"No, he's going to stop by tonight when he gets home." Marissa said, "So do you guys want to hang out with Luke and me today?"

"You're hanging out with Luke by yourself, does Ryan know." Seth asked.

"Yes Seth Ryan knows, so do you guys want to hang out." Marissa asked.

"Yeah, I think Ryan would prefer that." Seth replied, "I'll go get a shower."

They met Luke at the pier and they all went for a walk. After, they headed back to Seth's to play some play station. Kirsten ordered supper for everyone and after the dishes were done it was around 6:30.

"I have to head home. Sum, can you drive me?" Marissa asked.

"Yeah sure, Cohen should I come back?" Summer asked.

"Yeah of course, if you want to." Seth replied.

"Ok." Summer said.

"Well Luke I guess I won't see you before you go back so we should say bye now." Marissa said.

"Yeah, well maybe we can get together over Christmas or something." Luke offered.

"Yeah that would be great; it was nice to see you again." Marissa replied.

"I'm glad we were able to get over what happened before. Thank you for forgiving me." Luke said.

"I couldn't stay mad at you forever." Marissa said, "I hope you have a really good year."

"Thanks you too. I hope you and Ryan work everything out." Luke said giving her a hug and kiss on the cheek.

"Bye Luke." Marissa said and left.

Summer dropped Marissa off at her house and Ryan was already waiting on her porch for her.

"Thanks Summer, I'm glad you dropped me off because if Luke did it would have made Ryan even madder at me." Marissa said.

"No problem. Make sure you work everything out because our trip to New York will be ruined if you guys are mad at each other." Summer said.
Marissa grabbed her bags from shopping and headed to the front door.

"You're here early." Marissa said.

"Yeah." Ryan replied.

Marissa unlocked the door, her father wasn't home and she was happy about that.

"You went shopping?" Ryan asked.

"Yeah I was shopping earlier with Summer when you called." Marissa replied.

"How was your day with Luke?" Ryan asked.

"Umm, ok. Seth and Summer were there too. We went to the pier and then back to your place to play video games." Marissa replied walking up to her bedroom.

Ryan followed and sat down on the chair in her room and Marissa sat down on her bed.

"I hate that we're fighting Ryan." Marissa said softly, "I thought about last night and I shouldn't have spent the entire time with Luke and his friends."

"Yeah but I over reacted." Ryan said.

"Obviously it made you angry for some reason, what made you so mad?" Marissa asked.

"I realized you and Luke have so much history and no matter what he did to you, you two have this connection." Ryan said.

"Ryan I don't want to be with Luke, do you know that?" Marissa asked.

"I know, it also made me mad that you were spending so much time with him. You hardly even noticed me." Ryan said feeling childish but it was what made him mad.

"I did, really. I didn't know why you weren't talking to Luke with me. But I talked to Summer about it and she made me realize why you weren't." Marissa said.

"What did she say?" Ryan asked.

"She said that you probably didn't want to talk to them because they nearly killed you in the model home." Marissa said.

Ryan tilted his head, "I figured you didn't want to talk to me because I didn't fit in. I thought maybe you didn't want people to know we were together."

"Ryan, why would you think that? Everyone there last night knows that we're together." Marissa said.

"Everyone there thinks that I got some girl pregnant and moved back to Chino, they didn't know we were back together." Ryan said.

"Ryan I want everyone to know we're together. I'm not ashamed of you in anyway." Marissa said, "There's nothing about you that I can be ashamed of."

Ryan shook his head to disagree.

"Ryan you're the smartest person I know and you're honest and you treat me very good. You're very sexy and I'm in love with you." Marissa said.

"I freak out about things, I find it hard to trust people and I'm not a sociable person." Ryan said.

"That doesn't matter; I'm not ashamed of you." Marissa said.

Ryan sat quietly.

"Ryan, are we ok?" Marissa asked.

"I think so." Ryan replied, "So what did you buy today?" Ryan asked reaching for the bag that she brought in with her.

Marissa grabbed the bag from him.

"What?" Ryan said.

"You can't look in there." Marissa stated.

"Why, what did you buy?" Ryan asked.

"Something you can't see right now." Marissa replied.

"Why can't you show me?" Ryan asked.

"Because, just trust me." Marissa said.

Ryan stood up and tried to steal the bag from her and got it.

"Ryan, please don't look in it, believe me you don't want to see it right now." Marissa pleaded.

