Chapter 5

"His a gay felon on the run from the cops, or his a secret gay drug Baron, ummm...no wait, his just secretly gay, now that would fit, but even better he used to date a Swedish Porn star, no...no wait I can do better than that, ummmmm...he was a Swedish gay porn star" Seth threw his arms up in success. Ryan just rolled his eyes at him.

"Gee Seth, I really wish I had thought of that, you've really hit the nail on the head with that one" Ryan said sarcastically. Seth had just spent half an hour coming up with these ideas; all of them funnily enough seemed to revolve around Luke being secretly gay.

"You may roll your eyes at me buddy, but I swear in between beating the crap out of me, I could have sworn Luke was giving me the 'come and get me' eyes, he wanted me Ryan".

"Ok now, Seth your going too far that's just, well that's just disturbing" He shook his head trying to get the unwanted images of Luke coming on to Seth out of his head. Seth who seemed to be having the same problem frowned.

"Yeh that kinda was too far, anyway, seriously what do you think his big secret is and what you gonna do bout it?"

Ryan and Seth were inside the poolhouse.Ryan got up and started pacing around.

"Well, I don't know, I mean at the end of the day its none of my business, but if Luke's involved in something dodgy, I think Marissa's got a right to know, what do you think?" Ryan stopped pacing and looked at Seth waiting for some advice.

"Ryan my friend if you don't mind me saying, I think you have enough trouble in your life, why complicate things even more by getting between the golden couple, she'll only turn it on you, and anyway after the way she treated you, I don't think you should even care" Ryan started pacing again thinking.

Maybe Seth was right, maybe he should just forget he heard anything, the sensible thing would be to stay away, it was only gonna end in trouble. He made his decision. Ryan turned to Seth.

"You know what's always been my problem Seth, no matter what happens, it always ends in trouble, mays well embrace it" and with that he walked out the pool house, on his way to see Marissa leaving Seth looking confused.

"We really haven't had any girly time for a while have we?" Summer and Marissa where sitting on Marissa's bed painting their toe nails.

"nope, which is why we must have more, and anyway" Marissa turned to Summer," I need to catch up on the gossip with you and Seth, how's things going? Summer shrugged her shoulders.

"I duno, great I guess, he's everything a girl could want, attentive, sweet..."

"Worships the ground you walk on" Marissa finished for her. They both laughed but Summer had a frown on her face as she sat thinking. Marissa nudged her slightly.

"So what's up then? you seem kinda down, are you sure everything's ok with Seth?" She watched as Summer jumped off the bed and walked over to the dresser, she turned back around and sighed.

"I guess its just that Jenny girl, she just gets to me, I know nothings going on but her and Cohen get on so well, I mean when the three of us are hanging out I feel so...so...thick! they have so much in common and me and Cohen don't, and I swear she's into him, it just gets to me" She sighed again. Marissa pulled her onto the bed and hugged her.

"Look Sum, say she does like him, so what, you know how much Seth likes you, he would never do any think to hurt you, so even if she did come onto him I bet he would just tell her where to go" Summer frowned again.

"You know Coop, the thought of her coming onto Cohen doesn't really make me feel better, considering she's like frickin Miss Universe or sumfink" Marissa pulled her into a tighter hug.

"Just stop worrying ok Sum" Marissa said as Summer starting staring into space again.

"I wish I could" she muttered to herself. She continued with her nail varnish, unable to shake the uneasy feeling in the pitt of her stomach.

Later that day...

Seth and Summer were in the pool house making out. Seth was lying on top of her and they were kissing passionatly.Summer pulled away for a second.

"Cohen, does it bother you that we have like nothing in common, I mean you and Jenny have everything in common and I mean... I duno, I guess I think that some day you'll get bored of me and wont like me as much anymore" She looked in Seth's eyes, looking for some reassurance. He leant down and captured her in a deep and passionate kiss that took her breath away, then he pulled away and smiled.

"Summer, that is how much I like you and I don't care if we don't have much in common, you know, it keeps it interesting, and about Jenny, I know you've been worried about her but seriously I see her as more the sister I never had, nothing more, we have a brotherly sisterly relationship, I swear" She smiled up at him, feeling reassured.

"Ok then, I believe you I won't bring it up again, I trust you" they both smiled and she leaned in as they started kissing again.

Ryan knocked on the door hoping he would finally find Marissa; he had been chasing her all day, always seeming to miss her. To his luck Marissa opened the door. She looked surprised to see him.

