Love and Tragedies
Summary: After a terrible event Ryan and Marissa grow apart but can they save their marriage or is it too late? Can love be overwritten by tragedies? Everyone from in the story at least a little bit.
I don't own the OC or any of the OC characters. If you read my other story that was named love never dies or the background info on it ignore that. Yes this is the same plot but I have thought of a new way to give out the background info. Hopefully it hasn't ruined anything for you. If it has I am sorry. Anyway hope you enjoy the story.
Chapter 1:
He was working late again. It had been a year now since the incident and he was just slipping farther and farther away. It wasn't her fault, maybe, at the beginning but not now, now she wanted her husband back. But was it too late? That was the thought that kept haunting her the most these days.
They had been married for two years now, ever since they were twenty-one. They had gone to Berkeley together and started dating half way through the second year there. They had stayed together ever since then surprisingly. But she wasn't sure they would last for any longer.
She was tired of not remembering what his touch felt like or even how it felt to kiss him not to mention anything beyond that. Ever since that night, when it had happened, everything had changed between them. Instead of becoming closer like they should have they grew apart and she was so tired of growing apart.
Every time they go to a family dinner or go and hang out with Seth and Summer she was jealous of their great marriage. She was jealous that they had no problems to overcome.
She was also jealous that they had a one year-old daughter. Even if they have been married a year longer she wanted what they had. It wasn't fair!
'I'm over it. No use in crying for a lost cause anymore' she thought to herself 'What's done is done and nothing can change it anymore'.
She looked at the dinner in front of her. The chicken, mashed potatoes and peas that she had cooked for him thinking that today would be different, that today he would come home at a reasonable hour and have dinner with her. That tonight would be the first night to fixing their marriage. Everyone knew it was in trouble everyone in their family; you didn't have to be a genius to figure it out.
'Enough is enough' she thought to herself again. She got up threw her meal into the garage bin and put left his there.
She walked into their room took out a bag and started putting some clothes in. she packed a pair of shorts, quarter-pants, a short sleeve shirt and a tank- top, a pair of pj's . She then packed her hair brush, tooth brush, toothpaste (both she and Ryan had their own), and her make-up. She went to her bedside table got a paper and a pen and started writing.
When she was finished writing she folded it in half and wrote Ryan on it, put it on his side of the bed and got her bag and keys and left.
When she got to her desired house she knocked on the door hoping that she wouldn't wake little Am up. A few minutes later her best friend's husband showed up at the door hair all over the place, looking overly tired.
"Marissa… what are… you doing here… at 12:00 at… night?" Seth asked her in between yawns.
"Ryan's working late again and our marriage is falling apart and….. uh um I was just wondering if I could stay here for a few nights. Till you know I figure out what the hell I wanna do with this marriage of mine" Marissa replied sadly.
"Ya of course you can! Come on in, I'll go get Summer so that you two can talk" Seth said as he ushered her into the comfy family house "You can stay in the guest room".
"Are you sure it's ok?"
"Of course, you don't even have to ask that question" he answered her as he started making his way up the stairs.
Meanwhile
Ryan came home later than he usually did. It was already 12:30 and he was just getting home. When he pulled up to the house he saw that there were no lights on.
'Marissa must be sleeping' he thought.
When he got in he took off his jacket and went to the kitchen, that was his routine now come home eat and go to sleep, wake up and go to work. When he was finished with the great meal his wife had cooked for him he went to his room. He opened the door quietly hoping to not wake Marissa. What he didn't know was that she wasn't there.
He took off his clothes leaving him in his wife beater and boxers. It was so dark in the room he didn't see that Marissa wasn't there till he was about to lie down. That's when he started to get worried.
'Did something happen to her? Is she ok?' he asked as he unfolded the piece of paper.
Ryan,
I'll be at Seth and Summer's. I need some time; I'll call or come to see you when I've got everything figured out. Please don't try to come and talk to me or call me. I think we both know our marriage isn't working anymore. I'm thinking of asking for a divorce but just so you know I really don't want one. I just can't live like this anymore. I need a real marriage like what Seth and Summer have not what we have. You might not believe this but I still love you and I want to fix our marriage but is it still fixable? That's what I keep asking myself.
I'll call you,
Marissa
He couldn't believe this she was thinking of getting a divorce? If he knew one thing it was that he didn't want to loose Marissa, but he knew that he was whether he liked it or not. Ever since that night he has been distant he knew that but he just couldn't get himself to do anything about it. It sounded weird but it was true.
He picked up the phone that was on the bedside table and started to dial her cell number when he remembered what the note said, Please don't try to come and talk to me or call me and he pressed end. He thought for a moment when he decided that he would call Seth and Summer's.
"Hello?" he heard his adoptive brother say.
"Hey Seth it's me."
"Hey um I thought Marissa asked you not to call." He said.
"Ya she did but I just need to know that she got there safely. I know that the weather hasn't been good lately and the roads are slippery…. I just wanted to know if she was ok." Ryan told his brother.
"Ya man she got here fine. But about being ok I'm not so sure. She came over and went right to sleep she didn't want to talk to even Summer and Summer and her talk about everything." Seth told him truthfully he thought it would be better.
"Ya um thanks man I'll try talking to her tomorrow night"
"Ya night" Seth replied "oh and Ryan?"
"Yes?"
"Please work this out. You two are perfect for each other don't let that night change any of it k?"
"mmhmm thanks Seth." And with that the line went dead.
Seth was right he couldn't let that night ruin their marriage. He wouldn't let that night ruin their marriage.
With that thought in his head Ryan Atwood went to sleep in a bed that for the first time in a long time was half empty.
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