'God, you're so stupid.' Marissa thought as she sat down by the docks. 'You screw everything up.' She sighed. Just when she had thought everything could go back to normal with Ryan, something else happens. In this case, the other girl. Marissa replayed the scene in her head. Ryan and the new girl 'studying'. Studying meaning in other words flirting like crazy. What was her name again? Lucy…Lisa, no… Lindsay, that was her name. Ryan and Lindsay. Their names almost fitted together as well as her and Ryan's did. That saying Summer's step mom was always saying had a new meaning to her. You don't know what you've got 'til its gone. Ryan. That's what she had, now he was gone. Her daydream was awoken by the ringing of her phone. She rummaged through her new Chanel handbag, finally finding the silver vibrating phone. She looked at the Caller ID. Oh, great. Summer. Now she had to put up with her stories of how great Zach is. She flipped up the phone resignedly, and answered.
"Hi, Summer." She zipped her bag up and began walking up the promenade, forcing herself to sound at least a little bit happy.
"Hey Coop! Where have you been? I thought you were gonna drop by my place after school?" Summer's all round cheery voice greeted her.
"Oh, sorry, I totally forgot. I was…well, I was going to see Ryan." Marissa replied, her happy demeanour gone totally out of the window.
"You know what, why don't you come round mine and talk or something. I can tell you're upset." Summer suggested.
"Yeah, you know me so well, don't you Summer?" Marissa said sarcastically.
"Well, I am your best friend, right? It's my duty too." Summer replied, oblivious to Marissa's tone. "I'm not taking no for an answer. Come round and we'll rent some old heartbreak movie where the characters are even worse off than we are."
"Okay, okay." Marissa said, giving in. "I'll be there in, like, 10 minutes."
"Great! See ya!"
"So, do you wanna grab an iced coffee or something?" Lindsay asked, as her and Ryan walked out of school, after completing their lab project.
"Actually, I was gonna stay away from those for a while." Ryan replied, smiling.
"Yeah, I think you should. Well, we could do something else?" She said, hopefully.
"You know, I'd love to, but I promised Seth I would hang out with him tonight. He's one of the ones which need to be under complete surveillance, otherwise he might do something stupid." Ryan joked.
"Okay, I'll see you tomorrow then." Lindsay said, rummaging through her bag for her keys, and began walking towards her car
"Yeah, see ya. Oh, and while you're at home, you might want to brush up on your American spelling!" Ryan shouted after her, before grabbing his bike.
"Hey, don't even go there!" She turned around and laughed, watching as he rode away on his bike, laughing as well. Lindsay smiled, maybe this school wasn't going to be too bad after all.