-1Chapter 3

When the camera was back on Marissa, after the commercial break, she was laying in a lawn chair right near the pool. She then propped her self up and began talking to the eager boys in the van.

"Okay guys, I'm sitting here near the beautiful pool, which ironically is nice and close to the pool house, room number 2." she smiled quickly before she said "So lets go see what he's got."

Ryan let out a small sigh as he watched her slimming, sparkling body approach the glass door. He was almost mesmerized, when Johnny began his banter.

"I hope you don't have any porn sites stashed away anywhere, Ryan." Johnny joked, grinning at Seth. Seth just glared and said "You're a mean boy Johnny, but you'll get your chance for embarrassment soon enough."

"Ooh, I like it" Marissa said has she walked in, admiring the room around her. "Its very…" she raked her brain for the right word. "Adult like." she decided that sounded odd, so she also spit out "Independent. Its like your own apartment." Marissa gave a sort of sexy grin. "Lots of privacy, I like that. You never know what we could get into." she giggled, hoping it didn't sound to trampy.

"Hmmm… she likes it." Ryan said calmly, In the way Ryan Atwood says a lot of things, calm, rational, and your not sure what he's really thinking.

"Where should I start?" she gave the whole room a look over. "Well… he has a punching bag over there." She motioned to the other side of the room. "I like that, it means you can protect me."

Seth had to say something, and on national TV. "Oh yeah, good old Ryan can protect you." he put his hand on Ryan's back. "This guy gets in so many fist fights its crazy. Remember when you had to steal that car for your brother and-" he was cut off.

"Seth. Not now."

The guys watched Marissa walking over, to what seemed like the punching bag, but then she stopped half way and turned her direction to a near by wall with a few photographs on it. "Pictures" she said simply. "I love pictures. So good for keeping memories." she looked them over.

"Oh Ryan." Seth chuckled, knowing what they were pictures of.

"Ah…well, there's no way she'll know its me…right?" Ryan said, as Johnny laughed a little, knowing it would be embarrassing, but he also knew he had something in his room he definitely did not want Marissa to find.

Marissa smiled. "Aww… this is so cute. Someone dressed up as snoopy. Is this your brother or cousin?"

Ryan was relieved she didn't suspect it was him, and put on a smile with a small laugh.

"And, the back of this Snoopy photo says…" Marissa flipped the picture over and read aloud what it said. "Ryan and Theresa 8th grade play." she pinned it back to the wall, and looked at the other pictures, for a moment. "Who's this?" she was looking at a picture of Theresa when she was about 17 years old, in a sun dress, outside a trailer. She flipped it over and read what it said. "Ryan, here's a picture of me for you to look at and guak over. Love Theresa." she pinned it back to the wall and then asked the camera a question. "So…I guess your Ryan…who's Theresa, old girlfriend? Current girlfriend? I hope not." she gave a small laugh. "And if your Ryan…you're the Snoopy! Aww!"she smiled. "How Cute Ryan."

"Damn." Ryan said, from her finding out his 8th grade play moments. Seth and Johnny laughed.

"Alright, enough of that. To the bed." she giggled and walked over to the huge bed, with a blue blanket on it messily. "Your not the best bed maker." she smiled. "But hey, neither am I." she crawled onto the bed and laid down, when surprisingly, her body wiggled and moved in a slow motion up and down a little. It was a water bed. "Water bed. Okay. Nice, I like it. I've actually never really laid on one." she sat up. "Well, I need to look in your table." she opened the drawer and pulled out a box of Trojans. "Well, your safe, that's good." she looked at the box for a moment longer. "It says there extra large, and ribbed for her pleasure." Marissa laughed. "Well well well… interesting." she placed the box back and took out a CD case. "Saves The Day. You like them too? I love them! So that's pretty cool, we like the same kind of music. I Hate being in a car and listening to music I hate, its so annoying, so I guess we'd make a good match." she smiled and placed the CD back. Then she went down to the second drawer. "What's this?" she looked at about a 5 page paper and read the cover page. "The Real Me. That's what it says."

"Oh, please don't read any of it."

"What is that man?" Seth asked.

"Its something I did for school a few months ago. I kind'a…put a lot into it…and then I ended up passing in a different paper, because that one was too…loaded. And I don't want her reading it to tons of people."

"Why, the real you a killer?" Johnny laughed.

"Ahh…" Was all Ryan said as he put his head into his hands.

"Hmmm…this is long. I'll save it for later." she placed it in her spy kit box, and then closed the drawer. "I think I should go to the clothes. See your style." she walked to the rack, with lots of clothes folded nicely on it. "I guess you don't have a closet." she picked out one of the wife beaters. "A wife beater? Okay, nice. You have a lot of those… and you have some nice button up shirts here." she pawed through the clothes. 'I really like your style. Its very put together and clean." she gave a big smile when she was done with the clothes. "I liked that. I wonder if I'll like the bathroom.

"Its just a normal bathroom…" Ryan said in the van.

Marissa looked around. "Okay, its not dirty." she walked to the shower and gave it a once over. "You have a shower massager…."she laughed. Okay…in case you need a massage." she smiled.

"Why do you have that?" Seth wondered.

"It was there when I came."

"Well, I'm using your shower sometime, see, I got this pain in my back, and that could help. I got it from that day I helped Jared's Mom at her work. A lot of lifting."

"Seth, her store is called Pillows by Phyllis. it's a pillow store. How hard is it to carry pillows around?"

"Well…its…hey! Some have heavy embroidering."

"Wow."

"Well Ryan, I really like your place. Its clean, and easy going. You have a TV and computer. Wait, before I go, I have got to check your computer." she ran over to his computer and turned on the monitor. "Wow, I'm surprised. Your background or screen saver isn't girls in bikini's. Just blue, which by the way is my favorite color." she smiled.

"She's so hot." Johnny said. "I love her laugh"

"She is really hot…it'd be kind of nice to see her naked…" Seth said, in tune with the TV screen.

"Well, yeah it would!" Johnny replied.

"Guys, come on." Ryan had to say something.

"You think she's smoking too!"

"Your favorites has only one porn site. That's a good boy!" she laughed. "Well Ryan, I like your room, but I still have one more left. So on the commercial break, I might give your "The Real Me" essay a read through. Okay. See you in a few minutes!" she smiled and walked out of his pool house.

"She's giving it a read through! Great…" he said sarcastically.

"Well, at least she wont read it to the whole world." Seth assured him.

"At least that."

I KNOW! It was kind'a boring huh? I dunno, after she picks a guy, the story will hopefully be more exciting. Summer will be probably meeting Seth..and it should be good. Please review! Thanks!