You're too late. Ryan wasn't sure exactly what he was too late for. Too late to save her? Because he figured as much when she had sex out of spite. His past daliences may not exactly have been fuelled by love, but he had never used someone out of spite. Never known anyone else to do that. But he guessed Marissa had gotten used to that, using things to get her own way. You didn't live as the daughter of a socialite and a multi-millionaire crook without having some issues. Hell, nobody lived without having some issues. Marissa just seemed to be unable to cope with hers, acted like a spoilt child when she should have counted her blessings.
Sure, her mother wasn't winning any parenting awards and she seemed to have no relationship with her sister, but at least her family loved her. Loved her properly like Ryan's never had. It was old gossip that Marissa was the reason Jimmy proposed to Julie, but Ryan didn't know if that gossip had ever extended far enough for Marissa to hear. He thought it might have. That she probably knew.
Ryan was a mistake. How could he not have been? People like his parents don't want children, children are just nasty consequences to drunken nights. Ryan had learned more than once how little he was wanted, although he thought that his mother probably loved him, he didn't really know. She'd never really shown him. She had said so once or twice, but she also said she was getting clean. She lied to him every day.
Marissa was probably a mistake. With his past, there was no way he should be involved with someone that was dependant, someone that was spiteful, but he wanted her all the same. Not for her looks, or her money. Not because she was the most popular girl at school or the girl next door. There was just something about Marissa Cooper that told him she was a preclude to disaster, and his life had led him to the self-destructive lately. Newport Beach was bad for him. Worse than cigarettes. And Marissa was going to be the catalyst that engineered his downfall.
She had said he was too late. And she was right. This fuse had been lit long ago, and he was just waiting for her detonation.
Sure, her mother wasn't winning any parenting awards and she seemed to have no relationship with her sister, but at least her family loved her. Loved her properly like Ryan's never had. It was old gossip that Marissa was the reason Jimmy proposed to Julie, but Ryan didn't know if that gossip had ever extended far enough for Marissa to hear. He thought it might have. That she probably knew.
Ryan was a mistake. How could he not have been? People like his parents don't want children, children are just nasty consequences to drunken nights. Ryan had learned more than once how little he was wanted, although he thought that his mother probably loved him, he didn't really know. She'd never really shown him. She had said so once or twice, but she also said she was getting clean. She lied to him every day.
Marissa was probably a mistake. With his past, there was no way he should be involved with someone that was dependant, someone that was spiteful, but he wanted her all the same. Not for her looks, or her money. Not because she was the most popular girl at school or the girl next door. There was just something about Marissa Cooper that told him she was a preclude to disaster, and his life had led him to the self-destructive lately. Newport Beach was bad for him. Worse than cigarettes. And Marissa was going to be the catalyst that engineered his downfall.
She had said he was too late. And she was right. This fuse had been lit long ago, and he was just waiting for her detonation.