Chapter 7

As Marissa went to her room, she got to her phone. She gonna punch in his number when she remembered she didn't know his number. She then went into the hallway where she knew she was going to find a phone book. She opened the drawer where it was hidden and took out the local phonebook. She searched for the name Anna Atwood and when she found it she punched in the numbers beside the name, put the phonebook back to the drawer and went back to her room.

As she was back in her room she sat down on her bed and pressed the call button on her phone and held it to her ear. After about two rings she heard an old woman's voice on the other line.

"Hello?" The voice said.

"Hi Mrs. Atwood" Marissa replied. "It's Marissa Cooper"

"Hi dear. How are you?" Anna asked her.

"I'm good. Great actually."

"That's nice to hear. How's your father?" She had known her father since he was born. Her grandmother and her had been best friends since they were little girls and their boys, Marissa's and Ryan's dads, were best friends growing up so she had was really close to him.

"He's great. He's doing great in his new job. Yeah, he's doing really well." Marissa replied

"Yeah, I heard about his new job. He's working in the Newport Group, right?"

"Yeah he is" She answered. There was a moment of awkward silence after that, neither knowing what to say.

"But I guess you're not here to talk to me, are you?" Anna said.

"Uhm… no. Is Ryan there?" She asked, awkwardly.

"Sure. Let me just go get him" She said as she walked down the hallway to Ryan's room. She knocked lightly on the door.

"It's open" Ryan called out. She opened the door and walked in the room. He was lying on the bed, just starting at the ceiling.

"It's for you" She handed him the phone. He looked at her confused. "It's Marissa" She added.

"Ok" He took the phone out of her hands and waited for her to leave. "Thanks"

"Right… I'll just leave you to it" She said as she started walking away. "Just bring the phone out when you're done" She added as she walked out of the room, closing the door after her.

As his grandmother closed the door he held the phone up to his ear. "Hello?" He said.

"Hi Ryan" She greeted him, quite happily. "It's Marissa"

"Yeah… hi" He said, a smile appearing on his face.

"I didn't know you're number so I just called your grandmother… I found her number in the phonebook"

"I don't have a phone"

"You don't?" She asked surprised, then realizing he was from Chino so it wasn't that unbelievable. "Never mind" She added. "So, are you doing anything?" She awkwardly asked him. She felt kinda weird calling a boy she only met yesterday and ask him over to meet her mother.

"Well, if you call lying in bed, staring at the ceiling doing anything then yeah"

She laughed slightly. "Okay… So do you want to come over?" She asked him. "My mom's really pissing me off…" She trailed off.

"Uhh… okay" He said awkwardly.

"You don't have to if you don't want to"

"No I want to" He assured her, a slight smile on his face. "So uh… where do you live?"

"I'll just pick you up"

"Okay"

"So… see you in five?"

"Yeah… bye"

"Bye" She said as they both hung up their phones.

Ryan stood up of the bed and walked into the living room where his grandmother was. He walked up to her and handed her the phone. "I'm gonna head over to Marissa's" He told her.

"Okay… just don't be long. Do you need me to drive you?" She asked him.

"No… She's picking me up" He said

"Alright dear. Just remember to lock the door when you come back, I'll probably be asleep"

"Sure" He said as he went outside, to the end of the driveway, to wait for Marissa to pick him up.