Disclaimer: I own absolutely nothing related to the O.C. to my great and total distress. I bow down to you oh might Josh Schwartz, and thank you for blessing us with the best show ever!

Reader's Note: Hey everyone thanks for all the great reviews. I know the last chapter was sort of short, so I promise that this one will be longer. Most of the story is Marissa and Ryan, but this is kind of the whole gang.

"Hey Ryan" Seth said waving his arms in front of his best friends face. Ryan jumped, causing Marissa who was sitting on his lap to fall off. "Good job dude," Seth said and gave Marissa a hand. Marissa didn't take it, instead she leapt up and dusted herself off. She leaned over and kissed Ryan on the cheek and whispered something in his ear.

"I forgive you," she said and Ryan raised and eyebrow.

"For what?" he joked and Marissa's grin faded slightly. "Kidding, kidding,"

"Uh" Marissa huffed and smacked him on the shoulder before heading off the bus to catch up with her best friend. Summer and Marissa linked arms and headed towards the gate. Just as they had almost reached it, Marissa whispered something to Summer who giggled, then she turned around and waved four tickets in the air and ran towards the gate.

"Oh no," Seth wailed "they're going to make us stay out here all day,"

"Come on," Ryan said and half dragged Seth at a jog towards the gate. By the time they got there Summer and Marissa were just about to give their tickets to the guard.

"Wait!" Seth cried loudly and everyone turned to look at him. Seth didn't even have the decency to blush. He just gave Summer the puppy dog look but Summer just smiled. Seth's lip came out and Summer's smile got bigger. Ryan knew that she would give in eventually but she loved to play this game with Seth. Ryan laughed; it was good to know something's never change. Seth glared at him and Ryan's smile disappeared, then quickly repapered. He couldn't help it, it was just too damn funny to watch Seth and Summer.

"Rissa?" Ryan pleaded and Marissa looked like she wanted to relent. But Summer whispered something to Marissa and the two of them handed over their tickets. Ryan and Seth watched them their mouths hanging open. They couldn't believe that they had left them. Ryan pulled out his phone and speed dialed Marissa just as Seth dialed Summer, but there was no answer.

"How could they do this to us?" Seth moaned and put his head in his hands. He knew that Summer liked doing this to him, but this was going a little bit to far, if he did say so himself.

"Do what?" a voice innocently said and Seth sighed, he knew that voice.

"Summer!" he cried and leapt up. He knew that Summer wouldn't leave him, he knew that. Actually who was he kidding; he had thought he would have to spend the day outside. He could never tell with Summer, especially not when she and Marissa went into best friend overdrive. Then well, then he had no idea what was going to happen.

"Yeah?" she asked sweetly linking arms with him. "Come on Coop!"

"'kay," Marissa said and gave Ryan a quick kiss. "I'm sorry," she whispered but Ryan thought she didn't look all that sorry. But it was okay as long as she was good and sober well then he could forgive just about anything else. In fact Ryan couldn't think of anything that Marissa could do that would ruin his feeling about her. Even the drinking wouldn't ruin that. The four of them then headed through the gate and into Disney World. Ryan felt so excited, though he was cool and calm on the outside, after all being excited over a theme park wouldn't exactly help the reputation that he had in Newport. Ryan stopped himself and bit his lip right after the though flashed through his head. His reputation in Newport didn't matter anymore. And not just because he was in Florida and almost 2,000 miles from home, because he lived in a totally different world now, he lived in Chino.

"Oh My God!" Marissa cried and clapped her hands together in a very un-Marissa like fashion, "It's main street!" Everyone else looked around, and weren't all too surprised to find themselves actually on main street. The girls were itching to go shopping but Seth and Ryan were "men" and so shopping really didn't seem like fun. So much to the girl's disappointment they headed out of Main Street. After they had bypassed the Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse statue, they caught sight of Disney's treasure. Cinderella's castle. Ryan stared up at it and bit back a grin. It wasn't like he hadn't seen it thousands of times on TV and such but still, he hadn't realized that it was so big. Marissa linked her arms through his and leaned against him.

"It's pretty, right?" she asked and Ryan sort of shrugged. "I'll take that as yes,"

"Wow! You got an answer out of Chino?" Summer said in surprise and hit his other arm lightly. Ryan gave Summer a look, but Summer just gave him one back. Seth who was busy jumping around like a little kid, finally calmed down and grinned at all of them.

"Come on!" Seth whined and pulled Summer towards the castle. Marissa grinned and unlinked her hand from Ryan's and placed it in his hand. Then Marissa took off after Summer and Seth who were running through the castle's tunnel. Ryan barley had time to realize they were inside the castle before they were on the other side. Marissa reached into her pocket and pulled out a crumpled map and started to consult it.

