Chapter Three: "It's always a risk when you try to believe"
Hey guys, thanks for the reviews again! I was feeling generous and decided to put up two rather long chapters at once. I am surprised how invested I suddenly became in this story. Probably because I am obsessed with the OC. I think you will be surprised where this story eventually goes, but I hope you like it! BTW: All chapter titles are one lyric in the song "truth is a whisper", by the Goo-Goo dolls.
Marissa and Dylan snuck into the party unnoticed.
"Hey, I'm going to go get a beer. Do you want anything?"
"No, I'm fine for now." She said grabbing a bottle of vodka off of the table next to her, flashing Dylan a smile.
"Alright then. So we'll meet up soon?" Dylan asked
"Yeah." Marissa said taking a swig out of the bottle.
Dylan dances off in the opposite direction.
"What are you doing here Cooper?" A guy Greg says approaching her with speed.
"What's it to you?" Marissa said
"Marissa." Ryan said cutting between the two.
"Hey Ryan." Marissa said stuttering.
The vodka mixed with the pain meds had really begun to affect her.
"Lets take a walk."
Marissa and Ryan walked along the beach with one another. Marissa with her head on his shoulder, as to steady her unstable body.
"So how have you been since everything?" Ryan asked steadying them against a rock.
"Great. I mean, my mom is gone, my sister hates me, I HAVE NO FRIENDS!" Marissa yelled drunkenly finding humor in the whole thing. "I am doing just fine and dandy Mr. Atwood."
Meanwhile, back at the house.
"Dylan? Dylan Marlow?" Seth said coming up to her.
"Nice turn out Seth." She said smiling at the first sight of her former neighbor in five years.
"So Dyl- I mean you like- well what happened?"
Dylan and Seth sat on the side of the pool telling each other what they have been up to.
Three hours later they see Ryan carrying Marissa into his pool house.
"Is that guy carrying Marissa? He better not put a hand on her!" Dylan asked
"It's okay, that's Ryan."
They enter the pool house cautiously.
"Hey man what's up with Cooper?" Seth asked
"We were walking along the beach and she passed out. I think she had a little too much to drink."
"I'm Dylan. I used to live on the other side of Marissa. I've heard a lot about you." She said extending a hand to Ryan.
"Ryan, nice to meet you."
"So what are you going to do with her?"
"I don't know." Ryan said.
"You brought her back to the house and you didn't even have a plan!"
"I was- it was, to just let her sleep." Ryan said shrugging and looking away.
Dylan looked at her watch.
"Shit I've got to get home or else my stepfather is going to flip. Tell Marissa to call me tomorrow."
"Alright, I'll walk you out." Seth said.
~ The next morning.
"Ugh." Marissa said waking up in an unfamiliar bed.
She stepped out of bed and felt something hard beneath her, but it wasn't the floor. It was Ryan. He flipped out from under her causing Marissa to fall on her face, only making her hangover worse.
"Oh my god, are you okay." Ryan said kneeling over where she was lying on the floor.
It took Marissa awhile to come to her senses, sprawled out on Ryans floor.
"Why am I here?" Marissa asked.
"You were pretty drunk last night and you passed out."
"Did we-" Marissa said, her face getting a scared expression
"No! Nothing happened with us. You know not all guys are like that right?"
Marissa just sat there and didn't respond
"How have you been?"
"God Ryan I have a hangover like you wouldn't believe, and my dad is probably worried sick about me. I'm just going to go home." Marissa said getting up and heading to the door.
"I'm not going to let you walk home in your condition!" Ryan said
"I think the fresh air will be good for my head."
"Well then let me walk with you."
"Fine whatever, let's just go." She said putting her hand on the door knob.
"Alright, let me just go put on a shirt." Ryan aid retreating to his bathroom
Marissa took that opportunity to slip out of the pool house.
"Back." Ryan said as he entered the empty room. "Marissa?"
Seth rushed in.