Ryan laid the bag down, "Fine I won't look in it but I don't understand what the big deal is."

"Because I bought something for when we're in New York." Marissa said.

"Like what?" Ryan asked curious.

"Just something I bought to wear, it's nothing really. I just don't want to show you just yet." Marissa said.

"Ok, well I should go. Got to pack and get ready for tomorrow." Ryan said, "Besides I don't think your dad will be happy if I'm here when he gets back."

"Ok, that's probably a good idea." Marissa agreed.

Ryan leaned over and gave Marissa a short but sweet kiss, "Sorry about our fight."

"I'm sorry too." Marissa replied and they got up and headed downstairs to the door.

"I'll see you tomorrow." Ryan said giving her another kiss.

"Ok, good night Ryan." Marissa said.

Ryan left and Marissa returned to her room to pack.

Jimmy was taking the girls to the airport in the morning. They were leaving at 9:30 since they had to be there 2 hours before their flight.

The phone started to ring at about 8:30 that morning.

"Coop did you and Ryan work things out?" Summer asked.

"Yeah I think we're ok." Marissa replied.

"Great, what time is your dad picking me up?" Summer asked.

"Probably around 9:30, maybe a little earlier than that." Marissa said.

"Ok, I'll be ready. I'll see you in about an hour." Summer said.

Jimmy packed Marissa's bag into the car and they headed to Summer's house to pick her up. They arrived at the airport just after 10. Jimmy parked the car and he and the girls went inside to meet up with Sandy, Kristen and the boys.

They checked their bags and headed through security. They had and hour and fifteen minutes before their flight left; Kirsten and Sandy found a coffee shop to sit down and wait to board the plane; Ryan, Seth, Marissa and Summer went to look for magazines and stuff to help the long plane ride.

10 hours later they were driving to their hotel.

"We bought tickets to see a play tomorrow night, after the rehearsal dinner." Kirsten said.

"Mom a play, we have to go sit through a musical." Seth whined.

"It's called Stomp, it's supposed to be really good. I think you all will like it." Kirsten said.

"Stomp? I haven't heard of that one before." Marissa said.

"It's a bunch of people on stag making music out of pipes and garbage pails and stuff like that, it will be really good I think." Kirsten replied.

"I'm so tired, I hate traveling." Summer said.

"I know I'm tired too." Seth replied yawning.

Ryan was falling in and out of sleep as they drove to the hotel. Marissa woke him up when the arrived.

Kirsten and Sandy checked everyone in and handed out the keys. The bellhop brought their luggage to each room.

"We are having breakfast with the Nana tomorrow at 10, everyone meet down here at 9:30." Sandy said.

Everyone nodded and headed to their rooms. Everyone was exhausted from the plane ride and getting up early so they all went to bed.

In the morning everyone met in the lobby at 9:30 and headed out for breakfast. They finally got to meet the man the Nana was going to marry. Every one loved him, he was sweet and he really seemed to love Nana.

After breakfast, Kirsten and Sandy left with the Nana and her fiancé for the afternoon and the kids were able to site see. Everyone was too met back at the hotel at 5.

"Where should we go?" Ryan asked.

"Well we can go to Soho shopping; we can probably take a tour up the Statue of Liberty?" Marissa suggested.

"I suggested the tour." Seth replied.
"That sounds good to me." Ryan replied, "Maybe we can check out the hockey stadium?"

"Sure, let's go." Marissa said taking Ryan's hand.

They did as much as possible before they had to be back at the hotel. They got back and met Sandy and Kirsten in the lobby.

"Do we have enough time after dinner to come back and get showers?" Summer asked.

"Well the show doesn't start till 10, so we'll have plenty of time." Kirsten replied.

"Good because I feel gross, I wish we could shower now." Summer said.

"We have reservations for 6." Sandy said.

Everyone headed out of the hotel and arrived at the restaurant 5:40, luckily they were seated right away. Ryan was intrigued by the entire city; it literally was the city that never sleeps. He could definitely see himself in a city like this.

After dinner they returned back to the hotel around 8, everyone had an hour and a half to get showers and changed.

"So do I have to put a suit on?" Ryan asked Marissa who was ready and waiting in his room.

"I would, I saw Sandy and he was wearing a tie." Marissa replied.

"I hate this dressing up thing." Ryan whined.

