CHAPTER TWO: bad reputation
Marissa sat on Summer's bed, painting her toenails and talking about random stuff . It was like ten o'clock and they were in their pajamas, completely ready for a girl's night in.
"So." Summer said, crossing her ankles and flipping through a magazine. "I heard about Ryan's old girlfriend coming to Newport."
"Oh, yeah." Marissa shrugged, looking up from her nails. " We drove her to her apartment today."
"So you're not worried about her or anything?" Summer asked, creasing her eyebrows.
"Not really." Marissa answered, shrugging. "She and Ryan seem to be over each other."
"Seem to?"
"Well, yeah. Besides, she's kinda into girls now." Marissa said, smirking.
"Well than, maybe you should be worried Coop." Summer joked. Marissa grinned.
"She's not like that. And besides, she wouldn't do anything to hurt Ryan." Marissa explained.
"And hurting him includes stealing his girlfriend?" Summer asked.
"I hope so." Marissa raised her eyebrows and went back to painting her toenails.
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Ryan sat on the floor in his room, kicking Seth's ass on a video game. Seth sighed and pushed the pause button.
"Alright give it up." Seth said. " You only play this well when your worried about something."
"I don't know what you're talking about." Ryan said as he un-paused the game. Seth leaned over and turned off the game.
"Uh-huh." Seth said, and motioned toward himself. "Give it up to big brother Sethy." Ryan gave Seth a look and sighed.
"Alright." He said. "So my ex, Alex, is in town for a while and I know that she's gonna cause some kind of trouble." Seth frowned.
"How? You dated her, so she can't be that bad." Seth reasoned. Ryan looked at him, disbelieving.
"Have you met any of the other girls I've dated?" Seth shrugged.
"Um, no, but I mean. . ." Just then Alex walked into the pool house.
"Where's the bathroom in this place?" She asked sarcastically.
"Turn around, go inside and turn right." Seth answered than turned back to Ryan, who was getting up.
"Hey." Ryan said. "What's up Alex?"
"That's Alex?" Seth asked, turning to look at Alex again. "I thought she was another one of those strippers my dad was defending for free."
"Uh, thanks.. I think." Alex said staring at Seth and crinkling her eyebrows. She looked at Ryan. "I'm guessing that that's Seth." She said.
"Yeah. That's Seth." Ryan said. "So, what do you need?"
"Where's the best bar around here?" Alex asked, folding her arms and looking around the pool house." I wanna get laid." She raised her eyebrow and looked straight at Ryan.
"I can help you with that." Seth said, holding up his hand and standing up. Alex just looked at him. Ryan turned to Seth.
"Seth." Ryan warned. "You have a girlfriend."
"Summer, right." Seth sat back down. Ryan turned back to Alex.
"Get on Airport and turn right, you can't miss it." Ryan answered.
"Alright, thanks." Alex said, turning to go, she waved and called over her shoulder. "Nice meeting you Seth." Seth looked at Ryan.
"You're right, she could definitely cause some problems." He said.
