SILVER SPRINGS (ryan atwood)

sixteen

For the first day of school Summer and Erika stuck to their tradition and met up with Marissa before school.

Sitting on the sofa in Jimmy's apartment "Don't be nervous Riss'' Erika told her "I'm not going" Marissa shook her head firmly "Coop you have to go, you own the school and what about kick off carnival you're still the social chair" Summer tried to convince her "hmm let's see, be humiliated in front of the entire school or hire someone to do balloon animals" Marissa grumbled "Riss come on, no one's gonna say anything and if they do i'll ruin their social lives" Erika smirked nudging she shoulder with Marissa's "Is something burning?" Marissa sniffed the air "Ok so uh new oven, haven't quite figured out how to make French toast" Jimmy sheepishly explained.

Summer and Erika shared a grin "Not in the over would be a good place to start" They said in unison, Jimmy whirled around to face them "You know that creeps me out!" He shuddered dramatically as the two brunettes giggled.

After convincing Marissa the trio piled into Erika's car and drove to school.

Walking into the entrance of the school the trio noticed two girls "i heard she died down there, she looks pretty good for a dead girl" One girl mumbled "Hey whores! Why don't you go work another corner" summer snapped, Marissa always the nicest out of the three pulled her away "I should go home, help my dad unpack" Marissa mumbled nervously glancing around "Ris that's as bad as it's gonna get" Erika assured her "You spoke too soon" Summer spotted Ryan and Seth.

Seth grinned walking up to them with Ryan trailing behind. "Hello summer, what does your schedule look like today?" He wondered, "Full," Summer replied, eyeing him up and down. Erika not listening to Seth's attempt at flirting with her sister, she walked up to Ryan. "Hey, how's your first day?" she grinned up at him "better now'' Ryan laughed wrapping an arm around her shoulder "what are you doing after school?'' He asked "Nothing i think" She told him "I'll meet you out front at the end of the day?" he told her "where are we going" she wondered "the pier? Or anywhere you want" he shrugged "Rik lets go" Summer walked up to her with Marissa "I'll see you later" She told Ryan before walking away.

They three girls unknowingly walked in the direction Luke was in "hey could we maybe talk…or?" He asked stepping up to marissa, who backed up "Stay away from her'' Summer yelled "how are u supposed to do that huh we go to the same school" Luke sasses "You should've thought about that before sleeping with her friend you ass!" Erika snapped growing defensive, the three girls then walked away from him.

Ryan and Seth caught up to the trio "hey you okay?" Ryan asked marissa while wrapping an arm around Erika's shoulder again "yeah its just something else i have to get used to" She told him sadly "we still on for tonight" He leaned down to whisper in erikas ear, she nodded, before walking away with marissa.

Walking into class Marussa and Erika noticed Holly with a group of girls gossiping about Marissa "did you know that she overdosed on vicodin" She whispered, Erika paused before walking up to Holly's table and slamming her hands down causing all the girls to jump "Did you know Holly slept with her bestfriends boyfriend 'cuz she's a big skank?" She asked then leaned down to whisper "She also has chlamydia" before walking away watching the girl tell her friends and the girls walked away from Holly.

Marissa shook her head at Erika "That meant" She laughed "She deserved it" Erika hummed, the two girls sitting at their own table.

At the end of the day Erika went up to Ryan who was waiting for her outside "How do you feel about going to the school carnival instead? Marissa asked me and Sum to be there and help out tonight so i cant hangout. She questioned, wrapping an arm around his waist as they began to walk towards her car. "Sounds good to me, you wanna help me with the summer reading?" He asked "Only if you ride the ferris wheel with me" she teased "oh no i don't do heights" Ryan shook his head "I don't re-do summer readings but here we are" Erika smirked walking over to summer who was standing by her car with marissa.