"Ryan my mom and dad are going to be back at noon. We have to clean all this shit up like now!"
"But Marissa-"
"Come on Ryan." Seth said.
"Fine." He said
Marissa walked along the side of the highway with her hands on her head, feeling the fast breeze of the cars buzzing by her. A familiar black SUV pulls up next to her.
Marissa stops and stares, one hand on her head trying to stop the ache, the other on her forehead blocking the sun so she could see the figure that stepped out of the car.
"Well well." Luke said as he stepped out of the car. "Didn't fancy seeing you walking along the side of the road."
"Leave me alone Luke." Marissa said trying to push past him
"I was offering you a ride." Luke said helping Marissa into his truck.
Luke began driving. A little while later Marissa noticed that they were headed in the wrong direction.
"My house is back that way."
"So I saw you I the pool house last night wit that kid from Chino."
"His name is Ryan." Marissa said slightly annoyed at Lukes reference to Ryan and the fact that she still had no idea where she was going.
"So whats up with you two."
"Nothing is up with us. He is just my friend. He has been the only one who acted as if I'm human since my father lost all of the money."
"I'm so sorry, can I make it up to you?" Luke said as suddenly they stopped. Luke had taken them to a big secluded field.
Luke slid his hand up Marissas leg.
"Get off me jerk!" Marissa said trying to fight him off of her.
She opened the door and took off running. Luke caught up with her though in no time and tackled her to the ground.
~ Later that night
Marissa snuck through her window. The pain she felt pulsating through her body was unbearable, as she pulled her body through the tiny opening.
She fell through the window onto her mattress. She lay there on her bed for what seemed like forever until it sunk in, . she had been raped, . by Luke. She ran to the trash can and threw up as the realization sunk in., or maybe it was her hangover.
"Oh god, oh god, oh god." Marissa said to herself holding her knees rocking back and forth.
Her face was a ghostly white. Marissa clawed around the floor in the unlit room until she found a razor. She held it to herself, but this time to her wrists.
She had to wait to steady her hand before she began. She pushed the tip of the razor into her arms and slid it across. A satisfying amout of blood showed with each push, each pull of the razor, until Marissa sat, covered in her own blood. And in the peace she now felt, she fell asleep. still bleeding.
Chapter four: "I know theres so much more than me"
Ryan sat in his pool house. He was worried not having yet heard from Marissa. Dylan and Seth had gone out sailing earlier that day. The Cohens had not noticed anything different when they arrived home. Seth and Ryan left no trace that there had been a party there.
Ryan sat contemplating whether or not to try to find her new house, but decided against it for the time being. He didn't have a reason to be, . or did he?
Marissa awoke at noon the next day. She didn't feel like getting out of bed but she had to go check on her father and Kaitlyn.
Nothing could have prepared her for what she saw when she entered the living room.
"Mom." Marissa said in an inaudible voice.
"Marissa, you look, ." she looked her daughter up and down, "well you did just wake up."
"What are you doing here? Does dad know you are here?"
"I know shes here pumpkin." Jimmy said coming out of the bathroom.
"Mom has a big announcement to make!" Kaitlyn said excitedly siting new to her mother on the couch, first moving the beer bottles out of the way.
"Like I care." Marissa said sitting on the kitchen counter.
Her dad offered her cereal but Marissa just shook her head no.
"So mom, you can leave if you're not going to say anything."
"He mom eld out her ring finger for all to see."
"What the hell is that?" Jimmy said
"Oh James, don't be so naïve, it is an engagement ring."
"A what!" Marissa said
"You're getting married!" Kaitlyn said excitedly "Does that mean that now we will have money again?"
"It does honey."
"Yes!" Kaitlyn squealed
"So Jimmy, I guess I will be taking the girls." She said giving her trademark look.
Jimmy didn't respond.
"I'm not going with you mom. I'm staying with Daddy."
"I figured. For that reason I only told Chip that I have one daughter."
