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Chapter 12 Talk to me
They had finally gotten to Newport and this was the day that there would be some answers to some questions that had started to come during the sail so far.
One of the questions that Marissa wanted to have an answer to was what Kaitlin had been up to and why she wanted to talk to her and then of course the lanky brunette needed to talk to her best friend so that she would get an idea what she should be doing with Alex.
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Alex on the other hand had some unfinished business that she needed to take care of. There was some money issues that she needed to solve and the most obvious thing was that she needed to talk to an ex, an ex that should have been on this trip or what to call it.
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"Mother, I'm back." Marissa said as she walked through the door on her mothers' office. And Julie just looked up and she did indeed see her oldest daughter standing there.
"Marissa, it's nice to see you back even if it's just for a day or two." Julie said and stood up so that she could give her daughter a hug and at this Marissa just took a step back this was not how she had been imaging this meeting going.
"I heard that Kaitlin was missing me or being in some kind of trouble." Marissa said, "I was just going to say hi to you before I was looking for her."
"I can say that she is worse than you." Julie said.
"How? If I remember right there was nothing going on with her before I left and I have been a way for like a month." Marissa said and she couldn't believe what she was hearing.
"I don't know what is going on with her but if you could figure it out be my guest and please let me know what I can do to keep her on the right side of the law."
"I f I remember correctly for it was just a call for attention maybe she just feels neglected. That would be my guess from what I have heard from her." Marissa said and gave her mother a small smile, the woman was after all her mother.
"Okay. So what should I do? I can take her shopping." Julie said but it was more to herself then to Marissa.
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Alex was standing outside the building where she had been working when she was living in Newport. She needed to go inside to find the manger so that she then could get in contact with the owner. She wanted her money.
She walked up to the disk so that she could get the attention from someone that was working in this club but from what she could tell the Bait shop was slowly falling apart this was no longer the club that she had been working at.
"I'm sorry but I'm looking for the manger." Alex said to a guy that was about her age.
"You are looking at him." The guy said. Of course he was the manger there was just something about the fact that the owner didn't have an idea on what he had been doing.
"Great, so I need to get I contact with Darren." Alex said.
"Darren?"
"You don't know the name of the owner?" Alex questioned him, this was even worse then she had thought.
"Oh, he is like gone."
"Okay, so how can I get in contact with him then?"
"Um, I don't really know but I can ask if someone has a number or something that."
"That would be great but does Mandy still work here?"
"Mandy?"
"Yes, Mandy." Alex said this guy couldn't be true.
"I think so, but I'm not sure that she is here at the moment."
"Okay but do you have a number to her?"
"Yeah." The guy said and Alex just waited for him to go and get it so that she could give the girl a call, hopefully she would have an idea on how to get in touch with Darren, this boy was no good.
"So can I get it?"
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Marissa walked inside the mansion where Kaitlin and her mother were living at the moment. That meaning that she probably would be running in to Summer any time today too.
"Kaitlin!" Marissa yelled as she was standing in the kitchen. She needed something to drink and this was the place where should could find it.
"You do know that you don't have to yell." Kaitlin said as she walked in to the room.
"Well, if someone was where they should be at this time of the day then maybe I shouldn't have to yell." Marissa said. Kaitlin just groaned. "I know that you have missed me so why don't you come here and give your sister a hug."
If looks could kill at this moment, Marissa would be six feet underground, and not so alive. Kaitlin couldn't help it but Marissa was right she had missed her sister.
"Fine but you do know that if you tell someone this, I will deny it telling them that you are a compulsive liar." Kaitlin said and smiled. "And we both know who they will believe."
"Okay fine. But there was something that you wanted to talk to me about." Marissa said.
"Nice change of subject."
"I do my best. So what is this about?"
"Don't you feel awkward knowing that your best friend is going to be your sister?" Kaitlin said and looked over at Marissa.
"What are you talking about, Summer won't be my sister and where have you gotten this from." Marissa said and she was confused about what this was all about.
"I kind of saw you know Summers' dad in a jewel-store looking at rings. And we both know what that means." Kaitlin said.