"Ryan? ummm...what are you doing here?" Ryan stood rocking on the spot not sure whether this was the right thing to do. Oh well, he thought, only one way to find out. He looked up at Marissa who was still waiting for him to speak.

"Well ummm I really need to speak to you about something important, is there any chance we could go inside to talk about it?" Marissa looked behind her then stepped out the doorway and closed the door behind her.

"It's probably best if we talk out here, you know, with...ummm...my mum being at home". She sat down on the step and gestured Ryan to do the same.

"So what's up?" she turned to Ryan.

"well, look there's no easy way to say this but I ummm...well I'm just gonna say it anyway, I think Luke's involved in something really bad and I'm worried about you because from what I heard its serious what ever it is and I don't want you to get hurt" he said it as fast as he could to just get it out and then looked at her, trying to gauge her reaction. She looked confused.

"What do you mean something really bad, what are you going on about Ryan?" She frowned at him.

"Look I over heard him talking to this girl and she was like threatening him about something, but it sounded really bad and..."

"What the hell is your problem Ryan" he looked at her surprised, she just looked angry,
" where do you get off, making up lies about Luke just because you hate him, for god sake Ryan , I cant believe you"

He started to get angry himself, he couldn't believe it, she thought he was making it up, well screw her.

"You know what Marissa that's fine, you know the only reason I was telling you was because I didn't want you to get hurt because I care about you, and I thought you cared about me enough to know I wouldn't make this up" He stood up ready to leave, Marissa stood up too and grabbed his arm.

"Ryan wait, I ..." they both looked down at her hand on his arm; he turned around to face her. He looked in her eyes and saw they weren't angry anymore, but much gentler. Out of the corner of his eye he saw the front door opening.

"Hey Marissa, what ya doing babe? Oh..., Chino, I didn't know you were here" he stopped in his tracks and looked at them both. Marissa took her hand off Ryan's arm and went and stood next to Luke. She kissed him quickly.

"Don't worry, Ryan was just leaving, he needed to know what the homework was for French, isn't that right Ryan" She looked at him, literally threatening him with her eyes to go along with it. He couldn't be bothered to say any different anyway.

"Yeh, that's right I just love the French, thanks for the help Marissa, oh and I'm no good at French so I wouldn't ever ask me for help, ok?" He hoped she got the hidden meaning in that as he walked off, he was done with Marissa Cooper, from now on, she was on her own.

Seth was sat in the pool house reading comics when Jenny walked in.

"Hey Seth how's it going?" she plonked herself down on the bed next to him and grabbed his comic. "What cha reading?" she laughed as he tried to grab it back.

"Well I was trying to read Superman but some really annoying girl named Jenny just grabbed it off me" he joked as he dived to try and grab it, she moved out the way and he ended up in a heap on the floor. She was in hysterics as he tried to get up.

"You are so going to pay for that" he said as he dived at her, this time landing on top of her and tickling her. She squealed with laughter, but managed to pull him round so that she was on top. Before he knew what she was doing, she had grabbed his face and started to kiss him, he tried to wriggle out of her grasp but she was too strong and just kept kissing him. He couldn't push her off. He heard the pool house door opened and tried to push her off again.

"Hey Cohen I left my purse here earl..."Summer stopped in shock at the sight of them, Jenny finally pulled away and Seth looked at Summer in shock. Tears had sprung to her eyes. Her voice shook as she spoke.

"Cohen...what the hell are you doing?" Seth pushed Jenny off and jumped off the bed. He could see the hurt in Summer's eyes.

"Look Summer I know what this looks like, but I swear she just started kissing me and I couldn't get her off, I was trying and then you walked in, you believe me don't you?" He tried to take her hand but she pulled it away. Tears were flowing from her eyes. She stepped back and Seth's heart ached as he heard the hurt in her voice.

"Do you know what I believe Seth, I believe your a lying, cheating, scumbag, god Seth...I trusted you and this is the way you repay me, we're over Seth" her voice shook as she spoke " you've lied and you've cheated, some sister she is to you" She turned around and ran out the pool house.

Seth stood shocked, "Summer" he shouted after her he started to run after her but by the time he got out side she was tearing away in her car. He sat down in the middle of the driveway and put hi head in his hands, what if he had lost Summer forever, he couldn't stand the pain. He looked up and a tear dropped out his eye.