"Excuse me?" Marissa said
"I figured if I told him I had a sixteen year old daughter that it would make me seem too old."
Marissa didn't respond. She just sat on the counter picking at her pajama pants. Kaitlyn did not even say goodbye to her father. She skipped out of the trailer with her mother fifteen minutes later.
Jimmy went to the refrigerator and grabbed a beer.
"You okay honey?" Jimmy asked putting his hand on Marissas knee
Marissa flinched at his touch, not wanting to have anybody near her since what happened with Luke.
"Are you hungry?"
"No, I'm fine. I think I'm going to walk to the store and get milk though. Do you want anything?"
"No pumpkin, I'm alright."
"I love you." She said jumping off of the counter and kissing him on the forehead before rushing outside, still in her pajamas.
Marissa ran to the pond just outside of the trailer park, and knelt by the side. She curled up into a ball and started crying. She had no idea how long she was there before she heard Dylans voice.
"Marissa? What's wrong with you? Are you okay?" She held her sobbing friend trying to calm her.
Seth was there with her, dropping her off from the sailing trip when they saw Marissa by the pond.
"Is she okay?" Seth asked
"I don't know. I have no idea what happened." She stroked Marissas hair. "Marissa what's up? Talk to me baby."
"Lets take her to her house." Seth said
"No can do. I do not know where she lives. This is a really big park."
"Alright well we can just take her back to my place." Seth said picking Marissa up.
"Strong Man!" Dylan sings
"I'm not strong. She weighs nothing." Seth said concerned.
Marissa hardly seemed to notice their presence.
Seth called Ryan on the phone from the car and told him to meet him when he beeped. He had not told Ryan that he had Marissa in the back seat.
"What's going on?" Ryan asked coming down from the house.
"We got Marissa in the back. I have no idea what happened."
"Is she okay."
"I was hoping you could tell me." Dylan said opening the back seat of the car where Marissa was still curled up, although she was not bawling anymore.
Ryan pushed past Dylan and Seth and climbed into the back seat to get Marissas limp body.
"Come on Marissa." Ryan said picking her up. Not even saying anything to Dylan or Seth as he carried her back to his room.
Set began to follow but Dylan stopped him.
"I think that we should let Ryan handle it."
Ryan took Marissa into his room.
"Marissa what going on, you have got to talk to me."
She still didn't respond.
"Marissa!" Ryan said grabbing her shoulders shaking them.
Ryan left Marissa lying on his bed and went into his bathroom and turned the water in the shower on cold.
He returned to her bed and pulled off Marissas mud caked pants. He stepped back and put his hand over his mouth when he saw her thighs. Both legs covered in deep cuts. Dried blood was covering them. He tried to get over the sight as he stripped off her shirt. He saw the same thing on both of her wrists.
"Come on baby." He picked Marissa up and carried her to the shower. He stepped in with her and supported her body.
Marissa yelped as she felt the cold water touch her skin. Suddenly Ryan felt her collapse in his arms. He sunk to the bottom of the shower with her as she wept in his arms.
Marissa woke up that night with the moonlight poring through the window. She felt Ryans stron arms wrapped around her and she relaxed in them.
Ryan smelled the scent of Marissas hair as she settled back against his chest. He wished that they could stay like that forever. In that moment, with the girl of his dreams lying in his arms he felt as if anything were possible.
Ryan began to stir. Marissa realized that he was awake.
Ryan leaned over Marissa and kissed her forehead.
"So, you ready to talk?" He asked sitting up.
Marissa sat up as well but backed away form him, now on the other side of the bed.
"What do you mean? Nothing has been going on." Marissa said pulling her knees to her chest.
"Liar." Ryan said looking Marissa in the eyes. "I know something has been going on with you. I saw your legs Marissa. I saw your arms. I felt your body."
"So? Ryan you have no idea how hard this has been!"
"So what now you're the only one that has had a hard life! Marissa when was the last time you ate anything?" He said lowering his voice.
Marissa didn't answer.
