Chapter 5 – Friends & Ex's

After coffee, Ryan and Marissa had more of a chat a swapped email and mobile phone numbers. He asked her how long she was staying in Newport.

"I'm staying till Wednesday"

"Well now it's Sunday we could meet up tomorrow"

"Yeah that sounds great"

Ryan saw Marissa left with her parents and he went to his room and was excited about tomorrow. At that moment Seth Knocked on his door and came in, they started to talk about college experiences, and women. This ran late into the night, so Ryan went to bed late.

It was the next morning, it was early around 8am Ryan was jogging along the beach, were he met Sandy who was coming back up the beach after finishing his early morning surf before going into school. They shared a flask of coffee and started chatting about Taylor and Marissa. They both drove back to the house where Kirsten was cooking breakfast of pancakes. He eat them and felt nervous about meeting Marissa later.

The time passed and then it came to 11am and Ryan walked to the cooper house to pick up Marissa, he felt butterflies in his stomach, as he approached the house then knocked on their front door and Julie answered the door

"Hello Ryan nice to see you, I will get Marissa for you, come in"

Ryan stepped in side the Cooper house it was a lot bigger than it was from the outside he sat in the lounge, waiting for her to come down. Then she finally came down and was wearing her New York University pink Hoodie and some jeans and ballet pumps. She looked amazing and Ryan looked underdressed with his blue shirt and jeans.

There eyes met in the lounge as she came in, she smiled at him and then joined him on the sofa, then she asked

"Hey, so what are we doing?"

"I thought shopping in the mall lunch at the diner and then tour of Newport and then dinner at the restaurant I work at"

"That sounds brilliant"

They both left the house and walked to the Cohen's house were Ryan's car was the got in the car and drove to the mall, Marissa was impressed with the range of shops that Newport had, and she looked through the items and choose a handbag, pair of shoes and a dress. She encouraged Ryan to buy some more shirts to go to his collection. They finished at the mall and walked to the diner and ordered her food, Marissa ordered a milkshake and a burger and chilli fries, were as Ryan had the meal he always had of cheese burger and chilli fries washed down with a coke. They sat there eating there food and discussing more about Ryan's life and how was university life was for him, and also showing his football injures over the years.

The air felt cold on Ryan's back as he felt something he had never felt before, as though someone was watching him and then someone patted him on the back he turned around and saw Taylor.

Marissa could feel a spark between them, she smiled at him and he smiled back, when Ryan tried jokes she laughed them. This was stopped by the arrival of the Ex-girlfriend.

Taylor approached Ryan with caution, then tapping him on the shoulder he looked round and said

"Taylor"

"Ryan, oh Seth said you were here with your friend I see"

"Yes we are having lunch, oh anyway have I introduced Marissa, she goes to New York university"

"Hi, Taylor Townsend nice to meet you"

They shaked hands nervously and Marissa looked as though she was an uninvited guest at a party. Ryan excused himself and asked Taylor if they could talk outside. Once outside Ryan asked Taylor some questions about what happened.

"So what happened in Paris, explain yourself?"

"Well urm…………as soon I got to Paris I got invited to a party, I drank so much, this French guy Jean-Paul took me home and I Slept with him and we have been dating since then."

"What you slept the guy that brought you home, I hope you are happy with him, it's over Taylor, I don't care if you split from him I won't want you back cause I can't trust you for even for even two days, I ever thought this would never happen, we are done, now leave me alone, you can also tell Kirsten, Sandy, Seth & Summer why we spilt up cause the whole of Newport wants to know that Taylor Townsend cheated on me"

"I'm sorry"

"You are not sorry"

Ryan got up and left Taylor alone and went back into the diner and finished talking to Marissa and his lunch, paid and walked out of the diner and showed Marissa around the rest of Newport, she loved the west coast sunshine, it was so nice to be by the sea and Ryan was great, they shared a kiss on the beach. Evening fell and they had dinner at the restaurant and Ryan drove Marissa home and they shared a goodbye kiss.