-1Chapter 12

When Summer entered Alex's room, Alex was going through her closet finding an outfit to wear. So, Summer stood in front of the door, holding her hands behind her back while rocking back and forth on her feet as she waited for her sister to finish. When Alex finally did finish, and notice her, she was rather surprised to see Summer standing there.

"Hey...What's up?" Alex moved over to her bed and sat down, patting the spot next to her for Summer to go join her. Summer gave her a smile before moving to sit next to her.

"Nothing really...Jodie's gone..." She let out a sigh as she leaned back against the wall. Alex's right eye twitched as she heard the disappointment in her sister's voice.

"Back to LA?" Summer shook her head as a slight frown appeared on her usually cheerful face. Then she pouted to herself as she answered.

"No...She went with Marissa back to her house." Alex tensed up before slowly turning towards the other girl.

"What?" She raised an eyebrow at the harshness of Alex's voice, but then shook her head again before answering.

"Oh, Marissa went back to her house to get ready, and Jodie joined her." Alex didn't know how Summer could just say it like it was a normal thing, but then she remembered that Summer's a bit clueless.

"Why?" Summer shrugged at Alex's question while the other girl stared at her.

"I don't know..." Her face scrunched up in thought as she brought her legs closer to her body and wrapped her arms around them. She placed her chin on top of her knees. "You don't think...You don't think that Jodie likes her, do you?" She looked towards Alex rather hopefully.

"Oh my god…" Alex started laughing in disbelief at the question. 'Maybe I do have nothing to worry about with Summer and Jodie…She doesn't seem to have a clue about Jodie's flirting.' Summer slapped her sister's arm and gained a serious expression.

"What?" Alex just shook her head disapprovingly at her before getting off the bed. "Hey! Where are you going?" Summer glared at the back of Alex's head as the other girl just continued to walk away and waved dismissively to her.

"I'm gonna go shower." Alex opened the door and left while Summer remained sitting on the bed, lost and confused.

"Alexxxx! Waiiiiiit! Come back and tell me what's going on!" By now, Alex had already made it into the bathroom and Summer could hear the door open and close. "I'm gonna tell Dad on you!" Summer then heard a muffled 'Whatever' in a clearly uncaring voice. This caused Summer to grunt in an angry manner and cross her arms over her chest while pouting. 'Stupid sister…'

Meanwhile…

The girls decided on Jodie driving to Marissa's house since she said something about getting a feel of Newport. And now, the two brunettes drove silently, neither speaking to the other, not knowing what to say. 'I'm surprised she hasn't brought Alex up yet. It's so obvious that she still likes her…' Marissa glanced over at Jodie who was smiling to herself and had head bopping to the music that played on the radio. Jodie saw that Marissa looking at her by using her peripheral vision, and smirked.

"Yes?" The taller girl quickly set her eyes back outside to the passing cars as she blushed. Jodie laughed at Marissa's movements before turning off the radio and tilting her heads towards the other girl. "I know something's bothering you. So, spit it out." Marissa shook her head but Jodie continued to cast her gaze towards her.

"Ah, well…" Jodie nodded for her to continue speaking, clearly annoyed that Marissa was taking so long to say something so simple.

"You know we don't have all day. We are supposed to be going out to eat soon." Marissa looked down into her lap, feeling like a child as Jodie spoke to her.

"Alex told you about…about us, right?" 'I bet if I played dumb she wouldn't even be able to tell the difference. This will be so much fun…'

"What about you guys?" Jodie rolled her eyes at Marissa's incoherent mumbled answer. "I couldn't hear you. Could you repeat that, please?" Marissa didn't notice the grin on Jodie's face as she continued to look at her hands nervously.

"That we used to…date…" 'Act surprised. Act surprised. Go!'

"What! You two dated? You're gay? What?" Marissa's eyes shot to Jodie's and widened at the other girl's response, thinking that she just gave away new information.

"What! I thought she told you!" Marissa froze trying to think of a cover-up. "I-I mean, I thought I said that we were best friends. We didn't date. We wouldn't. She's not my type.
I like boys." Jodie smiled and laughed gleefully as she hit the steering wheel with her hand.

"You are way too easy. But yea, I knew about you two." Marissa's jaw dropped, but then quickly closed as she pushed Jodie in the arm. The shorter girl suddenly slammed her foot on the break pedal, causing Marissa to get jerked by the seatbelt and then turned to the other girl. "Did you just hit me?" Marissa found herself in another panic-stricken state as she shook her head feverishly.

"N-no! I didn't mean to. I-I didn't know th-that…" She found herself unable to continue as she began cry from Jodie's evil glare. Jodie looked at Marissa in horror as she realized that she just made a seventeen year-old girl cry.

"Are you serious? Hey, hey. Stop crying, I was just joking." She reached over and touched Marissa's arm slightly, trying to calm her down. 'She's not the only one who can joke around…' After a minute or so, Marissa rubbed her eyes with the back of her hand and gave Jodie a mischievous smile before sticking her tongue out at her.

"Ha ha. I win." Jodie gasped in the realization of just being fooled by a younger girl.

"Oooh. You're good." The two girls shared a laugh before continuing their way to Marissa's house, a lot less awkward and silent than before.