Alex left thinking Marissa didn't love her. Few years later they meet again, they have to work in the same place in LA. Marissa is now engaged to Ryan. Alex goes for the get some, get gone routine. Appearances from old friends and new ones.
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Thoughts are in italic.
Flashbacks are in bold.
AN: Thanks to calilola, shassy25, krisana22, bigblusky, FiresOfDeath, Dar19, drumstiix and especially malex4ever for the awesome reviews.
Chapter 16
"Baby, I'm so sorry I can't take you. I wish I didn't have this meeting, so I could be there when you leave."
"Ryan, it's okay. I get it, I'm gonna be fine, Summer is taking me." Actually, Marissa was relieved that Ryan couldn't take her to the airport, she hadn't told him about Alex yet. Not that there was anything to tell, the blonde had kept her distance ever since their almost kiss.
"I know, but still, I feel like I'm letting you down."
"You are not; now go, before you are late for this important meeting anyway."
"Okay, I will miss you."
"You too."
And then he gave her a kiss, trying to heat it up a little, but she cut him off before he did it.
"Now, Ryan, go before you are too late"
"Okay, call me when you get there, and everyday afterwards. Bye."
"Bye."
"Love you" But Marissa had already gone to her room to make sure that she had everything she needed for her trip.
One hour later, the brunette made her way down the stairs to Summer's apartment, letting herself in as always. Marissa found Summer in the kitchen packing what seemed to be food for an army.
"Hey, Sums."
"Coop, hey. One second, I'm almost done."
"That's great, but what are you 'almost done' with?"
"I'm packing your food bag."
"My what?"
"Your food bag. You didn't actually think that I would let you starve, did you?"
"Starve? Summer, I'm quite sure that they have food in Europe."
"Not our food, not the food that you like. What if you don't find any food that you can eat, and then you don't eat for a month? You will dye there, and I will think I should have sent some food with you as I look at your coffin being buried. Or what if you can't talk in whatever language they speak and you can't order your food and then you die. I will think I should have sent some food with you as I look at your coffin being buried. Or maybe…"
"Summer, I got your point. And although I believe it's a very valid point, and I am very grateful that you thought all of this, I'm not sure they will let me get on a plane with this much bags. Mine are already overweight." Marissa tried to say it like she was deeply sorry, and hastily she added the last part. "But I can't tell how much I appreciate you thinking of me."
"But what if…"
"Don't worry, Sum, if I start to get a little hungry, I will call you and you can just sedex it to me"
"Fine, but if I find out you have been hungry and didn't tell me, I'm going all the way to Europe, just to shove food down your throat and after I'm completely sure you are well fed, I'm so blacking out on your ass, did I make myself clear?"
"Yes, ma'am" It was times like this that Marissa felt a little afraid of her best friend, but at the same time couldn't help to feel extremely lucky to have such a good one at that.
Having settled this little food problem, they just went to the living room, killing some time before they had to go.
When Summer and Marissa got to the airport, Alex was already there, much to Marissa's relieve. The girl couldn't be happier that she wouldn't be alone with Summer anymore, who, during the ride to the airport, had explained to Marissa why she shouldn't talk to strangers, why she shouldn't take candy's from people she didn't know and why she should make sure she had the address to the hotel written somewhere with her at all times.
Besides, the sight of the blonde was enough reason to lift Marissa's mood on its own. It made the brunette's skin tingle in all the right places.
"Alex, Jodie, hi" Marissa said, making sure Summer stopped talking; she won't do it in front of other people, right?
"Hey, Marissa, Summer." The blonde said, turning to face the newcomers.
"Hello, Alex. You are Jodie, right? Pleasure to meet you." Summer said, trying to be nice in spite of what she had heard.
Sensing the Latino girl wasn't gonna say anything, Alex gave her a little push to make her talk, but her response was an eye roll. Thinking she would have to do it again, Alex prepared to push Jodie for the second time, when the other girl started talking, way too sweetly.
"Yes, I'm Jodie. You must be Summer, that's so nice to meet you. I'm sure we will be such good friends; we will be like friends forever. And what about you Marissa, long time no see. I missed you so much, how have you been?"
Marissa didn't know if she responded or not, the sarcasm was evident on the other girl's voice, but decided to do it, so she didn't appear rude to someone important in Alex's life. Why do I care? The brunette thought.
"Fine, thank you. What about you?"
"I'm great, better now that-"
"We should go to the line, so we can be done with this check-in thing." The blonde decided to intervene; she knew Jodie was planning saying something nasty to Marissa. To say that the Latino girl hadn't taken well of what Alex had told her that she had overheard between Marissa and Summer was an understatement.
From that point Alex made sure Jodie didn't say anything to bad for Marissa, and at the same time not letting her own feelings of resentment for the brunette girl take over. The blonde was almost successful, as Jodie only got a few sarcastic remarks, all to which Marissa decided to ignore or pretend she hadn't understood.
Marissa just thought it was the same reason Jodie had been rude to her on the beach, meaning she thought the Latino girl was jealous of something.
"Marissa, be sure to call me the moment you set foot on land, and when you get to your hotel, and before you leave it every day, and when you get back, no matter what time. Understood?"
"Yes, mom." Marissa joked.
"It's not funny, you know, I'll really miss you." Summer complained
"I know, I'll miss you too, Summs. Don't worry, I'll keep you informed."
"Good, then bye." The smaller girl said, giving the other one a hug.
"Bye, see you in a month"
"Yeah, see ya."
"If she becomes too much to handle, call me and I'll be sure to go there, help you out." Jodie said.
"I'll hold you to that." Alex said.
"You do that. Bye."
"Bye" Alex said, as they hugged.
After Alex and Marissa left to get into the plane, Summer and Jodie waited until it took off.
"Why did you have to be so rude?" Summer asked
"Just looking out for a friend." The other girl responded
"You think we are gonna do something against Alex?"
"Yeah. More specifically, Marissa will. See, she already did."
"So did Alex; when she left, Marissa was devastated. Even she tried not to show it."
"You have no idea how Alex got after it."
"Then I guess we can agree they both didn't wanna end it."
"I guess. Now, what? You wanna get back together?"
"I'm not sure, if they already don't do it there, maybe, if we, I don't know, think they both want to get back, we could give them a hand."
"If they both wanted to get back together, yes. But I think Marissa already made it quite clear that she doesn't want Alex back" Jodie said, referring to what Alex had heard when Marissa and Summer thought the blonde had already gone home. "And until she proves it to me that she has no doubts, no shame, no nothing but the wish to be with Alex, I'm not lifting a finger to help her." The girl finished, leaving without a goodbye.
16 hours on a plane, even if they were on first class, it was still more then enough to last for a lifetime, especially if Alex made sure to ignore the brunette sitting next to her.
For the first 4 hours, the blonde had pretended to read a book she had brought with her, just to make sure Marissa didn't try to talk with her. The brunette got the clue of the gesture and found a movie to watch.
The movie didn't prevent Marissa from falling asleep, and the brunette soon lost conscious, letting her neck fall to Alex's side, resting on the blonde's shoulder.
Alex considered taking it way, but one look on Marissa's sleeping form and the blonde found madness the thought of ever removing something so beautiful from her shoulder. At that moment, Alex couldn't find a reason for it to be anywhere else.
With that thought on her mind, Alex also fell asleep, resting her head on top of Marissa's.
AN: finally, took me a while, hun? No, this fic is not dead, i do plan on finishing both my fics, but it's gonna take a while because RL keeps getting in the way, but when i read reviews i wanna write instead of sleep, the thing i should do at least 5 hours a day... lets just say reviews keep me up at night.
For all of you that want then in Europe, they get there next chapter.
And malex4ever, i liked your idea, i will use it in the next chapters, probably not the next one, but soon i promise.
That's it, i guess.
Please review.