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A/n: I am SOOOO sorry about not updating this sooner, I have been so distracted lately.

Chapter 6

It was now 12 o'clock and Summer was just emerging out of the bathroom. Her hair was still wet and it started to soak through her shirt at the back.

Ryan looked at her and couldn't help but think that she looked beautiful even without make-up on; in fact she looked better without it on. Without the make-up she was glowing. He knew that look, he had seen it so many times, and the look of satisfaction in their eyes and the glow of their skin meant that they were happy. He figured that it was because she was going to see Seth.

Summer noticed that Ryan was staring at her, she wondered why and then realised she hadn't got any make up on.

"Don't look at me like that" She said as she turned around.

Ryan smirked "Like what?"

"Like I look like a dog without make-up on" She turned back around to him, to find him smirking.

"Actually I was just thinking the opposite; I was thinking how much better you look without your make up on" It came out before he could stop himself.

Ryan immediately regretted what he said, when he saw Summer blush and turn away to put on her make up.

"I'm going to grab a shower I wont be long, then we can get the car and get you to Seth. I think it will only take about another 5hrs to get there." Summer nodded.

"Ok, I'll be ready by then."

Ryan walked into the shower and turned it on so that it was cold; he had to get Summer out of his head. She was travelling for well over 36hrs to see SETH, his brother.

Ryan had come out of the shower ten minutes later, completely refreshed until he saw Summer, she was wearing something different. She must have gone and gotten the car because their bags were still in the car.

"I got your bag too" As she saw, that he had noticed her change of clothes.

She through his bag to him, and noticed that he was still wet from his shower. She watched some of the water slowly drip down his perfectly muscled arms, before she pulled herself out of her hypnotic state.

Ryan pulled of his black wife beater and replaced it with another clean wife beater. But Summer couldn't help but watch him slide his wife beater of his body as his perfect abs were revealed, and when he pulled on his clean wife beater she felt like a child who had been denied a treat.

"So, ready?" Not noticing the way Summer was looking at him.

"Huh? Oh yeah lets go."

Once they were in the car it was clear that the central heating had been fixed. It was no longer sweltering hot.

"Ryan?" She asked someone shyly.

Ryan answered "Yeah?"

"What are you going to do?"

Ryan looked at her slightly confused, what was he going to do about what? He hoped that she hadn't noticed that he was starting to feel something for her. He wasn't sure what it was, but he felt something for her.

Summer noticed the look of confusion on his face. "About Theresa"

Ryan breathed a sigh of relief "Oh I don't know. There isn't anything I can do is there?"

"Are you still going to see her?"

"No I think it is for the best, that we…we don't see each other."

Summer was for some reason relieved. She knew that Ryan had given up so much for Theresa, she was ruining his life. By not letting him live it, but she was glad that Theresa came out and told the truth. "Ok… eww."

Ryan looked at Summer "What?"

Summer pointed to the road ahead "Road kill."

Ryan just laughed at her and shook his head.

Again there was a comfortable silence in the car and Ryan's thoughts were aloud to wonder back to last nights events.

How he and Summer had drunk a lot, but somehow his mind seemed to clear when they were kissing. They kissed, he could still taste the peaches as if she were still kissing him. He could still remember how soft her lips were and how it surprised him that she was such a gentle but passionate kisser. He looked over at Summer, who was applying her lip gloss in the mirror. He watched as she stroked the brush slowly across her lips, he licked his lips wishing that he could taste her again at least once more. Then he felt the front of his jeans tighten.

Summer looked up just in time to see him look to the road quickly, she smirked to herself.

Ryan decided he needed to talk quickly, he was sure that she had seen him looking at her. "So have you decided what you are going to say to Seth?"

Summer was quiet for a few seconds, and looked like she was concentrating "No, not yet, maybe something along the lines of. Why the hell did you leave me for three months without calling, so that you could go back to Tinkerbelle?"

Ryan laughed at this comment but stifled it quickly.

"I don't think that would go down too well."

All was silent again until Ryan scratched his arm and Summer noticed a scar on his bicep that she has never noticed before, she reached over and touched his arm where his scar was. Ryan jumped a little when he felt her warm touch but he couldn't hide the fact that her touching him gave him chills and made the hair on his arms stand up; Summer noticed it too but didn't say anything.

"Where did you get that scar from?" She knew that it was a private question, but she couldn't help it, she wanted to know.

Ryan looked down and saw the scar that she was talking about, it was about and inch long and was thin and was starting to fade a little.