"You do know that it might be something else like a present for Summer or something else that he was getting for mum. I don't believe that mum would do something like this without even talking to either of us." Marissa said trying to get her head around what Kaitlin was saying. This thing Neil proposing didn't seem like something that he would do but then again this was Julie Cooper.
"You can't be sure of that. You haven't been here for the last month." Kaitlin said, thinking about all of the different things that had happened around here during the time that her sister had spent with their father.
"okay, so you freaking out about mum possible getting married again, well for the third time is what is freaking you out." Marissa said and looked over at Kaitlin and from the look on her sister she could tell that this was not the case. There was something else but Marissa knew deep down that she had to drag that out of her sister.
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Alex was pacing on the boat she had finally gotten the number that she needed so that she would be able to call Darren but she still had no idea on what she would tell him.
She needed the cash and that was something that would help her with some of the things that she needed to fix.
"Hello?" She said when she heard that someone pick up the phone, she had finally gotten the courage that she needed to make this call. "Is this Darren?"
"Yeah, who am I speaking to?" Darren said.
"It's Alex." The blonde said.
"Alex, my friend long time, no talk." Darren said over the phone "So what can I do for my favorite bartender?"
"Bait shop, I kind of need my money." Alex said.
"What do you mean, you do know that is something that would take some time for me to get." Darren said.
"I know that but at the moment I'm in Newport and I'll be here for about a week and then I'm not sure on when I'm coming back here to Newport or even the states." Alex said and she was hoping that the owner of the bar understood and would help her out.
She had helped him out earlier and now she needed his help.
"I can't promise anything but I'll do my best. That is all that I can say." Darren said.
"I understand but please call me as soon as you can and let me know how this is going." Alex said.
"I'll do that but you do know that you have a job if you want to."
"I know that, you are my man any time I need someone but if I can say so you need to find someone else as your manager at the Bait shop my suggestion would be to promote Mandy or someone else that have been working there for a longer time. The new one has no idea on what the hell he is doing." Alex said and she was pretty upset about how this was handled and she knew that there were people that could handle this way better.
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Summer walked in to the house that she had been sharing with her father and now her best friends' sister and mother also lived in that same house.
"Coop!" Summer said when she saw her best friend on the couch.
"Summer." Marissa said as she saw her friend.
"Thank God that you are here!" Summer said, and she could be a bit more dramatic then she needed to be and this was one of those times. "The Mini- Cooper and Taylor have been driving me insane. Not to mention Cohen."
"What can I do about that?" Marissa said and gave her best friend a hug. "You do know that the only reason that Kait have been driving you insane is because she needs someone to bug and I'm not here."
"I know it is kind of fun, she is like my sister." Summer said "So how is Alex?"
When Marissa heard that last part she couldn't help but to hide her face in her hands, this was something that she knew that Summer was going to go on and on with until she got the answers to all of the questions that she had.
"Alex is, well Alex. She hasn't said much and we kind of haven't talked that much." Marissa said.
"You need to fix that. Just so you know I'm going to beat up Cohen and you can come if you want to." Summer said and Marissa couldn't understand why Summer was going to be hitting her own boyfriend.
"You don't know, I forgot to tell you. Alex talked to him before she left like the same day as that bonfire. And he said something about you and Ryan." Summer said. "And when I mean that I'll hit him I mean that I'll go rage black out on him."
"You can just leave that. I'll talk to Seth and after that I'll talk to Alex and after that I tell Seth what he needs to do."
"Aaaw, Coop you are growing up on me. I don't know if I like this version of you." Summer teased her friend; the short brunette had missed her friend.
"Okay so then I know why you are angry or irritated on Kait and Seth but why Taylor."
"I don't know really she is kind of annoying I can't put my finger on it but she has been hanging out with Ryan a lot." Summer said.
"That is great, but I can't see Taylor and Ryan like that, I mean she talks like there is no tomorrow and Ryan well he doesn't talk at all." Marissa said and laughed imagine Taylor and Ryan together and that was a pretty funny picture.