Chapter 3 – Carnival (part 1)
Harbour High annual carnival day had come, rides, hotdog and plenty of cotton candy, were available as the final things went together. Marissa stood with a small clip board ticking off items as they were put around the site. A few minutes they were finished and it looked beautiful and Marissa went over to her car and headed home to get ready for the evening, and to have dinner with her parents.
Ryan looked at the clock beside his desk, quarter to 4, the last few days had been a long time at least this weekend would be fun, Seth had invited him to his house and then they would be going to the carnival after, he was excited about going maybe he was going to see her and tell her what he had to say to her and then they could maybe get back together. The minutes passed till he had to get ready to go to Seth's, he combed his back and put some grease into it and put on a top and his leather jacket, and walked out of his room and in to the living room and out of the front door, walking down the path to the street, where a car waited for him.
Marissa arrived home, her parents house it looked over the ocean, she got out of her car that she parked in the drive and opened the front door, she went in and straight up stairs to her bedroom, it was a pink colour, black and white photo's of Paris, horses and men. She flopped down on her bed and started to fall asleep; she had been asleep only for 2 minuets, when there was a knock at the door, her mother she thought. She opened the door
"Honey, your home, dinner is ready"
Great dinner with the family, she walked out of her room and downstairs to the dinning room, where her parents were sat at the table with her younger sister and took her seat and started to eat the food
"Yummy, sausage and smash"
"So is it all ready for the school carnival later"
"Yes"
"Good, hope that it will a great night for all the kids at the school"
"Yeah"
"Once you have finished you can get ready"
Once dinner had finished, she went back upstairs to her bedroom and started to get ready, firstly make- up then hair and a change of shoes. She looked at the pictures by her mirror the best pictures ever of her and Ryan, Summer. She smiled at the pictures and sighed, then gathered up her stuff and went out of her bedroom and down the stairs, to the kitchen, where her parents were washing up.
"I'm of out, I will be back at 10"
"Okay have a good time"
She walked out of the kitchen and out of the front door and to her car, opened the door, putting her purse on the passenger seat and got in and started up, and drove out of the drive and to carnival.
Ryan got in to the car waiting for him, it was Seth's car, he was picking him up for dinner as his mum was out and his dad was working late again, he got in and they drove off. After at least 5 minutes they arrived at a big house, and got out the car and walked up to the front door.
"Welcome to the Cohen House"
"Thanks for inviting me for dinner"
"That's all right; I forgot my key, so we have to use the doorbell"
They rang the doorbell and Seth's mom came to the door and opened it
"You forgot your key again Seth! You must be Ryan, please come in"
Ryan stepped in to the house, it was massive, high ceilings, marble stairs and a swimming pool in the garden, nothing like he had seen before, and he was amazed that people could live like this. He followed Seth in to the lounge, were on the sofa sat Seth's dad reading the newspaper.
"Hey dad I brought a friend for dinner, I would like you meet Ryan"
Sandy briefly looked over his newspaper and acknowledged the fact that his son had a friend over for dinner.
A few minutes later after discussing there plan for getting some romance for the night dinner was ready
"Sandy could you tell the kids that dinner is ready" Kirsten asked
"Yeah"
Sandy got up of his chair and put the newspaper down on the coffee table and walked towards the bedrooms of Seth and his little sister, he reached to the first bedroom, Seth's sister Sophie, he knocked on the door
"Sophie dinner is ready"
"Okay"
He got to Seth's door and knocked
"Seth & friend dinners ready"
"Thanks"
After a few short minutes everybody came down and came to sit at a large dinning table, Ryan decided to sit next to Seth as he felt a little bit nervous to meet his parents. The food was brought to them and everybody started to help themselves. Seth was excited a friend, eating with him, it was a good thing, and then the questions came.
"So Ryan, Seth has been telling me a lot about you, so do you have any hobbies or anything" asked Kirsten
"Well I'm very interested in motorbikes, cars and soccer; I used to play on the soccer team at my last school" Ryan replied
"That is very interesting what position do you play" asked Sandy
"Defence" answered Ryan
"Okay, you like cars, do you drive"
"No, not really money was tight so I could not afford driving lessons, but I plan to learn"
"Well we know a good driving school; we could give you the number"
"Thanks" said Ryan, Sandy wrote on a small piece paper he had in his pocket and gave the paper to Ryan
"So are you excited by the carnival?" asked Sandy
"Yes we are" replied Seth
"Good to hear what time is it 7pm"
"Well it is 6.40 now"
"Okay" they finished there small portions of dinner and left the table and got there stuff ready and left for the school field.
Marissa got there and parked her car and went to were the organisers were standing, waiting for her to turn up and with a crowd of kids waiting to go in.
"Sorry I'm a little late" she said to a group of girls, then with her loudest voice said to the crowd
"Hi everybody, well I would like to welcome you to the 2nd Harbour High start of year carnival, ride tickets can be bought from the ride operator, so let's go and enjoy the carnival"
Kids started to pour in; these included the groups of kids that formed the man gangs of harbour high and the sport teams. Ryan and Seth were at the back of the crowd as the finally got in and started to explore what the carnival had to offer them, Seth had planned to meet Summer at the Candy floss stand, and then maybe go on to a couple of rides.
