The alarm went off so Ryan reached over to turn it off when realizing it was only 6.
"Marissa, why did you set the alarm for 6?" Ryan asked as he returned to his sleeping position and wrapped his arms around her.
"Really I set it for 6?" Marissa replied opening her eyes and smiled remembering the night before, "I must have been a little disorientated over last night."
"I'll take that as a compliment." Ryan said kissing her on the forehead.
"You definitely should!" Marissa agreed, "Did you reset the alarm?"
"Yes, 2 more hours of sleep." Ryan said yawning and closed his eyes with Marissa in his arms. The both fell back to sleep.
At 9:30 Marissa and Ryan met Caleb and Julie in the lobby and headed for a quick breakfast before checking out the first house.
The rest of the morning they viewed 3 houses, all were very nice and well kept but neither were as big as the palace caleb originally bought for Julie.
At lunch Caleb took everyone to a cozy little pub for lunch. While they were eating they were interupted by someone.
"Ryan? Ryan Atwood, is that you?" A girl with wavy, medium length blonde hair and huge green eyes said excitedly.
"Yeah, Cat?" Ryan replied standing up to greet her.
"Yeah, OMG what are you doing here?" Cathrine said and wrapped her arms around Ryan, "I haven't seen you since, well you know when."
Ryan smirked and looked away a little embarrased, "Yeah so how have you been, what are you doing in Boston?"
"I'm looking at going to school here, I'm graduating early, trying to get out of Chino as fast as possible. So I hear you got out, good for you. I'm sorry about everything that happened though." Cathrine stated.
"It's ok everything worked out. Oh Cat this is Marissa, her mom Julie and this is Mr. Nichol." Ryan said realizing he should introduce everyone.
"Hi, I'm an old girlfriend of Ryan's." Cathrine stated.
"Hi." Marissa replied and glanced over at her mom and Caleb. She noticed Caleb wink at her mother from the corner of her eye. She sat quietly for a second and realized her mom and Caleb planned this reunion.
"So, why don't you join us Cat?" Marissa asked.
"Umm, I was going to grab lunch by myself but if you guys don't mind, sure I'd love to." Cathrine replied and grabbed a chair.
"So Cat, what are you planning on taking at college?" Marissa asked, trying to show her parents that Cathrine wasn't going to come between her and Ryan.
"I want to become an archetect. I love buildings and I love drawing so hopefully I can find what I'm looking for here." She replied.
"Really, I didn't know you liked to draw?" Ryan said interested.
"Oh um, it's something I started after we broke up." Cathrine stated.
"Why did you choose Boston?" Marissa asked.
"It's far from California, from Chino, pretty much as far as I can get away from there." Cathrine replied.
"So Ryan what brings you guys to Boston?" Cathrine asked.
"Mr. Nichol and Julie are moving out here they asked us to join them to check it out." Ryan replied grabbing Marissa's hand.
"You guys are moving to Boston, so Marissa you'll be living here too." Cathrine said.
"Umm, I'm not sure." Marissa replied.
"Why don't we leave you guys alone to get reacquinted and we'll meet up with you later?" Caleb asked.
"Do you have plans for the rest of the afternoon?" Ryan asked.
"No not really, I'd love to catch up with you." Cathrine replied.
Julie and Caleb got up to leave and Marissa got up as well.
"I'm going to go with them." Marissa said to Ryan and started to walk out behind Julie and Caleb.
"Can you hold on one sec?" Ryan asked and ran after Marissa, "Marissa wait a second."
Marissa stopped and turned around facing Ryan, Ryan noticed she didn't look mad at all and it confused him, why was she leaving.
"Why are you leaving, stay with us." Ryan asked taking her hand.
"Ryan, I think she's here because of my mom and Caleb. I saw my Caleb wink at my mom when she came to our table. Ryan, I'm positive about this. You stay here and pretend like we don't know and I'll see what my mom and Caleb are doing." Marissa said.
"Are you sure, you're not going to be mad at me later are you?" Ryan asked.
"No, I promise! Just behave yourslf, you do have a girlfriend!" Marissa smiled and gave Ryan a kiss and left. Ryan returned to Cathrine.
Ryan and Cathrine spent the day together, although Ryan was a little nervous. He wanted to ask Cathrine about her connection to Mr. Nichol and Julie but he also didn't want to ruin what Marissa may have in mind for them. They ended up in the lobby of the hotel.
