Are you my girlfriend?
She hurried up the stairs and knew when she opened the door she was going to hear it. Marissa closed the door behind her. He turned towards. "Hey Maris you have fun at Summer's?" Pacey said catching her off guard.
She stopped and thought a minute. "Summer's?" She said confused. "Yeah she called me and told me that you had crashed after all the work you did. Said she was going to let you sleep. I'm surprised to see you this early actually" He said staring at her.
She laughed nervously. "Yeah I was tired last night but you know I thought I'd get a head start on the day. To make sure everything was good for the carnival" She said. "Right Well I gotta get to the restaurant so have fun setting up and I guess I'll see you later. Have fun tonight." He said.
"Okay" She said. He grabbed his keys and was about to walk out the door. She pushed her hair back and jumped when he stuck his head in the door. "By the way say hi to Ryan for me" He said with a smile. She laughed. "Okay" She said.
That afternoon she went to the Cohen's. She went around back so she couldn't catch anyone's glares because quite frankly she was afraid Ryan got in trouble over this. She walked into the pool house. "Hey" She said. "So I see you're not grounded". He said.
"Yeah no, apparently I was at Summer's last night" Marissa said. He laughed. "Really because you know I was so tired I crashed on Seth's floor last night" He said. She laughed. "How did they know?" She said.
"Apparently when they left Summer came back here and he tried to teach her to play xbox and she wound up leaving really late and she just assumed that we wouldn't be getting home. So she kept calling Seth to see if I got home and when it got really late she just told Seth she was gonna call Pacey and tell him you where there." He said. She laughed.
"Well they are good for something after all" She said. "Yeah we misjudged them" He said. She smiled. "So I thought you were gonna head over to the school to see that everything's going as planned?" He said. "Yeah I actually did" she said sitting in the chair.
"Turns out everything's going as planned, everything's pretty much ready. Now we just have to wait for people to show up" She said. "Which is hardly a struggle the whole school practically goes to kick off carnival Mostly for the Ferris wheel it seems to be the main attraction" He said. "Except yours?" She said teasing. He joked "I got enough attractions right here" He said.
She laughed. "So if I go on the Ferris wheel I'm gonna have to ride it alone?" She said. "Of course not. You can go with Summer" He suggested teasing her. "Ryan?" She said pleading. "Look Marissa I don't do heights" He said seriously.
"Okay fine I guess I'll take Summer or maybe if Kyle's not busy I can ask him to go on with me. Hmm I should go ask him in case Summer's busy" she said joking pretending to leave. He chased after her. "Now you see what you're doing your trying to guilt me into going on with you" He said with a smile holding onto her waist.
"Is it working?" She said with a crooked smile. "Nope Sorry" He said. "Okay fine. Well I gotta go pick up the balloons and bring them to the school. So I'll see you at the carnival?" She said. "I'll be there" He said and with that he kissed her. "Ryan it's time for a little Seth/ Ryan time buddy" Seth said walking in. They both turned and looked at him.
"Or not" He said going to leave. She laughed. "No Seth that's okay I'm leaving. I got a bunch of stuff to do. So I guess I'll see you guys tonight" she said giving him a kiss on the cheek. "Yeah Ferris wheels, tilt a whirl count me in" Seth said sarcastically.
"You know Seth in order to fit in you do actually have to do these types of things especially since Summer likes do these types of things. Which by the way she loves…." He cut her off. "The tilt a whirl do I look like I was born yesterday I've liked Summer my entire life. Things like that are kind of hard not to know" He said.
"That's sweet and a little creepy but don't worry I won't tell Summer. See ya" Marissa said. "Bye" They said. "You know that girlfriend of yours has become quite the comedian" Seth said. Ryan snapped his head up. "Girlfriend?" Ryan said.
"Yeah you know when you like a girl and you hang out and take her to dinner and do things like go to the kick off carnival when you would never be caught dead there falls under the general consensus of boyfriend material. It's in the manual. You should look it up" Seth said teasing. "And you would know this how?" Ryan said insulting him.
"Ouch Ryan. So what's up? Are you freaked now that you think she thinks you're her boyfriend?" Seth said. "Seth she didn't say that" Ryan said. "Come on dude she totally thinks so. What's the big deal anyway?" He said.
"I dunno I went out with girls but they never really stuck around long enough to actually date them" Ryan explained. "Hmm well this is a conversation for Marissa and you know where to find her" He said walking out. "Thanks" Ryan said sarcastically. "No problem" He said. Ryan thought about it and grabbed his keys and went to find Marissa.
He searched the school grounds and saw her directing the others on where to put the lanterns for tonight's festivities. She looked happy and he wasn't sure if he could talk to her about this. She looked up and spotted him. Too late. She came towards him "So I thought I wouldn't see you until after?" Marissa said.
"Yeah. Can I talk to you about something?" "Sure" she said. They walked off towards the end of the lot where no one was. "So spill" She said sitting down on a near by bench. "Okay well… you see… Okay… "He said not exactly knowing how to say this. "Ryan in order for us to talk words have to form. What's going on?" She said waiting for him to talk.
"Okay see Seth had mentioned that you might think that…" He said. "That?" She said confused. "That I was your boyfriend" Ryan spit out fast. She looked at him and laughed confused. "Okay well you did kiss me that night so… He interrupted
"Actually you kissed me" He pointed out. She laughed not believing this conversation. "Okay so I did. So what are you trying to say Ryan? Is this not what you want? Because I'm sorry I thought it was" She said starting to get defensive.
"No it's not that it's just… "He said with words not being his friend she got aggravated. "You know what just forget it. If it takes you that long to answer it says a lot" She said walking away. "Marissa" Ryan said. "You're off the hook Ryan" She said leaving him standing there. He grabbed his head with his hands and walked away.
Later that night Seth knocked on the pool house door. "Hey buddy ready to go?" He said. "I'm not going" Ryan said irritated. "So I see you talked to Marissa" Seth said.
"Yeah and I'm not one for words so she walked away angry" He said. "Ouch. Okay so fix it" Seth said. "It's not that easy Seth" Ryan said getting up. "Ryan do you like Marissa?" He said. "Of course" Ryan said.
"Well then it can be fixed man. Just tell her how you really feel" He said. Ryan thought about it. "And what if she doesn't want to listen?" He said. "At least you took a shot" Seth said. Ryan nodded. "Now come on because I'm supposed to go and coincidently bump into Summer" Seth said. "Alright" He said and with that they left.