Marissa watched from inside the interrogation room as her parents came running down the hall. Her mother was ahead of her father. Julie had daggers in her eyes. She did not know what her daughter did this time, but she had had enough of it. Rage engulfed her, or it always seemed to. Jimmy, on the other hand, appeared to be more cool and collected. Before the pair reached the room, Jimmy grabbed a hold of Julie's arm, and took her aside to talk to her.
"Don't go in there, and accuse Marissa of doing something. We don't even know what happened," Jimmy told Julie.
"Your daughter has just committed a major crime, Jimmy. She is sitting in the interrogation room at the police station!" Julie shouted.
At that moment, Sandy peered his head out from around the corner. He had heard most of what the Coopers were talking about while he was getting his coffee to stay awake. He walked over to them, and took a sip of his coffee while doing so.
"Hey, I'm really glad that you guys came so quickly," Sandy said.
"Yeah, well, it's not like we had a choice. Just when things were getting better, she had to go do something like this... What did she do?" Julie sighed.
"Julie! Stop!" Jimmy yelled. Julie looked at him and rolled her eyes.
"Oh it's bigger than her. You'd better sit down," Sandy suggested to the pair. Sandy sat them down on the couch that was around the corner from the interrogation room that Marissa was in. He told them everything. Everything that Marissa told him, Sandy told her parents. He could see the looks on Jimmy and Julie's faces change with each detail he gave them, from Trey attacking her, the Bait Shop, to Ryan finding out, to Marissa shooting Trey. The hallway was quiet. No one was talking.
"What's going to happen? Will Marissa have to go to jail?" Julie asked.
"Although she wasn't defending herself, she was defending Ryan. I don't know for sure what is going to happen. Best case scenario - nothing. Worst case scenario - juvenile detention. I told the police I was her attorney, of course, if that's okay with you," He asked the Coopers.
"Of course," Jimmy and Julie replied in unison. They got up from the couch and slowly walked into the interrogation room. Marissa had not seen their faces since Sandy took them around the corner to talk with them. When she saw the expressions on their faces this time, it was sadness, and not anger. They approached her room, and came in. Her father came over and hugged her, while her mother sat across from her at the table.
"It 'ill be okay, kiddo," Jimmy told Marissa. Marissa started to cry in her father's arms. At that moment, she could not think about what would happen to her, but what Ryan thought of her.