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Ryan woke up from the sun beaming in through the pool house windows. Kirsten had bought him a lot for the pool house, but she never remembered to buy curtains. Something he would really love to have this earlier in the morning, so he could actually sleep in for once. He turned over in his bed and found that Marissa was gone; she didn't like to sleep over anymore. In the beginning she would stay and he would have to wake her up so she could leave before Kirsten and Sandy found her but now, she was always gone before he woke up.
He walked into the kitchen to get some coffee and cereal and found Seth sitting there already.
"Hey buddy, how has your first days of vacation been? Did you miss me while I was hanging out with Anna?" He said in his normal bright eyed and bushy tailed voice.
Ryan gave him a look and grunted, he wanted to tell him about what happened with Summer, but he wasn't sure how Seth would take it.
"Boring." he stated casually.
"Hmm…. I see, well since you're not gonna let me know what you did, I guess I'll tell you what an awesome time I had with Anna!"
"Great, I've been dying to know." He mumbled under his breath as he took another bite of cereal.
"It was so much fun having her back again. I really forgot what a cool girl she was, we went out on the boat and she didn't complain once about how the wind was messing up her hair or how it smelled like fish or… or…. Ryan? Are listening?" Seth asked looking over to find that Ryan was obviously disinterested in his escapades with Anna.
"Huh?…Yeah man, sounds like you had a great time." He said as Seth's voice drew him back to reality.
"Okay buddy, are you gonna tell me what happened while I was gone? Cuz' obviously something did."
"Well…." He started but then stopped
"Ohh! What was that? There were words formulating… where'd they go?" Seth asked jokingly.
Ryan sighed, "So, are you and Anna back on?" he asked trying to change the subject.
Seth knew what he was doing but decided he'd let it go for now and try again later. "Well… I… Uhh, I don't really know. I mean she lives in Pittsburgh which is like really far away so we'd have to have like a long distance relationship, and well, we know how much the crazy honeys love me here- I just don't know if it would work." he said primping his hair in sarcasm
Ryan let out a half laugh put his bowl in the sink and patted Seth on the back. He decided he would go over to Marissa's house and see exactly what was keeping her so distant. He headed back to the pool house for an over shirt and a clean pair of jeans. When he turned around to leave Summer was standing there with her arms crossed and biting down on her lip.
"Uhh… hey." he stammered out
She gave him a little smile. "Chino, there's something you need to know about Coop."
His eyes got big and all of his muscles tensed. "What's wrong with her?" he asked worried.
"Nothings wrong with her, she's just umm… hiding something." she said looking down at her feet, Marissa was her best friend and she felt bad doing this to her, but the way she was treating Ryan just wasn't right.
Ryan relaxed a little bit. At least nothing was wrong with her. "Actually I was going over to her house to talk to her about… that." he said motioning towards the door.
"Well, let me go with you."
"Umm… ok, sure."
The car ride was pretty silent. Summer would sneak looks over at Ryan every once in a while. She couldn't understand for the life of her why Marissa was fooling around with some random boy when she had the perfect person wrapped around her finger. Marissa was an idiot sometimes-or more often then sometimes.
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They pulled up to the house, the really big house and sat there for a few seconds.
"Uh, Summer? Do you mind if I do this alone?" he asked quietly
Summer looked at him and nodded. "Yeah, I'll just, uh, stay here."
He smiled at her and opened the car door. He hoped that Marissa would tell him that she was PMSing or something and that's why she was weird lately, but he knew it probably wasn't.
He knocked on the door but know one answered. The door opened by itself and Ryan walked inside. He could hear laughter coming from what he thought was Marissa room. So he followed the noise up the long flight of stairs but wasn't prepared for what he was about to see.
Marissa. A guy. Together. On her bed. Yet he didn't feel hurt, he actually felt relieved. He didn't have to take care of her anymore and he was happy. He leaned against the door and cleared his throat loudly. Marissa turned around and was shocked. Ryan wasn't supposed to find out like this, she wasn't sure if he was even supposed to find out ever.
"Ryan-I.. I can explain!" she said frantically falling off the end of the bed.
He rolled his eyes and laughed.
"No it's okay, you really don't have to." He said coldly to her. "You chose him, and I'm fine with it, Dude, let me tell you she's a piece of work. A really big piece of work, but she's not my responsibility anymore." and with that he turned around to leave. Summer was behind him in disbelief of what Marissa was doing.
"Summer, I told you to stay in the car." he said through clenched teeth.
"I just had to come and see for myself, I really didn't want to believe it." she let out a sigh. "But now, I really don't feel bad about kissing you." she said looking at Marissa. "C'mon, let's leave this whore and her random alone." and with that they left Marissa and her bed guest in complete and utter shock.
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When they got back to the pool house Ryan sat down on the bed. He put his hands up to his face and began to shake. Summer noticed this and went over to his side.
"Hey, it's okay Ryan. You could do much better. Once she realizes you're gone, she's gonna hate herself." She said putting a hand on his back and rubbing it in small circles.
"It's not so much that I miss her, it's just, I'm pissed that I let myself believe she actually cared about me," he said bringing his hands down to look at her.
"I put up with her shit for so long, because I felt sorry for her. It took me to find her under the sheets with a guy to realize exactly how I felt." He laughed. "I can't believe I actually felt guilty for coming here and messing up her so-called perfect life."
"Ryan." Summer said, running her fingers through his hair. "You have nothing to feel guilty about, trust me. Her life was screwed up long before you got here. It just took you to make her finally deal with her problems."
He smiled at her. "So, you really liked kissing me?" he asked.
She pushed his arm. "I was just trying to make Marissa feel like shit."
"Oh, I see, well maybe you could kiss me again, I'm sure it would make her really feel like shit." he said moving in closer to her. Just as their lips were about to meet, Seth walked in the pool house.
"Hey buddy, how about a little play-Summer, well isn't that interesting," he said scratching his head.
They jumped apart before he could realize what they were going to do.
"So Ryan, I thought you were going to talk to Marissa?"
"Uh.. Yeah, I did, but she was a little busy talking to another guy. In her room. Under the sheets." he said getting off the bed.
"Oh. Well I guess that's a relationship buster, huh?"
"Yeah, pretty much. So, what did you want?"
"Well." he said looking at Summer who was looking at her feet. "It's Anna's last day in Newport, and I thought we could go inside and play a few rounds of play station. Summer, do you, uh, want to join us?" he asked awkwardly. They still hadn't talked to each other since the breakup and he wasn't sure how she was handling it.
"No, that's okay I gotta get home anyway, my Dad and step mom are coming back tonight from their vacation." She said lying. They wouldn't be back for at least another 2 weeks. There was no way she was gonna be able to sit there and watch Seth play his stupid games, he just looked too cute doing it.
"Okay, well umm, I'll call you tomorrow and we can hang out?" Ryan asked her hopefully.
She smiled at him. "Yeah, sure."
How he was going to tell Seth that he had the hots for his ex-girlfriend would be an interesting task. One that he wasn't ready to try tonight. Maybe tomorrow, if he remembered.
A/n- So there ya go the next installment. I haven't been getting too many reviews, I hope people are actually reading this and liking it. I'm leaving for vacation Thursday, so this could be the last chapter for about 2 weeks, but if I get a lot of good reviews then I may feel like writing one more before I leave.