I sitll don't own anyone expect Marissa, Justice, and grandma Shari.
"And where are you going?" Shari, Marissa's grandma, asked as she walked passed her in the kitchen.
"I have to get our things out of the car I'll be right back." Marissa replied walking to the front door with out stopping. Once Marissa reached her car she leaned against the trunk and closed her eyes. 'How am I going to get through this weekend with him? There is no way that I can handle this. I have to for Justice he is her father and she asked for him to be here. But those eyes…once I looked into the eyes everything came back, not like I actually lost any feelings that I had for him.' Marissa thought to herself trying to figure out what she was going to do. "What am I going to do?"
"What are you going to do about what?" Marissa jumped when she heard his voice. She turned towards him opening her eyes to meet his gaze in front of her.
"I forgot to do a couple things at work before I left." Marissa half lied, she did have a couple things that she was to suppose to do that she didn't. "What are you doing?"
"Shari sent me out here to help with your things."
"No she didn't." Marissa turned to open the trunk. "She sent you out here to make sure that I don't skip out." Marissa grabbed two bags from the party store.
"You wouldn't have left, would you?" Dave asked as he grabbed the duffle bags and the other two bags from the party store.
"My daughter is inside that house now you think I would have left without her and my dog." Marissa turned to look at him and saw that Paul and joined them. "She must really think that I was going to bolt." Marissa laughed.
"Actually she sent me out here to make sure you didn't kill him." Paul replied closing the trunk for Marissa.
"I'm not going to kill anyone I may argue a bit but I wouldn't kill him. If you could grab the cake out of the backseat I would appreciate it." Marissa said as she walked past them and up to the house.
After everything had been brought in the house Marissa hide out in her room telling everyone that she had work to do. Marissa sat on her bed with charts and files spread out on the bed as she tired to put together slides and a research paper for her presentation that took place in one week. Marissa looked over at the clock on the night stand and saw that she had been upstairs for more than three hours and she had only got half the paper done and hadn't even started on the slides. Marissa piled all the papers up in the middle of her bed then walked out of the bedroom and down the hall to the stairs.
She walked down the back set of stairs that led to the kitchen which is where even one was gathered talking. Marissa walked up beside her grandma and everyone stopped the conversation when she stepped in the room. 'Talking about me I guess.' Marissa smiled at Justice then turned and walked out on to the back deck, with Dosha following close behind her. Marissa leaned against the railing, as Dosha ran down into the back yard toward the barn no doubt to try and catch a chicken, and let out a sigh as she began to watch as the sun slowly started to fade behind the horizon and the first stars of the night began to appear along with the cool night air. A few minutes later Marissa heard someone approach behind her, she knew who it was without even turning around, it wasn't but a few seconds later Marissa felt him standing beside her. The two stood there in complete silence for a while, Marissa felt him watching her; she turned her head towards him and offered him a weak smile then returned her gaze back to what was now the very tip of the sun. She heard Dosha start to run back towards the house, when the dog reached the deck she laid down at Marissa's feet and watched as the sun disappeared. Marissa looked up at the night sky and saw that the moon hung brightly above and was surrounding by stars.
"Do you remember all the nights that you and I shared watching the sun fade behind the horizon like this?" Dave asked as he looked up at the sky. "I think we did this just about every night. We would sit out on the back porch of my house or on the balcony of her apartment wrapped up in that big fluffy blanket that you loved so much with cup of hot tea. We would just sit there and watch the stars make the way in the night sky." Dave paused and lowered his gaze to her. "Every time we had a fight, before the night was over one of us would me the other with a cup of tea and that blanket, must of the time it was me meeting you there so I could apologize to you for something that I said or did." Marissa smiled at the last statement. "We shared a lot under that blanket, didn't we?" Marissa nodded her head in agreement as Dave reached a hand out and brushed a few strands of her hair out of her face. "Marissa I was hoping that you and I could talk about some things." Marissa turned her body towards him. "I just wanted to tell you that I was sorry for what happened that night I left. But I felt that I had to go back to my wife she was carrying my baby and I had to be there for her. To me that was our second chance, that was our fresh start." Dave paused. "I know that no matter how many times that I say I'm sorry to you it may not matter to you because I broke the one and only promise that I made to you, in one night I hurt you in so many ways and I am truly sorry for…"
"I know that you're sorry and I do forgive you, your right it was a chance for you and her to fix your problems and be happy again and I wasn't going to stop you from going back to her, which is the only reason that I didn't tell you about Justice that night." Marissa looked from Dave to the back yard as if she was ashamed of what she did.
"You knew you were pregnant that night?"
"Yes I did. That was the reason that I kept trying to get a hold of you that night and I finally did you asked me to meet you at the park and that's when you told me about your wife." Marissa paused for a minute. "I didn't want to tell you and you feel like I was trying to trap you into staying with me or that I was just making up some kind of excuse to get you to stay with me, so I just kept it all to myself. That's why I didn't answer the phone when you would call I knew that I couldn't talk to you because I would tell you about the baby and I didn't want you running back to me because you felt sorry for me or just for the baby, I wanted you to come back to me when you realized that you wanted to be with me not her.
"I never would have thought those things. I just wish you would have told me so I could have been there when Justice was born, she is my only child." At the last statement Marissa's eyes widened.
"What do you mean only child I thought…?"
"She used that to get me to go back to her, after a few months I realized that she had made the whole thing, she never wanted me at any of the doctor appointments and she didn't show any signs of being pregnant. When I finally caught her in the lie I left her, I went to your apartment and you had already moved out I asked a couple of your neighbors but they didn't know anything. After I had moved into my new house I found your grandma's number so I called her and we've talked back and forth ever since."
"Did she tell you about Justice?"
"Yeah, you were about eight months when she finally told me, and she called me that day you had Justice, when she told me that you had given her the name that we had picked out together I started to cry." Dave paused when he seen that Marissa's eyes has started to swell with tears. "Shari called me down here to visit about a week after Justice was born and you were dropping her off for a few hours to get some rest, when I showed up here and she handed her to me as soon as I walked in the door. I couldn't believe how much she looked like you expect for the hair color. Every time I called here Shari would let me talk to Justice and I would come a visit a couple times a year. So I didn't really miss a lot of her growing up but I missed enough."
"I'm sorry I should have told you about Justice." Marissa cried softly. "I never should have kept her a secret from you, you had a right to see her to be there when she said her first words and took her first steps, and I'm so sorry Dave." Dave wrapped his arms around her and held her for a minute.
"It's okay, I understand why you didn't say anything, don't get so upset about it." Dave lightly rubbed her back to calm her down.
Marissa stood there under the night sky wrapped in his arms; it felt so good being back in side his strong arms. 'I never realized how much I missed him until now." Marissa thought to her self as she closed her eyes and smiled against his chest. After a few minutes Marissa pushed against him and took a step back; so she could look up at him as he placed both of his hands on the side of her face and he began to lower his head to hers. Marissa knew what he was going to do next but what she didn't know was weather or not she was going to let him do it.
That's all i have for right now, sorry it took so long to update but I've been sick and we just found out that we are expecting our third child. I'll try to update it again soon. And as always please read and review. Thanks