She was falling hard and fast for the new guy, Ryan Atwood. But there was always the fear that someone might find out her secret. The fact that Paige was Marissa's daughter and not her sister was something that her family never talked about and Marissa knew better than to bring it up.
"I'm home" Marissa called into the house.
" 'issa" Paige cried as she ran to her.
"Hey" Marissa said as she picked her up.
"In here" Julie called from the living room.
"How was your day?" Julie asked when Marissa walked into the room with Paige on her hip.
"It was good" Marissa replied.
"Your father and I are going out tonight. Can you babysit your sister?" Julie asked.
"Sure" Marissa replied.
"I'll leave some money on the table and you can order a pizza. Paige should be in bed early, she didn't have her nap today" Julie said.
"Got it" Marissa replied.
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"Come on Paige, just one more bite" Marissa said as she waved the spoon around in front of her face.
Paige shook her head and turned away.
RING RING RING
"You're getting off this time" Marissa sighed as she got up to answer the phone.
"Hello?" she said.
"Hey" Ryan said from the other line.
"Hi"
"Are we still going to do something tonight?" Ryan questioned.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I completely forgot" Marissa exclaimed "I got stuck babysitting my sister tonight" she said.
"That's fine, we'll hang out another time" Ryan replied.
"Wait" Marissa said "Why don't you come over. You can help me babysit and then we can rent a movie and order some pizza" Marissa suggested.
"Okay" Ryan replied.
"Good" Marissa said.
"I'll see you in a few" Ryan said.
"Bye"
No less than 2 minutes later Ryan was knocking on the front door. Marissa went to answer it with Paige in tow.
"Hey" she said.
"Hey" Ryan replied.
"Are you going to say 'hi' Paige?" Marissa questioned as she picked her up.
" 'i" Paige replied with a little wave.
Ryan smiled.
"She's cute" Ryan said.
"She can be a little terror sometimes" Marissa sighed.
"Down" Paige said as she started to squirm around in Marissa'a arms.
"Why don't you show Ryan your toys?" Marissa suggested as she squated down to Paige's level.
Paige didn't reply she just took Ryan's hand and lead him to her room.
Ryan sat down on the floor while Paige pulled out all of her toys. Marissa watched from the doorway.
Once Paige seemed satisfied the Ryan had seen all of her toys she went over to her little book shelf and pulled down her favorite book.
She walked back over to where Ryan was sitting and plopped herself down in his lap, handing him the book.
"She wants you to read that book to her. It's her favorite book" Marissa said.
"Um........Okay" Ryan replied as he took the book from Paige.
"I'm gonna go and clean up her dinner. I'll be back in a minute" Marissa said.
Ryan stared at the spot where Marissa had been standing for a minute before he realised that Paige was waiting for him to start reading to her.
"Once upon a time...." and Ryan read the story to Paige.
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"She's finally asleep" Marissa said as she came out from Paige's room.
"Thanks for helping me babysit tonight" Marissa said.
"No problem, it was fun" Ryan replied.
"So, do you wanna order a pizza?" Marissa asked.
"Okay" Ryan replied.
"What kind do you like?" Marissa asked.
"Peperoni?" Ryan replied.
"Hey, that's my favorite too" Marissa smiled as she dialed the number to the pizza place.
It wasn't too much later that the pizza had arrived and Marissa and Ryan were sitting on the couch watching a movie that they had ordered from paper view.
Ryan stretched his arm around Marissa's shoulders and she leaned into him with her head resting on his shoulder.
"This is nice" Marissa said as she turned to face Ryan.
"I think so too" Ryan replied.
Ryan leaned over and they started to kiss.
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PLEASE REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think for the next chapter I'm going to fast forward to a few months later when Marissa and Ryan are dating. I don't feel like writing about them as they get to know each other.
Do you think that Marissa should have issues about having sex because the only other time she did, she got pregnant?
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