Disclaimer: See Chapter 1

Authors Note: To everyone who reviewed! Also, I made a mistake by putting the names Jamie and Jason instead of Taylor and Tyler, for Marissa's younger brother & sister. Jamie and Jason were the original names I had for the twins', but I changed them. I'm sorry for any confusion. Ok well lets get on with the story!

Reunited: Chapter 3 – The Truth: Part 1

The Next Morning – 11 o'clock:

Bradin was the first to wake up between him and Marissa. He got dressed, and went to wake Marissa up. He walked into the room, seeing no one in sight. She was changing in the bathroom. When she came out, and walked into Nikki's room, Bradin was amazed at the sight in front of him. Marissa was wearing a Pink shirt that read 'Blondes Have More Fun' in bright yellow lettering, with a matching bright yellow mini-skirt, and pink flip-flops.

"You are so beautiful." Bradin said to Marissa.

"Why thank you. Might I add that you are pretty hot, yourself." Marissa said as she walked over to him. They both laughed as they walked out of Nikki's room. To their surprise, they found no one home. Marissa saw a note on the counter. She walked over to the counter to read the note.

"Hey Brae, there's a note over here." Bradin walked over to Marissa to read the note also. The note read:

Marissa and Bradin,

We all went to Johnny's restaurant for breakfast. We'll bring you back some food. See you later.

Love,

The Families

"Well, well, well. Look who has the house to themselves." Bradin said with a smirk.

"What do you have planned, Mr. Westerly?" Marissa said as she walked over to him, placing her arms around his neck.

"This" Bradin said as he leaned down to kiss her.

They were on the couch kissing when Bradin put one hand on her back, and leaned over her. Pushing her back lightly so that Marissa was lying flat on the couch with Bradin on top of her. Knowing Bradin, Marissa knew that pretty soon, Bradin's hands would start to wander soon. Marissa was right. Soon enough, Bradin's hand went roaming up her shirt and then back down and started to rub his hand up and down her inner thigh, all while they were still kissing. A few minutes later, Bradin's hand went up to her waist and tried to pull off her skirt, but Marissa soon interrupted him.

"Brae" Marissa started while she sat up on the couch, moving a little bit away from Bradin.

"What? What's wrong?" Bradin said, sitting up, also.

"I, I'm just not ready for that. I'm sorry." Marissa said with a sad look on her face.

"Baby, it's okay. You don't have to be sorry. I understand, and I'll wait for you. I'll be ready whenever you're ready. Bradin said.

"But I don't know when I'll be ready. Maybe it'll be tomorrow, next week, next month, next year, I don't know!" Marissa said in a frustrated tone.

"Marissa" Bradin said as he took her hand in his and kissed it. "It's okay. I understand."

"I love you so much, Brae." Marissa stated, hugging him.

"I love you, too." Bradin said as he hugged her back. "Do you remember yesterday, when we were on the beach and I was going to ask you something, but I realized we had to leave for dinner?" Bradin asked.

"Yeah." Marissa asked, a little confused.

"Well, where's your mom? What happened? Is she back in Kansas?"

Marissa was shocked that Bradin didn't know why she moved to Playa Linda. She felt some tears coming on, but blinked a few times to make them go away.

"She, she was diagnosed with cancer, and she died two weeks before we moved here." Marissa said softly, but loud enough for Bradin to hear her. By now, Marissa couldn't hold the tears back anymore. She broke down right then and there.

"Come here." Bradin said, pulling Marissa onto his lap. He wrapped his arms around her, and held her tight. "Shh. It'll be alright. I'm here for you." Bradin said to her soothingly. Marissa just continued to cry endlessly. As a matter of fact, Bradin shed a few tears, too. Ten minutes later, Marissa spoke up.

"I miss her so much."

"I know you do. I know how you feel, babe. I felt the same when my parents died." 10 minutes later, everyone arrived back at the house.

"Hey" everyone said to Bradin and Marissa as they walked into the house.

Once everyone got settled, Ava called Bradin and Marissa into the kitchen to eat their breakfast.

Marissa and Bradin sat down at the kitchen counter to eat their breakfast. While Bradin was eating, he noticed Marissa was barely eating anything besides a piece of cantaloupe.

