The Break out

Seth dragged himself down the hall towards detention. He hated this. He walked in to see Summer already there. "Well I guess it's just us today" Seth said sitting down. "Seth Cohen" The teacher said. "Yes sir" He said.

"Take a seat" He said. He chose one close to Summer's. "Since it's just you two today we'll begin. detention is until five o'clock" He said going back to his work. Seth slammed his head on the desk. "Ouch Cohen you might leave a mark" She said.

A half hour into it Summer was doodling in her book when a piece of paper hit her in the head. She looked up. "Gosh Cohen can you been any ruder" Summer said. He silenced her and turned her attention to a sleeping teacher.

"Oh my god" She said low. "Yeah he tends to do this" He said. "So like this sucks we have to stay here while he's sleeping" Summer said.

"No I got a better idea" Seth said quietly getting up and tip toeing across the floor towards the door and gently cracking it open careful not to wake him. He peeked outside looked to see if anyone was around and then turned back to summer.

"Come on" He said. "Seth" She said not so sure about this. He motioned for her to come on. She looked back at the sleeping teacher. "Summer" He said.

She looked at him. "Okay" She whispered grabbing her bag and Seth's bag and quietly but quickly getting out of there. When she reached Seth she said "Now what?" He gently closed the door and turned to face her. "Now we run. Let's go" He said grabbing her hand. Summer laughed and ran along with him.

They didn't stop until they hit the quad Summer hid behind a pole while Seth made sure no faculty was around. "Okay" He said. She followed. "Jeez Cohen you sure you weren't in mission impossible?" She said.

"No but you do pick up a few things from watching movies like that" He said. "Well you were very stealth back there" Summer said with a laugh.

"Well come on its pretty much smooth sailing from here" He said. "Thanks Seth detention was so boring I never actually thought about doing that before" She said.

He looked at her. "What?" She said. "You called me Seth" He said with a smile. She smiled. "Well that is your name or did you forget it geez Cohen how slow are you?" She said joking with a smile. He laughed. He jumped in the car and she got in too.

"So how long do you think Seth and Summer will be caught up?" She said entering the Cohen house with Ryan straggling behind. "I don't know maybe another half hour if there lucky" He said. "Great now I feel even worse.

I mean it's partially my fault Summer never got to school on time" Marissa said. "Well sometimes it's the teachers fault" Ryan said. Sandy bumped into them. "Ryan, Marissa" He said. Ryan nodded. "Hi Mr. Cohen" Marissa said smiling sweetly. "I'm sorry to hear about your grandpa. How's Pacey doing?" He said.

"He's okay for now he's got a lot of legal stuff to take care of before coming home and then he's also dealing with my grandmother so he'll be there for awhile" She said. "Well if he needs any help tell him to call" Sandy said.

"Thanks Mr. Cohen I'm sure he would appreciate you saying that" She said. "Same goes for you kid" He said with a smile. "Thank you" She said. "Ryan tell Kirsten I had a last minute meeting and not to expect me to later" He said.

"Sure thing Sandy" Ryan said. "Alright well you kids have fun" Sandy said leaving. She looked at him. "Pool house" He said. She followed him. They entered. "Oh my god I could barely feel my feet" She said plopping on the bed.

Ryan threw his books on the desk. He went over to other said and laid down. Marissa had her eyes closed. "You couldn't get me up if you tried" She said. "Pretty girl in my bed how can that be bad?" He said with a smile. She turned and swatted him. "Ow that was a compliment" He said.

"Why do you always want to embarrass me?" She said turning over to look at him. "I'm sorry I didn't know telling you your pretty is embarrassing for you" He said sarcastically. She glared at him. "You see I'm serious I'm not gonna talk to you ever again" Marissa said not really meaning it.

Ryan laughed. "It's not possible besides you're in my house" He reminded her. "I could leave" she said. "You already said no one can drag you out of this bed" He said looking at her. She challenged him. "I think I could persuade myself" She said. "You wouldn't" He said not convinced enough.

"Why wouldn't I?" She said with a tiny smile. "Because you like spending time with me" Ryan said. "Is that what they call it now a days?" She said teasing him. "Now who's teasing who?" He said. She smiled. He kissed her.

"Hey guys" Summer said coming in. They broke apart. "What are you guys doing here?" Marissa said sitting up. "Well Seth here found us an escape route" Summer said. Ryan laughed. "And you took it?" She said.

"Duh I wasn't spending precious time in detention" Summer said. "Yeah besides by the time he wakes up detention would have been over" Seth said. "But if you guys got caught you could get in trouble" Marissa said. "It can't happen because when he wakes up he'll think he'd already let us go. I mean tell her Ryan you know how he can be" Seth said.

Ryan was caught. She turned to look at him. "You snuck out of detention?" Marissa said. Ryan smiled. "I'm sorry you're shocked that Ryan snuck out of detention? But it didn't shock you that he stole a car? How'd they do things in Austin?" Seth said joking. Marissa glared at him and then struck him in the head with a pillow. Summer laughed.

"Okay it wasn't my finest moment but yeah I did sneak out of detention before" Ryan said. "So that's where you came up with the escape plan I should have known it was totally Chino's plan" Summer said. "Actually it was Seth's plan from the beginning" Ryan said.

