Summer eventually broke apart from Seth's grasp, still grasping and shocked at their kiss.

Seth looked quizzically at Summer, searching her eyes for answers as to what was going on between them now. After all, everything came down to Summer. Because if it were up to Seth, they would be together.

'Like I said earlier, I told yeah you couldn't keep your hands off me..' Summer smirked and smacked Seth on the chest. He smiled at their banter. Things were awkward enough between them, it felt nice to be semi back to their usual bickering.

'Cohen….You got my shirt dirty!' Summer pouted and swiped away at her shirt. She was covered in pizza sauce and popcorn, and drenched in pop. Seth grinned which led to another smack from Summer. 'Well I guess I gotta get a new shirt now…Thanks to you Cohen!'

'Glad I could help…'

'Well uhhh…I'm gonna go now…'

'Okay…' Summer took one last look at Seth before taking off down the hall towards the t-shirt stand.

Why is everything so awkward…!?!?!

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Seth returned to his seat first, much to the dismay of Laker fans alike. It was now halftime so he surely received numerous amounts of jabs and kicks while he made his way back to his seat. The cheerleaders came pouring out onto the court, to the enjoyment of all the remaining male fans. Seth however, kept his eyes glued to the entrance of his section awaiting for a certain brunette.

Justin had taken off at the end of the half and was gallivanting around god knows where. Anna remained in her seat and inched her body toward Seth once he sat down. Shortly after, Summer came trudging back to her seat and avoided looking at Seth. She had on a new shirt, and her old white blouse was tucked neatly in the bag. She bought a dangerously small white shirt, with Lakers embroidered on in pink. The shirt wouldn't do much for keeping warm, seeing as it showed just enough skin off at her stomach to drive any man wild. If Seth didn't know any better, he'd think she was a part of the cheerleaders.

The three of the them continued to sit in silence, and the remaining lingering fans began to take their seats for the start of the third quarter. The game was back underway, still with no sign of Justin. Summer was grateful of the game being back underway, now she wouldn't have to deal with the looks Seth kept sending her way.

Alright everybody! Now show a little love on this beautiful Friday Evening! Its that time again folks, all 20,000 of you! Show a lil' love, it's the Kiss Cam!

Everyone looked up at the jumbotron and the crowd erupted in cheers. Seth watched the screen as it flashed various couples and they commenced in kissing. Seth searched across the court to Ryan's section to see if he could spot him. Sure enough he found them about 12 rows up and they too were watching the screen contently.

Ryan shot his eyes away from the screen and he was now staring back at Seth with a huge smile played across his face, and Marissa too was jumping around. Seth quizzically threw his hands in the air, and Ryan simply pointed up toward the screen.

Seth looked up and his face turned pitch red. He saw his reflection peering down on the arena and the people around him were jumping around, doing anything they can to get on screen. Seth's face was flushed and he sat down deeper in his seat. He waved his hands dismissively and looked away, hoping they would fix on someone else. But to his dismay, they kept the camera fixed on him.

Aww come on, don't leave the lady hanging! Your clearly not related, so kiss her!

The announcer bellowed and everyone looked on, waiting for Seth to make a move. Seth scoffed and looked to his left and found Anna with her lips pressed together and her eyes shut. Seth looked beyond her and finally met his eyes with Summer. Her eyes gave off so much hope, and yet they gave off so much fear.

Have you ever got that feeling where you know your being watched? Well I know I am, I know for a fact 20,000 people are watching me. The one that's most important is Summer, she's all that matters. Anna just looks like a fool, with her eyes shut and all. I honestly don't know what to do.

Kiss her! Kiss her!

Jeez that announcer's a pain in the ass……well Mr. Announcer guy, here goes nothing…

Seth turned his body and finally face Anna. He gulped down a huge lump in his throat. Anna opened her eyes for a moment to see if Seth was following through with the announcer's pleas, than looked over her shoulder at Summer. She was slumped down in her chair and frown on her face. Her eyes were glassy and on the verge of tears. This was the moment Anna was waiting for.

Anna resumed her position and puckered her lips up and closed her eyes. Seth leaned forward and caught Summer's eyes once again. He froze on the spot and smiled at her. She gave a sad smile and looked down at her hands. It was at that moment Seth knew what to do.

He leaned overtop of Anna and spun Summer around. Her eyes grew huge and gazed back at Seth. Seth's grin grew if possible, bigger. He reached his hand underneath her chin, and held her face up. He pressed his lips onto hers and smiled into the kiss. Anna was still clueless as to what was going on overtop of her. Seth did his best to use every fiber in his body to deepen the kiss, yet keep it G-rated.

After about 30 seconds, they broke apart exasperated. Summer was winded and Seth just continued to smile at her. He was still leaned over Anna and he tucked a strand of hair and neatly guided it behind her ear. Seth and Summer both looked up at the screen, which was still placed on them.

The crowd broke into a slew of 'aww's and applause.

'HAPPY?' Seth yelled out blindly to the screen and it was followed by a few laughs.

Wow, you totally hung that first one out to dry, but man, you covered it up nicely! Now that's how you kiss folks!

Seth retook his seat, and Anna whipped her eyes around to see what the hold up was. Seth took one last look at Summer and they grinned at each other before continuing to watch the game, both with smiles plastered on their lips.

Okay that was extremely fluffy… I'll admit that…hope you liked it Nxt chapt….a fight? The ride home? Sleepovers? That was kinda long too, but i'm really happy with that chapter so i hope you review!

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