Author's note.
This story is a sequel to my 'What's It Like?' story and is also set during season 3 of The OC so both the actresses and characters are all over 18.
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Summer Roberts sighed to herself as she made her way to her next and final class of the day.
She didn't even know what she was doing here, her mind was far too occupied for school and she had barely paid any attention in her last class and was unlikely to pay any more in her next. All she seemed to have done all day was count the hours until the end of school, where she would see her best friend Marissa Cooper again.
Marissa and Summer had been best friends nearly their whole lives and had been in almost every class with each other throughout their school life, that was until Marissa got kicked out and had to go to a different school. This had sucked before but now things were different it was even worse, because now Marissa wasn't just Summer's best friend, she was her lover.
Summer still couldn't believe how suddenly her friendship with Marissa had turned into a passionate love affair. It seemed like only a few days ago they had just been two normal best friends, shopping, sunbathing, talking about their boyfriends, etc. Of course it could be because it was only a few days ago... a week to be exact.
A week.
Summer couldn't believe it had been that long already. Their first wonderful night together seem so fresh in her mind, but that could be because they had been reliving it at every opportunity since.
Their arrangement wasn't perfect though, they had problems that both girls were trying to avoid, but it was becoming painfully obvious that they would have to talk about it very soon.
One of those problems was that Summer was getting sick of coming up with lame excuses to be with Marissa. Every time they had sex she would have to pretend she still wasn't quite sure whether she liked being with a girl or not and asked Marissa to show her again, which at first had been fun but after a week was becoming ridiculous. Summer didn't want to have to make any lame excuses like that to be with Marissa. She just wanted to be with her, whenever she wanted, which kind of highlighted the girls main problem.
The main problem was that they were cheating on their boyfriends with each other, both of whom were the jealous type and unlikely to be cool with their girlfriends having sex with each other.
Summer loved Seth, and hated that she was cheating on him, but she was crazy about Marissa and couldn't bear the thought of putting an end to their new and exciting love affair.
So Summer had come to a decision, she and Marissa will become secret girlfriends, that way in public they would still be with Ryan and Seth but privately they would be with each other as a couple, allowing both girls to have their cake and eat it too.
It was what Summer wanted and she was almost positive Marissa felt the same way, and as long as they were careful what could possibly go wrong?
"Hey Summer, how are you, listen, can I have a moment of your time?" A familiar voice said rapidly from behind her.
Summer turned around and cringed.
Taylor Townsend, just what she needed to ruin her day.
Summer and Taylor had never been friends, and with good reason. Taylor had done many, many things to Summer and her friends, including stealing Marissa's position as social chair, and then fighting and beating Summer for that same position, trying to have Marissa's boyfriend Ryan expelled, and now she was apparently trying to steal Summer's boyfriend Seth from her.
No good could come from talking to Taylor Townsend, and Summer was not in the mood to deal with the girl, so she quickly turned and continued walking.
"Hey, wait up, we need to talk." Taylor said.
"No we don't." Summer said.
I think you're going to want to talk to me, Taylor thought to herself, before running ahead so she was standing in Summer's way.
"Look, I just want to get your opinion on these photos very quickly, and then I'll leave you alone, I swear." Taylor said, holding out a folder.
Summer thought about this briefly. She had no idea what Taylor was up to, but whatever it was if looking at some stupid photos could get Taylor off her back then she might as well take a look at them and be done with it.
"Ok, make it quick." Summer said.
"Good." Taylor said smiling wickedly as she handed Summer the folder, "I'm just trying to organise another social gathering, and I'm having trouble coming up with a theme so I want you to take a look at these and let me know which photo you thought was the best."
Taylor had never asked her opinion on something like this before but Summer shrugged it off because she wanted to get rid of her. So Summer quickly opened up the folder and took a look at the photos inside.
Upon seeing the photos Summer could feel her heart stop.
The photos were not of decorations or anything like that, but of herself and Marissa kissing.
Looking up from the photos Summer saw Taylor still smiling at her wickedly.