Marissa walked around looking at the kids making sure that everything was going to plan, she stopped of at the hot dog stand and got one and started to eat when, somebody tapped her on the back, she turned around to see a friend of hers Jonny and his girlfriend Casey and his best mate Dennis and his girlfriend Lindsay
"Hey Marissa"
"Jonny, Hey so are you enjoying carnival, have you been on any rides yet"
"Yes, we have not been on any rides yet, you"
"No I thought I would have a hot dog first then go on the rides"
"Cool, well you have made the best start of the year party"
"Thanks"
They walked over to one of the rides and Marissa watched as her friends went on the rides and she stood eating her hot dog.
Part two
Ryan and Seth walked over to the candy floss stand were Summer was standing with a two large candy flosses in her hands waiting. Summer saw Seth walking over with Ryan, she was amazed that he had such a good looking friend with him, this must be Ryan. Seth came over to her and she gave him his candy floss.
"Thank you for the candy floss"
"It's all right"
They started to kiss and it let on to a full kiss, and Seth then said
"So, I have to introduce somebody to you"
"Okay"
Ryan turned to face Summer
"Summer this is Ryan Atwood"
Ryan looked at Summer, his thoughts were mixed up, some how he liked her, but thought it would be best not to say it aloud in front of her boyfriend
"Ah please to meet you" Summer shock his hand and looked in to his ocean blue eyes, no wonder her best friend had found him so hot
Seth started to munch on his candy floss, and was feeling that they were going to get on fine.
"Do you want to go on some rides" Seth asked
"Well I was going to meet Marissa at the ferries wheel for couples ride" Summer answered
"Okay"
The three of them walked over to the wheel were a group of people stood, Ryan could not help thinking on the way there that he would meet Marissa, what he would say to her, appolyise for leaving or would she be cool and carry on where they left off.
Marissa was waiting at the feris wheel looking at it, with a heaving heart, last year her and Luke had a ride there, but she had none to ride with, she had heard rumours that Ryan was here, she was wondering what she would say to him. She saw in the distance what looked to be Seth & Summer, and behind them was Ryan, following.
The gang came together all hugging Ryan staying at the back before he stepped forward and introduced himself
"Hi" his word stumbled out not sure what to say
"So you must be Ryan Atwood" said one of the gang
"Yeah" he answered
"Welcome to harbour High School, should we introduce our self's to you"
Ryan nodded his head
"Right I'm Zach captain of the soccer team, this is my girlfriend Taylor" he pointed out the girl standing next to him
"This is Jonny and Casey, Chilli and Lindsay, Alex and Heather" he pointed out another two couples and two other girls, they all said hi to Ryan and Ryan said hi back to them. Ryan did not know what to do next he looked a little confused and then so said
"So you play for the soccer team"
"Yeah all as guys do apart from Seth"
"Cool" Ryan was thinking what question to ask
"Enjoying carnival" they asked
"Yeah, you know how to start the year"
"Well it was the girls idea to have a start of year carnival and dance, this our second year"
Ryan looked around at all the girls standing there and nodded
"So who wants first go on the wheel"
The group took it in turns to pair up and got on the wheel, the only two people left that were not on the ride where Ryan and Marissa, there eyes meet and he walked towards her and stood there frozen not knowing what to say or do. She sorted of smiled and looked back towards the wheel and was not sure what to say either the silence was interrupted by
"Coop are you going on the wheel or not"
"Well Sum I have to go and talk to somebody"
Summer full knew well this was Ryan
Marissa made short steps over towards Ryan she stopped and he came closer to him. The words were short
"Hi"
"Hi, I was wondering if we could talk"
"Yeah, were do you want to go"
"The parking lot"
"Fine"
They both walked of towards the parking lot following behind each other scared of what would one to say to each other and how it would turn out, after 5 minutes they got to the parking lot to where Marissa's car and sat down by the front of the car
"So you are back"
"Yeah, well we found a house and moved in 2 weeks ago"
"That is good for you; your family can start fresh then"
"Yes, a new school, a new bunch of friends"
"Yeah well hope it works out for you, I have to get back to the carnival"
Marissa got up and walked towards the carnival, she had messed up big time, not for him to say sorry for him going back or surprising her by coming back. She felt like crying or going to say sorry, but she walked back to the carnival and joined her friends and started to shed a tear
Ryan sat by Marissa's car and got out a cigarette and lighted it and start to smoke, she was so cold towards to him, no chance to say sorry to even start back to what they had over the summer holidays.
A while later carnival had finished and Seth & Summer came back to the parking lot to find Ryan sitting by Marissa's car smoking and looking at a photography of her in his wallet, Seth knelled down to were Ryan was and Ryan looked at him
"It did not work out"
"Yeah"
"Sorry man, well do you want to stay the night at mine"
"Yeah my dad won't be home nor my mum, will I need to go home to get some clothes"
"That's fine"
Seth turned to Summer
"Ryan is pretty upset, he is going to stay at mine, I'm sure that Marissa or Taylor will give you a lift home"
"Okay, see you in the morning" they kissed and Summer went of to find her best friend and sister.
Ryan got up and walked with Seth back to his car, they both got in a drove out of the parking lot, back to Ryan's.
Summer went back towards the carnival entrance, standing by the entrance was Taylor and Marissa, Marissa was crying and Taylor was hugging her, she final reached to were she was and Marissa looked at Summer and parted with Taylor
"Oh Coop, I suppose it did not go so well"
"Yeah, I just did not know what to say, nor did he"
"Well that is what is like when you meet a guy that you have not seen in a 2 months"
"Yeah, your right Sum, I think I need to go home"
"Okay, you need to go home"
Then Marissa said goodbye to Summer and went over to her car and got in and drove off, leaving Summer and Taylor standing there
"Well we better get of home to"
The two sisters went over to there car and drove off home.