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Chapter 13 Secrets aren't meant to be kept
Alex was still on the boat she had talked to Darren and he had told her that he would do the best he could but at this moment she wasn't sure that it would be enough.
If things came to it she knew that this might be the end of the trip, if things didn't turn out like she wanted them.
Maybe she should talk to Jimmy he had after all told her that he would be there for her, he knew about this situation that she was in and he understood that she might not be able to commit to this trip or what to call it.
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Julie was sitting in her office when she heard a knock on the door and she had a feeling that she would be running in to Jimmy at any second. He had told her that he wanted to talk to her about something and it seemed like he needed to say it before they left.
"Come on in." Julie said, she did after all expect someone.
"Julie." Jimmy greeted as he walked inside her office.
"Jimmy, so what was it that you wanted to talk to me about?" Julie said she didn't feel like playing around. She did after all have a job that she needed to do.
"As always you don't play around the bushes. You go straight for the kill as you always have Jules." Jimmy said and gave his ex-wife a smile. The woman in front of him was after all the mother to his daughters.
"I don't have time for this so if you just wanted to catch up then wait until tonight." Julie said.
"I just wanted to tell you that there might be some problems with this sailing trip." Jimmy said, "I might be a bit short of staff so I was just wondering if you think that there might be an idea to let Kaitlin come for a few weeks." and as he said this, he knew that Julie might not like this idea but Kaitlin was his daughter to even if they weren't as close as he and Marissa was.
"I don't think so. I need her to be here. She starts school in two months and I'm concerned about her grades." Julie said.
"Now you act like the concerned parent. I don't think that you ever have acted like that." jimmy spat out, this was not the way he wanted this to go.
"At least I'm there for them, you on the other hand just run away when things get ruff, so don't talk to me like that." the woman said and she was more than furious with her ex-husband at this point. "Just so you know, I got this call from the dean at harbor, it looks like Kaitlin might not be able to attend that school because of her grades. I'll get the final answer in a week and if she will attend that school she probably need summer school. That means that she will be staying her in Newport."
"How come that I haven't heard anything about this." Jimmy said and he didn't like what he was hearing.
"it might just be the case that I didn't really know anything about this until a couple of weeks ago and I didn't want to bother you when I knew that you would be here." Julie said.
The two of the continued to argue about how they should be solving this problem.
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Both Marissa and Summer were on their way to the Cohen residence, there was going to be a little conversation with Seth and probably Ryan too.
"Marissa, nice to see you. I didn't know that you were back home." Kirsten said as she opened the door for the two girls.
"Oh, my mother didn't say anything about this?" Marissa asked surprised, that her mother hadn't said anything to her friend about this.
"She might have said something; it has been a lot going on."
"I understand so is Seth and Ryan home?"
"I would check the pool-house." Kirsten said "it was nice to see the two of you again. But I have to go. I'll see you later tonight."
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Alex was still not sure on how this was going to work out; she needed the money or at least has the money so that she could use them if she needed.
But this was never going to go the way she was hoping, Darren was normally more sure of things like this and now he was telling her that this wasn't something that he could snap his fingers and fix.
The blonde knew that there was still one more call she had to make.
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Marissa was standing outside the pool-house; this was going to be so much fun. Well at least for her.
"I heard that I could find the two of you here." Marissa said as she opened up the door and she saw both Ryan and Seth engrossed in some kind of video game.
Ryan heard the voice and he turned around, and he did that Seth won the game.
"Take that!" the two of them could hear Seth yell as he jumped up and down on the floor.
"So, you are back?" Ryan asked not sure on how he should be reacting to this.
"Yeah or more like for a few days. Mum wanted to throw some kind of party and dad needed to talk to her." Marissa said.
"So why are you here then?" Ryan asked, he didn't want to sound bitter but he had a feeling that it looked like he did.
"Well, I don't feel like listening to my parents argue and Kaitlin is hanging out with some friends and Summer is going to go rage black out on Seth." Marissa said.
"Oh, so you heard." Ryan said and looked over at Seth.
"Yeah. I was just thinking that I should talk to him before I let Sum in here."
"Okay, I'll leave I don't want to be witness to any of that." Ryan said and left.
Marisa was looking over at Seth as the curly haired boy looked up and saw Marissa standing there.
"Oh, hi Coop." Seth said, hoping that Marissa still didn't know what he had said to Alex but from the look that she had Summer had told her.
"I thought that Summer had told you not to call me that." Marissa said.
"Yeah you are right she did that." Seth said
"Okay so now that that small part is cleared up then we can go to the reason for me being here." Marissa said. "You see, I heard something from your girlfriend. In short that you said something that made Alex leave more or less. "
"I don't think so." Seth said trying to look innocent but that wasn't something that he managed to pull off.