"You know what," Taylor said after a pause, "There's a lot of great photos in there so I'm going to leave them with you and you can get back to me. And hey, now I think about it I've got a lot more great photos like those ones back home, so why don't you come over after school and we can look through them together. You could even bring Marissa too. I'm sure she'd love to join us, don't you think?"
Summer scowled at Taylor.
"Well then it's settled." Taylor said happily, "My address is in the folder. I'll see you and Marissa later."
With that Taylor turned and walked away leaving a stunned Summer alone with her thoughts.
Summer stood there thinking for a few moments before checking the folder again to see if her eyes had been playing tricks on her, but they hadn't. Taylor Townsend had pictures of her and Marissa kissing. This could only end badly.
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Hours later when she parked her car outside the address that had been in the folder Summer took comfort in the fact that Taylor's home wasn't as big or as expensive looking as hers. Not much comfort, but still it was better than nothing.
Feeling a hand resting against hers Summer turned to see Marissa giving her a soft, comforting half smile.
"Are you ok?" Marissa asked.
"I'm fine, I just... I don't know... have a bad feeling about this." Summer sighed.
"I know how you feel, but don't worry, there's two of us and one of her." Marissa pointed out, "So let's just get this over with, see what she wants, and then decide what to do next, ok?"
"You mean decide whether or not we allow her to blackmail us." Summer said bitterly.
"It's not like I like this anymore than you do Sum." Marissa said, "But like I said before, it's not going to hurt just to hear what she has to say, at least then we would know what we're dealing with."
"Ok, let's get this over with." Summer sighed as they both got out of the car, "But I seriously think we should put the whole hiring a hitman thing back on the table."
Marissa laughed and even under the circumstances Summer could join her a little as they made their way up to the door and rang the bell. They didn't have to wait long before Taylor answered the door greeting them both with a big smile.
"Summer, Marissa, you both made it. Please come in, close the door, and follow me." Taylor greeted them cheerily.
Marissa and Summer reluctantly followed Taylor inside, making sure to close the door behind them before allowing Taylor to lead them into the main room.
"Please sit down, would either of you like a drink?" Taylor offered.
"No thank you." Summer said as she and Marissa sat down on the sofa.
"I'm good." Marissa said.
"Ok then." Taylor said sitting in a chair opposite.
There was a moment of silence.
"So, I bet you're wondering how I got those photos right? Well I followed you guys and your boyfriends to some skanky bar, and as I was watching you Seth and Ryan got up to, I'm assuming, get drinks, and I was totally going to follow them, but then I notice you two sneak off and I decided to follow you instead, and I am so glad I did because well, just one of these pictures is definitely worth a thousand words." Taylor said cheerily, "I particularly like the one of your hand down Marissa's pants Summer, now that picture is probably worth a million..."
"What do you want bitch?" Summer snapped, cutting Taylor off.
Taylor smiled, "Seth."
"Over my dead body." Summer snorted.
"Oh I don't think that will be necessary," Taylor laughed, "But taking Seth from you is more a long term goal, I don't expect to achieve it tonight. Besides, I can pretty much ruin your lives with these photos, so I'm pretty sure you'd be willing to do anything to make sure they and the truth about your 'friendship' never sees the light of day, so why would I waste this opportunity on stealing Seth Cohen, when I can blackmail two of the most popular, rich and beautiful girls in Newport into being my own personal sex toys."
Taylor paused for a few moments to enjoy the shocked look on the other girls faces for a few moments.
"Well, I guess formerly rich and popular in Marissa's case, and maybe formally popular in Summer's case too, what with her dating Seth Cohen and all, but you're both still hot, and apparently into girls, which is good because it will mean the sex should be less awkward." Taylor said, pausing to think about it before then adding, "Don't get me wrong, I'd totally blackmail you into sex even if you were completely straight, but this just, I don't know, makes things easier."
Silence filled the room.
"You... you can't be serious..." Summer said finally in disbelief.
