An: I guess there's not much to say. Other than thank you for all the reviews and dont forget to R/R. I actually wasnt tooo fond of this post butt w/e you be the judge. Tell me what you thought. Here goes...
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"Summer, Marissa"
"Marissa, Summer" Seth introduces the two girls as they stand in the entrance of the living room.
"Hi, its nice to meet you" Summer politely tells the blonde girl in front of her.
"Yeah you too" She smiles at the perky brunette as she decides to politely hand her hand out for the girl to shake, but is surprised when she is instead pulled into a hug. She feels stiff at first but then realizes that it's a genuine hug and relaxes into the hug.
As the girls pull apart Summer speaks a thought that had been on her mind for some time now. "Oh geez, do I feel bad for you." She speaks with laughter yet seriousness in her voice.
"What?" Marissa retorts confused, "Why?"
"Well, you see I mean yeah I love Cohen and all but I mean I feel so bad for you, YOU have to live with him now" She says as she cant help but snicker at her own half joke.
But before Marissa has a chance to respond Seth cuts her off, "Hey! I resent that" He speaks with mock affermity, " I honestly don't think Im that hard to live with."
He continues as he hears Summer let out a snort, "I mean what could possibly be so bad and hard about living with such a charming, loving, handsome, intelligent, must I go on man like myself?" He questions as he appears to be deep in thought.
"Well we could easily start by the rambling, move on to how you hog the bathroom more than a girl, to how nosey you are. Cohen face it the list goes on and on.." Summer remarks as a smile has already begun to form on her face.
"Oh yeah" He questions her.
"Yeah" She bites back as their lips come together in a sharing, loving embrace.
As they are too caught up in their lip lock neither of them see Marissa let herself plow down on the couch with her own thoughts as she does feel slightly awkward with the couple in front of her. As the doorbell goes Marissa looks up and sees not the slightest movement come from the couple now making out on the armchair. "Guess I'll go get it" She mumbles to herself as she stands up from her spot in the living room and begins to walk to the foyer and then the front door.
"Hey" She greats the intriguing blonde that stands in front of her wearing a simple pair of jeans, t-shirt, and mesmerizing half smile.
"Hey" Ryan returns the greeting as he looks over the new girl in town who he already wishes he could have all of.
A minute of silence goes by and no one says anything as they just look each other over and take in yet again their surroundings.
Marissa quickly looks down embarrassed as she realizes no one has spoke a word but still can't bring herself to say any as she turns a light crimson.
"So...you wanna stand in the doorway forever or wanna..." Ryan begins but doesn't get to finish his thought as Seth and Summer come barging through.
"Atwood, good to see you're finally here. Great now we can go." Summer states as she grabs Marissa's arm and begins to walk fast so they are out of the boy's earshot.
"Oh my gosh!" Summer exclaims,, "You totally got the hots for Atwood, don't you!?" She looks to the taller girls with eyes wide as saucers.
"What no!" Marissa begins, "That's crazy, I mean for one I've only known the boy for like a day and I mean yeah just no." She finishes as she even confuses herself with her choice of words.
"It's okay" Summer lets her know, "Cause he's sooo into you too." She states matter of factly as they reach the car and are now waiting for the boys to catch up.
"Really? You think so?" Marissa questions self-doubtibly.
"Oh yeah, I know so." Summer remarks back as she lets a smug smile over come her face as she is suddenly happy with herself for realizing so quickly what could be a steamy romance in times ahead.
She suddenly lets out a laugh and begins to giggle and Marissa soon can't help but join in and they both realize this could also easily be the beginning of a great, beautiful, new friendship.
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"So how'd you like Newport's best diner?" Seth questions as the foursome come out of the local diner on the pier.
"It was pretty good." Marissa lets everyone know.
"Yesss, I told everyone you would love it." Seth states declaringly.
They all let out a quick laugh but the moment is broken by Summer's voice ringing through the air. "Hmm, Cohen look the ice cream shop is still open," Summer looks up to her dorky boyfriend and gives him her best smile. "Will you buy me one?" She turns to direct the question to him.
Seth quickly looks to Ryan and Marissa who were looking at them observantly, "Either you guys want one?" Seth asks them. As they both shake their heads no he takes Summer's hand in his and begins to lead her down the opposite way of the pier toward the ice cream shop.
"So" Ryan begins a tad shyly, "You wanna go for a walk or something?"
"Sure." She lets him know as she begins to walk down the pier as he quickly follows and catches up to her.
"Well" Marissa begins using her observant skills, "Seth and Summer really do seem happy and in love." She finishes with a smile on her face as turns to look at Ryan.
He lets out a small laugh, "Yeah I guess you could say that, dysfunctional, twisted love, but love nonetheless"
"Hmm" She begins intrigued with this boy and wanting to know more about his past. She knows she is about to be forward, boundary-crossing, maybe even a little to daring but can't help it nonetheless. "Have you ever been in love?" She questions him with her voice only loud enough for him to hear as he turns to face him and he comes to a sudden halt and suddenly looks down at her own hands that she is now ringing together. A minute goes by in silence as she is suddenly becoming more and more subconscious, "I..I..I'm sorry, that was stupid. You don't have to answer that." She looks away from him and begins to walk again as she looks down at her feet and just quickens her pace when she hears Ryan call out for her.
