Here is the next chapter I hope that you all will like it please let me know what you think. At the moment I don't have that much inspiration to write, I kind of hope that putting this up some of that might come back to me.

Chapter 19 Plans in the making

Kaitlin was sitting in the room on the boat that she was sharing with her sister. She had seen how Marissa and Alex had been trying to avoid each other she could tell that there was something there but she was not sure on what it was but it was something.

The younger brunette knew that there was something deep inside of her sister that was trying to get out, she was not sure on how she was going to get Marissa to confess what was going on with her.

/

Alex was sitting in the kitchen waiting for the chef to come and tell her what she was going to help with this day and all she could think about was what she had been through with Marissa. They had had some great times together now that they were really getting back with their friendship but at the same time she knew that what she was hiding was something that could change all of that.

The blonde had no idea on how she should be telling the girl about this, maybe if she told someone that she could trust and someone that also knew Marissa so that she could get someone to help her understand what was going on and how the lanky girl would react to this news.

/

"you know that you should be talking to her and not me about this, right?"

"I know that Sum, but I can't tell her that just yet." Marissa said, as she was talking to her friend over the phone.

"So you are just going to hide that from her." Summer said and Marissa could hear what Summer really thought about it.

"yes." Marissa said as she tried to sound as sure of it as she could, she was happy that Summer wasn't there to see her.

"You do know that this is going to backfire and that she will…" Summer said but she hadn't a chance to continue what she was trying to say before Marissa interrupted her.

"Don't you think that I already know that but I can't tell her." Marissa sighed. "We are getting along great and are getting back to our friendship and I don't want to lose that."

/

"Alex, can i have a word with you?"

"Sure." Alex said. "I have time now if that is okay with you."

"that is great."

"So what was it that you wanted to talk to me about?" the blonde asked looking at the man that had asked her to talk to her.

"You seem like you have a lot on your mind." He said. "So I just wanted you to know that you can talk to me."

"I know that Sir." Alex started and looked at him.

"What did I tell you before?"

"I'm sorry, Jimmy." Alex said. "I'm not sure that you are the right person for me to talk about this."

"I know that you have some kind of debts that you have to pay." Jimmy said and looked at the blonde. "And I know a thing or two about that so I might be able to help you if you want to or just listen to you."

"Thanks." Alex said and looked down; she wanted to avoid eye contact with the man. "Just one question though, how did you know about this?"

"I think you can figure that out for yourself you seem like a smart girl." Jimmy said and smiled, he did have a kind smile after all so maybe she could talk to him, when she felt ready for it.

/

"Did you know that Alex is kind of the next master chef?"

"What are you talking about?" Marissa asked as she looked at her younger sister, this all was to weird for her.

"I kind of talked to the head chef and he said that he was going to have to watch was he was doing if he wanted to keep his job." Kaitlin said. "And I know that you like her so, you should like ask her to cook something for you."

"Kait, I can't do that and just so you know, I don't like, like Alex." Marissa said, and all she got from Kaitlin was a skeptical look, that was asking a lot of question but before the younger girl left the room on the boat she turned around.

"Just so you know, denial isn't just a river in Egypt." Kaitlin said and left the room. "Oh and I think that you are going to Egypt sometime during this trip or whatever so that mean that you can go on the Nile."
"just leave me alone."

/

"I think that you should cook for Marissa." Kaitlin said as she walked up Alex who was sitting alone outside on the deck.

"And I think that you should mind your own business." Alex said not really looking at the younger brunette that now was sitting next to her.

"That is what everyone thinks but I don't have anything to do." Kaitlin said. "that means that I'm kind of bored and someone needs to help me get over that."

"So trying to play Cupid is better."

"Hell yes!"

"Why don't I cook something for you?" Alex sighed; she didn't want to think about Marissa at the moment so this might be an idea.

"okay." Kaitlin said, sure this hadn't been her plan but it was a start.

/

"You are kind of like a sister to me."

"Mini-coop, what is it that you want?"

"Well, what can you do to make Alex and marissa talk to one another and after that or during that time tell the other one what they really are feeling?"

"You want Coop and Alex to confess their undying love for each other?"

"yes Summer, that is what I want them to do." Kaitlin exclaimed as she finally had gotten Summer to understand what she wanted help with.

"I can't give you an answer to that just yet." Summer said. "I have to talk to my partner in crime about that."

"You aren't talking about creepy neighbor guy." Kaitlin said, not thinking of that Summer wouldn't know who she was talking about.

"Who?"

"Seth."

"he is kind of creep, when it comes to Alex and Marissa together." Summer said more to herself then to Kaitlin.

"Great." The younger brunette said. "So who are you going to talk too."

"Taylor." Summer said like it was the obvious answer to that question.

"And that is possible." Kaitlin said. "You don't have to pry her of Ryan."

"Not a problem, she will help if it will make sure that she will be able to keep Ryan."

/

A couple of days passed by and there hadn't happened that much on the Marissa and Alex front and Kaitlin had yet to hear from Summer or Taylor for that matter about what was going to happen, or more like what she was going to do about them.

Alex and marissa was finally going to work together, depending on how you would look at it, anyone that was in the same room as the two of them could feel the tension between them but no one really understood why they didn't do anything about that.

/

"Alex, you can chop the carrots and you can peel the potatoes." The head chef said as he looked over at Marissa. The two girls nodded, they both had learned that they should do what they had been told that was the best way to get things done.

"So how come that I have heard that you are like the next Gordon Ramsay." Marissa said, as she was peeling the potatoes and gave Alex a small look.

"I don't know." Alex said not looking up from what she was doing. "But i think that you should ask your sister about that."

"She was the one that told me that." Marissa said. "But maybe you should tell me something about that or something else."

"I don't think so." Alex said, she didn't want to talk about these things or really anything that could lead to her telling Marissa a bit too much about her or the life that she had tried to build for her back in LA. And now she was missing it were more like it, well more like someone back home. Maybe she should be making those calls after all, it was the only way that she would know how it really was going.

"What are you thinking about?" Marissa asked as she looked over at the blonde.

"Oh, nothing." Alex said as she looked up at Marissa, the blonde bit her lower lip, and closed her eyes praying that Marissa wouldn't ask any more questions but that was unlikely, but at least it was the older one of the Cooper sisters and not Kaitlin that would have been bad.

"Alex, please, talking to me." Marissa almost begged, and Alex knew in that moment that she was going to have to talk to Marissa about what she had been through when she had left Newport to go back to LA and her family.

"I will tell you." Alex said and got back to what she was doing.

"thanks." The brunette said. "It means a lot to me that you are willing to tell me."

'willing, and willing.' Alex thought to herself, she had to do it after all. "yeah, sure, some other time, now is not the right time for it."

"Whenever you feel ready for it." Marissa said.

/

"We have the perfect plan." Summer said as Kaitlin had picked up her phone.

"okay, but that is not the first thing that you say when someone answers their phone." Kaitlin said, she wanted to hang up on the older girl but she knew that it was a bad idea to do that but you could want to do just that.

"Do you want to know the plan or not?"

"Of course I want to know." Kaitlin said, was Summer the blonde one here or something. "That is the reason that I was in contact with you in the first place."

"Okay." Summer said. "So are they going to be working together some more?"

"Yeah, or I can fix it so that they are working together."

"Great, you do that." Summer said. "And when they are working together they will need to get into the closet."

"I thought the plane was to get them out of there." Kaitlin said, she wasn't sure were Summer was going with.

"You should just listen to me." Summer said. "And don't try and act smart, if you were then you would have had this idea yourself."

"Fine. Whatever. Just tell me what I should do."

"Easy there tiger I'm trying too."