Chapter 19: "You know all I am"
Hey guys, this story is wrapping up within the next 3 or four chapters, and so since you all have been such loyal readers, and believe it or not this si the first story I have ever written and posted, I am taking requests for the last couple chapters. And a Sequel may be in the works if I have the muse when I am done with this. Thanks!
~ Haley
Ryan backed up and looked at Marissa. She looked so much better, she looked a lot healthier, still thin, and a little bit frail, but still not to the extent that she was before.
"Ryan Atwood, … crying?" She mocked him
Ryan wiped his tears and smiled.
"I was worried, how come you didn't write?"
"I was having some problems, … and well, … I was kind of in solitary confinement." She said looking away blushing.
"Well it's like you to be so damn stubborn." Ryan said ending the awkward silence.
Marissa smiled at him.
"Can I see them?" Marissa asked nervously
It had been a month and a half since she saw her twins.
"Of course."
Ryan led Marissa to a room. The girls for the first time were not in plastic cases, but free to breathe, breathe on their own.
Marissa didn't go near them. Ryan picked them up, one in each arm.
"Come on Marissa." Ryan urged her. He noticed the look on Marissas face. "What's wrong?"
"What… what if I drop them, … they are so small and-"
Ryan gently placed the girls in Marissas arms.
Marissa smiled down at the little girls, both wide-awake. The same blue eyes stared back at them in fascination.
"Which one i-"
"That is Madison, and this is Piper." Ryan said
Marissa looked down at the girls. The both had light freckles on their nose as she did. The one difference was that Madison had a birthmark next to her eye. She was thankful that Luke had not showed up in either of them, at least from what she could see so far.
~ The next morning Ryan and Marissa sat on the big bed, dressing the girls, enjoying each others company.
"What should they wear?" Marissa asked Ryan.
Ryan held up a little yellow overalls, with a duck shirt under it.
"This, yellow is definitely Pipers color." Ryan said
"Woah, you have spent too much time with Summer." Madison was dressed by Marissa, in pink flowered leggings, and a matching pink shirt.
Summer knocked on the outside of the door, and then pulled it open.
"Hey guys, it's just about time for us to get out of here." She said.
"I missed you." Marissa said to her friend, who was standing timidly across the room.
"You too Coop. Almost time to go home." Summer said as she entered. "Ryan, Seth wants your help out at the car. They want to know how to put in the car seats." Summer said.
"I am there." He said kissing Marissas forehead and heading out to help them.
Summer sat down on the bed with Marissa and the twins.
"You ready to go back to Newport?"
"Yeah." Marissa said. "Things will be different this time." She said looking down at Piper
"How so?"
"They have to be. I can't screw up Piper and Madison like my mom did me."
"Well that's not possible anyways."
"Well how do you know that?" Marissa asked her friend doing the trademark eyebrow raise.
"You love them too much." Summer said seriously meeting her friends eyes
There was a silence.
"I have really missed you Summer."
"I'm not going anywhere ever again." Summer said hugging Marissa.
"Here, take one." Marissa said gesturing for Marissa to take one of the twins.
Summer gingerly took Piper from Marissa and sat next to her on the bed.
"They are beautiful." She commented.
Right then Sandy walked in.
"Time to go ladies." He said
