Dedicated to Dhara and Julia for our awesome Biology lessons! :D

CHAPTER 3

Marissa came down to the breakfast table where everyone was already sat, waiting for her. She didn't realize that she had woken up so late! Well, she was rather tired after the fun night that she had with the girls.

"Ahh here is Mrs. Sleepy-head finally!" Seth exclaimed, "So can we eat now?"

"Hey! It's not my fault you guys are insomniacs!" Marissa joked. Everyone started laughing apart from Ryan who just smiled politely.

"So how did everyone sleep last night?" Oliver asked making an effort, "The sheets were really comfy!"

"Yeah it was good," Summer joined in.

"Oh…my…gosh this….food is such…good quality," Kaitlin mumbled between mouthfuls.

They all laughed and finished their breakfast, all in good moods.

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"Why do we have to go to the local markets on our very first day here?" Ryan moaned to Seth.

"Because, Summer wants to and you know I'm a sucker for her! Also, Marissa wanted to as well you know how those girls can get!"

Ryan rolled his eyes as it was too true.

"What do you think?" Marissa posed with emerald green earrings at the gang, "they aren't real, don't worry!"

Beautiful, Ryan thought and he wasn't thinking about the earrings.

"Hey, you guys! Come try this out!" Summer exclaimed in excitement pointing at a lady from a stall, "she's a real fortune-teller and she does it for cheap! Oh come on, it'll be fun!"

"Okay, just for fun," Marissa chuckled. As she was walking over, Summer was having her 'future' being told to her.

"You are going to be more than satisfied with your life but very soon after, you will find another interest which will benefit you for the time being however it will hurt those who are very close to you. So be careful, and try to avoid this as in the long run, it will hurt you and everyone around you," the freaky woman told Summer. Summer got up out of the seat laughing to her.

"Like that could ever happen! I would never abandon any of you lot!" Summer claimed.

Marissa sat down, awaiting her crazy speech while the fortune-teller took her hands and closed her eyes.

"You, someone close to you will be in danger but you may be oblivious to this fact. You must pay more attention to your surroundings or very bad consequences! Don't ignore the signs, believe in them! HE MUSTN'T SUCCEED! You must make sure he doesn't!" yelled the mad woman, banging her fists against the table, while Ryan pulled Marissa away from her.

In front of the others, Marissa laughed about how stupid the crazy fortune-teller was but inside, she had this gut feeling that not everything she said was completely stupid.

After hours of shopping and eating, only Ryan and Marissa had feet aches, the others were really in the mood to watch a French mime act performance.

The two walked the half an hour walk back to their hotel room. 10 minutes of the walk was in silence and it was too awkward to handle for Marissa.

Every time she looked at him, he was looking at her. This was a classic scene but she wanted to say so many things to him not just share looks! She wasn't wearing a coat and it was freezing, this was her chance.

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Ryan couldn't help but feel jealous as he saw some people winking and flirting with Marissa across the street. But he tried not look at her, her beauty. He looked up at her again, and she was shivering quite violently. What was he going to do?

He couldn't put his coat on her – that would complicate things. Then he looked to the right of him and saw his answer.

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"Do you want to grab a coffee? I mean I'm parched and it's kind of cold out here it would be good if we warmed up a bit now," Ryan mumbled awkwardly. Okay so it wasn't his coat but at least it got him talking.

"Sure," she smiled.

When they got inside they found a nice small table and sat down. After they ordered, things got a lot less awkward.

"So what did u buy today then?" Ryan asked.

"Too much for the first day," she laughed, "a couple of dresses I mean you can't go to Paris without getting the designer dresses! A few tops, jeans and some cute accessories. Let me guess what you bought…… zilch. Am I right?"

"You know me too well," he laughed.

Their coffee's arrived and they sipped it while talking about the day.

"Would you excuse me for a minute?" Ryan asked like a gentleman after a while. Argh, why was he so charming!

"Sure," she answered.

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It was all going so well in there, except Ryan's bladder felt near-explosion! He rushed to get back out there; he didn't want to miss any more minutes with Marissa. He hated that she made him feel like this but couldn't help grinning while opening the door to the tables. But when he looked at his table, his smile faded and anger roared up inside him.

Oooooooh why is Ryan so angry? Review and if I get enough reviews then I'll update! x