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Someday

Chapter 3: Skin Deep

When Marissa barged in on his wedding, and seemingly stopped it, all of his feelings for her rushing back at him like the friggin' Mississippi river. After four long, not as misereable as he thought years, all those feelings of love, happiness, and love for himself that he hadn't felt in years. When he was with Theresa, he just couldn't imagine, or feel the realness of love anymore. Ryan thought it was love, the same kind as he felt for Marissa, but now he knew that it was no more than family love. Over-protective love. Big brother and little sister love. Anything but the love that he felt for Marissa. Anything but what he missed the most. And when Marissa said those four simple words: I still love you; well that just made those strong feelings even stronger.

Then, Ryan couldn't control himself anymore. The mix of her silky hazel-nut hair, with it's strawberry scent; and her sparkly, light pink, watermellon lip gloss, making her delicate lips look irresistible. And those eyes. Her gorgeous, big blue eyes pleading for him to come closer and be with her.

Ryan gently leaned in to her. He cupped her cheek with his hand, and softly brushed her ear with his thumb. As their lips crashed together, Ryan took in every aspect of her perfectness. Some things about her had changed, he noted. But nothing had become worse, there was no possible way. But after all those years, one thing had remained the same. The way she felt Ryan's soul, and made it feel like they were one, made them both feel whole. Their eyes locked, and in that moment, they both knew that they had gotten in skin deep.

Now the kisses were getting longer, harder, deeper, more passionate, and of course, more frequent. It seemed as though their lips fit together perfectly, like the two missing pieces of a neglected puzzle.

Marissa was in heaven. It had been so long since she had felt Ryan's touch, seen his smile, tasted his lips. Her eyes started filling up with tears, the kind of tears that only he could make her shed. The kind of tears that had disappeared from her so long ago. She missed those tears, and the feeling that came along with them, making her feel like the luckiest girl in the world.

"I missed you. . .and this so much, Ry." She said in-between kisses

"I missed you too. You have no idea how long I've been waiting to be with you."

Ryan gently laid her down onto her back. He brushed his hands through her long, silky brown hair as she tugged playfully at his wife beater bringing his lips back to hers. He gratefully put his strong arms over her shoulders to hold himself on top of her, as she watched him in a daze, her eyes locked on his gorgeous biceps.

Marissa smiled slightly as she ran her hand under Ryan's shirt, feeling his (still) finely toned abs. She removed his white tank top, careful as to make sure id didn't get in the way of them. She then slipped off her light pink DKNY sandals, hearing the diamonds crash on the pool house floor. Along with her sandals, Ryan lifted up her matching pink shirt, leaving them both topless.

Ryan kissed down her neck, which got her into a giggle fit, and then left a trail of small kisses down her chest and belly, unhooking her bra in the process. Marissa groaned in delight, begging for more.

"We really have waited a long time to do this, huh?" Ryan asked, referring back to Valentines Day so many years ago.

She giggled. "Yeah, I guess we have."

She wrapped her arms around his soft neck, and pulled him down onto her lips once more.

After many hours, they both lay on the pull-out bed in the pool house, wrapped up tightly in each other's arms. While Marissa was sleeping, or what seemed to be sleeping, Ryan was wide awake. His head lay on her warm chest, and he smiled as he listened to the beating of her heart. He stared at her beauty. He studied every element of her gorgeous face, her big beautiful eyes, her perfect nose and her slender lips, that held just the lightest tone of pink.

Ryan reached over to the short bedside table where the light stood. He moved his hand around in search of the light switch. He pulled the short string, and in a moment, everything went dark.

He looked over at Marissa once more before closing his eyes and said, "I still love you too, Marissa Cooper. Now…and always. That's forever."

Marissa smiled as he hugged her closer and closed his eyes. She looked at him one more time, and drifted of to sleep. . . .For real.

Well, there you have chapter 3! I hope you liked it. I had a ton of fun writing it! Just to let you know, yes, I am the writer of Some Kind of Wonderful, and no, I'm not giving up on it. I just wanted to do this story along with it. Also, sorry that I changed the name, I just thought that this title was a little better. And one more thing, I just found out that someone else has this title "Someday" for their story. I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to steal it! That's one of the reasons that I changed it. Ok, anyways. . .please review as always! Lov ya, and thanks for all your support so far!

Margo

P.S. Ok, this chapter was so much longer on paper! ARGH! It seems really short now!