"Don't lie to me Seth. If you don't tell me what you said, then I'll let Summer go rage blackout on you. And for some reason I don't think that you want that to happen." Marissa said.
"I think that I might have said something in the lines of that you and Ryan would be one of those couples that always would be a couple." Seth said "but just because she asked."
"Seth, why would you do that?" Marissa asked she wasn't mad at him she just wanted to know why he had done something like that.
"She asked me because she needed to know, she said something about falling." Seth said as he scratch the back of his head and as Marissa heard that coming from Seth mouth she wanted to let Summer go all rage blackout on said boy.
"I'm not going to say anything but I would recommend that you'll talk to Alex before we leave Newport and apologize to her." Marissa said "And by the way have you paid her back for the loan."
As Seth heard that he tried to find something that would be more interesting for him to do.
"I'll see what I can do about that." Seth said.
"If I find out that you haven't talked to Alex and said that you are sorry then Summer will be able to do whatever she feels like is necessary." Marissa said and Seth just gulped he had an idea on what Marissa was talking about.
"So where can I find Alex?" Seth asked.
"The boat, meaning the harbor." Marissa said "bye Seth, I'll see you later."
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Seth was walking down the harbor trying to find Alex; it was for the best to do this was soon as he could do. He couldn't know when this time thing would be up and knowing the two girls and the boy knew that there was something else besides talking to Alex he needed to.
There was this kind of small thing about a loan that he never paid the blonde back and his guess was that she for sure wanted to get that money back.
"Alex, my friend." Seth said as he saw the blonde girl sitting down at the dock just looking out at the ocean. The blonde turned around and saw a boy and she knew who that was.
"Seth." Alex said recognizing the boy. "So what brings you here?"
"I'm supposed to talk to you at least according to Marissa and Summer." Seth said, "But mostly I'm here because I want to save myself from Summers' rage blackouts."
"I don't know her that well but what did you do?" Alex asked looking at the curly haired boy in front of her.
"I don't know." Seth said trying to not think about what the reason he was there was.
"Seth." Alex just said
"Okay so there might be this small chance that both Summer and Marissa knows about or little talk before you left." Seth said. "And that might be the reason for me being here."
"I don't recall any talk we had." Alex said, but at the same time there were images flashing by of said talk. "So maybe you can tell me, what that was all about."
"Ryan and Marissa always being a couple." Seth said, he didn't want to tell her all of it.
"Oh, you mean when I asked you about that and telling you that I was falling for her hard." Alex said not looking at Seth.
"Yes." He said not feeling that good about it. "Summer, kind of told me before that that I shouldn't be messing with other peoples' lovelife."
"That was something that she was right about." Alex said "So know I know why you might be getting your ass kicked. There must be a reason for you to be here, so what it is?"
"Marissa told me to apologize to you." Seth said "So I'm sorry about that and everything that I might have done to mess that up."
"It's okay, you are not the only one that makes mistakes I for one knows all about that."
"Oh before I forget, I kind of is short of money so that loan." Seth said and looked at Alex trying to see if she knew what he was talking about but he couldn't read her.
"Yes, loan. You want one more?" Alex asked, hoping that that wasn't the case.
"Actually no, I was just wondering if I could wait to pay that back?" Seth said "Marissa told me to pay you back." Alex just looked at the boy he was afraid of Summer and Marissa none of them was really that big and they couldn't do that much damage right.
"As long as you pay me back before we leave Newport." Alex said "You can go now if you want I can call Marissa and let her know that you did what she asked.
"Thanks, I just need to get my parents to give me some money."
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"Mum!" Kaitlin yelled as she walked in the house.
"So you are home now, that is great." Julie said "I think you need to talk to your father and explain some things to him and maybe even to your sister."
"Can't you tell them?" Kaitlin said and left Julie standing there.
"I told your dad!" Julie yelled after her daughter.
"Thanks." The older woman heard from up stairs and it didn't take long before the music was blaring on high volume. Julie had thought that it would end when Marissa had left but Kaitlin was almost worse than Marissa, the older daughter had somehow managed to revolt and passing school at the same time.
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"You told me that I could talk to you." Kaitlin said in the phone.
"Yeah, I did that but I didn't think that you would take me up on that offer.
"So I can't talk to you?"
"Of course you can talk to me. So what do you want to talk about?"
"I know this sounds crazy but I kind of miss my sister and all of that and we have never been close and now she'll be leaving like for a year and I can't come with." Kaitlin sighed.
"Okay but you know there is something called a phone and computers and there will be planes and airports." Alex said over the phone "but I don't think that is what you wanted to tell me."
