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Dreaming Of A Better Outcome
He attacked her with her lips as soon as she entered the cafeteria. The entire student body all directed their attention towards them, and even with his back to everyone, he could still hear the whispering about him starting.
He held firmly onto her back, ignoring the on looking students, and backed her up against the wall, pinning her body up against his. She finally broke free for air, but Seth once again brought his lips back to hers so she couldn't say anything.
"Seth…"He let his hands roam her body, making their way up her shirt. She didn't seem to mind, as hers were wrapped around his neck, and she was even beginning to moan into the kiss.
"Seth!"
He could feel the lingering bodies all hovered around him, gossiping about the age old tale of beauty and the geek, that he and her now were. But he didn't care, his hands continued to roam up her shirt, caressing her breasts passionately and gently. He smiled into the kiss when he heard her moan once again.
"Seth, For the last time…"
She broke free from the kiss, and stared bewildered at him. He couldn't help but smile at her, hoping that it would make up for his sudden actions. Eventually, she gave into his charm and sent a beaming smile back to him.
"I love you Cohen." Summer smiled and began ravishing him with her lips once again.
"I love y-"
"Okay, that's it. Seth, get the hell up."
Ryan booted the bed as hard as he could, and sent Seth flying up in a hurry. He searched the room frantically for Summer, and Ryan just groaned and continued to curse to himself.
"WHAT? Where is she? It was all a dream?"
"I hope so…" Ryan joked, but kept his posture and remained glaring at him.
"Where are the girls? They did sleepover last night right?" Seth said more to himself, as he was trying to regain his conscience and sanity. That whole dream was all too real for him.
"Yes, they did stay over, but come on man, they're girls, so they left early to get ready for school." Seth nodded with agreement as Ryan began to make his way towards the door.
"Hey, what time they leave at?" Seth hollered. He didn't know if Summer witnessed any of his dream.
"I don't know, like 2 hours ago." Ryan yelled right back, as he was descending the stairs. Seth nodded openly and got up from the bed, ready to start the day. Thank god for Summer's mandatory 2 hour glamour preparation, or else she might've witnessed something she shouldn't have. Seth sighed loudly once he remembered that today was probably going to be one of the hardest of his life. He was finally dating Summer. Yeah, that sounds real difficult Cohen. But it wasn't that, it was the fact that she wanted their relationship to be hidden, even after all they've been through. Him going in a coma, the basketball game kiss, she still wanted it to be silent.
Damn it why can't dreams be real
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"Good morning…" Seth entered the kitchen and immediately sat down in his chair, slouching while he began fixing his breakfast, the usual cereal and coffee combination never failed.
"Hey lover boy." Ryan smiled sincerely for the first time to him that morning, and continued eating his cereal.
"How much of that did you catch anyway?" Seth avoided the usual morning greetings, instead getting straight to the point.
"Enough." Ryan smiled once again and smirked at him from the above the cereal spoon.
"You didn't happen to tell the parentals now did you, because I know your track record with secret keeping is down in the pits with mine."
"That's something every parent wants to wake up to." Kirsten exclaimed, as she made her presence felt in the kitchen with her arm linked with Sandy. He was smiling away like usual, at the predicament his son was in yet again.
"-how much we love you!" Seth replied cheerfully and held up his coffee mug for cheers. Sandy couldn't contain his laughter any more, and began chuckling. Kirsten on the other hand, was more focused on the real problem at hand.
"No really, what happened this time?" She pulled a cup out from the cupboard but kept her gaze fixed on Seth.
"That was a good one Seth…" Sandy chimed in, still chuckling away at Seth's valiant effort to avoid parent confrontation. Kirsten shot him a deadly glare, and he immediately stopped laughing and focused on his bagel smear.
"I woke up Seth when he was having a pretty graphic dream." Ryan blurted out in one smooth motion, and sipped on his coffee. He then looked at Seth, who was shooting him angered looks, with a look of his own clearly stating 'what's the big deal'.
Kirsten nodded her head in understanding and poured her coffee, while Sandy stopped his smearing and smiled widely at Seth. Seth lowered his head and stared at his fingers.
"Who'd you dream about Seth?" Kirsten chimed in, trying her best not to sound to nosy.
"Oh I know honey, I bet it was that fox he had over last night." Sandy seated himself at the end of the table, and Kirsten seated opposite him. Seth closed his eyes and wished he were off on a far away planet.
"Summer." Ryan finished for him, and smirked at Seth, knowing he just started another trial of embarrassment for him.
