Chapter 5

Ryan and Marissa walked into the pool house and sat down on the floor by the bed. Ryan didn't understand why Marissa left the pier so early and abruptly. He turned to Marissa and looked intently at her.

"Riss, why did we have to leave so fast?" Ryan asked calmly. Marissa was silent. Maybe Ryan, because your brother seems interested in me and I don't like his vibe! She wanted to say. But she didn't.

"I had to get home," Marissa said, making up some lame excuse.

"Riss, if you had to get home, why are you here?" Ryan asked smiling.

"I don't know," Marissa whispered. She turned away from Ryan and stared ahead of her. Ryan knew something was up with Marissa and he wanted to find out what it was. He got up and went to grab some drinks.

"You want some soda?" he asked her. She nodded. When he handed the coke to her, he sat back down on the floor. "Look, Marissa. Talk to me. You know you can tell me anything that's on your mind," Ryan said sincerely. Marissa took a drink of her coke. Then, she opened her mouth and began telling Ryan everything but the footsie game Trey tried to pull on her.

"Ryan, I don't trust Trey," Marissa managed. Ryan looked at her.

"What do you mean?" Ryan asked.

"I just don't trust him. I mean he shows up when we're…well when we're busy and then says he got out of jail and wanted to surprise you," Marissa started. "Do you really think he got out?"

"You think he escaped?" Ryan asked finally. He couldn't believe that his girlfriend didn't believe Trey.

"I'm not saying that. I'm just saying, what if he doesn't mean that he's going to start over?" Marissa said, trying a different approach.

"You don't trust him?" Ryan said again.

"I just don't get a very good vibe from him," Marissa said.

"I don't understand you," Ryan said after a while. "We finally clear up our differences then you aren't there to believe me when I say that Trey is going to start over?" Ryan's voice was raising.

"Ryan, I'm sorry. I can't help how I feel about him," Marissa said, trying to defend herself.

"I don't believe you. How can you not trust him?" Ryan asked, already angry. "What made you decide this?"

"Ryan, he just got out of jail! He…I don't like the way he looks at me. It's like he's interested in me or something," Marissa yelled.

"Of course you'd think that," Ryan spat.

"What?" Marissa asked. It felt like she just got slapped in the face.

"You probably think that everyone likes you. You think that everything and everyone evolves around you," Ryan said angrily. "You haven't changed a bit."

"I can't believe you would say that!" Marissa said. There were tears coming to her eyes.

"This relationship clearly isn't going to get any much better than it was, so let's just take a break," Ryan said bitterly. Marissa stared at him, the tears coming down her face now. She ran out before he could say anything else.

She ran to her car and drove out of the Cohen's driveway. Tears were pouring down her face now. She couldn't believe that after everything she and Ryan had worked on, it was all for nothing. Marissa didn't know where to go. She didn't want to have dinner with her mother anymore. She just wanted to go to Summer's and explain everything. Marissa decided to call her mother to tell her she wasn't coming to dinner.

"Mom?" Marissa asked trying to make her voice sound as normal as possible.

"Hey sweetie," Julie cooed. She seemed, strangely, happy.

"Mom, I don't think I'll be able to make it to dinner," Marissa said.

"Oh, that's okay honey. I have other plans." It was only then that Julie realized that Marissa sounded upset. "Honey, are you okay? You sound upset."

"I'm fine, Mom. Do you mind if I stay over at Sums' tonight?" she asked.

"No that's fine. I'll see you tomorrow then," Julie hung up. Weird, Marissa thought. My mom seems actually happy for once.

Marissa got to Summer's house in the next 10 minutes. She ran out of her car, her face still red from all the crying. The door opened and Marissa saw Seth passing by.

"Hey Seth," she said, her voice sounding muffled.

"Hi Marissa," he didn't look very happy.

"What's wrong?" Marissa asked. Seth took a deep breath.

"Summer's mad because she thinks that I'm spending too much time with this graphic novel thing. She's also jealous of Reed," Seth said. "She wants me to choose. Her or the graphic novel."

"Well, you did not tell her about Reed being a girl in the first place, I mean I have to side with Summer on that. But, Seth, what do you love more?" Marissa asked.

"I love Summer. I really do. She's all I've ever wanted. And I don't want to loose her again after what happened last summer ago. But this graphic novel is really something too. I don't know what to choose," Seth explained. Then he finally realized that Marissa looked like she had just been crying.

"Hey, Marissa are you okay?" Seth asked. "You look like you've been crying."

"Yeah…" Marissa trailed off. "Ryan and I had this fight." Her eyes started welling up again.

"Oh, its okay. You know Ryan…he'll come around," Seth said, trying to comfort her.

"But, I said I didn't trust Trey and then he broke up with me! We were together for a day!" Marissa said, crying all over again.

"I'll talk to him for you," Seth said. "Look I gotta go. Tell Sum I said I'm sorry."

"Okay, I will. Thanks Seth," Marissa said, smiling slightly. Seth nodded and walked off. Marissa walked into Summers house and ran up to her room. They would have loads to talk about that night.

A/N- Did anyone catch last nights episode? I missed it because there was some presidental news on every channel. If anyone saw it, please let me know! Thanks