"We're in fantasyland!" she announced happily. Ryan grinned because it was unusable to see Marissa this excited, and then she and Summer practically squealed when they saw the carousel. Ryan rolled his eyes but let himself be dragged on it. They picked horses and Ryan held Marissa's hand. It was more of a reflex then anything else, just a simple gesture, like the ones that he use to do when he was with Marissa. When he was able to whisper in her ear that he loved her and it was uncomplicated gesture. Marissa leaned over and kissed him quickly on the lips. The little kids who were ridding behind them groaned in disgust. Ryan rolled his eyes inwardly but Marissa made an apologetic face at the kids. Although Ryan can see she looks like she's about to burst out laughing. Ryan could hear Seth whisper something to Summer, or more like he could see it, and her throw back her head in laughter. A couple of months ago when he still had lived in Newport he would have rolled his eyes, because well Seth's vain attempts at humor made no one but Summer laugh, but now Ryan was glad to see it. It was a reminder that some things never change.

"Whee!" a little kid behind them cries as the ride starts. Marissa and Ryan both burst out laughing. It was all too funny. They had to be the oldest people on this ride, not counting the parents of the little kids.

"Do you feel a bit odd?" Marissa asked and Ryan gave her a look. Marissa giggled, "me too!" The two of them laughed the rest of the ride. They were still laughing as they met up with Seth and Summer by the exit.

"Okay someone better tell me what's so funny!" Summer demanded as Ryan and Marissa gasped for air. Marissa just shook her head, she was laughing too hard to tell, although to be truthful she wasn't quite sure why she was laughing. Marissa finally managed to stop laughing and shortly after so did Ryan. "You know what Coop?"

"Hmmm?"

"It's pretty amazing,"

"What's amazing?" Seth asked putting his arm around Summer's waist and kissing her cheek.

"Cohen! Ew! No PDA!" Summer said and rolled her eyes, "anyways...as I was saying before Cohen so rudely interrupted me." Summer turned and gave him a dirty look, "it's so amazing that you Coop are like the only one in the world that can get Chino to show emotion. How weird is that?"

"Hey, hey, hey, Summer, now wait just a sec," Seth said, "Ryan does not need to show emotion. All he needs is a look,". As if to prove Seth right Ryan raised and eyebrow and gave Seth a look. "exactly," Summer and Marissa giggled. Seth was just about to make another point when his phone began to rang. Reaching into his pocket he pulled it out and rolled his eyes at the caller ID. "It's my parents," he said and made a face. "Hello?"

"Hi sweetie," Kirsten's voice said

"Hey Mom," Seth said in exasperation. No one else's parent's had called to check up on them. It was just too embarrassing.

"How are you doing?" Sandy's voice piped up. "Are the four of you having fun?"

"Yes," Seth said tentatively not really sure where all this was going. If his parent's knew anything about what had happened with Marissa, by some weird way, he was going to play dumb.

"That's good, that's good," Sandy said "How's Ryan?"

"why don't you hear for yourself?"

"okay sweetie put him on for a second," Kirsten's voice said

"'Kay," Seth said and covered the mouth piece, "Ryan, dude, they want to talk to you,"

"Uh, okay," Ryan said in confusion and took the phone from Seth. It wasn't as if he hadn't talked to them at least once a week while he had been in Chino. "Hey,"

"Hey sweetie. How are you holding up?" Kirsten said catching Ryan off guard. He had kind of forgotten about Teresa and the baby, and he sure as hell hadn't told Sandy and Kirsten. "Teresa called us," Kirsten supplied, "she also told us to give you a message because she couldn't reach you."

"Oh," Ryan said

"She's leaving, Ryan," Sandy said. Ryan's eyes widened, he couldn't quite believe what he was hearing.

"What?"

"Oh, no, no," Kirsten said getting that Ryan had the wrong impression. "She not running away. She um said to say, that she's going to live in Atlanta, with her cousin."

"you're kidding," Ryan said and walked off a little ways so that his three best friends couldn't hear the rest of his conversation.

"Nah, sorry son. She said that she and her mom both decided that it was the best thing for her to do now. Get her life back in order." Sandy said

"Um, did she leave a number?" Ryan finally said

"No...but she did say that she was going to call you when she got there. She also said that she was really sorry and thanks for everything," Kirsten added

"Oh, well did she say what I was should do?" Ryan said his voice desperate.

"What do you mean?" Sandy asked confused.

"where should I go?"

"You'll come back to Newport, of course," Kirsten added as if it was the obvious answer, "and just in time for school too,"

"Are you sure?" Ryan asked he needed to be reassured.

"Are we going to go through this again?" Sandy sighed in exasperation. "We wanted you to stay, in fact Kirsten and I had been talking about maybe asking you to come at least for the weekdays so that you could get a good education,"

"Oh," Ryan said in surprise, "So um okay,"

"Great, now do me a favor and put Seth back on the phone," Kirsten's voice said and then pauses for a second then adds quickly, "we love you sweetie, now put Seth on," Ryan obliged still unsure what had just happened

Author's note: Hey everyone thanks for sticking with my horrible update schedule. I'm going to be away for 10 days so the next update will take a while. But don't worry I'll add the next part as soon as I can.