"That's her name. Jeez we barely spent anytime with her last night. You should have her over for dinner some time."
"Hey man you ready to go." Seth finished up the remainder of his coffee and got up from his seat and anxiously waited for Ryan.
"Oh no darling, we saw a bit of her yesterday. Remember she helped Marissa pin Seth down for us to beat him." Sandy stated matter-of-factly, and Kirsten nodded, continuing to play along.
"Just for that, you can forget family dinner."
"Oh come on son, it will be such a good time!" Sandy smiled cheerfully and it widened even more when he saw Seth's disgusted look.
"Thanks but no thanks, Ryan let's go." Seth began pacing back and forth in the foyer, while Ryan cleaned off his plates, which he just had to do.
"Bye!" Seth spat out, and eagerly raced out the door, running towards the car. Ryan followed slowly, after giving an adequate goodbye to Sandy and Kirsten.
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"So what exactly is going to happen with you two now?" Ryan was the first to speak up. Since they left the house, Seth had been dead quiet, which was very uncharacteristic. Ryan just chalked it up him being utterly ashamed of his parents.
"I don't know, I seriously don't know."
"What do you want to happen?"
"What I want, is for Summer to be my girlfriend, and not my friend. I want to kiss her, cuddle with her, be the one she turns to when she's sad, all of that jazz…" Seth turned to face Ryan for the first time, to see if any of what he said made sense. Ryan nodded understandingly, as he could picture himself being in the same situation as Seth.
"What's actually happening?"
"We don't acknowledge each other at school, we remain unaware of the other's existence, well at least she does, and we don't kiss anyone else but each other." Ryan bit his lip, trying to suppress a laugh that was quickly coming on, just at hearing Seth's terms with dating Summer.
"So what, is there like some sort of contract you two had to sign?" Ryan laughed as he continued staring out at the open road.
"Ha-Ha, very funny."
"Is Summer on board with this?"
"Dude, she better because she's the one who wants this. If it were up to me, we would be back in my room, with dimmed lights, oh yeah and some whipped cream."
They finished the rest of the short drive off in silence, and arrived at the school. As soon as they hopped out of the car, the scorching California sun beamed down on them, and Seth shielded his eyes from the sun in search of whom else? Summer.
"Actually Ryan, scratch that…" Ryan turned to face him with a confused look, while Seth continued searching for Summer. When he finally found her, just about to enter the school doors along with Marissa, he faced him again. "I'm putting things back on my terms." He sped away from Ryan and trotted up the stairway in search of Summer.
"Good Luck!" Ryan yelled, in a half mockery half sincere voice.
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"Oh my god Sum! We totally saw you on T.V last Friday. Who was that hottie you were with?" A girl reminiscent to Holly Fisher was the first to approach Summer. Of course like Holly Fisher, she had a following of look-a-like slutty girls. The girls name was Ashley Johnson. In her 'clique' so to speak, was an army of cheerleaders, one being Jess. Summer froze instantly one the spot and felt butterflies begin to flutter in her stomach. This can't be good.
"Yeah, like who was it Sum?" Another finished, and Ashley eyes beamed with excitement. Jess remained in the background of their little group swarmed around Summer, and kept quiet.
Seth saw an aura of girls, all surrounding Summer, desperately awaiting on gossip, or a scoop, anything to keep them talking. He then shifted his gaze slightly beside the group, and saw Justin and Anna surprisingly close to one another, but both were glaring right back at him. I guess their hatred of me brings them closer. They were quietly chatting to each other, but not once shaking their angered glares away from him.
Seth remained frozen on the spot, exchanging looks with Justin and Anna, when Ryan came bounding in from behind him. He brushed right by him and headed straight to a stranded Marissa, who was standing alone by herself against the lockers. His eyes followed Ryan until he was standing with Marissa, already talking to her. He shook his eyes free, keeping his eyes on the prize, headed for Summer.
"Whoa you guys, just calm down…" Summer uttered out and held her hands up securely, preventing herself from being attacked by gossip hungry girls.
"Can I talk to you for a minute?" Seth asked quietly, and extended a hand out for Summer to take. No rule she can make can prevent me from being chivalrous, that's all is…I can bend the rules. The girls eyed him up and down.
"Eww geek. Get lost!"
"Who are you?"
Seth grunted and grabbed onto Summer's hand before she could protest, and dragged her away from the girls. He led her around the corner of the set of lockers, and stopped in front of a vending machine.