"I love it; you look so good in a suit." Marissa said.

"You look pretty good too dressed up, but of course you always look good." Ryan said leaning down to give her a short kiss.

"Thanks." Marissa smiled. There was a knock on the door so Ryan went to open it.

"You almost ready son?" Sandy asked coming into the room.

"Yeah, just have to just put the suit on and I'm ready to go." Ryan said.

"Great, Marissa you look very nice." Sandy complimented.

"Thank you Mr. Cohen." Marissa smiled, "Well I'm going to see what Summer is up to and I'll meet you guys in about a half hour?"

Ryan and Sandy nodded as she left the room. Seth came out of the bathroom just as she left.

"My hair is not working with me today." Seth complained.

"Seth, its hair." Ryan replied.

"It's just I was having such a good hair day and I ruined it." Seth stated looking in the mirror.

"Don't talk like that man." Ryan said.

"Seth go put a tie on, even Ryan is wearing one tonight." Sandy asked.

"Ok, which one?" Seth asked.

Sandy pointed to one and Seth wrapped it around his neck to tie it. A few minutes later the guys were ready. Ryan and Seth headed to the girls room before heading down stairs and once the girls were ready they went down to the lobby to meet Kirsten and Sandy.

The play was over at 12 and they decided to go get a quick snack at a deli across the street before going back to the hotel. They returned to the hotel around 1:30 and everyone retired to bed for a good night sleep. The Nana's wedding was the next afternoon.

"Coop? You asleep yet?" Summer asked.

"Not quite why?" Marissa said sleepily.

"I talked to Cohen today; I'm going to stay in his room tomorrow night so that you and Chino can have this room all to yourselves." Summer said.

"Are you sure we won't get caught?" Marissa asked.

"Have they checked on us the last two nights?" Summer asked.

"No, but that's because we're all so tired. They know we're sleeping in our own rooms." Marissa replied.

"Tomorrow is going to be a long day as well; they'll just assume we're all really tired." Summer said.

"I hope so because if we get interrupted again, I'm giving up on the entire sex thing." Marissa moaned, "Anyways I'm exhausted Sum, let's go to sleep."

At the boys room.
"Ryan!" Seth said.

"What?" Ryan said turning over.

"Tomorrow night you're sleeping in the girl's room." Seth said.

"What? Why?" Ryan asked annoyed.

"Because Marissa wants to be alone with you, I don't know. Summer told me today that you and Marissa need some alone time so she has to stay in here with me." Seth replied.

"Alone time? For what?" Ryan said.

"Ryan you're not that slow, Marissa wants to be alone in a hotel room with you. What do you think she wants to do, talk?" Seth said sarcastically.

"Oh." Ryan said realizing he was acting somewhat slow, "Seth can we go to sleep now?"

"Good night Ryan." Seth mumbled turning out the lights.

The next day the boys were busy setting up the hall and running errands that needed to be done for the Nana. The girls spent the morning at the Nana's house helping her get ready.

Ryan got to meet Sandy's family for the first time. He had a brother and a sister who Sandy hadn't seen in years. His family wasn't at all like Kirsten's or any other family that lived in Newport Beach. Ryan could tell they weren't wealthy but they seemed content with the life styles they had.

Sandy's brother, Joe, was older than Sandy. He had one son who was in his mid twenties and was married with one child, a 2 year old girl. Sandy's sister, Rebecca, was the oldest of the three. She was married as well and had 2 children, one girl and one boy. Her children weren't at the wedding. Her daughter was away in the middle east helping out in a third world country, her son was finishing his last year of university studying to become a lawyer.

It was almost 3 and the girls just arrived at the court house. The Nana wasn't being married in a church since she was having a very small wedding. The reception was going to be bigger. The Nana and her groom to be friends and other family members were meeting for a reception at 6. They were planning a big celebration.

Summer and Marissa entered the court house and went to sit next to Ryan and Seth.

Ryan smiled at Marissa, "You look…" Ryan paused taking another glance at her, "You look amazing."

"Thank you." Marissa smiled taking his hand into hers.

"You look great too Summer." Seth said as Summer stood next to him.

"Thanks Cohen you look pretty good yourself." Summer smiled.

The wedding march softly played in the background as Kirsten and Rebecca entered the court house, followed by the Nana. Kirsten stood next to Sandy and Rebecca next to her husband as the Nana walked up to her Fiance.

