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as
his own, but with Seth in the picture Ryan was falling onto the wrong track.
One day Seth was arrested for a drug charge and put into prison for 10 years.
Mary talked to Ryan, and they both agreed that Seth had no place in his life.
She petitioned the courts to have Seth’s parental rights revoked and Ryan
hasn’t seen him since. But that doesn’t mean that all the damage that he caused
Ryan is gone.”
    “When
you grow up feeling like you aren’t good enough, you start to hate yourself a
bit. Ryan picks himself apart a lot. His roles stress him out, he wants to be
perfect, to make a ton of money and prove Seth that he is this amazing person
with this amazing life. Ryan is one of the best people that I know, but the
girls, the drinking, it’s all self-destruction and when he can’t control a
situation that’s when it comes in. The day that you met him. He was in Ryan
destruction mode. He was drinking and screwing around, because he had no
control over the Holly situation.
    So
what I am saying is, just be careful. I see the way you look at one another I
don’t think you realize that you do it but it’s there. I just don’t want you to
get hurt, so listen to me and be careful”
    She
leans over and kisses me on the cheek
    “That’s
not even why I came out here I have amazing news”
    Her
words are still swirling around in my head, but I look up at her and see her
eyes filled with excitement
    Before
I get a chance to ask her what her news is, I hear hooting and hollering
    “I
guess Ryan knows, so now I have to tell you quickly” she starts laughing
    “So
you know how I haven’t really been feeling all that great lately” She asks
    I
nod my head
    “Well
I went in for a few tests, I thought that I had some weird bug that wouldn’t go
away, turns out I am 3 and a half months pregnant” she shouts
    “What,
are you serious” I say jumping up to hug her “oh my God Lacey, that is the best
news ever. Wait. How did you not know you were pregnant?”
    “I
don’t get my period. I haven’t in over a year, stress sometimes does that, and
it’s a hereditary thing, mom never got hers either so really I just didn’t know.
I have felt a little tired and sick lately, so I honestly didn’t even consider
it. But I am so excited. Jason cried when the doctor told us, God he’s such a
woman” she laughed
    All
of a sudden the back door flew open and Jason came running out and started
hugging Lacey and I who had yet to move away from one another.
    He
looked down at me “why are you crying nerd”?
    Jason
is totally laughing at me
    “Because
I am so happy for Lacey, but I am scared as hell that the poor kid is going to
look like you” I tell him stepping away before he can say anything else
    Before
I have a chance to say anything a pair of arms wrap around me, picking me up. I
open my mouth to scream, but before I get a chance to say anything Ryan has
thrown me into the pool
    I
swim to the ladder, and climb out, giving Ryan the meanest look I can “you are
a prick”
    “Yeah,
and you are all wet. Now say sorry to my brother, he says laughing
    “No”
I tell him
    “Yes”
he says, coming closer to me
    “No”
I say again
    This
time when he picks me up, I grab onto him, facing him I wrap my arms around his
neck and grip my legs around his waist before he has a chance to realize I am
holding on for dear life he starts to throw me into the water, falling in
himself.
    When
we swim to the surface, I am laughing and breathing in water at the same time.
Choking himself he glares at me
    “What
the hell was that for”? He asks
    “Payback”
Is all I say
    Before
I can say anything else, he reaches over to me and grabs me, pushing me up
against the wall of the pool
    “That
wasn’t very nice” he says talking quietly
    I
look up to Jason and Lacey for help but notice that they are both facing the
house, talking about something else
    “Well,
I don’t have to be nice, now get off me” I say trying to squirm