Crash Into Me
Summary: Alternate ending to the OC Confidential. R/M kiss never happened. Marissa and
Ryan just want to be friends. She also has a crush on someone else.
Ryan pulls up to Marissa's house after a quiet car ride.
Marissa: "Thanks for the ride. And for everything. I'm glad Trey's okay."
Ryan: "Well you were definetly the brains this time."
Marissa laughs and gets out of the car.
Marissa: "I'll see ya."
Ryan: "Bye"
Ryan drives off
Marissa opens her front door and walks in. All the lights are off. She realizes no one was home and sighs. She walks up the stairs and to her room and lays back on her bed. She started thinking about everything that was going on. Her mom and Caleb were obviously having problems and she knew that she would be forced to suck up to Caleb to keep him from kicking them out. If they got a divorce any time soon she would have no place to go and no money. But atleast she had great friends. Summer could always let her stay at her place for a while, but it'd be a bad place to crash once her and Seth sort through all their Zach and comic book problems. Summer told Marissa about how much Seth liked to sneak into her room at night and it would just be awkward if Marissa was there too. She knew that they would eventually become the perfect couple again. She always loved seeing them together. They never went through anything like she and Ryan did. Thinking about Ryan, Marissa sighed again. Them being together was always so complicated. Someone always came between them...Luke, Oliver, Theresa, DJ, Lindsay, Alex...wow. She really hated thinking about it. Now she just loved finally being friends with Ryan. They seemed to have gotten over the awkwardness of being together but not... together. She thought about how good he was. Too good for her. She hated to say it out loud but it seems like all she was doing since they met was messing up his life. Maybe just being friends would be better. Plus, he had other people in his life right now...like Trey.
Trey reminded Marissa of Ryan last year. A hot, bad boy that showed up and messed up. She couldn't believe it when he took the blame for drugging the girl so Marissa wouldn't get arrested. She just really couldn't stop thinking about him. They were so alike in many ways, with their troubled and lonesome pasts. She bit her lip in frustration. She couldn't like Trey...could she? Ryan wouldn't be pleased at all about that. She and Trey had helped each other out a lot in the past few weeks. She couldn't help but have some feelings for him. She realized she needed to thank him tomorrow for what he did since she didn't have a chance to with all that happened tonight.
Tomorrow...it seemed too far away. She wanted to sleep but she couldn't clear her mind. Instead she got up, walked downstairs, took her keys, and went to her car. She drove around a bit, listening to the radio. Nothing good was on so she turned it off and parked on the side of the road by Trey's apartment. She saw a dim light on and figured he was still awake. She got out of her car and slowly walked to the door. Taking a deep breath, she knocked on the door softly. She heard him walk to the door and the door handle slowly twisted open.