I don't own the OC, but if I did I would have sex with Ben McKenzie every night.

It was noon on Saturday, and both Ryan and Seth were still sound asleep in their UNC dorm room when Marissa walked in.

"Ry? Ryan? RYAN!" she yelled. "Wake up!"

"Ok, ok" he grumbled back.

"Ris, why are you waking me up this early on a Saturday baby?"

"BECAUSE out plane for Newport leaves in 2 ½ hours and you haven't even started packing!"

Shit, he thought. Jimmy and Julie's re-engagement party was tomorrow afternoon.

Marissa stormed out of their room across the hall to the one that she shared with Summer. Summer too was still asleep but that was ok because she didn't have to be "on a fucking plane and two hours" Marissa screamed as she walked in, finishing the sentence that was meant for Ryan.

"Coop, what the hell? Summer asked.

"Ryan wasn't even awake," she answered.

"Oh" she muttered, and went back to sleep.

Marissa had been ignoring her beeping cell phone all morning, thinking that it was her mother still making sure that her and Ryan would be there this evening. However, she decided to pick it up and listen to the 4 voicemails she had.

They were all from Ryan. Each one had a separate phrase, the first "Happy 4 year anniversary sweetheart", the second "I'm so glad we're still together", the third "I love you so much Marissa", and the last "Will you promise yourself to me?"

She dropped the phone, yelling at Summer to wake up again.

"SUMMER! SUM! SUMMER!" she screamed.

"What Marissa? What do you want?"

"Ryan asked me to promise myself to him!

"Wow Marissa, that's great-but what happened to you breaking up with him?

"Oh, that" she replied. "See that was just a misunderstanding...It's totally over now.

Yeah right, she thought. She'd have to listen to a nagging Ryan on the plane for 7 hours about the mistake she'd made. But maybe he'd forgotten...no wait SHIT! She'd forgotten.

She'd forgotten. She'd forgotten their anniversary. She was supposed to meet him last night so they could go down to Charlotte for dinner. FUCK! She thought. How could she have forgotten?

She knew how. Spending the night with her guy on the side, that's how. She loved Ryan, she really did. But he was more into the romantic stuff than the sex and a girl just has to fulfill her needs.

She knew her and Ryan's night would've been amazing. She'd been looking forward to it for weeks, ever since he'd spilled his plans to her. Now she had missed it for sex with some stupid guy.

Needless to say, Ryan still halfway asleep was pretty pissed off. He knew where she was. He couldn't believe that she had accused him of cheating when Summer fell asleep with him. Summer had needed help, and Seth wasn't there. So Ryan just held her while she cried until they both fell asleep.

Marissa was furious. She hadn't talked to either of them for a week, not until Ryan had 10 dozen roses delivered to where she worked as an intern at Chanel. She drove down to Charlotte almost every weekend and stayed in the apartment Ryan had gotten her in the heart of the South side.

Marissa had begged Ryan to forgive her when she learned about what really happened, but he said that now trust was going to be an issue again. When Marissa learned this, she threatened breakup and went back to Newport for a few days to clear her head, even though she wound up staying in Ryan's pool house. But that was all over now, at least Ryan thought it would be after last night...but last night never happened. And now he didn't know what to expect out of their relationship, and was about to wake up Seth and ask him when Marissa walked in