Chapter thirteen: Answers

Seth sat alone in the living room, it was 3:30 in the morning, but he couldn't sleep a wink. How could he, he was going to father another child in a few months, and it scared him to death. He already had doubts about his parenting skills with sarah, but now, he had to go back to phase one, and re-learn how to handle a baby. He sat with a full cup of coffee, and a mind full of doubts. Summer soon cam downstairs, concerned over her husbands absense.

"Hey Seth...you ok?" Summer ask running her hands through his curly black hair.

"I will be...it's just...are we ready for a second child, we're only twenty-eight, I mean, am I a good father?"

"Calm down Seth, you are an amazing father, Sarah adores you, you know that! Oh believe me, when I had Sarah, I was concerned about us being good parents.."

"Not helping Summer!"

"...As I was saying, we turned out to be very good parents. We have a great little girl, and we are very happy...the only thing I'm worried about is having to lose the baby weight again." Summer joked. Seth smiled at her, then kissed her.

Meanwhile at Jimmy's hotel room-

Marissa had shown up hours ago, and was still in tears. She couldn't tell her Dad why she was crying, because she couldn't speak an entire sentence. All Jimmy could do was hug his daughter constantly and try to calm her down, neither of which did much good.

"Kiddo what's wrong?" He said every few minutes, never truly receiving a response. He just let her cry for reasons unknown to him.

Meanwhile in the poolhouse-

Ryan layed motionless on the bed, barely awake, but not tired at all, he was nothing. Seth thought this might be a great time to challenge Ryan to a little PlayStation.

"Ryan, you awake man?" Seth whispered

"Yes Seth...but I'm n..." He was cut off by Seth

"Good, because I can't sleep, and I think a little Pro skater might ease my insomnia, what do you think bro?" Seth said making himself comfortable, unaware of Ryan's state.

"Not now Seth" Ryan said as nice as possible, but he still had a hint of sadness, and anger in his voice.

"Come on bud, just one round..."

"NOT NOW SETH!" Ryan yelled at a shocked Seth, who jumped at the sound of the anger in his friends tone.

"S..Sorry man...I'll go" Seth said scared of Ryan. He quickly walked from the room, leaving an already emotionally unstable Ryan. Ryan soon got up, and without thinking threw the bedside lamp across the room making it shatter on the opposite wall. Ryan made an angered yell afterward. Why was he doing this, why did she say no, why did she run away?

The raging thunder, and lightning outside matched Ryan's mood perfectly. He had not been so angry in over ten years, and he hated the feeling. He threw on a pair of jeans, and a wife beater, and walked out of the poolhouse, and into the dark, unsettling night.

Seth, back on the couch, still had chills inside of him from the angry yell he received from Ryan. He also heard the crash of a glass object, then another angered yell, but he knew better than to try to comfort him at that time. Besides, Seth was always more interested in his own issues. He got up from the chair, and got a glass of water, a few minutes later, Kirsten came walking down the steps. "Mom? What are you doing up?" Seth questioned.

"I just woke up, and thought it would be a good idea to drink some water, I might have gone overboard with the wine at the party. Why are you up?"

"Ummm...Summer just took a test, and she's pregnant again" Seth said not sure of what his mother's reaction would be.

"Oh my god Seth! Congratulations" Kirsten said while embracing her son with a giant hug.

"Thanks Mom!" Seth replied embracing his mother. He was suprised by her reaction, but took it greatfully.

meanwhile on the beach-

Ryan had found his way to the sands of the beach, so he decided to lay down, and let the rain fall on him. He hoped all the rain would wash away his pain, maybe make his emotions soggy globs of nothingness so he could have relief. The rain fell on him freely, but he put up no fight, without Marissa, he had no reason to fight. He soon heard someone walking on the sand, he looked up to see a policeman.

"Sir, you can't be here at this time, the storms are vicious right now, and the water might flood." The policeman said to Ryan, who had closed his eyes, and looked like he was unconcious.

"Sir,you can't be here!" The policeman urged.

"Alright!" Ryan replied pushing himself off of the ground. He walked away fastly from the cop.

"Kid! Slow down! Why were you layin' on the beach like that?"

"I'm not in the mood man!" Ryan snarled at the cop. Usually, he knew better than to talk back to a cop, but at that time, he didn't give a damn.

"Talk to me kid, let me give you a ride to wherever your headed."

"I'm fine, I'll walk"

"I'm off duty in five minutes...let me buy you a beer...seems like you could use it."

Ryan humored him. "You know what...fine!"

At the bar, the cop, who had introduced himself as David, was talking to Ryan, who wasn't really listening.

"What's wrong kid? I doubt you just like to lay on the beach at four' o clock on a rainy night huh?"

"No...I asked my girlfriend to marry me...and she ran out the door crying...so I thought maybe I could wash it all away." Ryan said with a sincere tone, which was the first time he had spoken that way to the cop.

" Well, I know how that feels...not exactly inspiring is it?"

"Tell me about it."

David went into a long speech about how he asked a girl to marry him, and she said no, than walked away.

"So...what did you do to get her back." Ryan asked genuinely interested.

"Nothing...worst mistake of my life...I let her go. Don't let your girl go kid...don't. Try to make things right, if she means enough to you for you to propose, then she's worth fighting for." David said with a half smile before taking a giant swig of his beer.

"I have to go...thanks!" Ryan said running out the door. He ran so fast that the rain didn't have a chance to hit him. He ran until he got to the four seasons hotel. He barely stopped himself from running over the check in desk.

"What room is James Cooper staying in?"

"Hold on a sec...room 412, on the fourth floor."

"Thanks" He said while taking off for the room. He thought the elevators would take to long, so he ran up the stairs as fast as humanly possible. He finally got to the room, and pounded on the door rapidly.

"Ryan! What are you doing here?" Jimmy said staring at the soaking wet man.

"I need...to talk to Marissa!" Ryan said in between heaving breathes.

"Sure but she's been crying for hours and she won't talk to me!" Jimmy exclaimed.

"Ryan!" Marissa said running to him in tears. She cried on his shoulder, which was already wet. He wrapped his muscular arms around her tightly, Jimmy looked on.

"I'm so sorry Ryan, I'm so sorry!" She said in between deep breathes.

"It's ok sweety, it's ok. Calm down...shhhhh, calm down."

"I need to talk to you." Marissa said as she slowly stopped herself from crying.

"Ok...let's go down to the lobby." He said holding her hand, and leading her back down stairs.

Back on the ground floor, Marissa, and Ryan talked.

"I'm sorry I ran away, but you have to understand...my dad asked me something pretty big, and it will affect us."

"What is it?" Ryan asked while wiping some of her tears away, and running his hand through her hair.

"My dad asked me to go back to hawaii with him." Marissa said worried about Ryan's reaction.

"Well...are you gonna go?" Ryan asked.

"I'm not sure... I love my Dad, but I love you so much."

"Well judging from your reaction earlier tonight, I think I know your choice." Ryan said with a sad smirk.

" I only did that because he had just asked me to go with him, then you're asking me to stay, I didn't know what to do!"

"Well...I have to go home, but let me know when you make up your mind." Ryan said walking away.

"Ryan wait! I'm going with you to the Cohens, I'll call my dad from there." Marissa said holding Ryan's hand.

Ryan grasped onto her hand, as the two walked into the cold darkness of the night.

Only one more chapter to go folks! I hope you're liking this story, because I am planning a sequel to this story. Please review!