Trouble In Paradise

Summary- A few episodes combined into one.

Disclaimer- Anything I may mention is of course not mine because once again, I am not Josh Schwartz.

A/N- Yes, I'm back, with a new chapter. Pretty long I think, and I hope you enjoy it.

On with it...

Summer was cuddled close to Seth on one of the couches while Marissa was at a pretty good distance from Ryan on the other. Ryan sighed as he looked over to Marissa, who was into the movie. She wasn't into it, to someone else it might've looked like she was, but Ryan knew better.

She had been so different ever since that night of Cotillion or whenever her parents were mentioned. It was pretty obvious that Julie and Jimmy were getting divorced, no question about it, so Marissa spent all her time at the Cohen's. Ryan had tried to get her talking about something, anything, but she always made up an excuse that she wasn't feeling up to it or just didn't want to talk about it.

Marissa caught Ryan's glance and looked at him. "What?" she said softly.

Ryan shook his head, "Nothing," and returned his attention back to the movie.

In about the middle of the movie, Summer and Seth start going at it, leaving a disguisted Ryan and Marissa awkwardly watching the movie in between loud smacks. Ryan got up and went into the kitchen, opening the fridge and getting something to drink. Marissa followed and he got a drink for her as well. After a few sips, Marissa finally broke the silence.

"You know? We used to be like that."

"Yeah, I know," Ryan said quietly, taking another sip and than going back into the den. Feeling better that Seth and Summer had stopped making out and were watching the movie again, he sat closer to Marissa. He had tried to talk to her so many times, but this was a touchy subject for her and she really was quite emotional.

Ryan's thoughts were interupted when the flickering of lights blinded his eyes. "Grandpa!" Seth shouted, getting up and giving Caleb a hug. Marissa looked at Ryan's expression. Did he even know he was, she thought. Ryan got up quickly and shook a hand with a suspicious Caleb.

"Hi Mr. Nichol."

"You're the boy my Ki-Ki adopted aren't you?" Caleb asked.

"Yes, sir, Ryan Atwood."

Giving him a once over look, Caleb returned back to his conversation with Seth.

"So where's my new Grandma?" Seth excitedly asked.

Caleb chuckled and pointed towards the pool. "She's just my girlfriend not your new grandma." He paused before looking over his shoulder to see Sandy and Kirsten come into the house. Grabbing a bag of coal, he handed it to Ryan and motioned for him to take it out into the back. Ryan grunted as he hoisted it up over his shoulder and walked out back with it, Marissa and Summer following.

As Ryan got closer to the grill, he spotted a figure coming out of the pool. I do not need to see an old lady coming out of the pool, he thought. But when the "old lady" got into a better view, Ryan's mouth dropped. He threw the bag of coal over on the grill and concentrated on the woman coming out of the pool. Seth came up behind him, patting his shoulder and than taking in a sharp breath. "Whoa! Check. Out. My new grandma," he stated breathlessly.

Summer heard this and punched him in the arm, sending him flying about five feet. "Hi, I'm Gabrielle," the turqouise clad model greeted, putting a towel over herself.

"Seth Cohen, and that's Ryan over there," Seth explained, pointing over to Ryan. Gabrielle nodded her head and walked past Ryan, brushing an innocent shoulder with him. "Cute," she stated, and with not another look back, walked inside the house.

Ryan and Seth both felt pinches on their arms and looked at their girlfriends. "You're such pigs!" Summer stated.

"What? Why?"

"Oh look at me, I'm Gabby, and I have the largest implants in the world," Summer mimicked, walking around in a circle.

Seth let out a few short breaths before not knowing what to do, and just ended up giving Summer a kiss.

"Okay, you're forgiven for staring at that whore," she admitted, as they ran back to his room.

Ryan looked at Marissa and gave her a cheeky smile. "Am I forgiven?" he asked slyly, wrapping his arms around her waist.

"Yeah, sure whatever."

He knew that she didn't mean it and started to walk back into the poolhouse. "Hey, where are you going?" Marissa asked, grabbing his arm and spinning him around.

"Why? Do you care or something?" he retorted.

Marissa looked strangely at him. "Of course I care about you."

"Well you sure haven't been acting like it."

"Just because we haven't had sex in like...a week, you think I don't care about you. I do, but if you haven't noticed my parents are getting a divorce! So excuse me if I'm not the happiest person in the world!" She started to walk away.

"Marissa!" Ryan called out.

"No Ryan! Go have fun with that whore!"

"You know? I should take that offensively, but I don't," Gabby walked out of the main house and ran her fingers across his chest.

"That's nice," Ryan absentmindely responded.

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"Hmm, looks like I beat him again, do you have anything else that's a little harder?" Gabby asked, referring to the video game she had been playing for the last half hour.

Seth got up and looked at it. "Ryan? This is what you've been playing? A monkey could play this game," Seth stated and walked out of the pool house where him, Ryan and Gabby were all seated one way or another.

