A loud knock on Paul and Stephanie's hotel room door woke them from their sleep on the couch. Paul stood rubbing a hand over his face and opened the door to find Dave standing there looking very upset. Paul opened the door a little more so that he could step in the room.

"Have you talked to Marissa?" He asked as he stood in front of Paul.

"Yeah she brought Justice here then took my car to clear her head." Paul looked down at his watch. "She said that she would call me an hour after she left but she hasn't called yet. It's been over three hours since she left."

"What do you mean it's been three hours? You haven't talked to her since she left? What if something happened to her?" Dave began to pace the floor. "I can't believe this, I was so stupid. Marissa and I had a fight when she found me with Christy in the hall, and now she's out there upset and driving. I'll never forgive myself if something happens to her."

"Dave man you need to calm down Justice is in the bedroom sleeping you do not need to wake her up and have her worrying about her mother." Paul stepped up next to him. "I'm going to go call her cell phone and find out where she is." Just then the hotel phone began to ring. Stephanie walked over and answered the phone; she was really quite then hung up the phone. She turned to the two guys standing in the middle of the room looking at her.

"Umm…that was the police they got the number from the rental place. They said that Marissa was in an accident and that she's at county hospital." Stephanie spoke softly.

"Is she okay? What happened?" Dave asked.

"They said that it was pretty bad and that the car is total other then that they don't know anything."

"I have to get to that hospital." Dave turned to look at Paul.

"I don't think you should go alone Paul go with him." Stephanie suggested. "I'll stay here with Justice she really doesn't need to be in a hospital right now. Just call me when you find out if she's okay." With that Dave and Paul left the hotel and headed to county hospital after asking the hotel clerk for directions.

Neither one of the two spoke the whole way to the hospital, neither sure as what to say. The hospital wasn't far so they were there in a matter of minutes. When they got inside Dave asked where Marissa was, the desk clerk looked her name up in the computer and told Dave that she had been taken up to surgery on the fifth floor. Dave and Paul took the elevator to the fifth floor, once on the surgery floor Dave asked the nurse behind the desk if he could find out about Marissa.

"If you have a seat sir I'll see what I can find out for you." The nurse replied pointing to the waiting area. Dave and Paul walked over and took a seat; Dave rested his elbows on his knees and placed his head in his hands.

"Man I have really screwed up this time didn't I?" Dave said feeling the like the weight of the world was on his shoulders.

"I'm sure she's fine Dave, it's not all your fault I shouldn't have given her my keys I knew that she was upset but I went ahead and gave her the keys." Paul placed a hand on his shoulder. About forty-five minutes later a doctor walked through a set of doors and up to the desk, he talked to the nurse and she pointed to Dave and Paul and he began to walk toward them his paper hat off his head. He walked over to Dave and Paul and sat in the chair across from them.

"How is Marissa? She's going to be okay right?" Dave asked not liking the look on the doctor's face.

"Marissa was in a very serious car accident, when she was brought in to the ER she had a faint pulse and was having difficult time breathing. We put a tube down her throat to help her breath, and then we found out that her lung had collapsed which was causing her trouble breathing. We also found that she had a returned spleen and an arty in her heart had been severed. We brought her up here to repair her injuries, we were about to finish when her heart stopped beating we started chest compression and we shocked her several times. We did everything that we could do for her despite our efforts we were not able to get her back. I'm very sorry."

"You're telling me that she's gone, she's dead?" Paul spoke first.

"Yes I am. I'm very sorry." The doctor paused and looked at Dave. "I was with Marissa from the time that she was brought in and she wanted me to tell you that it's not your fault and that she forgives you, she loves you and Justice and for you to take care of her." Dave looked up at the man as his tears fell.

The next week was the hardest after telling Justice that her mommy had gone to heaven and telling Shari. Dave then planned the funeral with the help of Stephanie and Paul. On the day of the funeral Dave carried Marissa up the hill to the spot where Marissa was being laid to rest.

"Daddy." Justice spoke softly.

"Yeah sweetie."

"Why did mommy have to go away?" Dave looked at his daughter in his arms.

"Sweetie I don't know, it was just her time." They continued up the hill and were met by all of Dave's family and friends. After the ceremony as everyone was slowly starting to leave Justice and Dave walked up to the casket as it was being lowered and dropped two daisies.

Well there you have it the end of the story. I hope you all enjoyed reading it, i know i enjoyed writing it. Thank you to everyone who reviewed. I'm writing another story and i should start posting the chapters for that one soon. Thanks again.