"What has been going on with you."
Marissas body tensed. She got flashes of her father getting beaten up, her mother leaving, Luke raping her. It was just too much to take.
"I don't know." Marissa whispered.
"I want to help you." Ryan said to her
"You just have to tell me how."
"Can you take me home?" Marissa asked
"Marissa- "
"Ryan just please take me home."
"Alright."
Ryan drove Marissa back to the trailer park that she now called home. There were police cars surrounding her house.
"What happened?" Marissa asked rushing out of the car.
Trying to hold up Ryans rather large boxers on herself.
"We are looking for Marissa Cooper." The officer said.
"Who are you?" Marissa asked "Where is my dad?"
"Your father was charged with insurance fraud today."
"OH MY GOD!" Marissa said freaking out. "Ryan I missed my fathers trial. Today was the court date!"
"Is there anything we can help you with." Ryan said stepping up infront of Marissa.
"All of Mr. Coopers remaining property is to be seized by the IRS." The officer informed them
"I want to see my father." Marissa said.
"We have to take you with us Marissa."
"I do not think it's necessary to take her anywhere." Ryan said.
"You have to come with us unless you have another place other than this to reside for the time being."
Marissa dug her bare feet into the ground.
"She can stay with me."
"And who are you?" The officer asked taking out a piece of paper to write the information down for where Marissa could be found.
Ryan stood in the kitchen fixing a turkey sandwich late that night. Kirsten came onto the kitchen.
"Ryan. What are you doing up this late?" She said opening the cabinet to get a cup.
"I'm making a sandwich for. Marissa."
"Marissa!" Kirsten said in shock
Ryan explained the story for what felt like the hundredth time.
"So Jimmy is in jail?" She said still in shock.
"Yeah. So is it cool of Marissa stays here for awhile? I mean I wouldn't normally ask something like this f you but it's just that she has nowhere to go and-"
"Of course I don't mind. Ryan, just be careful. She has been through a lot."
"I know. I would never hurt her."
More soon!
~Haley
Hey guys, thanks for the reviews again! I was feeling generous and decided to put up two rather long chapters at once. I am surprised how invested I suddenly became in this story. Probably because I am obsessed with the OC. I think you will be surprised where this story eventually goes, but I hope you like it! BTW: All chapter titles are one lyric in the song "truth is a whisper", by the Goo-Goo dolls.
Marissa and Dylan snuck into the party unnoticed.
"Hey, I'm going to go get a beer. Do you want anything?"
"No, I'm fine for now." She said grabbing a bottle of vodka off of the table next to her, flashing Dylan a smile.
"Alright then. So we'll meet up soon?" Dylan asked
"Yeah." Marissa said taking a swig out of the bottle.
Dylan dances off in the opposite direction.
"What are you doing here Cooper?" A guy Greg says approaching her with speed.
"What's it to you?" Marissa said
"Marissa." Ryan said cutting between the two.
"Hey Ryan." Marissa said stuttering.
The vodka mixed with the pain meds had really begun to affect her.
"Lets take a walk."
Marissa and Ryan walked along the beach with one another. Marissa with her head on his shoulder, as to steady her unstable body.
"So how have you been since everything?" Ryan asked steadying them against a rock.
"Great. I mean, my mom is gone, my sister hates me, I HAVE NO FRIENDS!" Marissa yelled drunkenly finding humor in the whole thing. "I am doing just fine and dandy Mr. Atwood."
Meanwhile, back at the house.
"Dylan? Dylan Marlow?" Seth said coming up to her.
"Nice turn out Seth." She said smiling at the first sight of her former neighbor in five years.
"So Dyl- I mean you like- well what happened?"
Dylan and Seth sat on the side of the pool telling each other what they have been up to.
Three hours later they see Ryan carrying Marissa into his pool house.
"Is that guy carrying Marissa? He better not put a hand on her!" Dylan asked
"It's okay, that's Ryan."
They enter the pool house cautiously.
"Hey man what's up with Cooper?" Seth asked
"We were walking along the beach and she passed out. I think she had a little too much to drink."
"I'm Dylan. I used to live on the other side of Marissa. I've heard a lot about you." She said extending a hand to Ryan.
"Ryan, nice to meet you."
"So what are you going to do with her?"
"I don't know." Ryan said.
"You brought her back to the house and you didn't even have a plan!"
"I was- it was, to just let her sleep." Ryan said shrugging and looking away.
Dylan looked at her watch.
"Shit I've got to get home or else my stepfather is going to flip. Tell Marissa to call me tomorrow."
"Alright, I'll walk you out." Seth said.
~ The next morning.
"Ugh." Marissa said waking up in an unfamiliar bed.
She stepped out of bed and felt something hard beneath her, but it wasn't the floor. It was Ryan. He flipped out from under her causing Marissa to fall on her face, only making her hangover worse.
"Oh my god, are you okay." Ryan said kneeling over where she was lying on the floor.
It took Marissa awhile to come to her senses, sprawled out on Ryans floor.
"Why am I here?" Marissa asked.
"You were pretty drunk last night and you passed out."
"Did we-" Marissa said, her face getting a scared expression
"No! Nothing happened with us. You know not all guys are like that right?"
Marissa just sat there and didn't respond
"How have you been?"
"God Ryan I have a hangover like you wouldn't believe, and my dad is probably worried sick about me. I'm just going to go home." Marissa said getting up and heading to the door.
"I'm not going to let you walk home in your condition!" Ryan said
"I think the fresh air will be good for my head."
"Well then let me walk with you."
"Fine whatever, let's just go." She said putting her hand on the door knob.
"Alright, let me just go put on a shirt." Ryan aid retreating to his bathroom
Marissa took that opportunity to slip out of the pool house.
"Back." Ryan said as he entered the empty room. "Marissa?"
Seth rushed in.
"Ryan my mom and dad are going to be back at noon. We have to clean all this shit up like now!"
"But Marissa-"
"Come on Ryan." Seth said.
"Fine." He said
Marissa walked along the side of the highway with her hands on her head, feeling the fast breeze of the cars buzzing by her. A familiar black SUV pulls up next to her.
Marissa stops and stares, one hand on her head trying to stop the ache, the other on her forehead blocking the sun so she could see the figure that stepped out of the car.
"Well well." Luke said as he stepped out of the car. "Didn't fancy seeing you walking along the side of the road."
"Leave me alone Luke." Marissa said trying to push past him
"I was offering you a ride." Luke said helping Marissa into his truck.
Luke began driving. A little while later Marissa noticed that they were headed in the wrong direction.
"My house is back that way."
"So I saw you I the pool house last night wit that kid from Chino."
"His name is Ryan." Marissa said slightly annoyed at Lukes reference to Ryan and the fact that she still had no idea where she was going.
"So whats up with you two."
"Nothing is up with us. He is just my friend. He has been the only one who acted as if I'm human since my father lost all of the money."
"I'm so sorry, can I make it up to you?" Luke said as suddenly they stopped. Luke had taken them to a big secluded field.
Luke slid his hand up Marissas leg.
"Get off me jerk!" Marissa said trying to fight him off of her.
She opened the door and took off running. Luke caught up with her though in no time and tackled her to the ground.
~ Later that night
Marissa snuck through her window. The pain she felt pulsating through her body was unbearable, as she pulled her body through the tiny opening.
She fell through the window onto her mattress. She lay there on her bed for what seemed like forever until it sunk in, . she had been raped, . by Luke. She ran to the trash can and threw up as the realization sunk in., or maybe it was her hangover.
"Oh god, oh god, oh god." Marissa said to herself holding her knees rocking back and forth.
Her face was a ghostly white. Marissa clawed around the floor in the unlit room until she found a razor. She held it to herself, but this time to her wrists.
She had to wait to steady her hand before she began. She pushed the tip of the razor into her arms and slid it across. A satisfying amout of blood showed with each push, each pull of the razor, until Marissa sat, covered in her own blood. And in the peace she now felt, she fell asleep. still bleeding.
Chapter four: "I know theres so much more than me"
Ryan sat in his pool house. He was worried not having yet heard from Marissa. Dylan and Seth had gone out sailing earlier that day. The Cohens had not noticed anything different when they arrived home. Seth and Ryan left no trace that there had been a party there.
Ryan sat contemplating whether or not to try to find her new house, but decided against it for the time being. He didn't have a reason to be, . or did he?
Marissa awoke at noon the next day. She didn't feel like getting out of bed but she had to go check on her father and Kaitlyn.
Nothing could have prepared her for what she saw when she entered the living room.
"Mom." Marissa said in an inaudible voice.
"Marissa, you look, ." she looked her daughter up and down, "well you did just wake up."
"What are you doing here? Does dad know you are here?"
"I know shes here pumpkin." Jimmy said coming out of the bathroom.
"Mom has a big announcement to make!" Kaitlyn said excitedly siting new to her mother on the couch, first moving the beer bottles out of the way.
"Like I care." Marissa said sitting on the kitchen counter.
Her dad offered her cereal but Marissa just shook her head no.
"So mom, you can leave if you're not going to say anything."
"He mom eld out her ring finger for all to see."
"What the hell is that?" Jimmy said
"Oh James, don't be so naïve, it is an engagement ring."
"A what!" Marissa said
"You're getting married!" Kaitlyn said excitedly "Does that mean that now we will have money again?"
"It does honey."
"Yes!" Kaitlyn squealed
"So Jimmy, I guess I will be taking the girls." She said giving her trademark look.
Jimmy didn't respond.
"I'm not going with you mom. I'm staying with Daddy."
"I figured. For that reason I only told Chip that I have one daughter."
"Excuse me?" Marissa said
"I figured if I told him I had a sixteen year old daughter that it would make me seem too old."
Marissa didn't respond. She just sat on the counter picking at her pajama pants. Kaitlyn did not even say goodbye to her father. She skipped out of the trailer with her mother fifteen minutes later.
Jimmy went to the refrigerator and grabbed a beer.
"You okay honey?" Jimmy asked putting his hand on Marissas knee
Marissa flinched at his touch, not wanting to have anybody near her since what happened with Luke.
"Are you hungry?"
"No, I'm fine. I think I'm going to walk to the store and get milk though. Do you want anything?"
"No pumpkin, I'm alright."
"I love you." She said jumping off of the counter and kissing him on the forehead before rushing outside, still in her pajamas.
Marissa ran to the pond just outside of the trailer park, and knelt by the side. She curled up into a ball and started crying. She had no idea how long she was there before she heard Dylans voice.
"Marissa? What's wrong with you? Are you okay?" She held her sobbing friend trying to calm her.
Seth was there with her, dropping her off from the sailing trip when they saw Marissa by the pond.
"Is she okay?" Seth asked
"I don't know. I have no idea what happened." She stroked Marissas hair. "Marissa what's up? Talk to me baby."
"Lets take her to her house." Seth said
"No can do. I do not know where she lives. This is a really big park."
"Alright well we can just take her back to my place." Seth said picking Marissa up.
"Strong Man!" Dylan sings
"I'm not strong. She weighs nothing." Seth said concerned.
Marissa hardly seemed to notice their presence.
Seth called Ryan on the phone from the car and told him to meet him when he beeped. He had not told Ryan that he had Marissa in the back seat.
"What's going on?" Ryan asked coming down from the house.
"We got Marissa in the back. I have no idea what happened."
"Is she okay."
"I was hoping you could tell me." Dylan said opening the back seat of the car where Marissa was still curled up, although she was not bawling anymore.
Ryan pushed past Dylan and Seth and climbed into the back seat to get Marissas limp body.
"Come on Marissa." Ryan said picking her up. Not even saying anything to Dylan or Seth as he carried her back to his room.
Set began to follow but Dylan stopped him.
"I think that we should let Ryan handle it."
Ryan took Marissa into his room.
"Marissa what going on, you have got to talk to me."
She still didn't respond.
"Marissa!" Ryan said grabbing her shoulders shaking them.
Ryan left Marissa lying on his bed and went into his bathroom and turned the water in the shower on cold.
He returned to her bed and pulled off Marissas mud caked pants. He stepped back and put his hand over his mouth when he saw her thighs. Both legs covered in deep cuts. Dried blood was covering them. He tried to get over the sight as he stripped off her shirt. He saw the same thing on both of her wrists.
"Come on baby." He picked Marissa up and carried her to the shower. He stepped in with her and supported her body.
Marissa yelped as she felt the cold water touch her skin. Suddenly Ryan felt her collapse in his arms. He sunk to the bottom of the shower with her as she wept in his arms.
Marissa woke up that night with the moonlight poring through the window. She felt Ryans stron arms wrapped around her and she relaxed in them.
Ryan smelled the scent of Marissas hair as she settled back against his chest. He wished that they could stay like that forever. In that moment, with the girl of his dreams lying in his arms he felt as if anything were possible.
Ryan began to stir. Marissa realized that he was awake.
Ryan leaned over Marissa and kissed her forehead.
"So, you ready to talk?" He asked sitting up.
Marissa sat up as well but backed away form him, now on the other side of the bed.
"What do you mean? Nothing has been going on." Marissa said pulling her knees to her chest.
"Liar." Ryan said looking Marissa in the eyes. "I know something has been going on with you. I saw your legs Marissa. I saw your arms. I felt your body."
"So? Ryan you have no idea how hard this has been!"
"So what now you're the only one that has had a hard life! Marissa when was the last time you ate anything?" He said lowering his voice.
Marissa didn't answer.
"What has been going on with you."
Marissas body tensed. She got flashes of her father getting beaten up, her mother leaving, Luke raping her. It was just too much to take.
"I don't know." Marissa whispered.
"I want to help you." Ryan said to her
"You just have to tell me how."
"Can you take me home?" Marissa asked
"Marissa- "
"Ryan just please take me home."
"Alright."
Ryan drove Marissa back to the trailer park that she now called home. There were police cars surrounding her house.
"What happened?" Marissa asked rushing out of the car.
Trying to hold up Ryans rather large boxers on herself.
"We are looking for Marissa Cooper." The officer said.
"Who are you?" Marissa asked "Where is my dad?"
"Your father was charged with insurance fraud today."
"OH MY GOD!" Marissa said freaking out. "Ryan I missed my fathers trial. Today was the court date!"
"Is there anything we can help you with." Ryan said stepping up infront of Marissa.
"All of Mr. Coopers remaining property is to be seized by the IRS." The officer informed them
"I want to see my father." Marissa said.
"We have to take you with us Marissa."
"I do not think it's necessary to take her anywhere." Ryan said.
"You have to come with us unless you have another place other than this to reside for the time being."
Marissa dug her bare feet into the ground.
"She can stay with me."
"And who are you?" The officer asked taking out a piece of paper to write the information down for where Marissa could be found.
Ryan stood in the kitchen fixing a turkey sandwich late that night. Kirsten came onto the kitchen.
"Ryan. What are you doing up this late?" She said opening the cabinet to get a cup.
"I'm making a sandwich for. Marissa."
"Marissa!" Kirsten said in shock
Ryan explained the story for what felt like the hundredth time.
"So Jimmy is in jail?" She said still in shock.
"Yeah. So is it cool of Marissa stays here for awhile? I mean I wouldn't normally ask something like this f you but it's just that she has nowhere to go and-"
"Of course I don't mind. Ryan, just be careful. She has been through a lot."
"I know. I would never hurt her."
More soon!
~Haley
