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"What the hell was that Lauren?"

Ryan and Lauren were driving out of Summer, Taylor and Marissa's place and Ryan couldn't take Lauren's unusual behavior anymore. He wanted to know why she was acting so rude, he had never seen her like this before and he wanted to know what exactly ticked her off.

"What do you mean?" Lauren asked innocently. She knew that Ryan would suspect something, but she just decided to act as if nothing had happened.

"I mean your how you acted back there, I mean it was like you were a different person."

"I don't know." Lauren said indifferently.

"Oh, I think you know." Ryan said. "What's gotten into you? All you talked about was about yourself, which by the way never happened before."

"I guess I was just trying telling them about my accomplishments." Lauren said. "Is it a crime to be proud about what you've done in your life?"

"You hated that job in the modeling agency." Ryan said. "And if I remember correctly, your exact words were, I NEVER wanna have anything to do with modeling ever again."

"Well, I was just trying to impress that new girl I guess." Lauren said pretending not to know Marissa's name.

"Marissa?" Ryan asked, now really confused. It confused him that Lauren was acting really weird when Marissa was around, it was like she wanted to prove that she was better than her and that was what got Ryan worried. 'Why do you need to impress her?"

Lauren shrugged. "Because…" she hesitated, trying to come up with a good excuse. "She thinks she's better than me."

"What?" Ryan asked in shock. "How would you know?"

"It was in the way she talked to me." Lauren said, trying to come up with a good excuse. "I mean, did you see how she interrupted me while I was talking about my modeling job? That was so rude of her."

"Well, you weren't exactly polite either since you didn't give anyone the chance to talk about anything else." Ryan said, Lauren simply rolled her eyes, since she knew that what Ryan said was true. "What do you have against her anyways? You guys just met and you already seem to hate her guts."

"I dunno," she shrugged. "I just don't trust her okay." She said frustrated, getting fed up with Ryan's questions.

Ryan sighed, he really didn't know what was wrong with his girlfriend. "I'm just worried about you, you've been acting…different."

"It's nothing baby, I promise." Lauren tried to reassure him as she gave him a kiss on the cheek. "I really appreciate you being concerned about me though."

They reached Lauren's place which wasn't really that far away. Ryan pulled over in front of the house.

"Just promise me something okay?" Ryan asked before she left.

"Sure baby, anything." Lauren said flirtatiously as her smile widened.

"Please apologize to them."

Lauren's smile immediately dropped. She definitely didn't want to apologize to Marissa, but if she wanted her and Ryan to be in good terms, she would have to at least pretend to be nice to her.

"Sure." Lauren said as she quickly kissed him before getting out of the car.

"Thanks babe." Ryan said. "I'll call you later?"

"Yeah, bye." Lauren said as she waved at him and walked into her house.

Ryan watched as she disappeared behind her front door. Although he knew that Lauren wasn't the kind of girl who broke her promises, he couldn't help but get the feeling that she wouldn't follow through with her apology. He decided that he would have to do it himself, in case she wouldn't do it. He drove off, thinking that he would come by Marissa's place tonight.

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"So, where exactly are we going again?" Summer asked her boyfriend. They were in Seth's car, on their way to some work-related place Seth needed to go to. Summer offered to stay behind but Seth insisted that she would come.

"Well, if I told you it wouldn't be much of a surprise would it?" Seth said mischievously.

"Cohen, we both know that you can't keep a secret." Summer said.

"Good point." Seth said in defeat. "But you have to promise not to freak out."

"Yeah, now spill." Summer said eager to find out about what Seth had in store for her.

"Okay." Seth sighed. "There's this party that my boss is throwing for us because of our creation getting the title of the best selling graphic novel."

"Oh, my god Cohen that's great!" Summer exclaimed as she hugged him.

"Thanks." Seth said. "So anyways, that's where we're going…and well…I decided that it was time for me to introduce

"Wait, what?" Summer said in shock. "No way am I meeting your boss, he's just gonna think that I'm some sort of shallow girl who doesn't know anything about comic books."

"Graphic novels."

"Whatever."

"Hey, you said you weren't gonna freak out."

"Yeah, well that was before I found out what you had planned." She said crossing her arms. "The point is, I can't go there, I'm just going to embarrass you in front of your co-workers." She said as she looked down in shame. She knew that she wasn't exactly as smart as they were there and she was just afraid that she would be an embarrassment.

"Summer," Seth said as he took her hand in his. "You're not shallow, okay? In fact, you're really smart, I mean you got a job to be one of the most respected fashion editors in the industry that has to count for something right? Besides, they'll love you just the way you are, I know they will."

Summer looked up at him and smiled at his kind words. "How are you so sure that they would like me?"

"Because I do." Seth smiled at her. "A lot."

She smiled at his cuteness. "Shut up." She teased him.

"Well, I meant it." Seth smiled widely.

"Thanks." Summer said as she gave him a soft kiss.

