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A/N: Thanks for all of your reviews! I've gotten up to chapter 8 written and I'll be posting them very soon! On to the story!

Ryan sped down the highway to Summer's mansion. He knew he shouldn't be speeding, but Summer was upset and he wanted to get there as fast as he could so she wouldn't do anything crazy. Wait. That's Marissa that can't cope with problems. Summer has never tried to kill herself with painkillers and alcohol. That was Marissa. But none of that mattered right now. All that mattered was that Summer needed him and he needed to get there quickly.

Ryan pulled into Summer's driveway and got out of the Rover. Summer ran out of the house and down the steps to meet him. When she got there she collapsed into his arms and just sobbed.

"Shhhh. It's okay. Everything is gonna be okay," Ryan whispered.

"How can you say that? The only guy I've ever actually let into my heart cheated on me," Summer sobbed.

"What? What did you just say? He cheated on you?" asked Ryan

"Yeah he called me back when you were on your way over here and he told me that he felt guilty about lying, so he told me the truth and that was he'd been sleeping with that skank Anna for the past three months," she said.

"That scumbag. No wonder he said that you were getting old. I should have punched him when I had the chance earlier. He is lucky my phone rang," he shouted.

"Wait you were going to punch him? Why?" she asked.

"Well he started saying all this crap about you. And it was really low of him, because some of the things he said were pretty bad. So I got really mad and grabbed him by the shirt and had my fist raised to hit him but my phone rang," he said.

"Well thanks for sticking up for me," she said.

"Let's get you inside," said Ryan.

As they were walking to the house Summer kept wondering what made Ryan want to stick up for her like he did. No one had ever done that before. They just helped with the insults. It was a nice change. Maybe, she would get over this after all.