Hi guys! Sorry this update took so long. I had a bit of a writers block, so...yeah. I'm going on vacation soon, so I hope to update once more before I leave and pretty soon after I get back, look out for that and continue reviewing :) So here you go.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own anything, although I wish I did...

"Hey," Ryan walked up to a pretty girl who was sitting at a small table. She had shoulder length bleach blonde hair and rich brown eyes. He proceeded to give her a quick kiss on the cheek and took a seat across from her.

"Hi." She smiled at him and took a sip of her ice tea. She was Ryan's girlfriend Lizzie. They had been dating for about three months now and seemed quite happy together. There had been a small subject however that they had been putting off for a while now. Ryan knew it was time to address her. "Okay, what's up?" She placed her drink on the table and looked at him knowingly.

"I've been given my uh, history assignment." He gulped and looking down, twiddling his fingers.

"Yeeeesss" She urged him to go on, a more serious look occupied Lizzie's face. She had no idea what could possibly be going on to make Ryan so scared to tell her. They had always been trusting and resepectful to each other.

"My partner's Marissa." He sighed and looked up, waiting to see her reaction, but the one she wore wasn't angry, sad or jealous, just confused. Ryan had assumed Lizzie knew about their past, it was the OC afterall, gossip traveled fast.

"And" she obviously wanted him to continue. "What is the deal with you and Marissa?" she questioned.

"I, uh…" His voice trailed off as his breathing got heavier. The thought of his past with the girl next door was hard for him to put into words. Especially when it was vocalize what he felt during that period of time, to his girlfriend no less.

"Did you get her pregnant?" Lizzie resorted to a game of twenty questions while Ryan's nreves got the best of him. Lizzie enjoyed playing this game with him because Ryan was usually get paranoid. He had never done anything terribly wrong.

"No, no no." He answered quickly and looked her in the eye to make sure she believe him.

"Okay, did you have sex?" She asked again. What was going on with this girl. This was definatly one of the weirdest conversations they had ever had. Ryan obviously didn't want to tell her something which made Lizzie despereratly want to find out.

"Never slept with her." He replied, telling the truth. She was now more confused and had no idea what to ask next. Ryan decided to take a leap and tell her, "We dated for a while, she's one of my best friends and I loved her." He spoke quickly and quietly so he almost couldn't be heard.

"ahh, now we're getting somwhere!" She lightly hit his arm and smiled at him a little. "So, do you still have any feelings for her or does she still like you or anything that I should be aware of in this situation?" She continued her game, more relieved now.

"No and uh, she has a boyfriend and knows about you so…" Ryan looked at Lizzie hopping she was okay with this, she seemed fine, but he wasn't sure.

"So basically I have nothing to worry about at all?" Lizzie's smile was bigger and she looked amused.

"Basically." He smiled a little. She took the news much easier then he had expected and didn't seem jealous at all. He felt kind of strange though, he felt like he hadn't been honest with her.It was odd because that was how he felt and what he knew. He decieded to brush it off.

"You are so cute sometimes!" She leaned over and kissed him on the lips. The she took a hold of his hand and continued, "If I ever walk in on some studying, I'll leave, I trust you okay?" She looked at him seriously.

"Okay, but we'll probably be studying at her house." He told Lizze. "We already made plans for tonight." He looked at her anxiously. She wasn't giving any bad feelings about this away yet so he figured it was just fine and that she saw Marissa as no threat. It made Ryan relax a little.

"Sure." Lizzie grinned and looked at her watch then back up. "I have to got to work, I'll see you later tonight?" She asked, not quite sure how big this project was or how long it would take them to work on.

"Yeah, yeah, 10 okay?" He inquired, hoping she didn't see that as too late to hang out.

"Prefect. Bye." She got up, put some money on the table and walked off happy. Ryan just sat there happily before getting up. He was really excitied to meet Marissa and get to work on the project. Now that he knew Lizzie was fine with it, he was sure it was going to be fun.