Ryan crawled out of bed around 10, he immediately got a shower and headed downstairs to grab something to eat before heading to the airport. Seth was sitting at the table eating too.
"Hey man, hows Summer?" Ryan asked.
"She's still in the poolhouse sleeping." Seth replied.
"How was she last night?" Ryan asked.
"She got sick a few times, I think she'll be in bed almost all day." Seth replied.
"Does she realized where she is?" Ryan asked.
"Yeah she told me she loved me last night, although I think it was the liquor talking not her true feelings." Seth mentioned, "She even tried to kiss me."
"She tried, did you let her?" Ryan wondered.
"No, I didn't want her doing anything she would regret today." Seth replied, "It was hard but it had to be done."
Ryan nodded, "Are you going to tell her you want her back?"
"I don't know, should I?" Seth asked.
"Your call man." Ryan replied.
"So where are you going so early today?" Seth asked.
"Airport, Marissa's coming home early." Ryan answered.
"Why, what happened?" Seth asked.
"Nothing, she called early this morning saying she was homesick and was coming home a day early, her flight gets in at 12." Ryan replied.
"I see, bring her back here. Maybe Summer will stay if she's here." Seth asked.
"I'll see, most likely." Ryan replied as Summer stumbled into the kitchen.
"Umm, sorry guys about last night." Summer said rubbing her head, "I really screwed up didn't I?"
"Nah its nothing." Ryan laughed.
"Yeah no don't worry about it, no harm done." Seth said, "Except maybe to Ryan and Zach."
"What?" Summer asked hoping she didn't do anything drastic.
"Ryan and Zach got into a little fight last night, see the bruised face?" Seth said pointing to Ryan.
"What! Chino, ouch. What happened?" Summer asked.
"Honestly?" Ryan asked.
"Yeah of course." Summer replied.
"Zach is an idiot and he deserved to be hit." Ryan replied.
"Who hit who first?" Summer asked.
"Zach hit Ryan first because Ryan told Zach he didn't deserve you." Seth informed.
"Why would you say that?" Summer asked.
"Because he was treating you like you were no body." Ryan replied, "Look I gotta jet, Seth can fill you in on the rest."
"Marissa's coming home early, her flight gets in at twelve." Seth said to Summer when Ryan left.
"Really? Is she coming back here?" Summer asked.
"Yeah I think so, you can stay if you'd like." Seth offered.
"Thanks Cohen." Summer said and sat down across from him.
"Really its no big deal, large house with plenty of room." Seth replied.
"Not for letting me stay but for taking care of me last night." Summer smiled.
"Yeah, I couldn't leave you alone in case something happened." Seth smiled softly at her, "headache today?"
"Yeah just a bit, you have anything for it?" Summer replied.
Seth nodded and left the room and returned with a couple of asprins.
They sat quietly, Seth was reading the paper and Summer was looking at the box of cereal.
"So Cohen, can I ask you something?" Summer asked.
"Sure." Seth replied.
"Why Paige?" She asked without looking up at him.
Seth was surprised she asked, he looked up at her thinking about his answer, "I don't know." He replied honestly.
"Do you think that we are over for good?" She asked, this time looking into his eyes.
Seth nodded, "I don't think so, at least I hope not."
"Neither do I." She smiled and looked back down, "Cohen could I go grab a shower before Chino and Coop get here? I have some clothes left here right?"
"Yeah, up on my chair in my room." Seth smiled.
Summer stood up and walked over to him, "Thank you Cohen." she said and kissed him lightly on the cheek.
Seth wanted her so bad but decided to wait to talk to her.
Ryan arrived at the airport at exactly 12. He looked up to see if her plane had arrived yet, it hadn't so he walked around the airport. He stopped in a store and picked something up and returned to see if her flight had yet arrived, it had. He sat down waiting for her. When he saw her he smiled and immediately jumped up to greet her.
"Hey!" She said happily wrapping her arms around Ryan.
"Hey, how was your flight?" He asked before giving her a huge kiss.
"Long but I'm happy to be home." She smiled.
Ryan smiled and passed her a rose that he had purchased for her.
"Aww Ryan!" She smiled, "No wonder I was so homesick."
Ryan smiled and took her luggage and lead her out to the car. Marissa wrapped her arm around his.
"I missed you!" She said as they walked.
"Happy to hear it." Ryan joked when the got to the car. Ryan put the luggage into the trunk and opened Marissa's door before making his way to the drivers side.
"So how was the party last night?" Marissa asked when he got in noticing the bruise on his face.
"Uh, not that great actually." Ryan confessed looking at her like he was caught.
"Really? What happened?" Marissa asked.
"Everything or just how I got this?" He smiled pointing to his face.
"Well what is there to tell?" Marissa asked leaning in to kiss him, "Are you ok?"
"Yeah, so I might as well tell you everything." Ryan started.
"I'm not going to like this am I?" Marissa asked feeling nervous.
"Well, Paige's friend Melanie kind of hit on me....she was convinced that I was willing to hook up with her or something....I told her flat out that I didn't want to hurt you and that I was not interested in her at all." Ryan confessed.
"Oh." Marissa said.
"Nothing happened I swear, you know I would never doing anything like that to you." Ryan said looking over at her with sad eyes.
Marissa nodded, "I know." She put her hand on Ryan's, "So who did you get into a fight with?"
"Zach." Ryan replied.
"Zach? Why? What happened, is Summer pissed at you?" Marissa asked.
"Summer was drinking last night so asked me early on in the night if I could drive her and Zach home when I was leaving, obviously I said ok. At around 2:30 Seth was ready to leave so I went to tell Summer and Zach. Summer tried to get Zach to leave but he was treating her like no one important, when she got up to leave with me she fell over because she had too much to drink." Ryan said.
"Really, Summer doesn't usually get like that." Marissa said concerened, "Something must have been wrong with her."
"Well all night I could tell she was bored, maybe that was why she was drinking." Ryan replied.
Marissa nodded, "Go on."
"When Summer fell over, I caught her and Zach looked over laughing at how drunk she was, not concerened one bit. I made a comment and eventually told him he didn't deserve her and then he threw a punch at me." Ryan said.
"Really?" Marissa said shocked, "Did you hit him back?"
"I punched him and he fell to the floor, so Summer and I left." Ryan replied.
Marissa smiled.
"What?" Ryan asked.
"You were there to stick up for Summer, that was really thoughtful." She smiled.
Ryan nodded, "Seth was concerned so we brought her back to our place. Seth spent the night in the poolhouse with her, he said this morning that she got up a few times to get sick. She just got up when I left to come get you."
"Do you think that they will get back together?" Marissa asked hopefully.
"I was trying, my plan was to get them together last night but things went wrong. Sorry!" Ryan smiled at her.
Marissa squeezed Ryan's hand, "You're like the best guy ever."
"I try." Ryan joked.
"So is Summer still at your place?" Marissa asked.
"I think Seth said he was going to get her to stay there until we got back, he really wants her back." Ryan replied.
Back at the cohen's.
Seth was in his room when Summer came out of the shower. She entered the room, dressed.
"Hows the head?" Seth asked.
"Not bad." Summer replied sitting down on the bed, Seth was sitting at his computer.
"Your cell rang a few times, I didn't answer it." Seth informed.
"Thanks." Summer said and picked it up to look at the number, "It was Zach."
"Oh, maybe you should call him back." Seth suggested, "You never know he may be worried about you now."
"Cohen he's a good guy, really." Summer defended.
"Right, I for one would have taken care of you last night instead of hanging out playing cards with my friends." Seth informed.
"I know, you did take care of me last night." Summer replied.
"Summer its 1, he could have called you a lot earlier to see how you were." Seth stated.
"What do you expect me to do Cohen?" Summer asked, "Its not like I'm the only one who moved on, you're with Paige now?"
"Summer, I wa..." Seth started, "Never mind."
"What, tell me!" Summer pleaded.
"Are you happy with Zach, does he make you happy?" Seth asked.
"I guess." Summer said softly.
"Well it doesn't matter." Seth replied
"But it does Seth......I'm still in love with you. I probably always will be." Summer said looking up to meet his eyes.
"Is that enough though?" Seth asked.
"Well its something." Summer said.
"Summer do I make you happy? Do I make your heart skip a beat? Am I the one you're meant to be with?" Seth asked.
"I was happy with you Seth, things got comfortable between us. I was still happy, its just we had no excitement." Summer confessed.
"You were bored?" Seth asked.
"I guess, but I don't blame that on you. I blame that on both of us, we got so comfortable around eachother we didn't try to do anything to impress eachother." Summer said thinking back, "Actually you did do some incredible things, sweet, romantic things but I guess we both needed a change and now I'm sort of regreting it."
"Regreting what?" Seth asked.
"Us taking a break. When I saw you with Alex, I knew it wasn't anything serious and it did bug me but not that much. When I saw you with Paige last week, it felt like the world was ripped out from under me. I hated it." Summer confessed.
"Because you don't like her?" Seth asked.
"No because I could see you falling for her and forgetting about me." Summer said.
"You know I could never forget about you." Seth replied.
"Do you still love me?" Summer asked.
Seth looked up at her, "I will always love you Summer."
"Maybe its time for us to fo...." Summer started but was stopped by Seth's lips hitting hers.
He wrapped his arms around her kissing her like it they waited eternity to do it. They were interrupted by a gasp coming from the hallway. Summer and Seth pulled away from eachother.
"OMG!" Marissa yelled happily running into the room and wrapped her arms around Seth and Summer.
Summer giggled, "Coop!"
"Are you too back together?" Marissa asked excited.
"I don't know." Summer said looking over at Seth....
Seth wrapped his arms around Summer, "I sure hope so."
Summer smiled, "I got to go do something first, I'll be back in a little while."
Summer gave Marissa another hug and left the room.