Sorry for this short chapter, but I like to leave chaps on cliffhangers. I like to read ones that do so that is why I write them like that. Hope everyone enjoys.

"So Ryan was not there?" Summer asked when Seth walked back into the kitchen.

"He was there, but had his hands full."

"What do you mean?"

"Marissa was sort of with him. You know."

"Ahh I see. Guess we missed everything. It's nice that they made up."

Ryan and Marissa walked into the kitchen and Summer ran towards Marissa to give her a hug. Seth apologized to Ryan about the interruption and began talking about his and Summer's weekend.

"It was so much fun, but it would have been better if you two were with us. Care to inform me and Summer when this togetherness so to speak happened?"

"A bit before you came into the pool house and ruined the moment." Ryan joked.

"Again sorry, but we're cool now so things can get back to normal then."

"Not exactly. I still have to tell Olivia. I'm not really looking forward to that."

"You mean you haven't! Oh snap. I would love to see that."

"Yeah, I'll be selling tickets for it real soon; like tonight."

"For how much?"

Ryan just hit Seth playfully in the back of his head. He always had his comedic side on. Ryan wondered when he would truly be serious for once. At least he made life interesting with his comedy.

"So where are the parentals?" Seth asked.

"I have no clue, but they should be back soon to interrogate you about what you did this weekend." Ryan replied.

"Some things will not be discussed."

"Hey Seth could you drive me home because I need to start early tomorrow for work and I still have like loads to do before I hit the hay." Summer said.

"Summer you work? Wow, that is a first." Marissa said.

"Yeah well it keeps me away from my stepmom."

"Sure. Let me know what went down with Olivia okay." Seth said before leaving.

Ryan nodded his head while opening the fridge to get himself a drink.

"You want anything?"

"No, I'm fine. Umm. What are you going to tell her? I mean you can't just come out and say it."

"I have no clue yet. It won't be easy, but there is nothing else I could do. I never really got over you so maybe I will say that."

"You didn't?" Marissa joked.

"Well obviously. I mean after we did actually talk all these feelings came back and I tried to block them out. The moment your grandma called about you I knew then that maybe going back now would be better than later. You know before you moved on as well."

"Because you realized that you still loved me like I loved you?"

"Yeah. And even though things were going good with Olivia I had a feeling that it wouldn't last anyway. Why waste my time on something that won't last?"

"I have been hoping to hear that as soon as I saw you the first day I came back. Now that I am hearing them I still feel like I am dreaming."

"Well you're not, but I still have to look halfway descent when I tell her the bad news. I'll be back in a few minutes.

Ryan headed for the pool house while Marissa just sat in the kitchen. Just then Sandy and Kirsten entered the house after spending the day golfing. At first they didn't notice Marissa sitting there because they had all eyes on each other until Kirsten finally noticed her sitting there.

"Oh hey Marissa. When did you get back? Is your mom back too?" Kirsten asked.

"A couple of days ago and no she is still in New York."

"I'm glad to see that you are back. We missed not having you around."

"So where is Ryan? I'm assuming he is close near by." Sandy asked.

"He's getting changed, and just so you know Seth was home too, but went to Summer's house."

"A whole weekend together and they didn't get sick of each other. They are doing better than us." Sandy joked.

Kirsten just laughed and left the room to go take a shower. Sandy excused himself and went into the living room to watch some television. Marissa waited for a little while longer before he finally came back out.

"So is this appropriate?" Ryan asked.

"I don't know. There is no proper attire for what you are going to do."

"Well all I know is that she called while you were waiting and that is why it took so long. She asked me to pick her up from the airport. Her parents wanted to stay an extra night, but she wanted to come back."

"So you'll drop me off and then call me when this is all over?"

"If she doesn't kill me first." Ryan joked. Marissa laughed and was already anticipating that phone call.

During the car ride home she thought about what they could do before the school year begins. She was trying to come up with something that they both had never done before. After minutes of thinking she came up with an idea, but held back from telling him until he broke up with Olivia.

This can wait. He had too much on his mind now to think about this, but once he straightens this out then we can enjoy this together.

As soon as he dropped off Marissa, Ryan's nerves began to surface again. He almost wished Marissa could do this with him. Olivia was so sweet and she never did anything to upset him, but he knew he had to do this no matter what. Earlier he thought this was going to be easy, but now thought otherwise.

When he finally arrived at the airport, he parked the car and went to the gate she was exiting at. It seemed like an endless walk to the gate. During that time he figured out what he was going to say to her. There were people already exiting from the door and he kept looking to see when she would appear. Suddenly he felt two hands covering his eyes.

"Guess who?"

"Umm. Olivia?"

"How did you know? I know stupid question."

Ryan turned around and she hugged him. He returned the hug, but inside felt worse than before knowing that she was happy. Olivia was practically ecstatic. He had never seen her this happy. Either her weekend went extremely well, or he was the reason. Unfortunately for him, it was because she finally was seeing him.

"So aren't you happy that I decided to come back early?"

"Yeah I am. This is so much better."

"Your gift that I was going to bring is still in Florida. I just brought back one bag. You don't mind do you?"

"No. Not at all."

"Well so how was your weekend without me?"

"Ahh. It was okay."

"Hmm, just okay. Like what did you do?"

"Worked and hung out. Tell me what you did? Yours had to be more interesting."

Ryan half listened to what she was saying. Things were not going like he thought they would. He had an opening to tell her about Marissa, but blew his chance because he chickened out. He figured he would have blurted out what needed to be said and that would be it. Now he didn't know when would be the right time to tell her.

"That sounds great." Ryan replied to her answer.

"So could you take me now to my house. I hope my fish didn't die form starvation. Nobody was home so I hope they are okay."

'I hope so too. Let's go."

Ryan drove pretty quickly to her house. He wanted to just drop her off, break off, and then leave. Again things did not turn out that way and now he was sitting with her watching t.v. at her house.