Ryan continued to flip through the pages of the comic book, not paying attention to Gabrielle's longing stares. "You know..." she started to say, getting closer to him.

"Yeah?"

"I'm sorta bored."

"Than...uh go to sleep or something." He just couldn't get Marissa out of his head. Even though she was mad at him and he was supposed to be mad at her, he just couldn't, he loved her too much.

"Actually..." she started sliding her hand up his leg and stopping right near his inner thigh, "I wanna be bored with you."

Ryan started to get nervous. "Uh? You do know I have a girlfriend, right?"

"And I have a boyfriend...they never have to know," she whispered seductively.

"I can't," he stated, starting to get up. "I can't do that to her, or to our relationship."

She scoffed. "What relationship? A little stupid high school romance? Do you really think that's gonna last?"

A look of surprise clouded Ryan's face. Were they going to last? If so, for how long? "I, I...I go...gotta go," he stumbled over his words and high-tailed it out of there.

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Ryan stopped right outside of Marissa's room. He saw the lights on and swiftly made his way up the trellis. "Marissa, I..." he stopped mid sentence when he saw not that Marissa was standing there, but instead Julie Cooper. He fully went inside, swinging his leg over the ledge and tried not to make any sudden movements.

"You better watch it!" Julie yelled. "Pilates may not look like it hurts, but it sure as hell does!"

Ryan looked confused, "I'm um..."

"Mom! I got the..." Marissa sulked her way into the room but froze when she saw Ryan. "Ryan!" she yelled in a mixture of happiness and surprised. "What are you doing here?!"

"I'm sorry to interupt this oh so beautiful moment," Julie said sarcastically, "but who are you?"

"Mom? This is..." Marissa walked over to Ryan. "This is Ryan."

"Oh the boy from Chino...I'm sorry I didn't recognize you without your gun and gang in view."

"Um, I don't run in a gang and I've never touched a gun before."

"Oh well, good to know." She paused, looking at the two of them and catching on to why he was there. "Oh Marissa," she said taking in a sharp breath. "Don't tell me..." she took another breath again. "Don't tell me that you two are..."

"What is going on here!?" Jimmy yelled as he stormed into the room. "It's night, we're all supposed to be sleeping!"

"Oh calm down caveman, not everyone sleeps at 10," Julie waved him with a newly manicured hand.

"Marissa, what is a strange boy doing in your room?" Jimmy asked.

"Dad, you remember Ryan...from Cotillion?" Marissa told him.

"Oh right."

"I uh...just..." Ryan was at a loss for words. "I just wanted to talk to Marissa."

"Are you two dating?" Jimmy asked.

"Marissa!" Julie gasped, "What about Luke?"

"Me and Luke are done."

In a huff, Julie left the room. Jimmy extended his hand for Ryan to shake. "Welcome to the family," he said with a grin.

Ryan seemed confused but shook Jimmy's hand anyways. "So...Ryan, if you're not busy tomorrow, would you like to join us for dinner?" Ryan seemed surprised by his niceness but nodded his head anyways. "Sure, but actually, I'm um...Mr. Nichol's birthday is tomorrow and I sorta have to be there."

"Oh okay, well another day than, night kids." Jimmy than left the room.

Ryan turned to face Marissa, "I thought you said your parents didn't like me?" he questioned.

"I guess my Dad does. What are you doing here though?" She smiled and wrapped her arms around his shoulders.

"Oh..." He said with a shy smile, "I don't know, I just sort of acted up I guess before and I wanted to apologize."

"Apologize for what?"

"For earlier, with Gabrielle...and all, so...uh sorry."

"Oh? Well that being the only apology I've ever recieved from a boy, It was also the nicest, so I accept." She said with a smile. She seemed so much happier than before.

He smiled and leaned into kiss her softly. She returned the kiss and started to move over to her bed. "Uh not while your parents are here, okay?"

Marissa seemed disappointed but nodded anyways and gave him one last kiss. "Aren't you gonna use the front door?" she asked with a slight smile, seeing as he was going out the window.

He smiled, "No, I'm good. See you tomorrow." She watched him go down the trellis when about halfway down, he stopped and looked up. "Night."

She couldn't help but smile and blew him a sweet kiss. "Night." She watched him jog back to his house and got into bed shortly after.

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"You know? The offer still stands if you want to," Gabrielle came into the view as Ryan was looking for Marissa the night of the party.

"Thanks but I'm good," Ryan replied. He spotted Marissa walking back across the driveway and left a very horny Gabrielle all to herself.

"Hey, you're early," Ryan greeted, giving her a quick peck on the lips. Marissa smiled and wrapped an arm around his waist. "Great party!" she said sarcastically.

"It wasn't a party until you showed up," he said sweetly. Marissa smiled again and took him by the shirt, walking backwards. "Come on."

"Where?"

