CHAPTER 4

"Marissa?...ummmmm...what are you doing?" Ryan asked slightly shocked at Marissa's sudden appearance, she hadn't even given him a chance to make an excuse to leave; she had come at him so fast.
Marissa dragged her chair in and looked at Ryan, he tried not to look at her, it was too hard not to get sucked into those eyes, what did she want anyway, she had Luke.

"Ryan...ummm...I came to talk to you, to...umm... clear the air, we haven't really spoken properly in a while and it seems like when we're around each other it's really tense"
Ryan looked down at the table, she was moving the place mats around on the table with her hands unconsciously, she seemed really nervous, if he hadn't been so mad at her he would have found it cute. He cleared his throat.

"Look Marissa, if you wanna play dumb and act like nothing happened between us then fine but I'm not gonna sit here and pretend that I don't have feelings for you and that...well...you don't have feelings for me, if Luke hadn't turned up we would have kissed, I know that and you know that so at least stop denying it"
He finished speaking, a bit shocked at what he had said, he hadn't meant to be so honest, but once he started it just tumbled out. He looked at Marissa, she looked shocked as well. She was starting to stand up.

"Ummm...you know what I gotta go, I just remembered I gotta meet ummm my mum" she grabbed her purse and started to back away, "you know how much I love spending time with my mum" she frowned realising that Ryan knew differently.
"ummm...anyway, see ya" with that she span around and rushed out the Crab Shack before Ryan could get another word in.
Ryan leant back on his chair and sighed, he'd seen that look in her eyes, she didn't know he had seen it but he had, after he'd said that he liked her he had seen the look that confirmed what he already knew, she liked him too, but she was too scared to admit it. Maybe he would have to force her to admit it he thought as he got up from the table to leave.

Later that evening...

Seth and Summer were cuddled up on Seth's bed watching a movie. She was sat in between his legs with his arms wrapped around her and his head resting on her shoulder. She sighed contently. She felt so happy; this was exactly what she wanted. He kissed her neck and she sighed again. She turned around and they started to kiss, they were just getting into it when they heard footsteps coming towards Seth's room.

"SETH" Shouted Kirsten. They pulled apart as Kirsten walked into the room. She stopped abruptly, surprised to see Summer there.

"Oh hi Summer, I ummm didn't realise you were here" she half smiled at Seth and then regained her composure. A second person walked into the room, a young girl, who looked their age; she was tall with long blonde hair and a perfect figure. Summer and Seth both looked between Kirsten and this girl, confused as to who she was. Kirsten pointed towards the girl.

"I just came up to introduce you to our guest, this is Jenny and she's going to be staying with us, Sandy knows her father and they just had a fire at their house so she's going to stay with us for awhile" The girl looked up at Seth and Summer and smiled. Seth half waved back at her and Summer smiled whilst trying to hold back a scowl. She was not happy; having a stunning blonde staying in Seth's house was not a good thing. Summer grabbed Seth's hand as Jenny and Kirsten walked out the room.

Couple days later at school...

Marissa was sat at lunch with Luke and the water polo team. This is so boring she thought as everyone erupted into laughter again at some lame ass joke. She didn't mind when it was her and Luke but when he was with his friends he was such a different guy, she thought about Ryan and how he was always the same person, always made her feel special that was before they nearly kis...she shook her head trying to shake out the thoughts. She had decided she was going to concentrate on her and Luke and that's exactly what she was going to do. She turned to Luke and he flashed her a huge smile that made her forget about Ryan for the time being. She leant into him and he put his arm around her. See, she thought this is all that I need, Luke's all she needed...

Ryan was walking down the hallway trying not to laugh as Seth and Summer had yet another argument about Jenny staying at the Cohen's.

"You were totally eyeing her up Cohen I know you were, assface" she punched him on the arm. He flinched and rubbed his arm.

"Ouch, Summer, calm down I was not, she's a nice girl but I wouldn't even look at another girl like that Sum" He moved in closer trying to butter her up.

"You're all I need" She looked at him and he could see her face softening slightly. She grabbed his hand and started to pull him down the hall.

"Well I better be, because she was totally checking you out, all that 'I'm poor girl whose house just burnt down', well you know what find a motel that's all I say, oh and another thing..."
Seth rolled his eyes as Summer started off again on one of her rants.

Ryan had left Summer and Seth having the same argument and was heading through the parking lot when he heard raised voices from behind the cars; he stopped dead when he recognised one of the voices. Who was Luke shouting at? He tried to listen to what he was saying.

"Look, I don't care if you couldn't contact me, I've told you before, you don't come to my school, you don't come to my house, you know what you basically don't have anything to do with me unless I contact you ok?" Luke shouted.
Ryan inched around the car to try and get a better view of who he was shouting at. He inched further and saw a girl about their age with short brown hair, he didn't think she went to Harbour but she looked really angry.

"Don't you speak to me like that you jackass, we had a deal and your gonna stick to it, otherwise I will start coming to your house and your school and you know what maybe I'll start talking to your friends, see if they have any questions they wanna ask me" She leaned in closer to Luke, Ryan leaned in closer too to try and hear what she was saying, he just caught the end of it.

"...if everyone finds out then it's gonna be you that loses everything, not me" and with that she turned away and jumped into her parked car, speeding off.
Ryan looked at Luke's face, it had turned ghostly white and he looked panic stricken. What the hell was going on he thought, what was Luke involved in. He watched as Luke stormed off across the car park. Ryan walked to his car and sat down, what was he supposed to do now? tell Marissa something was going on? ask Luke? keep it to himself? He punched the steering wheel in frustration, why was everything always so complicated in his life!