// Summer Roberts' biography

Summer is Marissa's best friend and the ultimate Newport Beach party girl. Exuding brash self-confidence and a sly sexuality, Summer always speaks her mind, always gets what she wants, and never has any regrets.

Spoiled by her father since the divorce of her parents, Summer is an irresistible, magnetic narcissist. She's growing up fast in a town whose principal values are money and physical beauty -- and she’s loving every minute of it. Summer was once the longtime object of Seth Cohen’s unwavering (if unrequited) affection. Though his physical attraction to her was undeniable, Seth saw beneath Summer’s brilliant surface charms to the sweetness and free-spiritedness at her core. And after many ill-fated attempts to win Summer’s affection, he finally succeeded.

When Summer first allowed Seth into her life, she never expected to fall for him the way she did. And that presented her with a profound problem – ruin her reputation by dating a nerd or miss out on infinite hours of fun. She reluctantly chose fun.

Then, after Seth abandoned her and headed North, she disguised her anger and hurt in a designer coat of “Cohen, who?” She started dating Zach, a good-looking, popular water polo player but, hard as she tried, she couldn’t get Cohen off her mind. On the day Summer was supposed to leave for romantic Tuscany with Zach, she realized her feelings for Seth had never really gone away and she said goodbye to a surprisingly understanding Zach at the airport.

Of course, life is never easy for Seth and Summer. He got distracted with his comic book, she had the wrong date at the prom. But, finally they came together, only to be witnesses to the unfolding drama of Ryan and Marissa.