"Just follow me."

About halfway to the pool house, Julie stopped Marissa and made her shake hands with a man in his early 20's. "Marissa? This is Peter...he works as a financial planner." "Maybe you'll have better luck with one than I did with you father," she muttered under her breath.

Ryan got what Julie was trying to do and he tried not to let it get to him. "I'm gonna be in the pool house, okay," he said, letting go of Marissa's hand and walking away.

"No...wai..." Marissa caught her breath. Her mother was looking at her expectantly and motioned for her to talk to Peter.

"Hi," she said dryly. Peter have her a warm smile. "Hi."

"Peter, tell Marissa all about your summer," Julie urged.

"Oh right..." Peter started to tell about his summer backpacking through Europe while a bored Marissa nodded off.

In about 20 mintutes, Julie had become bored as well and had left Marissa and Peter alone. "That sounds really great, nice meeting you," Marissa cut him off short and started to sprint towards the pool house. She opened the door silently, only to find Ryan with his head down, his eyes closed and listening to an IPod. "Ryan..." she whispered. "Ryan..." she whispered again, going over to him and saw that he had fallen asleep. Lifting the bottom of her dress up a little, she got on top of him, straddling his waist.

He got up, rubbing the sleep from his eyes and surprised to find Marissa on top of him. "Hey, sorry about," she rolled her eyes, "My mom..." she rolled her eyes again. "You get the point."

Ryan smiled and leaned into her, wrapping his arms around her waist. "You know...the party's still in full swing...and no one's gonna really notice that we're gone..." she said in a flirty tone, getting off his lap and pushing him back onto the bed.

He laughed but stopped when Marissa crawled up to him, and put her lips against his, hard. He kissed back and ran his fingers up and down her thighs and lifting up the bottom of her dress. Marissa dug her knees on either side of him on the bed as Ryan continued to struggle with the tie in the back. Finally untying it, he felt Marissa's lips detach from his and move across his jaw over to his neck. He let the ties dangle across his face and was about to roll on top of her when the pool house door swung open.

There stood a very surprised Gabrielle. "Oh um...I'm sorry," she said quickly.

"Oh...um..." Ryan and Marissa muttered simotaneously.

"Right." With a double look at both of them, she left in a hurry.

"What...?" Marissa started to say but was cut off by Ryan who rolled on top of her and kissed her with such a built up passion. She smiled brightly and for now...she knew everything was gonna be all right.

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"Summer!" Seth yelled furiously throughout the Cohen household.

"Cohen! Get over your mood!" Summer retorted.

Sandy was trailing after them, rubbing his forhead. They had given him such a headache since 7 AM this morning. "Are you sure you two will be all right with them?" he turned around and faced Ryan.

Ryan looked at Seth and Summer who were screaming at the top of their lungs. "Uh...yeah, we'll be fine."

"Okay, if you say so...Seth Summer! Come on! Hurry up!" Sandy shouted.

Seth tore his eyes from Summer and looked at his Dad. "Oh, Ryan, Marissa, you guys ready?" he asked in a calm voice.

"Yeah Seth we are," Ryan replied.

"Okay than! Let's get this show on the road!"

Summer rolled her eyes but picked up her bags anyways and waddled to the front door, her bags tightly in her hands.

"Ready to go?" Ryan asked Marissa. She nodded and watched as Ryan take a few of her bags and some of his own. She smiled and nodded, following him out the door.

They were going to Tijuana for the weekend before school started, just for one last chance at fun. Ryan was especially excited, he had never been there. He was even happier that Marissa opened up to him more over the past few days. That was all he wanted in the first place, and she seemed to be handling the situation better and even the mention of her parent's divorcing didn't set her into tears anymore.

"Okay, be careful...don't talk to strangers, don't hitch hike...and uh..." Kirsten trailed off. "Am I forgetting something?"

"Yeah! How about have fun?!" Seth cut in. Kirsten smiled at the four teenagers, "Yeah, have fun as well."

"All right...peace!" Seth called out to his parents and getting in the car.

"Peace!" Sandy called back out.

All of the kids said their good bye's to Sandy and Kirsten and than Seth started to drive off. "We're gonna have fun this weekend? Right?" Ryan asked.

Marissa nodded and scootched over to him more, licking her lips and than planting a big one on him. Ryan smiled and held the water bottle up to her. "I was gonna ask you if you wanted water for your dry lips...but I like this option better." She laughed. "Me too," and leaned into kiss him again.

SOME NEWS

Okay, so as this fic went on...I got a great idea, but than I decided not to go along with it...so I was ending it there. Next chapter will be the last chapter, than the sequel OR another option is to continue how I was going to and make this fic even longer. The second option has lots of Dawn drama I guess you could say...as well as the Cohen's...so tell me what you want and I'll go with it. And um...next chapter...Marissa and Ryan will have a conversation that really describes how Marissa feels. Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed!