Marissa Cooper sighed contently as she rested her head next to her boyfriend's sleeping figure. She couldn't believe her life was finally coming together after all the drama in the past. She had a classy apartment, a great job, a perfect boyfriend and she finally moved back to her hometown, Newport Beach.
At 26 she pretty much had it all. Her and her boyfriend had lived in their apartment now for three months. Marissa was in a new job at HOAG, Orange County after finishing her nursing degree. She had reconciled with her mother, Julie, and even kept in touch with her high school friend Summer.
After going to Berkeley for two years, she had transferred to NYC where she met her present boyfriend. It wasn't exactly love at first sight for him and Marissa. The whole reason she had moved to New York was because her heart was broken. It had taken a year before she even considered dating again. So she eventually fell in love again and finished her degree in New York.
Four months ago she received a call from her mother telling her her father, Jimmy, had died in a car accident. Packing her things she moved back to Newport with her boyfriend, where they have lived ever since. She managed to avoid her past, for now, and continue on with life.
Yawning she wrapped her arm around her sleeping boyfriend and closed her eyes tiredly. She never thought she'd be wrapping her arm around Jake Green and not Ryan Atwood.