"Ryan something happened and if I tell you, you have to promise not to do anything about it." Marissa sobbed.
"Marissa please tell me what is going on." Ryan demanded.
"Only if you promise not to do anything stupid, promise me Ryan." Marissa begged.
"Fine, Marissa you're scarring me." Ryan admitted.
"When Andy came into the kitchen with me, he came on to me. He told me if I didn't do what he wanted then he would do something to me." Marissa sobbed.
"What? What the hell happened?" Ryan demanded.
"He kissed me, when I wouldn't kiss him back he threaten to do something else to me. He scared me Ryan, he forced me to kiss him. I wanted to call out to you but he made it clear that I had to do what he wanted." Marissa began crying again.
"That ba$trd. He's going to pay for this." Ryan flipped out.
Marissa jumped up and grabbed him.
"NO Ryan, you promised me you wouldn't do anything. I need you here with me, don't do anything Ryan." Marissa begged.
"He forced you to do something you didn't want to do, you really want to let him away with this." Ryan yelled.
"No but Ryan I'm afraid that he would hurt you or maybe even come after me. His mother is my mom's friend, he could be at my house anytime this weekend. I don't want to make him mad because it may cause him to do something worse." Marissa continued begging.
"You're not going back home till he's gone, I won't allow it." Ryan said holding on to her, "If he would do this with all of us around, I don't want to imagine what he would do if he got you alone at your house."
Marissa hugged Ryan and stayed close to him. They made their way to the pool house and Ryan tucked her into his bed until she fell asleep. He debated whether or not to go after Andy and decided to go, but once he looked over at Marissa he promised her he wouldn't. He then crawled into bed next to her and held her close, he didn't want anything else to happen. He swore to himself he would never let this happen to her again, no one would ever make her cry again.
Ryan couldn't sleep the entire night, he was determined to find a way to make Andy pay for what he did to Marissa. Ryan didn't want to go against the promise he made to Marissa but he wasn't the type to sit around when something obviously needed to be done. After hours of lying in bed beside Marissa he finally came up with a solution.
"Ryan wake up." Marissa said shaking Ryan the next morning.
Ryan grunted and rolled over ignoring Marissa's morning call.
"Ryan come on wake up the Cohen's are waiting to eat breakfast!" Marissa continued shaking him.
Ryan didn't budge and Marissa was beginning to get frustrated with him, Ryan was the worst person to get out of bed. Marissa then decided to try and kiss him, if he didn't wake up she was going to go eat without him.
She leaned over and started kissing him making sure it was a kiss he could not ignore. He immediately woke up and to her surprise instead of getting up he wrapped his arms around her and pulled her down onto the bed turning her wake-up kiss into a wake-up make out session. Eventually Marissa pulled away because it started to get pretty hot between them.
"The Cohen's are waiting for us to go eat breakfast with them, as much as I'd rather do this we have to go in." Marissa sighed standing up to fix her clothes.
"Just five more minutes?" Ryan begged.
"Ryan! Come on before some one comes out here looking for us." Marissa said reaching one hand out for him.
With a disappointed smile on his face Ryan got up and followed her into the main house.
"Sorry but we got tired of waiting for you two." Sandy said biting into a slice of toast.
"Yeah, Ryan wouldn't get out of bed." Marissa replied, "I don't know why; right after Seth took Summer home I went to sleep didn't you Ryan?" Marissa asked.
"No I couldn't sleep, it took me hours to finally get to sleep." Ryan replied yawning.
"I knew it Marissa snores!!" Seth joked.
"I do not!" Marissa replied defensively.
"Ryan does Marissa snore?" Seth laughed.
Ryan smiled, "No I just had some stuff on my mind."
Marissa looked over at Ryan and remembered everything about the night before and suddenly didn't feel like eating anything.
After breakfast Marissa and Ryan did the dishes so Sandy and Kirsten could get ready for work.
"Thank you Ryan for being so understanding last night it meant a lot ot me." Marissa said wrapping her arms around Ryan.
"It's nothing." Ryan replied and held her close, "What are you doing today?"
"Hanging out with you I hope?" Marissa asked, "I mean if you want."
"Yeah of course but there's something I got to do sometime today, I'm sure Summer and Seth will be here while I take off for a bit." Ryan replied.
"What sort of thing to you have to do?" Marissa replied curiously.