"Sorry Cohen I guess I underestimated you" She said. "Its okay most people do Summer" He said. "So now that you guys are out you wanna hang?" Marissa said. "Yes Ryan pass me a controller you know the drill" He said. "Come on Marissa we'll go order a pizza let the boys do some bonding" Summer said. Marissa dragged herself from the bed. "I thought there was no way of getting you out of bed" Ryan said teasing her. She turned and smiled at him

"Well that's it for me I am totally ready to crash. Come on Cohen you can drive me home" Summer said. "Right behind you. Later guys" He acknowledge to Ryan and Marissa who were lying across the bed Marissa's head laying on his chest. "Bye Sum, Seth" Marissa said. Ryan waved.

"Later. " Summer said and they left the pool house. Ryan looked at the clock it was eleven thirty. "So is there anything else I don't know about you? besides you sneaking out of detention" She said with a smile. He laughed. "I don't know really. I would say you know a lot already" He said.

"Okay so when where you gonna tell me about the musicals you did in chino?" Marissa said. A smile snuck from the corner of his mouth. "Never tell Seth anything" He said to her. She laughed. "He is quite the blabber mouth" Marissa said. "That he is" He said. "But he is like your brother and he does love you" She reminded him. He kept quiet.

"You know I always wondered what it'd be like to have a brother or a sister" Marissa said confessing. "Trust me it's not all it's cracked up to be" He said. "You don't like that you've become a brother to Seth?" She said. "I wasn't talking about Seth. I meant Trey trust me brothers can let you down with the best of them" Ryan said.

"Do you blame yourself?" She said turning to look at him. He looked at her confused. "About stealing the car and how trey took the rap?" Marissa said making sure he understood what she was saying. "I guess I mean true I was only 15 but I still could have said no and I didn't have to get in that car" Ryan said.

"But you were sent to a juvenile detention center you were being punished Ryan for something you didn't want to do" She said. "But I was there" He said looking at her. "Yeah you were. You were there for your brother because you thought that night you could try and save him from a life in jail and ended up being punished for it" Marissa said trying to make him understand that none of what happened was his fault.

"How do you even know that?" Ryan said. "Because in the months that I've come to know you I've realized that you're the guy who tries to make everything better, that you fight and protect the ones you love because that's who you are Ryan Atwood" She said looking at him.

He laughed because she had never referred to him as Ryan Atwood before and hearing it was kind of funny. "You learned all that in four months" He said. "Well I'm a fast learner" She said. He laughed. "So tell about this Theresa" She said teasing him yet again. "Remind me to kill Seth later" He said joking. "What come on it can't be that bad. What was she like your first girlfriend?" Marissa said.

"No because before you I didn't have girlfriends perse but she was my first kiss I guess if I think about it" He said. "Aw how old where you?" She said finding it cute. "I don't know. Eight maybe nine I think" He said. She giggled. "You were eight years old and you had already kissed a girl" She said with laugh.

"I guess I was" He admitted. She smiled. "Anyway enough laughing at me. What were you like six when you first kissed someone?" He said joking. She smiled thinking about it. "No, I was actually ten. It was on the back of the bus with Luke in the fifth grade" She said.

"Luke?" He said. "Sort of my first boyfriend back home" She said nodding. "Oh so it's sort of a relationship you embarked on all your firsts with?" Ryan said trying to be swift.

She looked at him catching on to where this was going and actually surprised that it had taken so long for him to approach the subject. "Yeah except for one" She said honestly. Ryan looked at her assuming she was serious. "Ryan I'm kidding yes I did" She said with a laugh.

"It's okay if you didn't because I wasn't worried if you didn't it wouldn't have mattered" he said trying to reassure her that it didn't matter. "I know that" Marissa said staring at him. "So my guess is you weren't ten" Ryan said low. She laughed. "No definitely not ten. I was fifteen it was right before I left actually" She said remembering.

He nodded. "So I'm assuming you have before?" She said. "Yeah I was fourteen" he said. She wasn't shocked considering his background it made sense. "You know most girls would run screaming after they've heard that" Ryan said confused to why she still was there.

"Well I think we've established I'm not like most girls" Marissa said with a laugh. "No you're definitely not" He said. "It wasn't anything special it sort of just happened and then it was over" She said admitting to him.

"Do you regret it?" He said curious. "No I don't think so I just I guess like most people I just wish it was more special than it was. Although I really thought I loved Luke I don't think I really did" She said trying to make sense of it.

"Why do you say that? I mean you did go out with him since you where ten" he said. "Yeah but I guess it just got comfortable to know someone was there for me especially with all the stuff I've had to deal with my mother, and everything. I'm just saying that a part of me wishes that I would have waited for the person I thought was right someone I actually loved" She said looking at him thinking to herself someone like you.

"Yeah I know what you mean" He said understanding. She nodded. "You can't change time but you can apply what you've learned to the present" He said. "Meaning?" She said a smile finding its way to her face.

"Meaning you're in control of your own future." He said. She smiled and kissed him. Marissa looked over at the clock. "I gotta go curfew" She said. "Come on I'll drive you" Ryan said following her out.