"Yeah you are right." Kaitlin said "I don't know how to live up to the legacy that is Marissa Cooper at Harbor High."
"You mean the legacy that is your sister, you do know that she was addicted to drugs and is probably a recovering alcoholic." Alex said "I can honestly say that I don't think that is something thing that you should be living up to."
"Not that, the fact that she could be like that and still be the like the president and getting good grades and no one cared one bit about that." Kaitlin said "She is a legend on that school."
"Okay so tell your mother that you want to go to another school, I think she will understand." Alex said, "She care about you and about your sister but she might have a strange way of showing it."
"Thanks. " Kaitlin said.
"Just so you know you only get one set of parents and that is it." Alex said "I wish I had know that when I was about your age."
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"So, Alex knows about what Seth did and she has forgiven him." Marissa said as she sat down on Summers' bed.
"She is a better person than I thought."
"I tried to tell you that but does anyone listen to me?" Marissa asked herself. "No, no one listens to me."
"Okay so what about this dinner thing." Summer asked "is it your idea or is it just a reason for them to have some kind of party." Summer said looking at Marissa.
"I think they just want a party." Marissa laughed, "I think it's because she couldn't throw me a graduating party."
"There must always be a party in Newport."
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"I talked to Alex." Seth said as he laid down on Ryans' bed in the pool house. The other boy didn't say anything. "So I kind of need to borrow some money."
"Ask you parents." Ryan said.
"I don't think that they will give me that money." Seth said.
"And I would?" Ryan asked.
"Well, yes, you are my brother and you'll help a brother in trouble."
"What do you need the money for?"
"I need to pay Alex. I kind of borrowed some money last time she was here and I haven't paid her back." Seth said.
"What did you do with the money?" Ryan asked he wasn't sure he wanted to know.
"I bought Summer back."
"You paid Summer to get back together with you." Ryan said "you are a strange one Seth."
"No, not Summer. " Seth said and Ryan just looked at him with confusion. "I bought back the Summer Breeze, you know my boat. "
"That was a long time ago and you are paying Alex back now?"
"I kind of forgot and Marissa said I had to." Seth said looking at Ryan who just shook his head. "Don't do that, she is scary and besides that she is best friends with Summer. That means she can tell her to go rage blackout on me."
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Marissa was back at the boat and she was sitting on the deck, waiting for Alex. She wanted to talk to her about some things.
Like what was going on with all of those strange calls that she had heard parts of and it was about money, there must be a reason for her to act like that.
"Marissa, you are back." Alex said surprised to see the lanky girl sitting on the deck.
"Yes, I'm back and I kind of wanted to talk to you about something."
"Good. I wanted to talk to you too." Alex said, "But you can go first if you want to."
"Okay." Marissa said, and she wasn't sure on how she should be going with this. "I have heard parts of your calls." And Alex looked at her with almost betray in her eyes. "No I didn't mean like that, it was just bits and pieces when I was passing by."
"Okay so there must be something in there that you wanted to tell me." Alex said
"Yeah, I was just wondering what that was all about, if you want to you can tell me."
"Just some personal stuff going on but it should be over and dealt with before we leave, there is no problem." Alex said
"Okay, but if you need anything to hesitate to ask me or my dad. I'm pretty sure that he would help if he could."
"Thanks but you don't have to worry about that. You can trust me." Alex said giving the other girl a small smile.
"Fine." Marissa said but she was far from sure that there wasn't anything g going on with the blonde but she had learned that she shouldn't be pushing her. "And what did you want to tell me."
"I just think that you should talk to your sister, there is something going on there and I think she would like to have her sister." Alex said not wanting to tell too much, she still wanted the younger Cooper girl to trust her.
"You have talked to Kaitlin?" Marissa asked she had tried to get the younger girl to talk to her but she didn't say much.
"Yeah, she kind of called yesterday and talked to me." Alex said, "You remember when you forgot your phone and I answered and I told her that night that she could call me if she wanted to talk and I guess that she wanted to do so."
"But I have tried to talk to her but she won't tell me or mum anything." Marissa said looking down on her hands she felt like she was losing her sister.
"maybe you should tell her something that is going on with you, you know letting her know something personal then maybe she feels safe and she could talk to you. " Alex said and Marissa just looked at her with surprise.
"When did you get so wise?"
"It comes with age."Alex joked. "But honestly treat her like she is equal to you and not your younger sister."
"Thanks, I try that." Marissa said "There is this part in couple of day I hope that you will come."
"Whose party is it?"
"I think mine but it's my mum that is throwing it." Marissa said and she could tell that Alex didn't want to come "please, and you'll meet Kaitlin in person."
"I'll see what I can do."