A/N: Hope your all enjoying will try and get more chapters up soonish. As for now this chapter has the engagement ring pictured in it. Anyway read and as always please please please review. Love u all. Rmloveobsessed oP

Everybody Loves Surprises

They arrived at the Cohen's at 8.55pm and rushed inside, Marissa hiding her hand (with the ring on it) in Ryan's behind her back. As they turned the corner, leading from the kitchen to the backyard patio, they saw everyone chattering away at the large table. There was two seats free, left for Marissa and Ryan, closest to the door. Marissa pulled Ryan over and they sat down. Marissa held her hands under the table and was trying really hard to keep the huge grin from her face. They said hello to everyone and started chatting but soon came the questions.

"Can I just ask something? Why are we all sitting here and why were we all waiting for you two to get here? what's all the drama about?" Seth questioned suspiciously. Everyone went quiet and all stared to Ryan and Marissa's direction. "Wellll..." Ryan began a smile appearing on his face. Marissa's face also turned blush red and a large smile appeared on her face too. "Marissa and I..." He dragged it on. Everyone sitting on the edge of their seat waiting to hear what their gathering was for. Ryan and Marissa looked into each other's eyes and then at everyone "Are engaged!!!" They both exclaimed excitedly.

"Oh my...!" Kirsten interjected. "Ohhh Congratulations Ryan. You finally plucked up the courage to get it out there" Sandy mentioned. "Yeah" Ryan replied quietly and shyly. He squeezed Marissa's hand. He hated all the attention and comments. "Bout time buddy" Seth also nudged. "Oh my god Coop. That's sooo cool. Now we can start planning for your wedding while we finish planning mine. Oh my god. This is going to be sooo much fun. Let me see the ring. Let me see, let me see!" Summer said hurriedly. Marissa laughed at her excitement. She was more excited about Marissa's engagement than Marissa was...but not by much.

Marissa pulled out her hand and showed everyone her engagment ring.

All the girls hushed around to see it. Julie, Kirsten, Kaitlyn, Summer and even little Sophie gawked at the ring on her small finger. "Oh it's stunning sweetie" Kirsten told her. "It really is beautiful Riss" Julie told her daughter. "Wow. Did HE pick that out or was it one of the jeweller's?" Kaitlyn queried. "No he actually picked it out himself" Marissa replied smugly but still surprised herself. "Holy crap. Nice choice Ryannn!" Kaitlyn exclaimed as Kirsten glared at the cursing in front of her baby daughter.

Everyone sat back down and chatted the night away. Sandy making jokes about "If only you weren't born my baby girl then we'd finally have an empty nest after all these weddings" Oh course Kirsten glared at him quickly and would reply. "Well frankly, I'd hate to have an empty nest. It's just too quiet otherwise". Julie laughed. "Feel free to have Kaitlyn for a while. The house is never quiet when she's home or when the boys are over" She laughed. Marissa kept looking down at her ring, still amazed this was actually real and actually happening. Summer would look at it every once and a while and then discuss some ideas for Marissa's wedding. Ryan also let them know he had shown Marissa their house and that they were moving into it tonight so the poolhouse was free as of tomorrow afternoon and the house would indeed be a lot quieter now.

After several celebration drinks and after everyone was thoroughly liberated, everyone retired home. Julie took Kaitlyn home first, then Summer put Sophie to bed and her and Seth left. Kirsten and Sandy congratulated the couple one last time, said good-night and locke up. Ryan and Marissa informed them that they were going to grab as much stuff of theirs that had been left in the poolhouse as possible and then would go home to their 'new' home and would see them later. And that's exactly what they did. They walked into the poolhouse, packed up everything of theirs that had gathered over the years, cleaned up as much as possible then walked to the door, turned around and said their good-byes to the poolhouse which had been much like their very own homes over the past 6 or 7 years.

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