............................................................................................................ Next morning

"So what, I just forgive her and pretend like nothing happened?" Ryan was pacing, a nervous trait he had picked up from the Cohen's.

"No, man...well, yes...maybe...I don't know! You know I think I liked it better when you were brood in the corner Ryan. The new Ryan is all...in tune with his feelings..." Seth shuddered.

"Hey! I am totally not in tune with my feelings...I mean, well...kinda...now you got me all confused."

"Ryan, listen, you like Marissa, Marissa obviously likes you...why don't you guys just leave it at that and see where things go from there? Now, how 'bout some X-box, all this talking about our 'feelings' has really taken a couple points of my masculinity scale, yanno?"

"So, what, you're reading down into the negatives now?" Ryan joked.

"Oh okay, passing up the broodiness, and now we're Mister Funny" Seth laughed as he and Ryan walked out of the Pool house. ............................................................................................................

"I'm just so nervous...I mean, what if he really doesn't want me anymore, what if he never really felt for me like I did for him?" Marissa was pacing across the room as summer sat on the floor.

"Come on, Coop, that boy did not spend his first weeks in Newport beating peoples asses so you guys could be 'friends'." Summer looked up from her emery board and nails long enough to roll her eyes.

"I know, but what if he changed his mind? I mean, what if he did feel that way, but doesn't anymore. What if I just totally threw myself at him, and he doesn't even like me?"

"Coop, get your Chanel panties out of a bunch, you know Ryan still wants you. He has that whole 'I'm so broody and serious...come hither' look thing whenever you walk into the room."

"Oh my god, Sum, you did not just say 'come hither'" Marissa laughed as Summer threw a pillow at her.

"It was the right word for the moment. Now come on, I've got all 6 episodes of the Valley on DVD. It's not going to watch itself!" Summer explained as she marched Marissa right out of the room.