Letting You Go Chapter 3 On and Off

After a tearful goodbye with Summer, Marissa headed back to her house. She still couldn't erase the doubts in her mind but she didn't want to give in now. There wasn't much left in Newport for her now and she believed that San Francisco held more hope for her.

Marissa was quite surprised at how well her encounter with Ryan had gone. She hadn't completley lost her cold or broken down and she had managed to tell him that she loved him. Marissa wondered how Ryan had taken this, she definetly hadn't wanted to hang around long enough to find out. His reaction would either crush her heart or destroy her plans for escape so she decided to leave the Cohen house and all the memories behind. It made her sad and part of her wanted to cling to the past but she also knew that she couldn't, she mustn't.

Summer shut the door slowly behind her best friend.

"Damn, I'm gonna miss her." she whispered.

Instictively Summer reached for the phone again.

"Cohen, it's Summer, do you want to meet up?" she asked.

"Would I say no?" Seth tried to lighten the atmosphere but it didn't work on either of them and he could hear that Summer was upset. "Sure." he added. "Come over as soon as you want."

Summer agreed and they both hung up.

Ryan was bewildered and not to mention confused by Marissa's speech. It was as though fate was kicking him in the butt for not patching things up with her sooner. He had tried to tell her how he felt but she had left before he could function and get the words out. What hurt Ryan the most was that Marissa would go away, maybe forever without knowing how much he loved her.

"Hey Summer." said Seth opening the door to his girlfriend.

"Hi." she replied coming inside. Seth could see that she was hurting and that she been crying. It made Seth wonder how Ryan must be feeling.

Seth knew that his relationship with Summer wasn't as amazing as it had been but losing her was more than he could cope with. Acting on impulse Seth moved towards Summer and embraced her in a huge hug. If he'd learned anything today it was to appreciate the people that he loved. Especially Summer.

Summer was pleased that Seth was showing some affection, it had been an unreal day so far and she needed some comfort. She didn't want to fight with Seth anymore, she realised that loving him was all that mattered and the fact that sometimes he was really annoying had nothing to do with it.

Seth pulled away slightly from the hug so he could look at Summer's face. She smiled at him weakly, but still it gave him some reassurance that things between them could be okay.

Marissa picked up her stuffed suitcase and began to drag it down the stairs. After a lot of pulling and stopping Marissa and the suitcase arrived in one piece in the hall. Marissa quickly gazed at her watch and decided that she needed to hurry. Pulling her phone from her denim jacket pocket she dialled the taxi service number which she had stored on the memory.

"Hi, this is Marissa Cooper...yes...in about ten minutes? That's fine...thank you." after a brief phone call Marissa lifted the heavy case and began to drag it towards the front doors. She was just about to reach up and pull the handle when she saw her mother's silhouette outside. Julie Cooper was home.

"Marissa!" she asked shocked. "Where do you think you're going?"

This chapter was mainly SS but next chapter I'm going for some more RM. Thanks for all the reviews.