"Marissa, what's wrong? How come you aren't eating? You don't like the food?" Bradin asked wondering.

"No, no, I like it, I'm just not very hungry." Marissa explained. She knew that lying to Bradin was the last thing she wanted to do, but it would be only once. Well that's what she thought.

"Oh, okay, we'll save it for later." Bradin said as he finished eating.

Ring-Ring

"Hello?" Bradin said, answering the phone. "Yes, he's here. May I ask who's calling?" "Okay, just a minute."

"Johnny, it's Mr. Stolts." Bradin said as he handed the phone to Johnny. Mr. Stolts was the assistant manager at The Sandbar.

"Hello, James?" James was Mr. Stolts' first name.

"Johnny, it's getting pretty packed down here, so we need you to come in." Mr. Stolts said.

"Okay, I'll be there in a few." Johnny said as he hung up the phone. Johnny walked into the family room to find Bradin and Marissa cuddled up on the couch, watching a movie on HBO.

"Hey, guys, I need to go to The Sandbar for awhile. Tell Ava that I'll try to make it to dinner, and that I'll call later."

"Okay, Bradin responded, not taking his eyes off the tv.

"Bye" Johnny called as he walked out of the house.

"Bye" Bradin and Marissa yelled back.

"Hey, Marissa, I wanna show you something. Come on." Bradin said as he took her hand, and got off the couch, and led her into his room. He sat her on his bed, and walked over to his closet. He was searching and searching until he found what he was looking for.

"Close your eyes." Bradin said to Marissa. She closed her eyes, as he told her to. Bradin sat down on the bed beside Marissa with the "surprise".

"Okay. One, Two, Three, open your eyes."

Marissa opened her eyes. Bradin was holding a huge collage frame with at least 15 pictures of her and Bradin, as well as ticket stubs to concerts and dances they attended inside the frame.

"Aw, Brae." Marissa said as tears started to form in her eyes.

Bradin smiled when he saw how much she loved it. He placed the collage farther away on the bed and he wrapped his arms around Marissa and gave her a huge hug. When they pulled away after about a minute, they shared a long, passionate kiss.

"Derrick, Nikki and I were up in the attic about two weeks after we moved here. I found the boxes of pictures we had in our old house. I saw one of us, and I came up with the idea of a collage, and here it is." Bradin explained, pointing to the collage.

"I love it so much, Brae!" Marissa said, giving Bradin another hug.

Meanwhile, in the kitchen:

Dinner Time! Ava called out to everyone in the house.

Marissa wiped the tears away from her face, and stood up. Bradin stood up also.

"I'll meet you in the kitchen, Brae, I'm going to go wash my face in the bathroom." Marissa told Bradin.

"Okay. Are you feeling all right, babe? You look kind of sick." Bradin said noticing Marissa's face was turning slightly pale.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Just a little stomach ache, that's all."

"Okay" Bradin said as they both went their separate ways.

Bradin walked into the kitchen and said hello to everyone.

"Where's Marissa?" Lindsay asked Bradin.

"In the bathroom. She'll be right out." Bradin answered.

Marissa walked out of the bathroom, and into the kitchen as if nothing was wrong. The truth is that her face was very pale, she looked very sick, and she was walking very slowly, which meant she was weak. She let out a small "Hi" to everyone in the room.

"Marissa, are you okay, what's wrong?" Bradin asked worriedly, walking over to Marissa. As soon as everyone heard no response, they all looked up to see what was going on. Marissa started to feel dizzy and very weak. She collapsed onto the floor and fainted.

Nikki and Lindsay screeched, while running over to Marissa, as did everyone else.

"Marissa, Marissa!" Bradin yelled while slightly shaking her. Tears started to appear in Bradin's eyes. "Hurry! Someone call 911!" Bradin yelled.

Cameron ran over to the phone to call 911, while everyone was looking at Marissa, worried and confused on why this event has just occurred.

Dun, Dun, Dun! Cliffhanger! What's wrong with Marissa? Will she be ok? Remember to review! You know you want to! Lol Thanks for reading!  xoxo

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