"Oh uh I have to take Theresa somewhere. You don't mind do you?" Ryan asked.
"Oh. No that's fine." Marissa replied looking up, she leaned in and gave him a kiss, "Of course it's ok."
Summer dropped by the Cohen house later that afternoon so Ryan decided to take off. He made his way to Anna's old house, he figured she was staying there since her parents didn't move back to Pittsburgh with her. Ryan knocked on the door.
"Ryan what are you doing here?" Anna asked as she opened the door.
"Hey I was wondering if you knew where I could find Andy." Ryan replied.
"Um actually he's on his way over here, you can come in and wait for him if you like." Anna suggested.
"Actually do you mind if I wait out here, there's something I want to talk to him about alone, if you don't mind." Ryan not wanting to say too much.
"Sure, well tell Andy to just come in after you guys are done ok." Anna replied.
"Thanks Anna!" Ryan smiled and sat down on her steps when she went back inside.
A few minutes later Andy pulled into the driveway and made his way to the door when he spotted Ryan on the porch.
"Hey, Ryan right?" Andy said nervously.
"Yeah." Ryan replied and stood up and walked up to Andy.
"What's going on?" Andy asked.
"So I found Marissa last night after you guys left, locked in the bathroom crying; do you know why Andy?" Ryan asked half shouting.
"I don't know what you're talking about man." Andy snapped back.
"Really, tell me does any of this sound familiar: forcing my girlfriend into kissing you, threatening her not to say anything or else you'll do much more to her?" Ryan said pushing Andy.
"I don't what she told you but your girlfriend is a liar." Andy replied.
"Right that's why she locked herself in a bathroom crying; someone who is lying does that right?" Ryan asked.
"Hey buddy, she kissed me." Andy lied.
Ryan stated to get really angry.
"You better listen and listen real good; what you did last night is against the law, Marissa doesn't know this but I talked to someone about what happened and if Marissa wants to press charges against you she can. If you even lay one finger on her again you don't have to just worry about going to jail but I will find you and I will kill you. You stay away from her I mean it or you will pay the price." Ryan said angry and walked away, he could see the fear in Andy's eyes. Ryan didn't talk to anyone about what happened the night before and he didn't know what could happen if Marissa reported Andy to the police, but Ryan did know that he would go after him if he touched Marissa ever again.
During the next two weeks Marissa had noticed Theresa calling Ryan a lot. He would be late picking her up when they'd have plans or when she was at the Cohen's she would call and Ryan would leave her alone for long periods at a time while he would be on the phone with her.
Marissa didn't want to say anything since Theresa may be having his baby but it never failed, Theresa would always interrupt their time together.
"You know what we haven't done in a couple of weeks?" Marissa said crawling on top of Ryan, "I think tonight is the first night in two weeks that we haven't been interrupted."
Ryan smiled and started kissing Marissa. She pulled back and pulled his and her shirt off quickly not wanting to waste a second of their time. Eventually they were in bed, naked about to make love when the phone rang. At first both ignored it but after about 8 rings Ryan pulled away from Marissa to answer the phone.
"Hello?" Ryan answered.
"Ryan it's Theresa, can you come over? I really need you to come over here." Theresa paused, "It's really important. I need you're help."
Ryan could hear that Theresa was crying.
"Yeah I'll be there soon." Ryan said and quickly hung up the phone.
He then jumped out of bed and started to get dressed.
"Ryan?" Marissa said confused, "Where are you going?"
"Theresa's she needs me." Ryan said and quickly left the pool house.
Marissa sat on the bed for a few minutes trying to put everything together. She began getting very angry and hurt that he got up and left the way he did while they were about to make love. She quickly got dressed and left.
Ryan got to Theresa's house and knocked on the door. When there wasn't an answer he turned the doorknob and let himself in.
"Theresa where are you?" Ryan yelled out.
"Ryan, I'm in the bathroom. Come here." Theresa replied, "Hurry!"
Ryan ran into the bathroom and found Theresa on the floor curled up.
"What's wrong?" Ryan asked quickly dropping down beside her.
"I need to go to the hospital, I keep getting sharp pains in my stomach and I can't stand up because they hurt to much." Theresa cried.
"Ok, come on." Ryan helped her up and carried her out to the car.
"How long have you been in pain?" Ryan asked while they drove to the hospital.
"I was having pains all day but they started getting really bad that's why i called you.." Theresa said, "I hope you weren't busy."
