Ryan was sitting downstairs in the kitchen eating dry cereal out of the box for breakfast with his mother walked into the kitchen dressed in a blue sweater and denim jeans

'Hey Ry are you ready' Dawn asked refering to Ryan registering to Harbor that morning

'Yeah mom' Ryan said closing the cereal box and jumping of the stool and putting on his black leather jacket over his grey sweater

'Good lets go then' Dawn smiled as she walked out of the kitchen and Ryan followed suit behind her as they walked outsdie getting in Dawn's Mercedes

'So are you excited' Dawn asked

'It's school mom' Ryan said looking out of the window and rolling his eyes

'I know but i think you have some much potential and i dont want to see it wasted' Dawn said

'Whatever' Ryan sighed as Dawn reveresed out of the driveway way and drove towards Ryan's new school

Arriving at Harbor Dawn parked the car in the vistor parking before she and Ryan got out and walked into the campus of Harobr and Ryan looked around shocked

'This is my new school' Ryan asked shocked by the size

'Yeah nice huh' Dawn smiled

'Yeah' Ryan agreeded as she and Dawn made there way towards the school offices. Making there way there Ryan could help but notice the amount of polo shirt wearing jocks that were around

'Great my worse nightmare it's like a Abercrombie and Fitch ad' Ryan thought to himself

Arriving at the school office Ryan walked in while Dawn waited outside, upon entering Ryan walked over to what looked like the secetery

'Can i help you' Miss Jones the school secetery asked

'Em yeah i'm Ryan Atwood i'm new here and i'm regestering' Ryan replied

Miss Jones looked down the list until she saw Ryan's name

'Here you are' Miss Jones smiled handing Ryan his class schudele and locker assignment

'Thanks' Ryan said rolling his eyes as he turned around at how chiper she was before walking out to where Dawn was waiting on him

'So sweetie what classes are you in' Dawn asked

Ryan looked down at his class schudele for the first time and was shocked at what he was ' Em AP Calculus, AP Physics, AP Microbiology,College Level French, AP Psychology and Advanced Business' Ryan said still slightly shocked

'Oh my god sweetie thats great ' Dawn smiled hugging Ryan tight

'Yeah thanks' Ryan smiled

He knew had had done well on his SAT's but this was ridiculous

'Guess thats my repution out the window' Ryan laughed to himself before turning back to his mother

'Well i better get going' Ryan said

'Okay i'll come pick you up after school' Dawn smiled kissing Ryan quikcly on the cheek before she walked of leaving Ryan alone in the hall as he felt everyone staring at him

'Must be the clothes' Ryan thought to himself comparing his leather jacket and grey sweater to there polo shirts and varsity jackets he didn't really fit in but right now that was the least of his worries

Looking at his schudele he noted that he had AP Physics first and made his way along the hall stopping and asking directions before making his way to his first class of the day

Around lunchtime Ryan walked outside and sat by himself, with it being his first day he had really no one to sit with him so sat by himself when he was interuppted by some standing over him and clearing there throat

Looking up Ryan saw Seth standing over him smiling at him with a goofy smile on his face

'Hey Seth wasn't it' Ryan asked

'Yeah can i sit with you' Seth asked

'Sure' Ryan said kicking a seat out for Seth to sit on

'So why aren't you having lunch with your girlfriend' Ryan asked

'She and Marissa went out for lunch' Seth explained

'And you dont have any more friends' Ryan asked

'Well theres Marissa boyfriend Volchok but he doesn't really like me that much' Seth replied

'Volchok what kind of name is that' Ryan laughed

'It's actually his last name his full name is Kevin Volchok' Seth explained

'Gotcha so where is he' Ryan asked curious to what Marissa boyfriend looked like

'Over there' Seth pointed to a few tables away where he saw a kid about his age talking to a few of his friends and is struck Ryan how different he looked to the other kids he'd seen around school that day

Volchok was joking with his friends when he noticed Summer's boyfriend Seth sitting at table with a guy he'd never seen before who was looking over at him shrugging it off he went back to talking to his friends

'So are you busy tonight' Seth asked

'Not really why' Ryan asked

'Well the four of us are goung to the bait shop tonight you can come if you want' Seth said

'Alright if got nothing better to do' Ryan replied

'Cool' Seth smiled

Later that night Seth, Summer, Volchok and Marissa where at the bait shop hanging out and listeing to the band that was playing when Marissa turned around and noticed Ryan was downstairs in his black leather jacket with a arrogent swagger

'He looks so hot in leather' Marissa thought before forcing herself to grap Volchok's hand

Walking downstairs Ryan looked over and spotted Seth and his friends and made his way over to them

'Hey you made it' Seth smiled

'Yeah i'm just going to get a drink' Ryan said walking past them and making his way to the bar where he saw an attractive blnde girl about his age serving the drinks

'Hey what can i get you' Alex asked

'Just a soda' Ryan replied as Alex walked over pouring his soda he reahced into his pocket pulling out some money

'Heres your soda' Alex smiled at him taking the money

'Thanks' Ryan returned the smile checking her out in the process

'So if you dont mind me saying you dont look like the kind of guy who drinks just soda' Alex smiled at him

'Well you'd be right' Ryan smirked at her reaching into his jacket pocket and pulling out a flask full of Jack Daniels before pouring it into his soda

'So are you new here' Alex asked

'Yeah' Ryan smiled before taking a sip from his drink 'So you have a boyfriend' Ryan asked

'No' Alex smiled 'Why'

'Because i want your number' Ryan smirked

'And what makes you think i'll give you my number' Alex laughed

'Becuase i promise to make it worth you while' Ryan smirked

'I bet you will' Alex whispered under her breath before quickly scribling down her phone number 'I'm ALex Kelly'

'Ryan Atwood' Ryan smiled before grapping his drink and making is way back over to where Seth and his friends where

Marissa watched as Ryan flirted with the bar tender before she gave him her number and felt a wave of jealousy run throught her body as he walked back over to them and stood next to her

Volchok was watching closely as Ryan stood next to Marissa and couldn't help but fell threatened by him, while he was over at the bar getting a drink Marissa had filled him in on where they knew him from and he wondered how close he and Marissa had gotten and the diner party. He knew he would have to keep a eye on him to make sure he didn't make a move on Marissa

As the night went on Ryan could fell Marissa's boyfriend Volchok staring at him and move closer to Marissa holding her closer to his body trying to show Ryan who she belonged to

Decieding to see how far he would take it Ryan walked over to Marissa and asked her to dance , but just like Ryan thought before she had the chance to answer Volchok stepped in front of her and into Ryan's face

'Waht are you doing' Volchok asked angry

'What i'm just asking for a 'friendly' dance' Ryan smirked seeing he was getting under Volchok's skin

' Well not with my girlfriend' Volchok said

'Yeah and are you going to stop me' Ryan said getting into his face and pushing him

Falling back a little Volchok kept his balamnce and turned around punching Ryan square in the face knocking him down as Seth and Marissa jumped in front of Ryan to stop him from fighting back while Summer watched on shocked

'No it's cool' Ryan said smirking at Volchok knowing he had a reason to go after him know and that he had just made a big mistkae, deciding not to fight back knowing it would only last a few seconds before security broke it up but knew this wasn't the last time that Volchok would see him