Ryan shrugged "From one of my mom's boyfriends probably."

He carried on driving not saying anything else.

"Ryan? Tell me to shut up if you want but can I ask you something?"

Ryan looked at her to decide weather he trusted her enough to answer any question that she throws at him. Then he realised that he did, he trusted her more than anyone else he knows, maybe even more than the Cohen's.

Ryan nodded "Sure"

"What exactly happened when you lived in Chino?"

Ryan smiled a little "You want my life story or a cliff notes version?"

He said it with a little laugh that made Summer smile, she loved that laugh. She wished he would use it more often, it made him look so much… STOP SUMMER WERE GOING TO PITTSBURGH TO SEE COHEN.

"Whichever one you want to give me"

"Ok Cliff notes it is, well when my mom had Trey she thought that she would have the life that she had always hoped for. A loving husband, a house and a beautiful child and then when she found out she was pregnant again with me. She couldn't be happier another one to the addition, until my dad got thrown in jail for dealing and using drugs. That's when my mom hit the bottle. She divorced my dad, he didn't protest to the divorce because he was looking at 18 – 20 years inside. When I was old enough to look after myself or when Trey was old enough to look after me, my mum started to drink more and more and bring back her boyfriends.

"Most of them were like her, drunks and then she met AJ. He got her into drugs and she eventually stopped coming home. And when she did it was to tell me that Trey and me that we were the worst things to happen to her, and that she wished she had aborted us. I eventually got so used to her saying that, that it didn't hurt me anymore. She didn't hurt me, but when she left… when she left me, after I met Sandy and he took me home for the night. When I got back, she had moved everything out and left a note on the table saying goodbye."

Ryan stopped talking and looked at Summer she was staring at him with sorrow in her eyes.

"I … I don't need you to feel sorry for me Summer, I didn't tell you this so that I could have your sympathy..."

Summer cut him off "I know you don't want my sympathy and I don't feel sorry for you. You came out of all of that and you are making a life for yourself. You knew that you were better than to have a life like your moms or like your dads. You are better than all of them and you know that, that's why you are with the Cohen's now. I believe in fate Ryan, and I believe that fate took you to the Cohen's so that you could live a better life."

Ryan looked back at the road not knowing what to say, no one has ever spoken to him like that before, other than Sandy. No one had spoken to him as if he was better than Chino and deep down inside he knew it was true.

Summer continued to look at him "Just one more thing?"

Ryan raised his eyebrows at her "Go on."

"You're scar?"

"Probably from one of my mom's boyfriends, no matter how horrible my mom was to me. She was still my mom and she had the tendency to pick boyfriends who beat her, and every time I saw her getting hit. I tried to stop them. Most of the time they did stop hitting her, but only to start on me. It was AJ who gave me that scar; he had a piece of glass against my mom's neck because she hadn't cooked his tea when he got home, so when I tried to stop him he cut me."

Ryan had stopped talking. Summer knew that he didn't want to say anything else.

Just then the phone rang. Ryan pulled over and answered it.

"Hello?" Ryan asked as he flipped the cell open.

"Hey kiddo, haven't spoken to you in a while where are you?" It was Sandy.

"We are about 2 hours from Anna's now"

"Ok call me when you get there?" He asked, he could sense a little hint of sadness in his voice but decided not to say anything. If Ryan had a problem he was sure that Ryan would come to him for advice.

"Sure"

"How is Summer?" He had grown to think of Summer as the daughter he never had, he figured that his son would finally book his ideas, and make her his wife, in the future. So that she could be his daughter-in-law.

Ryan looked over at Summer who seemed to be in deep thought.

"She is fine. Not sure what she is going to say to Seth when she see him though."

"Ok talk to you soon?"

"Ok bye" Ryan hung up.

Ryan couldn't stop thinking of Summer, he wanted to kiss her so bad, he wanted to touch her skin, and he wanted to taste her lips again. He just wanted her to be in his arms.

Ryan knew he had to say something. "Summer? About last night"

Summer cut him off again "I know, it was a mistake it shouldn't have happened we were both… emotional that's all. So lets not tell Seth ok?"

Ryan looked away quickly, so that she couldn't see that with that one sentence. She had broken his heart.

"Ok, yeah sure Seth doesn't need to know right?"

Summer nodded "Right."

He continued to drive and he sighed but not loud enough for Summer to have heard him, he couldn't tell her that he wanted her, not now, not when she had just told him that their kiss meant nothing.

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