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Jimmy walked into his small room in his boat after a long day of work. It was already half past six in the evening and he was dead tired. He stumbled onto the bed and just lay there, enjoying the soft cushions. He closed his eyes, hoping to relax and maybe even take a nap, business was going really well, he had just sold a couple more boats and some fishing supplies to some wealthy sailors and made a lot of money doing so. Although he was quite lonely with Marissa gone, he knew that she would've been proud of him.

He let out a sigh as a smile crept across his face with content. He was about to drift off to sleep when he was interrupted by his phone ringing. He decided to ignore it, hoping that the ringing would stop, but it kept going and it kept him awake. He groaned as he got up from his bed to answer the phone and get rid of whoever was calling.

"Hello?"

"Hey dad, it's me."

"Hey kiddo." Jimmy said happily from the other line. He was really hoping that Marissa would call him soon, and hearing her voice again just made his day. "It's really good to hear from you."

"Yeah, same here dad." Marissa smiled, she really missed her dad, and decided that it was time to give him a call.

"Wow, I was starting to think that you weren't going to call."

"I did say that I was going to keep in touch." Marissa said.

"Yeah, glad to hear it." Jimmy said. "So how's everything back there? Any new scandals just waiting to be discovered? Or are they already discovered?"

"No dad." Marissa laughed. "Actually, everything's going better than I expected, well I mean nothing drastic has happened so far."

"I told you it'll be alright." Jimmy said. "So how's your mom? Caitlin? Summer? Ryan?

"Everyone and everything's great dad." Marissa said. Except that Ryan's new girlfriend was a pain in the ass.

"Well, I'm just checking in you never know, someone might turn out to be taking drugs or secretly pregnant or something."

"Dad!"

"What? We are talking about Newport right?"

"Yeah." Marissa started to say, she heard the doorbell ring and walked towards the door while she had the phone in one hand and used the other to open the door. "But as much as I hate to admit it, you might be right, things are different now, I mean, it seems that things are going to be really…"

Marissa paused for a while when she saw Ryan standing outside the door.

"…different." Marissa finished her sentence. "Listen dad, I have to go but I'll call you back okay?"

"Yeah, sure." Jimmy said. "I'll talk to you later?"

"Yeah, bye dad." Marissa said as she hung up. She turned to Ryan who was still in the doorway.

"Uhh…hey." Ryan said awkwardly.

"Hey." She said.

"Sorry to interrupt your phone call."

"It's okay, I needed to go make dinner anyways." She replied.

"That was your dad right?" Ryan asked confused. "I thought he was in Greece."

"Yeah, he is." Marissa said. "I promised him that I would call, you know to tell him all about how things are going here in Newport."

"Oh." Ryan couldn't help but think back when they used to have the same phone calls while Marissa was away in Greece. They had lost contact though mainly because they both couldn't take it anymore. It was just too hard.

"So, what are you doing here?"

Ryan looked back at her as he snapped out of his thoughts. "Oh, well I wanted to apologize for Lauren's….umm…inappropriate behavior earlier."

Marissa shifted her weight on one leg to the other, feeling uncomfortable.

Ryan could sense that she was uneasy with the subject. "She….wasn't herself a while ago…she had a really bad day today and it was unfair that she took it out on you guys."

Marissa nodded. "It's okay, I understand." As much as she didn't like Lauren, she really appreciated Ryan's efforts to make things right with them. It just annoyed her that Lauren couldn't do it herself.

Ryan just nodded as she spoke, which was followed by a long silence. He could sense their distance from one another, it was probably because of the time apart they had in the past few years. They have evolved into much more mature people that they had been before. He knew that it would take time for them to get to know one another again.

"So, is Summer and Taylor here?" Ryan asked, breaking the silence. "I guess I owe them an apology too."

"No actually, Summer's been out with Seth the whole day, something about Seth's new comic book launch party." Marissa explained. "And Taylor's out on a date with Lance."

"Oh, I figured they weren't since I don't hear any yelling or screaming." He smiled as he peered inside the apartment.

"Oh, I'm sorry." Marissa said remembering her manners as she stepped aside. "Do you wanna come in?"

"No, it's alright….actually…I think I have a better idea." Ryan said with a smirk on his face as an idea popped inside his head. "Grab your sweater, we're going somewhere."

"But, I haven't even started making dinner."

"We'll grab dinner along the way." Ryan said getting pretty excited.

"O-Okay." Marissa said reluctantly. She was quite confused on what Ryan was up to but she decided to go with it. She ran to her room to quickly grab a sweater and reappeared at the front door where Ryan was waiting for her.

"Let's go." Ryan said. He appeared to be in a hurry.

"Wait," Marissa said. "Where exactly are we going?"

"Well, I figured that you've been away from Newport way too long, so I think it's time for me to show you around again." Ryan said as he opened the car door for her. He quickly went over to his side and got settled in his seat as well as he started the car.

"But, where are we going?" Marissa asked curiously.

"You'll see." Ryan said as he drove off.

Marissa just smiled and decided to sit back and enjoy their little trip. She really needed this, an opportunity to get to know each other again and to see the town that she left behind four years ago. After all, it could be fun.

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