"I still can't believe you're here, I mean what are the chances of running into you here in Boston." Cathrine said grabbing Ryan's hand.
"I know it's really strange. So what are you doing tonight? Do you have any plans?" Ryan asked.
"No, I was hoping maybe you and I could do something. Maybe check out a movie or find a club or something?" Cathrine suggested.
"Um, you know Marissa and I are seeing eachother right?" Ryan asked, "I thought you realized that."
"Oh, I assumed but was hoping otherwise." Cathrine replied, "I was hoping we could spend tonight like the last time we were together, do you remember that night? I was the hottest , most incredible night ever!"
"I don't think that is such a good idea, Marissa probably won't like it." Ryan replied.
"Marissa doesn't have to know." Cathrine replied and winked at him.
Ryan noticed Marissa through the corner of his eye in an elevator waving at him to go over to her.
"Um, Cat can you wait here for a second? I just have to get something, I won't be long at all." Ryan asked.
"Sure, not a problem." Cathrine replied and Ryan ran over to the elevator that Marissa was in.
Ryan got in and the door closed.
"Where were you all day, I was hoping you would have met up with us earlier." Ryan said.
"I was with my mom and Caleb. They kept asking how I felt about you being with your ex. It seemed like they were trying to make me jealous, asking if I was worried things might happen while the two of you were alone." Marissa replied.
"So you really think your mom and Caleb had something to do with her being here?" Ryan asked.
"Definitely, I think they are trying to break us up so I'll agree to live here." Marissa replied, "Has she been doing anything to make you believe I might be right?"
"Actually she has been hitting on me. Maybe they thought I'd give in to her and have you catch us or something along those lines." Ryan replied.
"You haven't given in to her, right?" Marissa asked giving him a small kiss.
"Well, we did have sex but besides that no." Ryan laughed.
"Ryan!" Marissa replied.
"So what do we do now?" Ryan asked.
"I don't know, I could pretend I caught you and then take off, return to Newport along. Have them worried about me and when they come home I'll tell them I knew about their plan all along." Marissa answered.
"What if they aren't planning anything?" Ryan asked.
"There is only one way to find out, let's asked Cat." Marissa said.
"What if she tells Caleb and Julie about us knowing?" Ryan asked.
"I'm sure Caleb is paying her off to do this, so we'll just tell her that Caleb and my mom will never know she told. She'll get what she wants and we'll get what we want." Marissa replied.
"Fine let's go ask her, where is Caleb and Julie now?" Ryan asked.
"Up in their hotel room, they're spending the night up there. So we shouldn't get caught." Marissa replied.
Ryan and Marissa returned to Cathrine and asked if they all could go somewhere to talk. Cathrine agreed and they headed up to Marissa and Ryan's room.
"Cathrine, my mom and Caleb are moving here. I don't want to move with them, I want to stay in Newport with my father. My mom and Caleb are trying everything to force me to move here and I am getting this suspicious feeling that they have gotten you involved in their plot to drive me to moving to Boston." Marissa said, "They don't know that I'm talking to you but if you know anything about this can you please tell us."
Cathrine sat quietly looking down at the floor.
"Cat, Caleb and Julie will never know that we confronted you or that you told us anything. If they confronted you about trying to seduce me, please tell us." Ryan begged.
"I don't know what you are talking about." Cathrine replied but
"I don't know what you're talking about." Cathrine replied but looked as if she was hiding something.
"Cat, if you tell us Caleb will never know. You'll still get what he offered you and we'll get what we want. They'll never know you sold out." Ryan replied.
Cathrine looked Ryan in the eyes, she could see it was really important to him to know the truth.
"Ok honestly, Caleb did offer me something to try to get you back Ryan. But I actually approached him first." Cathrine stated.
"What? Why did you go to talk to Caleb?" Marissa asked.
"Umm.." Cathrine started, "Actually I'd probably feel more comfortable telling Ryan this first."
Ryan looked confused, he didn't know what she was about to tell him.
"Ok if that is what you want, I'll go into the bedroom while you guys talk." Marissa said and left the room also confused about what Cathrine was going to tell Ryan.
"Ok, what is it?" Ryan asked.
"I couldn't stop thinking about you, I really missed you Ryan." Cathrine started, "I found out where you were living and I went to your house, that is where I ran into Mr. Nichol. You weren't home, when I asked for you he immediately asked if I would meet him and his wife to discuss something."