"Summer, these rules are stupid. Why can't we be just like any other normal couple?"
"Shh! Now is not the time Cohen…" She hissed as she broke her hand away from his grasp and her eyes were fixed on behind Seth, for any sign of the girls coming.
"Who was it!" The pack of girls were rounding the corner and flaunting their way towards Seth and Summer.
"Listen Sum, I know you're scared. Popularity is all you've ever known for your entire life, and it's hard to just throw it all away in such a short time. But if any of what you're scared of is concerning me? You might as well forget it Sum, because I promise you, I will never hurt like all the others in your life. I swear Summer, I'd do anything for you Summer, that's just how much in lo-" Seth choked up the last bit, and held himself back from saying the dreaded word that most likely would destroy their relationship before it even began.
"It was Seth Cohen." Justin and Anna walked by nonchalantly, and Justin spat out angrily. The girls plus Seth, all turned on the spot and stared quizzically at him. Seth was really at a loss for what the guy was talking about, besides the fact that he just helped stop him from proclaiming his love for Summer. Did that guy get hit with a chair too hard in that bar or what?
"Yeah, the guy she was with was Seth." Anna snickered and smirked devilishly at Seth. Seth looked around helplessly, as he could already feel an onslaught of questions being fired at him. He looked at Summer for help, but she was leaning against the vending machine smiling sadly. At least something he said had got to her, as she was wiping frantically away at moisture filling up her eyes. The pack of cheerleaders all simaltaneously dropper their jaws and raised their eyebrows at this new found information.
"W-W-What? What are you talking a-about? I-It couldn't have been me. Come on guys, I'm Seth Cohen." Seth smiled nervously as he shifted his gaze back and forth between each and every girl. He had to dig himself out of this hole, without Summer's help.
He knew when Summer would eventually speak, it would also be the answer to his question concerning their relationship. So as he saw it, she had two choices. Either come out with the dead honest truth, or spin the story a bit, actually no scratch that, entirely.
"Oh really? I could've sworn I got a ride with you to that game Seth…" Anna chimed in, and Justin grinned smugly and folded his arms over his chest.
"What? What?" Seth's voice was choking up, and he was beginning to run out of lies. " I was at a comic book convention. There's no way I was there, right Summer?" Everyone turned to face her, and by then she had managed to somewhat fix her appearance. She shielded her face away from Seth and faced the girls.
"Yeah totally, I wasn't with this geek." The girls all giggled and nodded with agreement, while Anna and Justin snickered at the sight of Seth. He felt like his heart had been ripped out, and stomped on, all by that tiny brunette. But he knew he had to remain composed, as least for Summer. He smiled weakly in her direction, even though she still refused to look at him. "He was such a cutie, and one hell of a kisser." Finally Summer looked at him, and she smiled widely at him. Anna and Justin grimaced at the sight of Summer's secret flirt attempt. Both of them knew there was something going on between Summer and Seth, and they were determined to either reveal it to everyone, or destroy it.
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The pack of girls whisked Summer away, and swerved their way down the halls. Each of them one by one branching off into their respectable classes, Seth remained on sealed to floor, with his head buried in embarrassment.
Shortly after the last student cleared the hallway, Seth saw from the corner of his eyes as Ryan quietly made his way over to him. He stood silently beside him, and let Seth be alone in his thoughts.
"That wasn't quite how I envisioned it." Seth finally choked out, and smiled dejectedly down to his shoes just at the thought of how silly his dream looked now. Ryan was at a loss of what to do, and cautiously threw a loose arm over Seth's shoulder and shook him gently.
"Hey, at least you're still with her right?" Seth nodded but kept his gaze fixed on the floor. "Just not publicly, that's all." He nodded again, this time a bit more somber than before. He felt tears slowly begin to trickle down his cheeks.
"See that's it though, it's just not the same. Like look at you." He wiped angrily away any signs of the tears and looked aggressively at Ryan. "You and Marissa, you get to do anything with her. Kiss her, hug her, all of it. Me and Summer? Well I get to hold her hand if I'm lucky." Seth scoffed, and it went silent.
"Seth, you're still with her. That's what you wanted all along remember?"
"Well, being with her, now feels like a punishment rather than what it was before. A dream come true."
I'm satisfied with this chapter. Oh yeah once again I own nothing and am not making profit from this.
Ahem, on another note, I hope everyone understands the opening few paragraphs. It was supposed to come out funny, and I hope no one got confused : )
Nxt Chapt:
Fantastic four bonding time. A party. A school dance.
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