A/N: I hope this chapter comes out better than the last one. It is hard, because I am trying to do a different kind of Ryan, a more...insecure one.

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Marissa, asleep on Friday night. (Yes, I skipped a whole week.)

"Oh...wow..I just.." Ryan was gay. Should couldn't believe it. "Are you sure? Maybe it's just hormones, or-" She was cut off, Ryan melting away from her, replaced with Summer, crying. "What's wrong?" She asked, reaching out for Summer's arm, "Why are you crying?" Marissa sounded scared, like she didn't want to know, but then Summer looked up, glowing in beauty, but her eyes looking like a wilted flower. Like her soul was gone.

"Nothing, Coop." She said, trying to wipe her tears away, "Just, forget it. You wouldn't understand." And with that, Summer disappeared into a cloud of feathers and glass, leaving Marissa alone, arms nicked by the fly shards of Summer. Now it was Marissa's turn to cry. She knew what was wrong with Summer.

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Ring. Pause. Ring. Pause. Ring.

"Come ON Summer, answer the phone!" Marissa whined. Just before the answering machine would have picked up, Marissa hung up. She needed to talk to Summer.

The clock was flashing, red LED lights burning into her cornea. It was three in the morning. Summer was asleep, and her phone was on silent. Just her luck. Who could she talk to? There was nobody, Ryan was God knows where, and Summer was asleep. Ready to give up, she grabbed her remote, flicking on the TV. What do you know? "Seth." She whispered, climbing out of bed, her eyes on the Sci-Fi channel. It was playing Seth's favorite movie. Gremlins.

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Seth

DingggggDongggg.

Seth jumped, popcorn falling out of the bag that sat on his lap. "This better be important!" He called, upset that he had been interrupted during his favorite PG movie, Gremlins. "I swear, if it isn't someone that is bleeding to death, or something, I will be SO...Marissa?" He was stunned. Marissa, at his house, at three forty-five in the morning?

"Seth, I need to talk to you." She said, pushing Seth into the house and closing the door behind her. "I need to know something. Do you love Summer?" Her voice seemed urgent, Seth was worried.

"Well, of course I do." He answered, "But did you really need to come to my house at three, almost four in the morning, to ask?"

"No. Seth. Do you LOVE her." Marissa needed him to understand, she needed it more than she has ever needed anything.

"Not like that." He was getting antsy. Nervous. Marissa could tell.

"Seth, your gay."

Seth just stood there, wondering what the hell just happened, "What, I don't love Summer, so I am gay now?" He said, in as loud a whisper as possible.

"Seth. Admit it. You like guys." She was up against him, and was rather intimidating for such a small girl.

"Well..."

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Summer

"Marissa. I knew he was gay." God, can't she just stay out of it?

"But Summer, you love him. You know you do." Marissa said, hugging a pillow to her chest as she sat on Summer's bed around noon. She was worried, Summer wasn't calling her Coop.

"Look, I don't think that is your business. And besides, it wouldn't matter, he is gay. I mean, come ON." Jesus, yes, I love him, but I am not about to admit it, especially after he worked so hard to start coming out. Do you KNOW what he went through to even admit to HIMSELF that he was gay?

"Summer."

"Marissa."

"Summer. Please." She said, her eyes beginning to water. She knew Summer was dying on the inside.

And summer just leaned forward, falling into Marissa's open arms, letting her tears run like a river.

A/N: There. I wanted to get Summer and Marissa more involved, because they will play a big role later on, so I just wanted to do a chapter about them, and Seth. Trust me, there will be a lot more Ryan in the next one.