"So they asked you to come to Boston and act like we just happened to run into eachother. And all the stuff you told me about becoming an archetect and everything else that we just happened to have in common was their way of trying to break Marissa and I up and for me to fall for you again?" Ryan asked.
"That was the plan. Mr. Nichol said that if I was able to pull it off, he would pay for my education. Which is important to me." Cathrine said, "Look Ryan, I'm sorry."
"Cat do you really remember our last night together?" Ryan asked, "We were really messed up, we never had anything other than sex. That was all we ever did."
"I always thought we could have had more." Catrine replied.
"I'm not the same person I was then. I'm with someone else now, you should find someone too." Ryan said.
"It's actually pretty weird to see Ryan Atwood in a serious relationship, to actually hear him say he has a girlfriend." Cathrine stated.
"Why don't we go tell Marissa what her mom and Caleb did and we'll figure out a plan to get what we all want." Ryanr replied and led Cathrine to where Marissa was.
Ryan knocked on the bedroom door,
"Marissa? Can we come in?" Ryan asked through the door.
"Yeah, sure come in." Marissa called back. Ryan and Cathrine went in. Ryan sat next to Marissa and Cathrine found a chair by the window.
"Ok, Caleb offered to pay Cat's education if she broke the two of us up. That's why Julie and Caleb were pushing me with all those questions, they were feeding them to Cat to make me think we were she was the one for me and I guess to make you jealous so we'd break up." Ryan said.
"Wow, now we got to make it look like their plan worked." Marissa replied, "I'll call my dad and get him to buy me a ticket to come home. When my mom and Caleb ask tomorrow, tell them I left because we broke up."
"You are going to leave tonight?" Ryan asked surprised.
"Yeah, and Cat can stay here in the spare room tonight, just incase my mom comes to the door, it'll really look good." Marissa suggested.
"Can't you leave early tomorrow morning?" Ryan begged.
"I'll call my dad and get hime to charge a...never mind my dad doesn't have a credit card!" Marissa realized.
"I'll call the Cohen's, I'm sure you're dad will pay them back." Ryan smiled and picked the phone up and dialed home.
"Hello?" Kirsten answered.
"Hey Kirsten it's Ryan."
"Ryan, is everything ok?" Kirsten asked.
"Umm, everything will be but I can't talk about it now, I will when I get home though. But right now I was hoping you could do Marissa a favour." Ryan asked.
"Of course anything, what is it?" Kirsten asked worried.
"Can you get a ticket for Marissa to go home as soon as possible?" Ryan asked.
"Ok, yeah. Are you ok? Should I get you a ticket too?" Kirsten asked.
"No, she just really needs to get home now." Ryan replied.
"Ok no problem but I have one more question." Kirsten replied, "Are you and Marissa ok? Did you guys have a fight?"
"No, Marissa and I are great." Ryan replied.
"Good, call back in about 10 minutes and I'll tell you when the flight is." Kirsten said and hung up.
"Kirsten is going to get one, I have to call her back soon to find out when your flight is." Ryan replied.
15 minutes later Ryan called Kirsten back. The next flight leaving Boston for California wasn't until 4:30 the next morning but Kirsten booked it anyway. Kirsten said she would pick Marissa up at the airport when she arrived and she was expecting to find out what was going on.
Cathrine, Ryan and Marissa stayed in their room all night. They watched movies and ordered room service. Cathrine went to bed around 10:30 leaving Marissa and Ryan alone.
"I'm sorry about what is going on." Marissa said cuddling into Ryan.
"It's not your fault for anything. Your mom just hasn't liked me from the moment I moved to Newport. She blames me for you and Luke breaking up, for the stuff that happened in Mexico, moving in with your father, you finding out about her and Caleb, you finding out about her and Luke." Ryan said, "Actually it sounds like I'm the cause for just about everything that happened this past year."
"Ryan don't say that. Luke and I would have broken up with or without you coming to Newport. You didn't force my mom with Caleb or Luke, she caused that. Mexico was totally not your fault, you were the one who actually helped me with the situation instead of making it worse." Marissa comforted.
"Do you ever wonder how this past year would have been like without me here?" Ryan asked.
"Yes and I think it would have been horrible. You changed me for the better. I was stuck in this bubble, on the outside I pretended to be fine but on the inside I was a mess." Marissa stated, "You actually saved me, inside and out."
Ryan looked Marissa in the eyes. He wished that everything could be perfect but he knew that things were always going to be hard but he wasn't going to let them get in his way any more.