"No it's fine, you can call me any time you need anything." Ryan replied.
Ryan quickly took Theresa into the hospital once they got there and the doctor took her in right away.
Ryan sat down in the waiting room. As he waited he realized how he left Marissa and decided to call her and let her know what happened. He decided to try home first.
"Hello?" Seth answered.
"Hey man can you do me a favour?" Ryan asked.
"Sure, what is it?" Seth asked.
"Can you see if Marissa is still in the pool house." Ryan replied.
"If you're not there why would she be there?" Seth wondered.
"We we're there and Theresa called needing my help so I left quickly and didn't really tell Marissa why I was leaving. I was hoping she was still there, can you check for me?" Ryan replied.
"Of course, hold on a second." Seth said walking out to the pool house.
"No, she's not here. What did Theresa need you for?" Seth asked.
"I had to take her to the hospital, she was having sharp pains in her stomach." Ryan said.
"Is she ok?" Seth asked.
"She's in with the doctor now. I'll call her house and see if she's home." Ryan replied, "I'll be home once I find out if Theresa's ok."
"Ok, bye." Seth hung up.
Ryan dialled Marissa's cell phone but no one answered so he decided to call her house.
"Hello?" Julie answered.
"Hi, is Marissa there?" Ryan asked.
"Yeah she came in a while ago, I'll go get her." Julie replied.
Ryan heard Julie walk up the stairs to Marissa's room.
"Maris you're wanted on the phone." Julie called out.
Ryan could hear Marissa ask who it was.
"It's Ryan." Julie replied.
"Tell him I'm not here or I'm busy or something." Marissa replied.
Ryan heard Marissa and listened as Julie told him she was busy.
"Fine." Ryan said and hung the phone up.
Just then Theresa came out of the office and Ryan quickly walked up to her.
"So? Is everything ok?" Ryan asked.
"The doctor did an ultra sound, he couldn't find a heart beat." Theresa cried.
Ryan looked at her in disbelief.
"Does that mean what I think it means?" Ryan asked.
"It means I had a miscarriage." Theresa said slowly starting to cry.
Ryan wrapped his arms around her, "Come on, I'll take you home."
"Ryan I don't want to spend the night by myself, can you stay with me?" Theresa asked.
Ryan looked over at her not knowing what to say.
"Sure." Ryan replied.
Once they got to Theresa's apartment, Ryan tucked Theresa into bed and stayed with her till she fell asleep. After he went into the living room to use the phone. First he called home.
"Hello?" Seth answered again.
"Seth it's Ryan." Ryan replied.
"Hey, how is Theresa?" Seth asked.
"She lost the baby," Ryan replied, "She wants me to stay the night with her can you let your parents know?"
"Of course. Are you ok?" Seth questioned.
"I'll be fine." Ryan replied.
"Did you find Marissa? Did you let her know what was going on?" Seth said.
"I called her at home but she wouldn't talk to me." Ryan replied, "But listen I'm going to try her again so I'll be home tomorrow."
Ryan hung the phone up and dialled Marissa's cell.
It rang and rang and rang, Marissa wasn't answering and he didn't want to call her house again since it was late. He was sure she'd talk to him in the morning anyway so he made himself a bed on the couch.
Ryan woke up early and made Theresa something to eat and took it to her in bed.
"Thanks Ryan, it was very good." Theresa smiled.
"How are you feeling today?" Ryan asked.
"Better but sad, I can't believe the baby is gone. Yesterday morning I woke up pregnant and this morning I'm not." Theresa replied
Ryan sat beside her not knowing what to say.
"Last night at the office after the doctor told me I had lost the baby I asked him if it was possible to do a paternity test now that the baby died. He took a DNA sample and if you want to know whether the baby was yours or not you can go in this morning and they'll let us know later this week. If you want to I mean." Theresa suggested.
"Really, well I'd like to know; would you?" Ryan asked.
"Actually I would." Theresa replied.
Theresa went with him to the doctors office and gave his dna sample before driving Theresa to her mothers. Later that morning Ryan headed home. He had tried Marissa again, she hadn't answered her cell and her mother told him Marissa wasn't home.
When Ryan got home, Kirsten and Sandy met him and gave him their sympathy. Ryan then made his way to the pool house and stayed there for the rest of the day. He tried Marissa again a couple more times that day but had not luck.