*OK, hey you guys! I tried to do some research on the internet today about pyramids

near Tijuana but I couldn't find any! So we are just gonna pretend (work with me here!)

that there is such a pyramid called La Lavenda pyramid. And also use your imagination

muscles to believe that there is a rock that gets a "lavenderish" tint after it has been

exposed for a long time. I know this is hard, but I know that you can do it! So please

read and enjoy, maybe this chapter will be a bit more interesting.*

"Here we go!" Marissa called, as they set out in the Rover to a neighboring city.

"So, do you want to crank up some tunes or what, Cohen?" Summer asked

"I guess I can, what do you want to listen to?"

"Whatever you have will be fine."

"OK, well all I have is, and I quote, 'stupid, moody, complaining guys who have

not gotten laid in years and want to take it out on us'. You let me know on the way down

here that my music and, I quote again, 'made you want to gouge your ears out with a

blunt pencil.'"

"Well...it is better than silence. I hate having to hear you breathe so loud."

"I DO NOT breathe loud."

"Oh my God, you so do...Ryan? Marissa? Input please?"

"Well.." Ryan said, unwillingly.

"I wouldn't call it loud, just a little noisy," Marissa said.

Summer gave Seth a triumphant look and Seth reached into his CD case and

pulled out a CD. He popped the CD into the player, and looked at Summer, almost

daring her to make a comment about the music.

'The colors have built up in my mind/They're bleeding through my heart/But

nobody know that they exist/Look at my bursting veins/Now do you see the red in

me/It's a sigh for the end/Only the end of the red/Will show you my blueside.'

"Who the hell is that?" Summer asked.

"It is an artistic form of expression, sometimes known as music. And they are

one of my favorite bands so don't go cracking on them!" he answered.

"I wasn't saying that they were bad. I just wanted to know who they were! Jeez,"

Summer said, a little miffed.

"Oh...sorry," Seth said, sheepishly.

"So...who are they?" she asked again.

"Uh..Rooney."

"Who?"

"Rooney."

"As in Andy?"

"Sure...why not."

"Duh, like the 60 mintues guy or whatever."

"OK. Have you ever seen the movie 'The Princess Diaries.'?"

"I have, but why in the hell have you?"

"I was..uh..babysitting my.cousin..my aunt's sister..daughter I mean, and

she really loves it."

"OK," she said disbelievingly, "Why do you ask?"

"Well, you know Michael, the guy in that movie."

"Yeah, he was hot!"

"OK, whatever, but.he is the lead singer guy for the band."

"Wow, I really like them," she said.

"Do you like them because they are good, or because the lead singer is hot."

"A combination of both. Now shut up and let me listen."

"OK, you guys, here we are. Wow, that is one TALL pyramid."

"We have to walk up THAT?" Summer asked.

"Yes, Summer," Seth said, "We have to climb up the largest structure known to

man."

"Come on you guys, it can't be that bad! Let's go!" Ryan said encouragingly.

They started up the high, steep steps.

"Ugh..I didn't think it was going to be this hard when I offered my encouraging

words," Ryan panted.

"You are so dying when we get down there.."Seth panted back, "Once I drink

all the bottled water there is in Mexico."

"Come on you guys!" Marissa said, trying to sound cheerful, "We only have a

little way to the top."

"Yeah Coop...only a little way..." Summer moaned, "I'm tired...Seth, carry

me."

"What?" Seth asked, bewildered.

"Come on...puleeze."

"I...uh...no, alright," he said, hooking her arms around his neck and picking

her up.

"Ahh," she said, "That feels like a good load off. Thanks Seth."

The group tope up the rest of pyramid in silence.

"Wooh.." Marissa said as she collapsed on the stone summit, "We made it!"

"Yup," Ryan said, collapsing next to her.

Seth sat Summer down on the ground and then dropped down beside her.

"Thanks, Seth for ...uh carrying me. I know I must have been killing your arms,

but I was so tired!"

"No, it was nothing. You barely weigh anything. Anyways, I have muscles, I

may not look like it, but I am built."

"Oh, really?" she laughed.

"Yes, as a matter of fact, I am. Sailing and surfing will increase your upper body

strength."

"You sail?"

"Yeah, with my dad and grandpa since I was four and by myself since I was nine

or ten."

"I have always wanted to sail."

"It is fun. I have my own boat and I go out almost everyday."

"That is cool. So don't boats have like names or something? Or is it just with

pirate ships?"

"No, they all have names," Seth said evasively, not wanting to answer the

question that was sure to follow.

"So, what is your boat's name."

"The uh...the uh Summer Breeze," he said, dreading her reaction.

"Wow, cool name," she said.

"Thank God she isn't creeped out," he thought, "Or at least she is hiding it very

well if she is."

"We'll have to go sailing some weekend. You can give me some sailing lessons."

"Yeah...we'll definitely have to do that," he stammered.

"Yup...hey Coop!" she called.

"Yeah?"

"Do you want to go and get something to eat now? It's already two thirty."

"Wow," Marissa called back, "Let's go. It'll take us at least thirty minutes to get

down this thing and I think I saw a restaurant about thirty miles away from here so we

can eat there."

"I am starved...You ready to head back down?" she asked, turning her attention

back to Seth, "I promise I won't make you carry me this time."

"Yeah, I'm ready," Seth said, standing up and wiping off his pants.

They headed down the slope, hoping that the descent would be easier than the

ascent.

*OK, so what do you think? Take it from me, I climbed the Temples of the Sun and

Moon and Teouhucan, and you better believe that I was about to die! The bad thing

about Mexico is that you can't drink the water unless it is bottled, so you have to buy

water from these vendors whenever you see them. I think I got like a two liter bottle of

water at one time, after a trek through the jungle! But, I would really like y'all's input

on this chapter. I am going out of town this weekend, so this will be the only update and

I won't be getting back until late Monday afternoon. So don't expect an update until at

least Tuesday afternoon. But who knows, if you send me lots of reviews, and I get

inspired, maybe there will be one on Tuesday morning! You never know! So review and

I thank you for reading! God bless!