The ceremony didn't last very long. After, everyone went to Central Park for pictures. It was a beautiful day, not extremely hot or humid but comfortable.

The photographer took pictures of the Nana's immediate family which included herself, her new husband, Sandy, Rebecca, Joe and her new step children. There were pictures taken of the Nana and her grandchildren and step grandchildren which included Ryan. Pictures of each person with the newly weds and so on. Kirsten asked the photographer to make copies of all the pictures for her and Sandy. There was one picture taken of Ryan and Seth that she had to have and one of Ryan, Seth, Summer and Marissa that she wanted as well.

Six was approaching so everyone headed to the hall for dinner and the reception. The dinner was delicious and the MC was hilarious. Everyone was having a good time. At around 10 they started playing music and people started dancing. Most of the people there were over the age of 40 and the music that was playing didn't appeal to Ryan, Seth, Summer or Marissa.

"Mom." Seth called out as Kirsten passed the group.

She stopped, "Are you guys enjoying yourselves?"

"We were until now, can we go. We're bored." Seth said.

Kirsten thought about it for a second, "You should ask your dad."

Seth went to look for his father and returned back to the table about 5 minutes later.

"Come on let's head out of here." Seth said reaching out for Summer's hand.

Ryan and Marissa followed them outside to get a cab back to the hotel. Once they got a cab, Seth agreed to sit in the front with the driver and the others sat in the back.

"I was thinking maybe you can stay with me tonight." Marissa said into Ryan's ear.

Ryan kissed her, "I was thinking the same thing."

"Hey get a room!" Summer teases as she saw the two beside her kissing.

The cab ride was about 15 minutes. Seth and Ryan paid for the cab once the arrived at their hotel and got out. A Summer and Marissa headed to their room and Seth and Ryan headed to theirs.

"Coop you ready for tonight?" Summer asked.

"Why?" Marissa asked lighting a couple candles that she brought with her.

"Well it's been like forever since you and Ryan did the deed." Summer said changing into pants and a shirt.

"Sum it hasn't been that long, it's not like we haven't spent alone time together in a while." Marissa said tidying their room up a bit.

"Coop Ryan doesn't care if the room is completely neat, he's a boy." Summer said.

"I know I like it better neat." Marissa replied.

Summer put a couple of things into a small bag, "Ok Coop I'm going to Seth's room now. See you in the morning and have a really hot time!" Summer laughed opening the door.

"You too Sum." Marissa replied looking into the mirror to make sure she still looked ok.

A few minutes later Ryan knocked on her door. She glanced once more at herself in the mirror before opening the door to let Ryan in.

"Hey." He said as he entered.

"Hi." Marissa replied closing it behind him, "Did you have fun today?"

"Yeah, it was cool being part of a family." Ryan said.

"Yeah, you really fit right in today." Marissa said.

"You think?" Ryan asked sitting next to her on the bed.

"I think." Marissa said.

"You looked really good today." Ryan said taking her hand.

"Thanks but you already told me that earlier." Marissa said.

Ryan looked her in the eyes and leaned in to kiss her. They kissed for about a minute and Ryan pulled away.

"When I was at your house the night before we left you said you bought something and you would show me while we were here." Ryan said, "Show me."

Marissa looked at him and smiled a shy smile.

"Where is it?" Ryan asked.

"Umm, I'm wearing it." Marissa replied.

"But you already had your dress before, did you buy another one?" Ryan asked confused.

"No." Marissa replied.

"I don't understand." Ryan replied, "what is it than."

Marissa gave him a sexy look and Ryan smiled.

"You bought underwear for me?" Ryan asked shocked.

"You don't like it." Marissa said sitting back.

"I haven't even seen it yet." Ryan replied.

"But you don't like the idea do you?" Marissa asked.

"I uh, no one has ever bought anything like that to wear for me but I'm sure it looks really good." Ryan smiled and pulled her into him.

"Let me see it." Ryan asked.

Marissa agreed but told him she needed a second. She got up off the bed and went into the bathroom. She removed her clothes and returned back to the room with only her underwear and bra on. Ryan's smile grew ear to ear and she could tell he really, really enjoyed what he was seeing.

"You like?" Marissa asked doing a small little pose for him.

"Wow." Was all Ryan could say.

Marissa smiled and sat down on his lap, "You don't think I'm a little crazy for buying this?"