AN: Mel here again. Here's the next chapter. But before you read it I think I should mention a few things. One is Ryan and Marissa are not a couple... a little while after Christmas...before New Years the two of them broke up. Another is that Summer and Anna both agreed to be just friends with Seth. Please leave a review...and tell us who you want to see together.
Chapter One~ Reunion Gone Bad
* A few months later*
An average height dirty blonde seventeen year old girl stepped out of her Mini Cooper. She scanned the crowd of teenagers at the highschool, searching for him. Her unique eyes soon spotted him standing with a small group of people, talking. She approached the group pushing her dark shades over her eyes, hiding her black eye. Stopping only five feet away, she saw one of the preppy-looking guys nudge Ryan and motion to her.
"Ryan." she managed to squeak out from around the lump in her throat.
"Keedra?"
"Who'd you think it was? Pamela Anderson? Jeeze, you haven't changed. Still the same old cutie you were before."
"What are you doing here?"
"What? You don't wanna see me?"
"No. No! It's not that. It's just that...I wasn't expecting you." Ryan said, walking up to her. She hugged him.
"Nice to see you too Ry-Bear!"
Ryan blushed at the use of an old nickname, and said, "Nice to see you Kee-Bee." He smiled. "So you died your hair did you?"
"Kinda got bored of my chocolate brown hair."
"What happened to your lip?" Ryan questioned noticing her split lip.
"Got into a fight at a bar." Keedra quickly replied.
Before anything else could be asked Seth showed up beside Ryan and said, "Hi, I'm Sethie Poo and you are?"
"I'm Keedra." Keedra replied with a small laugh. "Oh and your not Sethie Poo until I say your Sethie Poo, sweetie."
Marissa, Summer, and Anna all watched the events with wary eyes as they saw the immediate bond between Seth and Keedra and the obvious one between Ryan and Keedra.
"Same old Kee-Bee," teased Ryan, ignoring the slight jealous pang from Seth's flirting, "Always the boss. Where have you been fro the last few months? I haven't seen you since... you picked me up from the jailhouse." Hi finished softly.
"I'm sorry Ry-Bear, things have been wild since then, back in New York. I'm here now, so let's catch up. Aren't you gonna introduce me?"
"Ohh...uhh...yea. Sure." Ryan said, his eyes daring back and forth. He pointed to each member, saying their names.
"Well nice to meet you all. I'm Keedra." They said hi in return. The subject quickly changed.
"Jailhouse?" Marissa questioned.
"Yea. He got in trouble and I went to go and pick him up. Good times hey Ry-Bear?"
"Great times." Ryan said sarcastically. "And Marissa you knew about the jailhouse it was before the first time we met. The reason I'm here."
"Right." Marissa said in reply. "I forgot."
" So what are you doing down in Newport exactly?" Summer questioned, looking at Keedra as though she knew her from somewhere.
"Um...Just visiting. Ry-Bear. Decided to 'come back' to my roots so to speak." Keedra replied uneasily.
Sensing her hesitance, Ryan racked his brain for a new subject. "You should see her eyes, they're the most beautiful colors."
"What do you mean colors?" Marissa questioned jealously.
"See for yourself." Before Keedra could utter a word in protest, her sunglasses were off and her black eye revealed.
"Ya, I love the colors. Such a pretty black-blue-purple. It almost looks like oil." Seth commented sarcastically.
Ryan opened and closed his mouth repeatedly.
"Honey, you look like a fish. Shut your mouth." Keedra said tiredly.
"What happened?!? A split lip I can understand. But this? Tell me Keedra, please."
"Lets just say we're not all angels Ry-Bear."
Ryan's eyes turned from concerned into a cold, cut off stare. "I don't need this shit from you Keedra! You're my best and oldest friend, and you wouldn't be here, like this if something hadn't happened! So don't give me that- tell me!"
"I'll tell you when I'm ready but until then can we please just forget about it?"
"No, we can't! We won't. Let's talk about this. It's not like you the get a Black-eye. How did this happen? What did you do? Slip and fall into a pole or something?"
"No, Ryan. I told you I got-"
"With who?"
"A...well...uh... No one you know!"
"Tell me right now."
"It's not worth telling. Its not important. I got into a fight. That's that. So! Who's up for a little shopping?"
"You're not going anywhere. Not no way not no how. I'm not going to let you just slip out of my hands again. Not without knowing why exactly you're here and how that happened." Ryan said taking a breath of air in and pointing at her eye.
"I'm here because I missed you and because I wanna see what I've missed out on." Ryan just stared at her.
"Don't give me that bull. I'm not gonna take it. I would but seeing as how I'm 'the same ol' Ry-Bear' I'm gonna make you tell me the real reason. So spit it out."
Keedra spat on the ground. "There I spat it out."
"Don't do this Kee-Bee. It's not even close to being funny so cut the crap. Get to the detains. Who gave you the black-eye and split lip? And why?"
"I don't even see why you care. It's none of your business! It's my life and not yours."
"So you want me out of it? Fine."
"Don't you walk away from me."
"You walked out of my life. So now I'm walking out of yours Keedra. If you won't talk to me then I won't talk to you. Good-bye Keedra Leanne Cosmo." He said goodbye. The two of them had a rule...no goodbyes just see yas . All Keedra wanted to do know was cry because she felt as though she wasn't going to be seeing him again.
"No! Ryan." But he was already walking away. She looked at the others for help but they just stared blankly.
"Just give him time." Seth said as they walked away, leaving her standing there.
Preview for Chapter Two~ I'm Sorry
"Uh...no... Tom and I got into a fight the night I went back to New York. Haven't talked to him since."
"Thank you once again for letting me stay with you guys. Sandy, Kirsten." Keedra said a smile on her face.
"It was no problem Keedra." Kirsten replied.
"You can stay here as long as you want." Sandy added.