"Marissa, Marissa. Would you just wait." He tells her firmly and he jogs to stand right in front of her and puts either of his hands on her shoulders and suddenly cant speak anymore as the electricity has shot through his body.
Marissa loves it. She feels the chills surge through her body and up and down her spine. She loves his touch and it makes her feel comforted...
Ryan however breaks her from her thoughts as he has gained back his self control as he clears his throat and retrieves his arms to his sides to continue. "Its okay, how bout this? I'll tell you if you tell me?" He looks up and finds the silent answer of yes in her eyes so he decides to continue. "Love, well for me Im not really sure, what is love? If you mean have I had a relationship, been with a girl, had a girl friend before than yeah." He continues his last words in a whisper as if he's not really sure of them, "But one day, hopefully soon I wanna discover what love really is..." He trails off softly as he connects their soft blue irises that remain unreadable yet still have the capability of losing anyone in them
She takes in his answer but yet doesn't know how to quite feel about it. Should she be happy, sad, I mean she barely even knew him yet here they were asking probably one of the most intimate questions. One thing was for sure, she was confused, that's about the only emotion she was sure of these days.
"Well" She begins knowing he was waiting to hear her answer to the question, "I, I thought I was in love. But I mean how do you know. People told me I was just suppose to know but I was always so confused and yeah it did hurt when we ended but I mean Im still not sure if it was because I had been with him for so long or because I was afraid to be by myself. Anyway it was time we ended, we didn't function anymore and I knew he didn't love me. " She finishes as she let out a deep breath as she cant help the tears that prick her eyes at the memories.
"Who was he?" Ryan questions softly.
"What?" She responds with a question of her own.
"What was his name?" He mends trying to get her to understand better.
"Oh...his name was Jake. But I mean that's not really important. Its all in the past." She finishes off her statement more trying to reassure herself more than Ryan.
"Hmm." Ryan begins feeling the atmosphere starting to get a little to heavy to quick and tries to change the subject, "So how do you like Newport so far?" He questions as he looks at her.
Marissa turns to look back at him and is thankful for the topic change, "So far" she begins as she walks to the edge of the pier and Ryan follows so they are now both side to side glancing out at the waves meeting the sand. "Its pretty good, beautiful, you're lucky, you know, to have lived in such a beautiful town your entire life." She knows he is about to say something but decides to continue. "But let me tell you some of the people in this town are real jerks, so stuck up and full of themselves, you know just the type that has to be the first to introduce themselves to the first piece of eye candy they see." She laughs as she looks a his mock hurt expression.
"Well excuse me, I like to think those are the best guys around. You know you should really try hanging around more with someone like this guy you are referring to." Ryan finishes with a broad smile now playing across his face and decides to add one more thing, "I wouldn't say this guy is really full of himself or stuck up more like confident and unwilling to let such good eye candy pass him by."
"Righttt" Marissa laughs along with him. "You promise you wont laugh if I tell you something" She questions as she looks up at him and bites down on her pink, plump lip.
"Promise." Ryan lets her know. "Scouts honor." He finishes trying to reassure her he wont laugh and not trying to let her know how eager he is to know her "secret."
"Hmm, okay" She begins, "I've never actually been to the beach" She lets him know slightly embarrassingly as she looks at him trying to gauge a reaction.
Ryan can't help but let out a laugh at he cuteness but is shocked nonetheless at her confession but finds it slightly unbelieveable.
"Hey, you promised" She lets her soft lips form a pout but soon cant help but join his laughter.
"Sorry, sorry." he tries to reassure her. "But I mean you're not serious right?" He questions thinking its just a cover up for the real secret she is hiding.
"Dead serious" She lets him know.
"Oh my god. How could have never been to the beach?" He questions confusion creeping up his voice as he is deep in thought. Before she has time to respond he continues his thoughts, "But I guess this gives us the only option of fixing that. What do you say, me, you sometime when we both have free time, I would love to accompany you to your very first ever trip to the beach?" he lets her know.
"Really?" She questions him, the astonishment evident in her voice. "You wanna bring me to the beach?" She replies the excitement showing more and more as she continues.
"Yeah, so how bout I'll call you sometime and we can arrange a little trip back down here." He motions to the sand and ocean, "And well have you become a beach lover in no time."
"Really? I would love that." She answers him genuinely as she flashes a dazzling smile his way.
"K, so its settled then, sometime soon we'll be back down here, but for now what do you say to going back and finding Seth and Summer, probably making out somewhere, so we can start heading home, it is getting late and you look like you're pretty tired and you have undoubtably y had a long day." He finishes as he doesn't wait for her response and begins to walk back.
She nods and quickly catches up to him, "Ryan"
"Yeah" he questions tilting his head to look at her but continues walking at the same time.
"Thanks." She tell him shyly, "for everything." She tells him trying to convey with those few words how thankful she is to him, for not only being there for her, but for being so genuinely nice and helpful to her.
He's about to give a long rhetorical response but decides to leave it plain, simple, and understandable, "You're welcome" And with those few, simple words they both know all she's thanking him for.
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